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His real name is Covelli Loyce Crisp, but you knew that. What you may not have known, is that Coco Crisp’s father was a boxer, and his mother was a champion sprinter. So the Red Sox outfielder’s actions on Thursday — charging the mound and throwing haymakers after getting plunked by the Rays’ James Shields in the first inning — make perfect sense. As you can see in the video below, Shields really telegraphed that right hook, and left himself wide open for Coco’s counter punch. That also appeared to miss, however. But that was only the beginning.
The first rule about Baseball Fight Club is that you don’t throw any actual punches in Baseball Fight Club, but the Red Sox and Rays are not about the rules this season. In this, the battle for the very soul of the AL East, standard conduct apparently does not apply. I’ll leave you to sort out the details of the fight itself, but here’s what strikes me: Now we know that the Rays are legit. Who would have bothered to throw actual punches at them before? This ongoing retailiation stuff is what real baseball rivalries are all about, and up til now the Rays have not been allowed in that club. So welcome, Dioner Navarro and your Running Tackle of Doom. It’s going to be a fun summer. Here’s some tasty post-game reaction over at Sox & Dawgs.
Oh, and just to confirm that the Red Sox are challenging the Oakland Athletics of the early 1970s as the most dysfunctional baseball family of all time, they also brawled within their own dugout on Thursday. Manny Ramirez and Kevin Youkilis went at it for some reason, and had to be separated by teammates. Oh, and there was a game. Ramirez hit his 503rd homer and had five RBI as the Red Sox won, 7-1. Boston moved a game-and-a-half ahead of second-place Tampa in the division.

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Carrie was one of the more vocally impressive contestants on Pussycat Dolls Present: Girlicious, but creator Robin Antin has continuously reminded us that it takes more than a great voice to make it into the group. She’s looking for girls who can sing, dance, and also blend together into a cohesive whole. This week the judges decided that Carrie stood out too much with her rocker girl edge, and it was finally time for her to have her feather boa taken away.
Today we had a chance to sit down with Carrie to discuss her elimination, her future plans, and why she missed so much of the drama in the loft. Read on for the mp3 and complete transcript of the interview.
YeseniaWinters said: I think she is just too good for this group. I can’t wait to see her become a solo artist. Good luck!
Hi, this is Don from BuddyTV, and today I’m talking to Carrie from Pussycat Dolls Present: Girlicious.
Hi. I look at your website all the time.
Yes, I’m very familiar with it, and you know what, I love it. You guys have been so good to me, and I just wanted to tell you that. You guys have said so many nice things about me and about my talent, and I really appreciate that.
Just to get us started here, I was wondering how long you’ve been performing and what made you decide to try out for the show?
I began singing in church when I was three, and my parents just discovered that wow, she’s a pretty good singer at three. I just started singing in church, and I got to do piano lessons and everything like that. That’s really what started it. And what made me audition for the Pussycat Dolls, actually a casting director called me from L.A. to audition. I didn’t really want to do it, because I was never really a big dancer, like they showed on the show. But I went to audition and I sat there with like 600 girls, I made it to the callbacks, and I didn’t go back to the callback. I was like, I can’t do this. There’s no way I’m going to make it, I’m going to embarrass myself. So they called me like 20 times the next day to come back and audition, and I’m like okay. I went back in, and I just kept making it and making it. I was really surprised. It wasn’t something that I was really planning on doing. It was just kind of a spur of the moment thing, and it happened, and obviously I’m so glad it did.

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Carrie was one of the more vocally impressive contestants on Pussycat Dolls Present: Girlicious, but creator Robin Antin has continuously reminded us that it takes more than a great voice to make it into the group. She’s looking for girls who can sing, dance, and also blend together into a cohesive whole. This week the judges decided that Carrie stood out too much with her rocker girl edge, and it was finally time for her to have her feather boa taken away.
Today we had a chance to sit down with Carrie to discuss her elimination, her future plans, and why she missed so much of the drama in the loft. Read on for the mp3 and complete transcript of the interview.
YeseniaWinters said: I think she is just too good for this group. I can’t wait to see her become a solo artist. Good luck!
Hi, this is Don from BuddyTV, and today I’m talking to Carrie from Pussycat Dolls Present: Girlicious.
Hi. I look at your website all the time.
Yes, I’m very familiar with it, and you know what, I love it. You guys have been so good to me, and I just wanted to tell you that. You guys have said so many nice things about me and about my talent, and I really appreciate that.
Just to get us started here, I was wondering how long you’ve been performing and what made you decide to try out for the show?
I began singing in church when I was three, and my parents just discovered that wow, she’s a pretty good singer at three. I just started singing in church, and I got to do piano lessons and everything like that. That’s really what started it. And what made me audition for the Pussycat Dolls, actually a casting director called me from L.A. to audition. I didn’t really want to do it, because I was never really a big dancer, like they showed on the show. But I went to audition and I sat there with like 600 girls, I made it to the callbacks, and I didn’t go back to the callback. I was like, I can’t do this. There’s no way I’m going to make it, I’m going to embarrass myself. So they called me like 20 times the next day to come back and audition, and I’m like okay. I went back in, and I just kept making it and making it. I was really surprised. It wasn’t something that I was really planning on doing. It was just kind of a spur of the moment thing, and it happened, and obviously I’m so glad it did.

