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LAURYN SEERING is the publicist & communications coordianator. She was born in Wisconsin and studied abroad in Nagasaki, Japan. Lauryn graduated from the UW-Stout in 2012 with her BS in Professional Communications and Emerging Media, concentrating in Technical Communication & International Studies. Lauryn moved to Madison in 2013 and enjoys reading about space stuff, biking and creating art at coffee shops.
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FFRF Co-Presidents
DAN BARKER and ANNIE LAURIE GAYLOR are co-presidents of the Freedom From Religion Foundation and co-hosts of Freethought Radio. A former minister and evangelist, Dan became a freethinker in 1983. His books, Just Pretend: A Freethought Book for Children and Losing Faith in Faith: From Preacher To Atheist (1992) are published by FFRF. Other books include Godless (Ulysses Press, 2008), The Good Atheist: Living a Purpose-Filled Life Without God (Pitchstone Publishing, 2011), Life Driven Purpose: How an Atheist Finds Meaning, Pitchstone Press (2015) and GOD: The Most Unpleasant Character in All Fiction (Sterling Publications, 2016). A graduate of Azusa Pacific University with a degree in religion, Dan now puts his knowledge of Christianity to effective freethought use. A professional pianist and composer, Dan performs freethought concerts and is featured in FFRF's musical CDs, "Friendly Neighborhood Atheist," "Beware of Dogma," and "Adrift on a Star." He joined FFRF's staff in 1987, serving as public relations director. He was first elected co-president in November 2004, speaks widely and has engaged in more than 100 debates about religion.
Annie Laurie Gaylor, a third-generation freethinker, co-founded FFRF with her mother Anne Gaylor as a college student in 1976. She served as editor of Freethought Today, FFRF's newspaper, from 1985 to 2009. Her book, Woe to the Women: The Bible Tells Me So, first published by FFRF in 1981, is in its 4th printing. In 1988, FFRF published Betrayal of Trust: Clergy Abuse of Children, the first book documenting widespread sexual abuse by clergy. Her 1997 anthology, Women Without Superstition: 'No Gods, No Masters,' is the first collection of the writings of historic and contemporary women freethinkers. A 1980 graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Journalism School, she was an award-winning student reporter and recipient of the Ken Purdy scholarship. After graduation, she founded, edited and published the Feminist Connection, a monthly advocacy newspaper, from 1980-1985. She first joined the FFRF staff in 1985. She has been co-president since 2004. In the late 1970s, her student protest ended commencement prayers at the UW-Madison. She has been plaintiff in or overseen many state/church lawsuits and actions by FFRF. Dan and Annie Laurie have appeared on a variety of TV news shows, including "Oprah," "O'Reilly," "Good Morning America," Univision, CNN and FOX news segments, CBS Evening News and ABC World News Tonight.
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FFRF President emerita
ANNE NICOL GAYLOR was a founder and president emerita of the Freedom From Religion Foundation. She served as executive director from 1978 to 2005, and worked as a consultant to the Foundation. Born in rural Wisconsin, she was a graduate of the University of Wisconsin in Madison. She owned and managed successful small businesses and was co-owner and editor of an award-winning suburban weekly newspaper. A feminist author, she did substantial volunteer work for women's rights (including serving as volunteer director of the Women's Medical Fund). Under her leadership the Freedom From Religion Foundation has grown from its initial three Wisconsin members to a national group with representation in every state and Canada.
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Director of Operations
LISA STRAND is director of operations of FFRF. Previously, she was the Executive Director of the Wisconsin Library Association. She has 25 years of experience in nonprofit organizations, both as a staff member and volunteer leader, including having served as board president of the Wisconsin Society of Association Executives and the Community Action Coalition of South Central Wisconsin. She has a B.A. from the University of Minnesota. Lisa is married with a daughter, as well as three cats, a guinea pig and an untended garden that will someday be beautiful.
FFRF Legal
REBECCA S. MARKERT attended the University of Wisconsin at Madison and received her B.A. in political science, international relations and German in 1998. After graduating from UW–Madison, Rebecca spent one year working as a legislative fellow at the German Parliament in Bonn, Germany. In the fall 1999, she returned to the United States and began working as a legislative correspondent and assistant to the chief of staff for United States Senator Russ Feingold in Washington, D.C. In 2002, she returned to Madison, Wisconsin, to work on Senator Feingold's 2004 re-election campaign. After the campaign, Rebecca attended Roger Williams University School of Law and received her Juris Doctor in 2008. She joined the Foundation staff in October 2008.
Rebecca is the Freedom From Religion Foundation's first staff attorney and primarily works on Establishment Clause cases. She is a member of the State Bar of Wisconsin, Dane County Bar Association, and is admitted to practice in the United States District Court for the Eastern and Western Districts of Wisconsin.
PATRICK ELLIOTT, the Foundation's second staff attorney, hails from St. Paul, Minn. Patrick received a degree in legal studies and political science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2005. He attended the University of Wisconsin Law School and received his Juris Doctor in 2009. While in school, Patrick took an interest in the First Amendment and constitutional law. He joined FFRF as a staff attorney in July 2010, after working part-time for the Foundation since February. Patrick is a member of the State Bar of Wisconsin, and is admitted to practice in the United States District Court for the Western and Eastern Districts of Wisconsin.
ANDREW SEIDEL graduated cum laude from Tulane University with a B.S. in neuroscience and environmental science and magna cum laude from Tulane University Law School in 2009, where he was awarded the Haber J. McCarthy Award for excellence in environmental law. He studied human rights and international law at the University of Amsterdam and traveled the world on Semester at Sea. In May of 2011, Andrew completed his Master of Laws at Denver University Sturm College of Law with a 4.0 GPA and was awarded the Outstanding L.L.M. Award. He has written a book on International Human Rights Law and his essay on the role of religion in government and the founding of our nation placed second in the FFRF's 2010 graduate student essay contest. Andrew is a former Grand Canyon tour guide and accomplished nature photographer; his work has been displayed in galleries in Colorado, Texas, Florida, Louisiana, and Maryland. He joined the FFRF staff as a constitutional consultant in November 2011.
ELIZABETH CAVELL received her B.A in English from the University of Florida in 2005. After college, Elizabeth spent a year as a full-time volunteer in AmeriCorps*NCCC. She attended Tulane University Law School and received her Juris Doctor in 2009. After law school, she worked as a deputy public defender in southern Colorado. She joined the Foundation as a staff attorney in January 2013, after working for the Foundation part-time since September 2012.
SAM GROVER received his B.A. in philosophy and government from Wesleyan University in 2008. He first worked for FFRF in 2010 as a legal intern while attending Boston University School of Law. In 2011, his article on the religious exemptions in the Affordable Care Act's individual health insurance mandate was published in the American Journal of Law and Medicine. After receiving his J.D. from Boston University in 2012, Sam worked as a law clerk for the Vermont Office of Legislative Council where he drafted legislation on health care, human services, and tax issues. He returned to work as a constitutional consultant for FFRF in the fall of 2013. Sam has written a paper on counterterrorism and the law that was published by the Memorial Institute for the Prevention of Terrorism in Oklahoma City and has traveled to southern Africa to work under Justice Unity Dow of Botswana's High Court.
MADELINE ZIEGLER graduated magna cum laude from the University of Wisconsin – La Crosse in 2011 with a B.A. in English Literature and Political Science. She attended the University of Wisconsin Law School and received her Juris Doctor in 2014. She has worked at FFRF in some capacity since May 2012, starting as a legal intern/extern, and currently works as a legal fellow.
RYAN JAYNE received a B.A. in philosophy from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Honors College in 2007. After graduating, Ryan taught piano and chess lessons while working as a financial advisor until 2012, when he began law school at Lewis & Clark in Portland, Oregon. In law school he focused on intellectual property and animal law, serving as an associate editor for the Animal Law Review at Lewis & Clark and co-founding the Pacific Northwest's first Secular Legal Society. Ryan graduated cum laude in 2015, began working with FFRF in January of 2015, and became a Diane Uhl Legal Fellow in September, 2015, specializing in faith-based government funding.
WHITNEY STEFFEN is FFRF's Legal Assistant. Whitney is a Madison native who graduated from University of Wisconsin-Madison with a B.A. in English in 2011. Whitney received a Paralegal Post-Baccalaureate diploma from Madison College in 2014 and previously worked as a paralegal at a small law firm before coming to FFRF. She enjoys watching the Wisconsin State Senate and Assembly from the galleries, reading, and spending time with her four cats.
CHRISTOPHER LINE received his B.S. in Political Science from the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater in 2012. He began working for FFRF in 2015 as a legal intern while attending law school at the University of Wisconsin. Shortly after receiving his Juris Doctor in 2017, Chris began working full-time for FFRF as a Patrick O'Reiley Legal Fellow. He is an accomplished photographer whose work has appeared in The Humanist magazine, the Progressive, and FFRF's own Freethought Today. His work can even be found on display in Freethought Hall.
FFRF Staff
BRUCE A. JOHNSON has been a broadcasting professional for over 35 years. He has worked in Russia, Africa, Europe, Mexico and all across the USA. Projects he has photographed, edited and/or composed music for have been awarded many Wisconsin Broadcasters, Milwaukee Press Club and both regional and national Emmy Awards. He is a 30-year resident of the East Side of Madison, and is married with two daughters.
MOLLY HANSON is FFRF's editorial assistant. Molly graduated from the University of Wisconsin--Madison in 2016 with a degree in journalism and a certificate in gender and women's studies. Prior to graduating, Molly interned for FFRF. She ran for the Badger track and cross country teams while in college and still enjoys running. Also in her free time she enjoys reading about history, exploring, and traveling. Molly's interests include music, politics, feminism, folklore and psychology.
ALYSSA SCHAEFER is FFRF's Program Assistant. She graduated from The George Washington University in 2014 with a BA in International Affairs, concentrating in Security Policy. A native of Wisco, she recently moved back to Madison from the east coast. In her free time Alyssa enjoys traveling, exploring the great outdoors, live music, and lazy Sundays with her cat Lola.
PJ SLINGER is editor of Freethought Today. A Green Bay native, he has a journalism degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and has worked as a sports reporter, news reporter, copy editor, web editor and photo editor in newspapers in Marshall (Minn.), Mankato (Minn.) and Madison (Wis). Prior to coming to FFRF in 2015, he worked for 15 years at The Capital Times in Madison. He has a wife and three kids.
BILL DUNN is the editor of Freethought Today. He has a degree in history and mass communications (journalism emphasis) from the University of South Dakota and has worked as a reporter, copy editor and editor in South Dakota and Wisconsin since 1980. Bill joined the Foundation staff in July 2009. He has two daughters, Kaitlin Marie and Jamie Lee.
LAURYN SEERING is the publicist & communications coordianator. She was born in Wisconsin and studied abroad in Nagasaki, Japan. Lauryn graduated from the UW-Stout in 2012 with her BS in Professional Communications and Emerging Media, concentrating in Technical Communication & International Studies. Lauryn moved to Madison in 2013 and enjoys reading about space stuff, biking and creating art at coffee shops.
LISA TREU is our Director Of First Impressions at FFRF. She comes to us after working in broadcasting for iHeart Radio in Madison, Wisconsin. She hosted various radio programs for fifteen years. Lisa and her husband ran their own Birdhouse/Birdfeeder manufacturing company called Northwoods Mfg., Inc. during the 1990's where she had her own line of decorative birdhouses that she designed and painted herself. Lisa is the wife of Harry and is the mother of twin daughters Katrina and Karinthia. In her spare time she enjoys reading, painting, gardening, feeding the birds, getting silly with her daughters and lounging with her two cats.
AMITABH PAL is the Communications Director of FFRF. Prior to joining in February 2016, he was the Managing Editor of The Progressive magazine for more than a decade. He was also the editor of the Progressive Media Project, an affiliate of The Progressive that sends out op-eds through the Tribune Wire Service to hundreds of newspapers in the United States and other countries. Pal has appeared on C-SPAN and BBC and television and radio stations all over the United States and abroad. His articles have been published in school and college textbooks in the United States and Australia. Pal teaches a course at Edgewood College in Madison, Wisconsin. He has a Master's in Journalism from the University of North Carolina and a Master's in Political Science from North Carolina State University.
A UW graduate, TIM NOTT has called Madison home since 1991. He began his career doing campus IT support while completing a BA in English. The Internet had just become graphical and the opportunity for inexpensive, scalable communication piqued Tim's interest. After 15 years in the industry he took the entrepreneurial plunge, cofounding a startup and building a platform to help make mobile application technology as accessible and ubiquitous as the Web. The company expanded services to work on drones and the Internet of Things. Tim brings his entrepreneurial and technological skills to FFRF where he focuses on our digital products and IT infrastructure.
ROGER DALEIDEN is the Graphic Designer at the Freedom From Religion Foundation. He grew up in Wausau, Wis. He has been living in Madison since 1987. He graduated from University of Wisconsin-Stout with a Bachelor of Science degree in 1986 (Fine Art), and the received his Master of Fine Art degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1991. Roger has taught Art and Design courses for UW-Madison and also for Madison College. He has worked as a Graphic Designer for catalog companies, most recently Full Compass Systems, and as well as for newspapers, including The Capital Times. Some of his other interests include bicycling through our beautiful Southern Wisconsin landscapes, paddling down the lower Wisconsin River, sailing on our lakes and skiing at the local ski areas.
KRISTINA DALEIDEN is a Wisconsin native and life-long freethinker. She received her B.A. in Creative Writing from Eckerd College in St. Petersburg, Florida and a Post-Baccalaureate certificate in Paralegal Studies from Madison College in 2010. She has worked for law firms focused on employment and labor law, and worked as an office coordinator at a local small business prior to joining FFRF. Kristina is an avid follower of politics and enjoys long protest marches on the square, historical fiction and post-modern poetry. Her hobbies include writing to her representatives, yoga, badgering her family and trying to persuade her cats to get off the kitchen counters.
Executive Board of Directors
JIM BREDESON (Secretary) retired in 2012 from a career in academic and public libraries. He served as a reference librarian at Beloit College, Marquette University, the Wisconsin Historical Society, and as director of the library at the University of Wisconsin-Baraboo/Sauk County for 15 years. He has been active in professional organizations and served on the boards of the Council of University of Wisconsin Libraries and Wisconsin Interlibrary Services for several years. He has undergraduate and graduate degrees from the University of Wisconsin – Madison in journalism and library/information sciences.
Jim lives in Madison with wife Cheryl and their St Bernard dog, Afton. He has been president of the local neighborhood association board and currently serves on their condominium board committees. He is a lifelong freethinker and has been an FFRF member for two decades.
MIKE CERMAK (Director) lives in rural Pennsylvania with his family and owns several small businesses. He first joined FFRF while in college, after having read "Losing Faith in Faith," and is passionate about state-church separation. Mike is a private pilot, electric car owner and "evangelist," and enjoys technology of all kinds.
PATRICIA CLEVELAND, (Director) with her late husband Roger, was a founding member of the long-lived chapter, Alabama Freethought Association (active 1989-2016). Pat and Roger were awarded FFRF's Emperor Has No Clothes Award for being outspoken atheists in the bible belt, and as volunteers for overseeing Lake Hypatia Freethought Advance (Not Retreat) near Talladega. Deeding property to FFRF, they encouraged the national FFRF to build a southern outpost, and, at Pat's suggestion, also erect a monument to "Atheists in Foxholes." Pat has been volunteer caretaker of the hall and campgrounds for decades, and as director or co-director of the chapter oversaw several successful lawsuits. She also arranged the annual "Glorious Fourth" of July event at Lake Hypatia Freethought Hall, attracting freethinkers not just from the South but around the country to the rural event. She is a mother and grandmother.
JOE CUNNINGHAM (Director) was born in the back hills of West Virginia, migrated with his family to the Oklahoma oil fields during the Great Depression, later returning to West Virginia, where he attended a one-room school. By high school, his family had moved to Illinois, where he had to float on a plywood boat for a total of 1,440 crossings of the Wabash River to catch the bus for high school. He joined the U.S. Navy after graduation at age 17, serving two years in the Pacific. He graduated from Southern Illinois University, earning both B.S. Ed. and M.S. Ed. degrees, majoring in history and English and taking business courses. He taught in Red Bud High School (Ill.), then in Mascoutah, where he met his wife, Norma Steines. They have two daughters, one a lawyer, one a doctor, and have five grandchildren, one of whom is finishing up her M.D. degree. He is 90 and has been retired for 31 years.
STEPHEN HIRTLE (Chair) is a professor in the School of Information Science at the University of Pittsburgh. He is an organizer with the Steel City Skeptics and the Center for Inquiry Pittsburgh, faculty liaison for the Student Alliance at Pitt and previously hosted a CFI Institute on "Secularism on Campus." He has been a guest on Freethought Radio and has assisted FFRF in fighting a nativity display at the Ellwood City Municipal Building (a Ten Commandments monument outside Valley High School in New Kensington) and the Year of the Bible resolution passed by the Pennsylvania House.
TODD PEISSIG (Director) grew up in central Wisconsin and still lives there today. He attended the University of Wisconsin Pharmacy School, graduating with a B.S. in Pharmacy in 1989. He has worked as a retail community pharmacist with the Kmart Corporation for 27 years and is currently the pharmacy manager overseeing 5 technicians. Traveling extensively both domestically and worldwide is a great passion of his, as is fighting the battle of religious overreach in our country. He also is an activist fighting for LGBT rights. Todd volunteers a full day for FFRF every six-eight weeks, as well as at FFRF conventions.
STEVE SALEMSON (Treasurer) took early retirement in 2005 after nearly two decades in scholarly publishing, first as business manager of the Duke University Press and then as associate director of the University of Wisconsin Press. In previous lives, he worked as a classical musician and as a French translator and interpreter. He has an M.A. in Liberal Studies from Duke University and a B.A. in Comparative Linguistics from Queens College in New York, as well as degrees in French horn and music pedagogy from the Ecole Normale de Musique de Paris. He enjoys biking, downhill skiing, doing crossword puzzles and being a grandfather. In addition to being on the board of the FFRF, he sits on the boards of the Midwest Folk Dance Association and the National Mustard Museum, and so is involved with both nonprofits and non-prophets.
JIM ZERWICK (Director) attended the University of Wisconsin-Madison, joined the Navy in 1968, studied Russian at the Defense Language Institute, and served as a communications tech in the Mediterranean area until late 1971. After discharge, he and a buddy toured Southeast Asia, Australia and New Zealand. He earned a Master's in Library Science at UW-Madison, worked for several years at the Michigan State University Science Library, and became the engineering librarian at the University of Virginia. There he became hooked on flying ultralight aircraft. Returning to Wisconsin, he spent the following 29 years working as a property manager and assisting his parents as they approached the end of their lives. His mother, Rose Zerwick, who died as a "happy heathen" at 95 in 2013, was a second-generation atheist. Among Jim's claims to fame is being part of the backup chorus singing Dan Barker's "The Stay Away Pope Polka" for FFRF. He has been on the Board, initially as treasurer and now as a director at large, for 10 years. He is married to a retired high school teacher who has two grown children and a granddaughter. His three siblings and their spouses "all share a healthy skepticism of religion."
FFRF Honorary Board
The Freedom From Religion Foundation is delighted to announce the formation of a new FFRF Honorary Board of distinguished achievers who have made known their dissent from religion.
The FFRF Honorary Board includes Jerry Coyne, Robin Morgan, Richard Dawkins, Daniel C. Dennett, Ernie Harburg, Jennifer Michael Hecht, Christopher Hitchens, Susan Jacoby, Lawrence Krauss, Mike Newdow, Katha Pollitt, Steven Pinker, Ron Reagan, Oliver Sacks, M.D., Robert Sapolsky, Edward Sorel and Julia Sweeney.
"We are so pleased that these outstanding thinkers and freethinkers have agreed to publicly lend their endorsement to the Foundation, and its two purposes of promoting freethought and the First Amendment's Establishment Clause," said Dan Barker, Foundation co-president.
- Sean B. Carroll, professor of molecular biology, genetics and medical genetics act the University of Wisconsin, is author of 'Brave Genius', 'Remarkable Creatures', 'The Making of the Fittest' and 'Endless Forms Most Beautiful.'
- Jerry Coyne, Ph.D., professor of ecology and evolution at the University of Chicago, is author of the popular book 'Why Evolution is True' and the blog of the same name.
- Richard Dawkins, probably the world's most famous contemporary atheist and a distinguished evolutionary biologist, is Oxford professor emeritus. In his blockbuster book, The God Delusion, Dawkins writes: "The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction."
- Daniel C. Dennett is Austin B. Fletcher Professor of Philosophy, Tufts, and author of the bestselling book about religion, Breaking the Spell. In a newspaper article about his nonbelief, Dennett once wrote: "I've come to realize it's time to sound the alarm."
- Rebecca Newberger Goldstein, author of 36 Arguments For the Existence of God: A Work of Fiction and a research associate in Harvard's psychology department, is FFRF Freethought Heroine of 2011. Goldstein is a 1996 MacArthur Fellow (the "genius" award). She has taught at Barnard and in the Columbia MFA writing program and the Rutgers philosophy department. She's been a visiting scholar at Brandeis and at Trinity College in Hartford.
- Ernie Harburg, a retired research scientist, is president of Yip Harburg Foundation and co-author of Who Put the Rainbow in the Wizard of Oz? Ernie has dedicated his retirement to furthering the lyrics, music, memory and progressive views of his freethinking father, the lyricist Yip Harburg, author of classic songs such as "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" and of Rhymes for the Irreverent, recently republished by FFRF.
- Jennifer Michael Hecht, poet, historian and author of the acclaimed Doubt: A History and The End of the Soul, told the FFRF 2009 convention audience: "If there is no god — and there isn't — then we [humans] made up morality. And I'm very impressed."
- Susan Jacoby, bestselling author of Freethinkers: A History of American Secularism, and program director of the Center for Inquiry-New York City, told FFRF convention-goers in 2004: "[President] Kennedy had to speak about his religion because he was suspected of insufficient dedication to the Constitution's separation of church and state. Today's candidates are suspect if they display too much dedication to secular government."
- Lawrence Krauss, theoretical physicist, author and director of the Origins Project at Arizona State University, Fellow of American Physical Society and American Association for the Advancement of Science. He is featured in "The Unbelievers," a film with Richard Dawkins, and is author of nine books, including A Universe from Nothing.
- Robin Morgan, feminist pioneer, global activist, author of the groundbreaking "Sisterhood is Powerful" and more than 20 books, was formerly Ms. Magazine editor and consulting editor. She is the co-founder of the Feminist Women's Health Network and Women's Media Center and currently hosts "Women's Media Center Live" the radio "talk-show with a brain."
- Mike Newdow is working pro bono to challenge such violations as the addition of "under God" to the Pledge of Allegiance. He told the U.S. Supreme Court during oral arguments: "I am an atheist. I don't believe in God. And every school morning my child is asked to stand up, face that flag, put her hand over her heart, and say that her father is wrong."
- Steven Pinker, Johnstone Professor of Psychology, Harvard, is author of The Blank Slate: "I never outgrew my conversion to atheist at 13."
- Katha Pollitt, "Subject to Debate" columnist for The Nation, author and poet, has spoken out regularly and energetically as a freethinker, in such columns as "Freedom From Religion, Sí!"
- Ron Reagan, media commentator, describes himself in a radio ad he taped for FFRF as: "Unabashed atheist, not afraid of burning in hell."
- Robert Sapolsky, a neurologist, Stanford professor and bestselling author, once suggested FFRF put up a sign at its conventions: "Welcome, hellbound atheists."
- Edward Sorel, satiric cartoonist and irreverent illustrator who is a regular contributor to The Atlantic, The New Yorker, and whose caricatures have been exhibited at the National Portrait Gallery, has been a Foundation member since the 1980s.
- Julia Sweeney, comedian and actress, is writer/performer of the play, "Letting Go of God": "How dare the religious use the term 'born again.' That truly describes freethinkers who've thrown off the shackles of religion so much better!"
In Memoriam
- Christopher Hitchens, the iconoclastic journalist, was author of the bestselling God Is Not Great: "Since it is obviously inconceivable that all religions can be right, the most reasonable conclusion is that they are all wrong."
- Oliver Sacks, M.D., the compassionate neurologist and bestselling author, described himself as "an old Jewish atheist."


