user: Input: Simms on Tebow: 'He's got to have faith in his left arm'
It might seem odd to question -- of all things -- Tim Tebow's faith, but Phil Simms did Wednesday ... though only as it pertains to the Denver Broncos quarterback's passing acumen.

"He's extremely careful. He's not an anticipator of throws. That's why he likes to move and throw the ball. He wants to scramble because then it becomes, 'Oh, there he is, I'll throw it to him,' " Simms, a former New York Giants quarterback who does analysis for CBS and Showtime's Inside the NFL, told Sirius XM's Mad Dog Radio.

"The fact that he threw those interceptions in Buffalo, I thought it affected him greatly in the Kansas City game. Couldn't let the ball go. And, you know, I hear all the experts, all the guys on ESPN and all this other stuff and they tell me, 'Oh, he needs better receivers.' Hey, look, how many times do I have to show you on TV they're open. But to him it's not. Because think about his career. ... In high school, if he didn't like it, he ran. In college, if he didn't like it, he ran. In the pros, if he doesn't like it he runs. And there's a limit to that.

"No matter what anybody wants to say, you've got to throw it. And if he wants to be successful, he's got to let it go. He's got to have faith in his left arm."

Though the Broncos have lost three in a row, Tebow has maintained he's unbowed even though he has committed seven turnovers in that stretch. He has completed 41.9% of his throws during a skid that didn't prevent Denver from winning the AFC West title with an 8-8 record.

"You have to have just undying faith that the ball is going to go where I look and see. And I do believe there's a lack of the confidence that he can control it the way he wants," Simms added.

"Look, I know there's a lack of confidence in where he's going to throw it exactly where he wants. He's not there yet. So it'll be interesting as we see him going forward where this will go."

Broncos vice president of football operations John Elway expressed similar sentiments about his polarizing quarterback to The Denver Post this week.

"The key thing for (Tebow) is to go out, put everything behind him, go through his progressions and pull the trigger," said Elway, confident he can do that Sunday against the Pittsburgh Steelers.

"When you get into these playoff situations, he's a good enough athlete, you know what, to pull the trigger. He's obviously upset with last week. He's already got an edge to him, so he's ready to go. I like seeing the edge. Oh, yeah. I actually love it. I have full confidence he'll bounce back and have a good week."
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Input: Thanksgiving Day transit schedules
Here's a rundown of the local train and bus schedules for Thursday, as assembled -- very helpfully -- by Metro.

Metrorail: Sunday schedule; opens at 7 a.m., closes at midnight. Metrobus: Sunday schedule MetroAccess: Sunday schedule; operates from 7 a.m. to midnight. Ride On: Sunday schedule DASH: No Service CUE: No Service Fairfax Connector: Sunday schedule on Routes 101, 151, 152, 161, 162, 171, 310, 321, 322, 401, 425, 505, 574, 605, 950, and RIBS 1, 2, 3, 4 ART: Sunday schedule on Routes 41 & 51 only THE BUS: No Service PRTC OMNIRIDE: No Service LOUDOUN BUS: No Service MARC: No Service VRE: No Service MTA Commuter Bus: No Service

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Input: What are the odds Michael Jackson will call it all off?
Yet Jackson has proven himself a master of pop illusions before. After all, given his history of surgery and image enhancement, how could we ever be sure it was him onstage?

LAST MONTH, a government body called the Strategic Advisory Board for Intellectual Property Policy (Sabip) released a report entitled 'Copycat: Digital Consumers in the Online Age’. It made some strong claims, with shocking figures of one peer to peer website alone being responsible for 4.73 billion items downloaded each year, worth £120 billion.

These figures made headlines, with much media huffing and puffing about the debilitating effect of piracy on Britain’s economy. Until a BBC journalist pointed out that the math was wrong. By a factor of ten. It should actually have been 473 million items with a notional value of £12 billion (at an entirely arbitrary assertion of £25 per illegal downloader per day).

How do they make those kind of mistakes? SABIP has quietly corrected the report but the spectre of internet pirates ransacking the music business is still out there. But is this money actually lost to the economy or merely being redirected? Several studies have found that illegal downloaders spend considerably more money on music than the average person (ten times as much, according to recent research from the BI Norwegian School of Management).

Possibly because they are music lovers.

I wonder how many bought tickets to Britney or Jackson? If the music business is really threatened with extinction by the collapse in sales of recorded music, then how ironic that people might still be prepared to pay for tickets to a live performance of, er, recorded music.

SONG LYRICS could be harmful to your computer. This is the conclusion of security researchers at anti-virus software company McAfee, who say 'lyrics’ is one of the world’s most dangerous search terms. The ubiquitous sites offering transcribed song lyrics are, apparently, plagued with infection, with one in 20 such pages harbouring some species of malware.

Given that few of these sites even credit (let alone remunerate) composers, could this be the revenge of the songwriter? As Rick Carnes, head of the Songwriters Guild of America, recently said: “Songwriters don’t sell T-shirts. We’re too ugly and we dress funny. Songwriter fan clubs meet in phone booths so the email lists are too small to monetize effectively. We make our money on record sales and radio airplay. Or, we used to. Illegal downloading ended that. Now we are looking for new jobs.” Building websites, perhaps?
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assistant: Bookmakers are taking bets on Michael Jackson cancelling his tour. But can we   be sure it was ever really him on stage?