FakeWIPCaller Remembers Buddy Ryan

Raw Video: Singletary on Buddy Ryan

As far as the Phillies are concerned, Monday night was noteworthy for a couple of reasons.

Vince Velasquez returned to the hill after his biceps strain and the offense exploded to support him in an 8-0 victory over Diamondbacks in Arizona (see game story).

But that doesnt change the fact the Phils have gone just 7-19 in the month of June and have seen the good vibes from the seasons surprising start evaporate. The midseason malaise has renewed the call of fans for the club to bring up some of its talented prospects from the minors to try and inject some life into the struggling team.

Those fans got their wish as two prospects debuted Monday night well, kinda. Their debuts didnt take place at Chase Field in Phoenix, rather they took place in Tampa, Florida. And they didnt happen on a baseball diamond, but instead in the middle of a wrestling ring on WWE Monday Night Raw.

Yep, Carlos Tocci and Mitch Walding got the call-up from Single A all the way to the big leagues of Raw. Well, sports entertainment fugazi Carlos Tocci and Mitch Walding, that is.

Ok youre probably confused by now, so allow me, a nerd who blew most of his lifes savings at Wrestlemania in Dallas a few months ago, to break this whole thing down.

Raw was at Tampas Amalie Arena last night, just a short drive from Clearwater, home to Bright House Field, which houses the Phillies during spring training and is also the home yard of the Phils Single A affiliate, the Threshers. Tocci, a centerfielder, and Walding, a third baseman, both currently play for Clearwater.

Last night on Raw, there was a squash tag-team match, which is wrestling lingo for lets bring in two random dudes with fake names no one has ever heard of and pay them to get their a***s kicked on worldwide television by two established stars to make the established guys look good. Fascinating stuff, I know.

Last nights established stars were Enzo Amore, a delightfully annoying wrestler with a New York accent who will remind you of your kid on a vicious sugar rush, and Big Cass, another New Yorker whos 7-foot tall and calls everyone S-A-W-F-T. SAAAAAWWWWWFFFTTT. So basically, they trash talk their opponents like you would in your local Philly rec basketball league but then kick their faces in, legally.

Last nights two random dudes were named Carlos Tocci and Mitch Walding. No, really. Heres a vid to prove it. Listen as announcer Michael Cole clearly says their names right before the fake Tocci and Walding get beat down quickly. (h/t Nick Piccone on the vid.)

I have no idea where that whole idea came from or what it even means, but its still kind of amazing to have wrestlers named after two random Phillies prospects.

Heres where things get more interesting. Last nights results on wwe.com have the wrestlers listed as Carlos Hersey and Mitch Walden. But go back to that video and you can tell Cole clearly says the names of the Phils prospects.

Why the switch? I have no clue. Maybe there was some sort of issue or something. But that doesnt change the fact Carlos Tocci and Mitch Walding wrestled on my TV last night.

For those wondering, Tocci, whom MLB.com had ranked as the Phils" 14th-best prospect before the season began, is hitting .286 with six homers and 27 RBI this year while Walding is batting .266 with nine homers and 37 RBI.

Anyway, Ive had my investigative reporting shoes on since this all went down on TV last night and heres what Ive come up with as the *bulletproof* explanation: Vince McMahon is a huge Phillies fan. Case closed. Thanks for reading.

Source: http://www.csnphilly.com/the700level/fakewipcaller-remembers-buddy-ryan

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The "single ingredient in leadership," according to legendary coach Pat Summitt

Le basket-ball pleure la mort de Pat Summitt, entraîneuse légendaire

Eight national championships. Eighteen NCAA Final Fours. 38 years as head coach of the Tennessee Lady Vols. 112 victories in NCAA tournament games. 1,098 total wins.

These are the numbers that define the extraordinary success of legendary women"s college basketball coach Pat Summitt"s career. It included more wins than any Division I college basketball coach - whether for a men"s or women"s team.

