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Dungy to Stay for 2008 at Least, as Caldwell Waits for His Turn
01.21.08 (7:30 pm) [edit]In an unusual move, the Colts have already decided on his successor: Jim Caldwell, Dungy’s assistant head coach and quarterbacks coach.
Caldwell has coached with Dungy for six years in Indianapolis and one year in Tampa Bay and has helped guide one of the N.F.L.’s most consistently prolific offenses. Caldwell, 53, was the head coach at Wake Forest from 1993 to 2000.
Dungy, 52, has long said he did not consider himself a football lifer, and he has pondered retirement after each of the past few seasons. He is signed through 2009 and Caldwell recently signed a contract extension with the promise that he would be the next Colts coach. In the past Dungy has said he may start a prison ministry when he is finished with football. After last season, he wrote a best-selling book.
The recent speculation about Dungy’s future began when The Tampa Tribune reported that Dungy’s 16-year-old son, Eric, had enrolled for the spring semester in a school in Tampa, Fla., where the Dungy family has a home.
“I wouldn’t shortchange my family,” Dungy said at a news conference Monday in Indianapolis. “I wouldn’t come back if my wife or my children were not for it.”
After the Colts’ loss to the San Diego Chargers in the divisional playoffs, Dungy spent a week talking with family members and friends before making the decision to return. The Colts’ owner, Jim Irsay, had offered Dungy considerable flexibility to convince him to continue coaching, including allowing him to spend part of the off-season in Tampa and the use of Irsay’s private plane to fly to Tampa so he could watch his son play football Friday nights during the season.
“Tony is committed to his family; he’s committed to the franchise,” Irsay said. “Tony does a great job of balancing that.”
BILLS’ HARGROVE SUSPENDED FOR 2008 Buffalo Bills defensive end Anthony Hargrove was suspended without pay for the 2008 season by the N.F.L. after violating the league’s substance abuse policy a third time.
The violation was Hargrove’s second since August, when he was suspended without pay for the first four games of the regular season. A third violation triggers an automatic one-year suspension. When it ends, Hargrove must apply to Commissioner Roger Goodell for reinstatement.
The N.F.L. did not disclose how Hargrove violated the policy. Violations can result from positive tests, failure to cooperate in the testing program or failing to comply with a treatment plan.
Hargrove’s future in Buffalo was already uncertain. He was eligible to become a free agent this off-season. (AP)
RIVERS’S SECRET SURGERY Chargers quarterback Philip Rivers said Monday that he had arthroscopic surgery on his right knee a week ago in order to play in the American Football Conference championship game. He said he would need surgery on a torn anterior cruciate ligament in the same joint.
Rivers made it through Sunday’s 21-12 loss to the New England Patriots despite the damage to his knee, which he sustained in a victory against the Indianapolis Colts a week earlier. Rivers said he would like to have surgery as soon as possible on the torn ligament.
“It’s gone,” he said. “I don’t know exactly the details on that. I’ll be ready by training camp.”
Rivers said he had arthroscopic surgery a week earlier to clean out damaged cartilage. “It wasn’t real extensive, but I mean, really, that was the only way I would have had a chance to play by doing that on Monday,” he said.
Running back LaDainian Tomlinson said he was not going to need surgery on the sprained medial collateral ligament in his left knee. Tomlinson said he would probably sit out the Pro Bowl. (AP)
STANDOFF WITH STEELER’S GIRLFRIEND The girlfriend of Pittsburgh Steelers wide receiver Cedrick Wilson was in custody after a nearly 12-hour standoff at Wilson’s home in western Pennsylvania that led to the evacuation of about 70 neighbors, the police said.
Lindsey Paulat, 26, was charged with aggravated assault and recklessly endangering another person. At one point, Paulat fired two shots from Wilson’s handgun into a wall, the police said. No one was injured. (AP)
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Eddie Murphy and new wife split after two weeks
01.16.08 (10:38 pm) [edit]LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Comic actor Eddie Murphy and his new wife Tracey Edmonds have split up just two weeks after their romantic wedding in French Polynesia, People magazine reported on Wednesday. The star of "Shrek" and "Dreamgirls" and Edmonds, a film producer, exchanged their vows on a private island off Bora Bora on Jan. 1. Under U.S. law, the couple needed a ceremony on U.S. soil to make the marriage legal. But Murphy, 46, and Edmonds, 40, told People in a statement they would not do that and had decided to remain friends. "After much consideration and discussion, we have jointly decided that we will forego having a legal ceremony as it is not necessary to define our relationship further," the statement said. "While the recent symbolic union in Bora Bora was representative of our deep love, friendship and respect that we have for one another on a spiritual level, we have decided to remain friends," it added. Murphy, 46, was divorced from his wife of 13 years, Nicole, in 2006. They had five children together. Last year, he fathered a daughter with Melanie Brown of the Spice Girls, but did not acknowledge paternity until four months after the baby was born. Edmonds split last year with her husband, R&B singer/songwriter Kenneth "Babyface" Edmonds. They had two sons together. pls visit our website http://www.btbnt.com
Directors Guild of America enters the negotiation scene
01.13.08 (11:38 pm) [edit]The Writers Guild of America strike is either on the verge of ending or blowing up in spectacular fashion.
Several rapidly changing events have fueled speculation that the strike is about to take a big turn, chief among them: Saturday's early start of negotiations between the Directors Guild of America and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers, the group at odds with the striking WGA.
