Jesse James to Appear on American Chopper

Before he became known as the guy who cheated on Sandra Bullock left and right with Michelle McGee and other skanks, and then as the guy in the on-again, off-again relationship with Kat Von D, Jesse James was best known as a biker.

It's probably good the motorcycle enthusiast is returning to his roots.

Formerly the star of Monster Garage, he'll make a return to TV with an appearance on the Discovery Channel's motorcycle series American Chopper.

The 42-year-old James will be competing against the show's father and son stars, Paul Teutul Sr. and Paul Teutul Jr., for the title of Master Bike Builder.

Can he do it? Will you tune in to find out?

The special is scheduled to air on December 5 and 6, with the first night featuring a lot of pre-taped footage of the trio building their respective bikes.

Viewers will then be able to vote on the finished products, and the winner will be crowned live in Las Vegas on the second night, according to the report.

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iPad Sales Have Reached The Plateau (The Atlantic Wire)

The gadget is a hit, but its share of the market for tablet computers fell sharply last quarter, as Android devices surged.

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Apple shipped 20 percent more iPads in the past three months, PC World reports. But a report Friday from Strategy Analytics showed Apple's market share for tablet computers fell from 96 percent to 67 percent. Android devices are closing in on one-third of the market, at 27 percent.

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The upshot is likely a price-cut for iPads, to stay competitive with devices like Amazon's Kindle Fire, which will retail for $199.

So if Apple wants to compete in that mainstream market, Mainelli maintained, it's going to need to augment its media tablet lineup with lower-priced products. That doesn't necessarily mean introducing something like a seven-inch iPad, as has been suggested by some observers. Apple can simply adopt the strategy it has used for its iPhone lineup, Mainelli noted.

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Rosenthal: Biggest surprises of the season

Passing offenses boosted by amazing TEs, while 49ers, Ravens sport fantastic defenses

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At this rate, New Orleans' Jimmy Graham will produce one of the best years by a tight end in NFL history.

OPINION

updated 3:58 p.m. ET Oct. 20, 2011

Gregg Rosenthal

We know what teams to watch for now. We know what teams don?t matter.

The first six weeks of the NFL season have set the table for what should be a predictably unpredictable playoff push. Before that starts let?s take a quick look at some of the big storylines to emerge so far:

Insane offensive numbers
400 yards is the new 300 yards, if that makes any sense. Tom Brady, Drew Brees, Aaron Rodgers, and Tony Romo are all on pace to break Dan Marino?s single season passing yardage mark of 5,084. A rookie ? Cam Newton ? is barely off the pace.

Total passing yard numbers are up roughly 10 percent, a huge jump for one season. Expectations for what?s a great passing effort should be reset.

Conventional wisdom said defenses would be ahead of offenses after the lockout. But conventional wisdom is conventionally unwise.

It?s hard to pin down one reason why it?s so much easier to throw the ball now, other than the slow accumulation of passer-friendly rules. The offensive coaches are ahead of the defensive guys. With more specialization and spread passing attacks than ever before, the offensive coaches are ahead of the defenses.

The year of the tight end
No position has evolved more in this pass-happy era than tight end. Defensive coordinators used to welcome having a cornerback or safety on tight ends. The new crop of players can beat any defender, anytime.

Jimmy Graham of the Saints leads the young tight end revolution. He?s a former basketball player who coach Sean Payton can use in a variety of ways to create mismatches. Defenses have no answer for his mix of athleticism and size. It?s early, but Graham on pace for more than 1,000 yards and one of the best seasons of all time. Thirteen tight ends are on pace for more than 700 yards, which is ridiculous.

Bill Belichick?s Patriots offense is built around their young tight ends Rob Gronkowski and Aaron Hernandez. They can be used in a power formation or line up as receivers. Versatility is the key in a gameplan league. The defense never knows what the tight end will do, and where he?ll be.

Regressing young quarterbacks
The quarterback elite is firmly established ? Aaron Rodgers, Tom Brady, and Drew Brees are playing like immortals.

