VCU WINS

The VCU Rams held for an 80-76 win last night at Towson in what many people thought may have been a trap game for the Rams and that they may not have been ready to play.  However it may have been a a little closer than most Rams would have like they did come away with the W setting up Thursday's 1st place showdown with Hofstra who just barely escaped themselves last night against James Madison.  Fellow blogger Keith is on the road this week doing a little bit of government work in Kansas at For Leavenworth.  It looks like tomorrow is going to be a very rainy day here in Heights which could end as a little snow tomorrow night into Thursday morning with a dusting up to a couple of inches, however there is chance that we don't get any snow at all.  Also this morning I have a wisdom tooth that seems to be flaring up a bit.  MICKEY

A throbbing tooth
It's likely that the tooth's nerve has become damaged, probably because the surrounding pearly white enamel is cracked or rotting away. Unless you get it patched up quickly, bacteria in your mouth can invade the nerve. And you definitely don't want that breeding colony to spread throughout your body, says Kimberly Harms, DDS, a dentist outside St. Paul, Minnesota. If your tooth is already infected, you'll require a root canal, in which the tooth's bacteria-laden pulp is removed and replaced with plastic caulking material.

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