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Woman Killed When Gun Left In Clothes Goes Off At Thrift Store!

Chicago (CBS) - A Women working at a thrift store was killed Friday after a gun hidden in dropped-off clothing accidentally went off and shot her in the chest. The 54-year-old woman was working at the store in the 9400 block to police and the Cook County Medical Examiner's office. The victim and a co-working were sorting through clothing in a back room of the store when the co-worker shook a sock, a gun fell out onto the floor and discharged, striking the woman in the chest.  Her name was not released Friday afternoon. This story is still developing. 

Is Facebook Considering a Ban on Gun-Related Fan Pages?

Facebook could soon be changing it's policy concerning pro gun-related pages after a recent arrest involving a 15-year-old high school student carrying a loaded gun was traced back to a transaction that may have involved the teen's friendship with a man he met through Facebook... Read More

Man loses 56 pounds after eating only McDonald's for six months

When the experiment began on September 15th, John Cisna weighed 280 pounds, left. After six months of eating all his meals at Mcdonald's, he says he's lost 56 pounds, 9 inches from his waist and more than 7 inches from his hips...Read More

STUDY: FACEBOOK Increasing Social Anxiety!

Researchers studied how online interaction affects face-to-face meetings

They fitted 26 students with electrodes to measure physiological arousal

Students were shown Facebook photos of a subject before meeting them

During face-to-face meetings, participants suffered an increase in arousal

Researchers linked this arousal to an increase in social anxiety

They believe viewing photos leads people to rate themselves against that person, and this can increase anxiety.....read more

OFFICIAL VIDEO: "AGENT ASS NIGGAS" by @TAHIRRBG (OFFICIAL VIDEO)

Tahir RBG is a music producer/emcee. He has produced for dead prez, The Roots, Jay Electronica, The 69 Boyz, The NappyRoots, The Coup, and many more artists including film scores/soundtracks. He has released 12 projects as an emcee and a host of features. His subject matter is Afrikan Liberation and Nation Building.TahirRBG@gmail.com for more info and contact.

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Roc Nation-Building the BEST Team in Sports

Jay -Z Roc Nation continues to grow into a dynasty like no other. Roc Nation recently added New York Giants wide receiver Hakeem Nicks. Nicks joins fellow New York Giant Victor Cruz who's signed with Roc Nation earlier this year. The firm also represents Yankees pitcher CC Sabathia, Jetsquarterback Geno Smith, Detroit Lions defensive end Ndamukong Suh was recently added to the client list, Oklahoma City Thunder forward Kevin Durant, Seattle Mariners second baseman Robinson Cano and WNBA player Skylar Diggins.are also on Roc Nation's roster.

Seems like Jay Z is taking a record label approach and signing all the hot talent that it can! Roc Nation is securing its clients with huge contracts and endorsement deals. A lot of people doubted Jay Z when he launched the company, but he is building into an empire. It may be sports but its still the Roc baby!

Derek Jeter- Last of a Dying Breed

 

Derek Jeter won the American League Rookie of The Year in 1996, he is entering is final season in the big leagues. He has spent his entire career with the New York Yankess. Jeter is the last of a dying breed in American sports. An athlete that spends his entire career with one team. We are used to stars like Lebron James taking their talents elsewhere for a chance to win a ring or simply for the love of the money. Jeter spending his career with the Yankees isn't the only thing that sets him apart from other athletes. In the twitter age (I dont think Jeter has a twitter account) and the 24 hours news cycle and shows like TMZ, Jeter has maintained a scandal free career. No arrests, no beat up girlfriends, no 7 baby mamas. Jeter always carried himself with class on and off the field. So many of the players he played with and against have had their careers marred by steroids and human growth hormone and other performance enhancing drugs. Jeter never failed a drug test. Jeter is a class act on and off the field. Jay Z said he made the NY Yankee hat more famous than a Yankee did, I beg to differ Hov, Jeter aka the Captain will go down as one of the most important Yankees in history. Retiring around the age of 40, Jeter has his whole life to enjoy his fortune. 2014 Major League Baseball will say good bye to a good guy! Enjoy his last season, a player like this wont come around for another lifetime!

1 in 3 People Say They've Been Personally Hurt By Obamacare...

