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Today’s 52 Week Highs and Lows

NYSE

New Highs 136 

COMPANY                       SYMBOL      HIGH                VOLUME 
-------                       ------      ----                ------ 
Advance Auto Parts            AAP         72.36              196,378 
Allergan                      AGN         89.37            1,133,289 
Alliance CA Municipal         AKP         14.70               20,365 
AllianceBrnstn NtlMun         AFB         14.96               32,319 
Amer Fincl Grp                AFG         37.72              128,878 
American Tower REIT           AMT         61.52            1,810,653 
Applied Indus Tech            AIT         37.52              245,018 
Asbury Automotive             ABG         22.89              286,782 
Assd Banc-Corp.8.00%Pfd       ABWpB       25.47               14,900 
Atlas Energy                  ATLS        27.86              385,458 
BlackRock CA Municipal Tr     BFZ         15.03               62,833 
BlackRock Long-Term Muni      BTA         11.87               20,103 
BlkRk Muni Inter Dur          MUI         15.93              109,696 
BlkRk Muni 2018 Trm Tr        BPK         16.82               19,844 
BlackRock  Muni Bnd           BIE         15.69                1,719 
BlkRk MuniHldgs II            MUH         15.80               19,279 
BlRk MuHldg NY Qlty           MHN         15.32               46,343 
BlkRk MuniHldgs Qlty II       MUE         14.75               30,803 
BlkRk MuniHldgs Quality       MUS         14.37               20,156 
BlkRk MuniYld Inv             MYF         15.17               49,682 
BlackRock NJ Municipal Tr     BNJ         15.96               10,769 
Blackrock Strategic Muni      BSD         13.90                4,573 
Brookfield Infrastructure     BIP         29.30              386,628 
Brookfield Off Prop Cda       BOXC        24.70                1,900 
CVS Caremark                  CVS         42.19            6,091,309 
Cantel Med                    CMN         30.24               59,470 
Carters                       CRI         41.85              339,385 
Centene                       CNC         44.16              345,709 
China Pete & Chemical         SNP         117.40             148,495 
Cobalt Intl Engy              CIE         17.88            2,183,015 
ConAgra Foods                 CAG         26.97            3,577,651 
ContinentalRes                CLR         77.50              806,473 
CoreSite Realty               COR         18.90               69,295 
Crown Castle Intl             CCI         46.46            1,105,137 
Delphi Automotive             DLPH        23.99              741,711 
DTF Tax-Free                  DTF         16.38               15,468 
Duke Realty pfJ               DREpJ       25.04               19,484 
Ecolab Inc                    ECL         59.38              885,471 
Ecopetrol                     EC          47.89              257,962 
Entergy Arkansas 2040         EAA         27.73               10,578 
Extra Space Storage           EXR         24.90            1,013,103 
FNB Corp                      FNB         12.33              617,610 
Fed Premier Intemediate       FPT         14.25               14,398 
Flaherty & Crumrine           PFD         14.62                8,864 
Flotek Ind                    FTK         13.00            1,568,420 
FortuneBrandsHome&Sec         FBHS        18.10              414,097 
Gabelli Utility Tr            GUT         8.05                61,875 
Generac Holdings              GNRC        29.09              153,913 
Genesee & Wyoming             GWR         64.24              156,190 
Genuine Parts                 GPC         63.31              511,843 
Global Cash Access            GCA         4.92               256,798 
Goldman Sachs Grp Notes       GSF         25.10              198,973 
Goldman Sachs Grp 6.50%       GSJ         25.56              313,969 
Goodrich Corp                 GR          124.04             365,362 
WW Grainger                   GWW         193.49             191,344 
HnckJohn TxAdv                HTD         17.83               72,007 
Health Net                    HNT         35.29            1,127,887 
Home Depot                    HD          43.60            4,976,465 
Humana Inc                    HUM         94.99              841,436 
IHS Inc                       IHS         90.97              375,620 
InvenSense                    INVN        13.10              567,497 
Inv CA Ins Tr                 IIC         15.59               14,065 
Invesco InsCa                 ICS         14.65               12,710 
Invesco Mun Incm Opps Tr      OIA         6.80                83,589 
Invesco Quality Mun Secs      IQM         14.90               61,737 
Invesco VnKmCAInc             VCV         13.18               14,431 