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(NEWSER) – A man and a woman allegedly gunned down two police officers today in a Las Vegas ambush before killing a civilian at a Walmart and taking their own lives, the Las Vegas Review-Journal reports. Details are unclear and the officer deaths haven't been confirmed, but witnesses say the attackers shot the officers having lunch at a pizza place late this morning, after one assailant yelled, "This is the start of a revolution." The shooters then took the officer's guns and ammunition and crossed the street to a Walmart, where witnesses say shots were fired.
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Mariah Carey reveals Moroccan and Monroe sing on new album
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Mariah Carey gushes about her twins, Moroccan and Monroe, in a new interview with "Entertainment Tonight Canada," revealing the toddlers sing on her upcoming album.
The superstar candidly admits, "I never thought I was going to have kids. I remember being a little girl and being like, 'I don't want to have babies when I grow up.'"
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(NEWSER) – An Oklahoma man says he wound up stuck in a storm drain for two days because he was chasing after a $20 bill. The unnamed man somehow fit his way into a storm drain that was just 42 inches in diameter, trying to get the bill he dropped in the drain. He wound up 12 to 15 feet underground, then got lost in the confusing city drain system. A group of high school students ended up calling 911 after hearing the man's cries for help from deep underground, and police rescued him. His only injury: a bump on the head ... but he never did find that $20. Newsy reports:


