Clippers and Celtics have agreed to a deal for Doc Rivers
Looks like the trade that people said was "dead" is alive and well. The Los Angeles Clippers and the Boston Celtics have agreed to the terms of a deal that will bring Celtics coach Doc Rivers to the Clippers, in return for a first-round draft choice in 2015. Whether or not they can then make a deal for Kevin Garnett to come to the Clippers in return for DeAndre Jordan and another draft choice remains to be seen.
Edward Snowden flew out of Hong Kong...blah, blah, blah. Stay tuned.
Former South African President and Nobel Peace Prize winner Nelson Mandela's condition has taken a turn for the worse. The 94 year old is suffering from yet another lung infection and officials are now saying he is in "critical" condition. One source said they'd spoken with his family and that they thought the end was near.
It will be an interesting week for Supreme Court watchers. Decisions will be handed down on issues including same-sex marriage, voting rights and affirmative action in college admissions.
In December of 1988, Richard Gonzalez was convicted of killing an off-duty Huntington Police detective and was given a sentence of 15 years to life. Now he is 63 and has been turned down in a request for parole.
Israel has two chief rabbis. One who is Ashkenazi and one who is Sephardic. The Ashkenazi chief rabbi has suspended himself from his duties due to a corruption probe. Sort of. Yona Metzger suspended himself from two of his three posts, those of rabbinical high judge and president of the Chief Rabbinate Council. But he did not suspend himself from duty as Ashkenazi chief rabbi, a post he's held for ten years. But he is scheduled to leave that post in a few weeks anyway.
Whitney Young Magnet School in Chicago has a budget problem and they want to solve it by charging students who want to take an "extra" class a fee of $500. The Chicago Teachers Union opposes the proposal.
In Georgia, a man was severely injured and required four hours of emergency surgery after he saved his six year old niece from a falling tree. Dwight Dupree is in stable condition now.
A Virginia firefighter who has been battling cancer for eight years got his dying wish. A final ride in a fire truck.
In Wausau, WI, a gay pride parade was cancelled as mystery swirled around who the organizer might really be.
A 91 year old grandmother was scheduled to make her second skydive yesterday. No word on whether or not she did it. Her next bucket list item is to zip-line in Branson.
Thanks to an embedded microchip, a dog and owner have been reunited after three long years.
Before you decide to argue with actress Mayim Bialik over her parenting style of "attachment parenting", bear two things in mind. 1. She really doesn't want to have the argument. 2. She has a Ph.D. in Neuroscience.
Singer Mickey Gilley has announced that he plans to bring Gilley's back to Pasadena, TX (near Houston), city where the original was located. It's been gone for years, but there are Gilley's in Las Vegas and Dallas. But he is still in the "looking for investors" stage of the project.
Several large insurance companies have agreed to admit no wrongdoing, but will repay $763 million in life insurance premiums they collected from policyholders; after they had died.
What is it about workers in Russia being unaware someone might be watching? First there was that pizza delivery driver who was stealing the pepperonis off of a pizza in an elevator. Now a worker unloading packages from a train has been videotaped just throwing them through the door of the railroad car onto the ground.
For the 14th straight time, a Pixar film's opening captured the #1 spot in the weekend box office battle. "Monster's University" brought in $82 million. The new Brad Pitt/zombie film "World War Z" finished a strong 2nd with $66 million. "Man of Steel" fell to 3rd in its second week of release, with "only" $41.2 million. "This Is The End" and "Now You See Me" rounded out the top 5. "Iron Man 3" held onto the 10th spot and broke through the $400 million mark earlier in the week.
Jim Carrey stars in the upcoming "Kick-Ass 2" but is now saying that he can't support the film because it is too violent. He filmed it a month before the Sandy Hook shootings and says "...recent events have caused a change in my heart." Some pundits think his lack of support may hurt the film at the box office. They're wrong.
The Discovery Channel has a new reality show premiering tonight. "Naked and Afraid" drops naked contestants into the wild and watches them survive. All participants were given a chance to back out after producer Steve Rankin nearly died from a bite by a fer-de-lance snake while scouting locations in Costa Rica. None of them pulled out.
