Tom Brady vs. Aaron Rodgers | Top 100 Players of 2016 Reaction Show | NFL Network
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Updated: Saturday July 9, 2016 8:29 pm
Chris Robison wants to be the next Aaron Rodgers. Bob Stoops and the rest of the coaching staff that lured him to the University of Oklahoma are okay with that.
The four-star 2017 quarterback from Texas met up with SB Nation"s Bud Elliott at The Opening"s Elite 11 finals this week on Nike"s campus.
He took an introspective look at his strengths, weaknesses, and pregame mixtapes before giving Bud a quick pitch for the Sooners and his wish list for 2017.
Click here to read more of this article at SB Nation.
WAVERLY, Tenn. (AP) - The 19-year-old son of country music entertainer Craig Morgan is missing following a boating accident on the Tennessee River.
Morgan"s publicist Cindy Hunt says crews are searching for Jerry Greer in Humphreys County, west of Nashville. Hunt says the family is grateful for support and prayers, but is requesting privacy "during this difficult time."
Sheriff"s Office Chief Deputy Rod Edwards in that county told local media that the search began around 4 p.m. Sunday near a marina. Edwards says two teenagers were tubing when they had an accident and one teen didn"t surface. Both were wearing life jackets.
The Sheriff"s Office requested assistance from rescue organizations across the state. About 50 boats joined the search. Authorities say crews were using an underwater vehicle to scan a search on the river where the water is up to 15 feet deep at points.
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There comes a time in every Bachelorette finalists life when he has to show his sensitive side and reveal an emotional life story if he wants to stay in the game. On Monday night, it was Jordan Rodgerss turn and boy, did he deliver, becoming the first contestant touse this moment to spill family drama about a celebrity sibling.
For anyone not aware, Jordan (a front-runner and the most highly hyped contestant this season) is the younger brother of superstar Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers. When Jordan was revealed as one of JoJo Fletchers suitors, there were lots of jokes about how Aaron and his girlfriend, actress Olivia Munn could possibly make an appearance if Jordan made it to the home town date stage. Turns out that will definitely not happen because, as Jordan explained during the episode, he and Aaron are estranged to the point where hes not even sure Aaron knows hes on the show.
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Jordan made headlines last month when he went on the Garbage Time podcast and hinted at a complicated relationship with his older brother, but thats nothing compared to sharing the story on national television. During a one-on-one date with JoJo, Jordan was determined to open up, especially because it was right before JoJo narrowed the fieldto the final four guys, who would all get home town dates.
They started talking about home town date week,and Jordan admitted that he hasnt brought a girl home in years. He started ticking off the members of the family JoJo would meet: His parents, Darla and Ed; his oldest brother, Luke; and Lukes dog, Carl. Yeah, Jordan continued. And, um, my middle brother wont be there.
And thats Aaron? JoJo asked. Okay. Why?
Uh oh. Yeah, Aaron, Jordan said, looking a bit nervous. Like I said, I have a great relationship with my brother Luke. Me and Aaron dont really have that much of a relationship.
Cue the sad music literally, a somber melody started playing in the background.
Its just kind of the way hes chosen to do life, Jordan added.
Whoa was hegoing to throw his superstar brother under the bus? And imply any estrangement was his fault?
I chose to stay close with my family and my parents and my brother, and, um, yeah, its just its not ideal, Jordan continued.
Okay, so he did go there. But Jordan quickly followed up to say that he doesnt hold it against him.
I love him, and and, uh and I cant imagine what its like to be in his shoes and have the pressure he has and the demands from people that he has. Dont have hard feelings against him, its just how things go right now.
Does he know that youre doing [this show]? JoJo asked with a look of dismay, which people on Twitterinterpreted as her realizing she wouldnt have a shot at free Packers tickets.
I dont think so, Jordan confessed.
So you guys dont talk at all, JoJo confirmed.
No, not really, Jordan said.
He didnt go into detail, but definitely hinted at some severe sibling rivalry and insecurity. Earlier, Jordan had bristled when fellow contestant James Taylor called him entitled, and Jordan wanted JoJo to know that description hit a nerve.