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Santana, Billy Joel among celebrated Kennedy Center honorees
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Carlos Santana is learning that it's not just his music that makes a strong impression. The guitar legend was among those celebrated over the weekend as a Kennedy Center Honors recipient.
The New York Times says at Sunday's tribute concert President Obama admitted he was "a little disappointed" with Santana's more conservative wardrobe choice, because "back in the day" Santana's shirts could be seen "from space."
Honoree Billy Joel received a salute from another music superstar -- country great Garth Brooks. Brooks described the respect others have for Joel, recalling that Paul McCartney traveled to New York just to perform with Billy at Shea Stadium, and "that's a freaking Beatle."
A number of stars and other dignitaries were on hand to salute the 2013 Kennedy Center Honorees, which also included Herbie Hancock, Shirley MacLaine, and opera singer Martina Arroyo. Secretary of State John Kerry, Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor, and actress Anna Kendrick are among those who paid tribute to the honorees.
The recipients were celebrated with events in Washington, DC throughout the weekend. They were the guests of honor Saturday at a State Department Dinner, where they received their medallions. The Kennedy Center Honors concert took place Sunday night. Highlights from the gala will air as a special on CBS on December 29th.


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Judge halts Detroit bankruptcy filing
Ingham County Circuit judge Rosemarie Aquilina has ruled that Detroit's bankruptcy filing be withdrawn.
In her ruling, she told assistant Attorney General Brian Devlin that the filing was "not honoring the president".
She ruled that 'Emergency Mangager Orr intended to diminish or impair accrued pension benfits' which would be a violation of the law.
Governor Rick Snyder is appealing the judge's decision.


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Young Football Players Take Adult-Size Hits
(NEWSER) – A new study on the dangers of football might give pause to parents in pee-wee leagues. Researchers say that, relatively speaking, the hits absorbed by kids as young as 7 have the same impact as those delivered by teens and adults on their own peers, reports the New York Times. What's more, the Virginia Tech-Wake Forest study found that kids in youth leagues take a lot of hits, with most coming during practice. "The number of hits and magnitude was a lot higher than people would have estimated," says one of the researchers. "When we present it to the parents, everyone is surprised."


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NERVO to release two-disc 'Inspired' compilation
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The Ministry Of Sound is continuing on in their "Inspired" compilation series, and next to share their story through the music that has inspired them the most is NERVO.
In a press release, the duo says "We have always followed Ministry Of Sound as a label so, when they came to us with the INSPIRED concept we jumped at the opportunity." They continue, "Whether they were new artists that we discovered at the time or whether we discovered these tracks while dancing on the Space Terrace in Ibiza, all of these records hold a special place in our journey."
The girls' "Inspired" compilation comes in two CDs, one highlighting tracks that are present and future inspirations and the other showing their past inspirations. Their present and future CD includes a few of their own songs as well as tracks like Hardwell & MAKJ's "Countdown," Mark Knight's "Nothing Matters," Dusky's "Careless" and more.
Of their present and future inspirations CD, NERVO says, "Michael Gray's 'Weekend' takes us back to our first summers in Ibiza. We were living in London at the time, trying to get ahead in music and waitressing. Records like this were an escape from our everyday lives. If we can provide that same kind of escape in our music today then that would be a great achievement."
Meanwhile, their past inspirations CD includes the late Frankie Knuckles' "Your Love," Fatboy Slim's "Praise You," Shapeshifters' "Lola's Theme," and Ida Corr & Fedde Le Grand's "Let Me Think About It," among others.
On their past inspirations CD, the duo says, "Music is forever evolving but classics are forever with us."
NERVO's "Inspired" compilation is due out May 19th. Check out the track list below:
CD 1 - Present & Future Inspirations
Prok & Fitch Ft. Max Linen - Man With Soul
Phunk Investigation - It Is Star Time
Norman Doray & NERVO Ft. Cookie - Something To Believe In (Carl Louis & Martin Danielle Remix)
Hardwell & MAKJ - Countdown
NERVO Ft. Duane Harden - Sunshine Through Rain Clouds (Exclusive)
Deorro & Zoofunktion - Hype (Autoerotique Remix)
2 Unlimited - Get Ready For This (Steve Aoki 2013 Extended Edit Remix)
NERVO & Nicky Romero - Like Home
Mark Knight Ft. Skin - Nothing Matters
NERVO - Hold On (Vicetone Remix)
NERVO, Ivan Gough & Beverley Knight - Not Taking This No More (Bass King vs X-Vertigo Remix)
Showtek - Booyah
NERVO - Reason
Mercer - Turn It Up (Tchami Remix)
NERVO & Marco Lys - Don't Break My Heart
Dusky - Careless
Shiba San - Okay
CD 2 - Past Inspirations
Michael Gray - Weekend
Shakedown - At Night (Kid Creme Remix)
John Cutler Ft. E-Man - It's Yours
Kings Of Tomorrow Ft. Julie McKnight - Finally
Wonderland Avenue - White Horse
Nightcrawlers - Push The Feeling On
Fatboy Slim - Praise You
Frankie Knuckles - Your Love
Fish Go Deep - Cure & The Cause (Dennis Ferrer Remix)
Soul Central - Strings Of Life (Danny Krivit Edit)
Ida Corr vs Fedde Le Grand - Let Me Think About It
Hardrive - Deep Inside
Shapeshifters - Lola's Theme
Cleptomaniacs Ft. Bryan Chambers - All I Do
Shaun Escoffery - Days Like This (Spinna & Tickla Club Mix)


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Potential witness in mobster 'Whitey' Bulger's trial found dead
(Erica Ritz) Authorities say a man who was on the witness list for the racketeering trial of reputed mobster James "Whitey" Bulger has died.
The Middlesex District Attorney's Office says Stephen "Stippo" Rakes was found dead Wednesday afternoon in Lincoln, Mass., with no obvious signs of trauma to his body.
According to ABC News, police originally told the family the death seemed to be a suicide. His family and friends are skeptical, however, and are awaiting the autopsy results determining the 59-year-old's cause and manner of death.
"Stippo would not kill himself. Absolutely not," Rakes' close friend Steve Davis – whose sister was allegedly murdered by Bulger – said. "He was looking forward to taking the stand. He told me over and over he had a big bombshell to drop. He had everything to live for and was looking forward to his day in court."
"The day I see [Bulger] in a box, not breathing, will be better," Rakes himself told the Associated Press in April.
Prosecutors say Rakes and his former wife were forced to sell Bulger their South Boston liquor store in 1984 to use as a headquarters for his gang and as a source of legitimate income, after Bulger threatened their daughter at gunpoint.
But another prosecution witness has testified that their story wasn't true, and it was unclear whether prosecutors would put Rakes on the stand.
According to the Boston Globe, Rakes was told Tuesday afternoon that would not be called to testify.


