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Papiss Demba Cisse’s ____________ Goal…
Stunning. Spectacular. Sumptuous. All these words come to mind. How would you describe Cisse’s goal(s) that helped Newcastle emphatically defeat Chelsea at Stamford Bridge?
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Chavez exits with whiplash after diving play
NEW YORK -- Third baseman Eric Chavez left in the middle of a fifth-inning at-bat during Wednesday night's 5-0 loss to the Orioles with a whiplash injury and a possible concussion.
He was taken to New York Presbyterian Hospital for head and spine scans and did not make the trip to Kansas City with the team after the game.
Chavez, who seemed to be overcome with dizziness during the at-bat, suffered the injury while diving for a double off the bat of J.J. Hardy in the top half of the inning. Eduardo Nunez replaced him in the lineup and at third for the rest of the game.
"He came off the field [after the play] and said he got a little dizzy, but he was all right," Yankees manager Joe Girardi said. "Then when he was going through his at-bat, he got dizzy. When he stepped out, I noticed it. That's why I ran out there."
Chavez took a 1-1 pitch from Orioles starter Jake Arrieta, a called strike, stepped out of the box, and stepped back in before asking home-plate umpire Hunter Wendelstedt for time. He was helped off the field and into the tunnel in the Yankees' dugout.
The Yankees are already short-handed as far as position players go, playing without outfielders Brett Gardner (right elbow) and Nick Swisher (left hamstring). Nunez, typically a reserve infielder, has been playing outfield, as well.
Girardi said after the game Wednesday that the team would likely make a move of some kind soon, but did not know which players it would involve or when it would take place.
"That hurts," Girardi said. "It's kind of hard to have 10 guys healthy in a lineup. It limits what you can do. You're asking guys to play a lot that aren't used to playing a lot, in a sense. It does limit us. That's why, at some point, I feel we're going to have to make a move here. I can't tell you what it is, but we're going to have to do something."
Chavez is hitting .290 with three homers and five RBIs in 15 games this year.
Phelps thrilled to make first start in homecoming
NEW YORK -- As far as first big league starts go, an outing about 1,200 miles from Yankee Stadium is just about as good as it gets for David Phelps.
The young right-hander, who flew back to Missouri early on Wednesday afternoon ahead of the club, will make his first career start Thursday against the Royals and will be able to do so in front of a few dozen family members and friends. The Notre Dame product grew up in St. Louis and said it's about a 2 1/2-hour drive from his home to Kansas City's Kauffman Stadium.
"I'm really excited," Phelps said. "I'm trying as much as I can to take it like it's any other game, but it's a big deal for me. It's going to be awesome. I'm gonna have a lot of family there."
Phelps said he expects at least 25 people there to support him, including his parents, brother and wife.
"It's a lot nicer than if it were to happen in somewhere like, say, Seattle," Phelps said. "It's kind of difficult for some of my family to get up here to watch me throw, so it's really nice to be so close to home. If it's gonna be in any other ballpark other than St. Louis, it's the closest one. It's just good, in a sense, that I can give back to the people that sacrificed so much for me to be where I am today."
The rookie, who has been working as a reliever for the Yankees this season, moves into the rotation after striking out 14 and walking just two in his first 17 2/3 big league innings.
In 20 Minor League appearances last year (all starts) in the Yankees' farm system, Phelps was 7-7 with a 2.99 ERA.
"What has probably helped him is he's been thrust into a role that he's never done before and not in an easy situation, and he's done OK," manager Joe Girardi said. "So he's got that nervousness part out. Managing some of the other things -- your first start and first time your family's gonna see you a lot -- that can be difficult at times. Hopefully he gets in his little area and focuses on what he's got to do."
Girardi downplays struggles at heart of lineup
NEW YORK -- As far as his struggling 3-4-5 hitters are concerned, Yankees manager Joe Girardi has found a way to look on the bright side.
"You see some good at-bats, you see some times where they're a little bit out front, sometimes they line out, sometimes they miss their pitch," Girardi said Wednesday. "They're not where they want to be, they're not where we want them to be. But that just means they're due. And the law of averages usually catches up."
Speaking of averages, all three hitters are well below their career mark after about a month of baseball. Alex Rodriguez (a career .301 hitter) was batting .256 heading into Wednesday's game, Robinson Cano (.307 in his career) was hitting .255 and Mark Teixeira (.281 in his career) was batting .233.
The trio combined to go 2-for-12 in Tuesday night's 7-1 loss to the visiting Orioles.
"There's no question we've each got to get better," Rodriguez said afterward. "There's no question in my mind that all three of us are going to get better."