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Writing on the blog Marketing Sherpa, a publicist named Susan Harrow of Harrow Communications in Oakland offers readers a list of do’s and don’ts for getting an entrepreneur on the Oprah Winfrey Show.
Harrow counsels that companies keep their pitches short and sweet, assemble an online press kit complete with links to video of the founder or a company expert appearing on another TV program (to demonstrate that you are “Oprah ready”), and that you tie your pitch to current events. One successful pitch: “Can washing your hands save your life during flu season? Yes, says Dr. Vicki Rackner, M.D.”
The blog also suggests that to get in front of Oprah’s audience of nine million, you must first join it. According to Marketing Sherpa, “Harrow tapes the show each week and reads Oprah’s website regularly to get a sense of her favorite themes and hot topics. Philanthropy, health and environment are key issues for Oprah right now. Keep these in mind because whatever you’re pitching should relate to what’s on Oprah’s mind.”
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By MATTHEW HAAG / The Dallas Morning News
Each spring, hundreds of young, elite international soccer players come here for the Dallas Cup. Many are visiting the U.S. for the first time.
The trip is an eye-opening experience for many players, ages 12 to 19. The same can be said for hundreds of Dallas parents who welcome these players into their homes for 10 days.
“The boys become part of the family,” said Mary Link, the home-stay coordinator for Dallas Cup. “It gives the Dallas boys a more global look at the world, because they tend to not be quite as global as European or South American teams.”
The tournament, which is played at Richland College in Richardson and Pizza Hut Park in Frisco, features clubs from Japan, China and Bosnia. Even elite soccer teams, such as Barcelona FC and Liverpool, send players.
Some Dallas Cup players go on to become household names. David Beckham played in the Dallas Cup when he was 14 years old. Another is Wayne Rooney, a player now with Manchester United in England.
During Mr. Beckham’s trip to Dallas last weekend, he met up with the family who cared for him as a teenager, Ms. Link said.
The international players and American players may not have a common language, so communicating can be difficult, Ms. Link said. But most share interests that go beyond language.
“Soccer, girls, food, girls, video games, girls,” Ms. Link said. “There is a lot of sign language that goes on.”
One creative family playing host to two Chinese boys printed a spreadsheet with Mandarin phrases. After a game, for example, the family pointed to the phrase “you played well,” Ms. Link said.
A few months before arriving, the international players exchange e-mails with their future housemates.
The bonding starts then, Ms. Link said. And by the time the trip is over, most families and players have forged a great friendship, she said.

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Jagger, McCartney, Clapton, Bowie. These men were gods. They had charisma, spunk and something genuinely interesting to say. Their records changed the world, and their interviews gave the world a reason for having changed. And then they lost it. They became embarrassing, predictable and dull-dull-dull. What exactly happened to them? Why do rock stars lose it, and what exactly is ‘it’ anyway?
Plumbers don’t have or lose it, do they? And, in most jobs, there’s the general expectation that you’ll have some kind of upwards learning curve in between work experience and pension.
Over the years - the years of disappointment, disillusion and bitter regret - I have come up with a number of theories, in hope of finally answering these questions.
Before I go into that, though, I should make it clear that I’m not laying this decline and fall merely on the Sixties’ generation. They are further along the line, obviously. And their falls from grace came a lot longer ago. But my own generation’s idols are equally deserving of attack. Morrissey, Michael Stipe, Brett Anderson, Noel Gallagher - j’accuse. And I’m not expecting anything different from the current lot.
The I could talk-talk-talk-talk-talk myself to death theory.
Although it may seem peripheral, I think interviews are a lot of the problem. A person can only do so many without starting to repeat themselves, and then going onto cruise control.

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Today fellow Beacon reporter Dan Testa linked to a story about a creepy gnome apparently terrorizing locals in a northern Argentina town. This, of course, raises questions. We’re left to wonder why people in this town haven’t noticed the mysterious gnome before and, furthermore, why the gnome has just recently decided to waddle sideways through the streets in the middle of the night. Because of my inexplicable desire to believe this story, I’ll resist writing it off as a hoax.
Since we’re sticking with the theme of believing, I find the video clip disturbing. At the end of the clip, one of the boys unleashes a girlish scream to voice his displeasure, a seemingly appropriate reaction. Another teenager, or maybe the same one, was so scared he had to go to the hospital, the story states.
As for me, I’ve never taken issue with gnomes, though I’ve never encountered a night-stalking gnome. But this particular gnome looks creepy enough and reminds me of other frightening figures: sadistic clowns, bloodthirsty leprechauns like the one from the creatively named Leprechaun film series, and Danny DeVito in Batman Returns. Maybe the gnome’s intentions are good, but I’m doubtful.
I’m not sure if the grainy video clip would hold up in a Gnome Court of Law, but the little guy does strike me as suspicious. Stalking around at night always raises questions about one’s motives. I’ve always been advised against it. People may end up videotaping you and broadcasting it across media sources throughout the world. The gnome should know this about today’s technological world.

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