Should the San Francisco 49ers Find a New Return Man in the 2013 NFL Draft?

Kim Klement ? USA TODAY Sports

Wide receiver and return specialist Ted Ginn?recently signed a one-year deal with the Carolina Panthers after spending the past three seasons serving as the primary return man for the San Francisco 49ers. With Ginn out of the picture, the front office in San Fran must now decide whether there is already a replacement in town, or to search for Ginn?s successor in the upcoming 2013 NFL Draft.

Even though Ginn?s 2012 campaign wasn?t as productive in the return game as we?re used to seeing, the six-year vet is an extremely sure-handed returner, and that alone will make finding his replacement a challenging task.

Running back Kendall Hunter and wide receiver Kyle Williams?have each seen time fielding kicks or punts (or in Williams? case, both) over the past couple of seasons. Second-year RB LaMichael James returned 14 kickoffs as a rookie in 2012 after season-ending injuries to Hunter and Williams and showed he could probably handle the responsibilities as well or even better than either of the two previously mentioned players.

Plus, Williams has had trouble with ball security in the past, particularly in the 2011 NFC Championship Game loss to the?New York Giants. Hunter will likely continue to see an increased workload out of the backfield as Frank Gore?s NFL career winds down, though he hasn?t shown many signs of slowing yet.

So, out of the potential options that have been discussed, James seems like the most enticing choice to at least handle kickoff return duties, and maybe even punt returns as well. Returning punts, however, is a much more difficult task, and the former Oregon Duck has yet to field a punt as a pro and only returned 16 of them during his collegiate days.

So, with plenty of potential options on the roster, but no sure-fire answer, should the Niners add more competition to the mix through the draft? The idea sounds exciting, but probably unrealistic. For starters, there just isn?t much available in that regard. Plus, if San Fran were to draft some sort of return specialist, he would likely have to be able to contribute at another position, or at least show the ability to do so down the road.

Ginn couldn?t cut it as a receiver in the 49ers? offense, and that?s likely a big reason he?s no longer around. The 5?11?, 180-pound speedster hauled in 128 passes during his three seasons with the Miami Dolphins, but never caught more than 19 balls in any of his three with San Fran.

Ace Sanders out of South Carolina might be the top choice if the Niners were indeed to draft a position player with return capabilities. The WR returned 29 punts in 2012 for 429 yards and two touchdowns. CB Tyrann Mathieu is another option with experience in the return game, but he hasn?t played in a year, has loads of character concerns and will likely demand a higher-round pick due to his impressive combine and excellent ball skills.

Then there?s Denard Robinson, the former Michigan Wolverine and freakishly fast QB who will be trying to make it in the pros as a wide receiver or potentially even a return man. Robinson was arguably the fastest and most dangerous open field runner in the game during his years at the collegiate level, but never returned a kick or punt and would be a risky option if taken too early.

The Niners could have their eye on others as well, or maybe they?re satisfied with what they already have and will simply be addressing other needs throughout the draft. We?ll just have to wait and see. But, if one could be had in the fourth round or later, I think grabbing a dynamic athlete with return capabilities would be a smart move for San Fran, if nothing else just to add some competition in training camp.

Finding the right one could add yet another dimension to an already dangerous team, which would be great news for San Francisco and terrible news for the rest of the league.

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Brandon Burnett is a San Francisco 49ers writer for RantSports.com. Follow him on Twitter @B_Burnett49er, or add him to your network on Google.