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WATCH: Miley Cyrus is an astronaut in Future's 'Real & True' video preview
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Not too long ago, it was revealed that Miley Cyrus would be featured in Future's music video for "Real & True." Photos from the video had surfaced online of Miley in nothing but silver body paint, but now fans get a closer look at "Real & True"
A teaser has been posted to Hunger TV which briefly features Miley in an astronaut suit!! From the photos and the video teaser, Future's new music video looks very future-istic!
Fans can see the full video on November 10th. Until then, check out the teaser below!


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Elements of surprise: Chargers continue improbable ride with win over Bengals
CINCINNATI – You live in San Diego and weather reports aren't much of a focus. One day of perfect bleeds into the next until you just expect 73 and sunny. And then it magically appears. This week, though, weather talk was everything around the San Diego Chargers facility.
The Chargers' wild-card game here in Ohio was supposed to come in the middle of some kind of massive winter blast – snow, freeze, cold, wind, you name it. At various times, predictions called for six or eight inches of accumulation by the end of the game.
It was going to be brutal, everyone said. Too brutal for a warm-weather team to deal with, let alone San Diego, which needed a four-game win streak and plenty of help just to make the playoffs.
Then kickoff arrived, and for three quarters the weather reports were bunk. Temperatures hovered around 40 degrees. There wasn't a drop of precipitation. The sun even made a couple of appearances.
And the Chargers felt … cheated. Not relieved. Not pleased. Cheated. Until the fourth quarter when a cold, winter rain came to Paul Brown Stadium and linebacker Donald Butler looked up and said, "Yeah, it's finally raining. Let's go."
"Honestly, that's what you dream about," Butler said. "Fourth quarter, NFL playoffs, elements start coming, it starts raining, you're on the road. You can't invent a better scenario than that."
At this point, just assume that pretty much everything everyone says about the Chargers is wrong. They can't handle the weather. They can't handle a great offense. They can't deal with pressure. They can't advance in the playoffs. They can't …
Whatever, they say. Just keep saying it.
"I love it," Butler said. "I love it, and I think this whole team loves it. Go ahead and write us off, say all the negative things you want."
San Diego went on the road Sunday, under the rain, and won a fifth consecutive game, 27-10 over the Bengals. The Chargers trailed at halftime only to win going away, but isn't that the story of the season?
They were once 5-7 – with losses to Oakland, Washington and Houston. Now they don't care who is up next, they just assume they'll win.
"If we play our 'A' game," linebacker Melvin Ingram said, "everybody is vulnerable."
That includes Sunday's trip to Denver, where the AFC's top seed and Peyton Manning are waiting. Almost no one will pick the Chargers to win. All sorts of time will be spent looking ahead to the supposedly inevitable New England-Denver AFC title game clash. Sure, the Chargers beat the Bengals, but that's the Bengals. And, sure, the Chargers won in Denver on Dec. 12, but that's the regular season.
"Even when we beat Denver before, it was [about] 'what Denver didn't do, not what we did,' " Butler said. "I think as a team, we're just embracing it and we're running with it."
How far the Chargers run is anyone's guess, but the most notable thing about them is this is finally the team they thought they'd be all season long.
The team has come together and is versatile in its ability to run behind a violent offensive line (196 yards, two touchdowns on Sunday) or ride the arm of quarterback Philip Rivers (12-of-16 passing for 128 yards and a TD) or a stand-up defense (four turnovers).
September and October don't count anymore.
"I think some of those early games, some of those losses, it wasn't what the teams were doing, it was us," Butler said. "And we knew that. We just never gave up on ourselves. It's huge. That's what carried us."
Throughout the locker room, credit was given to 41-year-old rookie head coach Mike McCoy, who took over a team with a recent history of falling short and convinced it to find a way to make one extra play, win one more game.
These aren't your older brother's Chargers. There is a spirit of self-determination driving everything. There is a belief they have enough to win now. It's not just that Rivers proudly wears a seashell bolo tie postgame – and speaks with boyish enthusiasm (that belies his 10-year veteran status) about each play – that says they don't care about what anyone else thinks.
"We're just worried about ourselves right now," McCoy said. "We said that all week long: 'It's about us.' "
"It starts with Coach," Butler said.
"Before the game we all said it, 'We're all we got … we're all we need,' " running back Ronnie Brown said.
So up next is Denver, and Rivers actually said the Chargers have to make sure to guard against "overconfidence."
That's the Chargers. The new Chargers, who live on the edge for a month and learn to love the pressure, who peel off five in a row and then complain the weather wasn't nearly as rough as promised.


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'Fresh Prince' dad James Avery dies at 68
(TMZ) - James Avery -- the beloved dad and uncle on "The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air" -- has died at age 68 ... TMZ has learned.
Sources close to the actor tell TMZ he died in an Glendale, CA hospital last night. Avery had undergone open heart surgery and took a turn for the worse late yesterday.
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And TMZ reportsd ... his wife, Barbara, had been at his bedside but left for a short period of time and when she came back ... she learned he had just died.
Alfonso Ribeiro -- who played Avery's son on "Fresh Prince" -- posted a message on his Facebook page.
Avery starred in dozens of TV shows through the years -- shows like "Grey's Anatomy," "The Closer," "L.A. Law," and "The Jeffersons." This past year, he appeared in three TV movies -- most recently, "Go, Bolivia, Go!" -- but didn't appear to have other projects in the works.
Avery reunited with most of his "Fresh Prince" cast -- including Will Smith -- two years ago at a charity event.
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Bryan, Aldean, Shania among country stars featured in pre-CMA special
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Luke Bryan, Jason Aldean, and Shania Twain are among the stars featured on the fifth annual pre-CMA Awards special "In The Spotlight with Robin Roberts: Countdown to the CMA Awards."
For the show Bryan opens up about challenges he's faced in his private life, including two family tragedies. Aldean reflects on fame and family, as well as the scandal he admits contributed to his divorce. Shania takes viewers backstage at her Las Vegas show.
Roberts also goes behind the scenes of the TV series "Nashville," and counts down the top five country duets of all time with Kenny Rogers and Dolly Parton.
"In The Spotlight with Robin Roberts: Countdown to the CMA Awards" will air on ABC on November 5th at 10:00 p.m. Eastern.
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Lady Gaga, Miley Cyrus perform at pre-Grammy events
Lady Gaga and Miley Cyrus are among the stars who made appearances at the pre-Grammy celebrations in Los Angeles this weekend, despite being snubbed by the Recording Academy.
Mother Monster performed at the annual MusiCares Gala on Friday, taking part in the tribute to honoree Carole King. The Hollywood Reporter says she blew the audience away with a cover of Carole's "You've Got A Friend."
The pop star shared that the song had been a comfort to her in hard times, and thanked Carole for being an inspiration to female songwriters. Sara Bareilles, Alicia Keys, Steven Tyler and Jason Mraz all performed as well.
On Saturday, Miley took the stage at Clive Davis' annual pre-Grammy party. She had the cameras clicking wearing a lilac fur coat, singing "Wrecking Ball" and Dolly Parton's "Jolene" for the star-studded room of music's biggest stars.
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Mets Pitcher Takes Down Unruly Flier
(NEWSER) – Flight attendants struggling with an unruly passenger on a flight to South America got some backup from New York Mets relief pitcher LaTroy Hawkins. The 6-foot-5, 220-pound pitcher and a couple of buddies helped bundle the man into a seat and hold him down as restraints were applied. "We had to subdue a guy who was upset about not being able to sit in an open seat in business class," Hawkins tells the New York Daily News. "He and a flight attendant started wrestling and fell into my lap. The (flight attendant) said he needed help." Hawkins, who was on his way to a dove hunting trip in Argentina, helped remove the passenger from the plane at an emergency stop in Lima.


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Arcadia, CA, Dec. 10 -- HRTV (R), The Network for Horse Sports, is pleased to announce that it has reached an agreement with Christina Olivares Blacker to join the network, beginning on December 26, the Opening Day of the Santa Anita meeting.
Additionally, HRTV has also reached a deal with Kurt Hoover, making the longtime horseracing TV personality, a full-time
member of the network's outstanding announcing team, which is also effective on December 26. While Hoover has been involved with HRTV since its inception, his contributions have been limited to the live Santa Anita meetings.
Olivares Blacker rejoins HRTV, where her career in horseracing began in 2004 when, as a senior in college, she served as a weekend reporter and features producer. During her initial stint at HRTV, she played an integral role in the network's development and was a driving force behind some of the strongest programming brands, including the shows, Target Louisville and Pursuit of the Cup.
A versatile on-air presence, she is expected to fill a variety of roles with HRTV, including reporter, host, and analyst.
"I'm thrilled to be rejoining the stellar team at HRTV," Olivares Blacker said. "I look forward to working with them and contributing to the broadcasts."
The daughter of jockey Frank Olivares, she graduated from the USC Annenberg School for Communications with a degree in broadcast journalism and entertainment communications.
In 2006-12, she moved to TVG as a full-time on-camera reporter. In her six years at the network, Olivares Blacker parlayed that position in to a variety of roles, expanding her familiarity with racing connections throughout the country. In March, 2012, Olivares Blacker stepped on to the network stage with NBC Sports serving as a reporter for the Florida Derby broadcast. She married Thoroughbred trainer Dan Blacker in July, 2012. The couple resides near Santa Anita Park, the home base for HRTV.
Kurt Hoover has been with HRTV since 2002, and remains one of the sport's most respected voices in Southern California. He has filled a myriad of roles with HRTV, serving as host, analyst, and reporter for its live racing coverage, and will continue in that capacity. The full-time role at HRTV's Arcadia, CA studio, solidifies his roots. Hoover began his broadcasting career at Santa Anita Park in 1986 where he was a key member of the Eclipse Award-winning Santa Anita Park broadcast team.
Additionally, Hoover has contributed to a host of original HRTV shows, including: The Edge, Race Day America, and Against the Odds.
In addition to his decade-long work with HRTV -- where he contributed to a host of original shows, including The Edge, Race Day America, and Against The Odds -- Hoover also worked with ESPN from 2003-05, where he covered the Triple Crown and other key races.
About HRTV
HRTV, The Network for Horse Sports, is a television-based multimedia network dedicated to equine sports. HRTV's programming features horseracing from top U.S. and international racetracks, as well as a wide range of world-class
English and Western horse competitions, news, original programming and award-winning documentaries covering the world of horse sports. The live stream of HRTV is available on a subscription basis to high-speed Internet users
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Wake Safety Crumbles Bengals
(Miami, FL) -- Cameron Wake's safety of Andy Dalton in overtime gave the Dolphins a 22-20 win over the Bengals at Sun Life Stadium. Wake finished the game with three sacks and two tackles for a loss. Caleb Sturgis kicked a 44-yard field goal with 11 seconds left in regulation to tie the game. Brent Grimes had a 94-yard interception return for a TD. Lamar Miller ran for 105 yards on 16 carries for Miami, which improved to 4-and-4. Andy Dalton's streak of good play came to an end as he tossed three picks. After trailing 17-3, Cincinnati took a 20-17 lead before blowing the game late. Giovani Bernard ran for two touchdowns and 79 yards on nine carries. The Bengals dropped to 6-and-3.


