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<mask>. (born June 22, 1987) is an American professional basketball player for the Philadelphia 76ers of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played college basketball for the University of North Carolina (UNC), where he played in more games (145) and had more wins (123) than any Tar Heel before him. <mask> is also the only player in the history of the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) with at least 1,000 points, 500 rebounds, 250 assists, 150 three-pointers, 150 blocks and 150 steals. He won an NCAA championship his senior year and was subsequently drafted by the Cleveland Cavaliers with the 46th overall pick in the 2009 NBA draft. During the 2013 NBA Finals, <mask> set an NBA record for most three-point field goals made in a Finals series (23). He then won an NBA championship with the San Antonio Spurs the following season, and became just the third player from UNC to win an NCAA championship and an NBA championship, the two others being James Worthy and Michael Jordan. In 2019, he won a second NBA championship in his only season with the Toronto Raptors.He won a third championship in 2020 with the Los Angeles Lakers. Known for his perimeter defense and three-point shooting, <mask> has been a key contributor on both ends on the floor throughout his NBA career, having been selected to his first NBA All-Defensive Second Team in the 2016–17 season. High school career
As a high school freshman, <mask> attended North Babylon High School in North Babylon, New York on Long Island and in addition to basketball, he played quarterback on the football team. From his sophomore onwards, <mask> attended St. Mary's High School, a private school, in Manhasset, New York. He averaged 20 points, 10 rebounds, 4 assists and 4 blocks as a senior. Considered a four-star recruit by Rivals.com, <mask> was listed as the No. 8 shooting guard and the No.31 player in the nation in 2005. College career
<mask> came off the bench as the sixth man during his freshman year at UNC. He averaged 5.2 points and 2.8 rebounds in his sophomore season. After his second year at North Carolina, <mask> considered transferring, but would ultimately finish his college career there. <mask> improved his scoring average in each of the next two seasons. <mask>'s junior year, he averaged 11.5 points, 4.9 rebounds, 2.0 assists, 1.9 turnovers, 1.2 steals, 1.2 blocks in 22.3 minutes per game. He also improved his true shooting percentage (TS%) significantly, increasing his field goal percentage to 46.9% and his free throw percentage to 87.3%.He shot 37.3% from the three-point line. Approaching his senior season, he declared himself eligible for the 2008 NBA Draft, but did not sign with an agent so that he had the option to return to school, which he decided to do on June 16. He went on to average 13.1 points, 4.7 rebounds, 2.7 assists, 1.7 turnovers, 1.8 steals and 1.3 blocks in 27.4 minutes per game. He again improved his shooting percentages, averaging 47.1% and 41.8% from the field and three-point line respectively. In his senior year, <mask> was selected to be a member of the ACC's All-Defensive Team. He was also named as a team captain along with Bobby Frasor and Tyler Hansbrough. Achievements at UNC

Part of the 2009 national championship team's starting five.<mask> logged a solid overall Final Four performance with 18 total points including six made three-pointers, six rebounds, five assists, three blocks, and one steal. Professional career

Cleveland Cavaliers (2009–2010)

The Cleveland Cavaliers selected <mask> as the 46th overall pick of the 2009 NBA draft. After he played in 20 games in his rookie year with the Cavaliers, the team waived <mask> at the beginning of the next season. San Antonio Spurs (2010)
<mask> was subsequently picked up by the San Antonio Spurs on November 17, 2010. The Spurs waived him six days later after he appeared in two games. Reno Bighorns (2011)
In January 2011, <mask> was acquired by the Reno Bighorns of the NBA D-League. He averaged 20 points, a team high, and 7.5 rebounds in 16 games with the Bighorns.Return to San Antonio (2011)
The Spurs signed <mask> again in March 2011, assigned him to the Austin Toros of the NBA Development League on April 2, and then recalled him on April 3. Olimpija (2011)
In August 2011, <mask> signed a one-year contract with KK Union Olimpija, which included an NBA-out clause option when the 2011 NBA lockout ended. Third stint with Spurs (2011–2018)

