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Loyola Greyhounds vs. Saint Joseph's Hawks
Saturday, December 21, 2013 | 3:00 p.m.
Baltimore, Md. | Reitz Arena
Quick Hits About The 'Hounds
Loyola plays its second game in three days after a 12-day layoff for final exams when the Greyhounds host fellow Jesuit school Saint Joseph's University at 3 p.m. on Saturday, December 21.
The game is part of a doubleheader that features the Loyola women hosting UMBC in Reitz Arena at 12 noon.
Dylon Cormier logged his seventh 20+ point game of the season, and the 22nd of his career, on Thursday night against Stony Brook University.
Loyola has recorded 13 steals in each of its last two games, raising its Patriot League leading average to 8.8 per game.
The Greyhounds have posted 11 or more steals four times this season.
Last Time Out
Stony Brook University took a 17-point lead with 1:17 left in the first half, but Loyola rallied to tie the game twice in the second half on Thursday night in Reitz Arena.
The Greyhounds could not get over the hump, however, and never led in a 76-69 non-conference loss to the two-time defending America East Conference regular-season champs.
Dylon Cormier made 16-of-21 free throws and finished with a game-high 25 points for the Greyhounds.
After Stony Brook was up 10 with 14:58 left in regulation, Cormier scored eight during a 10-0 run that tied the game for the first time in the second half, 51-51.
Patriot League Network
Saturday's game against Catholic will air live on the Patriot League Network.
The game, and all of Loyola's non-televised home games will be streamed, free of charge, in high definition and can be accessed at LoyolaGreyhounds.com/pln.
Gary Lambrecht will call the play-by-play, and Jim Chivers '05 will provide color analysis.
Series History Versus Saint Joseph's
Loyola and Saint Joseph's will meet for the 23rd time in series history, although the first time in the 21st century. The Hawks hold a 16-6 advantage in the all-time series.
The Greyhounds won a double overtime thriller, 80-78, the last time the teams met on January 4, 1996. Loyola shot 93.3 percent (14-of-15) from the free-throw line in the game.
The Greyhounds' win snapped a 12-game winning streak in the series for the Hawks.
The teams first met during the 1915-1916 season, a contest the Hawks won, 40-20. Loyola, however, won the teams' second meeting that year, 53-24, in the Greyhounds' last game of the season.
There were 17 games between the programs from 1915-16 through 1937-38, but they did not meet again until the first game of the 1976-77 season.
Cormier To The Charity Stripe
Loyola went to the free-throw line a season-high 35 times on Thursday night, and Dylon Cormier took 21 of the attempts.
His 21 free throw attempts are second-most in school single-game history, one shy of tying the January 14, 2009, mark set by Jamal Barney against NJIT.
Cormier made 16 free throws, a career-best, good for a tie for fourth in single-game history. Barney holds that record, as well, with 18.
Through nine games, Cormier has gone to the free-throw line 91 times (tied for 18th in Division I through games of December 19). His average of 10.1 free throws per game ranks fourth nationally.
Loyola is guaranteed at least 30 games this season (29 regular-season, plus at least one Patriot League Tournament), and with that average, Cormier would 303 free throws in 2013-14. The school single-season record for free throws attempted is 255 set in 1997-98 by Mike Powell.
In his career, Cormier is 396-of-562 from the free-throw line. With five more attempts, he will take over fourth-place in school history, while he is 15 from fifth-place in free throws made.
Sticky Fingers
Loyola has logged 13 steals in each of its last two games, raising its Patriot League leading average to 8.8 per game this season.
The Greyhounds have had 11 or more steals in four games – 12 at UMBC, 11 at Connecticut and 13 at Mount St. Mary's and versus Stony Brook – through nine contests.
R.J. Williams leads the Patriot League in steals per game (2.3), while Dylon Cormier is fourth (2.0). Cormier had a season-high four thefts against the Seawolves.
Cormier now has 157 in his career at Loyola, fifth-most in school history and three out of fourth place. With 81 in his career, Williams is 26th on the career chart.
Turnovers Trending Lower
Through eight games this season, the Greyhounds have done a relatively good job of taking care of possessions, averaging 11.1 turnovers per game, second best amongst Patriot League teams.
Loyola is slightly ahead of last year's average of 11.9 turnovers per game (12.0 in the first nine of the season).
Additionally, the Greyhounds lead the Patriot League in turnover margin, averaging 3.4 fewer than their opponents this season. Loyola has forced 14.6 turnovers per game this year, 8.8 per game by route of the steal, a stat that is also tops in the conference.
In all, the Greyhounds have committed 100 turnovers to their opponents 131.
Telling Stat
In Loyola's four losses this season – at Connecticut, West Virginia, Mount St. Mary's and versus Stony Brook – the Greyhounds are shooting a full 10 percent worse from the floor than they are in their five victories.
Loyola has made 45.9 percent (134-of-292) shots in five wins versus 35.6 percent (84-of-236) in four losses. As a consequence, Loyola is averaging 21.4 points less (81.4 versus 60.0) in the losses.
As one would expect, opponents are shooting better (47.3-42.4) in the games they've won.
Getting To The Line
Hopefully, the ability Loyola showed against Stony Brook to get to the free-throw line (35 attempts on Thursday) is a sign of things to come. When Loyola opened the season with a 4-0 record, it was going tot he free-throw line 32.5 times (129 total).
Since then, however, Loyola has gone to the line an average of just 20.2 times (101 total) in its last five games. Take out the 35 attempts against Stony Brook, and the Greyhounds were averaging just 16.5 free throws attempted over a four-game stretch.
Cormier's Start To The Season
Dylon Cormier has started the season scoring in bunches, averaging 23.8 points per game through nine. Through games of Thursday, December 19, Cormier is fourth in the nation in scoring, trailing only Niagara University's Antoine Mason (28.6), Creighton University's Doug McDermott (25.3) and Texas Southern's Aaric Murray (24.5).
Cormier scored 20 or more points in the Greyhounds' first five games, and he had three 30-plus point efforts during that stretch, as well. Overall, he has seven 20+ point games in nine contests.
On November 20 at UMBC, Cormier had a career-high 12 field goals and went 9-of-13 from the line to match his career-best with 34 points (also set on November 10 at Cornell).
No Loyola player in the school's Division I era (since 1981-1982) had started the season with five-straight 20-point games. Andre Collins, who set the school single-season scoring record at 26.1, started the 2005-2006 season with 20 or more points in five of six games, but he scored just 16 in the Greyhounds' third game of the season.
Collins had eight games with 30 or more points that season, the most by a Loyola player during the Division I era.
1,400 For Cormier
In the second half at Mount St. Mary's, Dylon Cormier became the 12th player in school history to score 1,400 or more points in a career. Entering Saturday's game against Saint Joseph's with 1,427, Cormier is four points away from tying Bob Connor (1967-72) for 11th place in school history.
He is the eighth player at Loyola to reach 1,400 points at the Division I level.