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Bob Dylan nominated for first-ever CMA Award
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Bob Dylan is experiencing a career first, courtesy of the country music community.
More than 50 years into his career, the folk-rock legend is a first-time nominee for the Country Music Association Awards. He's in the running for Song of the Year for the track "Wagon Wheel" - a tune he sketched out over 40 years ago.
While Dylan never formally finished the song, Old Crow Medicine Show's Ketch Secor took up the task a decade ago, after discovering the tune on a Dylan bootleg. He completed the song for his group to include on their 2004 self-titled debut disc.
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In 2012, Hootie and the Blowfish frontman Darius Rucker covered "Wagon Wheel" for his third solo country album. His version of the song topped the country charts back in the spring, which earned the track two CMA nominations.
"Wagon Wheel" is up for Single of the Year, recognizing Rucker's performance, and Song of the Year, which will go to Dylan and Secor if it wins.
The 47th annual CMA Awards will be presented in Nashville, and air on ABC Wednesday night at 8:00 p.m. Eastern. And Dylan just might be on hand for the event! While there's been no confirmation of his participation, Rucker has said he's reached out to Dylan's camp in an effort to bring him to the ceremony.
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PHOTO: Alicia Keys looks more than ready for spring
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Looks like someone's ready the spring AND summer. Alicia Keys took to her Instagram to share a fantastic photo of her in a one piece swimsuit with slick hair, white pumps and mirrored sunnies. While the photo looked like it may have been from a magazine shoot more than a vacation, AK looks great nonetheless. You hear that, Spring? Alicia (and everybody else) are ready for you to heat up!


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Report: Arrest warrant issued for Aaron Hernandez
Multiple news outlets are reporting that an arrest warrant has been issued for Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez in connection with the shooting death earlier this week of Odin Lloyd of Dorchester, Mass.
According to WBZ, a CBS News Boston affiliate, Hernandez will be arrested for obstruction of justice, with the possibility that the charges could be upgraded. Given Thursday's news that Hernandez apparently destroyed both his home surveillance system and a cell phone, either of which could have provided clues to Lloyd's death, the charges are not surprising. Massachusetts state police will apparently carry out the arrest, though the terms have not yet been disclosed.
According to ABC News, Lloyd was killed by a gunshot to the head at some point between 1 a.m. and 6 a.m. on Monday. His body was found in a clearing of an industrial park by a jogger about 5:30 p.m. on Monday.
Hernandez has gone from being a person of interest to a key figure in Lloyd's death. Lloyd, a semi-pro football player for the Boston Bandits, had several connections to Hernandez. He had been driving an SUV rented in Hernandez's name, he was dating the sister of Hernandez's fiancee, and he was found half a mile from Hernandez's home.
Hernandez was the focus of intense media scrutiny on Thursday, as he was tailed from his home to Gillette Stadium and downtown Boston. At one point, a news helicopter even broadcast coverage of Hernandez's movements, helping ratchet the story from tragedy toward absurdity.
In addition, ABC News has reported that surveillance video from Hernandez's neighborhood shows Hernandez with Lloyd and two other people shortly before Lloyd's death.
Hernandez has not spoken to the media in several days. Instead, his attorneys have provided statements attesting to his innocence. Neither the Patriots nor the NFL have commented on the case, both parties indicating they will be following the developments but without offering statements.


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Kevin Durant wins NBA's MVP award
(Oklahoma City, OK) -- Oklahoma City Thunder star Kevin Durant is the winner of the NBA's Most Valuable Player award. Durant led the league with an average of 32 points per game. He also bested Michael Jordan's streak of consecutive 25-point games with 41. Durant got 119 first-place votes, with Miami Heat star LeBron James garnering the other six.


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One Week Into Shutdown, Obama Digs In Heels
(Washington, DC) -- One week into the partial shutdown of the federal government, President Obama is digging in his heels. In a White House news conference, the President said he is willing to negotiate with House Republicans but not until they agree to end the shutdown and raise the federal debt ceiling. The U.S. government faces possible default if the debt ceiling is not raised by October 17th. The President argued that Congress has an obligation to fund government operations and prevent defaults.
Obama said the debt ceiling does not add a dime to the federal deficit. He said it allows the government to pay bills that Congress has already racked up. The President stressed that the debt ceiling has been raised 45 times since the Reagan administration. He insisted that Republican lawmakers will not be allowed to demand a "ransom in exchange for doing their jobs." Democrats accuse House Republicans of holding the government hostage in an ongoing effort to repeal, defund or delay the healthcare reform law.
In an earlier news conference, GOP House Speaker John Boehner said he has not drawn any "lines in the sand" and again called on the President to negotiate an end to the impasse. Boehner claims House Republicans will not agree to hike the debt ceiling without getting undefined "concessions" from Democrats. Parts of the federal government were forced to shut down last week as money ran out of money at the end of the 2013 fiscal year. House Republicans have repeatedly refused Democratic calls to extend government funding with a clean bill that contains no unrelated add-ons.


