Mike Tyson's Daughter Dies

Exodus passed away at 11:45 a.m. Tuesday at St. Joseph Hospital and Medical Center in Phoenix, Ariz. “Our sympathies go out to the family,” says Phoenix police Sgt. Andy Hill.

Her seven-year-old brother found her hanging from a cord which was dangling from a treadmill in their home in Phoenix, Arizona.She was discovered when her mother, who was cleaning in another room.

Although her mother tried to resuscitate her at the scene, she was rushed to hospital in an “extremely critical condition”. She was placed on a life support machine, but yesterday she was pronounced dead.

Police are treating the case as an accident, saying it appears the child was playing on or near the treadmill and became tangled in the cord.

“Mike was very dedicated to that baby,'' said Sig Rogish, a longtime friend of Tyson and his former agent. “I think every parent's greatest fear is that they live beyond their children. I know Mike has had his troubles in his life, but he's always been a good father.”

His short-lived marriage to actress Robin Givens ended amidst allegations of physical and emotional abuse and mental illness. He was convicted of raping a beauty queen and spent three years in prison for the crime.

He was stripped of his boxing license for a year after biting off a chunk of Evander Holyfield’s ear during a match, went to prison again on new assault charges, filed for bankruptcy in 2003 after squandering nearly $300 million -- around the same time his second marriage ended due to his reported infidelities -- and was arrested again in 2006 on charges of DUI and felony drug possession.

Tyson knows his life has been one big tragedy of Shakespearean proportions. In 2005 he told USA Today:

"My whole life has been a waste -- I've been a failure. I just want to escape. I'm really embarrassed with myself and my life. I want to be a missionary. I think I could do that while keeping my dignity without letting people know they chased me out of the country. I want to get this part of my life over as soon as possible. In this country nothing good is going to come of me. People put me so high; I wanted to tear that image down."

The family have not yet arranged a funeral for Exodus.

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Amy Mickelson Diagnosed With Breast Cancer

Phil Mickelson has always put family before business, and right now the Mickelson family is dealing with some tough news. Amy Mickelson, the wife of the second-ranked golfer in the world, was diagnosed with breast cancer. Phil has canceled his golf schedule indefinitely to be with his wife.

According to a release from Mickelson's management company, his wife was to have more tests but begin treatment with major surgery as early as the next two weeks.

This is not the first time Mickelson has picked his family over golf. In 1999, during the final round of the U.S. Open, Mickelson was paired with Payne Stewart. Seeking his first major championship with Amy near her delivery date, Phil had his caddie, Jim MacKay carry a beeper in the golf bag in case she went into labor. He admitted he'd walk off the golf course if she beeped him.

Mickelson, the No. 2 player in the world with 36 career PGA Tour victories, was to play the Byron Nelson Championship this week before defending his title next week at Colonial. It was not certain if he would return in time for the U.S. Open on June 18-21 at Bethpage Black, where he was the runner-up to Tiger Woods in 2002 and is beloved by golf fans in the New York area.

Thoughts and prayers are with the Mickelson family.

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Maria Verchenova: New golf babes!

Maria Verchenova, 23, was born in Moscow and has been making a name for herself on the Ladies European Tour. Her career earnings are still modest, at $51,000, but she’s making amazing strides and playing solid golf.

Maria Verchenova, a young Russian golfer may give dudes everywhere reason to tune in soon, as she attempts to become to golf what Maria Sharapova is to tennis.

She is not only proving herself a fine player in her own right, she is also paving the way for other young Russian girls - her sister Anna included.

Verchenova admits that tennis star Sharapova is a role model - but she is adamant about the reasons.

"I am looking at Maria, not because of the way she looks but because of the way she plays," Verchenova explains. "I think Russian women are strong mentally. They are trying really hard and they are achieving things."

Verchenova is the first Russian to become a full-time member of the Ladies European Tour. She contended against golf heavyweight Anna Sorenstam at the 2008 Dubai Ladies Masters.

She started golfing at age 12 and was the 2004 Russian Amateur Champion and again in 2006. She qualified for the LET in 2007 and has been in the money in nearly every event that she enters. She achieved her first top 10 finish in her rookie year. By 2008 she had a top 5 finish.