But another wave of young quarterbacks has quietly been struggling this year despite the crazy offensive numbers.

The Bucs? Josh Freeman has thrown more interceptions than touchdowns. The Jets have put the training wheels back on Mark Sanchez. (To extend the analogy, the Jets are also running alongside Sanchez?s bike telling him to go straight.)

The Rams? Sam Bradford looks more like a rookie under coordinator Josh McDaniels than he did last year as a rookie. Kevin Kolb hasn?t lived up to his contract in Arizona. Only Kerry Collins has been more inefficient per-pass this year than Colt McCoy of the Browns.

Matt Ryan may be the biggest head-scratcher. His accuracy and decision-making have faltered without great pass protection.

There has been a lot of great quarterback play this year, but many ?next generation? signal callers have taken a step back.

Searching for the six
Each year, six playoff teams on average don?t make it back to the postseason. So who will it be this time?

The Colts don?t have a prayer. The Seahawks, Chiefs, and Bears all look mediocre and destined to fall short. That?s four.

Will the Eagles, Falcons, or Jets get in? The Jets don?t do anything well on offense and have a tough schedule coming up. Everything about the Falcons this year is ordinary. I?d bet against all three, but the Eagles may have the best chance of this group because 10 wins could be enough in the NFC East.

Perhaps seven teams won?t make it back this year.

Difference-making defenses
In this era of offensive insanity, a quality defense may be worth more than ever. Getting stops is a scarce commodity in 2011, and one defense in each conference stands out.

The Ravens have their best defense in at least five years. They are giving up 14.2 points-per-game, which is two points better than the rest of the league. Credit the talent and scheme.

New defensive coordinator Chuck Pagano brought the blitz-happy approach that Rex Ryan used to run in Baltimore. They can afford to pull that off because the foundation of the defense is so solid.

No team can match the combination of Haloti Ngata and Terrence Cody up front. Those two create havoc and keep Ray Lewis clean; Lewis is enjoying yet another renaissance. A truly healthy Ed Reed has solidified the secondary and the young cornerbacks ? especially Lardarius Webb ? have played better than expected.

In the NFC, no defense has dominated like the 49ers. They are second in points allowed-per-game, largely because of the best linebacker group in football. Rookie Aldon Smith is already a dangerous pass rusher. Navorro Bowman and Patrick Willis are both playing at a Pro Bowl level inside.

The Ravens and 49ers are both 5-1 without racking up big passing numbers. It?s good to be a little different in this copycat league.

The Bay Area revival
Northern California fans haven?t had a lot to cheer about for the last decade. Suddenly they have two legitimate playoff-caliber teams.

It would be stunning if the 49ers don?t make the playoffs. At 5-1 with a soft NFC West schedule, San Francisco has a realistic chance to get a playoff bye. Jim Harbaugh?s decision to bring back Alex Smith and re-engineer the career of the former No. 1 overall pick stands out as one of the year's best stories. (Even if the defense is carrying the team.)

Recent Raiders teams had the talent to beat quality competition, but the immaturity to lose to anyone. Under Hue Jackson, Oakland has been among the league's most consistent teams.

You know what you are going to get with Oakland: A smashmouth running game and a defensive line that creates havoc. Trading for Carson Palmer was the ultimate all-in move. I have doubts Palmer will be much better than Jason Campbell, but Palmer doesn?t have to be for the Raiders to make the playoffs. The AFC West race with San Diego should be a lot of fun.

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Hertz fires 26 Muslim drivers in break dispute

SEATTLE?? More than two dozen Somali Muslim drivers for Hertz at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport are being fired after refusing to clock out for daily breaks during which they normally pray.

The 26 workers drive the company's rental cars to and from the airport for cleaning and refueling. They are among 34 Hertz employees suspended Sept. 30 for failing to clock out before breaks.

Teamsters Local 117, which represents the workers, said Hertz agreed during contract negotiations last year that union members would not need to clock out during prayer breaks. But the company maintains workers were violating a settlement with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission reached two years ago.