Rassman Producing More
Franz Rassman has shown his best scoring form of the season in Loyola's last three games, averaging 11.0 points in those three contests.
After tallying a career-best 14 points on 7-of-9 shooting against the Cardinals, Rassman finished with 12 points – 10 in the first half – at Mount St. Mary's.
In Loyola's first six games of the season, Rassman was making just 31.8 percent of shots (7-of-22), but he has hit 57.7 percent (15-of-26) in the last three contests.
Doing The Little Things
Eric Laster has done the stat-sheet filling things in the several games for the Greyhounds. The guard, who is in his first year as a starter, has pulled down at least four rebounds in each of the last six games.
On Thursday night versus Stony Brook, he blocked a career-best three shots, and earlier this month, he posted a career-high five assists in a win over Catholic.
Laster has 15 assists this year against just six turnovers, and his 4.2 rebounds per game are tied for third on the team.
Williams To The Basket
R.J. Williams has been a true point guard throughout his career at Loyola, but he has taken more opportunities to score this season. He has scored 10 or more three times (the same number he had during his first two years), including tallying 11 versus Stony Brook to match his career-high.
Against the Seawolves, Williams showed his ability to get to the basket for layups or to draw fouls. He is tied for Jarred Jones for team-high honors in free-throw percentage (83.9), as they both have made 26-of-31 this year.
Outside Shooting Off The Bench
Tyler Hubbard's role as an outside shooter off the bench has continued this year, with good success. The sophomore is hitting 42.9 percent (12-of-28) shots from behind the 3-point arc, while averaging 16.6 minutes per game.
He is also getting to the free-throw line at a good clip with the ability to draw contract when driving into traffic. He has taken the fourth most free throws on the team this season, making 13-of-17.
After averaging 2.8 points in 9.7 minutes per game last season, Hubbard has raised his scoring to 6.1 this year. He has played 24 minutes, season highs, in each of the last two Greyhound games.
Slowing Leading Scorers
Led by Dylon Cormier, who drew primary guarding responsibility, Loyola held Connecticut standout Shabazz Napier to just four points.
Napier, who was named to the All-American Athletic Conference Preseason First Team, was 2-of-7 from the floor, and 0-of-1 from 3-point range in 33 minutes of action.
The 2012 All-Big East First Team honoree and member of this year's John Wooden Award watch list entered the Loyola game averaging 16.8 points per game this season. In his next game, December 2 against No. 15 Florida, Napier hit the game-winner as time expired to finish with 26 points.
Loyola also did a solid job defensively on West Virginia's leading scorers, guard duo Eron Harris and Juwan Staten. Harris finished with 14 after entering with a 21.1 points per game average; Staten scored four, despite averaging 18.1 prior to the contest. Combined the duo shot 6-of-23 from the field.
Strong Start
Eric Laster scored 10 of his 12 points in the first half against Connecticut to lead all scorers at the break.
Laster made 1-of-2 attempts from behind the arc before halftime and also hit all three free throws after being fouled on a 3-point attempt.
After averaging just 5.3 minutes in 27 games last season, he has seen his role expand dramatically this season, starting the first five games on the wing. He tied for the team lead in minutes played (34) at Cornell, and he scored in double figures (10) for the first time as a collegian.
Laster has averaged 8.8 points in Loyola's first nine contests, and he is shooting 44.8 percent (13-of-29) from 3-point range. In 27 games last year, he averaged just 0.8 points (22 total) and shot 32.3 percent from the field.
From Way Back
Loyola trailed UMBC by 17 points, 58-41, with 9:44 left in regulation on November 20, but the Greyhounds came all the way back to tie the score with 11 ticks left in regulation. They then went on to win, 89-83, in overtime.
An R.J. Williams layup with 8:37 left started a 10-0 run that would cut the deficit to seven on two Dylon Cormier free throws at 6:29, and Loyola would get within four on three occasions after that.
UMBC, however, pushed the lead back to double-digits, 73-63, on a Malik Garner free throw with 90 seconds remaining.
Eric Laster hit a pair of threes, wrapped around a 1-of-2 trip to the line for UMBC's Joey Getz, and Loyola was down 74-69 with 1:14 left after Laster's second triple. Quentin Jones hit a 20-foot jumper form the left corner with 58 seconds left, but Laster answered 11 ticks later to make it a four-point game.
Garner turned the ball over on a Cormier steal, and Later canned his fourth three in a span of 41 seconds to get the Greyhounds within a point, 76-75, with 42 seconds left. Loyola forced a missed layup by UMBC, and Cormier was fouled with 11 seconds left, and he hit 1-of-2 to tie the score. UMBC's Rodney Elliott drew contact and a foul call with 3.1 seconds showing, but the freshman missed both foul shots, forcing overtime.
In the extra period, Loyola made 4-of-5 field goals and 5-of-8 free throws to pull away for the victory.
Cormier Earns League Honors
Dylon Cormier had a career-high setting opening weekend in the Greyhounds' victories over Binghamton University and Cornell University, and he was named the Anaconda Sports Patriot League Player of the Week on Monday for his efforts.
He earned the honor again on Monday, November 25, after his 34-point effort in the come-from-behind win at UMBC.
Cormier's 30+ Point Games
Dylon Cormier was the first player in Loyola men's basketball history to post two 30+ point games to start the season.
He was the first Loyola player to score 30 or more in back-to-back outings since Andre Collins went for 34, 36 and 39 in three-straight games (all on the road at VMI, Delaware and Providence) from December 29, 2005-January 3, 2006.
Jones Breaks Out
Jarred Jones had a career night in the season-opener against Binghamton, recording personal bests in points (22), rebounds (7), field goals made (8), field goal attempts (11) and blocked shots (4).
The sophomore carries Loyola's offense in the first half when it was otherwise stagnant, scoring nine points in just over five minutes. During that span, Loyola scored just two other points, but a Jones layup at 11:12 closed the Binghamton lead to four.
Jones tied for game-high, and led Loyola, with six offensive rebounds. His boards led to 10 Greyhounds points.
While his offensive production was critical, his four blocked shots were just as important. Jones swatted two Binghamton layups with weak-side help in the final 2:10 of regulation. The first block came in transition, and the second was on a drive from the left side. Both shots would have given Binghamton the lead if not for the blocks.
He followed that game with a 13-point, 7-rebound effort against Cornell.
Start Of The Smith Era
G.G. Smith was named the 20th head coach in Loyola University Maryland men's basketball history on April 12, 2013. Her garnered his first head coaching win on November 8, 2013, in the season-opener against Binghamton.
The 1999 graduate of the University of Georgia spent the last six seasons as an assistant coach at Loyola for Jimmy Patsos who took the head coaching position at Siena College in March.
Loyola amassed a 106-87 record (.549) during Smith's six years as an assistant. The 106 wins and the .549 winning percentage are the best of any six-year stretch during Loyola's Division I history (since 1982-1983).
As a player, Smith was a three-year starter and four-year letterwinner for the Bulldogs from 1995-1999. Smith helped the Bulldogs advance to the 1996 NCAA Sweet 16 and another tournament appearance in 1997. He left Georgia as the school's career leader in games played (129), wins in a season (24) and 3-pointers in a game (nine).
