Tiger Woods, even though he had no wins this season in eleven games, is still a genuine favorite for Corey Pavin. Pavin choose Woods as one of 4 captain’s picks with the announcement made on Monday at the NY Stock Exchange. Tiger Woods, along with  make up the rest of the team.

The Ryder Cup team will be facing Europe on October 1-3 at the Celtic Manor Resort in Wales, at Newport. This will be Wood’s first time out in the Ryder Cup since 2006, and came in at 10-13-2 in the 5 different entrances he participated in. His reconstructive knee surgery took him out of the 2008 challenge in Kentucky’s Valhalla contest.

Even though Tiger Woods was not in the Ryder Cup these last few years, the USA did defeat Europe without him in 2008, 16-1/2-11-1/2. The team had lost the prior years without Woods, however.

Everyone knows what Woods and his family have gone through, and it seems extraodinary considering all the dealings he has had with the press and world-wide attention to an extremely private matter. Woods has kept his composure for the most part, and is now the captain’s pick for the very first time. He is a fourteen time champion and winner of seventy-one titles on the PGA Tour, obviously one of the all-time golf greats.

This honor has merit in many eyes, although there are the nay-sayers, as well. Many say he has lost his focus, and is really not concentrating on winning in the true Tiger Woods fashion we have seen, his form is off, but his game has of late been quite good.

This is on the heels of his hiatus from the game, and it’s looking much better for Woods. In just the last 8 rounds, he posted 5 in the 60′s, and in the Deutsche Bank Championship ending on Monday last, for the first time in 2010, Woods made 60′s in three rounds, closing with a tie for eleventh place.

Zack Johnson is the only one of the four picks to have won this season, capturing the Crowne Plaza Invitational at Colonial. He also tied for 3rd at the PGA Championship. Johnson has only played in one Ryder Cup, going 1-2-1 in the USA’s skewed loss in 2006.

Steward Cink has 4 Top-20s in his last 4 events. The 2009 British Open winner played in the last four matches against Europe, with a terrific 4-7-4 record.

For Rickie Fowler, this will make his Ryder Cup debut. He as of yet, has not posted a top-10 since finishing second in the Memorial in June. However, he was undefeated in conducting the USA to victory last year in the Walker Cup.

Along with Woods and the four other players, there are eight others who have earned their way into the prestigious Ryder Cup this year, they are as follows. Masters winner Phil Mickelson, Matt Kuchar, Jim Furyk, Dustin Johnson, Steve Stricker, Bubba Watson, and Jeff Overton. With Watson, Kuchar, Johnson, and Overton in their debut at the Ryder Cup.

The hope is this year will be the first time that the USA will won the Cup since 1933, and with the talent coming out, there is a good chance of it happening this year.

The European team was finalized last week when captain Colin Montgomerie added Padraig Harrington, Edoardo Molinari and Luke Donald as his three captain’s picks. They join Lee Westwood, Rory McIlroy, Ian Poulter, U.S. Open champion Graeme McDowell, PGA Championship winner Martin Kaymer, Ross Fisher, Peter Hanson, Miguel Angel Jimenez and Francesco Molinari. The Euros have six rookies: the Molinari brothers, McIlroy, Kaymer, Fisher and Hansen.

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Shoya Tomizawa Crash Subject Of Criminal Investigation

The death of Japanese motorcyclist Shoya Tomizawa may result in criminal charges being filed. [see the Shoya Tomizawa carsh video here]

It seems the Italian authorities want to find out more information on the deadly crash. The prosecutor of Rimini has reportedly launched an investigation into the death of Shoya Tomizawa following the Moto2 Grand Prix at Misano.

According to the Italian ANSA news agency, Paolo Giovagnoli will begin an inquest into the 19-year-old’s tragic death in a move that could also see criminal charges being brought.

Tomizawa crashed on lap 12 of the race into the path of Alex de Angelis and Scott Redding, but the race was not stopped as track marshals swiftly stretchered him off the circuit.

However, Tomizawa was then accidentally dropped by a marshal when they stumbled whilst carrying through the gravel. [see the mishandling here]

With an impending autopsy set to reveal exactly what contributed to his death, ANSA says Giovagnoli is considering bringing charges to individuals that are yet to be identified.

The news comes after MotoGP officials defended the decision not to stop the race to allow Tomizawa to receive treatment at the track, claiming they were better equipped to deal with his serious injuries behind the scenes.

In a grim touch of irony, Shoya Tomizawa had signed a new Moto2 contract for 2011 just hours before he was tragically killed.

Shoya Tomizawa Dies After Horrific Motorcycle Crash | WARNING GRAPHIC VIDEO Shoya Tomizawa Dies After Horrific Motorcycle Crash | WARNING GRAPHIC VIDEO UPDATE: We must stress that this video is quite graphic. If you do not want to watch it, then do not hit the play button.

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The Jets announced early Monday that they have agreed to terms with the All-Pro cornerback Darrelle Revis, who missed all of training camp because he was unhappy with his contract.

