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After several sluggish weeks, both for McCoy and the offensive line, you began to see the beginning of a revival last week against the St. Louis Rams. No one knew, though, if the Eagles could follow through against a Giants defense that had been good against the run all season. Frankly, the odds were against it happening.
 
  
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Then, right out of the chute, it looked like last year all over again. Two yards on the first play, 12 yards on the third play, 18 yards on the fourth play -- and McCoy was off. The holes were inviting and McCoy hit them with the kind of instinctive burst that he had so often lacked in the first weeks of the season.
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Renowned Kenyan academic Ali Mazrui has died in the US aged 81 after being ill for several months.
  
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I felt I made a lot better decisions, just hitting it, McCoy said. He added that he did, indeed, hear the questioning by fans and media.
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Kenya's President Uhuru Kenyatta said Africa had been robbed of one of its greatest scholars.
  
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I like it like that, he said. That s because you really know who s behind you...I never lost confidence in myself and the guys up front -- you guys did. I ve got thick skin.  
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Mr Mazrui had been "towering" academic whose "intellectual contributions played a major role in shaping African scholarship", he added.
  
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Now, a word about tactics. The Eagles had a fabulous time last season running against nickel defenses when they had three wide receivers on the field. This year, opposing defenses have tried a different tactic, sticking more with their base defenses even when the Eagles went with three wideouts, loading up against the run and daring the Eagles to beat them with the pass.
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He had been a professor at Binghamton University in New York at the time of his death.<br>Leading pan-Africanist
  
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So what did the Giants do? They ignored the tendency shown by those other Eagles opponents and instead played their nickel when the Eagles went to three wide receivers. And what happened? The Eagles running game found itself.
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His body will be flown to Kenya for burial, said Khelef Khalifa, chairman of Kenya's Muslims for Human Rights group.
  
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Coincidence or cause-and-effect? The guess here is cause-and-effect, and the wonder is why the Giants never changed it up. Deep into the third quarter, as McCoy was absolutely lacerating the Eagles defense, the Giants stayed in their nickel and accepted the beating. It was 20-0, and then it was 27-0 after Darren Sproles 15-yard touchdown run, and everybody knew how much the Eagles wanted to run the ball and kill time after that, and the Giants never changed.
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"His nephew, Alamin Mazrui, has confirmed that the professor's wish was to be buried in Kenya," he is quoted by the local Daily Nation newspaper as saying. <br>&nbsp;Mr Mazrui has been a household name in Kenya and beyond.
  
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As Eagles center David Molk said, after weeks of dealing with defenses stacked to stop the run, We got an opportunity to run around the defense we wanted...This offense is deadly. We got an opportunity and we seized it.  
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His writings, though embedded in history, still resonate because he talks about the need to recognise national heroes, without worshipping them.
  
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Now, the Giants coaching staff obviously knows its personnel better than we do. But you have to wonder what they thought about as they replayed the whole thing in their heads on the bus ride home.
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They also give insight into some of the greatest concerns currently facing the world as he wrote about terrorism and Islam.
  
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Because it was on their watch that the Eagles running game was revived.
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In one of his books, Islam between Globalisation and Counter Terrorism, he explained how the religion was entrapped in the danger of rising extremism.
  
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Surprisingly, they left the safety out of the box (near the line of scrimmage), which was different, McCoy said. And they paid for it. By the time they moved the safety down, it was too late.  
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Mr Mazrui was a leading pan-Africanist whose academic research focused on African politics, north-south relations and political Islam.
  
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Again, it is a week-to-week business. There are plenty of tests remaining -- and the guess here is that when they come back from the bye to face the Arizona Cardinals, the Eagles will not be seeing as much nickel defense as they saw against the Giants.
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He had authored numerous books, including The Africans: A Triple Heritage and Christianity and Islam in Africa's Political Experience: Piety, Passion and Power.
  
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This isn t settled, not nearly. But the bye week can only refresh McCoy. He might need to be refreshed, too, especially if the knee injury that knocked Sproles out of the game in the third quarter keeps him sidelined for any period of time.
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In 2005, the US journal Foreign Policy and British journal Prospect listed him as among the world's top 100 public intellectuals.
  
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Mr Mazrui is survived by his wife and six children.
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Revision as of 05:21, 31 October 2014

Renowned Kenyan academic Ali Mazrui has died in the US aged 81 after being ill for several months.

Kenya's President Uhuru Kenyatta said Africa had been robbed of one of its greatest scholars.

Mr Mazrui had been "towering" academic whose "intellectual contributions played a major role in shaping African scholarship", he added.

He had been a professor at Binghamton University in New York at the time of his death.
Leading pan-Africanist

His body will be flown to Kenya for burial, said Khelef Khalifa, chairman of Kenya's Muslims for Human Rights group.

"His nephew, Alamin Mazrui, has confirmed that the professor's wish was to be buried in Kenya," he is quoted by the local Daily Nation newspaper as saying.
 Mr Mazrui has been a household name in Kenya and beyond.

His writings, though embedded in history, still resonate because he talks about the need to recognise national heroes, without worshipping them.

They also give insight into some of the greatest concerns currently facing the world as he wrote about terrorism and Islam.

In one of his books, Islam between Globalisation and Counter Terrorism, he explained how the religion was entrapped in the danger of rising extremism.

Mr Mazrui was a leading pan-Africanist whose academic research focused on African politics, north-south relations and political Islam.

He had authored numerous books, including The Africans: A Triple Heritage and Christianity and Islam in Africa's Political Experience: Piety, Passion and Power.

In 2005, the US journal Foreign Policy and British journal Prospect listed him as among the world's top 100 public intellectuals.

Mr Mazrui is survived by his wife and six children.

Source: BBC.

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