PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad (AP) -- A reporter who led crime coverage for a Trinidad & Tobago newspaper and a TV news cameraman are being accused of robbing a liquor store and getting in a shootout with police. Authorities say Trinidad Express reporter Akile Simon and TV6 cameraman Brendon Alexander teamed up with a security guard and a taxi driver to commit the robbery in a town outside Port-of-Spain. Police allege the four initially posed as police, showing the shop owner a phony warrant. The gang is accused of engaging officers in a shootout shortly after robbing the store of $28,000 and nine bottles of whiskey. The security guard was shot in the leg before they surrendered. The reporter and the cameraman pleaded not guilty to robbery ... Continue reading →
Does This Suit Make Me Look Insane?The agony and ecstasy of Craig SagerBy Wesley Morris on May 22, 2012I know what you're thinking. You've seen the photos and the broadcasts and the live moments when guys like Chris Paul and Carmelo Anthony now, and Hakeem Olajuwon and Reggie Miller then, try to stay focused on the questions (which are usually pretty apt) and not crack up. You've seen the suits and the ties and the pins and the belts and, in the blazer pocket, the blobs of fabric. You've seen the stripes, plaids, polka dots, creams, pastels, sorbets, slub knits, and hall-of-shame hell prints: zoot suit, hunter's camo, stuffed animal, Divas Live gift basket, Nicholson's Joker, planetarium ceiling, melted fro-yo, autopsy. You've been blown off ... Continue reading →
Drogba: I'm leaving Chelsea May 21, 2012 Chelsea striker Didier Drogba has told his team-mates that he is leaving the club this summer and says he is preparing "for a great leap into the unknown" away from Stamford Bridge. GettyImagesDidier Drogba's Champions League-winning penalty was probably his final contribution to Chelsea • Lampard gushes over DrogbaDrogba, 34, scored a dramatic late equaliser for the Blues in Saturday's Champions League final before netting the crucial penalty in the shootout as he ended the club's long wait for a maiden European Cup triumph. But it seems the Ivory Coast international's decisive contributions in Munich were his last for the club, as he is planning "another adventure" after eight years in West London. "We (he and his team-mates) ... Continue reading →