The NBA has banned Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling for life and fined him $2.5 million for racial comments he made to his reported girlfriend. The NBA will immediately begin working to try to force him to sell the team.
“The hateful opinions voiced by that of the man [on the tape] are those of Donald Sterling,” NBA commissioner Adam Silver said. “…I’m personally distraught the views expressed by Mr. Sterling came from within an institution that has historically taken such a leadership role in matters of race relations.”
As part of the ban, Sterling is not allowed “to attend any NBA games or practices, be present at any Clippers office or facility, or participate in any business or player personnel decisions involving the team.” Sterling also will be barred from attending any Board of Governors meetings and participating in any other league activity.
The fine is the maximum the NBA can issue under the NBA constitution, Silver said. Seventy-five percent of the NBA’s owners must vote to oust Sterling to force him to sell.
“I fully expect to get the support needed,” Silver said.
Several groups hoping to purchase the Clippers are already stepping forward with a bidding war expected to exceed $1 billion for the franchise, league sources told Yahoo Sports. Among those groups, Magic Johnson and Guggenheim Partners will be front and center in pursuit of the Clippers.
L.A. Clippers owner Donald Sterling has been captured on tape going on a racist rant against Black people after his bi-racial girlfriend posted pictures of her and Black people on Instagram, reports TMZ.
Sterling’s girlfriend, V. Stiviano, who is Black and Mexican, posted a picture of herself with Magic Johnson, prompting Sterling to say that she was embarrassing him. He told Stiviano that she was supposed to be a “delicate” Latina and that he preferred not to think about her Blackness. He also told his girlfriend, who said that she could not be racist in her heart, that he does not want her to acknowledge Black people publicly.
Read more from TMZ:
– “It bothers me a lot that you want to broadcast that you’re associating with black people. Do you have to?” (3:30)
– “You can sleep with [black people]. You can bring them in, you can do whatever you want. The little I ask you is not to promote it on that … and not to bring them to my games.” (5:15)
– “I’m just saying, in your lousy f******* Instagrams, you don’t have to have yourself with, walking with black people.” (7:45)
– “…Don’t put him [Magic] on an Instagram for the world to have to see so they have to call me. And don’t bring him to my games.” (9:13)
Magic Johnson called Sterling’s remarks a “shame.”
“It’s a shame that Donald Sterling feels that way about African-Americans,” Johnson told TMZ.
“He has a team full of amazing African-American basketball players that are working to bring a championship to Clippers fans. The Clippers also have a strong minority fan base.”
Sterling has a documented history of allegedly racist behavior — he’s been sued twice by the federal government for allegedly refusing to rent apartments to Blacks and Latinos.
The U.S. Department of Justice on Monday sued [Sterling] for housing discrimination, claiming he refused to rent apartments to blacks and families with children.
Federal prosecutors contend that Sterling, his wife, Rochelle, and their family trust refused to rent to many prospective tenants, treated them poorly and misrepresented the availability of apartments to them in the city’s Koreatown section.
The defendants also are accused of refusing to rent to black prospective tenants in Beverly Hills as well as families with children looking to rent apartments that the defendants owned or managed in Los Angeles County.
“Here in Los Angeles, where housing is already at a premium, it is imperative that no one be denied housing simply because of their skin color, ethnic background or because they have children,” said U.S. Attorney Debra Wong Yang.
A message left with attorney Michael Kennick, who has represented Sterling in previous lawsuits, was not immediately returned Monday.
Claiming violations of the federal Fair Housing Act, the lawsuit seeks an end to “discriminating on account of race, national origin and familial status,” plus unspecified monetary damages and penalties. The lawsuit also names as defendants the Sterling Family Trust and the Korean Land Company, which owns multifamily rental properties throughout the county.
In November, a federal judge ordered Sterling to pay nearly $5 million in fees to plaintiffs’ attorneys in a lawsuit accusing him of discriminating against black and Hispanic tenants.
He was also sued by former Clippers exec Elgin Baylor for racial discrimination, TMZ reports.
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Chakaya Brittney Folborg was sentenced to life in prison after admitting she used a steak knife to kill her sister in the shower, authorities said. ‘The mother and their 12-year-old sister were on the other side of the bathroom door begging her to stop when they heard this,’ an officer said.
COBB COUNTY JAILChakaya Brittney Folborg admitted in court Wednesday to killing her sister.
A Georgia woman was sentenced to life in prison after she admitted to stabbing her sister to death with a steak knife.
Chakaya Brittney Folborg, 24, pleaded guilty in court Wednesday to the murder of her adopted sister Kourtney Chanel Dyches in their Mableton home on Feb. 20, 2012, authorities said.
The sisters were both 21 years old at the time.
“It was straight up jealousy,” Sherwin Figueroa, assistant district attorney of Cobb County, told the Daily News. “It’s just wrong and it is what it is.”
