THURSDAY, JANUARY 24, 2013
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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
QUOTE OF THE DAY
"Proud of my husband and the Pats. By the way, if anyone is bored, please go to Ray Lewis' Wikipedia page, 6 kids 4 wives. Acquitted for murder. Paid a family off. Yay. What a hall of fame player! A true role model."
— Wes Welker's wife
Facebook post (Anna Welker)
Deadspin.com
FACT OF THE DAY
San Francisco 48ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick is the pet owner of a 100 pound tortoise.
- San Francisco Chronicle
TRIVIA OF THE DAY
Q: Who was Ray Lewis' first recorded NFL sack?
A: Jim Harbaugh
THE MORNING BREW
-LA Times
Robinson struggles in the Association
Thomas Robinson is perhaps the most beloved player in Kansas basketball history. While stealing
the hearts of basketball fans near and far, Robinson led the Jayhawks to the National Championship all while earning a spot on the first team All-American squad.
Everyone loves Robinson. All Robinson's actions, good and bad, were justifiable in the eyes of any Kansas fan. It needs no further explanation; everyone loved Thomas Robinson.
Robinson was selected fifth overall in the 2012 NBA draft by the Sacramento Kings. Not much has been heard of the man since. In short, it's been a rough start.
To start off, Robinson struggled through summer league, and was ultimately 'selected' to SBnation.com's 'All Disappointing Team.'
Bigger news involving Robinson came when his mid-game frustration resulted in a viciously angry elbow to the esophagus of Detroit Pistons' forward Jonas Jerebko (not a bad Youtube watch), earning T-Rob a two-game suspension.
On Jan. 15, Robinson wrecked his beautiful (and expensive) Porsche Panamera on a concrete median in Sacramento following a win over the
Cleveland Cavaliers. Robinson was a little late executing a right turn, and proceeded to pretty-well deface the front of the Porsche. The vehicle was left straddling on the foot-high concrete divide. Kings fans had plenty of fun with comments relating to 'Robinson lane troubles.'
Most recently on Saturday, Robinson was the victim of an unintentional Ramon Sessions elbow to the kisser. Robinson was still able to play Monday despite an 11-stitch patch-up-job.
As for a performance review, Robinson hasn't exactly been exceeding the expectations of the Kings' organization or himself. Robinson has averaged only 4.5 points and 15 minutes per game, but T-Rob is certain he's getting there.
"It just took me a little longer than the rest of them," said Robinson referring to the progress of other NBA rookies. "But
I'm back on track."
With Robinson getting limited minutes, Kings head coach Keith Smart has made Robinson's objective clear.
"Try to be an efficient player in the minutes that you have." Smart said. "And I think so far over the [recent] games, he's played well with what he does well already."
This week in athletics
Edited by Laken Rapier
Robinson's NBA career has been everything but smooth so far, and in all honesty, no NBA doings will be able to taint the legacy left by the "Team F.O.E." co-president. But as for now, let's hold on to the older memories.
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Ex-cheerleader sues gossip website
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Hoooman Karamian, who goes by the name Nik Richie, testified in a northern Kentucky courtroom that cheerleader Sarah Jones was on national television and participated in community events because of the high-profile job. Public figures trying to prove defamation have a higher burden than people who aren't in the public eye.
COVINGTON, Ky. — A gossip website operator defended himself Wednesday against a defamation lawsuit by arguing that a former Cincinnati Bengals cheerleader featured in posts on the site is a public figure.
Richie, 33, also said his Scottsdale, Ariz.-based website, thedirty.com, is similar to Facebook, Twitter and YouTube in the way it features user content. Richie has said the two posts cited in Jones' lawsuit included text and photos submitted by people who knew her.
"My position is freedom of speech, and people are entitled to their own opinion," Richie testified. "This is America."
Jones, a onetime teacher who pleaded guilty to having sex with her 17-year-old former student, is suing Richie and the website over two posts in 2009 that were unrelated to her relationship with the teen.
Her attorney, Eric Deters, is arguing that the posts tarnished her reputation as a teacher and Bengals cheerleader before she ever had a relationship with the teen, causing her severe emotional distress.
In the first post in October 2009, Jones is pictured smiling for the camera with a former kicker for the Bengals. The caption says she had sex with every member of the team.
The second showed her in a bikini from one of the Bengals calendars. It claimed that her ex-husband contracted chlamydia and gonorrhea after cheating on her with more than 50 women, and that he likely gave it to
her.
Richie, who lives in Orange County, Calif., with his wife and 1-year-old daughter, said in an interview last week that the comments came from someone who knew Jones and had access to photos she posted on Facebook. He said the only thing he wrote about Jones was in the second post, saying, "Why are all high school teachers freaks in the sacks?"
Richie's attorney, Alexis Mattingly, showed jurors glossy calendar photos of Jones wearing bikinis and reminded them that Jones lied to police, her family and her bosses about her relationship with the teenager.
Jones has said repeatedly that she has only had sex with two people, her former husband and the teenager.
Jones pleaded guilty in October to having sex with the teen under an agreement that let her avoid jail time. The two are still together.
Testimony in the defa-
mation trial is expected to wrap
up Thursday and will include
footage of Richie from an
appearance on "The Dr. Phil
Show." The jury could reach
a verdict as early as the af-
ternoon.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Sarah Jones, a former teacher and Cincinnati Ben-Gal cheer-leader, was convicted of having sex with her 17-year-old student.
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