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There never has been a local sports story like this one. Never. This one made the ballad of Oil Can Boyd sound predictable and mundane. The Lewis story has been one with too much speculation, too much hysteria and not enough time to let the facts come forth.
This is an aggressive media town. We banged on the door and demanded answers. Some of the answers were partial and some were completely false. Reggie Lewis and his family were put through the wringer. In every way.
It has been 12 days since Lewis collapsed on the court against the Charlotte Hornets. Lewis went back in that game. Twice. Celtics physician Arnold Scheller got off to a bad start after that game when he said Lewis didn't go back in for a third time because the Celtics were way ahead. CEO Dave Gavitt was quick to corre...
The next two days were filled with secrecy and wild speculation.
Gavitt said Scheller was the man who made the decision to put Lewis back into the game.
On Sunday, May 2, before leaving for Charlotte, the Celtics came out and announced that 12 heart specialists -- "the Dream Team of heart doctors" -- had discovered a cardiomyopathy condition in Lewis. Later that night, Lewis dissociated himself from the Celtics' care and switched hospitals.
The next day, Scheller went on television and said that it looked like Lewis' career was over. The doctor said that Lewis' switch of hospitals was indicative of "denial."
Here in the media, we first speculated that the Celtics were not cautious enough because they allowed Lewis to go back into the game after he collapsed. Then we spanked the Celtics for not being forthcoming. Later, the NBA Players Association blasted the Celtics for saying too much.
Meanwhile, Lewis' wife reportedly was furious that she wasn't included when the Dream Team doctors discussed her husband's condition. Then folks at New England Baptist talked about the irresponsibility of folks at Brigham and Women's who relocated Lewis under the cover of darkness without an ambulance. Meanwhile, WEEI'...
Day after day, Lewis stayed in the hospital for tests, and we spoke of his career in the past tense.
Finally, on these pages Saturday you were told that it was expected that Lewis would have surgery. We told you he was scheduled to have a defibrillator implanted. We gave you diagrams and a very thorough explanation of this procedure. We quoted a source who said that Lewis' electrophysiologic tests, which indicate a sp...
The next day someone very close to Lewis, someone who knew, called to say the story was false.
Now this. Dr. Gilbert Mudge yesterday said there was no evidence of any form of cardiomyopathy. The doctor said Lewis has a "normal athlete's heart."
And so it turns out that Reggie Lewis went for a 13th opinion and got some very good news. There's no heart problem. Maybe. It's a neural condition. Maybe.
Other doctors already have come forth to dispute Mudge's finding.
Stop us if you're confused. We, too, are confused. And we are sure that this isn't the end.
Who is responsible for putting this man back on a basketball court? It was Lewis himself who said his collapse made him think of Hank Gathers.
And what about the Celtics? How can they assemble this cardiac Dream Team, then reject its findings? The Celtics yesterday embraced Dr. Mudge's diagnosis. Totally. It's as if those first findings never existed.
It would be nice to tell you that the story finally is over. No more alarming headlines. No more talk about Lewis' career in the past tense. No more conflicting reports from very good doctors.
We can't promise this. We can only hope that Mudge is correct and that Lewis can live a healthy, normal life and continue doing the things he loves.
English and Hebrew editions of the Israeli newspaper Haaretz. Photo: Wikimedia Commons.
gets the larger arc of Israel’s story wrong. It tends to paint a bleak picture of Israel’s actions, and it goes overboard in predicting grave consequences for Israel that rarely materialize. It tends not to notice that Israel today is a country more powerful militarily, economically and culturally than it was when the ...
The same, of course, can be said of the New York Times itself. That similarity may be why the Times in Israel was distributed together with Haaretz, and why the Times journalists consistently quote, in their news articles, from the same Israeli newspaper that Mr. Rosner now confesses is lacking in credibility.
After a Jewish reporter’s interrupted attempt to ask Mr. Trump a question, the Israeli daily Haaretz considered whether or not the president’s protestations that he was not anti-Semitic were to be believed.
There was no disclosure by the Times in that article that Haaretz is “bitter and antagonistic…preposterous…juvenile….wrong.” The analysis was instead presented by the Times for Times readers to accept at face value.
That claim was passed along at face value, without any warning to Times readers that the Israeli newspaper being quoted is a purveyor of preposterous provocation.
