Friday, April 13, 2012
What's new at Turner Field this season | ajc.com - Tim Tucker - Fans going to Turner Field for the Braves’ home opener Friday night won’t find much new on the field, thanks to the team’s stand-pat winter. Off the field, however, the new season brings a lineup of changes.
Google Reports Staggering Profits - The Daily Beast - Google employees just got a lot richer. The search giant reported a 61 percent first-quarter profit increase of $2.89 billion from paid advertising clicks, up from $1.8 billion at the same time last year. The company’s revenue also jumped 24 percent to $10.65 billion.
Video: Finebaum's take on Petrino scandal - Tim Brando Show - CBSSports.com/YouTube -- Published on Apr 12, 2012 by CBSSports - Radio personality Paul Finebaum joined the Tim Brando Show to discuss the events surrounding the Bobby Petrino scandal.
Report: Jessica Dorrell Wasn't the Only Other Woman for Bobby Petrino : RantSports.com - Kris Hughes - Bobby Petrino burned plenty of bridges in his early coaching career as he jumped from Louisville, to the Atlanta Falcons, to Arkansas– torching everyone in his path and leaving each situation with a complete and utter lack of general professional courtesy. Karma’s a bitch when you burn bridges, and it appears there are plenty of people out there willing to deliver what Bobby Petrino has sewn. If anything, you have to feel for his family who are the true losers in this situation. Nothing positive will be said about the father of four anytime soon, and his wife and children must deal with the constant stress and speculation that will abound until the press decides to move on. Where there’s smoke, there’s fire, and the flames under the Bobby Petrino situation have just started to burn.
Over Two-Month Period, Bobby Petrino Exchanged 200 Messages With Former "Miss Motorcycle Mania" Bikini Model - Deadspin.com - Petrino exchanged nearly two hundred text and picture messages with a Little Rock cell phone registered to one Alison Melder, whose LinkedIn profile lists her as a senate assistant with the Republican Party of Arkansas.- Update, 4:10 p.m.: Melder has been scrubbed from the Arkansas Young Republicans' website. Here's before, and here's after.] But her political work is hardly the first thing that comes up when you search for her name: she did a spot of modeling, at least a few years back. One modeling profile she created four years ago contains a portfolio of bikini and lingerie images, and she seems to be a favorite of The Dirty. She also lists herself as winner of the 2008 Miss Bikini USA and Miss Motorcycle Mania competitions.
Game on: Delta, Southwest duke it out | AJC.com - Kelly Yamanouchi - Dallas-based Southwest and Atlanta-based Delta airlines are waging their 2012 Battle of Atlanta on the airwaves, on billboards and online. It’s driven by Southwest’s launch of service at Hartsfield-Jackson in February and Delta counterpunching to defend its citadel hub. Delta needles Southwest and its all coach seating in an ad: “Improving first class begins by offering one.” Ouch! Southwest has its own zinger on checked luggage: “Say bye-bye to bag fees, Atlanta.” Oh, snap!
'I was in a constant state of fear': Woman reveals 'seven years of sexual abuse' as young bride married to Warren Jeffs' 85-year-old sect leader FATHER | Mail Online - At age 19, Rebecca Musser was 'given away' by her father and married to Rulon Jeffs, the 85-year-old leader of an extremist polygamist Mormon sect later led by his notorious son Warren. For seven years, she was 'sexually violated' by the elderly man, who had 64 other wives - terrified to resist his physical advances. When he died in 2002, age 92, she escaped the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints and began helping authorities prosecute members of the church. She testified 20 times and helped federal prosecutors win 11 convictions.
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