Though the UW football season ended with a thud on the field, five UW students have reaped financial benefits from a single midseason play.
In an online poll, voters chose senior cornerback Scott Starks' fumble recovery and return for a touchdown to lift UW to a 20-17 win over Purdue Oct. 16 as the \Pontiac Game-Changing Performance of the Year.""
Pontiac gave the UW Athletic Department $100,000. Five students chosen at random received $1,000 scholarships-Sarah Barse, Anthony Jakubowski, Mitch Long, Robert Platzer and Kurt Steinke.
The other $95,000 will go toward endowing an annual scholarship for a UW defensive back. The scholarship will be named for Starks and safety Robert Brooks, whose hit on Purdue quarterback Drew Brees forced the fumble Starks recovered.
Hundreds of jumbo squid-some weighing as much as 17 pounds-washed up onto the shores of Orange County, Calif., Thursday.
Though the reasons for the mass beachings are currently unclear, local scientists are speculating they may have been in pursuit of fishing bait or the tides may have washed them to shore.
Local authorities warned that the now-decaying squid were rife with bacteria and were not to be touched or eaten.
In an unrelated incident, a Del Mar Seafoods semi truck carrying 38,500 pounds of frozen squid overturned in Watsonville, Calif., spilling over roads and downing power lines.
The squid, worth approximately $22,600, was intended for shipment to China.
A woman in Brazil made history Thursday when she gave birth via Caesarean section to a 17-pound baby boy.
The infant is the largest baby ever born in Brazil, according to the Brazilian Gynecological Association.
Doctors suspect the child's large size is a result of his mother's diabetes, as the disease is commonly linked with large birth weights.
The baby, named Ademilton dos Santos, is Francisca Ramos dos Santos' fifth child. However, this is her only child to have an abnormal birth weight.
