SATIRE — Former UFC light heavyweight champion Chuck "The Iceman" Liddell is now featured in a sketch on the Funny or Die network called "The Way of the Brisk - The Untold Story".
The sketch is primarily based around a tiny Chuck Liddell puppet beating up the film crew of a movie Liddell was scheduled to be on.
BOSTON Boston Celtics coach Doc Rivers will return for another season, staying with the team he led to the NBA Finals twice in three years for a run at another championship.
"Doc is a fantastic coach and leader and I am thrilled he is coming back for the upcoming season," Celtics co-owner Steve Pagliuca said Wednesday.
Rivers did not immediately return a message left at his hotel in San Antonio, where he was watching his son, Austin, play in an international under-18 tournament.
The inability to watch his four children play sports was one of the major things pulling Rivers toward taking time off from coaching. He said last week that he was hoping there would be some compromise that would allow him to give both his personal and professional lives proper attention.
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GOLDEN STATE: The Warriors have extended qualifying offers to Anthony Morrow (Charlotte Latin) and C.J. Watson, making both guards restricted free agents.
The moves gives the Warriors the right to match any offer sheet signed by either player.
Morrow's offer is worth $1.029 million for next season, while Watson's offer is for $1.25 million.
HOUSTON: The Rockets have extended qualifying offers to restricted free agents Kyle Lowry and Luis Scola.
MEMPHIS: Restricted free agent Rudy Gay has received a qualifying offer from the Grizzlies.
PHOENIX: Amare Stoudemire has opted out of the final year of his contract with the Suns to become a free agent.
Agent Happy Walters said the five-time All-Star made the move after talks with Suns owner Robert Sarver failed to result in an agreement on a contract extension. The last year of Stoudemire's contract was worth about $17.7 million. Walters said the Suns remain in the picture.
Undrafted first-team All-American Scottie Reynolds will play for the Suns' entry in the Las Vegas Summer League.
The 6-foot-2 guard from Villanova was the first AP All-American unselected in the draft since the NBA-ABA merger in 1976.
SAN ANTONIO: Richard Jefferson has opted out of the final year of his contract and will become a free agent.
Jacob Wetterling’s Case investigation is exclusive only to the courts said Deputy Chief Bruce Bechtold Stearns County Sheriff’s Department. This order was issued by Judge Stearns County so he cannot disclose any updates about the case.
Meanwhile, the FBI also support search operations in that area according to C. Wilson, the representative of the FBI.
Also, the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children has some people on the ground in St. Joseph, working to support the sheriff and the FBI.
Jacob Wetterling’s father Jerry Wetterling, in the meantime, stated: “I do not really want to get into any specific suspects or people, because I really do not know what is happening there. I just know there is a lot of activity. When I drove to work this morning, there were five or six squad cars this way, and I was extremely surprised. There were leads that were pursued aggressively for several months at a time. There were over 30,000 leads in this case. … I just know when they have no leads in the past, law enforcement will do everything they think they need to continue, especially lead. We’ve just been so grateful for all the interest and support, people helping and trying to figure out what really happened to Jacob. We kind of learned how to survive, we can not get too high or low on any specific leads. Otherwise, we would have the emotional wreckage.”
Jacob Wetterling was 11, when he was abducted on October 22, 1989.
Jacob Wetterling Case last clear lead was in January 2009. Vernon Seitz, a man from Milwaukee, who confessed to killing two children in 1950 and died in December 2008 had newspaper clippings and photographs of young Jacob along with child pornography and books about cannibalism in his home but Milwaukee police together with the Stearns Sheriff had worked to find out if there is a connection but proved that there is none.
Jacob Wetterling’s (supposedly 32) whereabouts is still unknown. He has the most famous missing child case in Minnesota. He was with his brother and friend when he was kidnapped approximately half a mile from his residence in St. Joseph in Central Minnesota. The man who kidnapped him had a gun and appeared from the woods.
Jacob Wetterling Foundation is the product of Jacob’s name being synonymous with missing and vulnerable children. It was formed by Jacob Wetterling’s parents, Jerry and Patty in 1990. It merged with the National Child Protection Training Center and led community sex offender notification forums and raising awareness about child sexual exploitation and abduction. It was renamed Jacob Wetterling Resource Center later.
