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Champagne, flowers, dogfood fill Stanley Cup
Reuters/Toronto Though it is the National Hockey League’s (NHL) ultimate prize, the Stanley Cup has been left at the bottom of a swimming pool, used as a flower pot and a popcorn bucket and carried into a Finnish sauna.

July 10th, 2010 in the parking lot after the Club Flow, it was so much fun just like all the other dallas clubs. def check out spot!

Solo drivers may be able to buy way onto Dallas HOV lanes
With money tight, Dallas Area Rapid Transit executives want to convert area carpool lanes to paid toll lanes, and with board approval the agency could be operating the first so-called managed lanes in North Texas by 2012.

I’m 21, and my friends ex-husband is threatening to kill me (he’s 45). I testified against him in court, because I witnessed him physically abusing my friend on several occasions. Lately he has been way more obssesed with me, and has been threatening my life. I made a report today after he ran into me at a local pool and said he would kill me if I didn’t leave. All they did was tell him to leave, and told me to call the city attorney monday morning. Two other times after that, he told my friend and her parents that If he finds me alone he will kill me. I reported that too, but they told me the same thing. I’m seriously scared, he said he’s having me followed. Police told me not to go anywhere alone, especially at night, which is hard because I go to night school. I don’t know what I can do to protect myself. I’m terrified of him. Any suggestions or ideas? HELP!
Fyi…I live in dallas county texas

It’s a jail in Dallas Texas off the Highway.

DPD Kicks Off Sexual Assault Awareness Campaign
In the midst of a 25 percent spike in reported sexual assaults since last year, the Dallas Police Department will begin its Sexual Assault Awareness Campaign Wednesday at noon in the Flag Room at Dallas City Hall.

Ok, first I want to say this is a long story so I appreciate you taking the time to read it.
I’m a 17 year old girl and about a month ago I met a 25 year old at work. I sack groceries and I just happened to carry his beer out for him. We really hit it off in the parking lot, and talked for about half an hour. I didn’t care that I was supposed to be working, we were slow anyways. We had SO much in common and he added me on facebook, so we could continue our conversation later. Anyways, after I was through talking to him I just had a really good feeling.
The next day I had a facebook message from him, asking if I wanted to meet up sometime and talk. Of course I did because he was very cute, smart, liberal, and a musician. But I was wary about it because I didn’t really know why he took an interest in me, besides having so much in common. I told him that I would like to get together and talk, but that I was without a car at the moment. So he immediately responded saying that he could pick me up.
So that sunday (fathers day = [ ) he picked me up and we went to this really cool restraunt in Dallas. He was so fun and outgoing. He told me he was an atheist and I told him I was unsure of my faith, so he wanted me to watch this movie called Jesus Camp with him. We went back to his apartment (which, looking back on it now was a very DUMB thing to do) and he made me a drink. The drink had some alcohol in it, but I only had one, and I didn’t even finish all of it. Within minutes he told me he wanted to show me something in his room. I followed him in there, and was already kind of dizzy. He playfully pushed me onto his bed and we started to make out. I think you can guess what happened next. I don’t remember everything that happened, but I remember enough of it. It was very, very painful because I was a virgin. I just wanted it to be over with, but it was like I was paralyzed or something and I never told him to stop. It was hurting me really bad so I tried to push on his stomach and I remember him sort of pinning my hands down. It was hard to move and when it was over I felt really dirty and in pain. I tried to stand up but I was so dizzy and couldn’t walk in a straight line.
After he dropped me off that night I just went home and layed in bed. I was so shocked and confused…it’s still hard to believe. But I feel like I made some bad choices by going back with him, and me being so naive thinking we would just watch a movie.
I was sore and bleeding the next day, and bruises were staring to form on my wrist from where he was holding my arms down. It’s been a little over a month and I’m still not sure what to think. I wish I could just get over it but I think about it every single day. I haven’t told anyone about it because I feel like a dirty little..whatever. I don’t want my life to revolve around it anymore. I just can’t stop thinking about it.
Will someone please tell me if it was rape. I don’t think I was really forced and I don’t think he meant to hurt me. I’m just so confused and I feel like I’m going crazy because I have these random crying moments when something remind me of it.
I love life and I don’t want to be unable to enjoy it because of this. How can I get over it?
Can someone please tell me that not all guys are bad..
Thanks for reading this, I know it was long.

im turning 15 anything in dallas or around? i want something where i can at least invite 5 friends

Texas star Brown a late bloomer
Ladarius Brown didn’t play sports as a freshman at Waxahachie High School. A year later, he was a three-sport athlete who was on the field just about every snap for the football team. Brown can’t really explain the sudden transformation. He says he just wanted to play football again for the first time since his peewee days, then decided to join the basketball and track teams when those…

Keep in mind this was written back in 2007 before Kobe led the Lakers to back to back to back Finals appearances and Back to back Championships. Also before he won 3 MVPs (1 reg, 2 finals).