2011–13: Playoff upsets
<mask> returned to the Spurs after the lockout ended. <mask> had a breakout season, as he started 38 of his 66 games played, averaging 9.1 ppg. <mask> eventually became the starting shooting guard for the Spurs when Manu Ginóbili returned to being the sixth man in the rotation. <mask> finished ninth in the league in voting for the NBA Most Improved Player Award. On July 11, 2012, <mask> re-signed with the Spurs for $12 million over three years.In his first game of the season, he scored 9 points and added 2 blocks in San Antonio's win over New Orleans. On November 1, 2012, he scored 13 points in a win over the Thunder. Then on November 3, <mask> scored 21 points to help the Spurs beat the Utah Jazz in a 110–100 win. On November 13, 2012, he hit a game-winner against the Los Angeles Lakers, finishing the game with 11 points. On February 6, 2013, <mask> recorded career-highs of 28 points and 8 three-pointers made in a win over the Minnesota Timberwolves. He was one three-pointer shy of Chuck Person's record for most three-pointers made in a single game as a Spur. In Game 2 of the 2013 NBA Finals, <mask> was perfect from the field, including 5–5 from the three-point line.However, the Spurs lost in a blowout to the Miami Heat, 103–84. In Game 3 of the NBA Finals, <mask> hit 7–9 from three-point range, including the one to set a Finals record for most three-pointers in a game by a team. He notched 27 total points in the Spurs' blowout 113–77 victory as the team took a 2–1 series lead in the process. On June 16 in Game 5, <mask> made six three-pointers for a total of 25 in the series to that point, breaking the record for an NBA Finals series previously held by Ray Allen, who made 22 in six games with the Boston Celtics in 2008. By the end of the series, <mask> had made 27 three-pointers, but the Spurs lost the series in seven games. The record was later broken by Stephen Curry in 2016. 2013–18: First championship and final years with Spurs
On April 11, 2014, <mask> scored a career-high 33 points in a 112–104 win over the Phoenix Suns.On June 15, 2014, <mask> won his first NBA championship after the Spurs defeated the Miami Heat 4 games to 1 in the 2014 NBA Finals. In doing so, <mask> joined Michael Jordan and James Worthy as the third Tar Heel to win both the NCAA and NBA championship. On December 19, 2014, <mask> scored a season-high 27 points in the 119-129 triple overtime loss to the Portland Trail Blazers. On April 12, 2015, <mask> recorded 3 three-pointers against the Phoenix Suns to set a franchise record for the most three-pointers in a season at 191. On July 14, 2015, <mask> re-signed with the Spurs to a reported four-year, $45 million contract. On January 6, 2016, <mask> hit two three-pointers against the Utah Jazz, giving him 662 with San Antonio to surpass Bruce Bowen (661) for second in franchise history. On November 9, 2016, <mask> made his season debut for San Antonio, scoring eight points against the Houston Rockets in his return from a strained left quadriceps.At the season's end, he was named to the NBA All-Defensive Second Team. On December 28, 2017, against the New York Knicks, <mask> became the 127th player in league history to reach 900 career 3-pointers. Toronto Raptors (2018–2019)
On July 18, 2018, <mask> and teammate Kawhi Leonard were traded to the Toronto Raptors in exchange for DeMar DeRozan, Jakob Pöltl and a protected 2019 first round draft pick. On November 10, 2018, in a 128–112 win over the New York Knicks, <mask> reached 1,000 3-pointers for his career. On December 14, he had 19 points and 11 rebounds while matching his season high with five 3-pointers in a 128–122 loss to the Portland Trail Blazers. On January 19, he had a season-high 24 points and set a franchise record for 3-pointers in a quarter with seven in the third, as the Raptors beat the Memphis Grizzlies 119–90. With 21 points in the third, he fell one shy of Kyle Lowry's franchise record for a quarter.<mask> also matched a career high with eight 3s for the game. On April 1, he scored a season-high 29 points in a 121–109 win over the Orlando Magic. As a reference to his proficiency as a three-point shooting specialist, in his pre-game starting lineup introduction throughout the season, he was introduced as "The money man from three-point land, <mask> 'Money, Money' <mask>" with <mask> doing the Johnny Manziel celebration. <mask> helped the Raptors reach the 2019 NBA Finals, where they defeated the Golden State Warriors in six games, with <mask> earning his second NBA championship. Los Angeles Lakers (2019–2020)
The Lakers signed <mask> to a two-year $30 million contract on July 6, 2019. He debuted for the Lakers on October 22, 2019, where he led the team with 28 points in 32 minutes on 10-of-14 field goal makes and 7-of-9 three-point makes in a 112–102 loss to the Los Angeles Clippers. His 28 points are the most points in a debut in franchise history, breaking Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's record of 27 points.<mask> watched the Lakers finish the season with the top seed in the Western Conference in a shortened season due to the COVID-19 pandemic that suspended the season for four months. The Lakers defeated the Portland Trail Blazers, Houston Rockets, and Denver Nuggets, each in five games, to reach the 2020 NBA Finals, where they defeated the Miami Heat 4–2 to win the 2020 NBA championship. <mask> and teammate LeBron James became the third and fourth players in league history to win three championships with three different teams, joining John Salley and Robert Horry. Philadelphia 76ers (2020–present)
On November 18, 2020, <mask>, along with the draft rights to Jaden McDaniels, was traded to the Oklahoma City Thunder in exchange for Dennis Schröder. On December 8, <mask>, Terrance Ferguson and Vincent Poirier were traded to the Philadelphia 76ers for Al Horford, the draft rights of Théo Maledon and Vasilije Micić, and a 2025 first-round pick. After the 2020–21 season, he re-signed with the team on a two-year $20 million contract. His younger brother, Devonte <mask>, played for Indiana University.His second cousins are professional players <mask> and Garlon <mask>. A first cousin, <mask>, played for Texas A&M University. A third cousin, <mask>, played for the University of Detroit Mercy and then in the NBA. In 2020, <mask> got engaged to his longtime girlfriend, Blair Bashen. In 2021, the two were married. Podcast
In 2018, <mask> and longtime friend and sports broadcaster Harrison Sanford launched a podcast entitled "Inside the Green Room". While they intended to start with a soft launch in the summer of 2018, <mask> was traded to the Toronto Raptors just prior to recording what was to be the pilot episode, so they decided to do a full launch with the first episode.The podcast gained sponsorship from Yahoo Sports Canada. Episodes have featured players and coaches from the Toronto Raptors, as well as players from other teams and other sports journalists. <mask> has expressed an interest in moving into sports broadcasting after his playing career is over. See also