"From our perspective, Hertz didn't even follow their own internal policy," union spokesman Paul Zilly said Friday. Hertz didn't provide a verbal or written warning and jumped right to suspension, he said.

"It was a huge disappointment and a tremendous frustration," Zilly said.

Eight of the 34 suspended workers signed the company's new clock-out agreement and have returned to their jobs, company spokesman Rich Broome said in an email. Termination letters have been sent to the rest.

"The failure of many employees to return to work promptly after prayers had created an unmanageable, unfair work environment at the Seattle airport location," Broome wrote. Clocking out ensured that everyone's interests were preserved, he said.

The company gave suspended workers until the end of the day Thursday to sign the clock-out agreement, if they wanted to be reinstated, Broome told The Seattle Times. The firings were first reported by KOMO-TV.

Zilly said Friday that instead of an ultimatum, the company should have sat down with the union to negotiate this change.

"Whenever there's a change in working conditions and you're working under a collective bargaining agreement, they need to notify and bargain with the union over those changes," he said. "That's their legal obligation."

"It's not about prayer, it's not about religion; it's about reasonable requirements," Broome told the AP earlier this month.

Observant Muslims pray several times a day.

If Hertz thought some employees were abusing the break policies, it should have dealt with them individually, Zilly said.

The union has filed an unfair labor practices complaint with the National Labor Relations Board. The union also said it is also in the process of filing religious discrimination charges with the EEOC.

The union represents nearly 80 Hertz drivers who earn between $9.15 and $9.95 an hour. About 70 percent are Muslims.

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Longevity Shown for First Time to Be Inherited via a Non-DNA Mechanism

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Experiments with worms show that altering an enzyme can not only lengthen their life spans, but that the longevity effect can be carried across several generations

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Research on nemotode worms is helping to illuminate ways to lengthen their lifetimes. The findings have yet to be replicated in vertebrates, including humans. Image: Wikimedia Commons

In October 2009 Stanford University geneticist Anne Brunet was sitting in her office when graduate student Eric Greer came to her with a slightly heretical question. Brunet's lab had recently learned that they could lengthen a worm's lifetime by manipulating levels of an enzyme called SET2. "What if extending a worm's lifetime using SET2 can affect the life span of its descendants, even if the descendants have normal amounts of the enzyme?" he asked.

The question was unorthodox, Brunet says, "because it touches upon the Lamarckian idea that you can inherit acquired traits, which biologists have believed false for years." The biologist Jean-Baptiste Lamarck theorized in 1809 that the traits exhibited by an organism during its lifetime were augmented in its offspring; a giraffe that regularly stretched its neck to eat would father calves whose necks were longer. The idea was largely discredited by Darwin's theory of evolution, first published in 1859. More recently, scientists have begun to realize that an organism's behavior and environment may indeed influence the genes it passes to its offspring. The heritability of those acquired traits is not based on DNA, but on alterations in the molecular packaging that surrounds a gene. When Greer approached Brunet in 2009 with his question about worms and SET2, such "epigenetic" inheritance had only been discovered for simple traits such as eye color, flower symmetry and coat color.

Brunet and Greer went ahead with the experiment. The results, published October 19 in Nature, provide the first evidence that some aspects of longevity can be passed from parent to offspring, independent of DNA's direct influence. (Scientific American is part of Nature Publishing Group.)

"I think this is a fundamentally important finding," says Matt Kaeberlein of the University of Washington in Seattle, who studies molecular mechanisms of aging. "It demonstrates for the first time that aging can be influenced by epigenetic changes that occurred in prior generations."

The study used Caenorhabditis elegans worms with very low levels of SET2. The enzyme normally adds methyl molecules onto DNA's protein packaging material. In doing so, the enzyme opens up the packaging material, allowing the genes to be copied and expressed. Some of those genes appear to be pro-aging genes, Brunet says. Her team knocked out SET2 by removing genes that code for it. This had the effect of significantly lengthening the worms' life spans, presumably because those pro-aging genes were no longer expressed.

