Mets great Carter's tumors likely inoperable - NYPost

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My heart is broken for Gary Carter and his family.
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Mets great Carter's tumors likely inoperable - NYPost/Dan Martin
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Kimmy Carter Writes A Very Moving Journal About Her Dad. [Saturday update]
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Shale Boom in Texas Could Increase U.S. Oil Output - NYTimes.com

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Chipper's ranch, The Double Dime, is in the Carizzo Springs area. Looks like Chipper may have hit The Mother Load. George Strait's land/ranch is nearby. Maybe there will be a new song .. Does Carizzo Springs Ever Cross Your Mind .. ? - Meck
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CATARINA, Tex. — Until last year, the 17-mile stretch of road between this forsaken South Texas village and the county seat of Carrizo Springs was a patchwork of derelict gasoline stations and rusting warehouses.

Now the region is in the hottest new oil play in the country, with giant oil terminals and sprawling RV parks replacing fields of mesquite. More than a dozen companies plan to drill up to 3,000 wells around here in the next 12 months.

The Texas field, known as the Eagle Ford, is just one of about 20 new onshore oil fields that advocates say could collectively increase the nation’s oil output by 25 percent within a decade — without the dangers of drilling in the deep waters of the Gulf of Mexico or the delicate coastal areas off Alaska.

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Doctors tell New York Mets great Gary Carter that brain tumors are likely malignant - NYDaily News

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Please pray for Gary [The Kid] Carter .. and his family.
He's a wonderful man. The Kid always included me in his life.
Many wonderful memories with Gary. Today's news is so sad I can't even cry.

We need a Miracle from Heaven for The Kid. This one would be better than the Miracle Mets comeback in the 1986 World Series - It could happen. I agree with  Mike Lupica - The Kid is one tough out. - Meck
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Stricken Mets great Gary Carter has received ominous news from doctors at Duke University, who say that they are "90% certain" that tumors on his brain are malignant, according to a Carter family website.
Carter, 57, was first diagnosed with four small brain tumors May 21 after experiencing headaches and forgetfulness in recent weeks.

"It was very hard for all of us to hear, as we have been hoping and praying that the tumors would be benign," one of Carter's daughters wrote on the website. "Lots of tears have been shed in the hospital room today, and we are all a bit scared of the unknown."

Carter won't know the official diagnosis until early or the middle of next week.

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Dinner theater serves up comedy murder mysteries - News Herald

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Congrats to Sandy for opening her dinner theater tonite in PC Beach.
I have no doubt it will be a great success. She's worked very hard getting it ready.
She has 2 very talented assistants .. Mayor Mike and Schmitty working with her
this weekend for The Grand Opening at Sherlock's Mystery Dinner Theater. - Meck

Tickets/Info  DinnerAtSherlocks.com  or call 850-867-7725
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PANAMA CITY BEACH — It’s no mystery why Sandy Schmitz wanted to open her own dinner theater.
“We travel a lot because of (husband Mike Schmitz’s) work, and everywhere we go I ask to go to a murder mystery dinner theater,” she said. “Every time we’re in a theater, I keep saying I want to own one of these at the beach.”

Friday the curtain opens on Sherlock’s Mystery Dinner Theater, owned and operated by Schmitz, the wife of Dothan, Ala., Mayor Mike Schmitz. She grew up in Panama City and graduated from Rutherford High School, and she often commutes to the beaches.
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They bought the old Mako’s restaurant building beside Capt. Anderson’s off Grand Lagoon and renovated it to seat up to 300 banquet-style in front of a stage. The company is licensed as a banquet facility and will do receptions, dances and other activities — but the focus is on comedy murder mysteries.

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Sherlock's Mystery Dinner Theater:

• What: Murder mystery and banquet meal
• Where: 5550 N. Lagoon Drive, Panama City Beach
• When: Opening Friday, May 27; shows at 7 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays
• Details: DinnerAtSherlocks.com  or call 850-867-7725 

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Lupica: Einhorn, ace of funds, bets on the Mets [$200 Million] - NYDaily News

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"I'm very comfortable with the financial arrangements that are here," Einhorn said. "I'm not really interested in owning a TV station. My excitement has to do with the baseball team."