 List of National Basketball Association career 3-point scoring leaders
 List of National Basketball Association career playoff 3-point scoring leaders

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title: W. Kerr Scott

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<mask> (April 17, 1896April 16, 1958) was an American Democratic Party politician from North Carolina. He was the 62nd Governor of North Carolina from 1949 until 1953 and a United States Senator from 1954 until 1958. A native of Alamance County, North Carolina, and a farmer by training, <mask> was a lifelong advocate for agricultural issues and became known in his home state as "the Squire of Haw River." He was elected as the state's Commissioner of Agriculture, but resigned that post to run for governor in 1948. His followers, popularly known as "Branchhead Boys," fervently supported <mask> in all his campaigns and remained a force in North Carolina politics for more than a decade following his death. Early life
<mask> was born in 1896, the son of Robert W<mask> and <mask>. He graduated from Hawkins High School in 1913 and subsequently enrolled in the North Carolina College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts, graduating in 1917 with a Bachelor of Science in agriculture.He performed well as a student there, while also running track and volunteering for the Young Men's Christian Association. After graduating he held briefly worked as an emergency food production agent for the United States Department of Agriculture. After the United States entered World War I, he enlisted as a private in the United States Army. For four months he trained with field artillery at Camp Taylor in Kentucky. Shortly before he was due to enroll in officer training school, the war ended and he was discharged from service. <mask> was the only child in his family who had political ambitions. His father advised him that he should acquire land and develop his agricultural enterprise to ensure that when he sought public office he could campaign without fear of losing his job due to political reprisal.Thus, after he was discharged from the army he borrowed $4,000 from his father and bought 224 acres of land. He cleared it and raised sheep and cattle. Career