Jacob Wetterling’s family organized a children’s concert last year at the College of Saint Benedict in Saint Joseph to commemorate the twentieth anniversary of his disappearance. His mother even wrote then published a book last year entitled “Hope of Jacob” so her grandchildren can understand what happened to their uncle. Patty Wetterling’s even said to an Interview Pioneer Press that she remains as dumbfounded as others to how such a crime can happen in a small town. She stated: “We do not know what happened. It’s just a whole bunch of ‘We do not know.’ There’s no such word as ‘closure.’ Answers. We need answers.”
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PRETORIA — Japanese coach Takeshi Okada can approach his likely new vocation of farming in a confident frame of mind after probably bowing out of football with his head held high following Japan's impressive showing at the World Cup finals.
The bespectacled, undemonstrative 53-year-old could be forgiven also for cocking a snook at the sceptics, who ridiculed his target of a semi-final spot for a side that was on a four-game friendlies losing streak and finding goals hard to come by.
However, they came within a penalty shootout defeat by Paraguay in their Last 16 clash on Tuesday of getting closer to that dream - no shame there and backed up by group stage wins over Cameroon (1-0) and Denmark (3-1) while only losing 1-0 to The Netherlands.
Okada, though, was as humble after the Paraguay defeat as he has been throughout his second spell in charge of the national side - the former international having guided Japan through the 1998 finals where they lost all three matches.
"They have not come with the sole purpose of surprising you but they've come with the purpose of surprising you by winning," Okada said after Yuichi Komano's failed spot kick ended Japan's dream of progressing.
"However to that end, I'm not satisfied because we've fallen short of that goal (against Paraguay)."
Whether he was happy or not at the Paraguay loss he earned unstinting praise from an unlikely media source, the Sankei Sports, which only six months ago published a poll that revealed 86 percent of those asked wanted him sacked and 80 percent responded that they didn't think Japan would win one match at the finals.
However, on Wednesday the Sankei Sports struck an entirely different stance.
"Manager Okada has strongly impressed the world with an aggressive defence led by a battling spirit," the Sankei Sports said.
Okada was typically philosophical about the sudden turnaround in the media's estimation of him.
"As it has changed so much, it will change again," he said. "Either I am praised or get a media-bashing, I won't change."
Okada got special credit for having changed his tactics from an all-round style of play, which had worked in Asian qualifying, to a defensive strategy with rising CSKA Moscow star midfielder Keisuke Honda boosting Japan's feeble firepower as a lone striker.
"Many people criticised us before the tournament and I accept that," said 24-year-old Honda, who scored two goals and created one at the finals.
"If not for them, I don't know if we'd come this far."
Okada, a Zen student who has often mixed his team talks with lectures on religion, philosophy and history, has repeatedly said he would leave football after the finals though, he has been suggested as a viable candidate for the top FA job.
He told a British football magazine that he would retire to become a "farmer" who reads books when it rains and toils on the land when the sun shines, a lifestyle idealised by intellectual recluses in Japan.
"I probably won't do it any longer," Okada said after the Paraguay defeat.
Okada - who could be replaced as Japan coach by German 1990 World Cup winning defender Guido Buchwald - warned that the relative success in South Africa doesn't mean that Japan have established themselves permanently among the world's elite.
"When you keep on piling bricks vertically, they will eventually crumble," he said. "There are times when you have to lay them sideways."
MIAMI — Hurricane Alex was becoming stronger in the Gulf of Mexico Wednesday, but was expected to skirt oil fields before making landfall later in the day or early Thursday.
The first named storm of the Atlantic season became a Category 1 hurricane late Tuesday night as it slowly moved west toward northern Mexico where it was expected to drop as much as a foot of rain.
The National Hurricane Center warned that Alex could become a Category 2 storm before hitting the coast south of Brownsville, Texas. It would then start to weaken as it moved over the land.
While the storm was forecast to miss major oil drilling sites, rough seas and rain were already hampering efforts to control damage left by an ongoing spill from the major leak at a BP Plc facility south of Louisiana.
Alex's storm center early Wednesday was about 235 miles southeast of Brownsville, the NHC said. The storm was moving westward erratically about 5 mph far south and west of the BP oil spill.
The NHC said Alex packed winds of 80 miles per hour and sustained even higher gusts.
A hurricane warning was issued from the Texas coast south of Baffin Bay, about 250 miles southward past the mouth of the Rio Grande to La Cruz, near the Mexican coast. Except for the border area itself, both regions are lightly populated. Hurricane-force winds extended 15 miles from the storm center, the NHC said. Tropical storm forces reached up to 175 miles.