Next, the long-lived, enzyme-lacking worms mated with normal ones. The offspring had the regular genes for making SET2, and even expressed normal amounts of the enzyme, but they lived significantly longer than control worms whose parents both had regular life spans. The life-extending effect carried over into the third generation, but returned to normal by the fourth generation (in the great-grandchildren of the original mutant worms). For the first few generations, having a long-lived ancestor increased life expectancy from 20 days to 25, extending a worm's longevity by 25 to 30 percent on average.

Brunet and her team have not yet determined the exact mechanism for the lifetime extension, or which molecules are at work. This is one of the study's imperfections, says David Katz, who researches epigenetic transcriptional memory at Emory University. Regardless, "the effect is clearly epigenetic," he says, "and it's probably one of the most complicated traits that has been linked to epigenetic inheritance."

The knowledge that epigenetics can impact a complex trait like life span has scientists curious to find out what other kinds of traits?such as disease susceptibility, metabolism and developmental patterns?are epigenetically heritable. Because epigenetic effects can be modified by environmental stimuli, Kaeberlein points out, it is possible that some of these traits "could be determined, at least in part, by the environment and lifestyle choices of parents, grandparents or even great-grandparents."

The study?s results are also exciting because the genes that code for the life-lengthening SET2 enzyme exist in other species, including humans. Brunet says she wants see if the results can be replicated in vertebrates, such as fish and mammals. Those questions will not be answered for many years, because it is unknown whether the SET2 complex has the same function in other species, and because those species have longer generational time frames.

"Worms have very short lives," Brunet says. "Will the effect apply to mammals that live thousands of times longer? We are excited to find out."

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Pollutants linked to 450 percent increase in risk of birth defects in rural China

ScienceDaily (Oct. 19, 2011) ? Pesticides and pollutants are related to a 450 percent increase in the risk of spina bifida and anencephaly in rural China, according to scientists at The University of Texas at Austin and Peking University.

Two of the pesticides found in high concentrations in the placentas of affected newborns and stillborn fetuses were endosulfan and lindane. Endosulfan is only now being phased out in the United States for treatment of cotton, potatoes, tomatoes and apples. Lindane was only recently banned in the United States for treatment of barley, corn, oats, rye, sorghum and wheat seeds.

Strong associations were also found between spina bifida and anencephaly and high concentrations of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), which are byproducts of burning fossil fuels such as oil and coal. Spina bifida is a defect in which the backbone and spinal canal do not close before birth. Anencephaly is the absence of a large part of the brain and skull.

"Our advanced industrialized societies have unleashed upon us a lot of pollutants," says Richard Finnell, professor of nutritional sciences and director of genomic research at the Dell Children's Medical Center of Central Texas. "We've suspected for a while that some of these pollutants are related to an increase in birth defects, but we haven't always had the evidence to show it. Here we quite clearly showed that the concentration of compounds from pesticides and coal-burning are much higher in the placentas of cases with neural tube defects than in controls."

The study, which was published in August in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, is the result of a more than decade-long collaboration between Finnell and a team of researchers in Shanxi, a province in northern China.

Finnell sought collaborators in China because the prevalence of neural tube defects is much greater there than it is in the United States. Also, because of its population policies, China is good at tracking births.

"It's an extraordinary natural experiment," says Finnell, who was recently recruited to the university to help anchor the Dell Pediatric Research Institute. "It would be much harder to do this study in the United States, where neural tube defects are more rare. It's also an opportunity to assist the Chinese government in their efforts to lower their birth defect rates."

Working with public health officials in four rural counties in Shanxi, researchers collected placentas from 80 newborn or stillborn fetuses that suffered from spina bifida or anencephaly. Once a fetus or a newborn with such defects was identified as a case, the placenta of a healthy newborn with no congenital malformations born in the same hospital was selected as a control.

Finnell and his colleagues screened these placentas for the presence of a class of substances known as persistent organic pollutants (POPs). Common POPs include agricultural pesticides, industrial solvents and the byproducts of burning fuels such as oil and coal.

They found strong associations between the birth defects and high levels of a number of compounds present in commonly used pesticides. They also found elevated placental concentrations of PAHs.