Maria has several role models. Tiger Woods is her male hero and tennis star Maria Sharapova is a fellow countrywoman and someone that Verchenova looks up to and wishes to emulate.

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LaLa Vasquez Ushered Out Of Game

LaLa Vazquez, who is a DJ and reality show host, was ushered out of the basketball game between the Denver Nuggets and Dallas Mavericks.

LaLa Vasquez is Denver Nugget star Carmelo Anthony’s fiance’, and was thrown out of the game due to a problem with old ladies sitting behind her in the stands.

With her husband's team in Dallas taking on the Mavericks, LaLa was ejected after an unspecified "incident" with some old ladies sitting behind her.

Video footage taken at the game last night shows LaLa Vasquez cursing and getting hostile as security guards attempted to escort her from the stands.

Today, LaLa released a statement claiming racial taunts and violent threats from Dallas fans started the altercation that became the talk of the game:

"Obviously playoff games bring out the best and the worst in fans but what happened on Monday night with the racial slurs / threats, verbal attacks on my son and physical attacks to myself by irate fans was completely unacceptable."

"The fans were totally out of control. What the cameras captured was me defending myself and didn't show the abuse that was taking place."

The Mavs and Nuggets are set to face off again tomorrow night.

The Dallas Mavericks and Denver Nuggets will face off again tomorrow evening. Let’s hope LaLa can behave herself this time!

Biography

Born on June 25, 1980 in Brooklyn, New York, Alani “La La” Vasquez may have been raised in New York, but she was raised on music. After La La finished high school, her family moved to Georgia, where she got a job as a programming assistant at a local radio station. In 1999, La La moved — appropriately enough — to L.A. Currently, La La is the regular host of MTV’s Total Request Live and Direct Effect. La La most recently made headlines when she announced her engagement to NBA star Carmelo Anthony of the Denver Nuggets.

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Michael Landon's eldest son dead

Mark Landon, an actor and eldest son of "Little House on the Prairie" star Michael Landon, was found dead Monday at his home. He was 60.

He was found about noon in the 1300 block of Sweetzer Avenue.

The cause of death was not immediately clear but there was no evidence of foul play, said Sgt. David Infante of the Los Angeles County sheriff's office.

The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department is investigating the incident, but a spokeswoman said there was no evidence of foul play.

Michael Landon, one of the stars of “Bonanza” and “Little House on the Prairie” television series, died in 1991 of cancer.

Mark Landon, among Michael Landon's nine children, appeared in three movies, including "Us" - a CBS television movie written and directed by his father in 1991 just before he died of cancer at age 54. The film was a pilot intended to be another series for Michael Landon. It aired a few months after his death.

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Mark Cuban vs. Kenyon Martin

Not long before the calendar turned to Sunday and Mother's Day, Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban celebrated the occasion with a verbal blast directed at Lydia Moore, mother of Denver Nugget Kenyon Martin.

The billionaire team owner and local mom became linked because of a brief confrontation in the heated aftermath of Game 3, when Denver benefited from an NBA-acknowledged officiating mistake and beat Dallas 106-105 for a 3-0 series lead.

The scene following the Dallas Mavericks’ heart-breaking loss to the Denver Nuggets in Game Three was chaotic. Put simply, the Mavs lost their minds.

Moments after his team lost Game 3 of its playoff series against Denver on a controversial non-call just before Carmelo Anthony's winning jump shot, Cuban heard a fan screaming about the Nuggets being "thugs," prompting Cuban to tell Moore, "That includes your son."

Josh Howard had to be held back by teammates from going after the refs (he also took his anger out on a photographer), and team owner Mark Cuban also took issue with a camera man

Though he played nice with the press after the game, Cuban did not hold his tongue when he spotted Kenyon Martin’s mom in the stands. Let’s just say he didn’t wish her a happy Mother’s Day.

According to Martin's agent, Brian Dyke, Cuban also told Moore, "Your son is a punk."

The NBA later said the non-call was an officiating mistake, but it was too late to help the Mavericks.

