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Carbon-Based (Free subscription) | yesterday
Adam Morton in the Sydney Morning Herald (Australia) : The world has little chance of avoiding at least two degrees of global warming this century - the projected threshold for unpredictable and accelerated climate changes - if the emissions targets proposed by rich nations are locked in at next week's Copenhagen summit, an analysis has found. A report by German-based consultants Climate Analytics...
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Fox News (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
Tennessee coach Lane Kiffin says freshman safety Janzen Jackson will be allowed to return to team activities immediately and will start Saturday at Kentucky. Jackson was arrested and charged with three counts of attempted aggravated robbery on Nov. 12 at a convenience store near Tennessee's Knoxville campus. Jackson's teammates, Nu'Keese Richardson and Mike Edwards, also were arrested.
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NCAA Football FanHouse (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
by Clay Travis Filed under: Tennessee , Police Blotter On Nov.12, three University of Tennessee freshman, Nu'Keese Richardson , Mike Edwards , and Janzen Jackson -- were arrested and charged with attempted armed robbery . Last week, Lane Kiffin dismissed Richardson and Edwards, the two men who approached the vehicle and demanded money, from the football team . Now, charges against Jackson and the...
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Football news from a chick™ (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
Prosecutors have dropped attempted aggravated robbery charges against Tennessee freshman safety Janzen Jackson. The Knox County District Attorney's office said today that charges would be dropped against the 18-year-old. Charges were also dropped against 22-year-old Marie Montmarquet, who had been accused of driving the getaway car. The district attorney's office said neither person knew the robbery...
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PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
ANN ARBOR, Mich., Nov. 19 /PRNewswire/ -- Borders Group, Inc. (NYSE: BGP) has appointed Bill Dandy Senior Vice President, Marketing, effective Nov. 20. Dandy has more than 20 years of retail experience, serving in marketing and operations leadership roles for several multi-billion-dollar retail organizations. Most recently, he served for three years as Executive Vice President, Marketing, for Mattress...
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Rocky Top Talk (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
More photos » by Michael H. Miller - AP Headache. He has several. (AP Photo/Michael H. Miller) Browse more photos » Much like the case with Nu'Keese Richardson, Mike Edwards, and Janzen Jackson, details about Nyshier Oliver's incident at Knoxville's West Town Mall are coming forward in small pieces. Despite the incident occurring on November 7th, the first significant public mention came...
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Rocky Top Talk (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
More photos » by Michael H. Miller - AP In the last six days, Kiffin - a habitual non-smiler to begin with - has probably worn this expression a lot. Browse more photos » Lane Kiffin ran a clean program for more than eleven months. No arrests, highest team GPA in years, and while Kiffin's mouth may have raised some questions about his discipline, there was nothing tangible to stand on in...
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SI.com (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- Tennessee coach Lane Kiffin says the decision to dismiss freshmen wide receiver Nu'Keese Richardson and defensive back Mike Edwards was the best option for his team.
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NCAA Football FanHouse (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
by Clay Travis Filed under: Tennessee , Police Blotter In February, Nu'Keese Richardson was one of the crown jewels in Lane Kiffin 's first recruiting class at Tennessee. Kiffin wooed the four-star recruit, a longtime Florida commit, away from Urban Meyer and then bragged about the recruiting victory at a UT recruiting breakfast. At the time Kiffin incorrectly argued that Meyer had committed a recruiting...
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Fox News (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
Tennessee coach Lane Kiffin has dismissed two of three freshmen players charged last week in an attempted armed robbery outside a Knoxville convenience store. Kiffin says wide receiver Nu'Keese Richardson and defensive back Mike Edwards have been permanently dismissed from the football team. The coach says, "Their actions have no place in our program." Kiffin says former starting safety Janzen...
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Get The Picture (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
Junior says sayonara to Nu’Keese Richardson and Mike Edwards. And if you think that’s because he had no choice and deserves no credit for the decision, let me refer you to the matter of In re: Hornsby.
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The Sporting Blog (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
This is a strong stand: Though their armed robbery case isn't even a week old , Tennessee's Nu'Keese Richardson and Mike Edwards have been dismissed from the team, according to ESPN's Pat Forde and confirmed by the headline at GoVols.com . (There's nothing on Tennessee's official site just yet, but, presumably, it will be coming.) In a statement, Lane Kiffin explained the reasoning. "After extensive...
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Rocky Top Talk (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
AP View full size photo » Lane Kiffin has made his first pronouncement on the Thursday incident: Mike Edwards and Nu'Keese Richardson are no longer Tennessee Volunteers : After extensive and thorough research of the situation over the last four days and considering various disciplinary options, I’ve decided it’s in the best interest of our program to remove Nu’Keese and Mike....
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Saurian Sagacity: The Official Blog (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
Proving that old adage of “If you can't be a good example, then you'll just have to serve as a horrible warning" abundantly true, one time Florida commit Nu'Keese Richardson, along with teammate Mike Edwards, have been kicked off the Tennessee team per ESPN.