By returning to Oakland to play another game, the Warriors’ owners, led by Joe Lacob and Peter Guber, are going to make more than an additional $6 million in ticket revenues alone. That doesn’t include any merchandise or other advertising that comes from an extra game. Of course, if Cleveland somehow wins both Game 5 and Game 6, then it’s back to Oakland for another game, and another $6 million-plus dollars.
The pair were reportedly traveling with a 63-year-old man named André Tamine, embarking on a cruise that started out of London on July 9th and hit New York, Peru, Chile, and finally Australia. It was there that the Australian Border Force found the 95 kilograms (which comes to almost 200 pounds) “hidden” (if you can call this hiding) in suitcases belonging to the pair. The drugs were uncovered during a search of the ship that was in the wake of an “international joint operation targeting drug smuggling syndicates,” according to a Facebook post by the Australian Border Force, which also stated that the quantity of drugs seized represented “a record for drugs seized off a cruise vessel coming into Australia.
It quickly gained legions of fans, and was subsequently picked up by HGTV for broadcast in the United States. It currently has 90 million viewers. She is also the host of “Candice Tells All”, which began airing in early 2011. She has written two books, “Candice Olson on Design: Inspiration and Ideas for Your Home” and “Candice Olson: Kitchen and Bathrooms”. She also has a line of home décor products.
Bookmaker CG Technology handles bets at several big Vegas hotels, and they report that once the 180-day collection deadline in May came and went, more than 30 percent of the about 4,000 Cubs bets taken by the company had gone uncashed. At the Golden Nugget, that figure is at more than 20 percent, and includes two $600 bets on the Cubs that at 5-1 odds were worth $3,600 each (I guess if you’re flush enough to pour $600 into a team that hasn’t won a Series in 108 years, you can afford to spend $3,600 on a souvenir).
Over the strong objections of the prosecutor, bail was set last week for the Chinese billionaire who is at the center of a bribery case that has drawn scrutiny to both casino mogul Sheldon Adelson and the operations of the United Nations. Ng is charged with lying to customs officials about the purpose of $4.5 million in cash he brought into the U.S. over a two-year period. Judge Kevin Nathaniel Fox set the real estate developer’s bail at $50 million, including $20 million in cash and a $4 million luxury Manhattan apartment where he will remain under house arrest until trial with a 24-hour guard.
The duo’s next three albums Actually in 1987, Introspective in 1988, and Behaviour in 1990 all reached #2 in the UK. Their album Very was released in 1993 and reached #1 in the UK. Pet Shop Boys also had success with their albums Bilingual in 1996, Nightlife in 1999, Released in 2002, Fundamental in 2006, Yes in 2009, Elysium in 2012, Electric in 2013, and Super in 2016. Their #1 singles include “West End Girls”, “It’s a Sin”, “Always on My Mind”, “Heart”, “Go West”, and “The Pop Kids”.
A recent Yahoo story on McGregor’s unlikely career trajectory states that only a few days before his starmaking debut UFC fight against Marcus Brimage in Stockholm in 2013, McGregor received a welfare check from the Irish government to the tune of $225. Before breaking into professional fighting in Irish mixed martial arts, McGregor worked as a plumber’s apprentice, and in 2015 he told The Guardian about how he went from plumbing to his current, more violent vocation: After quitting plumbing and devoting himself to mixed martial arts full time, McGregor lost two of his first three professional fights.
Since then, he has gone on to appear in such film and television projects as, “Numb3rs”, “The Fast and Furious: Tokyo Drift”, “The O.C.”, “Hannah Montana”, “Foreign Exchange”, “The Open Door”, “Desperate Housewives”, “Crazy on the Outside”, “Medium”, “A Warrior’s Heart”, “Getting That Girl”, “Wyatt Earp’s Revenge”, “Kickin’ It”, “Jersey Shore Shark Attack”, “A Christmas Wedding Date”, “21 & Over”, “Perception”, and “House of Secrets”. He also has a very busy voice over career, and has provided voice over work for such projects as “Pretty Little Liars”, “Man on a Ledge”, “The Hunger Games”, and “Victorious”.