Invesco Van Kampen Mun Tr     VKQ         14.16               39,899 
Invesco VK PAValMun           VPV         14.48               22,651 
Inv Vn Km InsMun              VIM         14.13                8,989 
Invesco VnKmNY                VTN         15.58               13,028 
Kansas City Southern          KSU         73.90              758,661 
Kraft Foods                   KFT         38.15            4,337,153 
LTC Properties                LTC         31.87               56,306 
LEH 6% Prudential Finl        JZH         25.15                7,550 
Lions Gate Entertainment      LGF         8.93               382,530 
MFS Hi Inc Muni               CXE         5.37                60,697 
MFS Munl Inco                 MFM         7.20                51,631 
MaquarieInfrastr              MIC         29.32              103,976 
Macy's Inc                    M           34.87            4,123,906 
Maximus                       MMS         44.44              132,606 
McCormick & Co Vtg            MKC/V       50.95                  863 
McGraw-Hill                   MHP         47.59            1,436,680 
Meadowbrook Insurance         MIG         11.18               56,292 
Metro Health Ntwks            MDF         8.47               429,020 
Monsanto                      MON         79.70            3,835,573 
Movado Group                  MOV         20.23              143,685 
NeuStar A                     NSR         35.53              190,235 
NewMarket Corp                NEU         205.27              19,600 
Newpark Resources             NR          10.62            1,107,031 
Nuveen Build Am Bd Opp Fd     NBD         21.99               23,151 
Nuveen CA Div Fnd             NAC         14.44               19,057 
Nuveen CA Muni Mkt            NCO         14.76               19,198 
Nuveen CA Performance         NCP         14.97               17,363 
Nuveen California Select      NVC         15.35               32,480 
Nuveen Ins CA                 NXC         14.35               11,747 
Nuveen Enhncd Mun Val Fd      NEV         14.95               62,537 
Nuveen Muni Value Fund        NUV         9.90               213,572 
Nuveen NY Div Fnd             NAN         14.60               23,626 
Nuveen NY Investment Qual     NQN         15.57               24,479 
Nuveen NY Muni Value Fund     NNY         10.14                5,268 
Nuveen Ohio Qual Income       NUO         16.98               17,172 
Nuveen Pa Investment Qual     NQP         15.49               18,109 
Nuveen Quality Income         NQU         14.90               89,425 
Nuveen Sel Tax Free           NXP         14.92               15,368 
Nuveen TX Qual Income         NTX         16.58                1,940 
Oneok Inc                     OKE         88.38              483,805 
Old Natl Bancorp              ONB         12.46              309,860 
Philippine Long Distance      PHI         61.24               54,260 
Pier 1 Imports                PIR         15.28              945,906 
Pimco Calif Fund              PCQ         14.13               53,695 
PIMCO CA                      PZC         10.10               39,200 
PIMCO Muni Inc III            PMX         11.71              121,304 
PIMCO NY Fd                   PNF         11.64               22,050 
PimcoNY Fd                    PYN         9.80                 6,246 
Prtctv Life 8% Sr Nt 2024     PLP         24.17               11,880 
RLI Corp                      RLI         75.03               52,953 
RSC Hldgs                     RRR         19.36            2,065,185 
Rayonier REIT                 RYN         45.65              440,547 
Rex American Resources        REX         22.86               24,653 
Roper Indus                   ROP         91.98              205,770 
SandRidge Permian Trust       PER         23.22              369,035 
Sempra Energy                 SRE         56.36              747,479 
Sherwin-Williams              SHW         95.31            1,101,476 
Sturm Ruger                   RGR         36.99              194,057 
Triumph Group                 TGI         62.10              128,799 
Union Pacific                 UNP         112.52           2,246,587 
Universal American            UAM         13.60              355,950 
Valspar Corp                  VAL         40.94              723,169 
Vornado Rlty Tr 6.625% I      VNOpI       25.27                3,636 
Wstrn Asset Muni Ptnrs Fd     MNP         15.53               25,613 
White Mountains Insur         WTM         459.91               2,328 
Williams Cos                  WMB         28.48            9,185,111 
Williams Ptnrs un             WPZ         63.14              188,204 
World Fuel Svcs               INT         45.37              522,942 
Wyndham Worldwide             WYN         39.02            1,416,364 
YUM! Brands                   YUM         60.45            2,101,148 