The Denver Post reports:

During the postgame chaos after Saturday’s Nuggets-Mavericks game, Dallas owner Mark Cuban had a brief but heated confrontation with Lydia Moore, the mother of Denver’s Kenyon Martin, who was seated near the tunnel that leads to the Mavs’ locker room.

Cuban said Sunday by e-mail that when he walked off the court, a fan was screaming about the Nuggets being “thugs,” so Cuban said to Martin’s mother: “That includes your son.”

According to Martin’s agent, Brian Dyke, Cuban spotted Moore amid numerous Nuggets fans and said, unprovoked, “Your son is a punk.” Regardless of what insult was stated, NBA spokesman Tim Frank said, “The situation on the floor postgame is being reviewed.” Cuban said by e-mail he knew Martin’s mother, because after a previous game that Denver won, she had approached him and made trash-talk-type comments.

There’s no question that the Mavs were screwed by the officiating in Game 3, but their actions thereafter make it a little hard to feel too sorry for them.

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henrik stenson wins Players Championship

Sweden's Henrik Stenson kept his cool in 90 degree heat to win the Players Championship by four shots, as a frustrated Tiger Woods crashed out of contention at the TPC Sawgrass course.

The unflappable Swede carded the only bogey-free round on the final day, a six under-par 66 for 12-under overall, to pick up his first strokeplay win on the PGA Tour.

Stenson finished at 12-under 276 and won the title by four strokes over Ian Poulter, who managed a two-under 70, at the Stadium Course at the TPC at Sawgrass.

Britain's Ian Poulter shot a two-under 70 to finish second four strokes behind Stenson and post his best result on US soil.

"It was a nice day's work," said Stenson, who collected his second PGA Tour win after the 2007 WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship. "I played well all week and managed my game really well and myself more than anything. Obviously, it pays off."

Joint second overnight, world No 1 Tiger Woods had another frustrating day, slumping to eighth after carding a one-over par round marred by four bogeys, as a number of players struggled with the hard and fast greens.

Woods equaled his worst score when playing in the final pairing on Sunday with a one-over 73. The difference was, in the three previous occasions Woods shot a 73 in the final round, he still won the championship.

Woods took eighth alone at minus-five.

"Just a long, frustrating day," said Woods. "I thought I was doing a pretty good job of getting it around."

Phil Mickelson, who won two years ago, finished with a double-bogey and a bogey for a four-over 76. He finished in a group tied for 55th at three-over 291.

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Manny Ramirez to be Suspended 50 Games

Manny Ramirez has tested positive for performance enhancing drugs and will be suspended without pay for 50 games, the LA Times is reporting.

The Los Angeles Dodgers star is the most prolific player to be suspended by MLB since it began testing in 2003.

The paper is reporting Manny will attribute the positive test result to "medication received from a doctor for a personal medical issue."

The suspension will cost the Dodgers left fielder $7.7 million, or roughly 31% of his $25-million salary. Players in violation of baseball's drug policy are not paid during suspensions.

Ramirez, in a statement, blamed the test result on prescription medication for what he called "a personal health issue."

Ramirez tested positive during spring training for "a banned performance-enhancing substance that is not technically an anabolic steroid," according to a source not authorized to speak publicly about the issue.

The substance, identified by the source as human chorionic gonadotropin (HCG), could legitimately be prescribed for a man who does not naturally produce enough testosterone, according to a high-ranking sports doping authority. But HCG often is used as an antidote to diminished testosterone levels at the end of a cycle of steroid treatments, said BALCO founder and convicted steroid dealer Victor Conte.

The Dodgers currently have the best record in baseball.

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Moulin Rouge on fire

Las Vegas firefighters are continuing to fight a blaze that appears to be contained to one building on the south side of the historic Moulin Rouge on Bonanza Road.

The Moulin Rouge, near Bonanza and US-95, opened in 1955 as the first and only integrated casino in Nevada. It was only open for five months. Frank Sinatra, Nat King Cole, Pearl Bailey and Sammy Davis Jr. were among headliners who appeared in the Club Rouge showroom. The hotel made the June 20, 1955 cover of Life magazine.