But as her foundation"s obituary notes, the number that mattered most to Summitt, who died Tuesday morning of complications from early-onset Alzheimer"s disease, was this one: 161, the number of players she coached during her career as the head coach at the University of Tennessee.

She said as much in her remarkable 2013 book, co-authored with The Washington Post"s Sally Jenkins. Summitt wrote about her life, her battle with Alzheimer"s and coaching the Lady Vols, where she was known for her tough, exacting coaching style. She famously had what she called a "death ray stare" and stratospheric expectations for her teams; she once made players put their unwashed, sweaty clothes back on and play more after a loss where she wasn"t happy with the performance.

"It was supposed to be an elite, demanding environment, and it wasn"t right for everybody," she wrote in "Sum It Up." "But it was right for the 161 players who wore the orange, and the real legacy wasn"t the victories, but knowing that they were made of something stronger when they left."

She did that through those demanding tactics, which were not just about being tough, or winning games, she said, but about turning young women into selfless, team-driven leaders. In one telling passage in the book, Summitt describes her decision to give Michelle Marciniak, who she called "a headlong, reckless player who needed curbing," the position of starting point guard after the 1994 NCAA tournament. It offers two powerful definitions of leadership and insight into how she thought about molding the elite players she led:

The point guard position in basketball is one of the great tutorials on leadership, and it ought to be taught in classrooms. Anyone can perfect a dribble with muscle memory; very few people are able to organize and direct followers, which is a far more subtle and multifaceted skill. Leadership is really a form of temporary authority that others grant you, and they only follow you if they find you consistently credible. It"s all about perception -- and if teammates find you the least bit inconsistent, moody, unpredictable, indecisive or emotionally unreliable, then they balk and the whole team is destabilized.

In the obituaries and eulogies over Summitt"s death, many will try to define the kind of pioneering force she was for women"s athletics, the record-setter she was, the powerful influence she had on the sport. But perhaps the best way to reflect on the leader she was is to examine how she thought about the leaders she was trying to create -- emotionally mature, consistently credible, selfless young women who put their teammates before themselves.

Source: http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/ct-pat-summitt-leadership-20160629-story.html

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Dead of Summer"s Camp Stillwater Is About to Scare the Parachute Pants Right Off of You

Dead of Summer 1x02 Promo "Barney Rubble Eyes" (HD)
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Dead of Summer"s Camp Stillwater Is About to Scare the Parachute Pants Right Off of You

byBilly Nilles|

The "80s are alive and terrifying on Freeform. And we don"t just mean the fashion choices, either.

In this clip from new series Dead of Summer, exclusive to E! News, the scene has been set for plenty of bloodshed among the fresh faced camp counselors attempting to re-open Camp Stillwater after closing under suspicious (read: deadly) circumstances five years back. Don"t believe us? Allow Joel (Eli Goree) to explain.

"We"re in the middle of the woods," he tells his buddies around the campfire. "No phones, no cars, no weapons. No locks on the cabin doors. Anyone could come in through the forest or on the lake. Through that one little gate on the main road, someone could come in and kill each and every one of us. They wouldn"t find the bodies for days."

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While Joel"s not exactly winning anyone over with his sunny disposition, could his fears about Stillwater turning into Camp Crystal Lake (you know, from Friday the 13th) be about to come true? Well, you"re going to have to press play on the video above to find out.

Hailing from Once Upon a Time co-creators Eddy Kitsis and Adam Horowitz, as well as executive producers Ian Goldberg and Steve Pearlman, Dead of Summer stars Elizabeth Mitchell as Deb, the former camper who"s taking on the clearly doomed task of reopening Stillwater as its dark, ancient mythology reawakens. Starring as her collection of disposable camp counselors are Elizabeth Lail, Zelda Williams, Mark Indelicato, Alberto Frezza, Ronen Rubenstein, Amber Coney, and Paulina Singer, as well as Goree.

Are you ready for a summer of evil at Camp Stillwater? Sound off in the comments below!

Dead of Summer premieres Tuesday, June 28 at 9 p.m. on Freeform.