Conventional wisdom - or constantly repeated rhetoric - is that the DGA never actually starts negotiations unless it believes a deal is close. How does this happen? Super secret (or not) backdoor meetings meant to cut the nonsense and get to the fine points, or at least to the point where the fine points are visible and nearly agreeable.
Here's part of a letter DGA President Michael Apted sent to members: "As I have stated before, we would not enter negotiations with the AMPTP unless we were within shouting distance of an agreement on our two most important issues: jurisdiction for our members to work in new media and appropriate compensation for the reuse of our work on the Internet and other new media platforms."
The question at hand is how far is "shouting distance": 48 hours, a week, three weeks? In his letter, Apted also said: "As is our practice, once we enter negotiations (Saturday), there will be a total news blackout on the talks. As soon as there is anything definitive to report we will be in touch with the membership."
The billion-dollar Internet residual question is: What if the directors cut a deal that's no good for the writers (or the actors)?
We'll know when the DGA lifts its "blackout," but you can be sure there are equal amounts of worry mixing with all of this sudden hope.
See, here's where it gets interesting - or dangerous, depending on which union you're in. You've got three disparate unions all made up of creative artists - the WGA, the DGA and the Screen Actors Guild - which negotiate separate deals with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (a.k.a. the movie studios, networks and major media conglomerates). Obviously, the WGA's deal ended first and no agreement was reached (mostly over new media payments for Internet use, but also a change in the formula for DVD residuals), so writers are walking the streets with picket signs.
The contracts for both the DGA and SAG expire June 30. In a show of heretofore unequaled solidarity (at least in times of crises), the actors union said it would fully support the writers union, which is precisely why there are no televised Golden Globes this year.
Relatively quiet in all of this picket waving, supportive online videos and arm holding? The directors.
The unspoken story in Hollywood is that the directors have always taken care of themselves first and the other two unions - especially the writers - are forever dubious about the directors' intentions. Then again, the directors union is also considered an ideal peacemaker in the industry - a rung or two closer to management, perhaps, or whiter collars? - so maybe it will negotiate terms that are acceptable to the writers and actors, and Hollywood will be back in business and there will be peace (and entertainment) in our time.
Or not. If the DGA cuts a deal not satisfactory to the writers, the strike continues. And if the DGA deal isn't good for SAG, we could have more pickets by summer.
Meanwhile, the highly debatable strategy of the writers - cutting deals with "independent" companies like David Letterman's Worldwide Pants and the United Artists film company - continues apace and maybe, just maybe, there's some logic amid the danger. Late Friday, WGA President Patric Verrone said the union had "signed an independent agreement with the Weinstein Co., one of the most important and successful independent film studios in the business. This deal is virtually identical to the agreement made with United Artists and Worldwide Pants and, like those deals, includes all the new media and other proposals, which were about to be presented to the conglomerates when they left the table on Dec. 7. More of these agreements are in the works, and I expect to be able to announce the next one soon."
This is a divide and conquer strategy by the WGA in which the main AMPTP "conglomerates" are meant to look foolish and greedy because smaller companies in the business have no problem paying writers what they're asking. On the other hand, the strategy is putting some writers back to work, while everyone else is forced to walk the line ("Does this mean Jay Leno won't bring us anymore food?").
That seems risky. But so does hoping a separate union cuts a deal you can live with (instead of one that cuts you off at the knees).
Heading into Week 11 of the WGA strike, there's also this ominous notion that the writers have already lost something precious on the network side: time slots.
A network executive told me last week that the writers may have lost a few hours on the schedule to reality (or "unscripted") programming that they will be hard-pressed to get back. The same thing happened during the last writers strike, so there's some precedent for that, of course.
But the executive said the numbers are too good to ignore - and the relatively cheap costs compared with a scripted drama or sitcom also can't be denied. And this is all before any new, huge franchise reality series are born during the strike.
Scare tactics and/or rhetoric? Sure. All of the shows the executive used as examples have been seen before and are benefiting from the lack of new ongoing scripted series because of the strike.
And some of the upcoming reality fare scheduled for later this month is highly dubious: Fox's "Moment of Truth" lie detector series is bound to be controversial (contestants answer embarrassing questions while hooked up to a lie detector as their families watch from the audience) as is NBC's "Baby Borrowers" (couples as young as 18 care for someone else's baby).
Made-to-shock reality series often have short shelf lives. Just because there's an infusion of strike-necessitated alternative programming doesn't mean writers have lost precious time slots.
But if there's something like "American Idol" out there? Sure, time to worry. But that's always a worry, strike or no. The bet here is that once this strike ends, the networks will want to get back to storytelling, not baby borrowing.
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T he vast majority of Britain's 14.4million female motorists admit to putting style before safety, research shows.
B ut road safety experts say they should jettison the chunky wide-armed variety of sunglasses worn by Kylie Minogue, Paris Hilton and Victoria Beckham - as well as those with pink or very dark lenses.
T he Eyecare Trust charity also advised women to make safety their first priority with sunglasses for driving.
M ore than eight out of ten women (82 per cent) surveyed failed to consider safety when choosing sunglasses for driving - equivalent to 11.8million female motorists.
O ne in ten - 1.3million - drive in wide-armed glasses that severely restrict their peripheral vision. A further 7 per cent wear lenses that are so dark they are illegal for driving.
T he researchers commissioned by insurer Sheilas' Wheels also found that fewer than one in five (18 per cent) of women bought sunglasses specifically for driving while almost two-thirds (61 per cent) based their choice on appearance rather than practicality.
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