Smith is the son of current Texas Tech University Head Coach Tubby Smith. The elder Smith led the University of Kentucky to the 1998 NCAA Championship and is in his 23rd season as a head coach. G.G. Smith played for his father from 1995-1997 at Georgia.
Meet The Staff
Joining G.G. Smith on the Greyhounds' bench this season will be assistant coaches Keith Booth, Josh Loeffler and Dan Ficke and director of operations Kevin Farrell.
Booth spent the last two seasons as an assistant women's coach at Loyola after serving as an assistant to Gary Williams for seven years at the University of Maryland. An All-American and four-time All-ACC player at Maryland, Booth won an NBA Championship with the Chicago Bulls.
Loeffler brings considerable Patriot League experience with four seasons, and two League Championship Game appearances (2010 and 2011), at Lafayette College. He was also the head coach at NCAA Division III school Stevens Institute of Technology from guided the Ducks to a 46-13 record in two seasons and an NCAA Sweet 16 bid in 2007.
Ficke is a graduate and four-year lettermen of Loyola where he also earned his master's degree. The last three seasons, Ficke has been a member of the staff at Wake Forest University where he was the Special Assistant to the Head Coach and Director of Scouting and Recruiting.
Farrell returns for his second season as the Greyhounds' director of operations and sixth overall with the program. He was a four-year manager for the team as an undergraduate at Loyola.
Look Back At 2012-2013
Loyola finished the 2012-2013 season with a 23-12 record, marking the first time in the school's Division I history (since 1982-1983) that the Greyhounds have posted back-to-back 20-win seasons.
The Greyhounds finished their final season in the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference with a 12-6 mark, tying for second place.
After falling in the first round of the MAAC Championships, Loyola its first-ever bid tot he CollegeInsider.com Postseason Tournament. Following the Greyhounds' 2012 appearance in the NCAA Tournament, it was the first consecutive postseason bids in school Division I history and the first since 1953 in any division of competition.
Erik Etherly and Dylon Cormier became the first set of Loyola teammates to be named to the All-MAAC First Team in the same year.
New Year, New Coach, New League
In addition to sporting a new coach, Loyola will also be a member of the Patriot League for the first time in 2013-2014. The school announced in August 2012 that it would make the move to the conference, and the move became official on July 1, 2013.
The Greyhounds will compete against American University, fellow Patriot League newcomer Boston University, Bucknell University, Colgate University, College of the Holy Cross, Lafayette College, Lehigh University, the U.S. Military Academy and the U.S. Naval Academy.
Preseason Patriot League Picks
Loyola senior guard Dylon Cormier was one of five players named to the Preseason All-Patriot League First Team, an honor shared by Bucknell's Cameron Ayers, Holy Cross' Dave Dudzinski, Boston University's D.J. Irving (player of the year) and Lehigh's Mackey McKnight.
As a team, the Greyhounds were slated to finish fifth, just six points out of third place. Boston University was the unanimous pick to win the league, followed by Lafayette, Army, Bucknell, Loyola, Lehigh, Holy Cross, Colgate, American and Navy.
Brito, Laster Spend Summer Overseas
Two Loyola players, – Denzel Brito and Eric Laster – gained valuable experience playing overseas during the summer of 2013.
Brito trained with the Cape Verdean National Team prior to their play in the FIBA African Championships. However, due to a FIBA exclusion, he was not able to participate in the event itself.
Laster played in five games on a tour that visited Belgium, England and The Netherlands. He was lauded for his wing play by writers who covered the events against professional teams in those countries.
Cormier On The Charts
Dylon Cormier enters his senior season at Loyola with a chance to climb many of the Greyhounds' career statistical charts. Here is a look at where he stands:
|1,427 points
|Bob Connor, 1,431
|Field Goals Made
|470 field goals made
|B.J. Pendleton, 490
|3-Pointers Made
|91 3-Pt. Made
|Teron Owens, 92
|Free Throws Made
|396 free throws made
|Maurice Hicks, 412
|181 assists
|Milt Williams, 190
|157 steals
|Kevin Green, 159
Into The Fold
Loyola signed three high school seniors in the early signing period to comprise its Class of 2018.
Forward Cam Gregory (Waldorf, Md./St. Stephen's & St. Agnes) and guards Chancellor Barnard (Columbia, Md./Glenelg Country School) and Colton Bishop (Winston-Salem, N.C./Forsyth County Day School) will join the program in the fall.
For more on the trio, visit http://loyo.la/MBB-NLIs-13.
High Marks
The Loyola men's basketball team scored the highest amongst squads in the State of Maryland in the most recent NCAA Graduation Success Rate report. The Greyhounds checked in with a 91-percent GSR, tops among the state's nine Division I schools, for players who entered the school between 2003-2006.
Up Next
Loyola will play its final regular-season non-conference game of the year on Monday, December 30, at the University of Miami.


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CEO Council: Avoiding the Fiscal Cliff
In this interview with WSJ's Jon Hilsenrath at the annual meeting of The CEO Council, three of the top economic professors in the U.S. question if the fiscal cliff can be avoided.
This transcript has been automatically generated and may not be 100% accurate.
I ... few people in this room ... understand the president ... as well as singles be a lot of people are asking what is going to come ... of the fiscal cliff I'd like to look through the fiscal cliff and as key to describe for us ... have you see it did a budget negotiations playing out over ... the next six months ... well it feels to me like they almost had a deal last year ... the principal bottleneck last year was not ... that the ... president was willing to offer cuts it was that there was a group of ... Republicans in the house ... we would go for the red ... I ... think that's still the bottleneck now ... um ... use prob it's all the articles morning from from a Hubbard is so what they said I'd ... take from ... this collection some optimism that in twenty thirty in the way it might play out ... he is ... whether we go over to help over the fiscal cliff you know this is a lot to happen the next three months ... that ... we get to some space where if they didn't trillion dollars of cuts ... and reforms of entitlements a trillion dollars on discretionary ... trillion of new revenue ... and the Traiana sabi interest which is only because the budget doesn't understand the present value but you know that's that's okay ... if you did that you basically could sort out a grand bargain in a way that would ... it would be I think a pretty good accomplishment for both parties ... um ... I think the principal thing and that is ... can you get a significant chunk of Republicans in the house to support anything it's Coventry down to read ... see you think their reach a bargain ... time moves quickly over the cliff what happens to get to that bargain footwear yet so I thought that's which are asking I'm ... somewhat pessimistic that they will be able to sort out that bargain ... in the next two months ... um ... so I'm afraid there isn't ... 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Robert Zoellick ... so here we have a scenario a grand bargain with a lot of volatility before we get there is that you see this plan as well ... and he's probably going to be difficult to get ... the fiscal cliff has all the major way and common sense in the next couple of months ... because of recent last night ... the Democrats who have a ... strategic advantage to fixed wire baseline interest expense for Republicans and conservatives ... I do believe that this is not about just numbers ... I disagree with Allston's characterization of work on a grand bargain offer and is a lot of reporting by people ... in this room and others that the president of the war on how much revenue ... and dinner just the stock and option to sell ... thoughts like things that ... the following is possible for Republicans to go for ... our duty and ... a serious entitlement reform probably not as much as they would like pictures reform structural its numbers might evaporate ... changes retirement ages ... benefit formulas thinks that sort ... of enforcement mechanisms ... that any revenue ... be a ... modest portion of the total ... slightly more than they would like but there is substantially on the spending side all the evidence is ... small the post World War two fiscal consolidation the OECD ... have they ever stop five or six dollars the actual Mark projected spending cuts for dollar tax hikes ... to the CD exactly that but it's good to be firmer than ... successful ascent of both consoling the budget when the recession ... aam and also that the revenues come from ... a base broadening the front ... 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LAS VEGAS – Though sports fans remain desperate to see Floyd Mayweather Jr. fight Manny Pacquiao, in 2010 the superstar boxers came closer to fighting than anyone previously realized, according to a document obtained by Yahoo! Sports.