NEW YORK — Anna Chapman has been called the femme fatale of a spy case with Cold War-style intrigue — a striking redhead and self-styled entrepreneur who dabbled in real estate and mused on her Facebook page, "if you can dream, you can become it."
Chapman's American dream, U.S. authorities say, was a ruse.
The 28-year-old Chapman, they say, was a savvy Russian secret agent who worked with a network of other operatives before an FBI undercover agent lured her into an elaborate trap at a coffee shop in lower Manhattan.
Though the U.S. has branded the operatives as living covertly, at least in Chapman's case, she had taken care to brand herself publicly as a striver of the digital age, passionately embracing online social networking by posting information and images of herself for the world to see.
Prosecutors have charged Chapman and 10 other suspects with following orders by Russian intelligence to become "Americanized" enough to infiltrate "policymaking circles" and feed information back to Moscow.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Michael Farbiarz has called evidence against Chapman "devastating." She is "someone who has extraordinary training, who is a sophisticated agent of Russia," he said.
Her mother, who lives in western Moscow, said she is convinced of her daughter's innocence.
"Of course I believe that she's innocent," Irina Kushchenko told The Associated Press. She refused to comment further.
Chapman and nine others accused of being ring members were arrested across the Northeast and charged with failing to register as foreign agents, a crime that is less serious than espionage and carries up to five years in prison. Some also face money laundering charges. An 11th suspect was arrested in Cyprus, accused of passing money to the other 10 over several years.
Prosecutors said several of the defendants were Russians living in the U.S. under assumed names and posing as Canadian or American citizens. It was unclear how and where they were recruited, but court papers said the operation went as far back as the 1990s. Exactly what sort of information the agents are alleged to have provided to their Russian handlers — and how valuable it may have been — was not disclosed.
The FBI finally moved in to break up the ring because one of the suspects — apparently Chapman, who was bound for Moscow, according to court papers — was going to leave the country, the Department of Justice said Tuesday.
The court papers allege that some of the ring's members were husband and wife and that they used invisible ink, coded radio transmissions and encrypted data and employed methods such as swapping bags in passing at a train station.
Farbiarz called the arrests "the tip of the iceberg" of a conspiracy by Russia's intelligence service, the SVR, to collect information inside the U.S. The arrests raised fears that Moscow has planted other couples.
Such deep-cover agents are known as "illegals" in the intelligence world because they take civilian jobs instead of operating inside Russian embassies and military missions.
Russian officials initially denounced the arrests as "Cold War-era spy stories" and accused elements of the U.S. government of trying to undermine the improving relationship between Moscow and Washington. But the White House and Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin expressed confidence that the arrests would not damage ties between the two nations.
At a court hearing Monday in federal court in Manhattan, where Chapman was jailed without bail, her attorney called the case against her weak. He said she had visited the United States on and off since 2005 before settling in Manhattan to start a business.
Chapman took an apartment a block from Wall Street and began using online social networks, including LinkedIn and Facebook, to develop business contacts and to market her skills. On her LinkedIn page, Chapman is listed as the chief executive officer of PropertyFinder Ltd., which maintains a website featuring real estate listings in Moscow, Spain, Bulgaria and other countries.
Biographical information on Chapman on the Lifenews.ru website said she was the daughter of a Russian diplomat, who at one time worked in Kenya. It said she moved to Britain after marrying a Briton whose father was Europe director for Auchan, the French supermarket chain, which operates many stores in Russia.
"Love launching innovative high-tech startups and building passionate teams to bring value into market," Chapman's LinkedIn summary says.
She lists previous jobs at an investment company and a hedge fund in London. The summary also says she earned a master's degree in economics at a Russian university in 2005.
In more than 90 photos posted to Facebook, Chapman is pictured in various countries, including Turkey, where she is in one of the rooms of the luxurious Hotel Les Ottoman, in Istanbul. There are also what look like family photographs from Russia and photographs of her dressed in a student uniform.
Her Internet footprints also include a photo of her posing with a glass of wine between two men at the Global Technology Symposium at Stanford University in March — it cost more than $1,000 to attend — and video clips, speaking in Russian about the economic opportunities in her adopted home.
Media reports quickly branded her a femme fatale, and tabloids splashed her photos on their front pages.
An acquaintance, David Hartman, owner of a New York real estate company, described Chapman as "pleasant, very professional, friendly."
"There's nothing too crazy about her that I knew of," he said.
