Alabama at Ole Miss by the numbers: 30-point streaks collide

Hear what Saban said after Alabama"s thrilling win over Ole Miss

No. 1 Alabama(2-0, 0-0) at No. 19 Ole Miss (1-1, 0-0)

2:30 p.m. CDT Saturday (CBS)

Vaught-Hemingway Stadium, Oxford, Miss.

0 Victories in 10 games against the No. 1 team in the AP poll for Ole Miss. The Rebels will be playing a top-ranked Alabama team for the fourth time: The No. 1 Crimson Tide beat Ole Miss 59-35 in 1980, 33-14 in 2012 and 25-0 in 2013. In the Rebels" other games against the top-ranked team, they lost 27-7 to Tennessee in 1956, 14-0 to LSU in 1958, 7-3 to LSU in 1959, 38-14 to Florida in 1994, 41-24 to LSU in 2007, 51-31 to Auburn in 2010 and 42-3 to LSU in 2011. Ole Miss defeated Alabama 23-17 in 2014 when the Crimson Tide was No. 1 in the coaches poll and No. 3 in the AP poll.

1 Opponent has beaten a Nick Saban-coached team in three consecutive seasons. Purdue defeated Saban"s Michigan State teams 22-21 in 1997, 25-24 in 1998 and 52-28 in 1999. Ole Miss hosts Alabama on Saturday and has beaten the Crimson Tide in each of the past two seasons. The Rebels are the third SEC team with an opportunity to defeat Saban in three consecutive seasons. After Florida beat LSU in 2000 and 2001, the Tigers defeated the Gators 36-7 in 2002. After LSU defeated Alabama in 2010 and 2011, the Tide defeated the Tigers 21-17 in 2012. (Alabama also defeated LSU 21-0 in the BCS national-championship game to end the 2011 season.)

3 Interceptions have been returned for touchdowns by Alabama SS Eddie Jackson after he took one back 55 yards against Western Kentucky last week. Jackson tied the Alabama career record for interception-return TDs held by Antonio Langham and C.J. Mosley. It"s also tied for the third-most in SEC history. Jackson moved into a tie for ninth with former Georgia DB Scott Woerner in SEC history for interception-return yards with 303.

6 Consecutive Ole Miss games have featured at least 30 points for the Rebels, tied for the longest such streak in school history. Ole Miss scored at least 30 points in the final four games of 2008 and the first two of 2009 and equaled that with at least 30 points in the final three games of 2012 and the first three of 2013.

7 Consecutive victories for Alabama when playing on the home field of an opponent ranked in the AP poll. The streak started after a 34-28 loss to Auburn in 2013.

8 Opponents have beaten Alabama in at least three consecutive seasons in the past century, with Tennessee owning six such streaks and Auburn having three. Ole Miss enters Saturday"s game having beaten Alabama in each of the past two seasons. The other teams with three-season winning streaks against the Crimson Tide had one apiece Georgia Tech, LSU, Mississippi State, TCU, Tulane and Vanderbilt. Alabama"s most recent losing streaks of at least three straight games ended in the 2008 season, when the Tide defeated LSU for the first time since 2002 and Auburn for the first time since 2001.

8 Consecutive victories for Alabama in games against teams ranked in the AP poll. The Crimson Tide hasn"t fallen to a ranked foe since last year"s 43-37 loss to No. 15 Ole Miss on Sept. 19.

9 Previous Alabama-Ole Miss games have featured two ranked teams, a situation occurring for the fourth straight season. Alabama has a 6-3 record in these games, with two straight losses. The No. 7 Rebels defeated the No. 17 Crimson Tide 48-23 in 1970, the No. 11 Rebels defeated the No. 3 Tide 23-17 in 2014 and the No. 15 Rebels defeated the No. 2 Tide 43-37 in 2015. No. 8 Alabama defeated No. 7 Ole Miss 12-7 in 1964, No. 15 Alabama defeated No. 20 Ole Miss 33-32 in 1969, No. 11 Alabama defeated No. 22 Ole Miss 30-24 in 1999, No. 24 Alabama defeated No. 21 Ole Miss 42-7 in 2002, No. 3 Alabama defeated No. 16 Ole Miss 22-3 in 2009 and No. 1 Alabama defeated No. 21 Ole Miss 25-0 in 2013.