New Lows 14 

COMPANY                       SYMBOL      LOW                 VOLUME 
-------                       ------      ----                ------ 
Advantest Corp ADS            ATE         9.02                 9,696 
Amrep Corp                    AXR         5.64                18,859 
Arcos Dorados Holdings A      ARCO        17.62            2,821,809 
CPI Corp                      CPY         1.46               211,221 
China Hydroelectric Wt        CHC/WS      0.02                 8,400
ECA Marcellus Trust I         ECT         21.72              423,388 
EXCO Resources                XCO         9.21             3,441,204 
Health Mgmt                   HMA         4.81            47,897,598 
Hugoton Royalty Tr Un         HGT         16.70              632,369 
Natl Bank Of Greece           NBG         1.64               639,381 
Portugal Telecom              PT          5.46               331,455 
SunCoke Energy Inc. Wi        SXCw        11.11               11,100 
Syswin ADS                    SYSW        0.80                36,810 
WPX Energy                    WPX         15.84            6,947,674

NASDAQ

New Highs 98 

COMPANY                       SYMBOL      HIGH                VOLUME 
-------                       ------      ----                ------ 
ATMI                          ATMI        21.92              108,360 
Achillion Pharm               ACHN        10.17            2,885,708 
American Railcar Inds         ARII        29.48              119,563 
Amgen                         AMGN        65.39            2,816,655 
Analogic                      ALOG        59.59               52,101 
Analysts Intl                 ANLY        7.00                66,735 
Apollo Grp  (Cl A)            APOL        57.51            1,643,896 
Asure Software                ASUR        8.48                38,100 
BOK Fincl                     BOKF        59.59              128,732 
Bank of The Ozarks            OZRK        31.07              204,656 
bebe stores                   BEBE        8.84               106,802 
Benihana                      BNHN        11.48              208,909 
BofI Hldg                     BOFI        16.91               11,934 
Broadvision Inc               BVSN        15.40              220,333 
C&F Fincl                     CFFI        30.78                  850 
CVB Fincl                     CVBF        10.86              774,748 
Calavo Growers                CVGW        27.18               70,784 
Celgene                       CELG        69.69            2,437,930 
China Growth Equity Invt      CGEI        9.82                   110 
Cintas                        CTAS        38.17            1,008,672 
Citizens Republic Bancorp     CRBC        13.47              284,022 
Cognex                        CGNX        40.84              295,001 
Columbia Banking System       COLB        21.51              228,540 
Commercial National Fincl     CNAF        25.73                4,791 
Cost Plus                     CPWM        12.46              302,639 
Cubist Pharmaceuticals        CBST        41.18              598,850 
DXP Enterprises               DXPE        36.60               99,891 
Deltek                        PROJ        10.75               54,199 
Dynavax Techs                 DVAX        3.63               563,483 
Eagle Bancorp                 EGBN        15.79               21,171 
Elmira Savings Bank           ESBK        21.26                2,229 
Equinix                       EQIX        111.59             945,781 
FARO Techs                    FARO        49.46               54,220 
Fastenal Co                   FAST        45.81            1,670,515 
First Fincl Service           FFKY        5.17                47,238 
Garmin                        GRMN        40.84              674,018 
Gibraltar Industries          ROCK        15.14               62,118 
Gilead Sciences               GILD        45.04           10,440,816 
Golar LNG Partners LP         GMLP        33.50               70,985 
Golar LNG                     GLNG        47.71              468,053 
ICF Intl                      ICFI        27.98               84,792 
Icahn Enterprises Rt          IEPRR       12.80               44,478 
Idenix Pharmaceuticals        IDIX        10.85            3,734,557 
Inhibitex                     INHX        24.34            6,984,606 
Intel                         INTC        25.92           29,414,267 
Inv Real Es Tr Ser A SBI      IRETP       27.50                3,450 
iShrNasdaqBiotch              IBB         110.57             717,953 
Jacksonville Bancorp          JXSB        14.19                  632 
Jazz Pharm Inc                JAZZ        49.14              733,607 
LKQ                           LKQX        32.35              479,774 
Lincoln Electric Hldgs        LECO        41.05              158,611 
Liquidity Services            LQDT        40.18              275,644 
Lumos Networks                LMOS        18.18               19,450 
magicJack VocalTec            CALL        14.25              331,926 
Marine Petroleum Tr Un        MARPS       27.30                1,209 
MarketAxess Hldgs             MKTX        32.23               54,115 
Marlin Business Services      MRLN        13.80               22,382 
Medivation                    MDVN        54.76              758,375 
Micromet                      MITI        8.50               599,534 
Mid-Con Engy Ptrs L.P. Un     MCEP        19.62              109,325 
Mitcham Industries            MIND        24.75              195,800 
Nathan's Famous               NATH        21.62               17,311 
National Penn Bancshares      NPBC        9.03               586,059 
NewsCorp A                    NWSA        18.84           11,068,812 
NewsCorp B                    NWS         19.10            2,602,946 
Novellus Systems              NVLS        43.82            2,035,727 
Nuance Comm                   NUAN        28.61            5,250,102 
PC Connection                 PCCC        12.92               62,134 
PETsMART                      PETM        52.63              251,259 
Pharmacyclics                 PCYC        16.24              639,502 
Pharmasset                    VRUS        136.40           1,357,317 
Provident Fincl Hldgs         PROV        9.72                 8,091 
Republic Bncrp  (KY) Cl A     RBCAA       24.72               52,691 
SLM 6.398% CPI-Lnkd 2018      ISM         21.45                3,049 
SLM CPI-Lnkd Md Trm Nts A     OSM         22.00                4,150 
Salix Pharmaceuticals         SLXP        49.76              237,107 
Santarus                      SNTS        3.82               311,013 
Scientific Games              SGMS        11.44            1,512,443 
SeagateTech                   STX         18.83            6,592,549 
Select Comfort                SCSS        24.50              594,328 
Shuffle Master                SHFL        12.64              266,396 
Signature Bank                SBNY        64.28              170,747 
Signature Bank Wt             SBNYW       38.81                  400 
Silicon Motion Tech (ADS)     SIMO        23.64              422,257 
Smith & Wesson Hldg           SWHC        4.84               619,424 
Spectrum Pharmaceuticals      SPPI        15.87            1,650,958 
Starbucks                     SBUX        47.28            2,725,736 
Texas Capital Bancshares      TCBI        33.23              257,379 
Texas Cap Bancshares Wt       TCBIW       20.51                  100 
Tower Bancorp Inc             TOBC        30.64               41,089 
US Home Systems               USHS        7.35                49,318 
Umpqua Hldgs                  UMPQ        13.38              509,011 
VOXX International            VOXX        12.18              664,377 
Virtus Invt Ptners Inc        VRTS        83.50               84,233 
VIVUS                         VVUS        12.00            1,999,992 
Woodward                      WWD         44.42              221,523 
Xyratex                       XRTX        15.17              272,822 
Zumiez                        ZUMZ        32.49              399,905 