It has been reported by USA Today that the Jets agreed to pay Darrelle Revis on a four-year, $46 million contract, including $32 million guaranteed. Wow!!!

He’ll fly to New York, sign, and be on the field versus Baltimore next Monday night. The contract was announced as seven years, but easily voids to four. The best news for the Jets is that they didn’t have to do a one-year, “band-aid” deal that might’ve put them back at square one next offseason.

According to the NY Daily News, Revis stayed in shape during his holdout, working out with Ty Law in South Florida.

In a pair of messages posted early Monday morning, Revis expressed his regret for his much-publicized holdout, which has been a subject of obsession among Jets fans and the news media over the last month.

“I just want to tell y’all that I’m sorry for this process and I can’t wait to get back on the field,” Revis wrote.

The Jets begin their regular season a week from Monday, when they will host the Baltimore Ravens at the New Meadowlands Stadium. It was not immediately clear whether Revis would be ready for that game, though if the team finalizes its contract with him in the near future – perhaps later Monday – it seems plausible that Revis could be in uniform by then.

Revis, 25, made clear in the offseason his displeasure with his contract, so it was no surprise when he did not show up for training camp when it began on Aug. 1.

He was slated to make $1 million this season, the fourth year in a six-year contract he signed as a rookie and by all accounts has outplayed.

The disagreement between Revis and the Jets focused on how much more he should be compensated than his current deal would have provided.

Revis asserted that he wanted to be the highest-paid cornerback in the N.F.L., which would have put his paycheck at somewhere in the ballpark of $15 million per year, a sum that the Jets were not eager to pay.

Can’t wait to see Hardknocks this week. I bet Rex Ryan will be grinning from ear to ear and will DEFINITELY be letting loose with some celebratory F-Bombs!

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If you’re too young to remember who Harold Carmichael was, let’s suffice it to say he was the Manute Bol of football. He was a huge wide receiver who regularly embarrassed smaller cornerbacks.

Well there just may be a new Harold Carmichael. His name is Justin Jones.

Justin Jones is a man-child. He is 6′ 8″ tall and weighs about 250 pounds on a good day. (personally I think the dude goes 280 easily)

So when you need a hail mary pass at the end of the game, who better to throw it to than your own version of Harold Carmichael. So that’s exactly what East Carolina did.

Trailing 49-45 with no time outs and on 4th down, and over 50 yards away from the endzone…East Carolina looked for the big guy.

East Carolina quarterback, Dominque Davis, took the snap, rolled a bit to his left and heaved the ball towards the endzone.

There to snatch the pigskin from the sky was the red-shirt freshman, Justin Jones.

He jumped like a center at a Tarheel game and took the ball from some seriously out-matched defenders.

By the way, to add a punctuation mark to this story, it was Justin Jones’ first touchdown of his collegiate career.

Now that’s how you announce yourself!

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UPDATE: We must stress that this video is quite graphic. If you do not want to watch it, then do not hit the play button. You can read the account of the tragedy in the article below. You do NOT have to watch the video to read the article. We have been getting requests from some fans who want us to take it down, but we feel like any tragedy, it is still newsworthy. We are not exploiting the tragedy and are merely reporting what happened.

Shoya Tomizawa, a Japanese motorbike rider has died following what can only be described as one of the most horrific crashes I have ever seen. He went head over heels in a multi-bike crash the San Marino Moto2 race at the Misano World Circuit.

Shoya Tomizawa lost control of his bike and was struck by Alex de Angelis and British rider Scott Redding at full speed during the race.

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Shoya Tomizawa was only 19 years old. When he crashed he sufferred what was described as “substantial cranial, thoracic and abdominal trauma” and died at 2:20 p.m. local time, according to a statement on the official MotoGP website.

He was treated at the circuit’s medical center before being transported to a hospital in Riccione, Italy.

Tomizawa is the second motorcycle driver to die in the last few weeks as young Peter Lenz was also killed in a recent crash.

“Everybody involved in MotoGP extends its deepest condolences to Shoya’s family and friends at this tragic loss,” the motorcycling series said in the statement.

Video footage showed Tomizawa hitting his head on the track as his bike flipped over before the collision.

Tomizawa, who rode for the Technomag-CIP team, was treated by medics at the circuit.Earlier reports from the AFP news agency said the rider was propelled over 150 feet and off the track into the gravel.

Tomizawa was reported to have already been in a coma as he was rushed by ambulance to the Riccione hospital on the Adriatic coast. Efforts to save him failed and he passed away.

Despite Shoya Tomizawa’s death, the races continued even though some riders were reluctant to compete.

“I saw the incident on the TV monitor and I could see that it was serious – but not that serious,” MotoGP rider Valentino Rossi said.

“When these things happen, nothing else seems to matter.”

How true.

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I can’t wait to see the video of this one! It must have been a great match and it’s official. Honduras beats El Salvador!

Goalkeeper Noel Valladares made two saves for Honduras during a penalty-kick shootout for a victory over El Salvador in an exhibition Saturday night.