One-third of Americans say the Affordable Care Act has had a negative impact on them personally........read more

72-year-old substitute teacher accused of 'furiously masturbating' in school hallway

A 72-year-old substitute teacher at Westhill High School was put on suicide watch after he was allegedly caught masturbating in a school hallway while looking at school children Wednesday morning shortly after the school day began......read more

Obama Talks About Getting High

Last February, President Obama sat in a classroom in Chicago’s Hyde Park Academy High School with a group of African-American boys working to overcome their circumstances and navigate the dangers of the city’s South Side. The president listened and then shared his own story with the young men, quickly blowing through his schedule to continue the conversation.
The president was profoundly affected by their discussion and inspired to take action today to tackle a deeply personal cause: helping minority boys succeed.
“I explained to them that when I was their age, I was a lot like them,” the president said at the White House today, recounting his conversation with the boys. “I didn’t have a dad in the house. And I was angry about it, even though I didn’t necessarily realize it at the time. I made bad choices. I got high without always thinking about the harm that it could do. I didn’t always take school as seriously as I should have. I made excuses. Sometimes I sold myself short.”Opening up about his history in a way he rarely does publicly, the president explained “I could see myself in these young men. And the only difference is that I grew up in an environment that was a little bit more forgiving. So when I made a mistake, the consequences were not as severe. I had people who encouraged me… They never gave up on me. And so I didn’t give up on myself.”
Many of those young men, who are part of the “Becoming A Man” program, were at Obama’s side today as he announced a new signature effort aimed at building opportunities for young men of color. The president’s “My Brother’s Keeper” initiative will bring businesses and leading foundations together with the federal government to help disadvantaged men and boys have “the chance to reach their full potential.”
Adopting a stern tone, the president said the nation has become “numb” to the statistics.
“Fifty years after Dr. King talked about his dream for America’s children, the stubborn fact is that the life chances of the average black or brown child in this country lags behind by almost every measure and is worse for boys and young men,” he said. “If you’re African-American, there’s about a one-in-two chance you grew up without a father in your house — one-in-two. If you’re Latino, you have about a one-in-four chance. We know that boys who grow up without a father are more likely to be poor, more likely to under-perform in school.”
“We just assume this is an inevitable part of American life instead of the outrage that it is,” he said to applause. “But these statistics should break our hearts. And they should compel us to act.”
The president urged parents to “turn off the television and help with homework,” but he also had tough talk for young men across the country.
“No excuses,” he said. “We all have a responsibility to help provide you the tools you need. We’ve got to help you knock down some of the barriers that you experience. That’s what we’re here for. But you’ve got responsibilities too. And I know you can meet the challenge, and many of you already are, if you make the effort.”
The boys were equally inspired by their time with Obama last year, many surprised to find they had more in common with the president than they thought.
“[His background] was very similar. Him going through a lot, you know, family-wise and everything,” 19-year-old James Adams told ABC News recently of the president, who, like him, was raised without his father present.
High school senior Christian Champagne said, “He’s an African-American male, I’m an African-American male. And that gives me motivation to do better and stop like, being on the corner, selling drugs; to get more other African-American males to do better with their lives, to motivate them also.”
The president was so impressed with the young men and touched by their raw conversation that he invited them to celebrate Father’s Day at the White House in June, a day many of them had never marked. After a formal Father’s Day luncheon, Obama reportedly brought the group back to the Oval Office and even showed them his private study just off the infamous office.
Adams credits the B.A.M. empowerment program with teaching him not to lash out. “I was the type of person that would always be mad about any little thing,” he told ABC News. “I take deep breaths and sit there and think, ‘Why am I mad? Why did this thing make me so upset?’”
The White House is hoping to encourage similar mentoring programs across the country through the president’s new initiative.
“Most kids are not going to be into it when they first start, but if they keep going and going and going, they’re going to be right. They’re going to become what I am right now,” Champagne told ABC News.
His simple message for the president today: “Thank you. Thank you.”

@TheRealMrServOn's Amazing Story About the Fall of No Limit Records

Mr. Serv-On claims Master P and No Limit Records gave artists the best contracts in Rap history. He reveals how a speaker-phone and an upset executive compromised an independent juggernaut.