12 Consecutive victories for Alabama when the Crimson Tide opens its SEC schedule on the road. Alabama most recently had an 0-1 conference record after a road game in 1991, when the Tide lost its league opener at Florida. This is only the third time since 2003 that Ole Miss" first SEC contest has been a home game. The Rebels lost the past two times that they opened their conference schedule in Oxford.

12 Consecutive seasons have featured at least 31 points for Alabama in the Crimson Tide"s third game of the year. The most recent season in which Alabama failed to score at least 31 points was 2003, when the Tide defeated Kentucky 27-17 in Game No. 3. Alabama has averaged scoring 45 points per game during the 12-year streak.

14 Consecutive games have been won by Alabama, the longest winning streak in the nation. The Crimson Tide hasn"t lost since falling to Ole Miss 43-37 on Sept. 19.

15 Consecutive games with a TD pass for Ole Miss QB Chad Kelly. Kelly has thrown for at least one TD in every game he"s played in a Rebels" uniform. The school record for consecutive games with a TD pass is 16, established by Eli Manning, starting with the last game of the 2000 season and extending into 2002.

50 Percent as many rushing yards lost by Alabama"s opponents as they have gained this season. The Crimson Tide"s opponents have gained 174 rushing yards in two games. But they"ve also lost exactly half that amount 87 yards on negative plays, giving them a net of 87 rushing yards for the season.

52 Victories and 10 losses for Alabama when playing as the No. 1 team in the AP poll.

63 Previous games have been played between Alabama and Ole Miss, with the Crimson Tide holding a 51-10-2 on-the-field series lead.

77 AP polls have had Alabama in the top spot. The Crimson Tide ranks fifth all-time in No. 1 rankings, with Ohio State first with 105 No. 1 appearances, followed by Oklahoma with 101, Notre Dame with 98 and Southern Cal with 91. Second to Alabama among SEC teams is Florida, with 41 No. 1 rankings, 10th-most all-time. Forty-six of Alabama"s appearances at No. 1 have come in past 124 AP polls after the Tide made 31 appearances at No. 1 in the previous 984.

120 Games have been played by Alabama since the Crimson Tide failed to score in the first half, the longest streak in the nation. On Sept. 29, 2007, Alabama and Florida State headed into halftime tied at 0-0. The Tide has scored in the first half of every game since. Alabama has a 104-16 record during the streak.

134 Consecutive AP polls have included Alabama, the longest current streak. Second on the active list is Florida State at 72 straight polls. The most recent AP poll that did not include Alabama is the final one of the 2007 season. The Crimson Tide"s streak is the ninth longest in the poll"s history and the second longest in SEC history. Nebraska set the record by being ranked in 348 consecutive polls from 1981 through 2002. Florida set the SEC record by being ranked in 209 consecutive polls from 1990 through 2002.

200 Consecutive games without being shut out for Alabama, a school record. Alabama"s most recent shutout loss came 9-0 to Auburn on Nov. 18, 2000.

233 Rushing yards were gained by Wofford in the Terriers" 38-13 loss to Ole Miss last week. That was the most rushing yards yielded by the Rebels since Auburn had 248 in a 35-31 victory over Ole Miss on Nov. 1, 2014.

64,232 Spectators attended last week"s Wofford-Ole Miss game a record for Vaught-Hemingway Stadium.

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College football schedule, Week 3: What to watch, TV times, channels

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The viewer"s guide for Week 2 was difficult to create considering there were so few attractive matchups on the surface. This week, the only difficulty I"m having is limiting the games to direct you to. I don"t want to overload you.

Thankfully, the schedule makers did us all a solid this week as the road map for the college football viewer is rather simple this Saturday. If you break up a typical Saturday into three tiers, you have the early games, the afternoon games and the prime time games. As things stand Saturday, there is at least one major game between ranked teams in each tier, which ensures that we"ll have a full day of high-stakes games at our disposal.

That"s all you can ask for.

All times Eastern

Marquee matchups

No. 2 Florida State Seminoles at No. 10 Louisville Cardinals -- Noon, ABC: It"s not very often we get a top-1o matchup to start the day, but that"s the case this week as Florida State heads north to take on Louisville. There"s a lot to like about this game as it matches stakes with star power. Louisville quarterback Lamar Jackson has been the best player in the country by a wide margin through the first two weeks of the season, but he"ll be facing a Florida State defense that"s better than any other he"s dealt with so far. Not many people considered Louisville a contender in the ACC heading into the season, but the Cardinals have the chance to change a lot of minds this weekend.