Both teams played to a 2-2 tie after 90 minutes of regulation. Rodolfo Zelaya had both of El Salvador’s goals. Oscar Bonieck Garcia and Roger Rojas scored for Honduras.

Valladares, who started for Honduras in the World Cup, recovered after leaning to his right to catch Zelaya’s shot and went to his right to block Rudis Corrales’ attempt.

Rojas, Sergio Mendoza, Juan Carlos Garcia and Jorge Claros converted for Honduras. Cristian Castillo, Denis Alas and Shawn Martin made El Salvador’s penalty kicks.

Rojas put Honduras ahead 2-1 in the 86th minute with a diagonal 18-yard shot inside the left post. But Zelaya forced the tie in second-half stoppage time with a penalty kick.

Zelaya gave El Salvador a 1-0 lead in the 42nd minute by converting a 6-yard shot. Oscar Bonieck Garcia tied the score in the 58th minute with a curling 23-yard shot.

El Salvador goalkeeper Dagoberto Portillo kept Honduras from taking an earlier lead by blocking Jerry Bengston’s penalty kick in the 65th minute.

Honduras started five members of its World Cup team: Valladares, Mendoza, Oscar Bonieck Garcia and defenders Maynor Figueroa and Jhony Palacios.

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Christchurch’s 400,000 residents were warned to stay inside their homes as a major earthquake rattled the town.

The earthquake measured 7.1 and the danger of continued aftershocks continue. In an effort to keep the peace and ensure public safety, the authorities have instituted a curfew.

Police said the curfew was intended to protect the city’s 400,000 people from falling debris, as the quake caused widespread damage to buildings, although there were few injuries reported.

City mayor Bob Parker declared a state of emergency four hours after the quake struck the east coast of the island region at 4.35am, warning that continuing aftershocks could cause masonry to fall from damaged buildings.

“We’re all feeling scared, we’ve just had some significant aftershocks,” he told TV One News. “Tonight we’re just people in the face of a massive natural disaster, trying to help each other … and we’re grateful we haven’t lost a life.”

There were reports of some people trapped inside damaged buildings, although none appeared to be seriously injured.

Police Inspector Alf Stewart told New Zealand’s National Radio that some people had been arrested for looting. “We have some reports of people smashing [shop] windows and trying to grab some property that is not theirs … we’ve got police on the streets and we’re dealing with that,” he said.

Up to 90 extra police officers are flying to Christchurch to help, and troops are likely to join the recovery effort on Monday.

The prime minister, John Key, who flew to Christchurch to inspect the damage, said it was “an absolute miracle” that no one died in the quake which blocked roads with debris, cut off power across the region and disrupted gas and water supplies.

Key said initial assessments suggested it could cost at least 2bn New Zealand dollars to repair the damage caused by the quake. Civil defence minister John Carter added there was “a lot of damage” to the region’s key infrastructure.

Christchurch Hospital said it had treated two men with serious injuries and a number of people with minor injuries.

One man was hit by a falling chimney and was in a serious condition, while a second was badly cut by glass, a spokeswoman said.

Mark O’Connell said his house was full of smashed glass, with food tossed from shelves and sets of drawers, TVs and computers tipped over.

“We were thrown from wall to wall as we tried to escape down the stairs to get to safety,” he said.

State geological agency GNS Science said the epicentre of the quake was 19 miles west of Christchurch. It reported 29 aftershocks in the 14 hours following the quake, ranging in strength from magnitude 3.7 to 5.4.

Sheep farmer Paul Cowie, from the town of Darfield near the quake’s epicentre, said his family was knocked to the floor.

“We couldn’t stand up, but we had to run across the house to get to the kids … and they were shaken up,” he said. The family fled the house and huddled in a car parked in an open field.

Emergency shelters have been set up at schools in suburban areas to house those forced out of their homes, a civil defence spokesman said.

People in Christchurch’s eastern suburbs were told to be ready to evacuate after electricity, gas, sewage and water systems were cut by the quake.

Residents have been asked not to flush toilets because of potential damage to the city’s sewerage system which could lead to contamination. Christchurch airport was also closed as a precaution while runways were safety checked.

Despite tsunami fears by residents, the Pacific Tsunami Warning Centre said “no destructive widespread tsunami threat existed, based on historical earthquake and tsunami data”.

New Zealand lies above an area of the Earth’s crust where two tectonic plates collide and the country records more than 14,000 earthquakes a year – but only about 150 are usually felt. Schoolchildren in the country regularly undertake earthquake drills.

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If you never had to see a Robert Schimmel show, you truly missed out on some great comedy. I still every now and then pull out the DVD of one of his HBO specials. He was truly a comic genius.

Unfortunately, Robert Schimmel passed on from injuries sustained in a car accident. It was made all the worse as his daughter was driving and she remains in the hospital

Standup comic Robert Schimmel, a frequent guest on Howard Stern’s radio show, has died after suffering serious injuries in a car accident. He was 60.