Source: http://www.rantsports.com/nfl/2013/03/24/should-the-san-francisco-49ers-find-a-new-return-man-in-the-2013-nfl-draft/

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NYC art museum accused of duping visitors on fees

In this Tuesday, March 19, 2013 photo visitors to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York wait in line to buy admission tickets. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

In this Tuesday, March 19, 2013 photo visitors to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York wait in line to buy admission tickets. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

In this Tuesday, March 19, 2013 photo the exterior of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York is photographed. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

In this Tuesday, March 19, 2013 photo visitors to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York congregate in the main lobby. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

In this Tuesday, March 19, 2013 photo, the board at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York displays admission fees, which are recommended but not mandatory. Many visitors to the museum, especially foreign tourists, don?t realize that the fees listed on the sign are merely suggestions. Confusion over what?s required to enter the Met, which draws more than 6 million visitors a year, is at the heart of a class-action lawsuit this month accusing it of an illegal ?scheme? to defraud the public into believing the fees are required. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

NEW YORK (AP) ? Before visitors to the Metropolitan Museum of Art can stroll past the Picassos, Renoirs, Rembrandts and other priceless works, they must first deal with the ticket line, the posted $25 adult admission and the meaning of the word in smaller type just beneath it: "recommended."

Many people, especially foreign tourists, either don't see it, don't understand it or don't question it. If they ask, they are told the fee is merely a suggested donation: You can pay what you wish but you must pay something.

Some who choose to pay less than the full price pull out a $10 or $5 bill. Some fork over a buck or loose change. Those who balk at paying anything at all are told they won't be allowed in unless they pay something, even a penny.

"I just asked for one adult general admissions and he just said, '$25,'" says Richard Johns, a high school math teacher from Little Rock, Ark., who paid the full price at the museum this past week. "It should be made clear that it is a donation you are required to make. Especially for foreign tourists who don't understand. Most people don't know it."

Confusion over what's required to enter one of the world's great museums, which draws more than 6 million visitors a year, is at the heart of a class-action lawsuit this month accusing the Met of scheming to defraud the public into believing the fees are required.

The lawsuit contends that the museum uses misleading marketing and training of cashiers to violate an 1893 New York state law that mandates the public should be admitted for free at least five days and two evenings per week. In exchange, the museum gets annual grants from the city and free rent for its building and land along pricey Fifth Avenue in Central Park.

Met spokesman Harold Holzer denied any deception and said a policy of requiring visitors to pay at least something has been in place for more than four decades. "We are confident that the courts will see through this insupportable nuisance lawsuit."

The suit seeks compensation for museum members and visitors who paid by credit card over the past few years.

"The museum was designed to be open to everyone, without regard to their financial circumstances," said Arnold Weiss, one of two attorneys who filed the lawsuit on behalf of three museum-goers, a New Yorker and two tourists from the Czech Republic. "But instead, the museum has been converted into an elite tourist attraction."

Among the allegations are that third-party websites do not mention the recommended fee, and that the museum sells memberships that carry the benefit of free admission, even though the public is already entitled to free admission.

Lined up to testify is a former museum supervisor who oversaw and trained the Met's admissions cashiers from 2007 to 2011. Michael Hiller, the other attorney representing the plaintiffs, said the supervisor trained cashiers to encourage visitors to pay the full freight by saying things like "you must realize it is very expensive to run the museum." He will also say that in 2010-2011 the term on the sign was changed from "suggested" to "recommended" because administrators believed it was a stronger word that would encourage people to pay more.

The Met's Holzer denied the former employee's allegations. He also said the basis for the lawsuit ? that admission is intended to be free ? is wrong because the state law the plaintiffs cited has been superseded many times and the city approved pay-what-you-wish admissions in 1970.

"The idea that the museum is free to everyone who doesn't wish to pay has not been in force for nearly 40 years," Holzer said, adding, "Yes, you do have to pay something."

As to the wording change on the sign, he said the museum "actually thought at the time, and still thinks, that 'recommended' is softer than 'suggested,' so the former employee is quite wrong here."

New York City's Department of Cultural Affairs agreed to the museum's request in 1970 for a general admission as long as the amount was left up to individuals and that the signage reflected that. Similar arrangements are in place for other cultural institutions that operate on city-owned land and property and receive support from the city, such as the American Museum of Natural History and the Brooklyn Museum. It's also a model that's been replicated in other cities.

