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Wednesday, February 8, 2012
Jennifer Aniston: Love triangle feud with Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie is a story that won't go away
Jennifer Aniston is bored of the headlines
Re: http://www.mrpaparazzi.com/post/17879
Poor Harvey. � Forgotten and only remembered for cheating on Alesha. � Romeo's career doing better.
He said he had emails and look how he went running to Now Magazine. �Doubt it will give his new record credibility.
He said he had emails and look how he went running to Now Magazine. �Doubt it will give his new record credibility.
Source: http://www.mrpaparazzi.com/post/17879#comment-433153545
Don Cornelius death ruled suicide
Coroners rule Don Cornelius's death was suicide, nearly a week after the Soul Train creator was found with a gun shot to his head.
Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/int/news/-/news/entertainment-arts-16941528
Video: Mario Manningham makes crucial sideline catch for Giants? Super Bowl win
Perfect execution is exactly what Manningham did. With Patrick Chung on his back, Manningham not only made the catch, but also had his feet in perfect position for the 38-yard throw to be called a catch. Patriots coach Bill Belichick challenged the call, but the officials confirmed what Manningham already knew. He made that catch.
[ Giants win Super Bowl behind another comeback by Eli Manning ]
The catch set up the Giants score in the final two minutes, and Belichick's challenge burned a New England timeout. Minutes after Manningham made the key play, Tom Brady was not able to get his team to the end zone, and with a 21-17 win, the Giants were again Super Bowl champs.
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Video: Mario Manningham makes crucial sideline catch for Giants? Super Bowl win
Perfect execution is exactly what Manningham did. With Patrick Chung on his back, Manningham not only made the catch, but also had his feet in perfect position for the 38-yard throw to be called a catch. Patriots coach Bill Belichick challenged the call, but the officials confirmed what Manningham already knew. He made that catch.
[ Giants win Super Bowl behind another comeback by Eli Manning ]
The catch set up the Giants score in the final two minutes, and Belichick's challenge burned a New England timeout. Minutes after Manningham made the key play, Tom Brady was not able to get his team to the end zone, and with a 21-17 win, the Giants were again Super Bowl champs.
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Tuesday, February 7, 2012
Parking at a Yankees game could soon cost $55
Again, that's $55 to leave a car somewhere for the three or four hours it takes to watch a baseball game. And it's because the Bronx Parking Development Company LLC ? a private firm that owns and operates parking lots and garages surrounding the new stadium ? is unable to repay the �hundreds of millions of dollars that it owes on bonds.
Not surprisingly, the mess may be passed onto the fans who live across the Hudson River in New Jersey and the others who either can't or won't take cheaper public transportation alternatives to watch a Yankees game in the Bronx.
While the Bronx Parking Development company is not affiliated with the Yankees or New York, its failure is directly linked to the deal brokered by the team and the city back in 2005. Mayor Michael Bloomberg agreed to issue $237 million in tax-exempt bonds that allowed a 9,000-space system of garages and parking lots to sprawl around the new stadium, replacing both public park land and abandoned lots abutting the Harlem River.
Juan Gonzalez reports in the New York Daily News why the parking prices might skyrocket soon:
Yankees fans have shunned the garages, where gameday self-parking rates soared last year to $35 ? up from $23 previously and more than double the original $14 charge. Valet parking now goes for $48.
So many fans are staying away, in part due to the lure of cheaper local competition, that Bronx Parking Development now projects only 3,500 paying customers per game for the upcoming season.
That's 3,500 out of 9,000 parking spots per game, leaving over 500,000 empty spots over an 81-game regular-season schedule. With a majority of fans taking subways, buses and commuter trains, or parking their cars in unaffiliated and cheaper lots on their way to a ballpark that is almost always near capacity, there is no extra revenue to make up the shortfall unless the parking rate is increased exponentially every year. It's a paradoxical economic situation: Increasing prices because of a lack of demand.
[Related: New York Yankees fragrances strike nostrils this month]
Ben Kabak at River Ave Blues estimates that, while the $35-per-car rate from 2011 will stay the same for the upcoming season, it could increase to $42 in 2013 and a whopping $55 in 2014 if the increases follow a Morgan Stanley report designed to keep the companies from defaulting on their loans.�A $55 fee would represent a price nearly four times as much as the original $14 fee for the stadium's first season in 2009.
The problem will not go away, either. If the parking firm goes under, another one will take its place and keep the prices high. The land surrounding the stadium is not considered a prime development spot and the city is not willing to buy it back and use it for the public good.
Perhaps the only sweet-smelling solution to paying back all of those loans would be to renovate one of the garages into a shopping mall and open a Sephora store.
The Yankees, after all, have plenty of�new fragrances to move.
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Boston?s Mark Melancon swims with sharks
Fact: If all of baseball's offseason stories featured videos of Boston Red Sox relievers swimming with great white sharks, we probably wouldn't be counting down the days until pitchers and catchers so desperately. Here's a very cool clip of new Red Sox pitcher Mark Melancon taking his wife Mary Catherine diving with some sharks in New Zealand.
Another fact: I don't usually buy products just because an athlete says to, but Melancon's endorsement of�Dive Planet NZ might be the rare exception. After watching how close the sharks came to Melancon's cage, my bucket list has a brand-new item this morning.
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Source: http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/mlb-big-league-stew/boston-mark-melancon-swims-sharks-142146043.html
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