Again, there’s no acknowledgement in the Times news article that Haaretz is “bitter and antagonistic…preposterous…juvenile.” Instead, the Israeli newspaper’s analysis is presented at face value.
Anyway, it’s nice that the Times has finally published an online opinion column explaining this. One wonders when, and if, it will append corrections to all its news articles that credulously quoted the same publication that its columnist now asserts is so “wrong.” Perhaps the Times will warn its readers with a similar...
A snow-cloaked Mount Sopris emerges from the clouds Tuesday. The midvalley received 1.5 inches of precipition as of 2:30 p.m. Monday over the prior 72 hours, according to the National Weather Service. Higher elevations received snow.
Local and federal authorities declared the Lake Christine Fire completely contained Tuesday after Basalt Mountain was socked with rain, snow and low temperatures over the previous three days.
“While there still is a chance that some minimal heat remains within the perimeter of the fire, the likelihood of those areas producing smoke or threatening containment lines is low,” the Eagle County Sheriff’s Office posted on the Facebook page for the Lake Christine Fire.
The fire had last been assessed at 94 percent containment Sept. 18.
The National Weather Service’s Grand Junction office reported at 2:30 p.m. Monday that Basalt received 1.5 inches of precipitation in the previous 72 hours. It was among many places in western Colorado and eastern Utah that received roughly the same amount of precipitation in three days as it had in May through Septemb...
Basalt-Snowmass Village Fire Chief Scott Thompson said residents were regularly calling the Fire Department in recent weeks to report smoke from within the burn scar until the rain started Oct. 1. There were so many calls the weekend of Sept. 29 to 30 that the department requested a flyover by a helicopter from the Upp...
There is no active firefighting on the blaze any longer. Local crews are monitoring the mountain periodically.
A large part of Basalt Mountain remains closed to public access while the U.S. Forest Service undertakes emergency road maintenance within the fire area. The public has been asked to stay out of the area for safety reasons. Dead trees called snags line portions of the roads and trails.
The cooler, wetter weather also led to a lifting of stage 1 fire restrictions in the White River National Forest and on Bureau of Land Management holdings in the Roaring Fork Valley and Colorado River Valley. Moisture levels in trees and vegetation has soared over the past week, and precipitation remains in the forecas...
Pitkin, Eagle and Garfield counties also rescinded fire restrictions, effective immediately. Hunters will now be able to have campfires at dispersed sites outside of campgrounds.
“We do ask that folks remain diligent, practice fire safety and use fire prevention tips when recreating in the outdoors and keep in mind that the use of exploding targets, tracer rounds, steel core ammunition or fireworks remains prohibited on all public lands at all times,” Eagle County said in a statement.
This story was updated Sept. 8 at 12:56 p.m. EDT.
The strongest earthquake to hit Mexico in 100 years struck off the country's southern coast late Thursday night local time, officials report. So far, 32 people are reported dead from the magnitude-8.1 temblor, which was felt by 50 million people across Mexico, according to news reports.
The powerful earthquake hit the country at 04:49:21 UTC on Friday (Sept. 8), which was 11:49 p.m. local Mexico time. The shaking was felt as far away as Guatemala and Mexico City, according to a CNN report. The epicenter of the quake occurred 54 miles (87 kilometers) southwest of Pijijiapan, in the Mexican state of Chi...
New York Times reporters in Mexico City described the terrifying scene: "The force sent residents of the megacity fleeing into the streets at midnight, shaken by the alarms blaring over loudspeakers and a full minute of tremors. Windows broke, walls collapsed, and the city seemed to convulse in terrifying waves."
The earthquake occurred as a result of a process called subduction. In this case, a slab of Earth's crust called the Cocos plate is slowing diving beneath the North American plate; This movement is happening in the Pacific Ocean near the so-called Middle American Trench, which is beneath Central America, just over 62 m...
The earthquake led to a tsunami watch, but the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center at the U.S. National Weather Service has reported waves of just about 3 feet (1 meter) off of Mexico's coast, The Washington Post reported.
This region has experienced eight other magnitude-7 or greater earthquakes over the last century, with most of these occurring near the Mexico-Guatemala border. The largest of those quakes was a magnitude-7.4 that occurred offshore of Guatemala in November 2012, causing 48 deaths and 150 injuries, the USGS said.