The Metropolitan Museum is one of the world's richest cultural institutions, with a $2.58 billion investment portfolio, and isn't reliant on admissions fees to pay the majority of its bills. Only about 11 percent of the museum's operating expenses were covered by admissions charges in the 2012 fiscal year. As a nonprofit organization, the museum pays no income taxes.

Holzer also noted that in the past fiscal year, 41 percent of visitors to the Met paid the full recommended admission price ? $25 for adults, $17 for seniors and $12 for students.

A random sampling of visitors leaving the museum found that there was a general awareness that "recommended" implied you could pay less than the posted price.

But Dan Larson and his son Jake, visiting the museum last week from Duluth, Minn., were unaware there was any room to negotiate the admission price. They paid the full $25 each for adult tickets.

"My understanding was you pay the recommended price," said Larson, 50. "That's clearly not displayed."

Alexander Kulessa, a 23-year-old university student from Germany, said friends who had previously visited New York tipped him off about the admission fee.

"They said, 'Don't pay $25,'" said Kulessa. "They said it will be written everywhere to pay $25 but you don't have to pay that. You don't even have to pay the student price."

For Colette Leger, a tourist from Toronto who visited the museum with her teenage daughter, paying the full $25 was worth every penny.

"It's a beautiful museum and I was happy to pay," she said.

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Associated Press writer Jake Pearson contributed to this report.

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Junior dos Santos says Alistair Overeem is a joke, but admires opponent Mark Hunt

Junior dos Santos was supposed to face Alistair Overeem at UFC 160, but an injury forced Overeem out of the bout. Now, dos Santos will fight Mark Hunt. JDS talked to a Brazilian radio station, and said he admired one of those opponents but found the other to be a joke.

"I think it was great the UFC have scheduled Mark Hunt. I admire him very much for having accepted because he just fought. I admire and appreciate because I want to fight May 25 and this will happen thanks to him. When Overeem jumped off I thought it was great that the UFC came by with another opponent. [Overeem] isn?t a champion, he?s nothing. If he was a champion, I would wait."

So JDS is a fan of Hunt, and doesn't think it's worth waiting for a bout with Overeem. But how does he feel about Overeem?

"I think [Overeem] is a joke. He is very big, he's on steroids and he talks a lot of [expletive]. But I don't care about him. He can go on with his career and do what he thinks is the best for him, I will do the same. If some day we face each other and he runs out of problems, we fight."

Overeem and dos Santos were set to fight last May, when dos Santos still held the UFC heavyweight championship belt. The fight was canceled when Overeem failed a PED test. He was found to have excessive levels of testosterone, more than double of that the athletic commission in Nevada allowed.

Overeem was suspended, and then lost to Antonio Silva on his return to the cage. With dos Santos fresh off losing his belt to Cain Velasquez, it seemed like a perfect opportunity for the two rivals to square off.

Thank you to Yahoo! Brazil for translation.

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As Republicans seek identity, conclave highlights divisions

By Samuel P. Jacobs

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Four months after suffering a bruising loss in the presidential campaign, Republican lawmakers and conservative activists will meet Thursday for a three-day conclave which will lay bare the many contradictions of a party in search of its identity.

The Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), organized by the 49-year-old advocacy group American Conservative Union, convenes in Washington as a showcase for the Republican Party's future and an opportunity to air grievances about the party's past.

Two reminders of failed presidential campaigns will be on hand as former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney, the 2012 Republican nominee, and former Alaskan Governor Sarah Palin, the 2008 vice presidential nominee who ran beside presidential nominee John McCain, will address 8,000 conservatives.

Around those past candidates, potential future presidential contenders will jockey for the audience's attention in what has become an annual cattle call for rising Republican leaders.

While leading Republican governors and congressmen will offer short speeches challenging President Barack Obama and offering their own visions for the Republican Party, in the wings, party rank-and-file will debate topics that were once well outside the conservative mainstream.

SHOOT THE CONSULTANTS?