A contract sent on Dec. 11, 2009, by Golden Boy Promotions on behalf of Mayweather to Top Rank on behalf of Pacquiao proposed a 50-50 financial split between the sides for a fight that would have been held March 13, 2010.
The eight-page agreement is so detailed that it indicates which of the two fighters would step onto the scale first at the weigh-in (Pacquiao), who would walk to the ring first (Pacquiao), who would be introduced first (Mayweather) and who had first choice of the locker room (Mayweather).
It detailed that the bout would have been on HBO Pay-Per-View at a cost of $59.95. Billing was to be "Mayweather vs. Pacquiao, presented by Top Rank, Golden Boy Promotions, Mayweather Promotions and M-P Promotions in association with [approved sponsors and the site]."
A Mayweather-Pacquiao bout is expected to be the largest-grossing fight in history, in which total revenues could reach $300 million. Experts have predicted the fight would sell between 2.5 million and 3 million pay-per-views in the U.S.
Given that Mayweather's May 5 bout against Miguel Cotto was priced at $69.95, it would not be unreasonable for Mayweather-Pacquiao to be priced at $79.95 or more. At $79.95, it would generate a whopping $199.875 million if it reached 2.5 million pay-per-view buys.
Pacquiao's side declined the 2009 contract offer because Pacquiao objected to Mayweather's request for the drug testing. Though Pacquiao has subsequently agreed to Mayweather's demands for random blood and urine testing, the sides have not been able to reach agreement on a deal.
After his May 5 win over Cotto, which sold 1.5 million pay-per-view units and generated $94 million in domestic PPV revenue, Mayweather said he would not agree to a 50-50 split of revenue.
Mayweather entered the Clark County Detention Center on Friday to begin serving the remainder of a 90-day sentence as the result of a plea deal to misdemeanor domestic violence charges. With good behavior, Mayweather is expected to serve two months.
Pacquiao faces unbeaten Timothy Bradley on June 9 at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, a bout he must win if he is to keep hope alive for a match with Mayweather either later this year or early next year. According to Top Rank chairman Bob Arum, they already had a contract in place.
"We have a contract that they sent us and all the terms have been agreed to," Arum said. "All this that's been going on – 'Bob Arum doesn't want it,' and 'I'm entitled to this and that,' is all [expletive]. All [expletive]. This is their lawyer who prepared this, sent copies to everyone. … This isn't something I wrote and passed out. Their lawyer did this and sent it to us."
Richard Schaefer, the chief executive officer of Golden Boy Promotions, said he did not recall sending a contract offering a 50-50 split.
"If we had a deal, how come we didn't have a fight?" Schaefer said when asked to comment.
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Schaefer said he met Arum shortly before Thanksgiving in 2009 to discuss parameters of a deal, but said he didn't remember sending Top Rank a completed contract for signature that included a 50-50 purse split.
However, in a contract obtained by Yahoo! Sports, paragraph 11 under the section entitled Net Profits reads: "Net Profits shall be allocated 50/50 between GBP and TR." The contract goes on to say that net profits would include a split of "all gross revenues."
In sub-paragraph 11 (a), entitled HBO PPV Fight Night Advance, it reads, "Not withstanding the foregoing, the HBO PPV fight night advance shall be paid 50% directly to GBP and 50% directly to TR."
Schaefer said Pacquiao's reluctance to accept the drug testing Mayweather was demanding in 2009 was "a deal killer." Still, Schaefer told Yahoo! Sports he didn't recall offering a 50-50 split, but said that even had he done so, it wouldn't apply now given what has subsequently happened in the fighters' careers.
"It never happened, but for the sake of argument, let's say that the 50-50 split was offered back then," Schaefer said. "A long time has passed. Let's say that I wanted in 2009 to hire you and I offered you $100,000. We didn't sign a contract, but now, I come to you and said, 'Kevin, I know now you are worth $200,000. You are more accomplished and more famous than you were in 2009, but remember that contract I offered you in 2009 where I said I would pay you $100,000? Well, I want you to sign that now.' Like I said, I don't think that ever happened, but if it did, circumstances are vastly different now."
Schaefer said he wanted to hire an accounting firm to do an audit of the fighters' earning power. He said the money split could then go however the audit turned out.
One of the different circumstances now is that the MGM Resorts, the owner of the MGM Grand (Mayweather's and Golden Boy's preferred venue) commissioned a study to examine the feasibility of an outdoor stadium with a greater capacity.
It released the study, titled "Temporary Stadium Study," on Feb. 7, a week after Mayweather announced during a hearing in front of the Nevada Athletic Commission that he would fight Cotto on May 5.
The study chose a 10-acre lot on the southern end of Las Vegas Blvd. across from the Luxor Hotel & Casino that would have seated 40,000 and which also would have been used for UFC fights, concerts and shows.
In January, before Mayweather announced he'd fight Cotto and talks were still going on for a potential Mayweather-Pacquiao fight, Mayweather CEO Leonard Ellerbe scoffed at the plans for a stadium in an interview with Yahoo! Sports.
Ellerbe called the stadium idea "a bunch of baloney" and said "we're talking about a temporary venue out in the middle of a dusty parking lot with bleacher seating."
Ellerbe did not return recent phone calls seeking comment.
[Dan Wetzel: Jail time could help Mayweather-Pacquiao happen ]
Arum said the stadium would have cost $20 million to build and estimated a paid gate for a Mayweather-Pacquiao fight at between $50-60 million.
MGM Resorts chairman and CEO Jim Murren and chief marketing officer Bill Hornbuckle were traveling and could not be reached for comment. However, Gordon Absher, the vice president of public affairs at MGM Resorts, said the company believes Las Vegas needs such a facility to host major events.
"The potential of a Pacquiao–Mayweather match-up highlights the need for a large capacity, 40,000-plus-seat stadium in our community," Absher said. "But a once-in-a-lifetime boxing match is by no means the only such event that could be hosted there. MGM Resorts supports the concept of a multi-purpose, 50,000-seat stadium currently being discussed at UNLV."