In 1999, Mr. Serv-On's sophomore album, Da Next Level garned a #1 debut on the Rap/Hip Hop charts for reigning independent label No Limit Records. According to the New Orleans, Louisiana native who was with the label since the mid-1990s, that was the year No Limit sold 22 million units. Sadly, it was a year before the label suffered an artist exodus which was led by in-house production team Beats By The Pound. In an interview this week with the Underground Society online radio show, Mr. Serv-On explained the root of the artist departure—including his own—and how it greatly damaged No Limit's legacy.
"The thing that really messed it up was when Beats By The Pound and [Master P] got into the smallest thing," began Serv. "Man, and when I tell you why No Limit [Records] broke up—'cause he didn't get rid of people. He did a few interviews out there. That was just [because] his feelings were hurt, 'cause niggas walked off. He'd be like, 'I got rid of niggas.' In '99, when most of us walked off, we sold 22 million albums. You don't go and get rid of niggas that helped you sell 22 million."
According to Mr. Serv-On, Beats By The Pound—which included KLC, Craig B, Mo B. Dick and Odell—stirred the pot with a contract dispute. "This shows you how No Limit really broke up, and ended up levelin' off and fadin': Basically, P was doin' a huge business deal. Contracts came out; we didn't live by contracts, we lived by handshakes and word—blood in, blood out. Our contracts was better than any contracts, ever. I own my masters! We own everything. We got 50/50 [splits]. That's how real the nigga played us, and we owned our publishing. He was a real dude with it. What happened was, he had to get signed contracts to do this big business transaction with [No Limit Records' distributor at the time] Priority [Records]. When the contracts came, the producers were like, 'Man, I'ma get a lawyer.'" Lawyers had not previously been part of the agreements in the New Orleans-based street label.
Mr. Serv-On, who helped bring KLC and Craig B to the label before its mainstream success watched his friends bring in legal counsel. "We had people in our circle that weren't so-they-say 'street guys'—and they was with that bullshit. So one day [in a phone meeting], P was like, 'Man, they don't wanna sign [the contract], fuck 'em!' The [lawyer had Beats By The Pound] on speaker. And they heard it. P didn't really mean nothin' by it; he was just gettin' mad, like you would with your homie."
According to Serv, KLC felt particularly slighted, after producing hits such as "Bout It, Bout It," "Make 'Em Say Uhh!" and "Down 4 My Niggaz," all major hits on top-selling albums. Mr. Serv-On explained, "[KLC and Master P] was like [Dr.] Dre and Snoop [Dogg]. That kinda really fucked KL up, to hear that." Master P and KLC reportedly had several difficult verbal exchanges following the phone conversation. "P being stubborn, wouldn't apologize. KL was like, 'I'ma stand my ground.' So Beats By The Pound walked away. P waited so long to say, 'Man, Serv, go call Beats, let's work this out.' It was too late. They was gettin' deals." Beats By The Pound left the label, working under the name Medicine Men. In recent years, KLC has worked with the likes of Bun B, B.G., and former No Limit artists Curren$y and Mystikal.
Beats By The Pound's departure upset the roster at the label, which included Fiend, Mia X and Magic, in addition to Mr. Serv-On. "When they walked off, all the artists were like, 'P, we're not workin' with these other producers.' In turn, that got him mad and whatever." Having reportedly brought Beats By The Pound to No Limit, Serv admitted his difficult stake in the situation. "I got caught in the middle, 'cause I brought the two main producers—with the most hits—to No Limit. It was like, 'Man, get them back.'" Serv claims that he went from a pupil of Master P in the label and A&R'ing to grunt-work. "It went to, 'Aight Serv, what's going on? I'll holla at you on this, this and that.' I was working on my third album, which the world never got to hear—which was just crazy. I went to turn it in, and it was kinda funny." He deduced, "This shit ain't family no more...for me, that's what I came up with." In late 1999, following Da Next Level, Mr. Serv-On left No Limit. A year later, he released War Is Me, Pt. 1: Battle Decisions on the small independent label, Lifetime Entertainment. Interestingly enough, the album featured extensive production by Beats By The Pound's Craig B. Serv admits that while behind the scenes, his former label boss helped his career even after No Limit. "He helped me in the background—still got me deals and got me situations overseas with clothing stuff."
Still, it all comes back to that one phone conversation. "Everybody walked away...that big-ass conglomerate broke down because of two people that were just too stubborn to sit down and talk, over somethin' that wasn't even supposed to be heard: a 'fuck 'em.'"
Master P and son Romeo are currently revamping No Limit Forever Records, now based in Los Angeles, California. The roster is said to include Fat Trel and former Death Row Records hopeful Eastwood, in addition to Master P, Romeo and Silkk The Shocker.