Schimmel’s spokesman, Howard Bragman, says Schimmel died Friday evening in a Phoenix hospital.

Schimmel was a passenger Thursday in a car driven by his 19-year-old daughter Aliyah. Bragman says Aliyah Schimmel swerved to avoid another car and the vehicle she was driving rolled to the side of the freeway. Bragman says she is hospitalized in stable condition.

Robert Schimmel lived in Scottsdale. The 60-year-old comedian has been a frequent guest on “Late Night with Conan O’Brien” and on Howard Stern’s radio show. His 2008 memoir, “Cancer on $5 a Day,” chronicles his battle with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma.

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Former prime minister attacked by anti-war protesters in Dublin as he promotes memoirs

I know that the British and Scots have long been the butt of jokes because of the soccer hooligans rampaging at futbol events, but what happened today brings hooliganistic behavior into the mall.

Protesters angry over Britain’s role in the war took their aggressions out on Tony Blair, the former prime minister.

Blair was at a book signing at Eason’s Bookshop on O’Connell Street in Dublin Ireland when a near riot erupted with protesters getting as crazy as to throw eggs at him. They even took off their shoes and threw them at Blair as well.

Tony Blair’s was in Dublin celebrating the release of his memoirs when the first of the protesters broke through the security barrier at approximately 10:45am.

The demonstrators, ranging from anti-war demonstrators to the Continuity IRA-aligned Republican Sinn Fein, who oppose the Northern Ireland peace process, are now marching to a garda police station in the city centre demanding the release of the three arrested men.

Gardai had earlier dragged a number of demonstrators off the street and during the fracas a male protester in a wheelchair was knocked to the ground.

Protesters shouted “Whose cops? Blair’s cops!” as they taunted the gardai while Blair remained inside the bookshop. They also shouted: “Hey hey Tony hey, how many kids have you killed today?”

About 400 people were queuing up around the side of the store in Middle Abbey Street to meet Blair. They were verbally abused by a number of left-wing demonstrators who denounced them as “west Brits”.

Protester Pixie ni hEicht, from Dublin, criticised both the garda and the hundreds who had turned out for the book signing: “The police are west Brits who are protecting a British terrorist and the people queuing up over there should be ashamed of themselves. All these people buying the book are jackeens and traitors.”

Following the skirmishes, the city tram service was suspended and shops in the surrounding area were also closed.

Buyers at the signing had to hand over bags and mobile phones before entering the store. Undercover detectives mingled with the crowds taking names before Blair arrived at about 10.30am.

A huge security operation was put in place around Dublin’s main thoroughfare in preparation for the Blair visit. The northbound end of O’Connell Street was closed to traffic from early this morning while the city’s main northside tram link, the Luas line, was closed down.

Plain-clothes detectives were also deployed around O’Connell Street as part of the security operation.

After the signing, the former prime minister was whisked from a side entrance of the store at about 12.40pm.

In his memoirs, A Journey, Blair defends his decision to go to war with Iraq in 2003. The book, which was released earlier this week, has become one of the fastest selling autobiographies on record.

Before the signing he had already enraged the anti-war movement in Ireland with comments on the Irish TV programme The Late Late Show last night.

During his interview on RTE, Blair warned that Iran was now one of the biggest state sponsors of radical Islam. It must be prevented from developing a nuclear weapon, even if that meant taking military action, he said.

Blair defended the decision to invade Iraq in 2003, despite Saddam Hussein not possessing weapons of mass destruction.

He tried to convince the audience that he acted against the one million people who marched in opposition to the war because he could not take decisions “based on those that shout most”.

Blair, who was greeted by about 50 protesters at the RTE studios, also denied he had “blood on his hands” and said he didn’t believe he was a “war criminal”.

It is believed he chose Ireland for his only live interview since his memoirs’ publication because he felt he would get a better hearing because of the peace he secured in Northern Ireland.

He said: “When we finally got the whole lot together, literally weeks before I left office in 2007, and there was Martin McGuinness sitting with Ian Paisley, and it was such a strange and extraordinary sight and it was one of the few times in politics I felt really proud actually.”

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WARNING This video contains scenes of repeated animal cruelty

Just when we are in overload of eye-bleaching videos, here comes this little atrocious she-wolf in human clothing caught on video throwing away puppies into a fast-flowing river. Will wonders never cease. What will my poor eyes feast upon next, I shudder to think.

And who was taking the video of this heinous act. They are as much to blame and should be thrown in jail or worse as well as the red-hooded perp.

The 44-second video shows a blonde girl in a red sweatshirt casually tossing the squealing black-and-white puppies into the river one by one, looking for the world like she had just invented some cool new sport.

The video has been removed from YouTube but not before it was embedded on a number of other sites.

You have to ask yourself why oh why would anyone want to do this to innocent little creatures? Couldn’t you have just put them in a cardboard box, gone to the center of your village and asked if anyone wanted them?  No?  Too much trouble?