Cano has been particularly quiet this season, tallying just one homer and four RBIs through 23 games. But Girardi said there's nothing about the second baseman's approach that concerns him.
"I just think he's missing his pitch," Girardi said. "He's just a tick off. It doesn't take much to be off. The timing has to be perfect, you have to swing at good pitches. I haven't seen him swing at bad pitches. I haven't seen him be over-aggressive, in a sense. He's a tick off. It'll change."
Gardner's return to be delayed a few days
NEW YORK -- Joe Girardi said left fielder Brett Gardner's return has been pushed back at least a couple days, which will keep the Yankees' outfield shuffle going at least until then.
With Gardner -- nursing a sore right elbow -- and right fielder Nick Swisher (left hamstring) missing time, the team has relied upon Eduardo Nunez, Raul Ibanez and Andruw Jones to fill the vacancies.
Nunez, who started in left field on Monday and Tuesday, made a costly error on Tuesday night, but Girardi said he's been impressed with the young utility player's progress at an unfamiliar position.
"They've done a decent job," Girardi said. "Any left fielder that we put out there is not gonna be a Gardner. And Swish plays a good right field, as well. That's the bottom line. We've tried to make do with what we have."
Ibanez was brought to New York this offseason primarily to be an outfielder, but he's gotten more than his share of outfield innings.
"I'm not surprised at his production," Girardi said. "I think it's what we expected from him. And it's nice that we can put him in the outfield."
Gardner made the trip to Kansas City for this weekend's series, with his return date to be determined. He said he hopes to hit on Thursday, but it likely won't be until Friday.
"It's just a bone bruise and it's one of those things ... if you don't stay off of it and you aren't smart about it, it's something that'll last a long time," Gardner said Wednesday. "The doctor said he wants me to feel like I'm 100 percent before I go out on the field to air it out, and I didn't feel like I was quite at 100 percent yesterday, so we decided to take a day or two off."
The outfielder described it as "discomfort" in his elbow and said he's just "a little bit worried about it." He has not been taking batting practice outside this week.
Dream Home (2005)
Synopsis Of Dream Home
A young pair of migrant workers find that the home that they have fallen in love with harbors a dark secret in director Amir Valino's frightful tale of malevolent evil. When the Cromier's stumble across a beautiful antebellum home situated in the deep recesses of Louisiana, their excitement of finding such a perfect home to raise a family leaves them filled with joy. That joy soon turns to an increasingly ominous sense of dread, however, when a series of deeply disturbing and decidedly supernatural events lead the pair to realize they aren't the only ones who want to claim the picturesque home as their own. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi
- Theatrical Feature Running Time:
- 85 mins
Complete Cast Of Dream Home
- Director(s):
- Amir Valinia
- Writer(s):
- Teiryn M. Fields
- Producer(s):
- Kane & Abel
- Theatrical MPAA Rating:
- PG
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- gets 2 out of 5 very bad movie did not like it
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Jonathan Vilma stands over Sam Bradford after laying him out for a sack during a 2010 Saints-Rams game. The NFL suspended Vilma for the entire 2012 season for his role in the Saints bounty scandal. (John Korduner/Icon SMI)
Haywire (2012)
Synopsis Of Haywire
Mixed martial arts fighter Gina Carano makes her feature-film debut as a lethal government contractor who's betrayed by her own agency in this action thriller from writerLem Dobbs (The Limey) and director Steven Soderbergh (Traffic, Contagion). Mallory Kane (Carano) is the woman the U.S. government calls on to take care of their dirty work. She's fast, efficient, and -- perhaps most important of all -- clean. But when Mallory makes the mistake of saving a Chinese journalist from certain death, she becomes an enemy to the very same government she once served. Mallory isn't going down without a fight, though, and after a close brush with death, she realizes that the only way to save her own life is to reveal the government's deception. Now, as assassins close in from all sides in an ominous attempt to silence her forever, Mallory sets a trap and races to reveal a massive deception that threatens global stability. Michael Douglas, Michael Fassbender, Ewan McGregor, and Bill Paxton co-star. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi
Complete Cast Of Haywire
- Director(s):
- Steven Soderbergh
- Writer(s):
- Lem Dobbs
- Producer(s):
- Steven Soderbergh, Gregory Jacobs
- Theatrical MPAA Rating:
- R(Violence)
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- gets 2 out of 5 not wroth your time at all
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This week, Sports Illustrated pays tribute to Title IX and its impact on women’s sports over the past 40 years.
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Angels starting pitcher Jered Weaver is doused by teammates after pitching a a no-hitter in Wednesday’s 9-0 victory over the Twins. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)
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Justified or not, Seau's death puts football under question aging
Junior Seau was a feared tackler in his 20 seasons, but what role, if any, did that ferociousness play in his death?
