STARTING FIVE
Yes, it is gruesome. Horrible. Jackie remained in that pink dress the entire day, repeating, “I want them to see what they have done.”
1. The Crime of the Century
The original broadcast from Walter Cronkite on CBS News…An interesting footnote-to-history piece by the Fort Worth AP reporter Mike Cochran who, along with other reporters that afternoon, were pressed reluctantly into service as pallbearers at the funeral of Lee Harvey Oswald…. CBSNews.com will live-stream the November 22, 1963 coverage provided by Walter Cronkite, Dan Rather and Bob Schieffer at the time beginning at 1:38 p.m. Eastern time today.
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Oswald was interrogated for 12 hours by detectives and remarkably, was made available briefly to the media before this moment.
As CNN’s excellent documentary on the Kennedy assassination notes, Jack Ruby dropped off a payment to one of his strippers at Western Union just three minutes before he murdered Oswald. That would seem to suggest that Ruby’s act was impetuous, the act of a man with, excuse the wordplay, a hair-trigger temper. Friends and associates would say that this is exactly the type of man Ruby was.
Staubach, oddly enough, would rise to even greater fame in Dallas.
The cover of SI in the week following President Kennedy’s assassination and this two-page essay on the murdered head of state.
2. Infamous Jameis?
Assuming this is a Winston fan and not just someone who loves The Call.
Three questions-
1) Why does a woman, intoxicated or not, have consensual sex after 1 a.m. and then file a sexual battery police report at 4 a.m. that same morning?
2) Why does a police detective notify the attorney of a 19 year-old man that his client may soon be charged with sexual assault before those charges are ever leveled? And…
3) …How does that detective even know whom to contact related to the question posed in No. 2?
Our old pals Deadspin, not surprisingly, have been kicking ass on this story. Check out this and this.
As for the Tallahassee Democrat, editor-in-chief Bob Gabordi should know by now that thanks to the internet, nothing that is stated in print remains local any more unless it is bland and forgettable. This op-ed is certainly not.
3. Manson: Family?
Oh, those crazy murderously insane kids. She’s a 25 year-old who moved closer to a prison six years ago to be near the man she loved. He’s a 79 year-old lunatic who orchestrated the most grisly murders in the history of southern California. And now they’re engaged. Will the wedding song be “Helter Skelter?”
4. Taking Their Eyes off the Ball
The wind chill made it feel like minus-8 in Colorado Springs last night.
Our friend Tim Ring, the Sports Director at KTVK channel 3 in Phoenix, was watching UNLV at Air Force last night (don’t judge) when he noticed something that the ESPNU play-by-play announcer appeared not to: the Rebels, with a 27-0 lead in the first half, attempted an onside kick. Watch the video. The audio is fairly inaudible, but Ring is a professional and he posted the video onto YouTube, so I’m definitely going to take his word for it. Clearly by the number of views this video has received it seems apparent that the larger sports blog republic — The Big Lead, Awful Announcing, Deadspin, Lost Lettermen, etc. –have yet to discover this flub.
5. Nix’s Season Nixed
Irish Chocolate melts away.
Word out of South Bend late yesterday afternoon that Notre Dame nose guard Louis Nix III, alias “Irish Chocolate”, underwent surgery to correct a tear on his meniscus. Nix will miss the remainder of the season and has most likely played his final game for the Fighting Irish. The Florida native graduates in December, although he does have one year of eligibility remaining.
Nix will be remembered as an affable and outspoken (and outsized at 340-plus pounds) player at a program that has become increasingly guarded, year by year. Our favorite Irish Chocolate moment involves not defense nor even an actual game, but rather his William Perry tribute at last April’s Blue-Gold game. Why Brian Kelly never incorporated this play in the 2013 season, I’ll never know.
Reserves
Hoping they had homeowner’s insurance.
Toledo’s breast cancer awareness unis.
When did college football uniforms cease being uniform?, one scribe wonders.
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That Todd Helton can write. Oh, and pick off Cardinal leadoff hitters at first base with the old hidden-ball trick, too.
REMOTE PATROL
Where You Were: The Day JFK Died, Reported by Tom Brokaw
NBC 9 p.m.
The menu is wall-to-wall 50th anniversary memorials, but if I have to pick just one, I’ll listen to what NBC’s Brokaw has to say. If you absolutely must have sports, Navy visits San Jose State in football, which is noteworthy because the Spartans have the nation’s leading tackler, Keith Smith. Check him out.
Yeah, “some girls wanna have fun”. Me, I just wanna get rich. Which will be TONS o’fun.
Speaking of, on 11/20/08, I bought 100 shares of YHOO at $9.00. Yesterday, a mere 5 years & 1 day later, I have a 4-bagger. LIVIN IN AMERRRRICA! YHOO was my 2nd ever stock purchase, after AMZN the day before. I was on a ROLL! And then, a couple weeks later, I bought RIMM. Alas. New example of “slow your roll”.
Anyway, saw you no longer own TSLA. I have not yet owned bu hope Clooney gets quoted again about being stuck repeatedly on the side of the road as I’d love to pick some up at $75-$90. Come on, George, you can do it!
I’ve also wanted to get in on some 3-D printing stuff, but the dang stocks ran up so much & so fast (‘Bubble, bubble, toil & trouble’), I’m still, er, only 2-D. Still hoping for the ever elusive “market correction”. Are you 3-D? Or have you been there & sold already?
Nix’s season nixed? Perhaps it was predestined. If he’s affable, I’m always on the lookout for an ethnic St. Nix.