No. 1 Alabama Crimson Tide at No. 19 Ole Miss Rebels -- 3:30 p.m., CBS: Since the start of the 2014 season, Alabama has lost three football games. One was to Ohio State Buckeyes in a College Football Playoff semifinal. The other two were to Ole Miss. This weekend, the Rebels look to become the first team to defeat a Nick Saban-coached team three consecutive times since Purdue Boilermakers did it (remember when Purdue had Drew Brees and it was good?) from 1997-99 while Saban was at Michigan State Spartans . It certainly won"t be easy, as Alabama already looks like a well-oiled machine, but clearly if there"s anybody that knows how to beat the Tide, it"s Ole Miss.

No. 12 Michigan State at No. 18 Notre Dame Fighting Irish -- 7:30 p.m., NBC: These two old rivals have not met since the 2013 season, and the Irish have won the last three meetings and lead the all-time series 48-28-1. This will be a major statement game for both teams. After losing to Texas Longhorns to open the season, the Irish could restore some of the shine to their golden domes with a win over Sparty. On the other side, Michigan State comes into 2016 with plenty of doubters after its loss to Alabama in the CFP last year -- and the loss of key players like Connor Cook . A win over Notre Dame would send a message to the rest of the country that the Spartans aren"t ready to go away just yet.

No. 3 Ohio State at No. 14 Oklahoma Sooners -- 7:30 p.m., Fox: It"s amazing how quickly perceptions change, isn"t it? Oklahoma was a popular preseason pick to get back to the CFP, but after a loss to a very good Houston Cougars team, the Sooners are suddenly home underdogs to an Ohio State team that lost more talent from last year"s squad than just about any other team in college football history. I don"t know who is right, and who is overreacting, but I do know that this game should be a h**l of a lot of fun. I wouldn"t be shocked at all if this turns into a shootout.

Southern California Trojans at No. 7 Stanford Cardinal -- 8 p.m., ABC: I believe this game will be a good measuring stick game for both teams. We"ve only seen Stanford once so far this season, and it looked good in a win over Kansas State Wildcats , but I just don"t know how good Kansas State really is yet, so it"s hard to get a great read on the Cardinal from the one game. Then there"s USC. The Trojans killed Utah State Aggies last week, but we shouldn"t take too much from that. The week before they were crushed by Alabama, but hey, that happens to everybody once in a while. I believe this game will tell us a lot more about both teams and their chances in the Pac-12.

No. 11 Texas at California Golden Bears -- 10:30 p.m., ESPN: Texas has looked good its first two games, but it leaves the confines of Austin for the first time when it heads west to take on Cal. This is a California team that came to Austin last season and managed to outscore the Longhorns in the process. Will it be able to do it again? I don"t know, but while the win over Notre Dame was a huge statement for Texas, this is the kind of game it needs to win if people are really going to buy in.

Best of the rest

No. 25 Miami at Appalachian State Mountaineers -- Noon, ESPN

No. 22 Oregon Ducks at Nebraska Cornhuskers -- 3:30 p.m., ABC

Mississippi State Bulldogs at No. 20 LSU Tigers -- 7 p.m., ESPN2

No. 17 Texas A&M at Auburn Tigers -- 7 p.m., ESPN

Other top 25 games

ThursdayNo. 6 Houston 40 | Cincinnati Bearcats 16

FridayNo. 21 Baylor Bears at Rice Owls -- 8 p.m., ESPN

SaturdaySouth Carolina State at No. 5 Clemson Tigers -- Noon, ESPN3.com Georgia State Panthers at No. 9 Wisconsin Badgers -- Noon, Big Ten Network North Dakota State at No. 13 Iowa Hawkeyes -- Noon, ESPN2 Ohio Bobcats at No. 15 Tennessee Volunteers -- Noon, SEC Network Colorado Buffaloes at No. 4 Michigan Wolverines -- 3:30 p.m., Big Ten Network No. 16 Georgia Bulldogs at Missouri Tigers -- 7:30 p.m., SEC Network North Texas Mean Green at No. 23 Florida Gators -- 7:30 p.m., ESPNU Texas State Bobcats at No. 24 Arkansas Razorbacks -- 7:30 p.m., SEC Network Portland State at No. 8 Washington Huskies -- 8 p.m., Pac-12 Network

Source: http://www.cbssports.com/college-football/news/college-football-schedule-week-3-what-to-watch-tv-times-channels/

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Complete NBA 2K17 Ratings for Phoenix Suns Players

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"Tis the season for all-nighters, trash talk and career modes. Happy #2KDay to all the Suns gamers out there.