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I hope football didn't do this.
Did the game Junior Seau loved help take his life? We don't know. We don't know why one of the greatest linebackers of his generation shot himself in the chest Wednesday and died at 43, leaving behind three children. It's entirely possible his demons came from other external factors. Maybe they were always there. We don't know. But given everything we've learned in the past few years about the brain damage caused by repeated head trauma, the immediate reaction is to point the finger at football.
That's the biggest problem the sport has right now. Not bounties. Not performance-enhancing drugs. It's the mounting evidence that repeated shots to the head could be slowly killing football players. Even if it had nothing to do with Seau's death, football has lost the benefit of the doubt. Every time a far-too-young ex-player dies after suffering some sort of mental distress, football will be the prime suspect.
Typically, we try not to dwell on the method of someone's suicide because we fear that might encourage copycats. In Seau's case, it could be important. In 2011, 50-year-old former NFL safety Dave Duerson shot himself in the chest and died. Only later did we learn why he chose the chest. Duerson had asked family members to donate his brain so doctors could study the long-term effects of multiple concussions. He had shot himself in the chest to leave his brain intact. Duerson's brain wound up in the possession of the Sports Legacy Institute, a foundation started by neurologist Robert Cantu and former Harvard football player Chris Nowinski to study the long-term effects of concussions. In May 2011, Boston University researchers working with the SLI announced that an examination of Duerson's brain showed Duerson had chronic traumatic encephalopathy, a trauma-induced disease the researchers had found in the brains of 20 other dead players.
Duerson's family has sued the NFL, claiming the league ignored the link between repeated head trauma and brain damage. Last week, former Cowboys Randy White, Bob Lilly and Rayfield Wright and other former players joined a class-action lawsuit against the NFL on similar grounds.
When an ex-player as young as Seau kills himself, we think of former Philadelphia Eagle Andre Waters, who died of a self-inflicted gunshot at 44 in 2006. Two months after Waters committed suicide, a forensic pathologist who had studied Waters' brain told The New York Times that the tissue resembled what one would expect in an 85-year-old man in the early stages of Alzheimer's. We also think of Owen Thomas, the University of Pennsylvania defensive end who hanged himself in 2010. When those Boston University researchers examined Thomas' brain, they found the early stages of CTE -- though Thomas was only 21 at the time of his death.
I spent a weekend with Seau in October 2009 filming an episode of his short-lived television show, "Sports Jobs." Junior followed me through the weekend of a Florida-Georgia football game. He could not have been more kind or gracious. He strummed on his ukulele and made fun of my illegible handwriting. Though he was the star of the show -- and though he was squeezing in the taping during an off week from the Patriots -- he never once pulled a diva move. He seemed to be enjoying himself. He certainly didn't seem like someone who would kill himself.
But I didn't know Seau, so I'm not qualified to judge that. He had documented issues. After he was arrested and accused of assaulting his girlfriend during an argument in October 2010, Seau drove his SUV off a cliff. He claimed afterward that he hadn't tried to kill himself. He said he had only fallen asleep at the wheel, but the incident raised red flags.
Did football cause all of that? We don't know. Maybe it's a convenient excuse. Or maybe almost 30 years (including high school, college and pro football) of repeated shots to the head did permanent damage. As a linebacker, he collided with a blocker or a ballcarrier on every down.
Seau came of age in an era when guys who "got dinged" in the head sucked it up and got back on the field. Only very recently have the leaders of the sport at all levels adopted better concussion protocols. Now, NFL and major college players receive baseline tests before each season. If they suffer head injuries, they must prove their brains have returned to that baseline state before they can return to the field.
Next week, web publication Slate will sponsor a debate between two teams. On one side, New Yorker writer Malcolm Gladwell and author Buzz Bissinger will argue that college football should be banned. FOXSports.com columnist Jason Whitlock and broadcaster -- and former Atlanta Falcon -- Tim Green will argue that college football remains a worthwhile endeavor. One of the main planks of Gladwell's and Bissinger's platform is the link between football and mental illness later in life.
I'm inclined to take the side of Whitlock and Green. Like them, I played football. I could explain what football taught me, but I couldn't explain it better than late New York Yankees owner George Steinbrenner, who once told me this: "I learned as much at the line of scrimmage than I ever learned in the stacks of the library." I love the game -- so much that I've made a career out of covering it.
But would I let my son play?
I've thought about this a lot since he was born in 2009. I'm hoping the game is safer by the time he reaches high school. I'm hoping I don't have to tell him he can't play because I fear for his brain when he turns 40. I'm hoping the people in charge have taken drastic steps to ensure the game goes on for generations. But if it remains as dangerous as it is today, I'm installing a basketball hoop.