Yes, a while back it was considered humane to take unwanted puppies, put them in a weighted sack and drown them. It seems as though she didn’t feel like the whole sack thing was her style.

But have we not become a little more enlightened? Look at the backlash she is getting from the world, for God’s sake.

A big Hollywood director, Michael Bay of Transformers fame has offered $50,000 for her prosecution.

In his website, the director said: ‘There is a disturbing video going around the news outlets. It’s a video of blonde young woman in a red sweatshirt casually tossing squealing puppies into the fast-moving river one by one.’

He offered the reward for ‘information leading to the arrest and successful prosecution of the woman in the red sweatshirt and the person who shot this act of cruelty’.

The young teenager was wearing a red hooded top when she was caught on video throwing six little newborn puppies over a bridge one by one. Not even in a sack, like that would have been ok, it certainly would not have been. The poor little things didn’t make it, and world-wide outrage has been unleashed,(sorry for the unfortunate pun).

But there is good news to be had, police in the central Bosnian town of Bugojno said they had found the girl from leads given by animal protection groups in the country.

Her parents are to be questioned and under Bosnian law, you can get a hefty fine for animal cruelty.

Animals rights group ‘Flekice’ (Spots) filed a complaint to police claiming the girl seen on the video, originally posted on YouTube, came from the central town of Bugojno.

Another animal rights group – SOS, which is based in Sarajevo – also claimed to have information confirming the location of the girl, who was reportedly filmed by her brother.

She is confirmed to have been caught by authorities, and the case is now in the hands of Bosnian officials.

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The most exciting matches of this year’s US Open didn’t take place on the court, it took place in the grandstands. It’s not the soccer hooligans we watch anymore, no, we have graduated to tennis hooligans. The brouhaha took place between a very seemingly drunk and boisterous fellow and a fair amount of the unfortunates who were in his vicinity.

The melee took place during a match between the third-seeded, Novak Djokovic of Serbia and Phillipp Petzschner of Germany. It took place in the upper deck of Arthur Ashe Stadium.

The brawl stemmed from an issue over vocabulary. “He said, ‘You’ve got a problem? Go ahead and hit me,’ and she slapped him across the face,” in my humble opinion, that would get somebody slapped.

It seems that a man and woman became louder and louder in an argument in the stands during a live game, and when they had finished having words, another older man grabbed the younger and placed him in a headlock, and then the party started. The violence escalated to where the security was finally called in, and peace was eventually restored.

The tennis match was even stopped as other spectators went after the young male. No one was arrested. All three were removed from the stadium.

Moments later, the woman’s father approached the rowdy younger man and tried to strangle him, according to an amateur video shot by another fan and posted on YouTube.

That’s when the younger man pushed the woman’s father off him, forcing him to fall down three rows of seats. His daughter then ran up to him — and that is when the younger man shoved her before other fans jumped into the fray. Security guards finally arrived and broke up the fracas.

Djokovic and Petzschner were obviously disconcerted by the brawl, looking up toward the seats.

“It’s a hot night in New York. Things happen,” a US Tennis Association spokesman said of the tussle, which resulted in no arrests. After winning in straight sets, Djokovic quipped that during the fight, “I hoped there was no Serbian up there.”

He added, “I hope the fans enjoyed the match and not the fight.” Yeah, right. You know we loved that, tennis does tend to take itself a bit seriously at times. Not to say fighting is good, but good grief, no-one got hurt, and heavens to Betsy, the match was held up for a few minutes. I call that good entertainment, a comic interlude, if you will.

Djokovic went on to beat Petzschner 7-5, 6-3, 7-6 (8-6). He will next take on James Blake in the third round.

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Acid Attack Maims Bethany Storro

There are some really sick and twisted people walking the streets of the world. What would someone be thinking to make them want to throw acid in someone’s face? That’s a lot of anger and hate.

Could you imagine pouring acid into a bottle or container and just arbitrarily walking up to some stranger and pouring acid into their face? Probably not. Those of us who have a conscience would never do that. It’s absolutely the work of a psychopath.

I hope this wasn’t a hate crime or racially motivated. Bethany’s assailant was a black woman. While she did not utter and racial epithets, one has to wonder if she singled out Bethany because she was white. I really hope that wasn’t the case at all.

Bethany Storro was just walking along minding her own business. She was happy as she was celebrating her new job when a stranger threw acid in her face. Instantly she could actually hear her skin burning.

Bethany Storro was celebrating her new job when a stranger approached her and asked, “Hey pretty girl, do you want to drink this?”

The attacker tossed a cup full of acid in Storro’s face. Her skin immediately began to sizzle.

The 28-year-old from Vancouver, Wash. spoke publicly for the first time since the vicious attack earlier this week in her hometown.

“It was the most painful thing ever,” she said from the hospital Thursday. “My heart stopped. It ripped through my clothing the instant it touched my shirt; I could feel it burning through my second layer of skin.”

Just prior to the attack, Storro was on cloud nine over her new job. As a treat, she bought herself a new pair of sunglasses.