With Friday"s early release of NBA 2K17, we now know how the game"s makers rated all 15 Suns players. And since of course you"ll be using Phoenix as your go-to team, we"re here to break down the numbers for you.

Appropriately, Eric Bledsoe came in with the highest rating on the squad a solid 85. His best attributes, according to the game, are instincts, perimeter defense and playmaking all of which received an "A-" grade.

Following Bledsoe is Brandon Knight and Devin Booker, who each garnered 78 ratings. Both numbers seem low to us. For Booker specifically, he came in at No. 4 on Uproxx"s list of worst ratings in the game. His three-point shot, for reasons unknown, only earned a "B-."

"Outside of Karl-Anthony Towns and possibly Kristaps Porzingis, no other rookie showed more NBA promise than Phoenix Suns guard Devin Booker," Tony Xypteras wrote. "Here are a few players rated higher than Booker inNBA 2K17: Rajon Rondo, Wesley Matthews, DAngelo Russell, Jrue Holiday, Rudy Gay, Tyreke Evans, Bradley Beal, and Marcin Gortat. I like a lot of those players, but how many of them actually had a better season than Devin Booker last year?"

As for the Suns" trio of rookies, Dragan Bender received a 72, Marquese Chriss got a 71 and Tyler Ulis nabbed a 69. The remaining numbers are as follows: T.J. Warren (76), Jared Dudley (76), P.J. Tucker (75), Alex Len (75), Tyson Chandler (74), Leandro Barbosa (73), Archie Goodwin (72), Alan Williams (70) and John Jenkins (69).

For reference, only six players in the league received a rating of 91 or higher. LeBron James topped everyone with a 96.

As you can see in the GIF below, courtesy of this YouTube page, 2K accidentally used a Ulis photo for Chriss" page. We"ll take that as a sign that the Suns" ratings as a whole are still a work in progress. As the 2016-17 season gets going, the numbers will be updated frequently with how players perform on the court.

That said, how do you think the developers did on their initial Suns evaluation? Voice your opinion in the comment section below.

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Jim Jones Says Max B Could"ve Been Like Drake - Vibe

Max B - Come Up DVD (Full Interview)

Had his life turned out differently, Max B couldve easily reached Drake status, says Jim Jones.

In an interview with Rap Radars podcast, Jones discussed Max Bs 75-year prison sentence, and squashing their beef.

READ: Jim Jones Prepares "The Kitchen" Album

Jones signed the now incarnated rapper to his BrydGang Records imprint in 2008, but they fell out after Max B left the label. He later linked with French Montana to push the Coke Boys crew.

However, the Diplomat doesnt have any ill feelings towards his former artist. I dont even think about that no more, said Jones. He got his own circumstances that hes going through right now.

WATCH: French Montana Discusses Max B"s "Waves" Mix-Up On "The Breakfast Club"

Later in the interview, Jones denied rumors that he was involved in Max Bs arrest, stating that he bailed him out, and put a lot of money in his pockets.

He had a chance to be as big as Drake is right now, Jones continued. A lot of these artists right now that are singing, and being very melodic, a lot of that came from that boys whole catalog.

Max B is credited with pioneering the melodic rap style used byDrake, Fetty Wap, and Wiz Khalifa. According to Jones, Khalifa studied Max Bs music word for word.

While Jones had positive thoughts on Max B, the same cant be said for Dame Dash.

Check out the interview below.

Source: http://www.vibe.com/2016/06/jim-jones-says-max-b-couldve-been-like-drake/

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East Coast could face gas shortage, rising prices

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A pipeline leak in Alabama may bring back a bad memory from the late 1970s for consumers on the East Coast surging gasoline prices and stations that run out of fuel.

The good news the price spike shouldn"t last that long. On the other hand, when speculators get involved, as they did after 2005"s Hurricane Katrina, the long term effect on prices can be hard to predict.

Already the gasoline futures market has responded with a rise in prices. In a Tweet, GasBuddy senior analyst Patrick DeHaan predicted prices at the pump could rise between five and 15 cents a gallon in Georgia, North Carolina, Tennessee, and Virginia, and as much as 20 cents a gallon in South Carolina. He says some station tanks may run dry.

Week-long shutdown

A week ago the Colonial Pipe, which is the main transporter of gasoline and diesel fuel from Houston to the East Coast, suffered a leak in rural Alabama and had to be shut down.

