Friday, March 23, 2012
Lionel Richie courts Nashville for new record, but has 'Tuskegee' in mind (video) | Mary Colurso - Birmingham News - For Lionel Richie, there was exactly one choice. His 2012 record — a collection of country duets meant to reinvent, rearrange and reinterpret some of his signature songs — could only be called "Tuskegee." Some folks in the music industry tried to persuade him otherwise, but the Alabama native stood firm.
Gangster Banks Keep Winning Public Business. Why? | Matt Taibbi | Rolling Stone - Chase also entered into a $722 million settlement with the government over its behavior in Jefferson County, Alabama, where the bank essentially bribed local officials to take on onerous swap deals that left the county in debt until the next millenium. Bid-rigging is an old-school crime of machine pols and gangsters. - In modern times, it's the same thing, except that it's banks now doing the pantomiming. Here a circle of organized crooks (read: banks) gets together, parcels out territories so that each party gets to "win" business in certain areas, and then they all get together and agree to a rigged bid system.
Tim Tebow did not come to NY Jets to be a backup, thinks he can beat out Mark Sanchez for starting QB job: sources - NY Daily News - Gary Myers - A major factor in Tebow’s push to come to New York over Jacksonville, his hometown, is that he sees a clear path to resuming his career as a starter, sources tell the Daily News.
BACK PAGE: Tebow chose Jets, but why - NYPost.com - Justin Terranova - Tim Tebow did have a choice and he picked the Jets. "We did (give him a choice)," Broncos executive John Elway told ESPN Radio on Thursday. "There was more (offered) from Jacksonville, but we looked at it and it was close enough and we were in contact throughout the day and talked to him and he knew what was going on the whole time." The question is, why would Tebow choose the Jets over the Jaguars?
Tim Tebow still isn’t technically a New York Jet | Shutdown Corner - Yahoo! Sports - Chris Chase - The beloved, if not technically-proficient quarterback, still isn't an official member of the New York Jets despite the stutter-step Wednesday trade that sent him to Broadway for a fourth-round pick. Because of the salary advance issue that almost sent him elsewhere, Tebow had to sign a new, restructured contract with the Denver Broncos before the trade was consummated. ESPN reported the news. Tebow has to stay a Bronco for 24 more hours and then can be traded to the Jets, which he will be this weekend. On Monday, finally, he will be announced as the team's new "backup" quarterback.
Fans greet Tim Tebow as newest Jet arrives at New Jersey airport - NY Daily News - Hallelujah! The Jets backup has landed. Tim Tebow touched down Thursday at a New Jersey airport as his trade to the Jets continued to dominate the conversation from Twitter to city pulpits to football card companies.
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