The present turned out to be a lifesaver, protecting her from almost certain blindness if the acid had hit her eyes.

Storro described her attacker as a black woman in her late 20s wearing khaki pants and her hair in a ponytail.

“I have never, ever seen this girl in my entire life,” Storro said. “When I first saw her, she had this weirdness about her – like jealousy, rage.”

The surgeon who operated on Storro said the liquid was as strong as hydrochloric or sulfuric acid.

As police look for her attacker, Storro has one just one question: “Why?”

Did my attacker wake up in the morning and say I’m going to “carry some acid in a cup and throw it on the first person I see?” Storro asked.

Despite the severe damage to her face, Storro, who lost most of her hearing after two bouts of spinal meningitis as a child, was happy she could still see.

“I’m just so glad it’s a miracle.”

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UPDATE: Miami International Airport reopened early Friday morning after a passenger was detained and a suspicious item was spotted, airport officials said.

Most of the airport was closed for hours as a bomb squad team dealt with the suspicious item, which inspectors found when screening a checked bag.

A passenger was in law enforcement custody, the Transportation Security Administration said in a statement early Friday morning. Authorities did not provide details about whether the passenger had been charged or what investigators found.

All concourses of the airport except for Concourse J had been closed before the situation was resolved, police said.

Concourses E and F were evacuated at 9:30 p.m. Thursday after the item was found, said Greg Chin, a Miami-Dade Aviation Department spokesman. Authorities rerouted arriving flights to other parts of the airport.

Investigators from Miami-Dade Police, the Transportation Security Administration and the Department of Homeland Security responded to the incident, the Transportation Security Administration said in a statement. Airport roads were also closed “to ensure public safety,” the statement said.

The incident brought the usually bustling Miami airport to a halt for hours.

On the eve of a busy Labor Day weekend, and with the holiday expected to have a heavy load of traffic, a suspicious package was found at Miami International Airport.

The dreaded “suspicious package” was being taken very seriously. Obviously it is better to err on the side of caution. Let’s just hope that it wasn’t a bomb. A bomb squad investigated a report of a suspicious package after police evacuated four of six concourses at Miami International Airport for several hours on the eve of the Labor Day travel period, an airport spokesman said Friday.

Police bomb squad authorities went about 9:30 p.m. Thursday to a Customs area of Concourse E near an international arrivals area when the initial report came in, airport spokesman Greg Chin told The Associated Press.

He said between 100 to 200 passengers were evacuated while police investigated and that flights overnight were allowed to use parts of two concourses still open.

Chin declined to elaborate on the nature of the suspicious item and referred all calls to the Miami-Dade police. Police did not immediately return repeated telephone calls for comment.

“I’m still not sure how many flights came in during this time, but any that did were relocated to the eastern or western ends of the airport,” Chin said early Friday.

He said parts of Concourse D and J remain open to flights, but all four of the middle concourses in the 2-mile-long airport complex remained closed to the public for hours.

“We’re just waiting hopefully for an all clear,” Chin said.

He said most of the passengers still in the concourses were initially taken outside.

“We had to have passengers moved out on the curbside,” he said, adding most of those returning to the build were allowed into the areas of the two concourses still open. Police have evacuated two terminal sections at MIA after a suspicious item was found.

According to Miami-Dade Police Department, they received a call at around 9 p.m. about a suspicious item found inside a luggage in the customs area at Concourse E, Thursday night.

Police have evacuated passengers and employees at Concourse E and F. “We were literally getting the boys ready because of a long day of traveling, trying to put them down then I heard someone knocking on the door and we opened it and it was the Miami Police saying, ‘Just grab your room key and head across the street,’” said a passenger.

Two flights have been affected and are being diverted from Concourse F to Concourse J, and will then clear Customs at J.

The Bomb Squad along with officials are on the scene investigating.

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Have you ever had a brain freeze from eating ice cream too fast? Well maybe Arizona Governor Jan Brewer can claim that as the reason she painfully blew her debate.

It was worse than watching Nixon sweat during the Nixon Kennedy debate. This was absolutely dreadful. I wanted to reach through the screen and push her. Maybe the guy sitting next to her should have given her a good kick under the table.

The cliche “deer in the headlights” can’t even do this flub justice. This woman is an elected official in the middle of a heated campaign. She is leading a major immigration fight and she sounded like a 6 year old reading the first lines of the Gettysburg Address while Jenny Sue Edwards was smiling at him.

Ok..one too many descriptive phrases there but when you watch the video you will see just how bad it was.

It will assuredly go down as one of the most painful openings to a political debate in recent memory.

Gov. Jan Brewer stumbled and stammered through her opening statement during a televised debate Wednesday night, suffering through an embarrassing, cringe-eliciting pause that lasted more than 10 seconds.

With her hands clasped in front of her, she looked at the camera, then down, possibly at notes, and back up at the camera. She smiled, let out a loud exhale, then resumed her statement with a pronouncement of her record as governor.