A criminal complaint alleges that, unbeknownst to her business contacts such as Hartman, Chapman was using a specially configured laptop computer to transmit messages to another computer of an unnamed Russian official — a handler who was under surveillance by the FBI.
The laptop exchanges occurred 10 times, always on Wednesdays, until June, when an undercover FBI agent got involved, prosecutors said. The agent, posing as a Russian consulate employee and wearing a wire, arranged a meeting with Chapman at a Manhattan coffee shop, they said.
During the meeting, they initially spoke in Russian but then agreed to switch to English to draw less attention to themselves, the complaint says in recounting their recorded conversation.
"I need more information about you before I can talk."
"OK. My name is Roman. ... I work in the consulate."
The undercover said he knew she was headed to Moscow in two weeks "to talk officially about your work," but before that, "I have a task for you to do tomorrow."
The task: To deliver a fraudulent passport to another woman working as a spy.
"Are you ready for this step?" he asked.
"S---, of course," she responded.
The undercover gave her a location and told her to hold a magazine a certain way — that way, she would be recognized by a Russian agent, who would in turn confirm her identity by saying to her, "Excuse me, but haven't we met in California last summer?"
But Chapman was leery, prosecutors said.
"You're positive no one is watching?" they say she told the undercover agent after being given the instructions.
Afterward, authorities say, she was concerned enough to buy a cell phone and make a "flurry of calls" to Russia. In one of the intercepted calls, a man advised her she may have been uncovered, should turn in the passport to police and get out of the country.
She was arrested at a New York Police Department precinct after following that advice, authorities said.
In a video clip on a Russian website focused on investment in hi-tech start-ups, she talks about her ambitions to create a venture fund that would invest in projects in Russia and discusses the business opportunities offered by New York.
"Nothing has excited me more in life than the number and level of people I have met here. This place is full of ideas," she said in Russian.
"I'm trying to create a project that would connect two capitals — New York and Moscow — the two most important cities for me in the quest for ideas," she says.
Asked how someone new to business can meet the right people in New York, she says, "America is a free country, and it's the easiest place in the world to meet the most successful people. ... Here you can go out for dinner with your neighbor and meet a top venture capitalist."
Authorities say the undercover's parting words to her had been, "Your colleagues in Moscow, they know you're doing a good job. So keep it up."
NEW YORK — Anna Chapman has been called the femme fatale of a spy case with Cold War-style intrigue — a striking redhead and self-styled entrepreneur who dabbled in real estate and mused on her Facebook page, "if you can dream, you can become it."
Chapman's American dream, U.S. authorities say, was a ruse.
The 28-year-old Chapman, they say, was a savvy Russian secret agent who worked with a network of other operatives before an FBI undercover agent lured her into an elaborate trap at a coffee shop in lower Manhattan.
Though the U.S. has branded the operatives as living covertly, at least in Chapman's case, she had taken care to brand herself publicly as a striver of the digital age, passionately embracing online social networking by posting information and images of herself for the world to see.
Prosecutors have charged Chapman and 10 other suspects with following orders by Russian intelligence to become "Americanized" enough to infiltrate "policymaking circles" and feed information back to Moscow.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Michael Farbiarz has called evidence against Chapman "devastating." She is "someone who has extraordinary training, who is a sophisticated agent of Russia," he said.
Her mother, who lives in western Moscow, said she is convinced of her daughter's innocence.
"Of course I believe that she's innocent," Irina Kushchenko told The Associated Press. She refused to comment further.
Chapman and nine others accused of being ring members were arrested across the Northeast and charged with failing to register as foreign agents, a crime that is less serious than espionage and carries up to five years in prison. Some also face money laundering charges. An 11th suspect was arrested in Cyprus, accused of passing money to the other 10 over several years.
Prosecutors said several of the defendants were Russians living in the U.S. under assumed names and posing as Canadian or American citizens. It was unclear how and where they were recruited, but court papers said the operation went as far back as the 1990s. Exactly what sort of information the agents are alleged to have provided to their Russian handlers — and how valuable it may have been — was not disclosed.
The FBI finally moved in to break up the ring because one of the suspects — apparently Chapman, who was bound for Moscow, according to court papers — was going to leave the country, the Department of Justice said Tuesday.
The court papers allege that some of the ring's members were husband and wife and that they used invisible ink, coded radio transmissions and encrypted data and employed methods such as swapping bags in passing at a train station.
Farbiarz called the arrests "the tip of the iceberg" of a conspiracy by Russia's intelligence service, the SVR, to collect information inside the U.S. The arrests raised fears that Moscow has planted other couples.