"This is a region where they mine and burn a lot of coal," says Finnell. "Many people cook with coal in their homes. The air is often black. You don't need to be a rocket scientist to say that maybe there's something in there that isn't good for babies."

Finnell says although the environmental conditions in Shanxi are dramatically worse than they are in most areas of the United States, they are comparable to what the United States was like a century ago, and the neural tube defects are not solely a Chinese problem.

Every year about 3,000 pregnancies in the United States are complicated by neural tube defects. Many other congenital conditions, including autism, may one day prove to be related to environmental pollutants.

"Ultimately you need enough cells to make a proper, healthy baby," says Finnell, "and these are the types of compounds that cause cell death. At the most basic level, we're learning that environmental things kill cells, and if that occurs in a critical progenitor population at a crucial time, you're going to have problems."

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Gas is among the expenses that may be pinching families these days.

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Your bills seem to be going up, and yet you seem to be bringing in less money. Sound familiar?

You don't have to be unemployed to feel the nation's economic squeeze. Several recent economic reports have pointed to the difficulties even those who have held on to their jobs are facing.

The Bureau of Economic Analysis reported last month that personal income fell very slightly in August, meaning that overall people earned slightly less than they had in July.

Despite that drop, however, consumer spending rose a bit?in August as Americans were hammered by higher prices for food and gas.

On Wednesday, the government?said that consumers once again likely paid more for food and gas last month, as compared to the previous month. But?consumer prices for everything else rose only very slightly in September.

The?reports are discouraging because they come after?years of tough economic times. Median income has fallen 6.4 percent since 2007 after adjusting for inflation. A deep recession that officially lasted from December 2007 until June 2009 ?has been followed by a sluggish economic recovery and a high unemployment rate hovering around 9 percent.

A story in the latest issue of?Bloomberg Businessweek compares the state of working Americans today to those in the 1960s, when? household debt was low, savings were high and salaries were on the upswing.

Cut to today and the?case of Tamra Loomis, a 32-year-old single mom who earns $17 an hour but has to cut?corners where she can,?using coupons, growing vegetables and?even using her parents? Internet connection instead of paying for her own.

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Actress wants $1 million for age reveal on IMDb

SEATTLE?? An actress is suing Amazon.com in federal court in Seattle for more than $1 million for revealing her age on its Internet Movie Database website and refusing to remove the reference when asked.

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The actress is not named in the lawsuit filed Thursday that refers to her as Jane Doe. It says she lives in Texas and is of Asian descent and has an Americanized stage name.

The lawsuit accuses IMDb of misusing her personal information after she signed up for the industry insider IMDbPro service in 2008. Shortly thereafter, she noticed her legal date of birth had been added to her public acting profile. She requested that it be removed and IMDb refused, the lawsuit says.

"If one is perceived to be 'over-the-hill,' i.e., approaching 40, it is nearly impossible for an up-and-coming actress, such as the plaintiff, to get work as she is thought to have less of an 'upside,' therefore, casting directors, producers, directors, agents-manager, etc. do not give her the same opportunities, regardless of her appearance or talent," the lawsuit states.

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While she loses opportunities because of her age, she's also missing work because of her youthful appearance, the lawsuit says.

"Plaintiff has experience rejection in the industry for each "40-year-old" role for which she has interviewed because she does not and cannot physically portray the role of a 40-year-old woman," the lawsuit says.

The online retailer and its movie database subsidiary, both based in Seattle, are accused of breach of contract, fraud, and violation of privacy and consumer protection laws.

The lawsuit seeks $75,000 in compensatory damages and $1 million in punitive damages.

Amazon has a long-standing practice of not commenting on active litigation, spokeswoman Mary Osako said Tuesday.

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Giuliana Rancic is determined to be a mama!

After two emotional, failed attempts, the E! Host and hubby Bill are in the midst of giving in vitro fertilization yet another try.

"We're not opposed to adoption, but at this point we're going down the IVF path," Bill, 40, told Us Weekly Thursday at the Nivea New Year's Eve preview in NYC.