New Lows 22 

COMPANY                       SYMBOL      LOW                 VOLUME 
-------                       ------      ----                ------ 
Bionovo                       BNVI        0.18               657,596 
Cherokee                      CHKE        11.33               23,763 
Horizon Pharma                HZNP        3.69                16,098 
IPC The Hospitalist Co        IPCM        29.70              472,593 
Imperial Sugar Co             IPSU        2.55               508,085 
Integra LifeSci Hldgs         IART        23.15              422,475 
Intellipharmaceutics Int      IPCI        2.41                22,500 
S&P/Citigrp Intl Trsry Bd     IGOV        95.69               14,377 
Keating Capital               KIPO        7.25                 8,201 
Marchex   (Cl B)              MCHX        5.17               222,644 
NxStage Medical               NXTM        16.29              596,053 
Opexa Therapeutics wt         OPXAW       0.05                10,200 
OptimumBank Hldgs             OPHC        0.38                   500 
ProShr Ul Sh QQQ              SQQQ        17.14            1,646,384 
ProShs UlShrt Nsdq Biot       BIS         29.30                1,819 
RealNetworks                  RNWK        6.84                68,012 
School Specialty              SCHS        2.15               344,661 
SunOpta                       STKL        4.13               557,533 
Tecumseh Products B           TECUB       4.25                 3,471 
Telefonos de Mexcio A         TFONY       12.22               10,796 
WebMD Health                  WBMD        25.01            9,431,496 
ZELTIQ Aesthetics             ZLTQ        10.05              213,120

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US rescues more Iranians at sea

WASHINGTON (AP) — A U.S. Coast Guard cutter rescued six Iranian mariners from a vessel in distress in the Persian Gulf, the second time in less than a week that the American military has come to the aid of Iranians at sea, an official said Tuesday.

The incident was another reminder of U.S. efforts to demonstrate the humanitarian value of its naval presence in the Gulf, a strategic waterway that the Iranian government has threatened to close in retaliation for international sanctions over its nuclear program.