E! Online - Your source for entertainment news, celebrities, celeb news, and celebrity gossip. Check out the hottest fashion, photos, movies and TV shows!

Source: http://www.eonline.com/news/770842/dead-of-summer-s-camp-stillwater-is-about-to-scare-the-parachute-pants-right-off-of-you

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Zurlon Tipton (): Football-Star erschiet sich

Zurlon Tipton - Parkway Christian - Student Athlete of the Week Feature on STATE CHAMPS! in 2008

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Es war ein schrecklicher Unfall: Der Football-Spieler Zurlon Tipton soll sich bei einem Autohndler aus Versehen selbst erschossen haben. Er wurde nur 26 Jahre alt.

Wie "The Detroit News" unter Berufung auf Polizeiangaben berichtet, sei der Ex-NFL-Star am Dienstag (28. Juni) gegen 9.30 Uhr morgens in Roseville im US-Bundesstaat Michigan in den Servicebereich eines Hndlers fr Wagen der Marken Dodge und Jeep gefahren.

Dort habe ehemalige Quarterback der Indianapolis Colts nach einer Tasche gegriffen, in der sich zwei Waffen befunden htten. Dabei habe sich versehentlich ein Schuss gelst, der den Sportler in den Magen getroffen habe.

Zurlon Tipton erlag im Krankenhaus seinen Verletzungen. Am Mittwoch (29. Juni) soll sein Leichnam obduziert werden.

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Source: http://www.gala.de/stars/news/zurlon-tipton-football-star-erschiesst-sich_1476893.html

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People who witnessed the Istanbul suicide bombings share terrifying details of the attack

Dozens dead in Istanbul airport suicide attack

A relative of the Ataturk Airport suicide bomb attack victim waits outside Bakirkoy Sadi Konuk Hospital as she cries, in the early hours of June 29, 2016 in Istanbul, Turkey. Defne Karadeniz/Getty Images

Witness accounts are pouring in following the suicide bombings at Istanbul"s international airport that left at least 36 dead on Tuesday.

The witnesses described a scene of terror and chaos as the attackers detonated their explosives and opened fire.

"There was blood and injured passengers everywhere," one witness from Iran told BuzzFeed:

"We heard gunshots when we were checking in. I grabbed my family and ran," Jim Hyong Lee of South Korea told The Telegraph. "Someone waved us into the prayer room and hid us there until the police came."

One traveler at the airport, Laurence Cameron, told CNN he had just gotten off an airplane to find a scene similar to "a disaster movie."

"It was just a massive crowd of screaming people. Some were falling over themselves. A poor chap in a wheelchair was just left, and everyone just rushed to the back of the building, and then people ran the other way and no one really seemed to know what was going on," he told CNN.

"It looked like someone had gone around with a bulldozer and just shredded the entire entrance to the terminal."

Another witness told CNN that authorities herded her and about 30 other people into a women"s prayer room. She said when they were released into the main terminal hall, she saw b****y boot marks on the floor.

"There was a lot of blood," she told CNN. "There was so much glass on the floor they were scuffing it aside so we didn"t slip."

Judy Favish described a similar scene in the main hall.

"Chaos and blood and people running around and anxious and worried. It was just horrible," witness Judy Favish told CBS News.

She said authorities huddled her and other travelers in a basement cafeteria for more than two hours after the explosions. Some of the people she was with had been shot and were bleeding, she said.

"There were a couple of people who had really bad panic attacks, and were literally convulsing they were so anxious," she told CBS News. "And then another woman, I think she must have had a heart attack, again from anxiety."

Source: http://www.businessinsider.com/istanbul-airport-suicide-bombing-witness-accounts-2016-6

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Tim Tebow leaps into action during medical emergency

Tim Tebow Leads Prayer After In-Flight Emergency

Former NFL star Tim Tebow and the Delta Air Lines flight crew lept into action over the weekend to help a man experiencing a medical emergency.