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Boston Celtics (9-10) at Cleveland Cavaliers (8-11)
Time: 7 p.m.; Venue: The Q; TV/Radio: Fox Sports Ohio/WTAM, WAKR, WHBC
Cavs probables: PG Kyrie Irving (17.9 ppg, 3.4 rpg, 4.8 apg), SG Anthony Parker (6.0, 2.4, 2.2), SF Omri Casspi (8.1, 2.8, 1.2), PF Antawn Jamison 15.0, 5.3, 1.6), C Anderson Varejao (9.9, 11.0, 1.7)
Celtics probables: PG Avery Bradley (3.6 ppg, 1.8 rpg, 1.3 apg), SF Ray Allen (15.3, 3.1, 2.4), SF Paul Pierce (17.8, 5.4, 5.3), PF Kevin Garnett (13.4, 7.5, 2.7), C Brandon Bass (11.9, 6.3, 0.8)
Injuries: Cavs -- Daniel Gibson (neck) out, Anthony Parker (back) out; Celtics -- Rajon Rondo (wrist) questionable, Keyon Dooling (hip) questionable, Jermaine O'Neal (knee) probable
Officials: Joe Crawford, Bennie Adams, Karl Lane
* Byron Scott is still undecided who he'll start at shooting guard tonight. With both Anthony Parker and Daniel Gibson unavailable, Mychel Thompson and Alonzo Gee seem the most obvious candidates and a decent case could be made for starting either.
The Cavs will have a new shooting guard for Tuesday's game against the Boston Celtics, but coach Byron Scott isn't sure yet who it will be.
Anthony Parker's stiff lower back will keep him out of the game and Daniel Gibson was left behind in Boston for more tests on his stiff neck. Scott already ruled out both players for Tuesday's rematch against the Celtics.To read more or comment...
Maybe this is how it all works. Maybe this is how it is supposed to be. On the very court where LeBron James played his final game in a Cavs uniform, Kyrie Irving rose to make his first game-winning basket in a Cavs uniform.
There will be many more like it. The kid is too explosive, too good and too fearless for it not to happen again and again. Byron Scott said he saw it in the kid's eyes. He wanted the ball. He's earned the ball in clutch situations. The rest of the players, some nearly twice his age, know it, too. Set him a screen and get the hell out of his way. Let the kid do his thing.To read more or comment...
Kyrie Irving's drive and basket with 2.6 seconds left gave the Cavs a stunning 88-87 road win at the Boston Celtics on Sunday after the Cavs trailed by 10 with five minutes left.
The Celtics didn't have a field goal over the game's final 4:58 and the Cavs slowly chipped their way back. After missing two open looks, the Cavs retained possession with 22 seconds left when Anderson Varejao dove for a loose ball and the Cavs called timeout.To read more or comment...
Daniel Gibson didn't agree with me on this, but it sure seems like the Cavs have fallen into a habit lately of playing to the level of their opponent.
That certainly wasn't the case in humiliating losses to the Bulls and Hawks, but the Cavs played pretty well against the Heat and Knicks before dropping a clunker tonight against a struggling Nets team.To read more or comment...
Deron Williams had 27 points and 10 assists and the New Jersey Nets have their first winning streak of the season following a 99-96 win at Cleveland on Friday.
Kris Humphries had 18 points and 11 rebounds and Anthony Morrow added 22 points for the Nets, who also won at Philadelphia on Wednesday for consecutive victories for the first time this season.To read more or comment...
New Jersey Nets (6-13) at Cleveland Cavaliers (7-10)
Time: 7:30 p.m.; Venue: Quicken Loans Arena; TV/Radio: Fox Sports Ohio/WTAM, WAKR, WHBC
Cavs probables: PG Kyrie Irving (16.8 ppg, 3.2 rpg, 4.9 apg), SG Anthony Parker (6.3, 2.5, 2.2), SF Omri Casspi (8.1, 2.1, 1.3), PF Antawn Jamison (15.0, 5.4, 1.7), C Anderson Varejao (9.8, 11.2, 1.6)
Nets probables: PG Deron Williams (18.9 ppg, 3.7 rpg, 8.6 apg), SG Anthony Morrow (12.4, 2.6), SF Deshawn Stevenson (2.9, 1.3), PF Kris Humphries (13.1, 10.8), Mehmet Okur (7.6, 4.8)
Injuries: Cavs -- Tristan Thompson (ankle) probable; Nets -- Brook Lopez (foot) out, Damion James (foot) out, MarShon Brooks (Achilles) questionable, Kris Humphries (illness) questionable, Mehmet Okur (back) questionable
Officials: Dick Bavetta, Kevin Cutler, Zach Zarba
* Tristan Thompson is probable tonight after missing the last two games with a sprained left ankle. This is a good night to get him back to help on Kris Humphries, who destroyed the Cavs on the boards last season. The Cavs held Humphries to just five rebounds in the first meeting this season on New Year's Day. Humphries, however, is questionable with a stomach virus and did not participate in the team's morning shootaround today. The Nets are loaded with injury problems. More on that later.
* Thompson has exactly two assists in 15 games this season, prompting coach Byron Scott to refer to his rookie as a "hole" instead of a "hub" in the offense -- the same terms he used to describe Samardo Samuels last season. Over the last couple of days, Thompson has worked a little bit on dumping the ball off. But he had no idea his assist total was so low.To read more or comment...
The Knicks are a mess. A full blown, New York style, six car accident in the Lincoln Tunnel at rush hour type of catastrophe. They don't play defense, they barely run an offense right now and more times than not Wednesday, they looked like five parking cones the Cavs had little trouble driving around for dunks and easy baskets.
That's not to take anything away from the Cavs' effort or victory. If nothing else, the Knicks serve as the perfect example of how not to build a winner. Put it this way: One New York writer after the game admitted the Knicks were putting a whole lot of hope and faith on Baron Davis' weak back and busted knee. That's a sure recipe for trouble.To read more or comment...
Anderson Varejao had 10 points and 16 rebounds and the Cavs continued their dominance over the New York Knicks with a 91-81 home victory on Wednesday to snap a four-game losing streak. The Cavs have won 12 of the last 13 meetings against the Knicks, who haven't won in Cleveland since Nov. 29, 2006.
Amar'e Stoudemire had 19 points and 12 rebounds and Carmelo Anthony had 15 points, but shot just 5 of 14. The Knicks committed 23 turnovers and shot just 3 of 20 on 3-pointers. It was the Cavs' first victory on the second night of a back-to-back, improving to 1-4. The Knicks were also playing for the second-straight night.To read more or comment...
New York Knicks (7-10) at Cleveland Cavaliers (6-10)
Time: 7 p.m.; Venue: The Q; TV/Radio: Fox Sports Ohio/WTAM, WAKR, WHBC
Cavs probables: PG Kyrie Irving, SG Anthony Parker, SF Omri Casspi, PF Antawn Jamison, C Anderson Varejao
Knicks probables: PG Iman Shumpert, SG Landry Fields, SF Carmelo Anthony, PF Amar'e Stoudemire, C Tyson Chandler
Injuries: Cavs -- Tristan Thompson (ankle) questionable; Knicks -- Baron Davis (back) doubtful, Josh Harrellson (fractured wrist) out.
Officials: Bill Kennedy, Kane Fitzgerald, Scott Twardoski
* The Cavs' turnover epidemic seems to be getting worse, not better, although it could be a product of the teams the Cavs are facing.
Here is the perfect illustration to what was a strange night in Miami: Kyrie Irving threw the ball away for the Cavs' 17th turnover with 4:17 left in the third quarter and the Cavs trailing 55-51.
Shane Battier came up with the steal on Irving's pass and tried to fire it down the court in transition, but Omri Casspi was quick to get back and picked the ball off. Upon trying to bring it back up the floor, he threw an alley-oop pass to ... well, I still don't know who. The ball wasn't really directed at anyone, flew into the stands and the Cavs had their 18th turnover of the night.To read more or comment...
Chris Bosh had 35 points, including 17 in the fourth quarter, and the Heat held off the Cavaliers 92-85 at AmericanAirlines Arena tonight.
The Heat (12-5) struggled to shake the pesky Cavs (6-10), who trailed by three on a 3-pointer from Kyrie Irving in the final minute. But Bosh scored nine points in the final 2:36 to give the Heat their fourth win in their last five games.To read more or comment...
Cleveland Cavaliers (6-9) at Miami Heat (11-5)
Time: 7:30 p.m.; Venue: AmericanAirlines Arena; TV/Radio: FS Ohio/WTAM, WAKR, WHBC
Cavs probables: PG Kyrie Irving (17.4 ppg, 3.3 rpg, 4.9 apg); SG Anthony Parker (6.0, 2.4, 2.2), SF Omri Casspi (7.9, 2.9, 1.4), PF Antawn Jamison (15.7, 5.6, 1.5), C Anderson Varejao (9.7, 10.9, 1.5)
Heat probables: PG Mario Chalmers (11.8 ppg, 2.6 rpg, 4.4 apg), SG James Jones (4.5, 1.4, 0.3), SF LeBron James (29.7, 8.3, 7.3), PF Chris Bosh (20.5, 7.9, 2.1), C Joel Anthony (3.8, 4.8, 0.2)
Injuries: Cavs -- Tristan Thompson (ankle) questionable; Heat -- Dwyane Wade (ankle) questionable
Officials: Tony Brothers, Kevin Fehr, Michael Smith
MIAMI: Byron Scott said after Saturday's loss to the Atlanta Hawks that the Cavs hadn't hit rock bottom, but they were well on their way.
By the end of practice today he was much more upbeat.To read more or comment...
The Cavs are officially taking Sunday off. They unofficially took Friday and Saturday off, too (ba-dump-bump!).
It had to be a long flight home from Atlanta late Saturday night for a team wondering where all that good mojo went so quickly. The good vibes from a 6-7 start are all gone, washed away in the bloodbath that was consecutive losses by a combined 66 points.To read more or comment...
The Cavs were run off the floor for the second time in as many nights, falling to the Atlanta Hawks Saturday 121-94. They've now lost two games in the last 48 hours by a combined 66 points.
Kyrie Irving had 18 points, but turned it over seven times and had a game-worst plus/minus ratio of minus-28.To read more or comment...
Cleveland Cavaliers (6-8) at Atlanta Hawks (11-5)
Time: 7 p.m.; Venue: Phillips Arena; TV/Radio: FS Ohio/WTAM, WAKR, WHBC
Cavs probables: PG Kyrie Irving, SG Anthony Parker, SF Omri Casspi, PF Antawn Jamison, C Anderson Varejao
Hawks probables: PG Jeff Teague, SG Joe Johnson, SF Marvin Williams, PF Josh Smith, C Jason Collins
* The Cavs had their worst showing of the season Friday against the Bulls, but have done a pretty good job of bouncing back in the next game after dismal performances. They've haven't had to do that on the second night of a back-to-back, however.
It didn't take long after the Cavs suffered their worst home loss in team history until people started questioning Cavs coach Byron Scott's rotation patterns. Specifically, why he took Kyrie Irving out of the game in the first quarter when Irving clearly had the hot hand.
Really?To read more or comment...
The Cavs scored just 49 points after the first quarter against the NBA's best defense and suffered their worst home loss in franchise history, 114-75 to the Derrick Rose-less Chicago Bulls.
Rose, the league's reigning MVP, missed the game with a toe injury, but the Bulls didn't need him. Carlos Boozer had 19 points and 14 rebounds and C.J. Watson had 15 points and seven assists in place of Rose, but the game was won with defense.To read more or comment...
Chicago Bulls (10-3) at Cleveland Cavaliers (6-7)
Time: 7:30 p.m.; Venue: The Q; TV/Radio: FS Ohio/WTAM, WAKR, WHBC
Cavs probables: PG Kyrie Irving (17.7, 3.5, 5.2, SG Anthony Parker (6.4, 2.7, 2.2), SF Omri Casspi (7.6, 3.0, 1.5), PF Antawn Jamison (17.0, 5.6, 1.4), C Anderson Varejao (9.8, 11.4, 1.5)
Bulls probables: PG C.J. Watson (10.1 ppg, 1.9 rpg, 3.6 apg), SG Richard Hamilton (12.2, 3.0, 3.5), SF Luol Deng (15.3, 7.4, 2.5), PF Carlos Boozer (14.6, 8.1, 1.4), C Joakim Noah (7.1, 8.2, 1.7)
Injury report: Cavs -- Anthony Parker (back) probable; Bulls -- Derrick Rose (toe) questionable.
Officials: Derrick Stafford, Curtis Blair, Violet Palmer
* Anthony Parker participated in shootaround this morning and is expected to play tonight, bringing the Cavs back to full strength for the start of a difficult stretch on the schedule.
Zydrunas Ilgauskas is back with the Cavs as a special assistant to General Manager Chris Grant, the team announced on Wednesday. Ilgauskas played 12 of his 13 seasons in the NBA with the Cavs and holds team records for games played, blocks, rebounds and offensive rebounds. He is second all-time in scoring.
"I am really excited to come back to the Cavaliers, a team that I have so much history with and contributing to our future success," Ilgauskas said in a release. "I'm also looking forward to learning more about this game that I love so much."To read more or comment...
Kyrie Irving had 25 points and seven assists and the Cavaliers erased a 14-point, third-quarter deficit to win at Charlotte 102-94 on Monday.
The Bobcats held a 94-93 lead on a short D.J. Augustin, but went scoreless over the game's final 2:11 to lose for the seventh time in their last eight games. Augustin had 24 points and eight assists, but scored just five points in the second half. Gerald Henderson had 17 points and Kemba Walker had 14 for Charlotte.To read more or comment...
Cleveland Cavaliers (5-6) at Charlotte Bobcats (3-10)
Time: 2 p.m.; Venue: Time Warner Cable Arena; TV/Radio: FS Ohio/WTAM, WAKR, WHBC
Cavs probables: PG Kyrie Irving (17.0 ppg, 3.1 rpg, 5.1 apg), SG Anthony Parker (7.0, 2.9, 2.3), SF Omri Casspi (6.7, 2.4, 2.5), PF Antawn Jamison (16.5, 5.5, 1.1), C Anderson Varejao (9.5, 11.2, 1.5)
Bobcats probables: PG D.J. Augustin (14.8 ppg, 3.4 rpg, 7.3 apg), SG Kemba Walker (11.1, 2.8, 3.0), SF Gerald Henderson (14.4, 4.8, 2.0), PF Tyrus Thomas (7.8, 4.5, 0.5), C Byron Mullens (13.0, 5.0, 0.5)
Injuries: Cavs -- None; Bobcats -- Corey Maggette (knee) out, Eduardo Najera (knee) out, Reggie Williams (knee) out
Officials: Monty McCutchen, Leon Wood, Haywoode Workman
* The Cavs were able to swing through Cleveland and give the players a night at home Saturday night. They stayed in Los Angeles Friday night, flew home Saturday, practiced later than usual Sunday and arrived in Charlotte Sunday night for today'sddd game.
When Omri Casspi was defending Matt Barnes on an inbounds play in the second quarter, Barnes took the ball and tapped it off Casspi's nose. The move clearly angered Casspi and perhaps ignited him on to his best night of the season, although he said it had nothing to do with his improved performance.
But he certainly was irritated by the move from Barnes, which is illegal and should've been whistled by the officials.To read more or comment...
LOS ANGELES: When the Cavs limped into the locker room trailing by 18 Friday night, Antawn Jamison's mind quickly flashed back to last season's debacle in Staples Center, when the Cavs suffered their worst loss in franchise history.
The ingredients were there for a sequel. The Cavs looked lethargic, weren't taking care of the ball and were allowing Kobe Bryant to have the run of the place. Just as he did last year in the same locker room, coach Byron Scott again challenged his players' pride and manhood to see how they'd respond.To read more or comment...
LOS ANGELES: The Cavs cut a 19-point, third-quarter deficit down to three in the fourth quarter before falling to Mike Brown and the Los Angeles Lakers 97-92 Friday night. Kobe Bryant had 42 points, his third consecutive game with at least 40 points.
Kyrie Irving had 21 points and four assists, Ramon Sessions had 12 points off the bench and Omri Casspi had 11 points, four rebounds and three assists in one of his better performances this season.To read more or comment...
Cleveland Cavaliers (5-5) at Los Angeles Lakers (8-4)
Time: 10:30 p.m.; Venue: Staples Center; TV/Radio: FS Ohio/WTAM, WAKR, WHBC
Cavs probables: PG Kyrie Irving, SG Anthony Parker, SF Omri Casspi, PF Antawn Jamison, C Anderson Varejao
Lakers probables: PG Derek Fisher, SG Kobe Bryant, SF Matt Barnes, PF Pau Gasol, C Andrew Bynum
Injury report: Cavs -- none; Lakers -- Steve Blake (ribs) questionable, Kobe Bryant (wrist) probable, Derrick Caracter (knee) out, Pau Gasol (shoulder) probable, Josh McRoberts (toe, thumb) doubtful, Troy Murphy (gastroenteritis) questionable.
Officials: Scott Foster, Dick Bavetta, Karl Lane
* The Cavaliers and Mike Brown will be reunited tonight. Just as in Cleveland, Brown is paired with another moody superstar who just wants to win, but can be difficult on coaches. Brown is trying to install his defensive principles into a team that has long been known for firsst its "Showtime" offense and then later Phil Jackson's triangle offense.
* You can be sure Byron Scott will remind his guys of last season's horrendous debacle, when the Cavs were whipped 113-57 here. It was easily the worst loss of the season in a filled with many contenders. It was so bad, it took Scott about 36 hours to shake the loss. Normally when he wakes up the next day, he is over the previous night's game and ready to move on. But not that one.To read more or comment...
PHOENIX: Byron Scott tried to slip out of the desert without using the old guy and The Kid in the fourth quarter. But when the lead dipped below 10, he was left with no choice.
Scott had Antawn Jamison, the second-oldest player on the team, and Kyrie Irving (the youngest) tucked away on the bench Thursday night. With a big game Friday against the Lakers that Scott would love to win, and remembering how lousy Irving looked in his last attempt at playing on consecutive nights, Scott unsuccessfully hoped to make it out of Arizona without having to go back to his two top scorers.To read more or comment...
PHOENIX: This was supposed to be Kyrie Irving's big defensive test. His coach just told reporters he sometimes takes plays off on defense and relaxes when his man doesn't have the ball. Now he was facing a two-time MVP in waterbug Steve Nash, who has made a career of spinning opposing point guards into the ground.
Instead of Nash challenging Irving, it was the other way around. Sure, Nash still had his required double-double, but Irving set a career high with 26 points and the Cavs claimed their second win on this West Coast trip with an impressive 101-90 victory at the Phoenix Suns Thursday night.To read more or comment...
Cleveland Cavaliers (4-5) at Phoenix Suns (4-5)
Time: 9 p.m.; Venue: U.S. Airways Arena; TV/Radio: FS Ohio/WTAM, WAKR, WHBC
Cavs probables: PG Kyrie Irving (15.6 ppg, 3.4 rpg, 5.1 apg), SG Anthony Parker (7.2, 2.6, 2.0), SF Omri Casspi (6.3, 2.3, 1.3), PF Antawn Jamison (16.7, 6.0, 0.9), C Anderson Varejao (9.4, 10.2, 1.6)
Suns probables: PG Steve Nash (12.1 ppg, 1.7 rpg, 9.6 apg), SG Jared Dudley (11.0, 3.9, 1.7), SF Grant Hill (9.2, 3.7, 1.7), PF Channing Frye (7.9, 7.1, 0.7), C Marcin Gortat (12.7, 7.3, 0.7)
Injuries: Cavs -- None; Suns -- Marcin Gortat (fractured thumb) probable
Officials: Joe Crawford, Tommy Nunez Jr., Gary Zielinski
Kyrie Irving is second on the Cavs in scoring and leading them in assists. He's shooting the highest field goal percentage of all the guards and he's second on the team in shots taken.
The Cavs are asking an awful lot of a 19-year-old rookie, but thus far, he's delivering.To read more or comment...
Cavs coach Byron Scott hoisted a few jumpers of his own after practice today at Grand Canyon University in Phoenix.To read more or comment...
As the Cavs wind deeper and deeper into this road trip, a few glaring flaws are beginning to creep up on both ends of the floor.
The 3-point shooting the last two games has been woeful. I asked the question earlier this season whether or not this was a 3-point shooting team and the consensus seemed to be no. The Cavs have guys who can shoot the 3, but it isn't a 3-point team. That certainly has looked true this week.To read more or comment...
SALT LAKE CITY: They knew it was coming, their coach told them as much earlier in the day. But the Cavs were still powerless to stop it.
Prior to Tuesday's 113-105 loss to the Utah Jazz at EnergySolutions Arena, coach Byron Scott said his biggest fear entering the game was Jazz center Al Jefferson.To read more or comment...
Cleveland Cavaliers (4-4) at Utah Jazz (5-3)
Time: 7 p.m.; Venue: EnergySolutions Arena; TV/Radio: Fox Sports Ohio/WTAM, WAKR, WHBC
Cavs probables: PG Kyrie Irving (15.0 ppg, 3.9 rpg, 5.1 apg), SG Anthony Parker (7.1, 2.3, 2.1), SF Omri Casspi (6.5, 2.3, 1.5), PF Antawn Jamison (16.0, 5.9, 0.9), C Anderson Varejao (9.1, 10.1, 1.6)
Jazz probables: PG Devin Harris (9.8 ppg, 1.3 rpg, 4.5 apg), SG Raja Bell (3.3, 1.5, 1.3), SF Gordon Hayward (9.3, 2.9, 3.0), PF Paul Millsap (11.9, 8.4, 1.3), C Al Jefferso (18.1, 8.4, 1.3)
Injury report: Cavs -- None; Jazz -- None
Officials: Zach Zarba, Mark Lindsay, James Williams
* The Jazz enter tonight's game winners of four straight after a choppy 1-3 start. The Cavs will have their hands full with center Al Jefferson, who is averaging 18.1 points and 8.4 rebounds. He is averaging 20.8 points during the winning streak.
Byron Scott used every 10 games as a measuring stick last season to gauge progress and plans to do the same this season, but don't expect major changes to the lineup when the Cavs surpass the 10-game mark Thursday at Phoenix.
Scott said he's still content with the way Omri Casspi has performed despite his shooting woes, but one player in danger of losing time now is Samardo Samuels.To read more or comment...
When the NBA draft rolls around next summer, remember the name Damian Lillard. He's the nation's leading scorer, a junior at Weber State and his presence Saturday night attracted a handful of general managers to the Portland area over the weekend.
Among them were Bulls GM Gar Forman and the Cavs' Chris Grant, both of whom watched Lillard score 38 points in a win over Portland State. Grant was already here for the Cavs' game against the Trail Blazers, but Forman made the trip just to see Lillard, who leads the nation with a 26.3 scoring average.To read more or comment...
He'll never say this out loud, but this trip seems to be proof to Kyrie Irving he's going to have to score -- a lot -- for the Cavs to be successful.
That's why he had seven turnovers against the Timberwolves Friday and at least three shots swatted away underneath the basket on Sunday.To read more or comment...
PORTLAND, ORE.: Samardo Samuels was wide open under the basket waiving frantically for the ball. Daniel Gibson dribbled around a defender and hit him in the hands with a bounce pass, but it bounced off Samuels' hands and trickled out of bounds.
When Omri Casspi missed a 3-pointer midway through the first quarter, failed to follow his shot and failed to get back on defense, he was immediately yanked from the game and chewed out by Cavs coach Byron Scott.To read more or comment...
Cleveland Cavaliers (4-3) at Portland Trail Blazers (5-2)
Time: 9 p.m.; Venue: Rose Garden; TV/Radio: FS Ohio/WTAM, WAKR, WHBC
Cavs probables: PG Kyrie Irving (14.1 ppg, 3.9 rpg, 5.3 apg), SG Anthony Parker (7.4, 2.1, 2.0), SF Omri Casspi (6.0, 2.1, 1.6), PF Antawn Jamison (17.9, 5.1, 0.7), C Anderson Varejao (9.3, 10.1, 1.6)
Blazers probables: PG Raymond Felton (11.6 ppg, 3.1 rpg, 6.7 apg), SG Wes Matthews (14.4, 4.0, 1.1), SF Gerald Wallace (14.9, 6.7, 1.4), PF LaMarcus Aldridge (21.9, 7.7, 1.9), C Marcus Camby (3.3, 9.0, 3.1)
Injury report: Cavs -- Semih Erden (thumb) doubtful; Blazers -- Greg Oden (knee) out
Officials: Bill Spooner, Derrick Collins, Scott Wall
* There remains a chance Semih Erden could make his season debut tonight, but Cavs coach Byron Scott seems inclined to give Erden another practice first on Monday, then playing him Tuesday at Utah.
Since I have a flight to catch in six hours, this is going to be brief.
Kyrie Irving said tonight's game wasn't about his matchup against Ricky Rubio and he's right, but I have to believe his seven turnovers were in part because he was extra motivated playing against another highly-touted rookie.To read more or comment...
MINNEAPOLIS: Antawn Jamison had 22 points and Anderson Varejao had 13 points, 12 rebounds, five assists and four steals in the Cavs' 98-87 win on a night the team's veterans outshined all the rookies on the floor.
The night was supposed to feature rookie point guards Kyrie Irving and Ricky Rubio, the only two rookies to make the All-Star ballot, but the two rarely squared off because Irving is a starter and Rubio comes off the bench.To read more or comment...
Cleveland Cavaliers (3-3) at Minnesota Timberwolves (2-4)
Time: 8 p.m.; Venue: Target Center; TV/Radio: FS Ohio/WTAM, WAKR, WHBC
Cavs probables: PG Kyrie Irving (14.2 ppg, 3.7 rpg, 5.3 apg), SG Anthony Parker (7.7, 1.8, 1.8); SF Omri Casspi (6.2, 2.8, 1.8), PF Antawn Jamison (17.2, 5.0, 0.8), C Anderson Varejao (8.7, 9.8, 1.0)
Timberwolves probables: PG Luke Ridnour (11.3 ppg, 1.5 rpg, 3.7 apg), SG Wesley Johnson (5.8, 2.2, 1.0), SF Michael Beasley (13.5, 6.2, 1.2), PF Kevin Love (25.7, 15.0, 2.0), C Darko Milicic (6.7, 5.7, 0.3)
Officials: Mike Callahan, Rodney Mott, Tommy Nunez Jr.
Injury report: Cavs -- Semih Erden (thumb) out; Timberwolves -- Jose Barea (hamstring) questionable, Malcolm Lee (knee) out, Brad Miller (knee) out, Nikola Pekovic (groin) questionable, Martell Webster (back) out.
Antawn Jamison looks like a prophet right about now. He warned the youngsters throughout the preseason that they need to get their rest, stay off their feet and not be out on the town in visiting cities. The lockout was going to make this condensed schedule even more grueling.
The proof of that was evident in the Cavs' first back-to-back of the season. Kyrie Irving and Tristan Thompson combined to shoot 3 of 18 and the Cavs shot less than 30 percent as a team in losing to the Raptors for the second time in as many weeks.To read more or comment...
TORONTO: The Cavs were playing their first set of back-to-back games and it showed, particularly with the rookies.
Kyrie Irving and Tristan Thompson combined to shoot 3 of 18 from the floor and the Cavs shot 30 percent as a team in falling to the Raptors 92-77 to kick off a grueling seven-game road trip.To read more or comment...
Cleveland Cavaliers (3-2) at Toronto Raptors (2-3)
Time: 7 p.m.; Venue: Air Canada Centre; TV/Radio: Fox Sports Ohio/WTAM, WAKR, WHBC
Cavs probables: PG Kyrie Irving, SG Anthony Parker, SF Omri Casspi, PF Antawn Jamison, C Anderson Varejao
Raptors probables: PG Jose Calderon, SG DeMar DeRozan, SF Rasual Butler, PF Andrea Bargnani, C Amir Johnson
Officials: Ron Garretson, Eric Dalen, Eric Lewis
Injury report: Cavs -- Semih Erden (thumb) out, Samardo Samuels (passport) out; Raptors: Jerryd Bayless (ankle) questionable, Aaron Gray (heart) questionable, Linas Kleiza (knee) out.
* Samardo Samuels did not make the trip north of the border because he lost his passport weeks ago and was unable to complete the required paperwork in time. Samuels remains in the U.S. and will presumably rejoin the Cavs tomorrow in Minneapolis.
TORONTO: Samardo Samuels was uanble to make the trip to Toronto for tonight's game against the Toronto Raptors because of passport/visa issues and Christian Eyenga was sent to the Cavs' Development League team in Canton.To read more or comment...
Charlotte Bobcats (1-3) at Cleveland Cavaliers (2-2)
Time: 7 p.m., Venue: Quicken Loans Arena, TV/Radio: Fox Sports Ohio/WTAM, WAKR, WHBC
Cavs center Semih Erden had his broken right thumb cleared medically and he participated in his first full practice of the season on Monday. When he'll return to a game remains to be seen.To read more or comment...
Cavs owner Dan Gilbert met with reporters tonight prior to the Cavs' game against the New Jersey Nets. Gilbert was one of the many owners who voted to accept the CBA even though he wasn't overjoyed by it and said he was "disappointed" his e-mail to Commissioner David Stern last month was leaked to the press. The following is a full transcript of the interview:To read more or comment...
Antawn Jamison had 23 points and the Cleveland Cavaliers made 16 3-pointers, one shyof the club record, to hand the New Jersey Nets their fourth-straight loss with a 98-82 home win on Sunday.
Daniel Gibson, Alonzo Gee and rookie Kyrie Irving combined for 11 of the 16 3-pointers, the most the Cavs have hit in a game since also making 16 against the Los Angeles Clippers on Jan. 31, 2010. They shot 62 percent (16 of 26) on 3-pointers Sunday night.To read more or comment...
New Jersey Nets (1-3) at Cleveland Cavaliers (1-2)
6 p.m.; Quicken Loans Arena; Fox Sports Ohio
Cavs probables: PG Kyrie Irving, SG Anthony Parker, SF Omri Casspi, PF Antawn Jamison, C Anderson Varejao
Nets probables: PG Deron Williams, SG Sundiata Gaines, SF Damion James, PF Kris Humphries, C Mehmet Okur
Injury report: Cavs -- Semih Erden (thumb) out; Nets -- Brook Lopez (foot) out.
Officials: David Jones, Mark Lindsay, Derek Richardson