Top Rank president Todd duBoef said that even if after construction costs the temporary facility only generated the same paid gate as the roughly 16,000-seat MGM Grand Garden would, it would be worth it to allow more people to attend the event.
If the fight were to happen at the MGM Grand, almost certainly all tickets would be taken by corporate types and ticket brokers before the public had a chance to purchase them. As a result, the vast majority of spectators would be casino customers and VIPs and not general boxing fans.
"I'd like to make that a special week and have it be a celebration of the sport," duBoef said. "And it could be a Festival of Boxing and be like the sport's Super Bowl. It would allow more people the opportunity to be a part of it."
The largest gate in boxing history came on May 5, 2007, when Mayweather fought Oscar De La Hoya at the MGM Grand Garden. That fight drew a crowd of 17,078 and generated a paid gate of $18,419,2000.
That is an average of $1,078.53 per ticket. With the same per-ticket price, the gate at a 40,000-seat venue would be $43,141,356. Prices could climb because of a greater number of expensive floor tickets that would be available and the intense desire to see the fight.
Schaefer remains skeptical of the weather and noted that Clark County building codes only allow a temporary structure to remain erect for a year, making it difficult to have a rematch there. He also suggested that if the fight occurred, the promotion could have a fan festival that duBoef suggested by emulating the UFC and holding something in the convention area at sister property Mandalay Bay.
The issue that is more pressing, though, is the money split, because Mayweather has repeatedly said he won't give 50-50 and Pacquiao said he won't fight for less.
HBO Sports president Ken Hershman said earlier this year that he believed the fight had "a short shelf life," and said if the bout wasn't made soon, it would be time to move on. Pacquiao trainer Freddie Roach agreed, saying interest in the match may be starting to wane.
"My fear is that we may have passed the point of no return," Roach said. "I don't get asked if the fight is going to happen as often as I used to. If they don't make this fight soon, it may no longer be relevant."
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My last post suggested that Google really needed to integrate its Wave technology across all of its product line. I suggested it might be too tough a goal for Google given the dramatic re-building of its apps that it would require.
However, maybe, this is exactly what Google is doing. Engadget today published screenshots that show the Google Wave interface being adopted in both GMail and Google News.
If these aren't fakes, it does suggest that Wave could become the centrepiece around its entire App strategy, as I suggested it needed to do. That would be game-changing.
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We have just had a new kitchen fitted. While clearing out the room ready I found the Sona PJ30 electric percolator that my friend gave us for a wedding present. That makes it nearly 41 years old. More importantly, I found the power lead which is a bit special and not readily available these days.
I couldn't resist. Yesterday I ground up some Kenya Blue Mountain beans from Adams and Russell in Birkenhead that I was given for Christmas (coarse-ish grind, medium roast) and I set it all up and let it do what it was made to do. I used 60 grammes of coffee per litre of water (or thereabouts) and let it run for 8 minutes.
Frankly I was fearing the worst but I was pleasantly surprised by the resulting brew which, for me, turned out as well as anything I might have made in, for instance, a French press or automatic drip machine. While I will not be giving up using the Gaggia Classic in the near future, the percolator may well be an option for making bulk brews when a number of (not too discerning) people need a coffee.
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CANBERRA can be rather fetching in Autumn. And it's in Australia's capital, late last month among the yellowing leaves and ring roads, that the Great Britain rugby league team was fetched back from the history books.
The rumours have been around for quite some time but when the World Cup executive met in the days leading up to the April 19 Test between Australia and New Zealand, the news finally leaked out – GB's flag will most likely be hoisted after an eight-year break in 2015.
It's something RFL chief executive Nigel Wood wanted to keep quiet but RLIF chairman Scott Carter spoke openly about it in the lead-up to the meeting. A tour at the end of the 2015 season will comprise two Tests against each of the trans-Tasman rivals and mid-week matches against yet-to-be-determined opposition.
The executive also heard of plans to expand the World Club Challenge, with the top three NRL teams to play exhibition games in Perpignan and London to help pay for the trip.
Next year, the WCC will likely head to Perth as a two-team competition. The next, it will be six teams played over an entire weekend in the UK, with the final on Sunday and the second- and third-ranked teams playing off on Friday and Saturday night.
Two out of the three NRL teams will ape the expansion efforts of the AFL by playing before what is expected to be big expat crowds in Super League's two outposts. It's the sort of thing many of us have been calling for, for years.
We often whinge that our sport is depressingly small-time on a global scale. But on the flipside, isn't it great that Forty20 Magazine can ring up the head honcho of the sport worldwide and he'll tell us a bunch of things about the upcoming international calendar that have not been reported anywhere else?
Let's start with the 2014 mid-season internationals. Carter says it's gratifying that Australia have committed to the Anzac Test for another four years. We've been told by Australian sources that NRL wants to play two different countries in the Pacific Test next year, even though Tonga and Samoa seem convinced they are locked in again.
Fiji and Papua New Guinea are favoured next year. If NRL clubs agree, this could become a double header with Tonga-Samoa. We asked Carter about the Pacific All Stars concept and he said that would be a matter for the Australians.
Onto the 2014 Four Nations, to be shared between Australia and New Zealand, then.
"The highest ranked Pacific nation (in the World Cup) will be the fourth team in the 2014 Four Nations, which is in the southern hemisphere," Carter tells us from Auckland.
"Australia, New Zealand and England had some discussion about logistical issues – stadia and such. It will come down to a bidding process, where the games are played.
"In recent years, governments and councils on both sides of the Tasman have been interested in staging such events. This has included non-traditional areas for our sport so it is wide open.
"A lobbying process will now begin where we let the authorities in various cities know which fixtures are available. There is absolutely nothing to say the final must be in Australia.
"If a New Zealand city wishes to host the final and puts together the right bid, then that can happen." For financial and television reasons, it seems unlikely the fourth nation in next year's tournament will host a match.
OK, we're doing things in chronological order. Here's what most of you really want to know about: the return of Great Britain, who've not tackled a foreign infidel in anger since 2007.
"As I said before the meeting in Canberra, there's a lot of interest in a Lions tour," Carter says. "The idea is that Great Britain would play four games in Australia and four games in New Zealand, of which two each would be Tests."
Carter wasn't in position to say who the opposition would be for the mid-week games on the western side of the Tasman – but was happy to discuss the New Zealand schedule.
"There's a great history for Lions tours and one tradition we really want to maintain is the Maori team," he says.
"If you remember, in 2010 England played the Maori and it was an 18-all draw. So that would be one of the games.
"There is also a feeling that we should keep the tradition of regional teams who have played touring sides in the past. One of the obvious ones there is Auckland, who have actually beaten international teams."
But wait, dear traditionalist. There's more!
While the international programme as we know it now has a Four Nations in the northern hemisphere in 2016, there is another idea doing the rounds.
