On the spot: Safety Brandon Meriweather. The Pats are talking him up as an emerging star and he'd better be for a secondary that lost key players and was perceived as the least of the team's units. New England picked up veterans like Fernando Bryant and Jason Webster in the offseason, buteventually released them..I had a similar set and ran a bingo game between sets for themed music matinees at a bar. Mrgood and I produced a series of "Country Sundays", featuring, as themes, various artists (especially if they'd just died), prison songs, train songs, cheatin' songs, drinkin' songs etc. The prizes were based on the events I searched thrift stores and joke shops and found tchotchkes and old paperback biographies or souvenirs and offered those as the prizes..

Prior to joining ESPN, Abbott was a producer for CNN from 1987 to 2001. At CNN, he served as the network Olympic producer for 10 years, spanning five Olympic games. He also worked as a producer for CNN Sports,