Saturday, August 04, 2012

Baseball star Cal Ripken Jr's 74-year-old mother is too traumatized to return home after she was abducted at gunpoint | Mail Online


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2183281/Baseball-star-Cal-Ripken-Jrs-74-year-old-mother-traumatized-return-home-abducted-gunpoint.html


Michael Tomasky on the (Possible) Coming Obama Landslide - The Daily Beast - Liberals don’t want to jinx it. It terrifies the right. And the press would prefer a nail-biter. But the fact is that finding Romney’s path to victory is getting harder every day. --There’s a secret lurking behind everything you’re reading about the upcoming election, a secret that all political insiders know—or should—but few are talking about, most likely because it takes the drama out of the whole business. The secret is the electoral college, and the fact is that the more you look at it, the more you come to conclude that Mitt Romney has to draw an inside straight like you’ve never ever seen in a movie to win this thing. This is especially true now that it seems as if Pennsylvania isn’t really up for grabs. Romney’s paths to 270 are few.

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http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/08/04/michael-tomasky-on-the-possible-coming-obama-landslide.html


The Listener: Why Finebaum is Finebaum | Weld for Birmingham - Mark Kelly - But what, exactly, is “it”? What is the essence of the Finebaum show? What sets it apart from the glut of sports talk available 24 hours a day on the nation’s airwaves? What has propelled this bald, slightly-built, acerbic-but-unprepossessing man to widely recognized status as the South’s foremost authority on sports, presiding over an eponymous radio empire that includes 36 stations in seven states, as well as the nationwide scope afforded by its affiliation with satellite radio giant Sirius XM?

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http://themeck.blogspot.com/2012/04/listener-why-finebaum-is-finebaum-weld.html


Mercedes-Benz of Dothan - YouTube -- Dawn Dunning Theune - " My Mercedes Saved My Life."


http://themeck.blogspot.com/2012/03/mercedes-benz-of-dothan-crash-dawn-60.html


Meck Rewind - The Meck Radio Show w/ Paul Finebaum - Writer and Talk Show Legend. 12/19/06

Cink link and then Show Title to listen.
http://themeck.blogspot.com/2006/12/meck-radio-show-w-paul-finebaum-writer.html


How Mike Wallace "Got" Paul Finebaum | Red Dirt - Weldbham.com - Mark Kelly



http://weldbham.com/reddirt/2012/04/09/how-mike-wallace-got-paul-finebaum/

Katie Ledecky, 15, makes big splash with Olympic gold medal in 800 meters - The Washington Post


http://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/olympics/katie-ledecky-15-makes-big-splash-with-olympic-gold-medal-in-800-meters/2012/08/03/88bd4c2c-ddc1-11e1-af1d-753c613ff6d8_story_1.html


Rex Ryan, Tim Tebow, work to overcome dyslexia | ProFootballTalk - NBCSports.com


http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/08/03/rex-ryan-tim-tebow-work-to-overcome-dyslexia/related/


Porn legend Jenna Jameson gives Romney her unlikely - and unhelpful - endorsement  - NY Daily News - ROMNEY’S THE ONE! Says champagne-sipping campaign-watcher Jameson, ‘When you're rich, you want a Republican in office.’

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http://www.nydailynews.com/news/election-2012/porn-legend-jenna-jameson-romney-unhelpful-endorsement-article-1.1128334


Hudson handles Houston, wins 100th for Atlanta - Braves.com - By Guy Curtright / Special to MLB.com


http://atlanta.braves.mlb.com/mlb/gameday/index.jsp?gid=2012_08_03_houmlb_atlmlb_1&mode=recap&c_id=atl