@MasterPMiller The Mike Jordan Of HIp Hop

At one point in the 1990′s Master P and his No Limit Records were one of the most dominating forces in Hip Hop. With tracks like “I’m Bout It, Bout It” and “Make ‘Em Say Uhh!” the No Limit tank was running through the streets.Master P also made a huge mark on the music industry for the business moves he established for his label. The New Orleans legend signed an unprecedented deal with Priority Records that reportedly included P earning 80% of the wholesale price for every album sold and 100% ownership of all the master recordings.
“I ain’t trying to be the best lyricist. I’m just trying to make music that people could feel,” Master P tells VladTV. “But I am the best businessman. I feel I am the best hustler in the game.”
Master P also shares his take on what he sees as the wrong way some of the newer artists are hustling. After 75 million albums sold, the creator of Ghetto D thinks it is his work ethic that makes him the G.O.A.T. of street Hip Hop.
“I come from the streets. When you’re hot that’s when you keep on hitting. These artists nowadays, they get a hit song and that be it. They think they can chill. That’s when you gotta work more,” said P. “That’s why I call myself the Michael Jordan of this whole street Hip Hop industry.”

@realrebelblack Netflix Pick of The Week "JUICE" starring Tupac Shakur

The kids today are waking up and hitting up youtube, for old school hip hop music and they are hitting up Netflix.com to check out urban or hip hop based movies. With the same redundant music and the decline of urban movies, its good that the young ones have a chance to learn and be entertained by legendary figures in music and film. This leads me up to Juice starring the late, great Tupac. Who can believe that this movie was released in 1992? Has it really been that long? Well Tupac plays Bishop, an uptown NYC teen who has lost his mind! A great movie that really showed the potential that Tupac had in front of the camera! The Juice Soundtrack is also one of the greatest hip hop movie soundtracks to ever be released. Ernest R. Dickerson directed this movie and it had a great cast, including Omar Epps, Cindy Herron, Jermaine "Huggy" Hopkins, Khalil Kain, and Samuel L. Jackson; the film features cameo appearances by Queen Latifah, EPMD, Special Ed, Ed Lover, Doctor Dré, Flex Alexander, Fab Five Freddy, Yo-Yo, Donald Faison and Treach. The biggest lesson I hope that the kids learn from when they watch this movie is that, the same issues that kids had to deal with in the past they have to deal with today. Guns, drugs, gangs, sex the list goes on and on. So if you are older and haven't had a chance to revisit JUICE or you a youngster check out one of Tupac's greatest roles and enjoy the sounds of great music. Remember kids we have been dealing with drugs, guns and crazy niggas like Bishop for the longest time.

Juicy J #neversober tour Concert in Orlando #soldout

It was a great show in Orlando as Juicy J and the Never Sober Tour hit up Orlando at Firestone Live. Not much to complain about except the fact that there was no host or no house dj. So during the opening acts the crowd had no idea who was performing and in between the acts hitting the stage was so boring! No music, no host just one boring instrumental. The only opening acts in Orlando that got my attention where Afro Whitey and Andrew Floyd. The headliners started up with Travis Scott, you can see his potential, Veteran Project Pat (who should only perform old school classics) and Juicy J, who is known for having one of the most entertaining stage shows in hip hop! The Never Sober Tour lived up to its name in Orlando, I believe over 2,000 people were getting tripping that night! check out a few pictures and if the Never Sober Tour is coming to your city make sure you get your ticket, this show will sell out!

Technology Will Allow A Child to Have 3 Parents?

A new technology aimed at eliminating genetic disease in newborns would combine the DNA of three people, instead of just two, to create a child, potentially redrawing ethical lines for designer babies.