Figueroa, who prosecuted the case, explained that Folborg was adopted as an infant from a woman with a crack problem in New York. At the time, their mother did not think she could get pregnant. Shortly after, she gave birth to Dyches.
As they aged, Dyches became a popular girl with lots of friends. But Folborg admitted that she felt like a failure.
The girls never talked about boys, entertainment or other light-hearted subjects as teenagers, according to Figueroa.
COBB COUNTY DISTRICT ATTORNEY’S OFFICEKourtney Dyches was only 21 when she was stabbed to death in the shower of her Mableton, Ga., home by her own sister.
Officer Kim Isaza said the sisters had a lot of tension in part because they lived in such a small house — so small that their family members could hear Dyches’ final moments about 11 p.m. that day.
“The mother and their 12-year-old sister were on the other side of the bathroom door begging her to stop when they heard this,” Isaza told The News.
Dyches died before cops could get to the house, officers said.
“This victim was a vibrant young lady with the rest of her life ahead of her,” Figueroa said in a statement.
“The defendant, without any provocation, took a knife from the kitchen some two hours before the killing and waited until the victim was in the shower before viciously stabbing her at least six times.”
Folborg, who has been in jail since her arrest, will be eligible for parole after serving 30 years.
Sanchez, 16, was slashed to death Friday morning inside Jonathan Law High School after she rejected a boy who asked her to prom. The dance was scheduled for Friday night but postponed after the brutal murder, allegedly at the hands of a 16-year-old classmate.
MICHELLE MCLOUGHLIN/REUTERSBalloons are released at the beach during a vigil in honor of slain student Maren Sanchez in Milford, Conn., on Friday.
Instead of prom Friday night, Jonathan Law High School students went to a seaside vigil for their murdered classmate.
About 200 community members and students, some wearing their prom dresses and tuxedos, gathered Friday evening at Walnut Beach in Milford, Conn., to remember 16-year-old Maren Sanchez, a junior who was murdered earlier in the day at the school after rejecting a classmate’s invitation to the dance.
Friends identified the boy as Chris Plaskon, also 16. He has been charged with murder as a juvenile, but could be charged as an adult following a court appearance Monday in New Haven.
Police did not identify the teen.
Teen Charged With Murder In Milford Stabbing
A 16-year-old student was charged with murder after the stabbing death of Maren Sanchez.
Anguished classmates funneled down to Walnut Beach around 6 p.m. — one hour before the school’s junior prom was scheduled to start at a nearby banquet hall.
The annual dance was postponed after the tragedy.
Wearing their formal wear, students cried and prayed at the local beach, the Hartford Courant reported. Friends shouted out memories of their slain classmate as they released purple balloons into the sky and yelled “Love you, Maren,” the newspaper reported.
MICHELLE MCLOUGHLIN/REUTERSPeople embrace on Walnut Beach during the 6 p.m. vigil. Many students showed up in their formal wear as a remembrance to Sanchez, who was excited for the scheduled prom.
Earlier, students covered a rock outside the school with purple spray paint and wrote the teen’s name and birthday, Aug. 26, 1997, alongside a white heart.
Sanchez was attacked, allegedly by Plaskon, around 7:15 a.m., when the boy shoved the girl down a set of stairs and started to choke her, witnesses told the Daily News.
The teen pulled out a kitchen knife he brought from home and slashed Sanchez across the neck, chest and face.
MICHELLE MCLOUGHLIN/REUTERSStudents shouted out memories about their classmate, Maren Sanchez, as they released balloons into the sky.
She was pronounced dead at 7:43 a.m. Plaskon was immediately taken into custody.
“She was screaming,” one friend, who was inside the building at the time of the attack, told The News. “There were students in the hallway when it happened. The kids who saw it are all a wreck.”
The school was placed on lockdown immediately after the attack, but the order was lifted soon after police arrived.
Maren Sanchez modeled her marine blue, floor-length gown on Facebook last month. She planned to wear it to Friday’s junior prom.
Students and staff were dismissed from school about 9 a.m.
“The unprovoked attack on Maren this morning has unfortunately, for our family, resulted in the permanent loss of Maren Victoria Sanchez: a bright light, full of hopes and dreams, with the future at her fingertips,” the girl’s adult cousin, Edward Kovac, told reporters Friday afternoon. “Maren should be celebrating at her prom this evening with her friends and classmates. Instead, we are mourning her death, and we are trying as a community to understand this senseless loss of life.”
Sanchez was excited for the prom, posting a picture March 3 to Facebook of her wearing her prom dress.
“Yay,” she wrote next to a smiley face emoticon as she modeled her floor-length, marine blue gown. “so excited!!!”
Columbus Short will NOT be returning to “Scandal” — and sources connected with ABC says it’s because the network decided to give him the axe over allegations of domestic violence.
