Sunday, February 03, 2013
EXCLUSIVE: Alabama 'survivalist killer' Jimmy Lee Dykes wants a reporter sent into his bunker to tell his story in exchange for releasing his 5-year-old hostage | Mail Online - Laura Collins - MailOnline has learned that Jimmy Lee Dykes made the extraordinary offer on the first day of what has now turned into a siege situation with the FBI’s Hostage Rescue Team on site, emergency services and a host of media focused on the piece of Alabama bluff under which Dykes and the boy, Ethan, are holed up. - A source with the local sheriff's office has revealed that a CID Lieutenant spoke with Dykes for the first four hours of the hostage situation, communicating via a pipe sticking out from the ground – the only surface sign of the bunker’s location. - In those first crucial hours, Vietnam veteran Dykes attempted to strike his bargain – the boy in return for a reporter to tell his story of ‘how the government had screwed him.’
Survivalist tricked Alabama school bus driver into stopping by 'promising a gift of home-grown broccoli' before he shot him dead and took a little boy hostage | Mail Online - Laura Collins - Survivalist Jimmy Lee Dykes set his plan to ambush a Midland City school bus in motion by telling the driver that he was 'going to give him a gift', it was revealed today. - The detail has emerged as the hostage situation in Alabama continues into its fifth day. - The day before Dykes, 65, acted, he told driver, Charles Poland, that he was going to give him some broccoli he had grown on his land. - His intention was to ensure that his approach caused no alarm when he boarded the vehicle on Tuesday afternoon armed with a gun.
CBS goes to extreme with Super Bowl coverage - Sports Buzz - MiamiHerald.com - Barry Jackson - Never has a network immersed itself more in a Super Bowl city than CBS, which is originating 15 programs from New Orleans — everything from last week’s 6:30 p.m. newscasts to the morning gabfest, The Talk, to a four-hour pregame show Sunday. “I’ve never seen an initiative in my 28 years here that’s this large,” CBS’ Jim Nantz said.
Harbaugh Family Boasts Proud Mom, Sister - Alex Espinoza - 49ers.com - “The rock of our family is Jackie, there’s no question about it,” Jack said of his long-time wife. “She did all the heavy lifting. In our 43-year coaching career, we moved 17 times. She was the one that sold house, bought the house, drove the kids to school, took the kids out of school. … She deserves all the credit.”
Harbaugh sons used unconventional means to help father build college football powerhouse - Yahoo! Sports - Dan Wetzel - Jack Harbaugh, the patriarch of the NFL's reigning first family, was in coaching trouble back in the mid-1990s; his Western Kentucky program was skidding through repeated losing seasons, and Jack's future was tenuous. - That's when his sons, John, then an assistant at the University of Cincinnati, and Jim, then a high-profile starting NFL quarterback, made it their unprecedented mission to moonlight and save him. - On Feb. 3 the brothers meet with a Super Bowl on the line – John's Baltimore Ravens against Jim's San Francisco 49ers. Not two decades ago they teamed up to help their dad and in the process built the foundation for a championship program – in this case at a lower-division college that neither even officially worked for at the time.
Jack Harbaugh: Tracing Super Bowl siblings back to their source | Jerry Brewer | The Seattle Times - The father of two Super Bowl coaches, Jack Harbaugh, has the charm of John and the temper of Jim. -- Let me tell you about Jack Harbaugh, the father of the Super siblings. The man is the most authentic person I've ever met. If he were food, he'd have an organic label on his chest.
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