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Rubik's Rookie: Jets' Calvin Anderson has puzzling talent

FLORHAM PARK, N.J. - Calvin Anderson was in middle school the first time he watched in amazement as a football teammate deftly solved a Rubik's Cube.

Always the competitive type, he needed to know how to do it, too.

"I loved how it was a combination of hand-eye coordination," he said, "and keeping your mind buzzing the whole time."

So Anderson grabbed one of the popular six-sided puzzles and started unscrambling the 54 little colorful squares -- white, blue, red, green, yellow and orange -- a task that has stumped and frustrated millions around the world since it first became a pop-culture phenomenon in the 1980s.