The process works by replacing potentially variant DNA in the unfertilized eggs of a hopeful mother with disease-free genes from a donor. U.S. regulators today will begin weighing whether the procedure, used only in monkeys so far, is safe enough to be tested in humans.

Because the process would change only a small, specific part of genetic code, scientists say a baby would largely retain the physical characteristics of the parents. Still, DNA from all three -- mother, father and donor -- would remain with the child throughout a lifetime, opening questions about long-term effects for this generation, and potentially the next. Ethicists worry that allowing pre-birth gene manipulation may one day lead to build-to-order designer babies.

“Once you make this change, if a female arises from the process and goes on to have children, that change is passed on, so it’s forever,” Phil Yeske, chief science officer of the United Mitochondrial Disease Foundation, said by telephone. “That’s uncharted territory; we just don’t know what it means. Permanent change of the human germline has never been done before, and we don’t know what will happen in future generations.”

FDA Hearing

The Food and Drug Administration is scheduled today and tomorrow to explore the issue at a meeting, with doctors and researchers scheduled to talk. The FDA will then decide whether to allow scientists at Oregon Health & Science University in Portland, who engineered the approach, to move their testing program from macaque monkeys to woman.

Potentially, the procedure may cut off mitochondrial diseases that are passed down through females and occur in about 1 in 4,000 people. One example is Melas syndrome, which causes a person to have continuing small strokes that damage their brains, leading to vision loss, problems with movement, dementia and death, according to the National Institutes of Health.

“What the FDA needs to think about is that this isn’t a procedure to repair mitochondrial disease,” said Vamsi Mootha, a professor of systems biology and medicine at Harvard Medical School inBoston who studies mitochondrial disorders. “It’s designed to prevent disease. It’s designed to offer a woman who’s a carrier for disease more options.”

Shoukhrat Mitalipov, the researcher heading the Oregon team’s work, declined to comment before the FDA meeting.

Monkey Research

In early research, four macaque monkeys were born from the procedure, according to a 2009 report by the Oregon researchers in the journal Nature. They were reported as healthy at age 3.

In October 2012, Nature published reports that the technique had also been used in human egg cells. The resulting embryos were allowed to develop to the blastocyst stage, which usually occurs about five days after fertilization.

About half of the egg cells displayed normal development, the scientists found. Though the procedure is legal in the laboratory, the embryos that result from it can’t be implanted in women without the FDA’s consent, leading to today’s session.

There are two types of DNA: nuclear, which is handed down by both parents, and mitochondria, which only comes from the mother. The technology replaces a donor’s nuclear DNA, which determines things like hair color and intelligence, with the same material from the prospective mother, leaving the healthy mitochondria from the donor in place.

The new lab-made egg is then fertilized with the father’s sperm in vitro and implanted in the mother’s womb.

This isn’t the first time that scientists have attempted to disrupt the actions of mitochondria DNA to help fight disease, or the first time the FDA has considered the issue.

Earlier Method

From 1997 to 2003, about 30 children worldwide were born using a method that injected donor mitochondria DNA into eggs after they were fertilized. The first baby born with this technique wasreported in 1997. In 2003, though, the FDA told fertility clinics that genetically manipulated embryos were considered a biological product, and subject to regulation, essentially halting the technique in humans.

The lives of those children should be thoroughly investigated before the new procedure is cleared for use in a human trial, said Sheldon Krimsky, a professor of Urban & Environmental Policy & Planning at Tufts University in Boston.

Ethical Issues

In the 1982 position paper, “Splicing Life,” the President’s Commission for the Study of Ethical Problems in Medicine and Biomedical and Behavioral Research made a distinction between gene therapy that takes place after someone is born compared with manipulation that occurs before, altering the body’s genome.

There was broad consensus that the latter, called germ-line engineering, shouldn’t be pursued, said Krimsky, who was one of the consultants for the paper. That changed “starting in the late 1990s, when people started whittling away at that distinction,” he said in a telephone interview.

“You’re altering the genome of an unborn child, someone who can’t make a judgment about whether they want to be genetically modified,” Krimsky said by telephone. “What will be next, once you allow this?”