Such deep-cover agents are known as "illegals" in the intelligence world because they take civilian jobs instead of operating inside Russian embassies and military missions.
Russian officials initially denounced the arrests as "Cold War-era spy stories" and accused elements of the U.S. government of trying to undermine the improving relationship between Moscow and Washington. But the White House and Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin expressed confidence that the arrests would not damage ties between the two nations.
At a court hearing Monday in federal court in Manhattan, where Chapman was jailed without bail, her attorney called the case against her weak. He said she had visited the United States on and off since 2005 before settling in Manhattan to start a business.
Chapman took an apartment a block from Wall Street and began using online social networks, including LinkedIn and Facebook, to develop business contacts and to market her skills. On her LinkedIn page, Chapman is listed as the chief executive officer of PropertyFinder Ltd., which maintains a website featuring real estate listings in Moscow, Spain, Bulgaria and other countries.
Biographical information on Chapman on the Lifenews.ru website said she was the daughter of a Russian diplomat, who at one time worked in Kenya. It said she moved to Britain after marrying a Briton whose father was Europe director for Auchan, the French supermarket chain, which operates many stores in Russia.
"Love launching innovative high-tech startups and building passionate teams to bring value into market," Chapman's LinkedIn summary says.
She lists previous jobs at an investment company and a hedge fund in London. The summary also says she earned a master's degree in economics at a Russian university in 2005.
In more than 90 photos posted to Facebook, Chapman is pictured in various countries, including Turkey, where she is in one of the rooms of the luxurious Hotel Les Ottoman, in Istanbul. There are also what look like family photographs from Russia and photographs of her dressed in a student uniform.
Her Internet footprints also include a photo of her posing with a glass of wine between two men at the Global Technology Symposium at Stanford University in March — it cost more than $1,000 to attend — and video clips, speaking in Russian about the economic opportunities in her adopted home.
Media reports quickly branded her a femme fatale, and tabloids splashed her photos on their front pages.
An acquaintance, David Hartman, owner of a New York real estate company, described Chapman as "pleasant, very professional, friendly."
"There's nothing too crazy about her that I knew of," he said.
A criminal complaint alleges that, unbeknownst to her business contacts such as Hartman, Chapman was using a specially configured laptop computer to transmit messages to another computer of an unnamed Russian official — a handler who was under surveillance by the FBI.
The laptop exchanges occurred 10 times, always on Wednesdays, until June, when an undercover FBI agent got involved, prosecutors said. The agent, posing as a Russian consulate employee and wearing a wire, arranged a meeting with Chapman at a Manhattan coffee shop, they said.
During the meeting, they initially spoke in Russian but then agreed to switch to English to draw less attention to themselves, the complaint says in recounting their recorded conversation.
"I need more information about you before I can talk."
"OK. My name is Roman. ... I work in the consulate."
The undercover said he knew she was headed to Moscow in two weeks "to talk officially about your work," but before that, "I have a task for you to do tomorrow."
The task: To deliver a fraudulent passport to another woman working as a spy.
"Are you ready for this step?" he asked.
"S---, of course," she responded.
The undercover gave her a location and told her to hold a magazine a certain way — that way, she would be recognized by a Russian agent, who would in turn confirm her identity by saying to her, "Excuse me, but haven't we met in California last summer?"
But Chapman was leery, prosecutors said.
"You're positive no one is watching?" they say she told the undercover agent after being given the instructions.
Afterward, authorities say, she was concerned enough to buy a cell phone and make a "flurry of calls" to Russia. In one of the intercepted calls, a man advised her she may have been uncovered, should turn in the passport to police and get out of the country.
She was arrested at a New York Police Department precinct after following that advice, authorities said.
In a video clip on a Russian website focused on investment in hi-tech start-ups, she talks about her ambitions to create a venture fund that would invest in projects in Russia and discusses the business opportunities offered by New York.
"Nothing has excited me more in life than the number and level of people I have met here. This place is full of ideas," she said in Russian.
"I'm trying to create a project that would connect two capitals — New York and Moscow — the two most important cities for me in the quest for ideas," she says.
Asked how someone new to business can meet the right people in New York, she says, "America is a free country, and it's the easiest place in the world to meet the most successful people. ... Here you can go out for dinner with your neighbor and meet a top venture capitalist."
Authorities say the undercover's parting words to her had been, "Your colleagues in Moscow, they know you're doing a good job. So keep it up."