So do you agree or disagree?

http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=hill/070326

Kobe Bryant is better than Michael Jordan.

Not more successful.

Hasn’t had a bigger economic impact.

Hasn’t won more MVPs.

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Kobe Bryant did something Michael Jordan never
did — score 50-plus in four consecutive games.
Hasn’t won more titles.

But he’s a better player.

Kobe can do everything Michael did, and even a few things Michael couldn’t do.

Kobe is just as good a defender. His killer instinct is just as pronounced. He can shoot, finish and explode. And just like Jordan, the more he’s pissed off, the more unstoppable he is.

At the very least, Kobe’s scoring spree over the last week should put to rest any lingering doubts that he’s the best player in the NBA. Yes, better than Steve Nash, who is the best point guard, but not the lethal force that Kobe is. Yes, better than Dwyane Wade, who is certainly closer to the Kobe-Jordan level than LeBron James, but D-Wade’s game is not as polished as Kobe’s.

Kobe’s streak of four straight 50-points-plus games is something none of those players can do, and it’s something that hasn’t been done since Wilt Chamberlain, who had an NBA-record seven straight 50-point games. Truthfully, Kobe should have tacked another 50 on Golden State on Sunday night.

Of course, the idea that Kobe is better than Jordan — or even the best player in this league — is as repugnant to some folks as a rectal exam. Even though Kobe has proven himself under pressure countless times, he gets the A-Rod treatment.

Kobe can’t please anyone. And it doesn’t help that most people suffer from revisionist history when it comes to Jordan, forgetting that he was just as poor a teammate and a ball hog and that he ran off coach Doug Collins like Kobe ran off Phil Jackson the first time.

In fact, you could argue that Jordan was even worse. Far as we know, Kobe hasn’t jacked up any of his teammates the way Jordan punched out Steve Kerr and Will Perdue at practice.

Kobe will never be forgiven for Shaq’s departure, but you’re delusional if you think Jordan wouldn’t have had any ego issues playing alongside a player with Shaq’s star power.

The best-player argument shouldn’t be determined by personal dislike. But if you want to take it there, fine. Jordan was hardly the ideal husband, but only the tabloids were brave enough to venture into his personal life. And what about those gambling issues? If Jordan’s life had been covered like Kobe’s, we would have an entirely different opinion of His Airness.

Besides a different level of media scrutiny, there was definitely a difference in the level of competition during Jordan’s heyday compared to now.

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We ask you to step back and take an objective look. Isn’t Kobe the best player in the NBA?
Yesterday’s NBA player certainly was more fundamentally sound, but there’s no question that today’s player is bigger, stronger and faster. When Jordan played, he was a singular force that could not be equaled. Jordan was guarded by the likes of John Starks and Joe Dumars, who were fine players but weren’t nearly as skilled or physically imposing as LeBron, D-Wade, Tracy McGrady or even Vince Carter.

The NBA is tougher now.

Kobe, like Michael, is surrounded with mediocre to below-average talent, and Phoenix, Dallas and San Antonio are all better than the Utah, Portland and the Charles Barkley-led Phoenix team that Michael met in the NBA Finals.

Hakeem Olajuwon, David Robinson and Patrick Ewing will be among the best centers ever, but none of them affected the league the way Shaq and Tim Duncan have. There are two two-time MVPs in Kobe’s own conference (Duncan, Nash), which is a problem Jordan never faced during his championship runs. Seven-footers weren’t launching 3s back then. Magic Johnson and the Lakers were on a downward spiral, and the Pistons were on their last legs. It was Michael and everyone else. That’s not the case for Kobe.

The shame of it is that Kobe might finish his career without a MVP, even though his ability can be compared only to that of Jordan and Wilt Chamberlain. All this time we’ve been looking for a player who is better than Jordan, but most of us can’t get beyond whether we like or dislike Kobe as a person to recognize his contributions to the game.

Ultimately the MVP award will go to either Nash or Dirk Nowitzki, who are deserving this season, but neither are as good as Kobe. Dallas and Phoenix are strong enough to make the playoffs without their stars. The Lakers, however, are a lottery team without Kobe.