Scientists also are concerned that the procedure may not be safe, according to a paper in September 2013 in the journal Science, whose lead author was evolutionary biologist Klaus Reinhardt at the University of Tuebingen in Germany.

Reinhardt’s paper noted that male mice bred from this technique sometimes had altered breathing, as well as reduced learning and exploring capabilities, according to earlier research. Female mice weren’t tested.

The research in mice suggests that the replacement technique may destroy some lines of communication between mitochondria and the cell’s transplanted nucleus, Reinhardt’s editorial said. Though the macaque monkeys don’t show the same problems, there may be long-term issues from the DNA replacement, he wrote.

Knicks Raymond Felton Arrested For Gun Possession

The New York Knicks struggling season just got worse. Point guard Raymond Felton was arrested early February 25 according to the New York Daily News.

The 29-year-old basketball player turned himself in to authorities for questioning around 1 am after his estranged wife, Ariane Raymondo-Felton, gave his FNH 5.7×28 mm pistol to the police.

Felton was later charged with felony counts of second and third-degree criminal possession of a firearm and a misdemeanor count of fourth-degree possession.

Raymondo-Felton recently filed for divorce from her husband after just 19 months of being married.

Felton’s performance on the court for the Knicks this year has not been stellar. He is averaging a career low 10.4 points per game this season and was rumored to be involved in several trade deals before the deadline. The team signed Felton to a three-year, $10 million contract before the 2012-13 season.

Raymond Felton was scheduled to appear in a Manhattan criminal court later that morning. 

FBI Believed Ali Fight 50 Years Ago Was Rigged!

Fifty years ago, Muhammad Ali “shocked the world” and beat one of the most fearsome fighters ever to put on a pair of boxing gloves, heavyweight champion Sonny Liston.

But what if that storied fight was not what it seemed?

It happened Feb. 25, 1964, at the Miami Beach Convention Center. The film clip and sound bite have now become part of the American story — Liston quitting his stool before the eighth round, a young Cassius Clay, as Ali was known then, bouncing around the ring, waving his hands, yelling to the reporters at ringside who thought he would be killed by the more veteran boxer. “I’m king of the world! I’m king of the world!” Ali proclaimed.

Sports Illustrated named it the fourth-greatest sports moment of the 20th century. The fight also is the foundation of the Muhammad Ali story: the three-year heavyweight championship reign of dominance, followed by his three-year exile as he fought the Vietnam War draft. The Ali-Joe Frazier fights, the upset over George Foreman in Zaire, the reconstruction of Ali from a pariah to a national treasure. All of it begins with a brash Clay “shocking the world.”

Maybe it wasn’t such a shock, as 4-decade-old documents released to The Washington Times under the Freedom of Information Act show the FBI suspected the fight may have been fixed by a Las Vegas figure tied to organized crime and to Liston. The documents show no evidence that Ali was in on the scheme or even knew about it. And nothing suggests the bureau ever fully corroborated the suspicions it investigated.

The FBI documents released to The Times are the most detailed information to date about suspicions of a fix in the first Clay-Liston fight, though they are likely to only continue the debate and not resolve it.

Ali did not respond to repeated requests for comment from The Times.

The memos, so sensitive that they were addressed directly to Director J. Edgar Hoover, show the FBI suspected Ash Resnick, a Las Vegas gambler with organized crime connections, of fixing multiple boxing matches, including the first Clay-Liston fight.

The most tantalizing evidence is contained in an FBI memo dated May 24, 1966, that details an interview with a Houston gambler named Barnett Magids, who described to agents his discussions with Resnick before the first Clay-Liston fight.

“On one occasion, Resnick introduced Magids to Sonny Liston at the Thunderbird, [one of the Las Vegas hotels organized crime controlled],” the memo states. “About a week before the Liston and Clay fight in Miami, Resnick called and invited Magids and his wife for two weeks in Florida on Resnick. Magids‘ wife was not interested in going, but Magids decided to go along, and Resnick was going to send him a ticket.

“Two or three days before the fight, Magids called Resnick at the Fontainebleau Hotel in Miami to say he could not come,” the memo states. “On this call, he asked Resnick who he liked in the fight, and Resnick said that Liston would knock Clay out in the second round. Resnick suggested he wait until just before the fight to place any bets because the odds may come down.