"We would all jam and have plenty of fun," said Bob Bailey, Master of Ceremonies at the Moulin Rouge in the 1950's. His wife Anna was one of the club's dancers.

The club made Las Vegas history. "It was the only place were people of various cultures could congregate," said Bob.

Radke said fire officials don’t know the cause of the blaze. He knows of no injuries. Additional firefighters and engines were added to fight the fire, not because it grew in intensity, but because it was hot and crews are rotating to the fight the blaze.

Joyce Sheets, who works at Nevada Restaurant Services across the street from the Moulin Rogue, said she called 911 when colleagues came to her and said they saw smoke and a window explode from a building on the property.

It was the only racially integrated hotel in the valley and it played host to the stars. When the Moulin Rouge came to West Las Vegas, it brought new life with it. New homes and businesses sprung up. When the club closed, the neighborhood around it fell on hard times.

There were a number of efforts to reopen the club, but one of the latest was dashed by the fire in 2003 that destroyed the main building. "To see it burn down is the same as to see one of your children getting into trouble," said Bailey.

The fire probably dashed any hope of ever seeing the Moulin Rouge rise from the ashes. The complex has been declared a hazard and has been closed to the public for years. This fire is probably the final blow.

The Moulin Rouge will live on only thru pictures and the iconic signs that were saved and moved to the Neon Boneyard.

In February, a request to tear down the historic building was considered because, according to the Uniform Code of Dangerous Buildings, the Moulin Rouge was considered to be a public nuisance. That same month, the owners filed for bankruptcy even though there was still talk of redeveloping the property.

The City of Las Vegas says the cause of the fire is still undetermined.

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wesleyan shooting:johanna justin jinich dead

A 22-year-old Wesleyan University junior was gunned down Wednesday afternoon as she worked at a cafe inside a book store near campus.

Johanna Justin-Jinich, of Fort Collins, Colo., was shot several times at the Red and Black Café inside Broad Street Books. Her assailant, described as thin white man, then fled on foot and remains at large.

The shooter is believed to be Johanna’s ex-boyfriend.

"This is a devastating loss for Johanna's family, friends and for the entire Wesleyan community," Wesleyan President Michael S. Roth wrote. "Our hearts go out to all those who grieve for Johanna, and we hope all can find comfort in the support of friends, teachers and classmates."

The president of Wesleyan has issued the following statement late today about Johanna’s shooting:

It is my sad duty to inform you that a Wesleyan student was fatally shot at the Broad Street Bookstore earlier this afternoon. The parents of the student have already been notified, but we cannot release the student’s name until all of the immediate family have been contacted. A gun was recovered at the scene of the shooting; however the suspect is still at large. We have asked students, faculty and staff to remain indoors while Middletown Police continue to search for suspect(s). All campus events scheduled for today, including Spring Fling, are cancelled.

Wesleyan students had planned a candlelight vigil Wednesday night to remember Justin-Jinich, but in a broadcast email to the Wesleyan community shortly before 7 p.m., officials warned against any such gathering.

Memorial services have not yet been announced.

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Shia LaBeouf: my mother is the sexiest person!

When asked by Playboy who you think the sexiest woman you know is, do you answer A: my co-star in Transformers Megan Fox B: Heidi Klum or C: my mother. If you’re Shia LaBeouf, you picked C.

Forget his “Transformers” co-star Megan Fox, actor Shia LaBeouf apparently thinks his mother is the “sexiest” woman he knows.

In a new interview with Playboy magazine, the actor reveals some unusual thoughts about the woman who gave him life, reports Star magazine.

“Probably the sexiest woman I know is my mother,” he says. “She’s an ethereal angel. Nobody looks like that woman. If I could meet my mother and marry her, I would. I would be with my mother now, if she weren’t my mother, as sick as that sounds.”

Apparently Shayna has not problem showing off her body to her son or his friends. LaBeouf reveals she often walked around the house naked with her friends.
“All of them would just be naked around the house,” he says. “That was strange for me, and it was really bizarre when my friends were there. You’ve got your little buds over, and Mom’s, like, playing naked connect the dots or whatever. She’s in the middle of goddess-group time, where it’s literally a bunch of naked women tracing auras around one another’s bodies with incense and then sitting together and humming for prolonged periods of time.”