Chris Reed of "Kid n Play" says the problem isn't Paula Deen's language. It's her food that's killing America.
Edward Snowden flew out of Hong Kong...blah, blah, blah. Stay tuned.
Former South African President and Nobel Peace Prize winner Nelson Mandela's condition has taken a turn for the worse. The 94 year old is suffering from yet another lung infection and officials are now saying he is in "critical" condition. One source said they'd spoken with his family and that they thought the end was near.
It will be an interesting week for Supreme Court watchers. Decisions will be handed down on issues including same-sex marriage, voting rights and affirmative action in college admissions.
In December of 1988, Richard Gonzalez was convicted of killing an off-duty Huntington Police detective and was given a sentence of 15 years to life. Now he is 63 and has been turned down in a request for parole.
Israel has two chief rabbis. One who is Ashkenazi and one who is Sephardic. The Ashkenazi chief rabbi has suspended himself from his duties due to a corruption probe. Sort of. Yona Metzger suspended himself from two of his three posts, those of rabbinical high judge and president of the Chief Rabbinate Council. But he did not suspend himself from duty as Ashkenazi chief rabbi, a post he's held for ten years. But he is scheduled to leave that post in a few weeks anyway.
Whitney Young Magnet School in Chicago has a budget problem and they want to solve it by charging students who want to take an "extra" class a fee of $500. The Chicago Teachers Union opposes the proposal.
In Georgia, a man was severely injured and required four hours of emergency surgery after he saved his six year old niece from a falling tree. Dwight Dupree is in stable condition now.
A Virginia firefighter who has been battling cancer for eight years got his dying wish. A final ride in a fire truck.
In Wausau, WI, a gay pride parade was cancelled as mystery swirled around who the organizer might really be.
A 91 year old grandmother was scheduled to make her second skydive yesterday. No word on whether or not she did it. Her next bucket list item is to zip-line in Branson.
Thanks to an embedded microchip, a dog and owner have been reunited after three long years.
Before you decide to argue with actress Mayim Bialik over her parenting style of "attachment parenting", bear two things in mind. 1. She really doesn't want to have the argument. 2. She has a Ph.D. in Neuroscience.
Singer Mickey Gilley has announced that he plans to bring Gilley's back to Pasadena, TX (near Houston), city where the original was located. It's been gone for years, but there are Gilley's in Las Vegas and Dallas. But he is still in the "looking for investors" stage of the project.
Several large insurance companies have agreed to admit no wrongdoing, but will repay $763 million in life insurance premiums they collected from policyholders; after they had died.
What is it about workers in Russia being unaware someone might be watching? First there was that pizza delivery driver who was stealing the pepperonis off of a pizza in an elevator. Now a worker unloading packages from a train has been videotaped just throwing them through the door of the railroad car onto the ground.
For the 14th straight time, a Pixar film's opening captured the #1 spot in the weekend box office battle. "Monster's University" brought in $82 million. The new Brad Pitt/zombie film "World War Z" finished a strong 2nd with $66 million. "Man of Steel" fell to 3rd in its second week of release, with "only" $41.2 million. "This Is The End" and "Now You See Me" rounded out the top 5. "Iron Man 3" held onto the 10th spot and broke through the $400 million mark earlier in the week.
Jim Carrey stars in the upcoming "Kick-Ass 2" but is now saying that he can't support the film because it is too violent. He filmed it a month before the Sandy Hook shootings and says "...recent events have caused a change in my heart." Some pundits think his lack of support may hurt the film at the box office. They're wrong.
The Discovery Channel has a new reality show premiering tonight. "Naked and Afraid" drops naked contestants into the wild and watches them survive. All participants were given a chance to back out after producer Steve Rankin nearly died from a bite by a fer-de-lance snake while scouting locations in Costa Rica. None of them pulled out.
Chris Reed of "Kid n Play" says the problem isn't Paula Deen's language. It's her food that's killing America.
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