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Ashton Kutcher and Demi Moore officially divorced
(Yahoo!) - It has been two years since Ashton Kutcher and Demi Moore separated, but the couple is just now officially divorced.
Documents were filed on Tuesday by Kutcher's attorney to end their marriage of six years. The papers in turn were signed off by Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Scott Gordon. The couple split up in November 2011.
Ashton filed for divorce in December 2012, while Moore followed suit this past March.
So what was the hold up?
Kutcher, 35, and Moore, 51, were bickering over money.
Although Demi isn't hurting for cash, at one point it was reported that she was seeking spousal support from her ex-husband. Ashton is the top-earning actor on TV (pocketing about $24 million a year thanks to "Two and a Half Men"), and also has many lucrative tech investment deals. Supposedly, Demi believed money that Ashton put into startups, like Skype, wouldn't have been possible without her.
Terms of the settlement were kept private, according to court documents obtained by omg!, but it is believed that Ashton ended up giving Demi a financial lump sum.
Despite fighting over their estimated fortune of $300 million, the former couple was photographed looking quite cordial in September at LAX, returning from the same tech conference. That wasn't too shocking considering romantically, both Ashton and Demi have moved on.
Kutcher has been dating his former "That '70s Show" co-star Mila Kunis, 30, for over a year, while Moore has been seeing yoga enthusiast Will Hanigan, 30.
Demi and Ashton announced they were breaking up in November 2011 after reports of infidelity on the actor's part.
"It is with great sadness and a heavy heart that I have decided to end my six-year marriage to Ashton," Moore said in a statement at the time. "As a woman, a mother and a wife there are certain values and vows that I hold sacred, and it is in this spirit that I have chosen to move forward with my life."
Kutcher tweeted a response: "I will forever cherish the time I spent with Demi. Marriage is one of the most difficult things in the world and unfortunately sometimes they fail."
This was Moore's third marriage to go kaput — she was previously wed to Bruce Willis (1987-2000) and rockerFreddy Moore (1980-85) — and first for Ashton.
Wonder if he will give it another try with Mila anytime soon.
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WATCH: Here's Three Nuclear Power Plant Cooling Towers Collapsing At Once
Around dawn on Sunday morning in southeastern Great Britain, a trio of garish nuclear power plant cooling towers crumpled in breathtaking fashion during a controlled demolition.
A large number of locals in the British county of Oxfordshire turned out to watch the Didcot power station cooling towers meet their end after four decades of dominating the sky.
For over 90 seconds in the particular video below, absolutely nothing happens. The towers stand in the background. In the foreground, four ladies stand around (two in pajamas).
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WATCH: 'Hey Girl' with Jared Leto - Move Over, Gosling!
Move over, Ryan Gosling - there's a new 'Hey Girl' heartthrob in town. If you haven't seen the viral meme of Gosling with signature 'Hey Girl' phrases, check 'em out here.
So, when Thirty Seconds to Mars frontman and Academy Award-winning actor Jared Leto stopped by, we couldn't help but ask him to deliver some rockstar-style 'Hey Girls'... cue the swooning.
But really, though - LOOK AT THAT SMILE.