The actor also said that marijuana use was casual, but that he saw what “drugs can do to you.”

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hannah montana and david archuleta

Uneven duets are a real drag. You know, the kind where one singer obviously owns the other vocally? Yeah… So unhot. I just knew that’d be the case when I heard that season 7 American Idol runner-up and one of Neon Limelight’s top five male vocalists of 2008 David Archuleta would be teaming up with Disney darling Miley Cyrus for a vocal match-up on Cyrus’s hit show Hannah Montana.

Surprisingly, that wasn’t the case! Their duet, “I Wanna Know You,” debuted on Radio Disney yesterday in its entirety. The puppy-love song is a thousand percent catchy, and even though Archie clearly sings circles around Miss Montana, the pairing is pretty sweet!

Miley Cyrus is the youngest ever recording artist with four No. 1 albums in less than three years. "Hannah Montana The Movie" soundtrack from Walt Disney Records marks the fourth No. 1 album for the 16-year-old singer/songwriter.

Radio Disney is the No. 1, 24-hour radio network devoted to kids, tweens and families. Kids help pick the music that is played and are encouraged to interact via a toll-free phone line to the Radio Disney studio. The network's current playlist, driven by listener requests and representing major record labels, includes recording artists Miley Cyrus, Hannah Montana, Jonas Brothers, Taylor Swift, Demi Lovato, David Archuleta, Jordin Sparks and Mitchel Musso. The network is available on 49 terrestrial radio stations and is also available via RadioDisney.com, Sirius and XM satellite radio, iTunes Radio Tuner, XM/DIRECTV and mobile phones. Radio Disney has a sister network in Latin America. Its brand extensions include multiple Radio Disney Jams CDs from Walt Disney Records and iTunes Music Store offerings.

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bird rock bandits trial

A San Diego Superior Court jury found a member of the so-called Bird Rock Bandits guilty of second-degree murder Tuesday in the fatal beating of a professional surfer in La Jolla in a high-profile case that had attracted national attention.

Seth Cravens, 22, was convicted in the 2007 death of Emery Kauanui, 24, who died from brain injuries several days after suffering what prosecutors described as a sucker punch to the face thrown by Cravens.Cravens, 23, was found guilty Nov. 18 of second-degree murder and other charges in the death of Emery Kauanui, 24.

Cravens faces a possible sentence of 25 years to life in prison. San Diego Superior Court Judge John S. Einhorn scheduled sentencing for Jan. 12.

Cravens sat back in his chair and alternately gazed up and then down as the verdicts were read to a packed courtroom that included Kauanui’s mother and Cravens’ father, but otherwise showed no emotion. Later, as the jury was leaving the courtroom, he shook his head slightly.

Kauanui died in a hospital four days after he and Cravens got into a fight in front of Kauanui’s La Jolla home on Draper Avenue around 1 a.m. on May 24, 2007. Cravens and four other men had gone to the home, intent on retaliation, after Kauanui had spilled beer on one of the men earlier in the evening at the La Jolla Brew House and the two got into an argument.

Cravens punched Kauanui once in the jaw during the fight. Kauanui was knocked to the ground and suffered a fractured skull. The jury concluded that Cravens was guilty of “implied-malice murder,” which means that Craven’s was aware that his actions were dangerous but acted anyway.He was also convicted of four counts of assault by means likely to cause great bodily injury and one misdemeanor battery, stemming from earlier offenses.

Meanwhile Bonnie Dumanis Presents Citizens of Courage Award to Jennifer Grosso It takes a lot of courage for victims of crime to stand up and demand justice. Thursday some of them were honored with the 20th Annual Citizen's of Courage Award, including one woman who stood up to the men who murdered her boyfriend.Jennifer Grosso is a study in courage. When the Bird Rock Bandits attacked and ultimately killed her boyfriend, she attempted to break up the fight. When it came time for the trial, she became the sole witness against all the of the gang.

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