That just really strikes a chord with me. Just, like, that kind of word, because its just not who I am, because, frankly, at every step of my life, I was just kind of disappointed, Jordan said. No matter what I did, it was never good enough for a coach or for a teammate, because I was being compared to someone who did it the best.
Cue the even sadder music. When I walked away from playing I couldve kept playing, but football didnt define me, Jordan said, referencing his brief NFL career. And not having a great relationship with my brother Aaron, or what people think that relationship should be, didnt define me. Im defined by the character I have and I just wanted you to know where Im coming from with that.
Although family drama is a staple of reality television, its far more unusual to occur when the family member has no involvement in the show. Either way, it worked JoJo gave Jordan a rose at the end of the episode. Looks like theres more Aaron talk to come: In the preview for next weeks episode, JoJo confronts his brother Luke about Jordans issues with Aaron.
Its something we dont really talk about a whole lot, Luke says.
JoJos voice-over sounds concerned. Jordan doesnt have a relationship with his brother Aaron, but I didnt realize this wound is as deep as it is, she says in the preview. So now Im nervous.
(This post has been updated.)
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Breaking News
The 19-year-old son of country star Craig Morgan is missing after an inner tube accident.
Jerry Greer was with friends on the Tennessee River Sunday, when a boat pulling an inner tube got involved in some sort of accident. Greer, the son of Morgan and wife Karen Greer, has not been found.
We"re told there were no signs of drinking ... at least not initially. One source called it "a freak accident."
We"re also told Greer had some type of flotation device on at the time of the accident.
Police, with the help of helicopters and rescue boats, are combing the area.
Blinkford & Sons? Mumford-182? In honor of Blink-182s new record, California, folk mainstays Mumford & Sons impersonated the iconic punk band in a short video titled, Brohemian Rhapsodynamed after one of the tracks on the new LP.
The video features M&S in a tent, all wearing lurid clothing, wailing sick punk solos, and jumping around with way more energy than is typical of the folk rockers. They even include a quintessential, slightly perverted romantic lyric: theres something about you I cant quite put my finger in. Har har.
Then, the real Blink walks in (sans Tom DeLonge, of course) and stare open-mouthed at their identity thieves. Its like a surreal nightmare straight from Mark Hoppus brain.
Speaking of Hoppus and sans Tom DeLonge, Blink-182 also just released their first music video since Matt Skiba took over guitar dutiesas NME reports. Bored to Death opens with a high schooler sitting in class, bored and carving into his desk with scissors. Then, via daydream, he goes to a record store and the beach and has way more fun than he could have ever had in school because school is the worst!
Even though producer John Feldmann previously asserted that The guys arent 23 anymore so theyre no longer writing songs about poo and that kind of stuff, here we are and Blink-182 is still riffing on those angsty teenage rebellion blues. Admittedly, though, there are no poo jokes. And hey, they know their demographicmay the young rebels never die.
California arrived on July 1. Check out the videos and let us know what you think in the comments below.
For a woman on the verge of running the country, Theresa May has seemed almost preternaturally calm over the past few days.
Shes basically the same as ever; quite relaxed and cheerful. Theres no sense of the prison shades falling, says a longstanding friend who has observed her closely during the campaign. But then, unlike Andrea Leadsom, seemingly badly shaken by a single weekend of hostile media coverage, May knew better than anyone what to expect.
The rise of Theresa May
Over the past six years, May has weathered riots, sat in on a decision to go to war, and chaired an emergency Cobra meeting in the prime ministers absence following the murder of soldier Lee Rigby.
She has been diligently doing her homework for years and, while even she did not foresee David Cameron resigning in these circumstances (let alone the collapse of all other contenders), she is as ready as she will ever be. The question is whether that is anywhere near ready enough for the turbulent times ahead.
Tory grandee Ken Clarkes unguarded remarks about her being a b****y difficult woman probably did May nothing but good with female voters and she turned them to her own advantage at the last parliamentary hustings, promising that European commission president Jean-Claude Juncker would soon find out how b****y difficult she could be.
But even her friends concede Clarke has a point. She can be a b****r, says one otherwise admiring colleague succinctly. Not easy to work with. May fights her corner tigerishly and, unusually for a politician, she does not seem bothered about being liked.