Richard V. Gotti wrote in a Facebook post on Sunday about the in-flight medical emergency on a Phoenix-bound flight from Atlanta that he witnessed.

Gotti said that a man a few rows ahead of him began suffering what appeared to be heart problems. He said that everyone onboard the plane helped whether it was it was chest compressions, starting an IV, helping breathe life into this man, or praying

The crew of Delta Airlines were amazing. They acted in a fast and professional manner! Then all of a sudden, I observed a guy walking down the aisle, Gotti continued.

He then noticed a man starting to walk down the aisle toward the family that was in distress.

I observed a guy walking down the aisle. That guy was Tim Tebow. He met with the family as they cried on his shoulder! I watched Tim pray with the entire section of the plane for this man. He made a stand for G*d in a difficult situation, Gotti added.

He also said when the plane landed in Phoenix, the man got a pulse back. However, People Magazine reported the man later died in a hospital

According to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Delta Air Lines spokesman Brian Kruse confirmed that there had been a medical emergency during the flight and that paramedics were there to greet the plane to give the passenger immediate care.

We cant say enough about the Delta professionals who care for our customers every day and we are grateful to our customers who are so often quick to extend kindness and care to one another, he said.

Gottis Facebook post has been shared more than 5,000 times since his posting.

Tebow has made no mention of the incident on the plane and Delta Air Lines doesnt release information about who is onboard their flights.

A separate Instagram photo posted by Pamela Rainey shows Tebow sitting in front of her and a mention of the medical emergency that was on the flight.

This article originally appeared on Fox News.

Source: http://nypost.com/2016/06/28/tim-tebow-leaps-into-action-during-medical-emergency/

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Nigel Farage backs Donald Trump: "There is nothing on Earth that could persuade me ever to vote for Hillary Clinton"

Nigel Farage first speech post-Brexit vote: You"re not laughing now

Nigel Farage has backed Donald Trump for US president and said he would never supportHillary Clinton, just days after the Republican congratulated the UKs decision to secede from the European Union.

Speaking to CNN from Brussels, UKIP leader Mr Farage praised Mr Trump but said he had far bigger problems than that of his counterpart.

Donald Trump dares to talk about things that other people want to brush under the carpet, he said.

My problems in politics are far greater than Donald Trumps. We literally have lost our sovereignty, we have lost our borders, lost our ability to regulate, he added.

The problem youve got in the US is illegal immigration. Our problem is legal immigration to half a billion people, he said, referring to the free movement between EU countries.

Mr Trump heard about the Brexit result on a visit to his golf course in Scotland, and claimed the UK had "taken back its country", echoing the words of Mr Farage.

Mr Farage, who was crowing over his EU victory last week, said that Mr Trump would be better for the UK than president Barack Obama, and thathe would not vote for democrat HillaryClinton.

There is nothing on Earth that could persuade me ever to vote for Hillary Clinton, he said.

She represents the political elite, its almost as if she feels she has the divine right to have that job.

While Mr Obama has said the UK would move to the back of the queue in terms of trade deals if it left the EU, Mr Trump has insisted the UK would remain at the front of the line.

Mr Farage"s comments comethe same day that he was widely mocked in the European parliament.MEPs booed and shouted over him as he tried to talk about EU-UK trade deals.

Lets stop threatening, lets stop being silly. You need us far more than we need you, he told CNN.

Since the referendum result on Friday, Mr Farage has admitted that he feels betrayed by members of the Tory government who appear to be backtracking on whether or not the UK can clamp down on immigration and still keep access to the single market.

Asked why he did not challenge his fellow Brexit campaigners" claims that leaving the EU would free up 350 million per week for the NHS, a claim that has since been widely discredited, he laughed:Im just too soft, too kind and too easy."

The UKIP leader was then asked how much damage to the EU and the economy he was willing to put at stake in order to leave the union.

Freedom, independence and democracy and not being slaves to anyone else - you cant put a price on that, he replied.

Source: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/nigel-farage-backs-donald-trump-never-ever-vote-hillary-clinton-brexit-a7108081.html

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