"There has been some discussion about having an outgoing New Zealand and outgoing Australian tour to the UK at that time instead," said Carter.
That's right, Australia and New Zealand on tour in Britain at the same time, perhaps playing the home nations and even out-of-season club sides – similar to what happens in the other code.
"But I stress, it was just something that was thrown up," said Carter. "At the moment, it's a Four Nations which is in the international schedule and that's what is more likely to happen."
OK, are you flipping over the decade-long calendar on your fridge? We are now in 2017. There is another World Cup on.
"I have two hats here," Carter begins. "As RLIF chairman, I can say that there are two bids.
"There's South Africa, a country where there is definitely the infrastructure and experience to stage an event of this magnitude. There is definitely still interest there.
"However, the South African Rugby League is having recognition issues with the government."
(The South African government refuses to recognise rugby league as a separate sport to rugby union. If the public has the same position, we simply MUST stage the World Cup there!)
Bid documents have gone out to the SARL, ARL and NZRL.
"As NZRL chairman, I would say that the joint bid of Australia and New Zealand, considering the audience and facilities, would have overwhelming merit," he said.
The 2017 World Cup final is not assured for Brisbane, or even Australia. "It'll come down to competitive tenders," said Carter.
"There is no reason whatsoever why the World Cup final cannot be held in New Zealand."
As for the qualification process and number of teams in 2017 … it's too early for that. The RLEF has said that the European Shield, now being contested over two years, will act as a qualifying tournament in 2014 and 2015.
Of course, the reason all this discussion took place in Canberra in mid-April is that there happened to be a game on. Canberra was awarded the Anzac Test because it is the city's centenary and we were rewarded with a sold-out 25,628 crowd.
The Kiwis had a wretched build-up. Injuries disqualified Benji Marshall and Sonny Bill Williams from selection, Krisnan Inu was under spear tackle ban and captain Simon Mannering was ruled out with a calf injury on match eve.
But despite having three first half tries disallowed, the scores were 6-6 at halftime. Then the Australians made a minor tactical adjustment at halftime.
"We definitely readjusted our gameplan in that second half," said halfback Cooper Cronk.
"The conditions play a part in terms of New Zealand playing field position and (being) camped on our line. We threw a few long passes in that first half which allowed the New Zealand rushing defence to shut us down.
"We shortened things up (in the second half), played down the middle third of the field and obviously used the wind behind us."
Whereas in Townsville last October, the Kiwis looked like they would have won if given more time, on this occasion the impressive Australians triumphed going away.
On the morning of the game, the Daily Telegraph reported that the 2015 Lions would face a combined Anzac side to mark the 100th anniversary of the landing at Gallipoli – in April, months before the proposed GB tour.
"Some things do get discussed without really being considered seriously," Carter said when asked about the idea.
"There was a light-hearted suggestion that … "well they invited us to a Turkish beach back then, so we might reciprocate."
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These images show mice injected with nanoparticles called quantum dots – light-sensitive, semiconducting particles just a few nanometres in diameter. The particles can be seen though the skin when the mice are exposed to UV light using a technique called inductively coupled plasma atomic emission spectroscopy.
Warren Chan of the University of Toronto in Canada found that the concentration of these particles in the skin directly correlates with both the injected dose and their accumulation in other organs. His team hopes that this discovery could be used to better predict how nanoparticles behave in the body.
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MANCHESTER — For the second year in a row, the University of Massachusetts-Lowell men's hockey team is a game away from the Frozen Four.
Lowell, one of three Hockey East teams in the 16-team NCAA tournament, was a 6-1 winner over Wisconsin on Friday night in the Northeast Regional semifinals before a feisty but less-than-capacity crowd at the Verizon Wireless Arena.
Playing just 33 miles from their campus, the River Hawks overcame a slow start but got 31 saves from goalie Connor Hellebuyck. The Badgers held 32-26 shot advantage, but six different players scored for the River Hawks.
"I thought we got better as the game went along," Lowell coach Norm Bazin said. "We did feel we were better than we showed in the first period. I think we converted a couple of odd-man rushes, and more importantly, we (had) some timely penalty killing."
Hellebuyck's biggest save of the night came on a penalty shot taken by the Badgers' Jefferson Dahl at 16:11 of the opening frame.
Dahl was trying to go top shelf on Hellebuyck but fired the puck right into the Lowell goalie's midsection.
"He came in down the right side and kind of took down the angle," Hellebuyck said. "It was a waiting game and I just outwaited him."
No. 1 Lowell (27-10-2) will face No. 2 New Hampshire in tonight's regional final at 6:30 p.m.The Badgers, ranked fourth in the region, saw their season end at 22-13-7. Badgers goalie Joel Rumpel made 20 saves.
"It seemed like we were almost trying too hard," Badgers coach Mike Eaves said. "But mid-point of the third period, it was 3-1 and (we) had a great scoring chance. ... We battled."
Lowell, which swept Hockey East's regular-season and playoff titles, got on the board at 7:11 of the first period on a goal by Joseph Pendenza, and took a 1-0 lead into the intermission. Pendenza carried the puck from the neutral zone and fired a wrister that went past the outstretched leg of Rumpel.
"I just went through the zone to give A.J. (White) a little space," Pendenza said. "He ended up staying there (and) I just grabbed the puck. I saw their (defenseman) trying to close me down so I just put my head down and let one rip."
The River Hawks expanded their lead to 3-0 with a pair of goals in the middle frame, one by Christian Folin at 3:12 and one by Shayne Thompson at 14:08.
"We knew he could contibute," Bazin said about Folin. "He's been pretty good about himself and he's finding goals."
Wisconsin finally got on the board at 8:19 of the third period when Nic Kerdiles lit the lamp on a shot from high in the slot to cut Lowell's lead to 3-1. The goal game on the Badgers' fifth power play of the night and on one of just three shots Wisconsin managed on the night with the man advantage. It also extended Kerdiles's scoring streak to 12 games.
Any hope of a Badger comeback was squelched shortly after, when Lowell's Derek Arnold made it 4-1 at 13:56, restoring the River Hawks' three-goal advantage. Lowell added an empty-net goal at 19:12 to make it 5-1, then scored again with three seconds left with Rumpel back in the net.
"I believed in this group from Day 1," Bazin said. "We kept plugging away and stuck to the system and we got favorable results and we're very thankful for that."


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Paul has said that he didn't write part of the bigoted newsletters sent out under his name, but he hasn't said which parts, or who wrote them.
Ron Paul's history of publishing racist, homophobic and conspiratorial newsletters didn't seem to hurt him in the Iowa caucuses, where he surged from the back of the polls to finish in the top three among Republican candidates for president.
Have you read the Paul newsletters? The singer Kelly Clarkson hadn't read them until after she endorsed Paul and some of her fans on Twitter pointed them out to her. Perhaps that's one sign that that public awareness remains low even while some may consider the newsletters "old news."
The largest news organizations arrived late on this story, mostly ignoring it when the newsletters were described in detail in 2008. The story was "rediscovered" around the Christmas holiday as Paul rose in the Iowa opinion polls.
