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• BP Decision Prompted Cement-Mixture Changes, Witness Says

  BP Plc’s rejection of calls for more stabilizers in the Deepwater Horizon rig’s drilling operations prompted last-minute changes in the cement mixture that’s designed to seal the well, a witness testified.

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  Football-Ticket Tax Break Helps Colleges Get Millions

  Theodore L. Jones has held season tickets on the 43-yard line at Tiger Stadium, home of the perennial football powerhouse Louisiana State University, for almost 20 years. Because of the Baton Rouge lawyer’s lobbying in Congress in 1986, he and thousands of other fans get a tax break on donations they make as a condition for buying seats.

• DuPont-Dow Corn Defeated by Armyworms in Florida: Study

  Fall armyworms in southern Florida survived a pesticide engineered into corn by Dow Chemical Co. and DuPont Co., the second insect to show signs of resistance to genetically modified crops in the U.S., according to a study.

• Beating Notre Dame for Title Adds $400,000 to Saban’s Payday

  University of Alabama coach Nick Saban will collect a $400,000 bonus on top of his $5.9 million salary with a Crimson Tide victory over Notre Dame in the Bowl Championship Series title game tonight.

• Alabama Routs Notre Dame for Third BCS Football Title in 4 Years

  The University of Alabama became the third school since 1936 to win college football’s national championship three times in a four-year span with a 42-14 rout of the University of Notre Dame.

• Louisiana State Football Coach Miles Gets Raise, Longer Contract

  Louisiana State University football coach Les Miles will receive a contract extension and a raise after the Tigers’ season-ending bowl game.

• Clemson Beats LSU 25-24 in Chick-fil-A Bowl, Georgia Tech Wins

  Clemson University beat eighth-ranked Louisiana State University 25-24 in college football’s Chick- fil-A Bowl with a fourth-quarter comeback capped by Chandler Catanzaro’s 37-yard field goal as time expired.

• LSU Athletics Will Send $36 Million to Academics Over 5 Years

  The Louisiana State University athletics department has agreed to transfer $36 million to academic programs during the next five years and provide additional revenue-sharing funds to ease budget pressures.

• Dismissed LSU All-American ‘Honey Badger’ Mathieu Off to NFL

  Tyrann Mathieu, an All-American cornerback nicknamed the “Honey Badger” who was kicked off the Louisiana State University football team before this season, will enter the 2013 National Football League draft.

• Alabama’s College Football Championship Game Ratings Rise 14%

  Television ratings for the University of Alabama’s second consecutive college football national championship victory rose 14 percent from a year earlier, according to ESPN.

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