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When the couple's second round of IVF ended in heartbreak last year and Giuliana miscarried, they vowed to take a year of from family planning to reconnect, travel and spend time enjoying things they wouldn't be able to if they were new parents.

But in the middle of their third IVF treatment, Giuliana, 37, and Bill are hopeful. "If [our doctor says] after this cycle, 'I don't think this is going to happy for you naturally. You're going to have to look at more options,' then we will," she told Us. "But if someone is telling you, 'I can get you pregnant,' then we're trying it."

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Giuliana and Bill both agree that they'd be open to adoption or surrogacy if having children naturally doesn't pan out. "If the time comes, we will visit that as a possibility and even adopt from Naples," Bill said.

"We've spoken about that and we're open to a lot of things," Giuliana, added.

So can we eventually expect Giuliana and Bill Plus 8? "I want that!" Giuliana joked. "I love kids. I want a big family. I want two boys and two girls."

VIDEO: Giuliana and Bill talk about adoption

Her hubby, however, would be happy with just two kids. "I don't want to be working until I'm 80 putting these kids through college!" he said.

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UNC hires Tulsa's Cunningham as athletic director

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (AP) ? North Carolina has hired Tulsa athletic director Bubba Cunningham as the school's next AD.

University trustees approved the hiring in a meeting Friday morning. Cunningham's start date is Nov. 14 and his contract runs through June 2017. He will make $525,000 annually and will receive a $40,000 annual expense allowance.

He can receive bonuses for average team academic performance, as well as when the football team reaches a bowl or the men's and women's basketball teams reach the NCAA tournament.

"I'm not smart enough to have enough adjectives about the emotions I feel right now," Cunningham said during the news conference to announce his hiring. "It's a special, special place, and it's such an honor to be a part of it."

Cunningham, 49, will replace Dick Baddour, who is stepping down after 14 years amid the ongoing NCAA investigation into the football program. Chancellor Holden Thorp, who attended the trustees meeting, had said Baddour would remain on at least through the school's appearance before the NCAA infractions committee on Oct. 28. Cunningham will start at North Carolina on Nov. 14.

Cunningham was atop a short list of candidates forwarded to Thorp by a 13-member search committee headed by trustee Lowry Caudill, who said there were about 60 applicants, 13 of whom were interviewed.

"The search committee's charge was to find the best person in America for our job," Thorp said. "Bubba Cunningham is that person."

Cunningham will inherit a 28-sports department that stands as one of the flagship programs in the Atlantic Coast Conference. He'll have the immediate job in hiring a new football coach after the abrupt firing of Butch Davis just before training camp in July, including the decision of whether interim coach Everett Withers ? who has the Tar Heels off to a 5-1 start ? should be the permanent choice.

Withers, men's basketball coach Roy Williams and women's coach Sylvia Hatchell were among the Tar Heels' coaches in attendance for Cunningham's introductory news conference. Cunningham said he met with Withers and the other Tar Heels' coaches shortly before the news conference.

"Obviously, we need a full-time (football) coach at some point, and through our conversations with the chancellor, we're all about excellence," Cunningham said. "My charge in the next few months will be to analyze the program, make a decision where we are and then what's the best fit going forward? ... Our No. 1 priority is to make sure that any kind of coaching discussion is not a distraction" to the team.

Since Cunningham's arrival at Tulsa in 2005, the Golden Hurricane have won 34 Conference USA championships. In addition, Tulsa made a $25 million renovation to the football stadium and spent almost $10 million in construction of the Case Athletic Complex.

"Bubba Cunningham is an outstanding choice. He is a quality administrator and terrific person," said ACC Commissioner John Swofford, who was North Carolina's AD from 1980-97. "Bubba is a highly respected and proven athletics director who will fit in extremely well at UNC and will be a welcome addition around our ACC table."

Cunningham is a Notre Dame graduate with a master's degree in business administration. He spent 15 years working in various roles at his alma mater before serving three years as athletic director at Ball State and then six years at Tulsa.

Associated Press

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