Slate reporter Dave Weigel, who has covered the story for years, summarized this phenomenon derisively as "Ron Paul and extremism: Discover it again, for the first time."
Below are links to the available newsletters and the main coverage, principally in the libertarian magazine Reason, the liberal magazine The New Republic, and Slate. Others have chimed in recently, but these are the essential reading if you want to know what's in the newsletters and how the story has developed.
A few questions for discussion: Have you taken the time to read the newsletter issues that are available? Do they affect your views of Paul? If you're a Paul supporter, how do you factor them into your thinking? Is it sufficient to say, I disavow the parts that you don't like, without explaining why they were sent out under his name, which parts he wrote, and who wrote the rest?
Add your comment below.
Stories by Jamie Kirchick
Jamie Kirchick has led the coverage. Although some of the newsletters had been quoted previously by a Democratic congressional candidate opposing Paul in Texas, he tracked down nearly a full set in archives of extremist literature at the University of Kansas and the Wisconsin Historical Society. Not all of those have been published still. Here are links to his coverage, from oldest to newest:
Angry White Man: The bigoted past of Ron Paul, James Kirchick, The New Republic, Jan. 8, 2008
"Whoever actually wrote them, the newsletters I saw all had one thing in common: They were published under a banner containing Paul's name, and the articles (except for one special edition of a newsletter that contained the byline of another writer) seem designed to create the impression that they were written by him--and reflected his views. What they reveal are decades worth of obsession with conspiracies, sympathy for the right-wing militia movement, and deeply held bigotry against blacks, Jews, and gays. In short, they suggest that Ron Paul is not the plain-speaking antiwar activist his supporters believe they are backing--but rather a member in good standing of some of the oldest and ugliest traditions in American politics."
Copies of the Ron Paul newsletters, via The New Republic, Jan. 8, 2008
Selections from Ron Paul newsletters, The New Republic, Jan. 8, 2008
More selections from Ron Paul newsletters, The New Republic, Jan. 14, 2008
A collection of Ron Paul's most incendiary newsletters, The New Republic, Dec. 23, 2011
A Special Issue on Racial Terrorism" analyzes the Los Angeles riots of 1992: "Order was only restored in L.A. when it came time for the blacks to pick up their welfare checks three days after rioting began. ... What if the checks had never arrived? No doubt the blacks would have fully privatized the welfare state through continued looting. But they were paid off and the violence subsided.
The June 1990 issue of the Political Report says: "I miss the closet. Homosexuals, not to speak of the rest of society, were far better off when social pressure forced them to hide their activities."
In an undated solicitation letter for The Ron Paul Investment Letter and the Ron Paul Political Report, Paul writes: "I've been told not to talk, but these stooges don't scare me. Threats or no threats, I've laid bare the coming race war in our big cities. The federal-homosexual cover-up on AIDS (my training as a physician helps me see through this one.) The Bohemian Grove--perverted, pagan playground of the powerful. Skull & Bones: the demonic fraternity that includes George Bush and leftist Senator John Kerry, Congress's Mr. New Money. The Israeli lobby, which plays Congress like a cheap harmonica."
Why don't Libertarians care about Paul's bigoted newsletters?, James Kirchick, The New Republic, Dec. 22, 2011
It's not simply that Paul's supporters are ignoring the manifest evidence of his moral failings. More fundamentally, their very awareness of such failings is crowded out by the atmosphere of outright fervor that pervades Paul's candidacy. This is not the fervor of a healthy body politic—this is a less savory type of political devotion, one that escapes the bounds of sober reasoning. Indeed, Paul's absolutist notion of libertarian rigor has always been coupled with an attraction to fantasies of political apocalypse.
The company Ron Paul keeps, James Kirchick, The Weekly Standard, Dec. 26, 2011
This sordid history would not bear repeating but for the fact that the media love to portray Paul as a truth-telling, antiwar Republican standing up to the "hawkish" conservative establishment. Otherwise, the newsletters, and Paul's continued failure to name their author, would be mentioned in every story about him, and he would be relegated to the fringe where he belongs. But Paul has escaped the sort of media scrutiny that would bury other political figures
Ron Paul's world, James Kirchick, op-ed piece, The New York Times, Dec. 29, 2011
Of course, it is impossible to know what Ron Paul truly thinks about black or gay people or the other groups so viciously disparaged in his newsletters. What we do know with absolute certainty, however, is that Ron Paul is a paranoid conspiracy theorist who regularly imputes the worst possible motives to the very government he wants to lead.
Stories by Dave Weigel
Dave Weigel has advanced the story repeatedly, first in the libertarian magazine Reason in 2008, and then in articles on Slate.
Who wrote Ron Paul's newsletters?, Julian Sanchez and David Weigel, Reason.com, Jan. 16, 2008
The most detailed description of the strategy came in an essay Rothbard wrote for the January 1992 Rothbard-Rockwell Report, titled "Right-Wing Populism: A Strategy for the Paleo Movement." Lamenting that mainstream intellectuals and opinion leaders were too invested in the status quo to be brought around to a libertarian view, Rothbard pointed to David Duke and Joseph McCarthy as models for an "Outreach to the Rednecks," which would fashion a broad libertarian/paleoconservative coalition by targeting the disaffected working and middle classes.
What if he wins? Imagining a Ron Paul victory in Iowa, Dave Weigel, Slate, Dec. 19, 2011
If Paul wins Iowa, that stops. The conservative press, which has been bored but hostile to Paul all year (just see the National Review's cover story), will remind its readers that Paul wants to legalize prostitution and narcotics, end aid to Israel (as part of a general no-aid-for-anyone policy), and end unconstitutional programs like Medicare and social security. The liberal press will discover that he's a John Birch Society supporter who for years published lucrative newsletters studded with racist gunk. In 2008, when the media didn't take him seriously, Paul was able to get past the newsletter story with a soft-gummed Wolf Blitzer interview. ("Certainly didn't sound like the Ron Paul that I've come to know and our viewers have come to know all this time," said Blitzer.) This was when Paul was on track to lose every primary. It'll be different if the man wins Iowa.
The secret origin of Ron Paul's newsletters, Dave Weigel, Slate, Dec. 20, 2011
The political press has rediscovered Ron Paul's wilderness years as a former congressman selling investment and political newsletters. (Classic NYT hed: "Bias in Ron Paul's Newsletters Draws New Attention." From you, guys!) No one has dug for anything new since James Kirchick first investigated the old newsletters, pulling gems -- ostensibly written by Paul -- along the lines of "if you have ever been robbed by a black teenaged male, you know how unbelievably fleet of foot they can be," and "opinion polls consistently show that only about 5 percent of blacks have sensible political opinions." Instead, we're getting some low-heat follow up stories. Calls to Paul's campaign are not returned.
Ron Paul is done talking about the newsletters, Dave Weigel, Slate, Dec. 21, 2011
Video of Paul ending a CNN interview when asked about the newsletters.