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Beyoncé Posts Photo Of Jay Z, Blue Ivy Amid Break-Up Rumors
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Fans upset over the Beyoncé and Jay Z break-up rumors can find some solace on the star's Instagram page.
Amid mounting speculation of a rift between the super couple on Tuesday, the Queen Bey posted a shot of her rapper hubby walking on the beach with daughter Blue Ivy in his arms. She captioned the shot with the rhyme, "My favorite hue is Jay Z Blue."
The rumors seemed to be at an all-time high earlier this week when news broke that Beyoncé was seen apartment-hunting in New York City by herself. It was previously reported that the couple had plans to split after finishing off their joint summer tour "On The Run."
Beyonce attempted to use Instagram squash rumors just earlier this month, as well. She posted a photo of her and Jay holding up and swinging Blue by the hands while walking down the street.
Their tour hits Los Angeles for back-to-back shows at the Rose Bowl this weekend.


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Michael Buble and his wife welcome a baby boy!
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Michael Buble is a new father.
The singer and his wife, Argentinian actress Luisana Lopilato, announced the news on Instagram Tuesday morning, sharing a photo of the brand-new family in the hospital.
Buble writes that the couple is "overjoyed and filled with gratitude." The singer is seen wearing hospital scrubs at his wife's bedside. Their new son is named Noah, and was born at around 2:26 a.m. in Vancouver, Canada.
The Grammy winner has been updating fans on his wife's pregnancy throughout the year. In March, he shared the news of the baby's gender on Twitter saying they were "thrilled."
Congratulations Michael and Luisana!!!
Overjoyed and filled with gratitude at the arrival of our son Noah Bublè. Born this morning, August… http://t.co/v6SUBNSoqq— Michael Bublé (@michaelbuble) August 27, 2013
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