He sounded like what he is, exactly: A Mets fan with a ton of dough who wants to get in the game this way, doesn't come in hot, looking to sign free agents and make trades. For now, anyway. When George Steinbrenner bought the Yankees, remember, he told everybody we were barely going to notice he was in town.

For now David Einhorn - who actually does do God's work, contributing mightily to the Michael J. Fox Foundation - sees a chance to get in on a New York baseball team, that kind of chance not coming along very often, and grabs it.

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Are Braves affected by transition from Cox to Gonzalez? - Jeff Schultz / AJC.com

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Are Braves affected by transition from Cox to Gonzalez? - Jeff Schultz / AJC.com
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Ex-Facebooker Dave Morin: You can't be friends with everyone - CNN

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(CNN) -- It's proven by research, Dave Morin says. You can't really, truly be friends with more than 50 people at once; and your brain can't manage a social network that's larger than 150 people, according to Robin Dunbar at Oxford.

Now think about the thousands of online relationships people tend to manage across sites like Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn. ("Who is that person writing on my wall?") The average Facebook user has 130 friends.

This digi-friend overload is why Morin, a former Facebook employee, created an app-based social network called Path, which limits its users to 50 friends or fewer. The goal is to promote intimate and memorable sharing, he said.
"Path is really focused on close friends and family, and developing deeper and more intimate relationships between the 50 closest people in your life," Morin said in an interview at a recent tech conference in Austin, Texas.

Path's setup is familiar. It is basically a photo-sharing app. Look at your Path news feed on your phone and you'll see photos from locations where family and friends have been recently, and short blips of text about what they were doing.

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Center Stage job fair set for Friday -- Dothan Eagle

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As many as 200 jobs could be up for grabs Friday at Center Stage Alabama, the recently named project located at what has been known as Country Crossing on Highway 231 South.

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Center Stage job fair set for Friday -- Lance Griffin / Dothan Eagle
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Marriage loses ground -- USATODAY.com

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Marriage is losing ground to a grinding economic slowdown that has prompted more couples to live together without tying the knot.

The share of couples who are not married has risen in many places but is highest in areas that offer many people grim prospects for a better financial future: old industrial cities and the Mississippi Delta.

Unmarried couples made up 12% of U.S. couples in 2010, a 25% increase in 10 years, according to Census data out today.

Two-thirds of the cities with the largest shares of unmarried couples were in the Northeast and Midwest, up from about half a decade earlier.

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Wow, Dirk; now do it to Evil Empire in NBA Finals - Jennifer Floyd Engel / Star-Telegram

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And now Dirk, we just need you to do what Boston and Chicago and MVP Derrick Rose have mostly failed at accomplishing. Destroy the Evil Empire, the basketball devil, The Architects of The Decision, the Miami Heat.
"Beat the Heat" echoed at The AAC in the giddy aftermath of the win.

Yes, bring on Miami. And then beat Miami.
I realize The Mavericks just barely and practically moments ago accomplished basketball magic and The Heat has not officially disposed of Chicago. They will, karma and fate dictate it so.
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It is not only OK to sports-hate Miami. Everybody else does, well, except for LeBron's mom and his agent and ESPN and Heat players who are contractually obligated to pretend like they like this dude. It is your duty as a fan of all that is good and holy in sports to hate them. Laker, Celtic, Spur fan let us all unite in the very admirable goal of hoping Bron-Bron never is rewarded for his hubris and megalomania and general jerkery with a ring.

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Ex-Facebooker Dave Morin: You can't be friends with everyone - CNN

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(CNN) -- It's proven by research, Dave Morin says. You can't really, truly be friends with more than 50 people at once; and your brain can't manage a social network that's larger than 150 people, according to Robin Dunbar at Oxford.

Now think about the thousands of online relationships people tend to manage across sites like Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn. ("Who is that person writing on my wall?") The average Facebook user has 130 friends.

This digi-friend overload is why Morin, a former Facebook employee, created an app-based social network called Path, which limits its users to 50 friends or fewer. The goal is to promote intimate and memorable sharing, he said.
"Path is really focused on close friends and family, and developing deeper and more intimate relationships between the 50 closest people in your life," Morin said in an interview at a recent tech conference in Austin, Texas.