Columbus just released this statement: “At this time I must confirm my exit from a show I’ve called home for 3 years, with what is the most talented ensemble in television today.”
Short goes on: “Everything must come to an end and unfortunately the time has come for Harrison Wright to exit the canvas. I wish nothing but the best for Shonda, Kerry and the rest of the cast…”
Short story … it would appear Harrison ate the bullet that was aimed at him in the season finale.
TMZ broke the story … Short’s wife just got a restraining order against him after he allegedly put a knife to her throat and threatened to kill her. He’s also been charged in connection with another incident with domestic violence and child abuse. He was arrested for yet another incident of alleged domestic abuse. And he was arrested recently for allegedly clocking a dude in a bar.
FACEBOOKMaren Sanchez, 16, has been identified as the girl who was killed after she was stabbed by a fellow student at Jonathan Law High School in Milford, Conn.
A jilted teen killed a 16-year-old girl in a Connecticut high school on Friday after she refused to go to prom with him, friends and witnesses said.
The violence erupted after Chris Plaskon, also 16, shoved Maren Sanchez, down the stairs and tried to choke her inside Jonathan Law High School in Milford about 7:15 a.m., friends told the Daily News.
The boy – using a kitchen knife he brought from home – then stabbed Sanchez in the neck, witnesses and cops said.
“She was screaming,” one friend, who was inside the building at the time of the attack, told The News. “There were students in the hallway when it happened. The kids who saw it are all a wreck.”
Emergency workers found the bleeding teen, a junior, in the stairwell and rushed her to Bridgeport Hospital, where she was pronounced dead.
FACEBOOKMaren Sanchez was part of the high school’s drama club and was expected to perform in a show next weekend.
Plaskon was cuffed by a school resource officer before cops arrived, Milford Police Chief Keith Mello told reporters.
The suspect, who was not officially identified because of his age, was not immediately charged.
“The unprovoked attack on Maren this morning has unfortunately, for our family, resulted in the permanent loss of Maren Victoria Sanchez: a bright light, full of hopes and dreams, with the future at her fingertips,” the girl’s adult cousin, Edward Kovac, told reporters Friday afternoon. “Maren should be celebrating at her prom this evening with her friends and classmates. Instead, we are mourning her death, and we are trying as a community to understand this senseless loss of life.”
FACEBOOKMaren Sanchez showed off her prom dress March 3 in a Facebook group dedicated to student’s gowns. “Yay,” she wrote beside a smiley face emoticon. “so excited!!!” She was stabbed to death hours before the dance April 25.
The gruesome killing shocked friends of Sanchez, an honor student who was active in several after-school programs.
“She was a vibrant contributor to the school community and we will greatly mourn this loss,” Superintendent Elizabeth Feser said. “We are devastated as a community.”
But even her accused killer had a respected reputation.
“He was smart, he did well in classes,” the friend said. “Something had to snap.”
Sanchez, who was a member of the school’s drama club, was expected to appear next weekend in the group’s performance of the musical, “Little Shop of Horrors,” friends said.
She was slated to peform several small roles and act as puppeteer of the the star character, a plant.
Students mourn in front of Jonathan Law High School. A group of kids spraypainted a rock with Maren Sanchez’s first name and birthdate.
The school was placed on lockdown immediately after the attack, but the order was lifted soon after police arrived.
Students and staff were dismissed from school about 9 a.m.
The school’s junior prom was scheduled for Friday night at a banquet hall in nearby Stratford, but officials said the event would be postponed to another day.
Sanchez was excited for the prom, posting a picture March 3 to Facebook of her wearing her prom dress.
“Yay,” she wrote next to a smiley face emoticon as she modeled her floor-lenth, marine blue gown. “so excited!!!”
Triplets Malik, Khalil and Ahmad Jones. (Photo courtesy of NBC Washington)
Sibling rivalry usually comes with bickering and taunts — but in one household, it has turned into a friendly competition that has resulted in a stellar outcome.
Malik, Ahmad and Khalil Jones are triplets who attend Georgetown Day School in Washington D.C., and they have each earned major achievements in both academics and athletics.
The brothers, who all have a 3.7 GPA, have earned acceptance into some of the nation’s most prestigious schools and only have a few weeks to make their final decision.
The impressive trio credits their success to the discipline and work ethic instilled in them from their parents and the tough competition they have among each other.
“You can’t let the other person be better than you, because you don’t want to be the worst one right?” Khalil jokingly told NBC Washington. “So, it’s kind of like we’re always pushing each other.”
Their strong bond has encouraged the three young men to work hard and in turn, they have collectively accomplished great feats. Now, they have narrowed down their school choices but remain undecided between two Ivy League institutions: Columbia University and the University of Pennsylvania.
