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No Hitter Mark Buehrle pitched the first no-hitter of the season Wednesday night -- and he was nearly perfect, too. The Chicago White Sox left-hander faced the minimum 27 batters in a 6-0 victory over the Texas Rangers, picking off the only hitter he walked and throwing his team's first no-hitter since 1991. Working quickly and efficiently in a dominant performance, Buehrle allowed only one baserunner. He walked Sammy Sosa with one out in the fifth inning, then promptly picked him off first base.

JR Show Online He seems to have his own online program now. His name is JR Gach.....

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you keep your head up, i have your number written down....

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I do agree with that. People chewing gum just does not look right. But this group of Royalty putting on superior airs, I would not have blamed the Mother if she blew a few bubbles....

Queen and the Toilet It would appear that if one is in the Company of the Queen , it not a good idea to say you need take a leak, and need the toilet. Turns out Williams former girlfriends Mom did this during a visit with the Queen which along with chewing gum was enough for her to tell William to end relationship with girlfriend. Snobbery is thriving in Britain -- if you believe the upper-class scorn poured on Kate Middleton's mother after Prince William broke up with his middle-class commoner sweetheart. "This country is riven by the class system. It is more alive than it has ever been," the Daily Mirror's royal correspondent James Whitaker said after the separation was announced at the weekend. (Watch how the UK's press has reacted to Prince William's breakup Video) "The problem was the mother. I don't think it was Kate. When she met the queen, Carole Middleton said 'Pleased to meet you' and asked where the toilet was," Whitaker told Reuters. The genteel would normally say "How do you do?" and talk about going to the lavatory. But Mrs Middleton was said to have committed the ultimate faux pas when invited last December to attend William's graduation ceremony at the elite Sandhurst military academy. "Nobody could believe it when she chewed gum throughout," Whitaker said. Britain was long renowned for having one of the world's most rigid class systems, but the age of deference has now passed and politicians vie with each other to promote the merits of a classless society. Right, like the Queen and her family are just great examples of Grace and Class.

You make me jealous, i will not admit my score. Of course I am old and slowing down now...

how well do you type You have to destroy every words by typing them before they reach the left edge of the screen. You gain 1 point for every character in the word. Typing wrong letter will cost 5 points.

Just tried a few minutes ago, it is working fine. I use firefox for browser . The few times I am not able to log on if I use Internet Explorer this resolves the issue.

Jason Whitlock Thank you, Don Imus. You’ve given us (black people) an excuse to avoid our real problem. You’ve given Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson another opportunity to pretend that the old fight, which is now the safe and lucrative fight, is still the most important fight in our push for true economic and social equality. You’ve given Vivian Stringer and Rutgers the chance to hold a nationally televised recruiting celebration expertly disguised as a news conference to respond to your poor attempt at humor. Thank you, Don Imus. You extended Black History Month to April, and we can once again wallow in victimhood, protest like it’s 1965 and delude ourselves into believing that fixing your hatred is more necessary than eradicating our self-hatred. The bigots win again. While we’re fixated on a bad joke cracked by an irrelevant, bad shock jock, I’m sure at least one of the marvelous young women on the Rutgers basketball team is somewhere snapping her fingers to the beat of 50 Cent’s or Snoop Dogg’s or Young Jeezy’s latest ode glorifying nappy-headed pimps and hos. I ain’t saying Jesse, Al and Vivian are gold-diggas, but they don’t have the heart to mount a legitimate campaign against the real black-folk killas. It is us. At this time, we are our own worst enemies. We have allowed our youths to buy into a culture (hip hop) that has been perverted, corrupted and overtaken by prison culture. The music, attitude and behavior expressed in this culture is anti-black, anti-education, demeaning, self-destructive, pro-drug dealing and violent. Rather than confront this heinous enemy from within, we sit back and wait for someone like Imus to have a slip of the tongue and make the mistake of repeating the things we say about ourselves. It’s embarrassing. Dave Chappelle was offered $50 million to make racially insensitive jokes about black and white people on TV. He was hailed as a genius. Black comedians routinely crack jokes about white and black people, and we all laugh out loud. I’m no Don Imus apologist. He and his tiny companion Mike Lupica blasted me after I fell out with ESPN. Imus is a hack. But, in my view, he didn’t do anything outside the norm for shock jocks and comedians. He also offered an apology. That should’ve been the end of this whole affair. Instead, it’s only the beginning. It’s an opportunity for Stringer, Jackson and Sharpton to step on victim platforms and elevate themselves and their agenda$. I watched the Rutgers news conference and was ashamed. Martin Luther King Jr. spoke for eight minutes in 1963 at the March on Washington. At the time, black people could be lynched and denied fundamental rights with little thought. With the comments of a talk-show host most of her players had never heard of before last week serving as her excuse, Vivian Stringer rambled on for 30 minutes about the amazing season her team had. Somehow, we’re supposed to believe that the comments of a man with virtually no connection to the sports world ruined Rutgers’ wonderful season. Had a broadcaster with credibility and a platform in the sports world uttered the words Imus did, I could understand a level of outrage. But an hourlong press conference over a man who has already apologized, already been suspended and is already insignificant is just plain intellectually dishonest. This is opportunism. This is a distraction. In the grand scheme, Don Imus is no threat to us in general and no threat to black women in particular. If his words are so powerful and so destructive and must be rebuked so forcefully, then what should we do about the idiot rappers on BET, MTV and every black-owned radio station in the country who use words much more powerful and much more destructive? I don’t listen or watch Imus’ show regularly. Has he at any point glorified selling crack cocaine to black women? Has he celebrated black men shooting each other randomly? Has he suggested in any way that it’s cool to be a baby-daddy rather than a husband and a parent? Does he tell his listeners that they’re suckers for pursuing education and that they’re selling out their race if they do? When Imus does any of that, call me and I’ll get upset. Until then, he is what he is — a washed-up shock jock who is very easy to ignore when you’re not looking to be made a victim. No. We all know where the real battleground is. We know that the gangsta rappers and their followers in the athletic world have far bigger platforms to negatively define us than some old white man with a bad radio show. There’s no money and lots of danger in that battle, so Jesse and Al are going to sit it out.