Path's setup is familiar. It is basically a photo-sharing app. Look at your Path news feed on your phone and you'll see photos from locations where family and friends have been recently, and short blips of text about what they were doing.

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Strauss-Kahn's pals bid to pay off woman's kin - NYPost

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Friends of alleged hotel sex fiend Dominique Strauss-Kahn secretly contacted the accusing maid's impoverished family, offering them money to make the case go away since they can't reach her in protective custody, The Post has learned.

The woman, who says she was sexually assaulted by the disgraced former head of the International Monetary Fund, has an extended family in the former French colony of Guinea in West Africa, well out of reach of the Manhattan DA's Office.
"They already talked with her family," a French businesswoman with close ties to Strauss-Kahn and his family told The Post. "For sure, it's going to end up on a quiet note."

Prosecutors in Manhattan have done their best to keep the cleaning woman out of the reach of Strauss-Kahn's supporters, but the source was already predicting success for the Parisian pol's pals.

"He'll get out of it and will fly back to France. He won't spend time in jail. The woman will get a lot of money," said the source, adding that a seven-figure sum has been bandied about.

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Strauss-Kahn's pals bid to pay off woman's kin - NYPost
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Woods' agent out at IMG as contract renewal fails - AJC.com

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Woods' agent out at IMG as contract renewal fails - AJC.com
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Carville: Obama is looking like a 2008 Republican - CNN

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(CNN) -- As I sat watching the hysterical and apocalyptic reaction to President Barack Obama's speech addressing the Israeli and Palestinian conflict, in which he endorsed a position that was previously advocated by George W. Bush, Tom DeLay, former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, opposition leader Tzipi Livni and even Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu, it got me thinking about the other vicious attacks on the president's previous policies.

Let's start with the president's decision to continue George W. Bush's TARP -- the successful program that averted a financial collapse and bailed out the automotive industry.

I've always wondered why Bush didn't try to lay some claim to the successful outcome of that situation instead of expecting to be credited with the downfall of Osama bin Laden, which he actually had very little to do with.

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Two years later, Jordan Schafer returns to the major leagues - Mark Bradley

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Two years later, Jordan Schafer returns to the major leagues - Mark Bradley / AJC.com
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Here's George W. Bush Almost Getting Hit By A Foul Ball - Yardbarker.com

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Chicago White Sox at Texas Rangers game yesterday.
Here's George W. Bush Almost Getting Hit By A Foul Ball - Yardbarker.com
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Former Mets teammates support Carter as brain exam looms - NYPost

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Ron Darling, a Mets pitcher from 1983-91 and now an SNY color commentator, said that strong nuclear family will help Carter through his ordeal.

"It's so sad. I've got my regular family and I've got my baseball family, and Gary's one of the biggest people in that baseball family," Darling said. "He has great faith, great family, so he's got an entire roster of people that are going to help him through this. That's more than a lot of people have, so I'm sure [it helps]. He's not called The Kid for nothing, and we want him around for a long time.

"To hear that news, there are two things that cross my mind. One, how I hope the news is good once he gets out of Duke Medical Center. But then secondly, he said he didn't want to make the last out in the sixth game of the '86 World Series. That says a lot about what kind of person he is, and how he's going to fight this."

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Gary Carter, member of 1986 Mets, now diagnosed with brain tumors, has always been a tough out -- Mike Lupica / NY Daily News

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Gary Carter, member of 1986 Mets, now diagnosed with brain tumors, has always been a tough out -- Mike Lupica / NY Daily News

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It turns out Carter has been complaining of headaches lately, that is what we were told Saturday. He has been having some problems with memory. Now doctors have found these four tumors. You hope that the doctors at Duke can take care of Carter, who is 57. He always talked a lot about his faith and now you hope his faith and his doctors can carry him through.

"I wasn't here a long time," he said to me one time about New York. "But I think I left my mark."
He was here five years. Reggie Jackson only spent five years with the Yankees, and Reggie made those years count, didn't he? The people who still don't think of him as a Real Yankee still don't get it. Carter was not the most famous of the '86 Mets. But he knocked in 105 runs that year, after knocking in 100 the year before. He hit 24 home runs in 1986 and came to the plate 573 times. Carter showed up. He left his mark.

