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Baldo
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As for the Super Bowl my congrats to the Steelers and to Kirk Warner for winning the NFL man of the year.

As for Springsteen he was great, but in a puzzling press conference on the 29th he disappointed

"If there's going to be any questions about football, then this is going to be the shortest press conference in history," he said with a laugh, confiding he doesn't watch much of the sport.
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/sports_blog/2009/01/springsteen-aud.html

He doesn't watch football? That is not an American male in my book! Put a skirt on him!
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sceptical

http://www.bryantbulldogs.com/sports/mlax/2009/News/2-2NElaxjournal


February 1, 2009

NEW ENGLAND LACROSSE JOURNAL: Duke transfer Greer rejoins Pressler in Rhode Island
by Kevin Henkin

After his graduation from Duke, Zack Greer had a tough decision to make. With his extra year of eligibility - granted to him and the rest of the Duke lacrosse squad by the NCAA in the wake of false criminal allegations that ended their 2006 season prematurely - Greer had to choose where to use it. Of course, as the all-time Division 1 leader in goals, he certainly wasn't short on suitors.

Duke made a strong pitch for him to return via graduate school enrollment, and defending national champion Syracuse came courting as well, but Greer made a choice of sorts to return home. In this case, home meant reuniting with former Duke coach Mike Pressler, who now roams the sidelines for Bryant University in North Smithfield, R.I.

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Baldo
Feb 2 2009, 03:37 PM
As for the Super Bowl my congrats to the Steelers and to Kirk Warner for winning the NFL man of the year.

As for Springsteen he was great, but in a puzzling press conference on the 29th he disappointed

"If there's going to be any questions about football, then this is going to be the shortest press conference in history," he said with a laugh, confiding he doesn't watch much of the sport.
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/sports_blog/2009/01/springsteen-aud.html

He doesn't watch football? That is not an American male in my book! Put a skirt on him!
:roflmao: This skirt enjoys watching football.
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http://www.newsobserver.com/front/story/1390737.html

Bloody cockfighting raid in NC nets 73 arrests


More than 70 people have been arrested in what authorities described Monday as a massive cockfighting ring that secretly gathered in rural Randolph County to watch a $40,000 tournament so gruesome that one of the roosters splattered blood on the search warrant that investigators brought to the scene.

Sheriff Maynard Reid Jr. said in an interview that deputies didn't expect to find so many people crammed into three chicken houses that had been cleaned out to provide hidden parking spaces and a cockfighting circle. Authorities arrested 73 people, ranging in age from 16 to 79, and charged them all with felonies for cockfighting and cruelty to animals.

Reid said others escaped after fleeing a back door when authorities conducted the raid Saturday afternoon at the site about 15 miles southeast of Asheboro in the center of North Carolina.

"I had no idea it would be this large," Reid said. "I've raided these things before and (if) you get 20 or 25 people, you've got a big crowd. I thought that this was unreal."

He described a grisly scene: About 20 birds were already dead, eliminated early from a deadly tournament. A fight was ongoing when deputies arrived, and one of the combatant roosters jumped up onto the betting table and spattered blood onto a search warrant that investigators were serving, Reid said.

The tournament's grand champion, Reid said, was slated to win $40,000. He named the ringleader as 33-year-old Barry Ritter, who was charging $25 to watch the event at a facility he owned with his father, who was not among those arrested.

"I think it was used at one time to raise chickens," Reid said. "Now it is being used for cockfighting. They had a rural area. They thought nobody would catch them there. But I think we've sent a message that we will not tolerate this in our county."

The sheriff's office said investigators also seized 73 vehicles, two firearms and cash. They also found cocaine and marijuana at the scene. Much of the crowd was Hispanic, and Reid said authorities were still checking the immigration status of those arrested.

Randolph County Animal Control was contacted and they took possession of 130
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Kerri P.
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http://www.wral.com/news/local/story/4452789/
Immigration program could be cut from Wake sheriff's budget
Posted: 40 minutes ago

Raleigh, N.C. — A program that tracks the immigration status of inmates in the Wake County jail may be in jeopardy as the Wake County Sheriff's Office looks at ways to trim next year's budget.

Wake County Manager David Cooke has already asked all county departments to cut their budgets by 4 percent and to begin looking at ways to reduce next year's budget by 10 percent, if further cuts are needed.

In July, 12 county detention officers began participating in the federal 287-G program, which costs about $500,000 a year to run and trains how to use federal data to determine the immigration status of people charged with crimes and to begin the deportation process for those found to be in the U.S. illegally.

More than 1,000 people have been identified through the program, which Sheriff Donnie Harrison calls successful.

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Quasimodo

http://stlouis.bizjournals.com/stlouis/stories/2009/02/02/daily15.html

Monday, February 2, 2009, 2:50pm CST
Wells to pay $371.5M dividend to feds

St. Louis Business Journal

Wells Fargo & Co. says it will pay a $371.5 million dividend to the U.S. Treasury, which bought 25,000 preferred shares of the company as part of the federal bailout package.

The government bought the shares for $25 billion under the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP), which is designed to unfreeze the credit markets and boost the economy.

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San Francisco-based Wells (NYSE:WFC), which recently bought Charlotte, N.C.-based Wachovia Corp., says it has made almost half a trillion dollars in loan commitments and mortgage originations in the last 18 months. Wachovia Securities is based in St. Louis.


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