Last Thursday, the U.S. Navy rescued 13 Iranian fishermen who had been held captive by pirates in the northern Arabian Sea, just outside the Gulf, for more than 40 days. That happened just days after Tehran warned the United States to keep its warships out of the Gulf. The fishermen were sent on their way and the 15 pirates were taken aboard the aircraft carrier USS John C. Stennis.

In the latest incident, Pentagon press secretary George Little said the Iranians aboard a cargo dhow about 50 miles southeast of the Iraqi port of Umm Qasr used flares and flashlights to hail the cutter Monomoy at 3 a.m. local time Tuesday. The vessel’s master indicated that his engine room was flooding and “deemed not seaworthy,” Little said.

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Fed transfered $77 billion in profits to Treasury for 2011

WASHINGTON – The Federal Reserve said Tuesday that it transferred $76.9 billion in profits to the Treasury Department last year, slightly less than its 2010 transfer but much more than in any other previous year.

The Fed is required by law to transfer its profits to the Treasury each year, a provision that has become increasingly lucrative as a byproduct of the central bank’s ongoing campaign to stimulate economic growth.

Almost 97 percent of the Fed’s income was generated by interest payments on its $2.5 trillion in holdings of Treasury securities and mortgage-backed securities, which it has amassed in an effort to reduce borrowing costs for businesses and consumers by reducing long-term interest rates.

Through those purchases, the central bank has become the largest single holder of federal debt, and of securities issued by the government-owned mortgage finance companies Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. As a consequence, most of the money flowing into the Fed’s coffers comes from the pockets of taxpayers.

But Fed officials note that this recycling – payments flowing from Treasury to the Fed and then back to the Treasury – still saves money for taxpayers because those interest payments otherwise would be made to other investors.

“It’s interest that the Treasury didn’t have to pay to the Chinese,” the Fed’s chairman, Ben S. Bernanke, half-jokingly told Congress last year.

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Should you sell into euro summits?

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As the euro zone gears up for yet more high-level meetings about its debt crisis, a fund manager advised investors to sell European shares in the wake of the series of planned summits.

“You should sell summits and wait for markets to go down again,” Stewart Richardson, partner at RMG Wealth Management, told CNBC Tuesday.

He believes that leaders should move their focus from austerity measures towards promoting growth.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s latest meeting with French President Nicolas Sarkozy focused on the problems facing Greece.

They put pressure on the euro zone’s most heavily indebted nation to make a deal with creditor banks on a bond swap and avoid defaulting on its debt repayments.

The lack of big announcements from the meeting highlighted how much there is still to be done to solve the euro zone debt crisis, analysts told CNBC.

“It’s really only now that people are starting to see how dangerous the first quarter of 2012 can be,” Simon Derrick, chief currency strategist, BNY Mellon, said. “Both the Greece and Italy stories are right on the agenda now.”

On Monday, yields on Italian 10-year debt, a key measure of market confidence in the country’s economic future, rose above the key 7 percent level which forced smaller euro zone countries to request bailouts.

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Tax Free Status: If You Can’t Beat Them…Then Join Them

 

“StoneMor Partners LP, the publicly traded firm that specializes in running cemeteries, expects to see handsome profits in coming years as baby boomers age and die. But unlike its largest rivals, its corporate tax bill from the federal government will be zero.

StoneMor is among the many businesses organized so they don’t pay a penny in federal corporate income tax. And yet such firms don’t employ an army of accountants to shield profits in complex tax shelters. Their enviable tax position is perfectly legal and has been encouraged by Congress and state governments….”

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OCZ has won business at Facebook

Hearing Craig-Hallum confirming competitor OCZ has won business at Facebook. Could be a negative for FIO.

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Ahmadinejad, Chavez pal around

They say we’re making (a) bomb. Fortunately, the majority of Latin American countries are alert. Everyone knows that those words … are a joke. It’s something to laugh at.
– Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iranian President

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Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez and Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad sarcastically addressed America’s growing concern over Iran’s nuclear program referring to themselves as “devils” whose love for one another would fuel their “a-bomb.”

Ahmadinejad defended his country’s nuclear program as he began a four-nation tour of Latin America, joining his ally Chávez in accusing the U.S. and its allies of using the dispute to unjustly threaten Iran.

Both leaders dismissed U.S. concerns about Iran’s intentions in the Middle East and its growing diplomatic ties with Chávez and his allies in Latin America.

“They accuse us of being warmongers,” Chávez said. “They’re the threat.”