The Mets won 108 regular season games. They won that 16-inning game against the Astros to win the pennant, and transfixed the city that long baseball day. But then they lost the first two World Series games at home and were about to lose in six games to the Red Sox.

Two outs.
Nobody on.
Gary Carter at the plate.
Tough out.

Still.

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Gary Carter, member of 1986 Mets, now diagnosed with brain tumors, has always been a tough out -- Mike Lupica / NY Daily News
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Gary 'The Kid' Carter wasn't supposed to get sick -  Bob Klapisch / NJ Record

Gary Carter has multiple brain tumors - ESPN New York
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Klapisch: Gary ‘The Kid’ Carter wasn’t supposed to get sick - NJ Record

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Gary 'The Kid' Carter wasn't supposed to get sick -  Bob Klapisch / NJ Record

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It was his cheerful nature – an optimism that was out of place amid his teammates’ savage in-fighting. Carter was the Mets’ co-captain, yet he never was part of the team’s inner circle. He was too nice for that, which is why news that he’d been diagnosed with four brain tumors was so devastating. Good guys like Carter deserve better.
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“Gary figured it out way before we did how to treat people,” Backman said. “We used to make fun of him, the way he’d sign every damn autograph. We had to hold the bus for him sometimes, because he didn’t know how to say no. He didn’t want to say no. But you know what? He was right. He really loved the game.”

Of course, no one ever questioned Carter’s credentials on the field, where he hit .262 with 324 home runs and 1225 RBI in a 19-year career. Along with Hernandez, The Kid was one of the integral components of a resurgence in Flushing that began in earnest in 1985. And talk about timing: in his first game as a Met, Carter hit a 10th-inning home run off Neil Allen to give the Mets an opening day victory over the Cardinals.

Carter’s postgame smile was that of a prophet’s: He sensed the coming of the golden era, which the Mets never have duplicated. Carter taught New York that nothing was beyond the imagination – a lesson that, sadly, is being relearned today.
Who knew Carter would be the first ’80s Met to get sick? This is impossible.

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Gary 'The Kid' Carter wasn't supposed to get sick -  Bob Klapisch / NJ Record
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Gary Carter has multiple brain tumors -- ESPN

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Please Pray For 'The Kid' To Be Healed
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NEW YORK -- Hall of Fame catcher Gary Carter said doctors discovered four "very small" brain tumors after he had an MRI on Friday in Florida.
The 57-year-old Carter said he expects to learn more about his diagnosis when he is examined again Thursday at Duke Medical Center.

"My wife, Sandy, and our children and family thank you for your thoughts and prayers," Carter said in a release issued Saturday by the New York Mets and baseball's Hall of Fame. "We ask that you please respect our privacy as we learn more about my medical condition."

The statement did not say whether the tumors are malignant or benign.

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New York Mets Hall of Fame catcher Gary Carter diagnosed with small tumors on his brain - NYDaily News

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New York Mets Hall of Fame catcher Gary Carter diagnosed will small tumors on his brain - NY Daily News
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Terror, Tragedy And Hope In Tuscaloosa - Sports Illustrated

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An excellent written article .. a moving picture of incredible pain and hope painted by Lars Anderson. - Meck

Terror, Tragedy And Hope In Tuscaloosa - Sports Illustrated / Lars Anderson
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Why President Obama Trounces Mitt Romney In 2012 -- Matt Latimer / The Daily Beast

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All the turmoil in the GOP 2012 field only enables Mitt Romney—and that must make the White House very happy. Former Bush speechwriter Matt Latimer on the Republicans' disastrous presumptive nominee.

Well, this is embarrassing. Mere weeks into the thrill-deprived 2012 election season and I am already changing my prediction. There were more than a few of us in Washington who believed that Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty would eventually triumph in the Republican primaries under the slogan, "He Annoys You The Least." But the mild-mannered Minnesotan was so easily overshadowed by Herman Cain and Rick Santorum in last week's far too early GOP debate that he really ought to drop out just on principle. With the latest fundraising news, and yet another round in the Newt Gingrich gaffe-o-lympics, it looks like the GOP is going to come up Romney after all. All this of course is wonderful news for the Obama White House.