It is typical of her take-me-or-leave-me approach that she anaged to win the support of almost two-thirds of her parliamentary colleagues despite refusing to bribe waverers with job offers. You cant go in and say, Make me under-secretary of state for sproggets and badges and youve got my support, says Eric Pickles, the ex-cabinet minister and longstanding ally. Thats not how she operates. Youve got to take her unconditionally.
Theresa May gave her backing to leadership contender David Cameron in 2005. Photograph: Andrew Parsons/PA
Indeed, the most intriguing political comparison is arguably not with Thatcher, but with Gordon Brown, the last political figure dominant enough to become prime minister basically by acclamation. Two serious-minded children of religious ministers, steeped in moral purpose, both possessed of an iron need to control. May is a famously reluctant delegator, needing to know exactly what her juniors are doing and to chew over every detail of decisions a micromanagement style she cannot hope to apply to an entire government and like Brown, she demands unswerving loyalty. (Although unlike him, she generally wont say behind your back what she wouldnt say to your face).
Yet for all her apparent stubbornness, in private May is surprisingly open to a well-sourced argument. A former junior minister who observed her playing hardball in negotiations says she will usually do a deal in the end: Its not just because I say so if you make a good argument to Theresa, she can be willing to change her position.
She may not be adored, but she commands admiration, a wary respect, and deep gratitude from many Tory women for what the business minister Anna Soubry calls the proper sisterhood that she has built inside the party. There is something fitting about the fact that over a decade after May overhauled the candidate selection system to bring more women and minority ethnic MPs up the ladder behind her, her party briefly volunteered an all-female shortlist for the top job.
Theresa May addressing the Police Federation conference in 2014 she announced the end of state funding of the police forces representative body, and said that if it did not reform itself she would pass legislation forcing it to. Photograph: Andrew Winning/Reuters
What makes a May premiership interestingly unpredictable is that she has always been driven less by ideology than by morality, a very personal sense of right or wrong. Her more radical moments attacking police corruption, fighting Downing Street for an inquiry into institutional child abuse, overruling civil service advice have often come from a feeling that common decency has been offended. She loathes any sense of impropriety in public service, of sloppy and self-serving behaviour leading to injustice.
On Monday, she hinted at an equally moralistic approach to economic policy, outlining plans to curb executive pay and put consumers and workers on corporate boards. In a rather audacious parking of the tanks on Labours lawn, she plans to pitch herself as a champion of the left behind, people struggling financially who voted to leave the EU because they didnt see how things could get worse.
Robert Halfon, the minister without portfolio and champion of blue-collar conservatism, recognises that description well from his Harlow constituency. He backed May partly because he hopes she will advocate a more socially responsible capitalism.
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I dont think shes a slasher-and-burner. I think shell take on crony capitalism Ive said we should be a party of the NHS, not BHS, not these awful people s******g the workers, he says.
Its not hard to see where she got this rather old-fashioned sense of duty. The only daughter of the Rev Hubert Brasier and his wife Zaidee grew up in rural Oxfordshire, in a family that revolved around the demands of her fathers parishioners. It was dinned into her very young that, as the vicars daughter, she was always on show, and to this day she retains a puritanical streak; the juiciest surprise in her published tax return is that she gives quite heavily to charity.
Hers was a comfortable middle-class upbringing two years of private school, then a local grammar and Oxford and she enjoys a famously strong marriage to Philip, a banker she met at a Tory student disco.
Theresa May seen with husband Philip John May at the Henley festival over the weekend. Photograph: Adam Sorenson/Barcroft Images
But life hasnt always been easy. Her father was killed in a car crash shortly after she graduated, and her mother, who had multiple sclerosis, died the year after. Then came the bitter discovery that the Mays could not have children. She watched as, one by one, her male Oxford contemporaries bagged seats before her and, despite being promoted dizzyingly fast when she finally reached Westminster in 1997, was never quite part of any leaders inner circle.
