Sunday, April 01, 2012

Top Republican: End the Primary - The Daily Beast


http://www.thedailybeast.com/cheats/2012/04/01/top-republican-end-the-primary.html


Kentucky fans riot after defeat of Louisville in Final Four - USATODAY - College antics in alcohol-fueled celebrations of UK's Final Four victory quickly escalated, as young people set couches and two cars ablaze and hurled beer cans into clusters of party-goers. Firefighters responded to about 50 nuisance fires, mostly couches set afire on purpose, according to Battalion Chief Ed Davis of the Lexington Fire Department. Ten people were injured, he said.


http://content.usatoday.com/communities/campusrivalry/post/2012/04/kentucky-fans-riot-violence-fires-louisville-win/1?csp=hf#.T3jCG-2BBok


Swing States poll: A shift by women puts Obama in lead – USATODAY.com - In the fifth Swing States survey taken since last fall, Obama leads Republican front-runner Mitt Romney 51%-42% among registered voters just a month after the president had trailed him by two percentage points. The biggest change came among women under 50. In mid-February, just under half of those voters supported Obama. Now more than six in 10 do while Romney's support among them has dropped by 14 points, to 30%. The president leads him 2-1 in this group


http://www.usatoday.com/news/politics/story/2012-04-01/swing-states-poll/53930684/1


Jordan planning to sell Bobcats? - Yardbarker


http://network.yardbarker.com/nba/article_external/report_michael_jordan_drops_hints_about_ditching_charlotte_bobcats/10453750


Ricky Williams open to NFL comeback? - Yardbarker


http://network.yardbarker.com/nfl/article_external/is_rb_ricky_williams_considering_a_return_to_the_nfl/10450969?linksrc=home_rg_head_10450969


Fans riot after Kentucky's win - Yardbarker


http://network.yardbarker.com/college_basketball/article_external/riots_in_lexington_after_uk_final_four_win/10454369?linksrc=home_rg_head_10454369


Details emerge about bin Laden's other residences – USATODAY.com


http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/story/2012-04-01/bin-laden-pakistan/53919328/1


Tebow Professes His Evangelical Faith Carefully - NYTimes.com - John Branch and Mary Pilon - As he demonstrates in interviews and throughout his book, in his frequent appearances at churches and prisons, and even at his hugely anticipated and nationally televised introductory news conference for the Jets on Monday, Tebow is far from a firebrand evangelical. With unflappable optimism and politeness, using his gift for artfully preaching without sounding preachy, Tebow mostly discusses his life story — a child of Southern Baptist missionaries in the Philippines who prayed for a son to become a preacher, named for Timothy in the Bible. Football, Tebow says, is his platform for greater good. He talks about the charitable works of his family and his own foundation. And he repeatedly invokes Jesus Christ’s name and the good that comes from committing to a life lived by his creed. He has more followers than most preachers, and evokes more passion than most politicians. But, unlike so many of them, Tebow shows little interest in using his pulpit to take controversial stances.


http://themeck.blogspot.com/2012/03/tebow-professes-his-evangelical-faith.html


Jim Nantz, Inspired by Father, Takes Role in Alzheimer’s Research - NYTimes.com - Richard Sandomir - 1/20/2011 - Jim Nantz had a master plan: his father would retire from his furniture business and join him on the road at N.F.L. games, golf tournaments and college basketball arenas. The elder Nantz, who was also named Jim, would help manage and organize his son’s busy life on the road. “He’d tell me, ‘Oh, son, you really don’t need me,’ ” Nantz said. But really, he wanted his gregarious father — his first and best confidant and a former college football player — with him as much as possible and to enjoy the Masters, the Super Bowl and the N.C.A.A. Final Four together. They were maybe a year from that goal. -- The elder Nantz died in 2008, soon after the release of his son’s book “Always by My Side: The Healing Gift of a Father’s Love” (Gotham), which told the parallel stories of his sportscasting career and life with a parent with Alzheimer’s.



http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/21/sports/football/21nantz.html?_r=1&ref=sports&pagewanted=print

NFL.com - Broncos reportedly shopped Tebow at NFL combine - Long before the Broncos had a bead on Peyton Manning, they were already thinking about shipping Tebow out of Denver. As early as February's NFL Scouting Combine, the team began "quietly shopping" the quarterback, The Florida Times-Union reported this week. John Elway's words at the combine are worth revisiting. The Broncos' executive vice president of football operations offered high praise for Tebow one month ago.


http://www.nfl.com/news/story/09000d5d82800d99/article/broncos-reportedly-shopped-tebow-at-nfl-combine?module=HP11_content_stream


Backup to Starter to Phenomenon. Repeat. - Mania for Tim Tebow Rooted in Big Moments - NYTimes.com - Sam Borden -Here, about 1,000 miles south of the Jets’ practice facility in Florham Park, N.J., those who have followed Tebow the longest watch with amusement. They have grown accustomed to the routine and the reaction, and while there has been considerable debate in Tebow’s hometown over how the Jacksonville Jaguars ran second to the Jets in the sweepstakes for their local star, any consternation over that near-miss has not diminished the city’s abiding love for its favorite son. “This is where it began,” his high school coach, Craig Howard, said this week. Before Tebow won a Heisman Trophy at Florida or captivated the N.F.L. with the Broncos, he was a star on a tiny stage at Nease High School, introducing to a small audience what has become an oddly predictable and wildly popular routine.


http://themeck.blogspot.com/2012/03/backup-to-starter-to-phenomenon-repeat.html