Countless Montclair residents rummaged through Micheal Strahan's home during a yard sale held by none other than his struggling ex-wife, Jean. Walking off with $300 dresses for $20 a pop. From Strahan's game-worn gloves for $50, two of Michael's televisions for $100 total, picture frames that used to hold loving memories for $2 a shot and countless other things from jersey's to complimentary Pro Bowl handbags. This may rank in the top 10 all-time worst and most public divorces. Jean has gone out of her way to destroy the character of her ex-husband and has done so at any cost -- even opening their home, the most private of all things, to the public.
Monday, April 23, 2007
Article #20: Jean Strahan Holds Yard Sale in Order to Make Ends Meet
Countless Montclair residents rummaged through Micheal Strahan's home during a yard sale held by none other than his struggling ex-wife, Jean. Walking off with $300 dresses for $20 a pop. From Strahan's game-worn gloves for $50, two of Michael's televisions for $100 total, picture frames that used to hold loving memories for $2 a shot and countless other things from jersey's to complimentary Pro Bowl handbags. This may rank in the top 10 all-time worst and most public divorces. Jean has gone out of her way to destroy the character of her ex-husband and has done so at any cost -- even opening their home, the most private of all things, to the public.
Article #19: Sports Concussions Called a 'Ticking Time Bomb'
An estimated 350,000 athletes endure some kind of head injury while playing sports every year in the United States, and that's only counting the ones who lose consciousness after impact. Counting the rest of the dings, pings and "rung bells" that result in concussions, the total could be as high as 3.8 million. That's why concussions are, in the words of agent Leigh Steinberg, "a health epidemic, the consequences of which are a ticking time bomb that may not be seen in their totality for 10, 15 or 20 years." Steinberg and NFL Hall of Fame quarterback Warren Moon, who suffered the first of his half-dozen concussions at age 11, headlined a summit Friday designed to draw attention to the growing problem of concussions in sports. It's a problem most widely recognized in the NFL, where the suicide of former defensive back Andre Waters and the story of former Patriots linebacker Ted Johnson's hurried return to the field made recent headlines. But the issue has repercussions in almost every sport, at almost every level.
Article #18: Va. Tech Student Killed in Crash at Home
A Virginia Tech freshman who returned home with his family after last week's campus massacre was killed in a car crash, his father said Sunday. Jeff Soriano died from his injuries Friday in Senatara Norfolk General Hospital after he was pulled from the wreckage of his burning vehicle, police said. Enrique Soriano, speaking by telephone from his home in Chesapeake, Va., said he picked up his son in the days after the April 16 slaughter on the Blacksburg campus, which left 33 dead, including gunman Seung-Hui Cho . Soriano said his son was in the engineering school. Soriano's vehicle flipped several times and struck a tree before coming to a rest, investigators said. The cause of the crash was not known. Rob Waring said he heard the crash from his office and found Soriano unconscious inside the burning car. After helping pull Soriano to safety, Waring said he talked to a relative of Soriano at the crash scene.
Article #17: Jury Awards $9 Million in Beating Case
A jury awarded $9 million to a black man who suffered permanent brain damage after being beaten and dumped in a field by four men in 2003. Billy Ray Johnson, 46, lives in a nursing home because of the injuries he suffered in the beating. In the criminal case, the men accused of assaulting him were fined and sentenced to probation and jail time, but none served more than 60 days behind bars. In a four-day civil trial in District Court that ended Friday, jurors found James Cory Hicks and Christopher Colt Amox responsible for Johnson's injuries. Defendants Dallas Chadwick Stone and John Wesley Owens previously reached confidential settlements, attorneys said. A jury of 11 whites and one black deliberated less than four hours before returning a unanimous verdict, said attorneys for the Southern Poverty Law Center, which brought the lawsuit on behalf of Johnson. Authorities in this poor, pine-locked east Texas hamlet had said that Johnson, well-known around town as a friendly but "slow" character, was lured to an all-white pasture party where underage drinkers fed him alcohol and picked on him. Authorities said Johnson, who lived with his mother and brother and had no criminal background or history of violence, was taunted for the defendants' amusement. He was found unconscious on a fire ant mound and had suffered a serious concussion and bleeding in the brain.
Article #16: Bomb Threat Forces Plane to Land in Munich
An Olympic Airlines flight carrying Greek European parliamentarians from Greece to France made an emergency landing in Munich, Germany, on Monday after a bomb threat was reported, German air traffic control officials said. The Boeing 737 - en route from Athens, Greece, to Strasbourg, France - landed at 10:45 a.m. at a special area of the airport set aside for emergencies, spokeswoman Anja Tomic said. Munich airport spokesman Peter Pruemm said the plane belonged to Greece's Olympic Airlines and that "the pilot apparently said there was a bomb threat." He said the plane had 137 people on board, all of whom safely evacuated shortly after the landing. Athens airport spokeswoman Marina Papagorgiou said 136 people were on board the plane, including 11 Greek members of the European Parliament. The parliament was to open a session in Strasbourg later Monday. There was no immediate explanation for the discrepancy in the total number of people on board.
Article #15: Investigators Seek Clues to Blue Angel Death
The Navy Blue Angels were back home Monday to regroup and mourn the loss of one of their pilots, killed in a crash while performing in one of his first air shows with the team. Witnesses said the plane clipped a stand of pine trees before it went down in a South Carolina neighborhood Saturday. Investigators were still examining the wreckage, and the Navy said it could be three weeks or more before it announces what caused of the crash. At the Pensacola Naval Air Station, Lt. Cmdr. Kevin J. Davis's parking space was turned into a makeshift memorial with flowers and posters remembering the 32-year-old pilot. Davis was from Pittsfield, Mass., and was in his second year with the Blue Angels, the team known for its high-speed, aerobatic demonstrations, said Lt. Cmdr. Garrett Kasper. The rest of his squadron decided not to participate in a weekend airshow in Vidalia, Ga., and returned home to tearful reunion with family members late Sunday, Kasper said.
Article #14: Missing Boy's Remains Found in Crocodile

A crocodile shot to death in south China during a search for a missing 9-year-old student was found to contain the child's remains, the official Xinhua News Agency said. The crocodile was shot Saturday in a park in Beihai, a city in the Guangxi region, by investigators looking for the missing child. Investigators confirmed that human remains found in the reptile were that of the student, the report said. The child, surnamed Liu, disappeared Friday after Liu and three other children climbed over the fence around a pool in the park that had been used to stage crocodile shows, Xinhua said.
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