There is no more ideal candidate for the President to run against than Governor Rombot himself.
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Team Obama has to be lighting candles every day for a gift like this. Romney will prove so predictable, so calculated, so filled with everything money can buy but ideas that the White House can already plot out his every utterance—all the way from his love of ethanol in Iowa to his gauzy Reagan-invoking ads in New Hampshire to his selection of Huckabee as a running mate to his short, gracious concession speech on election night, his hair immobile in the gentle Massachusetts wind.

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Wilder one of two finalists for Dothan [School Supt] job - The Star

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Gulf County Superintendent of Schools Tim Wilder was named last week as one of the two finalists to become superintendent of schools in Dothan, AL.
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Wilder said he would return to Dothan on May 26 for a day of activities, including a public forum and chance to meet local government, business and civic leaders.

“Until the offer is made and I’m the one they want, not the top five or top two, then we’ll sit down and see if we can negotiate a contract,” Wilder said. “The visit on the 26^th is a big deal. It will let me know if this is a good idea or not.

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Casino reopening marks beginning of recovery -- CNN

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Vicksburg, Mississippi (CNN) -- In a part of Mississippi drenched by overwhelming floods, a glimmer of hope lit up Wednesday. Authorities in Tunica reopened a casino with an employee pep rally.

"We believe that reopening our doors and putting our friends and families back to work as quickly as possible is an important step on the road to recovery," the leaders of Gold Strike Casino and Resort said in a statement.

Casinos are a critical economic driver in the region. Nine were closed due to the flooding of the Mississippi River, said Bill Canter, spokesman for the Tunica Convention and Visitors Bureau.
Three will reopen by the weekend, he said.
But the area still has a long road ahead before full recovery.

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Arnold's Baby Mom & Maria -- Preggo at Same Time - TMZ

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Maria Shriver and Mildred Patricia Baena were both pregnant with Arnold's children ... AT THE SAME TIME.

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Arnold's Baby Mom & Maria -- Preggo at Same Time - TMZ
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Arnold's Baby Mama Baby Shower - TMZ

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We're told Arnold and Maria sent lots of gifts for the baby.
The boy -- now a young teen -- looks like the spitting image of Arnold.

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Charles Barkley: Heat a 'whiny bunch' -- ESPN

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CHICAGO -- Charles Barkley thinks the Miami Heat have "terrific players," but when it comes to the team getting defensive about people taking shots at them, he calls them "a whiny bunch."

Barkley is in Chicago with TNT to cover the Eastern Conference finals between the Chicago Bulls and the Heat, and he said there was a time Heat forward LeBron James wasn't very happy with Barkley's analysis of "The Decision," which was the ESPN-televised event of James announcing he was leaving the Cleveland Cavaliers for Miami.
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"But him and his guys think because some of us didn't like that 'Decision' thing -- that was silly -- they got mad about that. Like wait a minute, I always said it's nothing personal, that thing was silly. We say he's the best player in the world, but you guys are mad because we criticized 'The Decision.'"

Barkley, who praised James and his teammates Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh as great players and individuals, also had a problem with the celebration the Heat staged after all three decided to join forces in Miami last summer. The celebration included James talking about winning as many as seven titles.

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Hope for Auburn? Toxic trustee Bobby Lowder steps aside -- Mark Bradley/AJC

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Yet another big story breaks over the Loveliest Village of the Plains, and this one has the feel of a new dawn rising. The toxic Bobby Lowder has decided not to seek another term on Auburn’s board of trustees. The first two words of an editorial in the Opelika-Auburn News were these:

“Good riddance.”

It was hard to know exactly how much power Lowder wielded over Auburn athletics because his modus operandi was to be seen but seldom heard. But I once asked another SEC athletic director who could be classified as his school’s Bobby Lowder, and the AD thought for several moments. Then he said:
“I’m not sure anywhere else has a Bobby Lowder.”

Conventional wisdom holds that Lowder, an Auburn grad who came to power as head of the Montgomery-based Colonial BancGroup (seized by the Feds in 2009), essentially fired Terry Bowden as football coach in the middle of the 1998 season and almost fired Tommy Tuberville  five years later. It was a plane owned by Lowder’s bank that made the infamous flight to Sellersburg, Ind., carrying Auburn officials to interview then-Louisville coach Bobby Petrino — for a job that was technically not open.

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