Ravens, Rice run past Broncos, 31-17

BALTIMORE (AP) — The top-ranked passing game in the NFL was no match for the Baltimore Ravens, who disposed of the Denver Broncos in typical lopsided fashion.

Ray Rice ran for 133 yards and two touchdowns, and the Ravens frustrated Denver quarterback Kyle Orton in a 31-17 victory Sunday.

Baltimore (4-1) jumped to a 17-0 lead and coasted to its third straight win, the first this season by double digits. The Ravens moved past idle Pittsburgh into sole possession of first place in the AFC North.

The Broncos (2-3) fell to 0-5 against the Ravens in Baltimore. In those games, Denver has been outscored 142-56, including 60-24 over the last two years.

Orton completed his fourth straight 300-yard passing game with a 44-yard touchdown pass to Brandon Lloyd with 35 seconds left. It was of little consolation to the Broncos, who hurt themselves by losing a fumble and committing 10 penalties for 90 yards.

What was billed as a duel between the best passing game in the league and the No. 1 passing defense turned into a mismatch.

Orton went 23 for 38 for 314 yards and two touchdowns, both to Lloyd. But Denver never got closer than 10 points after the Ravens went up by 17 with 9:21 left in the second quarter.

Baltimore’s Joe Flacco completed 14 of 25 passes for 196 yards and ran for a score. Unlike Orton, he was backed by a solid running game.

The Ravens led 17-7 at halftime after keeping the Broncos from crossing the 50-yard line until after the two-minute warning.

A 58-yard pass from Flacco to tight end Ed Dickson helped the Ravens move to the Denver 1 on their opening possession. The drive fizzled when Willis McGahee was twice stuffed at the line and Jason Hunter sacked Flacco on fourth down.

Baltimore got it right on its second try, marching 73 yards to go up 7-0. Flacco went 4 for 4 for 51 yards before sneaking in from the 1, his first touchdown since Oct. 26, 2008.

The Ravens again forced a punt, then scored another touchdown. After Denver’s Perrish Cox was called for pass interference in the end zone, Rice took it in from the 1.

First-round draft pick Demaryius Thomas fumbled the ensuing kickoff when hit by Jason Phillips, a collision that forced Thomas from the game with head and neck injuries. Baltimore recovered at the 20, and a field goal by Billy Cundiff made it 17-0.

The Broncos finally broke through with 48 seconds left in the half on a 42-yard pass from Orton to Lloyd, who made a diving catch in the back of the end zone.

In the fourth quarter, after Rice scored on a 1-yard run, Matt Prater kicked a field goal for Denver to make it 24-10.

McGahee iced the victory with a 30-yard touchdown run with 5:06 remaining.

The Social Network Is Still #1!

Whoa, this movie is still going strong!

The Social Network barely dropped in its second weekend at the box office, making $15.9 million. It is the "best hold for a 2nd weekend of any #1 opening this year." And that's including this year's hit,Inception!

Second place went to Life As We Know It, which is probably the highest this movie is going to get. Aren't we all a little tired ofKatherine Heigl's rom-coms by now???

Secretariat came in #3, followed by the owl movie, Legends of the Guardian, and Wes Craven's My Soul To Take 3D to round out the top 5.

What did U see this weekend??

Eagles Lead 49ers 17-10 at Halftime, Kolb On Fire

Kevin Kolb completed his first 9 passes for 92 yards and a touchdown.

At halftime, the Eagles lead the 49ers 17-10 behind the strong play of Kevin Kolb, filling in for an injured Michael Vick. Kolb is 12-of-14 for 123 yards and an 8-yard touchdown to Brent Celek, but did lose a fumble. LeSean McCoy also has a 29-yard touchdown run.

The 49ers opened the game with a methodical 11 play, 57-yard drive lasting more than 7 minutes. The drive was capped by a 7-yard touchdown pass from Alex Smith to Michael Crabtree, putting San Francisco on top 7-0.

Philadelphia’s offense wasn’t to be outdone though, driving 75 yards on 10 plays in 5:30. Kevin Kolb exected perfectly on the drive, going 6-for-6 for 72 yards and th touchdown. Brent Celek was his favorite target, catching the 8-yard touchdown pass and a 32-yard strike on a play the Birds practiced several times this week.

Kolb rolled to the right and threw back across the grain to a wide open Celek for a 32 yards. A few plays later, after a LeSean McCoy touchdown run was wiped out due to a hold by Todd Herremans, Kolb escaped pressure in the pocket by breaking a tackle, rolled to his right and found Celek at the goal line.

The Eagles defense then came up with a big play, as Moise Fokou forced a fumble by Frank Gore with :16 left in the opening frame. Joselio Hanson recovered and the Eagles turned it into a field goal early in the second quarter to take a 10-7 lead.

Late in the half, the Eagles put together a 3 play, 53-yard drive. First, Kolb connected with DeSean Jackson for 20 yards and 4 yards on back to back plays, then LeSean McCoy found a hole and dashed 29 yards to the end zone. McCoy has 7 carries for 64 yards and a touchdown.

San Francisco managed a field goal on the ensuing drive, cutting the score to 17-10. Philadelphia got the ball back at its own 37-yardline with 36 seconds left in the half and all three timeouts, leaving Andy Reid and Kevin Kolb with a good test of their time management.

They couldn’t make anything of it, though, as King Dunlap, filling in for an injured Jason Peters, was beaten cleanly by Manny Lawson, who sacked Kolb and forced a fumble. That gave San Francisco another chance at points, but Joe Nedney missed a field goal at the end of the half.

While the Eagles offense has been firing on all cylinders, the defense has been stout since the opening drive as well. Philadelphia forced two first half turnovers, with a forced fumble by Moise Fokou that was recovered by Joselio Hanson and an interception by Dimitri Patterson.