Now, engineers say it may be another week before the leak is repaired and the fuel can start flowing again. That could result in a significant draw-down in supplies in areas served by the pipeline, resulting in price hikes and possible shortages.

At the same time, Reuters reports BP will conduct major maintenance this weekend at its Whiting, Indiana refinery, reducing its output by as much as half. So, as oil prices have been fairly soft this week, the outlook is for gasoline prices to move in the other direction, at precisely the time they normally start to fall.

Low-priced states hit first

For consumers in the most-affected states, the saving grace is the fact they are starting out with some of the lowest gasoline prices in the country. South Carolina, expected to be the hardest-hit state, currently has the lowest prices in the nation, with a statewide average of $1.94 a gallon. The price is $2.02 in North Carolina and $1.98 in Virginia.

Meanwhile, Georgia Governor Nathan Deal has declared a state of emergency, allowing the suspension of federal rules and regulations that limit the hours of operation that commercial vehicles may be in use.

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Edward Albee, Audacious American Playwright, Dies at 88

"Virginia Woolf" Playwright Edward Albee Dies

Edward Albee, the three-time Pulitzer Prize winner who ushered in a new era of American drama with such plays as Whos Afraid of Virginia Woolf, The Zoo Story, Three Tall Women and A Delicate Balance, died Friday. He was 88.

The playwright died at his home in Montauk, N.Y.,after a short illness, his assistant Jackob Holder confirmed.

Influenced by Bertolt Brecht and the Theater of the Absurd, Albee invited the audience into his characters psyches in a way that challenged both topical and structural theatrical convention. From the wacky-turned-dangerous dinner party games of 1962s Whos Afraid of Virginia Woolf? to the b********y of 2002s The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia?, the playwright eradicated the illusion of normalcy by placing seemingly ordinary people in far-fetched situations.

Thats what happens in plays, yes? The s**t hits the fan, Albee saidin an interview with Playbill in 2002.

Albee was presented with the Pulitzer Prize in Drama for A Delicate Balance in 1967, Seascape in 1975 and Three Tall Women in 1994. Whos Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, arguably his most well-known play and Broadway debut, was selected for the Pulitzer in 1963, but an advisory committee overruled the nomination because of the plays use of profanity and sexual themes, and no award for theater was presented that year.

It did capture the Tony Award for best play, as did The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia?, and Albeewas awarded a special Tony for lifetime achievement in 2005. The American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters handed him the Gold Medal in Drama in 1980, and in 1996, he received the Kennedy Center Honors and the National Medal of Arts.

Among our few genuinely great playwrights, Edward Albee seems to be the most fearless and the most successful at discovering difficulty, fellow playwright Tony Kushner saidat the PEN World Voices Gala in 2012. Certainly, hes the one important American playwright who has made the investigation of the meaning of dramatic form, the structure of dramatic language and the contract between play and audience a substantial aspect of his lifes work.

Born Edward Harvey and adopted when he was 18 days old by Reed and Francis Albee, he grew up as Edward Franklin Albee III in Larchmont, N.Y. Albee was expelled from three schools, culminating in his dismissal from Trinity College in 1947, and he later moved to Greenwich Village. Many hypothesize that Virginia Woolf took inspiration from Albees collegiate experience, but the playwright denied autobiographical allegations.

I think thats foolishness on the part of the playwright to write about himself, he saidin a 2013 interview with The Believer. People dont know anything about themselves. They shouldnt write about themselves.

However, Albee did admit that A Delicate Balance came from his experience growing up with a right-wing, rich, prejudiced family with whom he never saw eye to eye. I wasnt growing up to be what they wanted, he toldtold the Dramatists Guild. They wanted a young corrupt CEO, a lawyer or a doctor. They didnt want a writer. Good G*d I wasnt going to be what they had bought, so to speak, which gave me great objectivity about them.

Albee said he decided he was a writer at age 6 and began his career by dabbling in poetry and novels, neither of which garnered much success. He didnt author his first play, The Zoo Story, until he was 30. The one-act premiered in Berlin after being rejected by American producers. Albee continued writing one-acts with The Sandbox in 1959 and The American Dream in 1960 before his three-act opus Virginia Woolf premiered in 1962.

