Wednesday, June 13, 2012
Accused Auburn killer gets the O.J. Simpson fan club treatment | Birmingham News - Kevin Scarbinsky - Social media has been dotted in the last 24 hours with shows of support for Leonard, who apparently goes by the nickname "Woosie." Examine some of the public posts on Facebook, with the spelling and the language cleaned up for clarity and decency. - From Adree'ana: "I hope they don't never find Woosie. Go, Woosie, go." - Four people "liked" that comment. - From Kelvin: "I don't wanna hear no more negative stuff about my partner Woosie. Keep your worthless opinions to yourself because none of us were there and none of us actually know what went down." - Thirty-one people "liked" that comment.
New York to Repeat Chicagos Parking Meter Catastrophe | | Rolling Stone - Matt Taibbi - Readers of my last book, Griftopia, might recall a chapter about the city of Chicago leasing 75 years of its parking meter revenue to a coterie of private investors, some of them from the Middle East. The end result was and is a political obscenity: Native Chicagoans are now completely at the mercy of private interests when it comes to parking rates, collections, even holidays. When elected officials in Illinois can’t shut off the parking meters on Abe Lincoln’s birthday because a bunch of sheiks in Dubai don’t want the revenue stream turned off even for a day, you know something has gone seriously sideways in the national body politic.
No Home-Field Advantage for Mitt Romney - The Daily Beast - The Republican with roots in three blue states gives up on all of them, writes John Avlon. - There are a lot of things different about this presidential campaign: an African-American incumbent running against a Mormon, most obviously. But on a more mundane level, there is uncharted strategic territory as well: never before has a presidential candidate written off their home state. - Or all of them, in Mitt Romney's case. - Despite headquartering his campaign in Boston, the former governor of Massachusetts isn't going to win his home state this fall. More significantly, he isn't going to try. - Ditto California, the state where he owns a beachfront La Jolla home complete with a $55,000 car elevator. And Michigan, the state of his birth, where his father served two terms as governor.
Apple's secret weapon - CNN.com - John Brownlee / Special to CNN - While the rest of the industry was counting Apple out, a Steve Jobs newly returned to Apple spent the early part of the last decade quietly assembling a time machine. Following the iPad, iPhone and MacBook Air before it, the retina-display MacBook Pro announced Monday at the Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco is just the latest time traveler Apple has sent back to us from the future. - It's a machine so shiny, so shimmering, so futuristic, so unlike anything else out there that it will take the PC-making competition at least a year to release a truly competing product. How did this even happen? How did Apple assemble its time machine, and why can't the likes of Sony, HP, Dell, Acer and Lenovo seem to catch up?
This time around, few would deny Casey Martin a ride at the Open -- By Michael Bamberger, Senior Writer, Sports Illustrated | GOLF.com - Casey Martin is playing in a U.S. Open again. In a cart. With a lower right leg that's a cause for constant pain and nearly as much attention. The first time, in 1998 at Olympic, he was a fledgling touring pro, a Stanford graduate, a friend of Tiger Woods. This time, he's a 40-year-old golf coach at the University of Oregon just hoping to make the cut. Fourteen years have changed everything and nothing.
Mike Minor was mightily major, and still the Braves lost | Mark Bradley - AJC - The grand slam was A-Rod’s 23rd, tying him with the immortal Yankee Lou Gehrig, so it’s not as if the Braves didn’t have a part in history being made. But most of the postgame talk concerned Minor, of whom Jones said: “This was by far his best start in the major leagues. He was dominant.”
Fan drove five hours to see the Yankees play the Braves and winds up catching milestone - NY Daily News - Mark Feinsand - When Randy Kearns made the five-hour drive from Asheboro, N.C., to Turner Field for his first Yankees game, he had no idea his night at the ballpark would end with a trip to the Bombers’ clubhouse. - The 15-year-old earned the trip Tuesday night by catching Alex Rodriguez’s 23rd career grand slam, which tied A-Rod with Lou Gehrig for the most slams in baseball history. - Kearns had no idea that he had just caught history, but Eddie Fastook, the Yankees’ executive director of team security, located the lucky fan to see if he would return the ball to A-Rod in exchange for a meeting and some memorabilia.
Video: A-Rod hits record 23rd grand slam to tie Gehrig - USATODAY - The New York Yankees third baseman hit his 23rd grand slam, tying Hall of Famer Lou Gehrig. Manny Ramirez has 21, followed by Eddie Murray with 19 and Willie Mays and Robin Ventura with 18. Rodriguez took a 3-2 pitch from Atlanta Braves reliever Jonny Venters and drilled a line drive over the fence in left field at Turner in the eighth inning. The home run tied the game.
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