As governor, <mask> created the "Go Forward" program with approval from the state legislature in 1949. He also signed a $200 million rural road building program, leading to nearly 15,000 additional miles of paved road in the state. Immediately following his term as governor, he represented North Carolina in the United States Senate from 1954 and 1958. His son, <mask> served as governor from 1969 to 1973, and his granddaughter, <mask> Phipps served as North Carolina Commissioner of Agriculture from 2001 to 2003. Relative to other Southern Democrats, <mask> was a moderate regarding racial issues during his time as governor.While he supported segregation, he appointed the first black member of the North Carolina Board of Education, Dr. Harold Trigg, and nominated University of North Carolina President Frank Porter Graham to fill a vacant United States Senate seat in 1949. Graham was regarded as one of the most racially and generally progressive figures in the South, and became victimized by pernicious attacks concerning his views on race relations when he campaigned the following year to maintain his senate seat. In an effort to defend Graham, <mask> lent the full weight of his political organization to him and assiduously campaigned across North Carolina. Despite intervention from <mask>, President Harry Truman, U.S. House Speaker Sam Rayburn, and others, Graham was defeated by conservative lawyer <mask> for the Democratic Party's nomination. The tenor of <mask>'s campaign was considered so offensive that <mask>'s wife, First Lady <mask>, refused to shake the senator-elect's hand at an Executive Mansion reception. Years later, when <mask> elected to run for the same U.S. Senate seat which had been contested by Graham, he was queried by a local reporter about how his campaign would respond to the race-baiting strategies that are imputed with the loss of his appointee. To this, he is said to have grinned and replied, "I'll handle it, son.I'm not as good a Christian as Frank Porter Graham." <mask> attained the Senate seat by approximately 8,000 votes and served until he died of a heart attack in 1958. He was sworn in on November 29, 1954, instead of the following January, as he was filling a vacant seat. In December he voted to censure Senator Joseph McCarthy. As senator, <mask> moved away from his previously moderate views on race. He was a signatory of the Southern Manifesto, objecting to the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Brown v. Board of Education that state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students are unconstitutional. Reacting directly to the Brown ruling, <mask> expressed his wish that the Supreme Court "would reaffirm its own historic decisions approving equal, but separate, school facilities."He added, "I have always...been opposed to Negro and white children going to school together." <mask> also opposed the Civil Rights Act of 1957 and President Eisenhower's decision to send troops to escort black students to Little Rock Central High School. <mask> died in Burlington, North Carolina on April 16, 1958, and is buried in Hawfields Presbyterian Church Cemetery in Mebane, North Carolina. His son, <mask>, was also elected governor in the 1960s. The W. <mask> Dam and Reservoir in Wilkes County, North Carolina are named in honor of the governor. While Senator, he greatly assisted in obtaining approval for construction of the dam and reservoir. In addition, a residence hall is named in his memory on the campus of East Carolina University and a technology building on the campus of Appalachian State University is named for him.His home and farm, the <mask> Farm, was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1987. See also

 List of United States Congress members who died in office (1950–99)

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 Pleasants, Julian M. The Political Career of W. <mask>: The Squire From Haw River (University Press of Kentucky; 2014) 406 pages