Three Republican congressmen will participate in a panel called, "Too Many American Wars?" In the Senate last week, a row over the use of drones among Republican Senators Rand Paul, John McCain and Lindsey Graham gave an airing to disagreements in the party over the proper scale and nature of the U.S. military.

Frustration over how the party managed the 2012 campaign will receive a hearing in a discussion entitled, "Should We Shoot All the Consultants Now?" One consultant on the panel, Jeff Roe, a strategist from Missouri, said his answer will be no, they should not all be shot.

Elsewhere, strategists will debate what kind of candidates the party should field. Since the election some like Karl Rove, a former top adviser to President George W. Bush, have knocked heads with Tea Party leaders over the quality of certain potential Republican candidates.

"There's probably more freedom of thought in some of these areas than we had two decades ago," said Al Cardenas, chairman of the American Conservative Union.

Recent polling suggests the Republican Party has a long climb ahead of it to return to favor with American voters.

In a Pew Research Center survey of 1,504 adults released February 26, 62 percent of respondents said the Republican Party was out of touch with the American people; 46 percent said that of Democrats. Fifty-two percent said Republicans are too extreme; 39 percent said the same of Democrats.

On Monday, the Republican National Committee will release a report of its own detailing how it plans to change after the election. Recently, party chairman Reince Priebus has appeared before urban and African-American audiences, arguing that the party's message is one that should appeal to all groups.

Party leaders are in the throes of a debate over whether their ideas need to change to appeal to a wider swathe of the electorate. Those who argue for a new focus say they see hope in lawmakers who are working for immigration reform in Congress.

"When you've lost the popular vote in five of the last six presidential elections, it's a mirage to believe that the message is great and it's just been communicated ineffectively," said Republican pollster Whit Ayres.

In an interview, Cardenas said the party needs to offer a bolder brand of conservatism. At the same time, he wants to emphasize the openness of the movement.

The number of African-American and Hispanic speakers this year will be greater than any previous year, he said.

Meanwhile, the Tea Party Patriots will host a panel at CPAC called, "Trump the Race Card: Are You Sick and Tired of Being Called a Racist and You Know You're Not One?"

WHO'S MISSING?

The spirits of CPAC and the Republican Party have not always been in sync. Past winners of the traditional presidential straw poll have included former Congressman Ron Paul and evangelical leader Gary Bauer, suggesting that attendees are not always in lock step with the thinking of the party's mainstream.

Still, the conference's agenda is read as a tip sheet for who's up and who's down in a party that is plotting a comeback.

There has been a kerfuffle over who hasn't been invited to the affair, including New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, a Republican governor in a blue state who holds one of the highest approval ratings in the country but has crossed party orthodoxy on gun control among other issues.

"I think if there had been a vote taken, it would have been a very different situation," said one American Conservative Union board member about the Christie snub.

Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell will also be missing, despite having attended the conclave for the last two years. He ruffled Republicans' feathers by recently signing a transportation bill which included a tax hike.

Even the amount of time granted to speakers has been getting a once-over, with conservative magazine National Review reporting that television personality Donald Trump has been granted twice the speaking time as Rick Santorum, who won three million votes in the 2012 Republican presidential primary.

Cardenas downplayed the complaints.

"Maybe there's an epidemic in the movement," he said. "It's almost like we need to contact the Center for Disease Control and say a whiner's epidemic has broken out."

(Reporting by Samuel P. Jacobs. Editing by Karey Van Hall and Todd Eastham)

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Last glimpse of cardinals until one becomes pope

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Thousands stood in line outside St Peter's Basilica early Tuesday to get into the special pre-conclave Mass.

By Alastair Jamieson, Staff writer, NBC News

VATICAN CITY ? Thousands of pilgrims and tourists waited in line to get inside St. Peter's Basilica early Tuesday?for a special pre-conclave Mass with?Roman Catholic cardinals who were?preparing to choose the next pope.?

The ?Mass Pro Eligendo Pontifice? began at 10 a.m. local time (5 a.m. ET) in front of a congregation of worshippers who were waiting outside in St. Peter's Square for tickets allocated on a first-come, first-served basis.