The sport has faced such a crossroads before. When the "flying wedge" formation was killing players near the turn of the 20th century, U.S. president Teddy Roosevelt shouted down those who would ban the sport, gathered the leaders of the football-playing colleges and forced them to make rules to make the game safer.
If properly motivated, the leaders can change the rules and save the sport. It will require something drastic. Maybe they'll have to outlaw the three-point stance to slow the collisions on the line. Maybe they'll have to outlaw helmets, which tend to make players more fearless than they should be. Yes, the game will change. But remember one thing: In 1906, everyone thought the forward pass would destroy the integrity of the game, too.
Change won't come easy. When then-Rutgers coach Greg Schiano proposed eliminating kickoffs to cut down on catastrophic injuries such as the one that paralyzed Scarlet Knight Eric LeGrand -- whom Tampa Bay Buccaneers coach Schiano symbolically signed on Wednesday -- Schiano was laughed at by his peers. Commissioners, coaches, college presidents and high school state associations will have to be equally bold and risk similar ridicule if they want to make meaningful changes.
Because something has to change. Football is too great a sport to continue under this cloud. Every time an ex-player dies too young, football will get blamed. That may not be fair, but it's the truth. Unfortunately, the sport has lost the presumption of innocence.
Newport News: A 67-year-old York County man died Wednesday after being involved in a multi-vehicle accident in Newport News. http://vbs.cm/k0N0PO
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30,000 Bees Stuck In Victoria Clayton's Attic (PHOTOS)
Victoria Clayton had a honey of a problem recently: 30,000 bees in the attic of her home in Cape May, N.J.
When Clayton, who lives in the 19th century home with her boyfriend, Richard White, decided to do a sting operation of sorts after they noticed an unusually large number of bees in their flower and herb gardens this spring, and spied a constant stream headed toward a third-floor laundry vent.
Turns out there were around 30,000 bees living in the attic with more than 25 pounds of honey and honeycomb under the floorboards.
"I could not believe that it took probably a year or less for these tiny little bees to build such an elaborate comb," Clayton told Newsworks. "It was the most beautiful sight I'd ever seen. I hated to see them go."
But go they must, according to Gary Schempp, the bee removal expert called in to remove the thriving hive.
"If the bees had been allowed to keep adding on to the hive, [the owners] would have eventually had honey dripping from the ceilings and that could have caused dry rot and attracted other insects and rodents," Schempp told The Huffington Post.
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Hustler Wins Lawsuit About Using Nancy Toffolini Benoit Pictures
ATLANTA -- A federal appeals court has sided with a racy magazine in a dispute over nude pictures of a model published after she was killed by her professional wrestler husband.
The 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Tuesday said there wasn't enough evidence to support a jury's decision to make Hustler Magazine pay almost $20 million to the family of Nancy Toffolini Benoit.
The magazine published the photos after she and her son were killed in 2007 by wrestler Chris Benoit.
Benoit's family said Nancy never gave permission to publish the 24-year-old photos, while the magazine said it could print them because they were newsworthy.
The jury's 2011 decision to penalize the magazine $19.6 million was later reduced to $250,000, which was also vacated by the court.
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Tommy Rees Arrested: Notre Dame Quarterback Jailed In Police Confrontation
SOUTH BEND, Ind. — Notre Dame quarterback Tommy Rees has been arrested and jailed on a preliminary felony charge following a confrontation with officers early Thursday, police said.
Rees, 19, was arrested on charges of resisting law enforcement, battery to law enforcement, minor consumption and public intoxication, St. Joseph County police Sgt. Bill Redman said.
Redman said South Bend police officers arrested Rees and Notre Dame linebacker Carlo Calabrese and that he didn't know details of the incident or which charge against Rees was a felony.
Calabrese was arrested on a misdemeanor charge of disorderly conduct and released after posting $150 bond.
Rees of Lake Forest, Ill., was being held without bond until the county prosecutor's office decided on formal charges, Redman said.
Rees started 12 of 13 games as the Irish went 8-5 last season after starting four games as a freshman in the 2010 season. He was among four players competing during Notre Dame's spring practices for the starting quarterback spot this coming season.
"The university is aware of this incident and is confident that it will be handled in a prompt and professional manner through the criminal justice system," Notre Dame spokesman Dennis Brown said in a statement. "Internal discipline is handled privately, in accord with our own policies and federal law."
Calabrese, 21, was a backup linebacker who played in every game last season after starting eight games as a sophomore during the 2010 season.
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