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Written by James Varney
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Friday, 23 April 2010 13:06 |
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With NFL teams making a late first-round run on the position, the New Orleans Saints picked Florida State cornerback Patrick Robinson with the 32nd and last pick of the round Thursday night.The 5-foot-11, 190-pound Seminole defender is scorching fast - he was clocked in 4.38 for the 40-yard dash at Florida State's pro day - and was rated on most draft boards as a first-round lock on talent, but a borderline first-round pick because of some questions about his consistency.
He was the third cornerback taken in the last six picks of the first round as the NFL moved that marquee event to prime time for the first time. With the pick, the Saints now went with cornerbacks in the first round in back-to-back drafts after choosing Malcolm Jenkins in 2009.
Jenkins, who could find himself moved to safety as a result of the pick, reacted delightedly, sending out a tweet that read simply, "Yeeeessss!!!!" But the selection did not meet with uniform praise from the Saints secondary, some of whom openly expressed their puzzlement.
"I don't get it....." read a tweet from cornerback Tracy Porter, whose interception return for a touchdown sealed the Saints win over the Colts in Super Bowl XLIV. Usama Young, a safety, added, "Ditto." Saints Coach Sean Payton said he thought it was too early to conclude Jenkins would be moved to safety but called it, "a fair question." The Saints coaching staff was pleased with Jenkins' rookie year and believes he can be productive at corner or safety, although they did see safety in Jenkins long-term arc.
Nor were injuries that sidelined Porter and Jabari Greer for portions of the 2009 season a main element in the Saints' thinking, according to Payton. "No, I think more the value of the position and having good cornerback play," he said. "This player had a real good grade on him. It's a position that's hard to find in free agency."
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Written by Jody Callahan, Bob Mehr
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Thursday, 18 March 2010 11:51 |
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Alex Chilton, the pop hitmaker, cult icon and Memphis rock iconoclast best known as a member of 1960s pop-soul act the Box Tops and the 1970s power-pop act Big Star, died Wednesday at a hospital in New Orleans.
The singer, songwriter and guitarist was 59.
"I'm crushed. We're all just crushed," said John Fry, owner of Memphis' Ardent Studios and a longtime friend of Chilton's. "This sudden death experience is never something that you're prepared for. And yet it occurs." Chilton had been complaining about his health earlier Wednesday, Fry said. He was taken by paramedics from his home to the emergency room but could not be revived.
Chilton and Big Star had been scheduled to play Saturday as part of the South by Southwest festival in Austin, Texas. The band was also scheduled to play at the Levitt Shell in Memphis on May 15. It's unknown what will happen to those shows. The Memphis-born Chilton rose to prominence at age 16 when his gruff vocals powered the massive Box Tops hit "The Letter," as well as "Cry Like a Baby" and "Neon Rainbow."
After the Box Tops broke up in 1970, Chilton had a brief solo run in New York before returning to Memphis. He soon joined forces with a group of Anglo-pop-obsessed musicians -- fellow songwriter/guitarist Chris Bell, bassist Andy Hummel and drummer Jody Stephens -- to form Big Star. The group became the flagship act for Ardent's Stax-distributed label. Big Star's 1972 debut album, #1 Record, met with critical acclaim but poor sales. The group briefly disbanded, but reunited without Bell to record the album Radio City. Released in 1974, the second album suffered a similar fate, plagued by Stax's distribution woes.
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Written by showbizspy
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Monday, 15 March 2010 05:19 |
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MILEY Cyrus‘ smash hit TV show, Hannah Montana, will wrap production forever in 2010.
The Disney Channel series — about average teen “Miley Stewart” who secretly moonlights as pop star Hannah Montana — begins shooting its fourth season Jan. 18. The show still averages nearly 5 million viewers a week.
“You never know in this business . . . but right now we’re scheduled to wrap [forever] after shooting this new batch of episodes,” Disney Channel Worldwide’s Adam Bonnett, senior VP/programming, told the New York Post newspaper. The fourth season will premiere “in late spring,” Bonnett says.
“The [new] episodes will continue to roll out at least over a full year,” he says.
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