“At about noon on the day of the fight, [Magids] reached Resnick again by phone, and at this time, Resnick said for him to not make any bets, but just go watch the fight on pay TV and he would know why and that he could not talk further at that time.

“Magids did go see the fight on TV and immediately realized that Resnick knew that Liston was going to lose,” the document states. “A week later, there was an article in Sports Illustrated writing up Resnick as a big loser because of his backing of Liston. Later people ‘in the know’ in Las Vegas told Magids that Resnick and Liston both reportedly made over $1 million betting against Liston on the fight and that the magazine article was a cover for this.”

It’s not definitive proof that Liston took a dive, but it was enough for the FBI to continue to assert the suspicions internally that Resnick had fixed the fight.

“[Ash Resnick] is the fix point of two heavyweight title fights — both Liston. [H]e had always been and will continue to be a corruption source for professional sports until he is stopped,” one such report states.

A 1968 report from the FBI Philadelphia office said Resnick “was investigated in the alleged fixing of the first Clay-Liston fight in Miami. He allegedly is a friend of Meyer Lansky and Vincent Alo [“Jimmy Blue Eyes”] and Charles Tourine.”

Lansky was one of the most powerful mobsters of the 20th century, credited, along with his friend and partner Charles “Lucky” Luciano, with building a nationwide crime syndicate. Alo was a member of the Genovese crime family and an associate of Lansky‘s. Tourine, also known as “Charlie the Blade,” was a member of the Boiardo New Jersey gang affiliated with the Genovese family.

A May 19, 1972, FBI report from the Los Angeles field office to Hoover stated that Resnick had “major mob ties” with New Jersey and Brooklyn figures and indicated his reach went beyond the ring. Resnick, a Brooklyn, N.Y., native who had been a basketball player at New York University, was involved in the fixing scandal there in the early 1950s.

The 1972 report says Resnick also was involved in Caesars Palace and, according to FBI documents, was close to NBA Hall of Famer Wilt Chamberlain. “Was deeply involved with Wilt Chamberlain during the 68-69 big year — when Chamberlain performed poorly — Wilt was Ash guest at [Caesars Palace] almost every open weekend when the Lakers were at home or Phoenix.”

Resnick died in 1989, at the age of 72, from heart failure in a Las Vegas hospital after a long bout with cancer, according to an obituary by The Associated Press. “His forte was bringing gamblers to Las Vegas casinos for high-stakes gambling, and he organized the first junkets that later became a fixture of the casinos,” the obituary stated.

In 1974, Resnick was convicted of income tax evasion while working for Caesars Palace, as the government alleged he skimmed more than $300,000 from Caesars and failed to pay taxes on it. The conviction was later overturned, the obituary stated.

Magids died in 2007.

Liston fought at times after that, and at one point in 1968 mounted a comeback with seven straight wins, all by knockouts. But he was knocked out by Leotis Martin in the ninth round in December 1969. Liston’s last fight was a 10-round beating he delivered to Chuck Wepner in June 1970.

Liston was found dead by his wife in their Las Vegas home on Jan. 5, 1971. Police determined he died from a heroin overdose, but the cause of death remains controversial. Liston’s friends maintained it was a homicide covered up by police.

Ironically, the whispers of a Clay-Liston fix have long ruminated in the sports world, but they focused on the rematch 15 months later in Lewiston, Maine. That was the fight in which Liston went down halfway through the first round from an Ali punch that sportswriter Jimmy Cannon said “couldn’t have crushed a grape.” It’s been called the “phantom punch,” and whether it actually knocked out Liston has been dissected and debated for decades.

Questions about the rematch, though, have never seemed to diminish Ali’s legacy because, after all, he “shocked the world” by beating Liston in the first fight.

The fighters were controversial figures — Liston the frightening ex-con with mob ties, and Ali, still using the name Cassius Clay, the Olympic gold medal winner who reportedly joined the Black Muslims weeks before their first scheduled fight. It wouldn’t be until after the fight that Clay would announce he was a member of the Black Muslims, but those questions were part of the story leading up to the bout.