Ron Paul is blowing it on the newsletter story, Dave Weigel, Slate, Dec. 22, 2011
News flash: The media doesn't just want to run fun pieces about how great your best ideas are. No one, in any kind of public life, could get away with publishing content under his own name then saying he had no idea who wrote it. He obviously has some idea. Will he have to admit that he's still friends with the people who wrote it? Will he have a story about how he ostracized those people? Either one of those admissions would answer the questions.
Ron Paul on the Trilateral Commission, Dave Weigel, Slate, Dec. 23, 2011
Video from a C-SPAN interview with Ron Paul, when he responds to a caller's question about the Trilateral Commission, riffing on the Federal Reserve, the World Bank, the Rockefeller trilateralists and the oil companies.
Fifteen years ago, Ron Paul wasn't claiming somebody else wrote his newsletters, Dave Weigel, Slate, Dec. 26, 2011
Videos of Paul discussing the newsletter business in 1995.
Ron Paul: I wrote parts of the newsletters, just not those parts, Dave Weigel, Slate, Dec. 29, 2011
This is the most detail Paul's ever provided about the composition of the newsletters. He benefits from the format, and a host not very interested in following up; he savvily argues that the only offensive pieces of the newsletters were the ones that TV hosts et al keep talking about. The less-discussed survivalist talk? He doesn't back off that at all. And he doesn't say who's to blame for any of it, if not him.
Major papers
Larger news organizations recently started to cover the newsletter story as Paul has risen in the polls. One example:
Paul disowns extremists' veiws but doesn't disavow the support, Jim Rutenberg and Serge F. Kovaleski, The New York Times, Dec. 26, 2011
Mr. Paul's calls for the end of the Federal Reserve system, a cessation of aid to Israel and all other nations and an overall diminishment of government power have natural appeal among far-right, niche political groups. Aides say that much of the support is unsolicited and that it is unfair to overlook the larger number of mainstream voters now backing him.
But a look at the trajectory of Mr. Paul's career shows that he and his closest political allies either wittingly or unwittingly courted disaffected white voters with extreme views as they sought to forge a movement from the nether region of American politics, where the far right and the far left sometimes converge.
Your thoughts? What role do Paul's newsletters play in the way you view him? Have you read the newsletters? What do you think?


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For same-sex couples, it is often the case that there is only one legal parent even though two people may equally parent the child and think of themselves as co-parents. This is because the status as a legal parent is automatically conveyed to the parent who has a biological connection to a child, such as a biological mom or biological dad. Similarly, while some couples raise an adopted child together, only one of them may have officially become the adoptive parent because some agencies prohibit same-sex couples from adopting together but permit an LGBTQ individual to do so.
A second-parent adoption allows a second parent to adopt a child without the "first parent" losing any parental rights. In this way, the child comes to have two legal parents. It also typically grants adoptive parents the same rights as biological parents in custody and visitation matters.
What to Do if Second-Parent Adoption is Unavailable
Not all states allow second parent adoptions. If second-parent adoption is unavailable where you live, you should prepare a written co-parenting agreement or a custody agreement with your partner. At least, you should gather other evidence that can prove that you are a family. It is important to recognize that these steps, which are described below, are not guaranteed to secure your parental rights because courts are not required to uphold such agreements but, rather, consider the best interest of the child the primary concern. But many attorneys recommend that you complete such agreements anyway so that they may be used to demonstrate you intention to the court in the event a custody dispute develops.
Because family law varies from state to state, it is recommended that you consult an attorney familiar with these issues in your state for help drawing up such documents. But if you are unable to do so, you still can compose one on your own that may withstand a legal dispute as long as you and your partner both sign and date it. It also is recommended that you have such an agreement witnessed by another and, if possible, notarized.
A Co-Parenting Agreement
Co-parenting agreements state that while only one of you is considered the legal parent, both of you consider yourselves equal co-parents with shared rights and responsibilities to care for your child. Such agreements also typically spell out how these joint rights and responsibilities will be carried out around the child's medical care, financial support and legal inheritance. They also specify how the couple will share custody in the event of a break-up and how they would manage disputes.
A Custody Agreement
Custody agreements are similar to prenuptial agreements in that they outline ahead of time how you agree to conduct yourself during your relationship and how to behave in the event of a break-up. Alternatively, some couples manage to develop such agreements after deciding to separate, especially if their separation is an amicable one. In either event, preparing a custody agreement with your partner can provide a nonlegal parent with a much greater degree of control in the event of a separation.
Factors to Address
- Who will the child live with?
- Who will make major decision such as health care and schooling decisions for your child?
- Will the child spend part of the week (month or year) living with one parent and live part with another? And will both parents share in making major decisions?
- How will you both provide for your child's medical and educational needs?
- In what religion, if any, do you plan your child to be raised?
- What financial, familial or other resources you both will offer?
- How you will resolve disputes?
- What you will do if either parent moves?
- What will you do if one of you violates the agreement?
Other Evidence to Prove You Are a Family
While a nonlegal parent may have a custody or visitation petition rejected without even a hearing in many states, some states have recently recognized a new legal concept that has alternately been called "psychological parenthood,""de facto parenthood" or "parenthood by estoppel." This has granted non-legal lesbian parents visitation privileges in recognition that they did, indeed, have a very close relationship, if not a legal one, with the child.
What Courts Look For
Among the conditions that some courts have looked for in establishing psychological parenthood are the following:
- The non-legal parent lived with the child.
- The non-legal parent took on a parental role by accepting significant responsibility for the child's care and development without the expectation of pay or other compensation.
- The legal parent consented to and fostered the non-legal parent's relationship with the child.
- The non-legal parent's relationship with the child formed over a sufficiently long period of time so that the child feels a bond with the non-legal parent.
What You Should Keep
Because not all courts recognize custody or visitation claims based on psychological or de facto parenthood, and because de facto parenthood represents very new legal territory, no one should rely on this new theory as a basis for custody or visitation claims. Nonetheless, keeping a record of the ways in which you have satisfied the conditions listed above can help you make a strong claim for psychological parenthood should that be your only avenue for obtaining visitation privileges. Here are some things to keep:
- Domestic partnership registration
- Records of your shared planning for pregnancy and birth or adoption
- Health care proxies
- Powers of attorneys
- Reciprocal wills
- Co-parenting agreements
- Records of expenditures on the child's and the family's behalf
- Photos, letters, email and records of your involvement with the child's religious, cultural, day care, scholastic or extracurricular activities.
A Final Note
While written agreements are important in the event of a custody dispute, it is worth remembering that courts also consider the most simple and practical facts when making custody decisions, namely: Have you behaved as a parent?
To offer an extreme example, adults who have been out socializing every night are likely to be looked upon less favorably in custody disputes than adults who have been home with his or her child, carrying out everyday parenting duties.
The bottom line, as one attorney with extensive experience on this issue suggests, is not to constantly try to prove you are a parent. It is to be a good parent. Then if there is a custody dispute, you will be in the best position to say your sexual orientation, if raised as an issue, is irrelevant because you are a good parent.