Editor's Note: This story was updated to update the number of fatalities and include information on the tsunami risk.
A man suffered serious facial injuries following an attack on a street in Morecambe.
Lancaster police are appealing for witnesses to come forward following the incident outside New Pound Plus in Westminster Road at around 11pm on Saturday Janury 23.
Police attended following reports that a man had been assaulted.
A 38-year-old man was found at the scene with damage to his teeth and cuts and bruises to his face.
Officers say they believe the male was waiting at a bus stop with a friend when a fight started with a group of men.
Police are appealing for anyone with information about the alleged incident to get in touch.
Detective Constable Ben Chieffo, of Lancaster Police, said: “We would like to speak to anyone in the area at the time who may have witnessed this.
“A man has suffered some nasty injuries and we need to find out what has happened.
Four males, two aged 18, one aged 19 and another aged 15, were all arrested on suspicion of wounding in connection with the incident and have been bailed until March 3.
Non-parliamentary opposition party Free Democrats declared they are supporting the leader of the Movement for Construction, David Usupashvili in presidential elections on October 28.
According to Shalva Shavgulidze, the chairperson of the party, Free Democrats and Usupashvili have a long-lasting political history. He called on everyone, who shares the position of the party, to support Usupashvili.
Shavgulidze explains that as a member of the previous convocation parliament, he worked with Davit Usupashvili, who was the speaker of the parliament in 2012-2016. He also led the Republican Party in 2005-2013.
“With all the whole responsibility I can say that he, as the Chairman of the Parliament, was a high-class state official. Of course, these skills and experience will contribute to the successful implementation of the presidential powers," he said.
Usupashvili announced about the decision to run the presidential race on August 1. The ex-Speaker, who earlier suggested President of Georgia Giorgi Margvelashvili join forces and take part in the elections, says the president did not accept his proposal; therefore, he will run himself.
Independent MP- Salome Zurabishvili, Movement for Construction – David Usupashvili, Shalva Natelashvili from the Labor Party, Nino Burjanadze, the leader of the Russia-affiliated Democratic Movement-United Georgia, Zurab Japaridze from the New Political Center – Girchi, United opposition candidate – Grigol Vashadze, an...
SENIOR Welsh Assembly Government officials were grilled by AMs yesterday over the failings of a £214m drive to tackle deprivation in some of Wales’ poorest communities.
The flagship Communities First programme was launched eight years ago, yet an inquiry by the Auditor General for Wales found “fundamental risks” and warned it faced falling short of its ambitions.
The 147 projects across Wales delivered local benefits but the Assembly Government had to strengthen its approach to “programme bending” – which requires public bodies to prioritise their spending in these areas.
Under the initiative, local partnerships coordinate activities such as health and well-being events, community safety promotions, youth projects, training courses and environmental clean-ups.
But it was 2007 before the Assembly Government took steps to monitor if partnerships were run as intended.
That review encouraged more focus on outcomes.
Jonathan Morgan, Conservative chair of the watchdog public accounts committee, suggested to civil servants that problems highlighted in a previous evaluation six years ago of the programme had remained.
Plaid Cymru AM in North Wales Janet Ryder highlighted that of £214m spent on the initiative, some £140m went to projects to employ staff and £30.5m to local authorities and voluntary sector to employ staff to manage and support teams in communities.
“Should local councils not have been supporting these initiatives anyway?” she said.
Dame Gillian said it was impossible to manage all projects from the centre.
When I heard that they were shutting down the “Ivanka Trump” brand, I wondered what broader lessons could be learned from this decision about trademark law. The big picture is simple. A famous name will sell lots of goods. Whether it can be done profitably is always another question. And a product that lives by the bra...
How many entrepreneurs are there in the clothing and accessories business who have great new creations, an innovative brand and unique marketing? All packaged up and represented by a great trademark? But people will not hear your great name without advertising, without lots of social media, influencers and good old fas...
So lesson one is: sweat the details to come up with a great trademark. But do not be quick to confuse your great brand – a name which encapsulates your whole product – with being the whole key to a successful product.
A mundane but already household-name trademark will beat your creative startup almost every time.
