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Uh…Word? Rodney King to Box. A Cop.
From Deadspin: King, perhaps having gained experience from his unsanctioned LAPD-rules handicap match, will be joining the celebrity boxing circuit with a bout against a former police officer. This will be handled with the utmost class, I’m sure. He’ll be taking on Simon Aouad, a former Chester County (PA.) cop who was busted a few…
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First Black Ref in NFL Passes Away
From BET: Burl Toler, the first African-American official in NFL history who went on to work one Super Bowl in a distinguished career, has died. He was 81. The University of San Francisco says Toler died Sunday at a hospital in Castro Valley. Toler was a star player on the Dons famous “Undefeated, Untied, Uninvited”…
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VIDEO: Michael Jackson's Doctor Releases a Message
From HListed: Um…alrighty then.
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Breaking: Conservative Columnist Robert Novak Succumbs to Cancer
From Main Street Monroe: Robert David Sanders “Bob” Novak (February 26, 1931 – August 18, 2009 was a syndicated columnist, journalist and conservative political commentator who wrote the longest-running current U.S. syndicated political column (45 years, as of February 2008).Over his career, Novak became well-known as a columnist (writing Inside Report since 1963) and as…
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Obama "Joker" Artist is NOT a Conservative
From the ABC News: The Los Angeles Times tracked down the artist of the evocative, unflattering depiction of President Obama as The Joker from The Dark Knight and he may not be whom you pictured. Firas Alkhateeb, a 20-year-old senior history major at the University of Illinois, took a TIME cover photo of the President…
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Man Makes It Rain…on California Freeway
From NewsOne: California authorities say a man caused a traffic jam when he threw money onto a Los Angeles-area freeway and people dashed into the lanes to grab the cash. California Highway Patrol Sgt. Kurt Stormes says the man tossed money from his car on Interstate 210 in the Los Angeles suburb of Glendora shortly…
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The NFL on Vick: The Pot Calling the Kettle Black
From Deadspin: Michael Vick spoke with the creases of James Brown’s forehead yesterday. Again we were treated to the spectacle of a man who has profited off a brutal, inhumane sport nonetheless claiming the moral high ground. I refer to James Brown. A flock of father confessors has surrounded Vick since his release from prison,…
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Man Brings Street Sweeper to Anti-Obama Rally
From CNN: A man toting an assault rifle was among a dozen protesters carrying weapons while demonstrating outside President Obama’s speech to veterans on Monday, but no laws were broken. It was the second instance in recent days in which weapons have been seen near presidential events. Video from the protest in Phoenix, Arizona, shows…
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Nigerian Police Round Up Hundreds of Boko Haram
From Al Jazeera: Nigerian police have detained hundreds of people belonging to an Islamic community in the state of Niger.The arrests on Saturday came weeks after a radical sect killed almost 800 people in the north of the country. About 1,500 police officers backed by reinforcements from the capital, Abuja, had surrounded the compound of the…
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Troy Davis Allowed to Present Evidence to Court
From the Atlanta-Journal Constitution: The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday gave Troy Anthony Davis the chance to present evidence in court that the condemned man has said for years will clear him of the murder of a Savannah police officer. The high court ordered a federal judge to “receive testimony and findings of fact as…
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