Perhaps it took a certain sense of detachment to deliver that broadside after the 2001 defeat, in which she warned that the Conservatives would not regain power while they were seen as a nasty party. It remains a pivotal moment in Tory history, presaging Camerons modernising revolution four years later. Surviving the ferocious subsequent backlash, meanwhile, taught her that she was tougher than she thought.
Such feats of daring remain, however, rare. She likes to go through the usual structures, says a fellow senior minister, who praises her as careful rather than wildly creative. She is in many ways the continuity candidate, with Tories speculating that trusted colleagues might well stay in their old jobs to smooth the transition. Even the chancellor, George Osborne, has gone out of his way to be helpful, holding private talks with her in recent days.
At a time of national crisis, caution has its appeal. Halfon says that when he asked constituents for their views on a new leader, the word he kept hearing was security. She may lack a grand political vision, but if the sky fell in you sense shed know what to do.
Yet awkward questions remain. If she is such a strong leader, why did she disappear during the EU referendum? Surely she was not cynically hedging her bets? And can a remainer ever really deliver a form of Brexit that satisfies the Tory right, without outraging her more centrist supporters?
May after delivering her keynote speech to delegates during the Conservative party conference, 6 October 2015. Photograph: Christopher Furlong/Getty Images
The collapse of the leadership contest means May has not been forced to clarify her views on several controversial issues related to Brexit, chief among them immigration. As home secretary, she managed to be both passionately liberal on race issues challenging stop-and-search because it routinely discriminates against young black men, for example and hardline on immigration, baldly stating in a speech to last years party conference that current levels were not in the national interest. Many MPs do wonder how she can honestly reconcile such apparently conflicting beliefs.
Ive struggled with this, frankly, says one modernising MP who backed her only after some soul-searching. Her views on stop-and-search, on same-s*x marriage, and forced slavery it just doesnt square with this.
But Pickles, who worked with her for years on community cohesion, argues that she has merely been quicker than most to recognise what a toxic issue immigration has become.
Photographers focus on the shoes on the cliff path at the Conservative party conference in Bournemouth in 2004. Photograph: Dan Chung for the Guardian
Ive always been of the view that if you let the genie out of the bottle, its very difficult, but I think she got the early warning signs, he says. I think [that speech] was a genuine attempt to try and pull us back before the great chasm we descended into.
Whatever the truth, the Conservatives are in that chasm now. It now falls to Theresa May to drag them out.
Tomorrow (12 July) Amazon will launch a 24-hour Prime Day sale - with over 100,000 reductions worldwide, exclusively for its paying subscribers.
The Black Friday-style event, which has been named the sixth biggest shopping day in the UK according to new data from SimilarWeb, promises to deliver ""major summer deals"".
The stellar offers will be available from midnight on the big day itself - as well as reductions in the run up to the 12th - starting from Tuesday 5 July 2016.
Although Prime Day is reserved for Amazon"s paying Prime subscribers only - the online store says non-paying members can still get involved for free, by signing up to its 30-day free trial. If you choose to go via this route, remember to cancel your membership before the 30-day trial ends to avoid being billed the full 79 annual fee.
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Amazon Prime Day countdown deals: Monday"s best offers
Amazon"s Prime Day sale will include deals across electronics, toys, video games, movies, school uniform, baby, health, beauty, sports and more. To find out more, see our all you need to know about Prime Day guide. Alternatively, here"s our pick of the Monday"s top deals.
1. Philips Sonicare AirFloss Rechargeable Power Flosser
How much is it? Now 29.99, was 59.99
2. Philips Avent Breastfeeding Starter
How much is it? Now 44.99, was 142.50
3. Lenovo C20 19.5 inch Full HD All-in-One Desktop
How much is it? Now 199.99, was 319.99
4. RockJam Full Size Electric Guitar Superkit
How much is it? Now 64.99, was 94.99
5. Silentnight Stratus Premier 2600 Pocket Natural Mattress - Double
How much is it? Now 369, was 499
Stay tuned on our deals page for more offers as they are announced on and in the run up to Prime Day.
What is Amazon Prime?
Launched in 2007, Amazon Prime is a membership programme that offers shoppers unlimited one-day delivery, streaming of 15,000 movies and TV episodes, and access to 800,000 Kindle books for 79 a year - or 5.99 a month.
