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9:00 PM: The NCAA has granted a waiver to allow Afghanistan war veteran Daniel Rodriguez to play football at Clemson this season. Rodriguez received a Bronze Star for his actions during the Battle of Kamdesh.

8:45 PM: A 91-year-old grandmother who caught a foul ball at a recent San Jose Giants game has been invited back to throw out the first pitch for the Giants' July 6 home game against the Modesto Nuts.

8:30 PM: Indiana Pacers player Roy Hibbert on the team picking Miles Plumlee: "Y'all still mad about the draft last night.... Well get over it. Miles is a good player y'all will see."

8:15 PM: L.A.'s Harvard-Westlake High School is building a new $5 million swim complex, including a pool imported from Italy.

8:00 PM: CSN Bay Area's Amy Gutierrez reports the San Francisco Giants have purchased the contract of pitcher Brad Penny.

7:45 PM: Steve Nash tweets his congrats to fellow Canadian players Andrew Nicholson (Magic), Kris Joseph (Celtics) & Robert Sacre (Lakers) on getting drafted last night.

7:30 PM: Derek Jeter got his 3,185th career hit on Friday to move past Cal Ripken Jr. to 13th place on the MLB all-time list.

7:15 PM: TSN's Darren Drager reports that Wayne Gretzky called 20-year-old free agent defenseman Justin Schultz in order to convince him to sign with the Edmonton Oilers.

7:00 PM: A federal prosecutor has accused a suspected marijuana dealer with supplying drugs to members of the 2010-11 Kansas Jayhawks basketball team.

6:45 PM: ESPN PR guy Mike Soltys announces that Erin Andrews is leaving the network: "She did great work for us & we made an aggressive offer to keep her. We wish her the best on her next chapter."

6:30 PM: When he learned a Denver brewery was making "Clown Question Bro" beer, Bryce Harper asked that part of the proceeds go to the daughter of a Denver police woman & single mother who was shot & killed while working security at a jazz concert.

6:15 PM: Milwaukee Brewers pitcher John Axford reveals that the top of his locker is filled with Swedish Fish: "I think I have a problem! Mmmm...a delicious problem!"

5:45 PM: Gilbert Gottfried tweets: "Tom Cruise ends his marriage...or as most people called it 'Mission Impossible'" And Weird Al Yankovic adds: "Sorry to hear that Tom Cruise's marriage has jumped the couch."

5:30 PM: A McEachern (Georgia) High School football, track & girls' basketball assistant coach has been arrested on charges of having a sexual relationship with a female student.

5:15 PM: Georgia Bulldogs RB Isaiah Crowell has been dismissed from the team following his arrest on weapons charges early Friday.

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Asian markets, euro jump on eurozone deal

Asian markets and the euro surged Friday after eurozone leaders struck a surprise deal to allow the bloc's bailout fund to directly support struggling banks and pledged $150 billion to boost growth.

The euro was up almost 1.2 percent after the agreement, which will allow emergency aid to crisis-hit Italy and Spain, was announced following marathon talks at an EU summit to save the ailing single currency.

Regional bourses, which had expected little from the summit, surged on the news, with Tokyo ending 1.50 percent, or 132.67 points, higher at 9,006.78, and Hong Kong closing 2.19 percent, or 416.19 points, up at 19,441.46.

Seoul finished up 1.91 percent, or 34.83 points, at 1,854.01, while Sydney ended up 1.23 percent, or 49.8 points, at 4,094.6. Shanghai closed 1.35 percent, or 29.59 points, higher at 2,225.43.

The accord struck in Brussels paves the way for the eurozone's 500-billion-euro ($630 billion) bailout fund to recapitalise ailing banks directly, without passing through national budgets and adding to struggling countries' debt mountains.

But this would occur only after a Europe-wide banking supervisory body is set up, with leaders aiming for that to happen at the end of the year.

It was also agreed the bailout funds would be used "in a flexible and efficient manner in order to stabilise markets", a reference to buying countries' bonds to drive down high borrowing costs that have crippled Spain and Italy.

EU president Herman Van Rompuy hailed the deal as a "real breakthrough" that would calm financial markets and reshape the eurozone to prevent a recurrence of the debt crisis.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel appeared to have dropped her insistence on recapitalisation funds to banks being channelled through governments.

EU leaders also agreed a package of measures worth some 120 billion euros they hope will bolster growth in the recession-hit bloc.

In a shock move, Italy and Spain had earlier threatened to block the "growth pact" unless they won concessions on short-term moves to help their economies.

But the head of the eurogroup finance ministers, Luxembourg Prime Minister Jean-Claude Juncker, said early Friday that the two countries had dropped their resistance in return for measures to stabilise their economies.

Investors had low expectations from the summit, just one of many attempts to resolve the long-running euro debt crisis, and the deal took Asian markets by surprise.

But analysts warned against overoptimism.