At halftime, Alex Smith is 11-of-16 for 139 yards, a touchdown and an interception. Frank Gore has 13 carries for 22 yards. Philadelphia will receive the kickoff to open the second half.

limera1n jailbreak released, greenpois0n jailbreak delayed

Jailbreak limera1n was released today for 4.1 iDevice users in what appears to be a contentious situation in the hacking community. Windows-only, the new jailbreak is not expected to work with Apple TV or debut on Linux and OS X for a bit.

The previously announced dev-team jailbreak, which was due out tomorrow, may be put on hold while the team works on revising their tools for the limera1n exploit rather than exposing multiple exploits that will quickly be patched.

Jailbreaking, while legal, is based on finding system weaknesses to allow hobbyists to inject code that will open their devices to full system read-write access. It is this full access that allows third party developers to customize the OS and install new applications and extensions.

Having looked forward to developing for Apple TV starting tomorrow, count me among the disappointed.

Update: The Limera1n page has updated to indicate that Apple TV jb is "technically supported". I can confirm that I put my ATV2 into DFU mode and was able to "jailbreak" it. But since no AFC services or OpenSSH were installed (let alone APT), there's nothing that really can be done with it at this time.

Rick Sanchez to Jon Stewart: My bad.

Looks like Rick Sanchez and Jon Stewart are BFF again. The freshly-fired CNN news anchor released a statement today apologizing to Stewart for calling him “a bigot” during an interview on a Sirius radio show last week. (You know, the same interview in which Sanchez claimed that the media was run by Jews.) In his statement, Sanchez says he’s “had a very good conversation with Jon Stewart, and I had the opportunity to apologize for my inartful comments from last week. I sincerely extend this apology to anyone else whom I may have offended.”

The apology comes two days after Stewart skewered Sanchez on The Daily Show with a devastating clip job comparing him to The Office’s doofus boss Michael Scott. Funny thing is, though, if you watch that Daily Show segment beyond The Office parody, it didn’t seem like Stewart was really all that upset with Sanchez. He graciously included other clips of Sanchez denouncing anti-Semitism (via the pretty easy target of a neo-Nazi lowlife criminal) and declared his belief that Sanchez was not himself a bigot. The real target of Stewart’s wrath seemed to be the sensationalistic media that blew up the whole story in the first place (sort of like what we’re doing now).

In any case, PopWatchers, we put the question of the day to you: Should Jon Stewart accept Sanchez’s apology?

Facebook Now Allows You To “Download Your Information”

Whoah. Until now there hasn’t been a way to download info off of Facebook, but at today’s Facebook event in Palo Alto, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced a feature that allows users to port their data from Facebook in a .zip file, “People own and have control over all info they put into Facebook and “Download Your Information” enables people to take stuff with them,” says Zuckerberg.

“Download Your Information” is groundbreaking as the premise behind the Diaspora Project is that it is the “open” portable Facebook. As of today it seems like Facebook is the “open” portable Facebook, as the company now feels secure enough to let users leave with info intact.

Facebook Product Manager David Recordon explains that you can access the “Download Your Information” feature from your account settings, hit the download button (see above) and Facebook will allow you to download everything off your profile, including your friends list, events, all of your messages, wall posts and all of your photos into a zip file.

Downloading your profile in this way does not delete it from the site, but simply provides you with a copy. Users wishing to erase their data entirely will have to go through the process of deleting their entire Facebook profile, separately from “Download Your Information.”

Recordon emphasizes that the product will be simple enough for laymen to use, a one click process.

More importantly, when asked during the Q&A whether a Facebook user could ostensibly download their information and then reupload it to a site other than Facebook, Zuckerberg answered:

“At a high level we’ve built two different things, Facebook Connect — which is our real effort to bring our sites to other sites, and “Download Your Information” where you can download your information and upload it to another site. Stuff that you put into the site, you should be able to take out.”

“Download Your Information” should be rolling out to all users beginning today.

Nobel Prize In Literature 2010: Peruvian Author Mario Vargas Llosa Wins

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Mario Vargas Llosa is the recipient of the 2010 Nobel Prize for Literature, the Nobel Committee announced this morning from the Swedish Academy in Stockholm, Sweden. And he wasn't on the lists of favorites.

Since 1901, the Nobel Committee has honored outstanding individuals in the fields of science, peace and literature with a medal, personal diploma and cash award. In his will, Alfred Nobel noted the fourth prize area to be in literature, and since then, respected writers from broad social, cultural an critical areas have been honored, including Orhan Pamuk, Seamus Heaney, John Steinbeck and Toni Morrison.

Leading up to the announcement, Ladbrokes hosted betting on the Literature Prize winner and had featured Cormac McCarthy at the top with 5/2 odds. Haruki Murakami and Ngugi wa Thiong'o also sat at the top of the list with favorable winning odds.

Despite these statistics, many have speculated that a poet, rather than novelist, would claim this year's prize. The L Magazine wrote:

"Consensus is that poets, South Americans and Scandinavians have been underrepresented in the selections of recent years (though not as much as black Africans); safe picks for geographical distribution would probably include the perpetual candidates Llosa and Fuentes, Swedish poet Tomas Tranströmer and Syrian poet Adonis."

Even still, The Weekly Standard wrote yesterday:

"But since the Swedish academy's methods for selecting the prize-winner are a mystery to all but its members, those odds reflect almost exclusively the opinions of gamblers, most of whom are rather like the horseplayers who bet their favorite number or color of the jockey's silks. That is to say, they're suckers."

Now, the suspense comes to an end with this morning's announcement. Check Huffington Post Books for updates throughout the day.