Either way, the Jones’ brothers are definitely on a road to much success.
Malik said, “If one of them can accomplish something, then without a doubt, I can definitely do it, too.”
Police are questioning a suspect after a body was found stuffed in a plastic storage container in the middle of a street in Brooklyn. According to cops, a passer-by made the discovery in front of a home on East 54th Street in Flatlands at about 12:30 p.m. Saturday. According to CBS, a Brooklyn nightclub owner called police to report that a bouncer at the club admitted to him that he’d killed a man.
Police have not identified the suspect. “Somebody was killed over there by somebody they knew and we have nothing to worry about,” neighbor Lynn Kerschner said police told her.
Neighbor Chris Savareace told CBS that he was friends with the victim, who goes by the nickname Chino. “I don’t know what made somebody so mad to do that to him. I heard they put him in a box, that’s what I heard from the cops. There’s some kind of people in the world that really ain’t that with it anymore,” he said.
The question: “When should I expect to see more defined muscles?”
The experts: Jon-Erik Kawamoto, strength and conditioning specialist, owner of JKConditioning; Lee Boyce, C.P.T., owner of Boyce Training Systems
The answer: Depending on how often you exercise and the intensity of your workouts, give it between four to eight weeks for your muscles to get ripped, says Kawamoto. While that seems like a long time, there are other signs that show your exercise routine is working—like climbing a flight of stairs without feeling totally winded, he adds.
If you’re dead-set on unveiled toned muscles ASAP, focus on high-intensity interval training (HIIT) about three to four days a week. “These combination workouts will boost your metabolic rate,” says Boyce, which helps melt fat fast so that your muscles can be seen. Check out 7 examples of HIIT workouts here (bonus: they’re all 20 minutes or less!).
Also, make sure to give yourself off-days between workouts to let your body recover from new muscle activations; pushing yourself too far can lead to injury and slow your strength improvement—not fun.
But don’t forget about your diet. If muscle growth is your fitness goal, you have to add more protein into each meal. Those are the building blocks for strong muscles, says Kawamoto. Start by matching your daily protein intake with your weight—so if you weigh 110 pounds, consume 110 grams of protein a day, recommends Boyce.
Yes, that’s a lot—but your muscles need that energy to power through a tough workout and refuel afterward. Now, you could stick to chicken breasts and plain Greek yogurt (yawn)… but these 37 protein-packed meals taste way better!
Stormfront.org is linked to close to 100 killings in the last five years, the Southern Poverty Law Center found.
From the Guardian:
The White Nationalist web forum Stormfront.org says it promotes values of “the embattled white minority,” and its users include Anders Behring Breivik, who killed 77 people in a 2011 massacre in Norway, and Wade Michael Page, who shot and killed six people at a Sikh temple in Wisconsin in 2012.
The SPLC said ten murderers had links to Stormfront.
“It’s pretty clear that websites like Stormfront are breeding grounds for people who are just enraged at their situation, it’s there that people find the reasons their lives aren’t as they had hoped and Stormfront helps them find the enemy that is standing in their way – whether it be Jews, African Americans, immigrants and so on,” Heidi Beirich, report author and a director at the SPLC’s Intelligence Project told the Guardian. “Unfortunately it’s not very surprising that people who live in this kind of stew of violent racism eventually pick up a gun and do something about it at some point.”
NBC News reports that Frazier Glenn Cross, the man accused of killing three people at two Jewish community sites in suburban Kansas City on April 13, was barred from Stormfront because of disagreements with the site’s founder.
The report calls Stormfront the “murder capital of the Internet.” SPLC’s research shows the site typically only gets about 1,800 visits a day, half of which are people outside the U.S.
But the site has a core group of very active users, and Stormfront’s “bias-related murder rate” accelerated significantly after Barack Obama became president, the report found.
Earlier this week, CNN reported that, in America, people who follow far-right wing ideologies have been responsible for more killings than Islamic extremists since September 11.
CNN notes that, according to a count by the New America Foundation, “right wing extremists have killed 34 people in the United States for political reasons since 9/11” whereas “terrorists motivated by al Qaeda’s ideology have killed 21 people in the United States since 9/11.”
A 24-year-old medical intern was viciously assaulted by an inmate at Rikers Island this week. Joseph McRae was caught on surveillance video punching Stephanie Porcelli in the lockup’s George R. Vierno Center around 11:30 a.m. Wednesday. Porcelli suffered a broken jaw and multiple facial fractures in the unprovoked attack. You can see video of it below.
In the video, you can see McRae feigning a punch before actually doing so; it’s unclear whether Porcelli spoke to him before he punched her, sending her flying onto her back. Porcelli underwent surgery on Friday for her facial injuries. McRae, 24, was arrested in July 2013 and charged with two counts of assault for allegedly striking two women in the face at Penn Station.
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