Clay entered the ring at the Miami Beach Convention Center a 7-1 underdog. Though there was no “phantom punch” in Miami Beach — it was a seven-round fight in which Ali was in trouble early, losing his vision at one point, and then came back to seemingly batter Liston — there has been speculation about the outcome.

Liston said he quit because of a shoulder injury. He said he hurt his shoulder in the first round. The Miami Beach Boxing Commission doctor reportedly diagnosed a torn tendon in Liston’s left shoulder. Florida State Attorney Richard Gerstein conducted a post-fight investigation, which concluded that Liston went into the fight with a bad shoulder. He determined there was no evidence that the fight was not “completely regular,” according to The Palm Beach Post.

David Remnick, who penned “King of the World — Muhammad Ali and the Rise of an American Hero,” wrote that he spoke years after the fight with one of Liston’s corner men, who told him Liston could have continued:

“[The shoulder] was all BS. We had a return bout clause with Clay, but if you say your guy just quit, who is gonna get a return bout? We cooked up that shoulder thing on the spot.”

Miami Beach Boxing Commission Chairman Morris Klein said commissioners were satisfied that there was “no wrongdoing” and allowed Liston to collect his $370,000 purse. A U.S. Senate subcommittee conducted hearings three months later but found no evidence of a fixed fight.

After the second fight against Liston, Ali went on to dominate the heavyweight division from 1965 to 1967, with wins over former heavyweight champion Floyd Patterson, who had lost the title to Liston, George Chuvalo, Henry Cooper, Brian London, Karl Mildenberger, Cleveland Williams, Ernie Terrell and Zora Folley.

After his refusal to be drafted into the Army at the height of the Vietnam War, Ali was stripped of his heavyweight title. His boxing license was suspended, and he was exiled from the sport for three years after his conviction for draft evasion.

Ali returned to the ring in 1970, stopping Jerry Quarry in three rounds. He would go on to fight three legendary bouts against Frazier, losing the first one — the “Fight of the Century” — on March 8, 1971, and winning the next two, including the epic “Thrilla in Manila” in October 1975. He won the heavyweight title in another moment that shocked the world, stopping the seemingly unbeatable Foreman in eight rounds in the “Rumble in the Jungle” in October 1974.

He would continue fighting until retiring after winning a rematch against Leon Spinks in September 1978. He tried a comeback in 1980 but retired after losing to heavyweight champion Larry Holmes and losing a forgettable fight against Trevor Berbick.

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The head of the Fritz Pollard Alliance, which monitors diversity in the NFL, expects the league to institute a rule where players would be penalized 15 yards for using the N-word on the field.

John Wooten, the head of the Fritz Pollard Alliance, anticipates that the NFL's competition committee will enact the rule at the owners' meeting next month.

"We did talk about it, I'm sure that you saw near the end of the year that Fritz Pollard (Alliance) came out very strong with the message that the league needs to do something about the language on the field," said Ravens general manager Ozzie Newsome, who is on the league's competition committee. "So we did discuss over the last three days."

Newsome also said the committee talked about other slurs coming under any possible new rule, including homophobic slurs.

Wooten, who previously has urged all players to stop using the N-word, thinks the NFL will rule an automatic 15-yard penalty for first-time offenders and an ejection for second infractions.

"I will be totally shocked if the competition committee does not uphold us on what we're trying to do," Wooten said, according to CBSSports.com. "We want this word to be policed from the parking lot to the equipment room to the locker room.

"Secretaries, PR people, whoever, we want it eliminated completely and want it policed everywhere."

Wooten thinks the competition committee will officially agree to the rule next month before presenting it to the owners.

"I think they're going to do what needs to be done here," he said. "There is too much disrespect in the game."

The competition committee meets for several days in Naples, Fla., next week, where they will decide what will be presented to owners at league meetings in March.

"We will now go down to Naples starting next Friday and spend more time talking about it,'' Newsome said. "We had some officials in our meeting that actually out there on the field and hear the language. We'll be able to put all that together and if there's a need to we will present something to our owners in Orlando.

"With any rule that we put into play we have to look at it from A to Z and find out any unintended consequences as much as the consequences. So, as it was stated in our meeting, there are mics everywhere, so if something has been said it's probably going to be captured somewhere. So there will be an opportunity to get it verified if we have to."

Information from The Associated Press contributed to this report.