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title: Vladimir Petković

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<mask> (; born 15 August 1963) is a Bosnian-Swiss professional football manager and former player who was most recently the head coach of French side Bordeaux, having previously managed the Switzerland national team, a string of Swiss clubs as well as Italian side Lazio. <mask> is from Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. Apart from his Bosnian one, he also holds Swiss and Croatian passports. Early life
<mask> was born in Sarajevo, SFR Yugoslavia, modern-day Bosnia and Herzegovina, in 1963 to a Bosnian Croat family. He is a naturalized Swiss and holds Bosnian, Swiss and Croatian passports. His parents worked in education and due to the family's frequent moving, <mask> changed schools several times. They first lived in Vrelo Bosne and then when he was five years old, in Hadžići near Sarajevo.Playing career
A midfielder with good technique, <mask> started playing football in Ilidža as an eleven-year-old before joining the youth sector of his hometown side FK Sarajevo as a fifteen-year-old. He remained at FK Sarajevo and began his professional career there in the early 1980s. <mask> made only a handful of appearances in a strong Sarajevo side led on the pitch by Bosnian Safet Sušić. <mask> was a part of the Sarajevo side that won the 1984–85 Yugoslav First League, but made only two league appearances for them. His time at Sarajevo was interrupted by two brief stints elsewhere: first, a successful time with Rudar Prijedor where <mask> showed good scoring ability; and then a less successful season in the Yugoslav Second League with a poor NK Koper side which was relegated after finishing last. <mask> emigrated from Yugoslavia in 1987, leaving FK Sarajevo and moving permanently to Switzerland, where he joined second division club Chur 97. After a season with Chur, <mask> moved to the Swiss top division, joining a strong Sion side.Sion achieved a third-place finish in the Nationalliga but <mask> left the club at the end of the season after only making six league appearances. After leaving Sion, <mask> moved back into the lower tiers, first joining Martigny-Sports before returning to his first Swiss club, Chur 97. <mask> enjoyed a career as a regular goalscoring midfielder in the Swiss second division, which included two more stints at Bellinzona and Lugano. <mask> completed his playing career as a player-manager with Bellinzona and Malcantone Agno, the latter having later merged with financially stricken Lugano. Managerial career
After his retirement from playing, <mask> became a coach and his first job was player-manager at Bellinzona in 1997. In 2004, he took over the reins at Lugano before returning to Bellinzona for the fourth time in his career, where he led the club to the 2008 Swiss Cup final, only to lose out to Basel, and promotion to the Swiss Super League. At the beginning of the 2008–09 season, he was appointed as manager of Young Boys.After taking charge at the club, <mask> installed a 3–4–3 formation and took the Bern side to a second-placed league finish. After two more seasons with Young Boys, he was sacked after a 1–1 draw against Luzern on 7 May 2011. The club finished in third place in the league behind their rivals Zürich and Basel. In 2011, he became the new manager of Turkish side Samsunspor. He resigned from that position in January 2012 with the club in the relegation zone. On 15 May 2012, he was named the new temporary manager of Sion until the end of the 2011–12 season. On 2 June 2012, <mask> became the new manager of Italian side Lazio in Serie A.With the club, he won the Coppa Italia in 2013, thanks to a goal from Senad Lulić. On 23 December 2013, it was announced that <mask> was to succeed Ottmar Hitzfeld as the manager of the Switzerland national team after the 2014 FIFA World Cup. As a result, Claudio Lotito fired <mask> claiming a breach of the contract due to not having been duly informed by <mask> about the latter's ongoing negotiations with the Swiss Football Association. <mask> was sacked as Lazio manager on 4 January 2014 and was replaced by Edy Reja. The legal dispute concerning the contract termination between Lazio and <mask> is still ongoing. Since his appointment to the national team spot in July 2014, <mask> has guided the Swiss to the Round of 16 stages of both the UEFA Euro 2016 and the 2018 FIFA World Cup, along with the quarter-finals of UEFA Euro 2020. They also reached the 2019 UEFA Nations League Finals.At the UEFA Euro 2020, he led Switzerland to defeat world champions France 5–4 on penalties in the Round of 16, after a 3–3 draw, to qualify to the quarter-finals of the European Championship for the first time in their history. In late July 2021, <mask> became the manager of French club Bordeaux. Charitable work
While living in Switzerland, <mask> worked for Caritas Ticino, a Catholic relief development and social service organisation, for five years. Managerial statistics