?It?s in the air! You really feel it,? said Lois Girten, 55, from Austin, Texas, who secured a last-minute place on a two-week pilgrimage to Rome through a cancelation.

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Lois Girten, 55, from Austin, Texas, was among those waiting in line to get inside the pre-conclave Mass at St Peter's Basilica, on Tuesday.

?It?s God?s gift that I?m in Rome just as the conclave takes place. I?m almost speechless with excitement, it?s a real treat for me.?

?You can feel the spirit with us in the line,? she added.

Mara Pankow, 21 and Brenna Stein, 18, both college students from Hankinson, North Dakota, in Rome for spring break, joined the line even though they have already seen inside the basilica.

?We?ve already been on a tour of the inside but we thought it would be amazing to see a Mass on the day the conclave starts,? Pankow said.

?We?re very lucky to be here at the same time as the conclave. It?s awesome,? said Stein.

Several thousand visitors were allowed in to take part in the service, according to Religion News Service correspondent Alessandro Speciale inside the basilica.

In his homily, cardinal Angelo Sodano, Dean of the College of Cardinals, told the congregation: ?My brothers, let us pray that the Lord will grant us a Pontiff who will embrace this noble mission with a generous heart.?

Deliberation and voting in the papal conclave, which takes places in the 16^th century Sistine Chapel, won?t begin until after 5 p.m. local time (12 p.m. ET) Tuesday.

Before that, there?ll be more ceremony: After lunch, the 115 cardinals eligible to vote will move from their temporary residential quarters at in the Casa Santa Marta to the Pauline Chapel from where they will form a procession into the Sistine Chapel.

The procession will be in reverse order of Vatican hierarchy, starting with cardinal deacon James Michael Harvey from Milwaukee and ending with cardinal Giovanni Battista Re, the highest-ranking cardinal in the Roman curia.

It will be the last time they are seen publicly until they choose the new pope ? a process that could take several days and will be heralded by the appearance of white smoke from the chimney above the chapel. In the meantime, they will be isolated from the outside world and banned from using cellphones or watching television.

There's a growing tension between those who seek institutional tradition and those who want to move the Catholic Church forward and reenergize its ranks. NBC's Anne Thompson reports.

Once inside, each will swear an oath of secrecy -- a breach is punishable by ex-communication -- before an official proclaims in Latin ?Extra omnes,? meaning all others present must leave.

The oath-taking process is expected to last up to an hour, and will be followed by mediation and prayer led by Cardinal Prosper Grech.

When the voting finally begins Tuesday, there will be one round of voting?in the late afternoon, followed by two every morning and two every afternoon until someone gets two-thirds of the votes.

During the day, cardinals will deliberate inside the Sistine Chapel beneath Michelangelo's "Creation of Adam." At night, they will be taken by shuttle bus the short distance to the modest rooms in Casa Santa Marta, which John Paul II had built in 1996.

Such is the importance of secrecy that Vatican officials have installed jamming devices to prevent the use of cellphones by cardinals or hidden microphones by anyone wanting to hear their deliberations.

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The pope delivers his final audience in St. Peter's Square as he prepares to stand down.

Although there is no definitive favorite to take the helm, cardinals have been holding a series of General Congregations in recent days to discuss the qualities they would like to see in their new leader.

No conclave has lasted more than five days in the past century, with most finishing within two or three days. Pope Benedict was elected within barely 24 hours in 2005 after just four rounds of voting.

Benedict triggered the election last month with his shock decision to abdicate because of his increasingly frail health -- the first pontiff to step down in six centuries.

He leaves his successor a sea of troubles -- including seemingly never-ending sex-abuse scandals, rivalry and strife inside the Vatican bureaucracy, a shortage of priests and a rise of secularism in its European strongholds.

Related:?

From Rome to Africa: Meet 20 men who could be pope

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Full coverage of the papal abdication from NBC News

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