Monday, May 28, 2012
The Party Animals at the Secret Circus - NYTimes.com - Maureen Dowd - THE Secret Circus, as the traveling Secret Service extravaganza is known, had come to town. And the pack of macho Secret Service agents were hitting the clubs, drinking and hanging out with comely young women in alluring outfits. That was half a century ago in Fort Worth at the Press Club and a joint called the Cellar, where the waitresses wore only underwear. The carousing started after midnight on Nov. 22, 1963, the day the agents were charged with keeping President Kennedy and Jackie safe in Dallas. Boys will be boys. And no one doubts that being an agent is a tough job.
A recruit at Auburn’s Big Cat Weekend tweeted “This place sucks!” - Yardbarker - Cory Helms is an offensive lineman at Milton High School (which is in Alpharetta, Georgia) and a highly valued recruiting prospect. Helms touts offers from Cincinnati, Colorado State, East Carolina, Middle Tennessee State, North Carolina, South Florida, Syracuse and Wake Forest according to Rivals.com. He was attending Auburn University’s Big Cat Weekend and tweeted “This place sucks!”.
Beryl weakens into tropical depression – USATODAY.com - The storm made landfall just after midnight Monday near Jacksonville Beach in Florida with near-hurricane-strength winds of 70 mph, according to the National Hurricane Center. Sustained winds had died down to about 35 mph, leading forecasters to downgrade the storm to a tropical depression and cancel all warnings and watches less than 11 hours after it made land.
Braves’ slump has cut wide swath across team | AJC - David O'Brien - It takes pretty much a complete team effort to put together a 22-9 surge like the one the Braves had earlier this season. And it takes a fairly complete team effort – with key injuries and illnesses added to the mix, in this case – for a talented team to lose seven in a row and get swept in consecutive series the way the Braves just did at Cincinnati and at home against the Nationals.
Does Facebook's IPO Prove That Zuckerberg Isn't Up to the Job? - The Daily Beast - The Facebook CEO botched his company's IPO badly. Newsweek's Dan Lyons on the business challenges ahead—and why the kid genius may not be up for the task.
Meggie Zahneis: Chipper Jones reflects on career, offers advice to kids | MLB.com - Chipper Jones says his baseball idols growing up were Cal Ripken Jr. and Mickey Mantle. "I came up as a shortstop, so I wanted to emulate who I thought was the best shortstop in the game. And Cal Ripken was it. My dad always brought me up switch-hitting in the shadow of Mickey Mantle, so those are the two guys that I looked up to," Jones said. But now, Jones is the one baseball stars of tomorrow -- and today -- look up to.
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