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In an effort to be the first critics group to announce its picks for the best films of 2011, the New York Film Critics Circle will be leaving at least one possible contender off its list: the film adaptation of Jonathan Safran Foer's novel "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close".

Low and behold, we didn't even have to grab a contender off the street.

One male contender shows off with a forward flip and the splits.

It is easier to build a long-term playoff contender coming off an 8-8 season than a 4-12 season.

Gruden's Buccaneers had arrived as somewhat of a surprise contender, coming off a 4-12 season in 2006.

John Edwards, the third leading contender, pulled off the feat of eclipsing the former president by embarking upon a clandestine affair with Rielle Hunter, a producer of Web videos who had been the model for the "sexually voracious" 20-year-old Alison Poole in Jay McInerney's novel "Story of My Life," published in 1988.

Quality Road — announcing himself, perhaps surprisingly, as a Kentucky Derby contender — took off at the top of the stretch and won the Grade II $250,000 Fountain of Youth at Gulfstream Park in Hallandale Beach, Fla. Jockey John Velazquez asked Quality Road to find that top gear as they made the turn, and the colt responded, then pulled away to beat Theregoesjojo by four and a quarter lengths.

Still, the former Democratic presidential contender cut off Perry.

DuVernay wasn't the only big-time contender left off the roster: David Fincher (for "Gone Girl"), Damien Chazelle (for "Whiplash") and James Marsh (for "The Theory of Everything") were also ignored by the DGA.

The Dallas Cowboys are contenders Written off and underrated, the Cowboys have emerged as a team capable of contending for their division after they triumphed over state rivals the Houston Texans.

As the contenders set off Saturday, one by one, on the stage that would decide the overall winner, Evans stared straight ahead, his face blank.