"It is a bit of relief, but it is not a game changer," Wee-Khoon Chong, Asia rates strategist at Societe Generale in Hong Kong, told Dow Jones Newswires. "The market is quite thin and it might have overreacted."

Markets had earlier edged higher after a decline on Wall Street.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed down 0.20 percent, or 24.75 points, at 12,602.26 on Thursday, after having been off by more than 170 points during the session.

The recovery from early losses in the last hour of New York trade came amid short covering and hopes that EU leaders would agree measures to stem the crisis.

On currency markets in early European trade, the euro was at $1.2583 from $1.2449 in morning Tokyo trade, while it also rose against the Japanese currency to 99.92 yen from 98.60 earlier Friday.

Oil surged on the eurozone deal. New York's main contract, light sweet crude for delivery in August rose $1.66 to $79.35 a barrel and Brent North Sea crude for August delivery gained $1.28 cents to $92.64.

Gold was at $1,579.62 an ounce at 1110 GMT, compared with $1,569.79 an ounce late Thursday.

In other markets:

-- Taipei rose 1.77 percent, or 126.67 points, to 7,296.28.

Smartphone maker HTC rose 3.87 percent to Tw$389.5 while Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. was 1.75 percent higher at Tw$81.3.

-- Wellington was down 0.04 percent, or 1.51 points, to finish at 3,399.84.

Telecom Corp. dropped 0.42 percent to NZ$2.39, Fletcher Building was off 1.01 percent at NZ$5.87 and Chorus was up 0.64 percent to NZ$3.14.

-- Manila closed 0.19 percent, or 9.74 points, at 5,246.41.

Philippine Long Distance Telephone Co. slipped 1.41 percent to 2,650 pesos, while Metropolitan Bank lost 1.50 percent to 92.50 pesos.

-- Singapore closed 1.11 percent, or 31.63 points, higher at 2,878.45 points.

Diversified conglomerate Keppel Corp was 0.69 percent higher at Sg$10.28 and commodities trading firm Olam International eased 0.28 percent to Sg$1.81.

-- Kuala Lumpur was 0.31 percent, or 4.91 points, higher at 1,599.15.

Utility Tenaga Nasional gained 0.75 percent to 6.74 ringgit, while plantation giant Sime Darby inched up 0.10 percent to 9.89. Budget carrier AirAsia lost 0.28 percent to 3.57 ringgit.

-- Jakarta rose 1.75 percent, or 68.00 points, to close at 3,955.57.

Adaro rose 6.6 percent to 1,450 rupiah, Bayan Resources gained 6.4 percent to 700 rupiah, Bumi Resources added 2.8 percent to 1,110 rupiah and Bukit Asam rose one percent to 14,650 rupiah.

-- Bangkok edged up 0.07 percent, or 0.79 points, to 1,172.11.

Energy firm Banpu rose 2.28 percent to 448.00 baht and oil giant PTT was up 0.94 percent at 323.00 baht.

-- Mumbai rose 2.59 percent, or 439.22 points, to 17,429.98.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/asian-markets-euro-jump-eurozone-deal-085818420--finance.html

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S. Korea to open controversial new mini-capital

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Octomom and Frankie Grageda Go on a Date!!!!!

Octomom Nadya Suleman and new boyfriend Frankie Grageda went on a date this week. Stunning and breaking news right there, we know. Breathe.

Who knows how you arrange a babysitter when you have 14 children and a house in foreclosure, but lo and behold, Octomom apparently pulled it off.

Gotta make time for yourself and your love life, right?!

Octo began dating Frankie G, a 23-year-old bodybuilder, two months ago.

That's a decent chunk of time, but the pair had not been able to go on their first real date without the brood until this week, when Frankie stepped up to the plate.

He reportedly got a friend to watch the kids so he could take her to the beach in Santa Monica! There, she reenacted these scenes from the Octomom porn movie.

Just kidding ... but it wouldn't have surprised us.

The two worked out together on the beach, with Frankie Grageda helping her get in shape for her stripper gig at The Playhouse in Hollywood, Fla., on July 13.

Who said true romance was dead?

[Photo: TMZ]

Source: http://www.thehollywoodgossip.com/2012/06/octomom-and-frankie-grageda-go-on-a-date/

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Fort Worth TX Home Spa Prices - Indoor Swimming Pool Guide

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Rip, Don?t Read

Oct. 6, 2009: ?Will we know what is in the bill before we are required to vote on it? ? I have heard it time and time again, particularly since the passage of the stimulus bill that we got roughly at 11 o'clock on a Thursday night and were required to vote on in less than 24 hours?my constituents are saying: Is it asking too much to have you read the bill before you vote on it? I voted no on that bill for a lot of reasons, but I didn't have the time, nor I suspect did many Members of Congress have the time, to read it before we were required to vote on it.?

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NFL Communications - NFL shifts CBS & FOX late doubleheader ...

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