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Coolidge High School Football Coach Natalie Randolph gets her team ready for the Turkey Bowl, Washington, DC, Monday, November 21, 2011. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

Coolidge High School Football Coach Natalie Randolph, bottom center, watches starting quarterback Femi Bamiro, right, run the offense in preparation for the Turkey Bowl, Washington, DC, Monday, November 21, 2011. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

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Coolidge High School Football Coach Natalie Randolph gets her team ready for the Turkey Bowl, Washington, DC, Monday, November 21, 2011. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

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Coolidge High School's starting quarterback Femi Bamiro, left, and backup QB Darius Taylor, right, warm up before practice, Washington, DC, Monday, November 21, 2011. Coach Natalie Randolph gets her team ready for the Turkey Bowl. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

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Coolidge High School Football Coach Natalie Randolph gets her team ready for the Turkey Bowl, Washington, DC, Monday, November 21, 2011. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

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Coolidge High School Football Coach Natalie Randolph heads to the field for practice to get her team ready for the Turkey Bowl, Washington, DC, Monday, November 21, 2011. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

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Coolidge High School Football Coach Natalie Randolph sits in the coaches locker room before going out to practice with her team to get ready for the Turkey Bowl, Washington, DC, Monday, November 21, 2011. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

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Coolidge High School Football Coach Natalie Randolph gives direction to Dayon Pratt, left, during practice in preparation for the Turkey Bowl, Washington, DC, Monday, November 21, 2011. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

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Richard Huisinga, chairman of the National Turkey Federation, shakes hands with Tom Plott, who plays George Washington's farm manager James Anderson at Mount Vernon in Virginia, as Liberty, the turkey pardoned by President Obama, is welcomed to Mount Vernon on Nov. 23, 2011. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

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Liberty, the turkey pardoned by President Obama, is welcomed Nov. 23, 2011, to Mount Vernon in Virginia by Tom Plott, who plays James Anderson, the farm manager for George Washington. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

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Coolidge receiver Dayon Pratt listens to instructions from head coach Natalie Randolph. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

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Coolidge High School football coach Natalie Randolph (top) watches Dayon Pratt run the ball against the team's linebackers during a practice for the Turkey Bowl. The coach (left) sees to it that her student-athletes are successful in the classroom as well. She holds study halls for her players four times a week. The team's grade-point average has improved from last year. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

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Coolidge High School varsity football coach Natalie Randolph is in her second year of coaching and some of the novelty of a woman heading a boys football team has worn off. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

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Coolidge High School varsity football coach Natalie Randolph (background) watches her players during a drill in preparation for the Turkey Bowl against Dunbar High School. She's in her second year of coaching and some of the novelty of a woman heading a boys football team has worn off. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

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Spring Gardens, the 18th-century home at 414 Franklin St. in Alexandria, is on the market for $4,200,000. It is said George Washington spent his last Fourth of July at the home in 1798, when it was a tavern and oyster house.

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**FILE** Occupy Boston protesters gather Oct. 5, 2011, outside a building in the Financial district in Boston as law enforcement officials look on at left. (Associated Press)

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Washington Redskins' Jabar Gaffney celebrates after a catch against the Dallas Cowboys on Nov. 20, 2011, in Landover, Md. The Cowboys won in overtime, 27-24. (Associated Press/The Free Lance-Star)

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** FILE ** Washington Capitals center Nicklas Backstrom of Sweden celebrates with left wing Alex Ovechkin (8) of Russia after Backstrom scored on Phoenix Coyotes goalie Jason LaBarbera during the third period of an NHL hockey game in Washington, Monday, Nov. 21, 2011. The Capitals won 4-3. (AP Photo/Ann Heisenfelt)

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** FILE ** Winnipeg Jets' Blake Wheeler (26) scores his first goal of the season on Washington Capitals' Michal Neuvirth (30) during second-period NHL hockey game action at MTS Centre in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Thursday, Nov. 17, 2011. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Trevor Hagan)

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Maryland center Lynetta Kizer shoots over St. Joseph's guard Erin Shields in the second half of a college basketball game in College Park, Md., Tuesday, Nov. 22, 2011. Kizer contributed a game-high 25 points to Maryland's 94-71 win. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)