“We have, uh, did what was right for Arizona,” Brewer said, using a grammatical misconstruction she uttered twice during the debate.

Then, she bolted from a post-debate question-and-answer session with reporters after refusing to respond to queries about a past statement about bodies supposedly found beheaded in the Arizona desert.

Video of the pause and the post-debate walkoff from the media scrum quickly became an Internet sensation as Brewer was skewered on political blogs Thursday.

“Jan Brewer: Bumbling politician of the year,” salon.com headlined its post. “The rising star governor of Arizona gives a painfully awful debate performance.”

Some called it her Stockdale moment, a reference to James Stockdale’s bumbling debate performance as H. Ross Perot’s running mate in the 1992 presidential race.

Brewer herself acknowledged Thursday during an interview on a talk show on Phoenix radio station KTAR-FM that she could have done better.

“It certainly was the longest 16 seconds of my life,” Brewer said of the pause. “I’m human, I’m human.”

She said the post-debate questioning by reporters was unfair, but added that leaving as she did might have been “the wrong thing to do. “

“But that’s how I felt at the moment,” she added.

Brewer became governor in January 2009 when her Democratic predecessor resigned in midterm and the Republican drew national attention when she signed the state’s controversial immigration law on April 29.

The immigration law turned her into a popular politician among Republicans around the country as she runs for a full term against Democratic Attorney General Terry Goddard. She is heavily favored to win.

Not surprisingly, Brewer said she doesn’t think she’ll debate Goddard again. He previously challenged her to six debates across the state and his campaign renewed that call Thursday.

Goddard said Thursday that Brewer’s debate performance “unquestionably” would help him. “The unfortunate result is she’s now afraid to do any more debates,” he said.

The debate itself was peppered by heated give-and-take jabs by Brewer and Goddard over immigration, the state’s budget troubles and a recent prison escape, often with the candidates talking over each other.

Goddard also took Brewer to task over her comments about beheadings in the desert. He said such comments are false and hurting the state’s image and economy. That could help neutralize the immigration issue, and Goddard is also attacking Brewer on economic and budget issues.

Patrick Kenney, an Arizona State University professor of political science, said Brewer’s stumbles could hurt her, especially with the clip of the pause being replayed all over TV and the Internet.

“That clip and that part of the story is being replayed,” Kenney said. “It’s not the kind of image that any politician wants.”

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 Mexican Army Kills 27 Cartel Gunmen

In what’s becoming a regular occurrence, there was more violence and bloodshed in Mexico today.

The Mexican Army is striking back in the fight to win the Mexican Drug War. Today the good guys won one…if you can call it a win. The Mexican army came under fire and in defending themselves they took out a number of the cartel militia.

It seems that they find their turf worth dying for and let’s hope more of them enjoy the same outcome. There must be some unbelievable amounts of cash at stake for these cartel gunmen to lay down their lives for a druglord.

A patrol came under fire as it approached an apparent training camp spotted during an aerial search over Ciudad Mier, the Army said.

Two soldiers were wounded in the fighting, in the state of Tamaulipas.

Tamaulipas has become a major focus of violence between drug cartels competing for control of smuggling routes into the US.

The rival Zetas and Gulf cartels have been waging a bloody turf war there.

The military said three people who had been kidnapped by the gang were freed during the latest raid.

More than 28,000 people have died in drug-related violence in Mexico since President Felipe Calderon ordered the army and federal police to fight the cartels in 2006.

The rising violence has led to growing criticism of Mr Calderon’s drug policy, with opposition groups saying it has done nothing to stop the flow of drugs to the US.

In his state of the union address on Thursday morning, the president admitted the violence was worsening but defended his approach, saying the cartels were being weakened.

“The capture or killing of important criminal leaders has made the crime organizations more desperate,” Mr Calderon said.

“It is an ever more bloody war between organised crime groups fighting for territory, markets and routes.”

Mr Calderon insisted the fight had to go on.

“If we want a safe Mexico for the Mexicans of the future, we must take on the cost of achieving it today,” he said.

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Amanda Ferraz Geremias a 21-year-old woman who was a huge soccer fan has died after being run over by a bus carrying Corinthians players at a party in Sao Paulo to celebrate the Brazilian team’s centenary.

Police said about 100,000 fans gathered at a city plaza for the festivities commemorating the anniversary of Brazil’s second most popular club behind Flamengo.

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Amanda Ferraz Geremias died in a hospital early Wednesday. Officials said it appeared she slipped near the bus’ back wheel as it passed near supporters trying to get a glimpse of the players.

Police said about 100,000 fans gathered at a city plaza for the festivities commemorating the anniversary of Brazil’s second most popular club behind Flamengo.

“This was a very big tragedy,” club president Andres Sanchez said on the team’s official website.

Sanchez also said the Brazilian club will help the woman’s family.

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Fan dies after being run over by Corinthians bus The fan died in a hospital early Wednesday. Officials said it appeared she slipped near the bus’ back wheel as it passed near supporters trying to get a …

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More often than not, baseball brawls are lame. A pitcher plunks a batter, the batter charges the mound, the pitcher readies himself for the fight and then the players start aimlessly swinging like two preteen. Not this time.

