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Pre-Marketing 4.22.11

* Rand Getlin: Cash-strapped NFL players seek “lockout loans”

* Kyle Daly: Is big pharma about to corner the market on medicinal marijuana?

* Kirsten Korosec: At Massey Energy (MEE), a retiring CEO is worth 7 dead miners

* Morning Call: Dow ended the week at nearly a 3-week high and the Nikkei ends flat.

* Wade Roush: Could a game be the answer to your email woes?

* Felix Salmon: The option value of not drilling for oil

* Romil Patel: Why Groupon sucks for merchants, while LivingSocial doesn’t

* PIPP profits: Treasury to announce $1.7 billion in gains from the Public-Private Investment Program

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* Mark Mobius: Investment opportunity in Nigeria, Ghana and Kenya

* Onion: Mitt Romney haunted by past of trying to help uninsured sick people

* Biz Week spends 6 pages on the private secondary markets. Not too much new in there, but a very good overview.