Im infinitely more involved in the reality of the characters and their situation than I am in everyday life, Albee told The Paris Review afterVirginia Woolf debuted and as he was writing A Delicate Balance. The involvement is terribly intense. I find that in the course of the day when Im writing, after three or four hours of intense work, I have a splitting headache The involvement, which is both creative and self-critical, is so intense that Ive got to stop doing it.

Hollywood came calling early for Albee, with Mike Nichols directing Ernest Lehmans Oscar-nominated adaptation of 1966"s Virginia Woolffilm that starredElizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton. Albee was skeptical of Taylors ability to play Martha (Uta Hagen had toplined the play) but ended up being impressed with her Academy Award-winning performance as well as the film.

In 1973, Katharine Hepburn starred in director Tony Richardsons film version of A Delicate Balance, for which Albee is credited with the screenplay. (Albee muse Marian Seldes had starred in the play.)

Virginia Woolf has been revived three times on Broadway, with Kathleen Turner, Colleen Dewhurst and, most recently, Amy Mortonas Martha. The latest production won the Tony for best revival of a play in 2013, as well as Tonys for lead actor Tracy Letts and director Pam MacKinnon.

MacKinnon also directed Albees latest Broadway revival of A Delicate Balance, starring Glenn Close, John Lithgow, Martha Plimpton and Bob Balaban. If you can get over the Edward Albee myth and intimidation, hes very approachable, MacKinnon saidin an interview with American Theatre.

Albee was openly gay, and his longtime partner Jonathan Thomas died of bladder cancer in 2005. Albee avoided the classification of a gay writer. A writer who happens to be gay or lesbian must be able to transcend self, he said when accepting the Lambda Literary Foundations Pioneer Award for Lifetime Achievement in 2011. I am not a gay writer. I am a writer who happens to be gay.

When this remark was met with critique, he told NPR, Maybe Im being a little troublesome about this, but so many writers who are gay are expected to behave like gay writers, and I find that is such a limitation and such a prejudicial thing that I fight against it whenever I can.

Though known for his temper and irascible nature, Albee also was a famous champion of young playwrights. In 1963, he founded the New Playwrights Unit Workshop (renamed Playwrights 66 in 1966), and the organization provided emerging writers, including Terrence McNally, Lanford Wilson, Sam Shepard and John Guare, some of the first opportunities to have their work produced at the Cherry Lane Theater in the West Village.

If you have the ability to help other people in the arts, its your responsibility to do so, Albee toldNewsday in 2005. Playwrights 66 folded after eight years, but Albee started the Edward F. Albee Foundation in 1967, and it operates The Barn in Montauk, N.Y., providing residencies for writers and visual artists. He also served as a distinguished professor of playwriting at University of Houston.

Will Eno, an Albeeprotegewho had a residency with the Foundation in 1996, sat downwith him for The Dramatists Guild series The Legacy Project, in which Albee reflected on his life and influence.

If you dont live on the precipice, right close to the edge, youre wasting your time, Albee said. I hope that my plays are useful in that sense, that they tryto persuade people to live right on the edge dangerously and fully. Because you only do it once.

Source: http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/edward-albee-dead-virginia-woolf-743721

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Nick Gordon loses Bobbi Kristina Brown wrongful death lawsuit

Bobbi Kristina Brown: Nick Gordon No-Shows in Court, Loses Wrongful Death Suit

(CNN) - A Georgia judge has found Nick Gordon legally responsible for the death of his girlfriend, Bobbi Kristina Brown.

Gordon failed to show up to a civil hearing at the Fulton County Superior Court in Atlanta on Friday. This is the second hearing he"s missed. As a result, Gordon was found in contempt of the order and the judgment was made "by default."

Brown"s estate filed a wrongful death lawsuit against Gordon last year, alleging he beat her up after a "cocaine and drinking binge." The estate also claimed that Gordon gave Brown a "toxic cocktail" that caused her to pass out.

Brown, the only child of the late Whitney Houston and singer Bobby Brown, was found unresponsive in her bathtub on January 31, 2015. She remained in a coma until she died six months later.

An autopsy in March revealed her cause of death was due to drug intoxication and immersion in water, according to the Fulton County Medical Examiner"s Office. They were unable to rule whether her death was "due to intentional or accidental causes."

CNN"s Faith Robinson spoke to Nick Gordon by phone. He said he had no comment on Friday"s ruling.

The court ordered a jury trial to determine damages in the case.

An attorney for Brown"s estate, R. David Ware, wrote in a statement that the estate would pursue collection of any determined judgement with "fervor."

No criminal charges have been filed against Gordon.

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