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Hedge funds not much interested in Greek haircut

LONDON (Reuters) – Hedge funds are taking on the powerful International Monetary Fund over its plan to slash Greece’s towering debt burden as time runs out on the talks that could sway the future of Europe’s single currency.

The funds have built up such a powerful positions in Greek bonds that they could derail Europe’s tactic of getting banks and other bondholders to share the burden of reducing the country’s debt on a voluntary basis.

Bondholders need to give up some 100 billion euros ($130 billion) of their investment in the planned bond swap, drawn up in October, but many hedge funds plan to stay out of it.

They either prefer letting the country go under, which would trigger the credit insurance they have bought, or hope to get paid out in full if enough others sign up. That puts them in direct conflict with the IMF, which wants to force Greece’s cost of financing down to an affordable level.

“The play is purely ‘they’ll be forced to pay me’. Greece will want to avoid a wider default. so if it managed to restructure 80 percent of the deal and pay the rest that’s still better,” said Gabriel Sterne at securities firm Exotix.

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FLASH: Orange-Juice Futures Trade at Highest Level Since 1977

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Futures of frozen orange juice concentrate in New York surged on concerns that the presence of a fungicide in samples from Brazil could crimp supplies.

January-delivery orange juice hit $2.12 per pound, the highest front-month price since November 1977. The more actively-traded March contract was recently trading 10.7% higher at $2.0775 per pound on ICE Futures U.S

The Food and Drug Administration is testing orange juice for a fungicide and says it will order the product removed from the market if it poses a public health risk.

In a letter dated Jan. 9 to the Juice Products Association, an industry group, the FDA said a juice company reported “low levels” of carbendazim, a fungicide, in its and its competitors products.

The FDA said the fungicide was used on the 2011 orange crop in Brazil, the world’s largest grower of oranges and the biggest producer of orange juice.

Florida oranges produce about three-quarters of U.S. orange-juice concentrate supplies, and imports cover the rest. About 75% of those imports come from Brazil.

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Tim Tebow Declines to Endorse Any Presidential Candidates Despite Courtship

Sensing the excitement and loving his message, Tebow is also being courted by Republican presidential candidates. The quarterback recently told The Associated Press he’s been asked by more than one of the contenders for his support. He wouldn’t name names, but did say he’d declined the offer.

“I think you have to have so much trust in who you support, just from product endorsements to endorsing a candidate because if that person or company does something (bad), it reflects on you,” said Tebow, who’s a pitchman for Nike, Jockey and FRS energy drink.

Tebow has, however, placed himself in the political realm before – two Super Bowls ago when he starred in a Focus on the Family commercial with his mother sharing the story of how she gave birth to him in the Philippines in 1987 after spurning a doctor’s advice to have an abortion for medical reasons. After being criticized for that ad, he didn’t do an encore and instead tries to toe the line of showing his religion without shoving it down people’s throats.

That hasn’t stopped people from mocking him – and worse.

After Tebow was particularly bad in an ugly loss to Buffalo on Dec. 24, comedian and talk show host Bill Maher sent out a tweet that basked in the QB’s misfortune, blaming Jesus for the loss. “And on Xmas Eve! Somewhere in hell Satan is tebowing, saying to Hitler `Hey, Buffalo’s killing them,’” Maher tweeted.

Maher, in turn, was roundly ripped for the post.

Less toxic was the recent skit on “Saturday Night Live,” where “Jesus” materializes in the locker room with an actor portraying Tebow, admits he is pulling some strings during these Bronco games, then after being told the New England Patriots are next on the schedule, suggests Tebow substitute his playbook, “the holy Bible,” for one with some Xs and Os.

The “SNL” Jesus also concedes that he, personally, prays to the Broncos place-kicker, Matt Prater, whose excellence has defined what the Tebow sensation has been about for most of this season: a bunch of teammates, motivated by a less-than-perfect leader who never gives up, coming together and picking each other up when the going gets tough.

A great story line that has held most of the year.

The twist on Sunday, though, was that for the first time this season, it could reasonably be argued that Tebow was a one-man show. In the win over Pittsburgh, he completed five passes of 30 yards or more. And with his defense struggling, he threw a perfect strike for the game-winner to receiver Demaryius Thomas, who didn’t have to change his stride and, thus, ran untouched into the end zone.

“He was the same Tim, calm and collected,” Thomas said. “He took it one play at a time and was in the huddle and said, `It’s either we win or we go home.’”

READ THE FULL STORY HERE 

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