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“‘If I hit it real big,’” Shea recalls Brady telling him, “‘I want to be able to wake up, put a pair of socks on, and at the end of the day, I throw ‘em away.’

“I’m like, ‘That’s all you want?’ And he goes, ‘Yeah, that’s what I want. I love new socks.’”

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NV Concepts is responsible for the Jan. 27 “Feastival 2012” tour which features up and coming rappers Wale and Tyga along with Royce da 5’9”. The group will also bring in the “Ladies Night Out Tour,” that includes not only K-Ci and JoJo, but R&B artist Ginuwine. The “Winter White Out Tour” on Feb. 23 features electronic house duo Dada Life.

The “Feastival” event will be held in the arena which will set up in a half-house configuration with a capacity of 3,000. The Big Time Wrestling event on March 9 features wrestling icon Bret “The Hitman” Hart and will include a pre-event Fan Fest with a meet-and-greet and autograph session.

With conventions, corporate events, and June graduations added to the sports and entertainment mix, the MassMutual Center continues to be a vibrant force in downtown Springfield.

“We are looking to be going 365 days a year,” Skibbe said. “We need to keep proving how viable a market this really is.”

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Rap show Friday kicks off series of concerts at MassMutual Center | masslive.com

People tend to laugh when I say I’m from Western Mass, but since september I’ve seen: Tiesto, Porter Robinson, Swanky Tunes, Quintino, Afrojack, and now Dada/Hardwell/Bingo Players. Glad to see the MassMutual Center is going to keep this going.

"A banned Bulgarian referee took charge of this week’s friendly between Werder Bremen and AZ Alkmaar under a false identity, state television BNT reported on Friday."
"Tests revealed Burke suffered “irreversible damage to her brain due to lack of oxygen and blood after cardiac arrest,” according to a statement released by Burke’s publicist."

Sarah Burke dies from injuries suffered in Utah - ESPN

so so sad. But this is the price you pay to be an action sports star. RIP

Been a long time, but thought this was an interesting read. Very drastic assumptions made by BP though

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"Simmons: Sam Presti is a better man than me. I’d be holding press conferences and saying things like, “Really? Otis Smith overpays Rashard Lewis by $50 million, then makes it worse by trading him for Arenas … and we’re throwing him a freaking life jacket? Really? REALLY?????? You know who I’m using my amnesty on? ROYAL IVEY! HE MAKES 10 F*CKING DOLLARS AN HOUR! YOU GUYS SUCK! F*CK YOU!!!!!!!!!!"
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Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) signaled Tuesday that he is ready for a fight on the matter. During remarks on the Senate floor, he vowed to insert the Senate language into the House bill as soon as it comes to the Senate. “Tomorrow, when the Senate receives the House bill to fund the government for six more weeks, we will amend it with the language of the Senate FEMA legislation,” Reid said. “Of course, I know this amendment will enjoy the support of my Republican colleagues, as it did just last week, when a bipartisan group of senators agreed that helping communities destroyed by natural disasters was too important to let politics get in the way,” he added.

But House Republican leaders say they can’t pass what Reid wants, which they say means the onus is on Senate Democrats to either pass the House continuing resolution as is or be at fault for delaying desperately needed disaster money to the Federal Emergency Management Administration. FEMA’s disaster relief fund has dropped so low that the agency has already stopped approving long-term reconstruction projects in order to prioritize its resources for immediate emergency needs. “It’ll be on Leader Reid’s shoulders, because he’s the one playing politics with it,” House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) told reporters Tuesday. “No one wants to stand in the way of disaster relief that’s needed. There’s nothing else but politics going on here.”

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Government Shutdown Risked In Fight Over Disaster Aid

Umm, aren’t the people playing politics the ones TUCKING THE RELIEF AIDE IN ANOTHER BILL.

Seriously, politics is starting to give me a headache

"Historically, overseas income contributed just 3% of the club’s revenue. But that underplays the extent to which overseas customers have driven the growth of media and commercial revenues. As the amount brought in by the Premier League for overseas broadcasts has risen exponentially, so too has the amount that the biggest clubs in the world can charge to be associated with them and reach those eyeballs. Manchester United hold details on 10 million fans across the world and have 1 million credit customers in South Korea alone. More than 22 million might watch a live match in Indonesia, global linear TV figures are up 36% on last year, and the club claims to have 333 million fans worldwide and 190 million in Asia alone."
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"F*ck you back, n*gga. i bet you dont even go to mexico, motha f*cka… no n*gga, do you know where you at? USA! USA! I dont give a f*ck. no n*gga, this is my hood… [security comes] F*ck him! Mothaf*ckas think they can live in this country and pledge allegience to another country… do you remember when white people used to say go back to Africa? And we’d have to tell them we dont want to? So if you love Mexico, bitch, get the f*ck over there! [breaks into the National Anthem].."

article is short, doesn’t really give up too much info. But it shows what the *danger* in WikiLeaks is. The idea is brilliant, but no one could pull it off without something like this.

"The Philadelphia angle is a small detail unrelated to viewers’ enjoyment of a fine series. But a 20-year project that began with the Buzz Bissinger book “Friday Night Lights,” then advanced to a theatrical movie called “Friday Night Lights,” then moved on to a television series called “Friday Night Lights,” staged its concluding scene at one of the few places that doesn’t have Friday night lights."

TMQ says money motivates losing on the cheap instead of paying up for wins - ESPN

interesting fact. always meant to start watching the show.

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i love soccer, and it is kinda scary that Brazil might not get its act together in time to hose the tourney. And they are a “developing” powerhouse economy

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Freshman Rep. Allen West (R-Fla.) said Wednesday that he is “the modern-day Harriet Tubman” leading people away from the plantation, which is overseen by “perceived leaders in the black community” like Jesse Jackson who bow to the wishes of white liberals.

During an appearance on Fox News’ “The O’Reilly Factor,” West said black Democrats have consistently failed to address high unemployment in the black community and, in the meantime, continue to take black votes for granted come election time.

“So you have this 21st Century plantation … where the Democrat party has forever taken the black vote for granted, and you have established certain black leaders who are nothing more than the overseers of that plantation,” West said. “And now the people on that plantation are upset because they’ve been disregarded, disrespected and their concerns are not cared about.”

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Allen West: I Am The Modern-Day Harriet Tubman

except the whole thing that Republicans want to get rid of every social program that a lot of these “plantation” workers depend on.

"The non-partisan, investigative arm of Congress also determined that the Fed lacks a comprehensive system to deal with conflicts of interest, despite the serious potential for abuse. In fact, according to the report, the Fed provided conflict of interest waivers to employees and private contractors so they could keep investments in the same financial institutions and corporations that were given emergency loans. For example, the CEO of JP Morgan Chase served on the New York Fed’s board of directors at the same time that his bank received more than $390 billion in financial assistance from the Fed. Moreover, JP Morgan Chase served as one of the clearing banks for the Fed’s emergency lending programs."

The Fed Audit - Newsroom: U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders (Vermont)

This is disturbing. very disturbing. 15 TRILLION!?

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