Lesson two, which therefore flows from this: do not fall in love with your killer brand name for a new product. Time after time (after time), I have seen a company try everything it can to find a way to make a bad name (more on that in a second) viable. A bad trademark can be one which so totally describes the product ...
From what I read, it seems that Ivanka was still drawing a nice seven-figure salary from the company, but, of course, it is never assured that a high CEO salary equates to profitability. In any case, factors outside one’s direct control can cause a brand to tank. Putting aside the discussion of whether Ivanka could hav...
This leads to lesson three: if your product has been successful, be careful where and how you extend it.
Damage to the brand on any product can have a huge impact on everything else in the product line. Consumers see a brand as having a single image, often regardless of the product. I know many people are thinking “we should be so lucky.” But that is not completely true. A “version 3.0” rushed to market can damage the rep...
Damage those indicators, and you damage your mark, and that may make it hard to enforce against an infringer down the road. There is not a lot of trademark precedent for tracking damage to a brand when the owner is the Leader of the Free World, and the trademark can take a hit because of North Korea, Iran, or Russia. T...
There is at least one more, fourth, lesson: it is very difficult to measure the significance of the trademark on a product’s success. In litigation, it is so difficult that owners of multi-million (or even multi-billion) dollar brands hire survey experts to measure all sorts of things about what the brand means, to who...
Forbes’ recent cover story about Kylie Jenner and the top earning women in business called Jenner a person with virtually no employees, capital or expertise. Ms. Trump has some (but not many) employees, certainly has capital, and it is hard to say whether she brought true expertise to her clothing endeavor. But what wa...
The lessons above find a common theme all brand owners can heed. But on the other hand, these celebrity trademarks now appear to exist in their own universe.
WASHINGTON – The federal budget squeeze has forced NASA to abandon hope of launching a successor to its three aging space shuttles by 2014, the target that President Bush set in his “Vision for Space Exploration” plan three years ago.
Instead, the United States will have to rely on Russia or commercial aerospace companies to ferry cargo and crews to the International Space Station for five years after the last shuttle is retired in 2010.
The shuttles’ replacements – the new Orion spaceship and Ares I rocket launcher – won’t be ready until 2015 at the earliest, NASA Administrator Michael Griffin told the House Science and Technology Committee on Thursday.
“America may have a prolonged gap between the end of the shuttle program and the beginning of Orion and Ares I operational capability,” he said.
The lengthening time that the United States won’t have the means to put humans into space is an embarrassment for the world’s leading space-faring nation, especially when other countries are stepping up their extraterrestrial ambitions.
The setback comes as budget reductions force NASA to delay or cut back some of its popular science goals, including climate-change research and the hunt for habitable planets around other stars.
NASA has spent about $9 billion for space exploration since Bush announced his “Vision” in January 2004. The agency is running almost $1 billion short of the amount it originally projected to spend through 2014.
The space exploration budget for the coming year, fiscal 2008, is $3.9 billion, $229 million less than the White House had sought for 2007. That comes on top of a $751 million shortfall this fiscal year because Congress failed to agree on a spending plan for 2007.
NASA is committed to a pay-as-you-go process. “If we receive less funding than requested, we will adjust our pace,” Griffin said.
During the 2 1/2 years that the space shuttles were grounded after the Columbia disaster in 2003, NASA relied on Russia’s small Soyuz vehicle to carry astronauts to and from the space station. Another Russian craft, Progress, handled cargo loads.
This week the Colombian government signed a historic peace agreement with the FARC rebels, ending more than 50 years of conflict. We talk about what happens next.
Film contributor Milos Stehlik also joins us to discuss Werner Herzog's new documentary Lo and Behold.
Plus, on this week's Weekend Passport, the 50-year anniversary of a 1000-year commemoration and 'Taste of Greektown' 2016.
There is still no official confirmation about the baby.
(AllHipHop News) "You are hiding a child, let that boy come home. Deadbeat motherf-cker playing border patrol," spits Pusha T on his Drake diss track "The Story of Adidon." Hip Hop followers quickly began to question if Drake really had a son he wasn't supporting.
Sources close to Drake tell us the rapper's been cutting checks to [ensure] Sophie Brussaux -- the woman Pusha T claims Drake has a secret son with -- lives comfortably. We're told Drake's been supporting Sophie since she gave birth, and just before that as well.

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