Ortega married Rosario Murillo in 1979 in a secret ceremony and moved to Costa Rica with her three children from a previous marriage. Ortega remarried Murillo in 2005 to have the marriage recognized by the Roman Catholic Church. The couple has eight children, three of them together. Rosario is currently the government’s spokeswoman and a government minister. In 1998, Daniel Ortega’s adopted stepdaughter Zoilamérica Narváez alleged that Daniel Ortega had sexually abused her since she was 11 years old.
A member of the Spanish international football team since age 20, Silva was only eight years old when he first set foot in the sport. Blessed with inner talents that he perfected over the years, Silva was part of the winning squads on three consecutive international tournaments: UEFA Euro 2008, 2010 FIFA World Cup and UEFA Euro 2012. As a highlight period of Silva’s pro career comes his six-year tenure with Valencia CF, when he played in more than 150 games and fetched one Copa del Rey along the way.
The FBI is looking into this case. The court filings allege that Kennedy allowed her to run up nearly $6 million in charges on a number of items including plastic surgery, an $8,000 a month chauffeur for her kids, $6,000 on two purebred dogs, and even a mansion in San Diego. She is also under investigation for money laundering and fraud by the FBI. Neither Kennedy or Lundberg have had criminal charges filed against them, at least not yet.
You may recall Tiger’s Thanksgiving 2009 early morning shenanigans when he and his then wife Elin Nordegren got into a major row after she discovered he had cheated on her multiple times. Tiger went out and crashed his car and lost tons of sponsorship money. In the years since then, he’s done a somewhat decent job of walking the proverbial straight and narrow. He’s regained some respect and a few endorsements.
Taylor Spink Award and was named Minor League Player of the Year by Baseball America. He has received the Gold Glove Award six times and earned the Silver Slugger Award in 2002. Chavez has suffered few injuries, temporarily putting him on the disabled list. He most recently suffered a tear to the minor right oblique and was put back on the disabled list on June 1, 2013. He has played a total of 1,256 games.
In an Instagram Live video earlier this week, the 40-year-old retired boxer says that the UFC made him a huge offer to return to combat sports. Mayweather told fans watching his live stream that he could potentially “come back” to fighting “in the Octagon.” He added that he could “do a three or four fight deal and make $1 billion.” Mayweather went on to say, “[The UFC] just called me not too long ago and asked me to come back.
He is one of two people to ever win a FIFA World Cup as a coach and a player, and the only person to win it as a coach and a captain. He earned World Team of the 20th Century honors and was part of the 2002 FIFA World Cup Dream Team. Beckenbauer was inducted into the U.S. National Soccer Hall of Fame for his time with the Cosmos. He managed the West German national team from 1984 until 1990, defeating Argentina in the World Cup finals.
Fred Williamson played in the NFL from 1960 – 1967 for the Steelers, the Raiders and the Kansas City Chiefs. After retiring from football, Williamson became an actor. From 1970 to the present, Williamson has appeared in dozens of films including MAS*H, Black Cobra, Starsky & Hutch and From Dusk Till Dawn. In addition to acting, Fred has stepped behind the camera to direct and produce more than 20 movies through his production company Po’Boy Productions.
Eastern Conference: Atlanta Hawks Al Horford made $413,793 per game during the regular season. The Hawks’ big man went out on December 27 with a torn pectoral muscle and never made another appearance all year. Kyle Korver’s NBA-record streak of 127 straight games making at least one three-pointer came to an end on March 2 against the Blazers. For the year, Korver hit 185 treys. Each one cost his team $36,544.
Nowadays, Haribo is one of the biggest manufacturers of gummy and jelly sweets, and is credited for the invention of more than 200 sweets, including Gummy Bears, Vademecum sugar-free gum and Maoam fruit chewies among other jelly sweets and liquorice. Hans Riegel and his brother Paul restored the company after World War II and managed it together until Paul’s death in 2009. Each of the brothers had a 50% stake in the business.
David DeVore, Sr., uploaded the video to YouTube in 2009. The family just thought it was funny. Apparently, a lot of other people did, too. Within three days, the video had been viewed more than three million times. The fact that the video was such a hit proved to be fortuitous for the DeVore family. The market crash of 2008 had made being a realtor seriously difficult, so David DeVore, Sr.