Trust you just listened to the anthems for Dallas - Vancouver..... yikes Dallas make it 1-0 in 24 seconds.....

Actually the Young Ladies of the Rutgers basketball team, are to my best knowledge the only people who have said they forgive Imus . To me this means they are going to move on and will move past this. Its those who look for victims or scape goats for their own purposes who are the real losers here. These young Ladies are nothing but winners nonsense to call them as anything else but. It is others whose behavior needs to be questioned, from the two disgraceful Reverends , to the gutless Media and political sorts who stuck their fingers in the air to see which way the wind blows before speaking out, to those who will now move on and find another source of what Imus offered, all the while pretending to be outraged.

Thank you , thank you.... I have your number written down now.....

Interesting current announcers on the Fan, Mike and Mad Dog, the two before Joe Benigno and Evan Roberts all during their programs today have spoken up that the firing of Imus a disgrace, both how MSNBC and CBS handled situation in light of the Telethon firing Imus in the middle of it. Saying executives have no guts....

DiPietro Cleared to Play The New York Islanders' playoff chances improved late Thursday night, as the team announced that goaltender Rick DiPietro has been cleared to play and will take part in a full practice on Friday.

Rutgers Coach , Imus Apology Accepted The Rutgers University women's basketball coach said Friday her players have accepted radio host Don Imus' apology for racist and sexist comments toward the team and they are "in the process of forgiving." "We still find his statements to be unacceptable, and this is an experience that we will never forget," said coach C. Vivian Stringer. "These comments are indicative of greater ills in our culture." Imus met with the Rutgers athletes Thursday night hours after CBS fired him for calling the players "nappy-headed hos" in a broadcast last week. Stringer emphasized Friday that the basketball team had never called for Imus to be fired. "It would sadden me for anyone to lose their job," she said. "And he came [to the meeting] in spite of the fact that he lost his job. So let's give him credit for that."

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Imus comments today Imus: "My position on all of this is not whining about the hideously hypocritical coverage from the newspapers -- from everybody -- or the lack of support, say, from people like Harold Ford, Jr. who I had my life threatened over supporting and all these kind of things. It all began, and it doesn't make any difference -- like [James] Carville said -- stop talking about the context, it doesn't make any difference. If I hadn't have said it I wouldn't be here. So let's stop whining about it...You gotta stop complaining. I said a stupid, idiotic thing that desperately hurt these kids. I'm going to apologize but we gotta move on."

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Don is all ready to go

DJ Fired for telling listeners to repeat Imus remarks Gary Smith told WSBG-FM listeners to call and say "I'm a nappy-headed ho" for Tuesday's "Phrase that Pays" contest, said Rick Musselman, executive vice president of station owner Nassau Broadcasting Partners L.P. Musselman said three of the listeners who called were awarded tickets to a NASCAR promotion at a local club. Station management reviewed a tape of the broadcast of the "Gary in the Morning" show and fired Smith, Musselman said. Musselman said that Smith was fired and not suspended because he uttered the slur in a premeditated manner, "with full knowledge of the reaction to Don Imus' use of the exact same phrase."

Imus Dropped MSNBC has canceled its "Imus in the Morning" simulcast, the network announced Wednesday. The decision comes following remarks deemed racist and sexist that radio talk-show host Don Imus made last week about the Rutgers women's basketball team that prompted a number of advertisers to drop the program. The NBC News statement said: "This decision comes as a result of an ongoing review process, which initially included the announcement of a suspension. It also takes into account many conversations with our own employees. What matters to us most is that the men and women of NBC Universal have confidence in the values we have set for this company. This is the only decision that makes that possible. Once again, we apologize to the women of the Rutgers basketball team and to our viewers. We deeply regret the pain this incident has caused." Earlier Wednesday, a member of CBS Corp.'s board of directors said Imus should be fired.

Don Cherry This certainly will not be boring. I just wonder if he will make it through without saying something to get some folks all upset. Cherry says he did appear once on American television. As he recalled yesterday, he commented on the long hair sported by "Jammy" Jagr and Mario Lemieux when they were with Pittsburgh. "I said, `There's Mario and his daughter,'" Cherry said. "It didn't go over too good ... that was my last time in the States."