In fact this time it has gotten out of hand. Someone needs to do something about this thug masquerading as a baseball player. Nyjer Morgan needs to be roped in quickly before he does some real damage.

Did you see the way he swung at Volstad. This wasn’t your typical “for-show” baseball fight. He meant to maim and injure. If Bud Selig has a pair he should step in and put this guy on the shelf for the rest of the season. Give him the time to think about his actions and MAYBE re-instate him next year.

IF he wants to hit somebody like that tell him to start a career in mixed martial arts. But he is obviously too much of a coward to do that. He’d get his sorry ass whacked. He’d be tapping out in no time flat. Might serve to do him some good.

You get paid millions to play a kids game. You’re given access to a lifestyle that many will never be afforded. And you flip off the very people who let you live your dream.

Nyjer Morgan, you’re a scumbag. And yes, if you want to charge me…bring it on!

More of what happened:

Volatile Nationalsoutfielder Nyjer Morgan has given us some classic moments of anger, and he added to his personal list when he charged the mound a sparked a basebrawl during his team’s loss to the Marlins.

Nyjer Morgan instigated two home plate collisions that ended up costing his team runs and generated controversy. The first happened in last Saturday. Who is the most hated athlete in sports Nyjer Morgan of the Washington Nationals is trying to find out so he can beat them up and take the crown.

After seeing his latest incident, you get the feeling even his team. Marlinspitcher Chris Volstad threw a pitch behind Morgan and Nyjer decided to charge. The result is this Nationals and Marlins fight video which is one of the best sports fights we’ve had in a while.

A lot of times these days it doesn’t seem like baseball players really want to fight, even when the benches clear. That was not the case tonight with the Nationals and the Marlins. Chris Volstad of the Marlins threw a pitch behind Nyjer, and it was on.

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You know how I always get accused of beating up on Realtors? Well today they are all a flutter down here in South Florida. Absolutely giddy over sales numbers. So instead of ripping apart their data, I’m simply going to state what they told me.

Today I received an email from Lynda Fernandez from the MIAMI Association of Realtors. I guess she must be in the marketing or communications department as she is actually working. (I couldn’t resist taking just one jab).

She decided to include us in the press communications she is sending out and i want to publicly thank her for that. Although until today’s news I never received anything from her. But, nonetheless, I am happy to be corresponding with someone in the South Florida real estate market who is a part of a local Realtor board.

So what’s all the hoopla about? Well the sun peaked out from behind the clouds and shed some light on the South Florida real estate market.

Total pending home sales – including single-family homes and condominiums – in Miami-Dade County increased 33.7 percent in August 2010 compared to August 2009, from 7,570 to 10,119, and increased .06 percent, from 10,113 to 10,119, compared to the previous month according to the MIAMI Association of REALTORS and the Southeast Florida Multiple Listing Service (SEFMLS).

The South Florida real estate market continues to strengthen, primarily due to the highest concentration in the U.S. of international buyers, contrary to national trends, which show near-term home sales noticeably lower since the expiration of the homebuyer tax credit.

“The pending sales figures for August coupled with strengthening single-family home prices are good news for the South Florida real estate market, but there are still attractive opportunities for prospective buyers,” said Jack H. Levine, 2010 chairman of the board of the MIAMI Association of REALTORS.

“Pending sales rose month-over-month and year-over-year, showing that this is still a great time to purchase a home, especially in the local market. Interest rates are at a record low and expected to remain that way for the remainder of the year while inventory is still plentiful, giving buyers many properties to choose from. Furthermore, the local market is expected to outperform other markets throughout the U.S. due to its international appeal, resulting in strengthening home values into the future.”

Pending sales of condominiums in Miami-Dade County continue to perform better than that of single-family homes. In August, condominium pending sales increased 49.7 percent compared to the previous year, from 3,848 to 5,759 and increased 0.7 percent, from 5,720 the previous month. Pending sales of single-family

homes in August increased 17.1 percent from the previous year, from 3,722 to 4,360, and decreased a slight 0.8 percent from the previous month when pending sales totaled 4,393, showing a preference for condos in August.

Pending Sales Indicative of Strengthening Market

Monthly home sales in South Florida increased dramatically for a period of 23 months since August 2008, while condominium sales continue to surge. Increased pending sales are an indication of increased future sales. A sale is listed as pending when the contract is signed but the transaction has not closed, though the sale usually is finalized within one or two months of signing.

“We expect home sales to continue to increase in South Florida for the remainder of the year and headed into 2011, provided the job market continues to improve,” said Oliver Ruiz, 2010 residential president of the MIAMI Association of REALTORS. “International buyers in particular continue to positively impact the local market, creating short- and long-term demand for South Florida properties and contributing to strengthening home prices.”

I won’t editorialize here other than to say, I hope that this really is the change many have hoped for. We’ll certainly see if it is.

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