Wednesday, June 06, 2012

Chipper Jones, Tim Tebow to open facility in Orlando  | ajc.com - "I haven't met Tim. I hope to in the very near future," Jones said before Wednesday's game at Miami. "He's probably the most recognizable figure in America right now. We're from the same area in Jacksonville. I know he comes from a good family.


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http://www.ajc.com/sports/atlanta-braves/chipper-jones-tim-tebow-1453597.html


Diamondbacks owner 'disappointed' with Drew, Boras - USATODAY


http://content.usatoday.com/communities/dailypitch/post/2012/06/diamondbacks-owner-stephen-drew-scott-boras/1#.T9ATfI6BDUQ



Jeb Bush: 2012 was 'my time' to run - Tim Mak - POLITICO.com


http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0612/77137.html

Nasdaq Apologizes on Facebook Mess - The Daily Beast


http://www.thedailybeast.com/cheats/2012/06/06/nasdaq-apologizes-on-facebook-mess.html

Donald Trump to Miss PA -- You've Got 24 Hours to Apologize ... OR ELSE!!! | TMZ.com - Former Miss Pennsylvania Sheena Monnin has 24 hours to retract her claim that the Miss USA pageant is rigged -- or Donald Trump will slap her with a nasty defamation lawsuit ... this according to Donald's lawyer.


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http://www.tmz.com/2012/06/06/miss-usa-pennsylvania-sheena-monnin-ultimatum-lawsuit-defamation/


New Orleans Saints reportedly offering Drew Brees close to $19M-a-year | FOX Sports


http://msn.foxsports.com/nfl/story/new-orleans-saints-reportedly-offering-drew-brees-close-to-19m-a-year-060612


Facebook Engagement Dips: 34% Spend Less Time on Site [STUDY] - Mashable - Samantha Murphy -- One-third of Facebook users are spending less time on the site than they were just six months ago, a new survey suggests.


http://themeck.blogspot.com/2012/06/facebook-engagement-dips-34-spend-less.html

Mickey Mantle's sports bar closing - NYPOST.com - Mickey Mantle’s, the Central Park South eatery/sports bar popular with Yankees fans for a quarter of a century, went down on strikes this morning.


http://themeck.blogspot.com/2012/06/mickey-mantles-sports-bar-closing.html


Ripken to Orioles, Matheny to Cardinals in draft - USATODAY


http://content.usatoday.com/communities/dailypitch/post/2012/06/ripken-garvey-matheny-reonicke-seinfeld-mlb-draft/1#.T8_T746BDUQ


Why the Braves could still use the unlamented Derek Lowe | Mark Bradley - AJC - Bobby Cox used to say (and presumably still does): “If you think you’ve got enough pitching, better go get some more.” This would seem to apply to the team Cox once managed, which believed it had so much pitching it could pay one pitcher to go away. Update: Derek Lowe, banished to Cleveland, has won seven games; no Braves starting pitcher has won so many.


http://themeck.blogspot.com/2012/06/why-braves-could-still-use-unlamented.html


Is Pleasure a Sin? - NYTimes.com - Maureen Dowd - It’s hard to say what is weirder: A Sister of Mercy writing about the Kama Sutra, sexual desire and “our yearnings for pleasure.” Or the Vatican getting so hot and bothered about the academic treatise on sexuality that the pope censures it, causing it to shoot from obscurity to the top tier of Amazon.com’s best-seller list six years after it was published. Just the latest chapter in the Vatican’s thuggish crusade to push American nuns — and all Catholic women — back into moldy subservience.


http://themeck.blogspot.com/2012/06/is-pleasure-sin-nytimescom-maureen-dowd_05.html


Syrian tyrant Assad, his glamorous aide and how Barbara Walters tried to get her a job with Piers Morgan | Mail Online



http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2155098/Syrian-tyrant-Assad-glamorous-aide-Barbara-Walters-tried-job-Piers-Morgan.html