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title: Andrew Neil

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<mask>  (born 21 May 1949) is a Scottish journalist and broadcaster who is chairman of The Spectator. He was editor of The Sunday Times from 1983 to 1994. He formerly presented BBC political programmes and was chairman of GB News. Born in Paisley, Renfrewshire, <mask> attended Paisley Grammar School, before studying at the University of Glasgow. He entered journalism in 1973 as a correspondent for The Economist. <mask> was appointed editor of The Sunday Times by Rupert Murdoch in 1983, and held this position until 1994. After this, he became a contributor to the Daily Mail.He was formerly chief executive and editor-in-chief of Press Holdings Media Group. In 1988, he became founding chairman of Sky TV, also part of Murdoch's News Corporation. He worked for the BBC for 25 years until 2020, fronting various programmes, including Sunday Politics and This Week on BBC One and Daily Politics, Politics Live and The <mask> Show on BBC Two. Since 2008 he has been chairman of Press Holdings, whose titles include The Spectator, and ITP Media Group. Following his departure from the BBC, he became founding chairman of GB News and a presenter on the channel, but resigned in September 2021. Early life
<mask> was born on 21 May 1949 in Paisley, Renfrewshire, to Mary and <mask>. His mother worked in cotton mills during the second world war and his father ran the war-time Cairo fire brigade, worked as an electrician and was a major in the Territorial Army in Renfrewshire.He grew up in the Glenburn area and attended the local Lancraigs Primary School. At 11, <mask> passed the qualifying examination and obtained entrance to the selective Paisley Grammar School. After school, <mask> attended the University of Glasgow, where he edited the student newspaper, the Glasgow University Guardian, and dabbled in student television. He was a member of the Dialectic Society and the Conservative Club, and participated in Glasgow University Union inter-varsity debates. In 1971, he was chairman of the Federation of Conservative Students. He graduated in 1971, with an MA with honours in political economy and political science. He had been tutored by Vince Cable and had a focus on American history.Press career
After his graduation, <mask> briefly worked as a sports correspondent for a local newspaper, the Paisley Daily Express, before working for the Conservative Party. In 1973, he joined The Economist as a correspondent and was later promoted as editor of the publication's section on Britain. The Sunday Times
<mask> was editor of The Sunday Times from 1983 to 1994. His hiring was controversial: it was argued he was appointed by Rupert Murdoch over more experienced colleagues, such as Hugo Young and Brian MacArthur. <mask> told Murdoch before he was appointed editor that The Sunday Times was intellectually stuck in a 1960s time warp and that it needed to "shake off its collectivist mind-set to become the champion of a market-led revolution that would shake the British Establishment to its bones and transform the economy and society". <mask> later claimed that although he shared some of Murdoch's right-wing views, "on many matters Rupert was well to the right of me politically. He was a monetarist.I was not. Nor did I share his conservative social outlook". In his first editorial, on 9 October 1983, <mask> advised Margaret Thatcher's government to "move to the right on industrial policy (trust-bust, deregulate, privatise wherever it produces more competition and efficiency) and centre-left in economic strategy (a few billion extra in capital spending would have little impact on interest rates or inflation but could give a lift to a shaky economic recovery)". The Sunday Times strongly supported the stationing of American cruise missiles in bases in Britain after the Soviet Union installed SS-20s in Eastern Europe, and it criticised the resurgent Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament. <mask> also wrote editorials supporting the United States invasion of Grenada because it would restore democracy there, despite opposition from Hugo Young. <mask> replied to Young that he wanted the editorial stance of The Sunday Times to be "neo-Keynesian in economic policy, radical right in industrial policy, liberal on social matters and European and Atlanticist on foreign policy". In <mask>'s first year as the paper's editor, The Sunday Times had revealed the date of the deployment of cruise missiles, exposed how Mark Thatcher had channelled the gains from his consultancy business into a bank account and reported on Robert Mugabe's atrocities in Matabeleland.<mask> also printed extracts from Germaine Greer's Sex and Destiny and from Francis Pym's anti-Thatcher autobiography, as well as a study of the "Patels of Britain", a celebration of the success of Britain's Asian community. <mask> regards the newspaper's revelation of details of Israel's nuclear weapons programme in 1986, by using photographs and testimony from former Israeli nuclear technician Mordechai Vanunu, as his greatest scoop as an editor. During his editorship, the newspaper lost a libel case over claims that it had made concerning a witness, Carmen Proetta, who was interviewed after her appearance in the Death on the Rock documentary on the Gibraltar shootings. One of The Sunday Times journalists involved, Rosie Waterhouse, resigned not long afterwards. On 20 July 1986, The Sunday Times printed a front-page article (titled 'Queen dismayed by "uncaring" Thatcher') alleging that the Queen believed that Margaret Thatcher's policies were "uncaring, confrontational and socially divisive". The main source of information was the Queen's press secretary, Michael Shea. When Buckingham Palace issued a statement rebutting the story, <mask> was so angry at what he considered to be the Palace's double-dealing that he refused to print the statement in later editions of The Sunday Times.In 1987, the Labour-controlled Strathclyde Regional Authority wanted to close down <mask>'s old school, Paisley Grammar School. After finding the Secretary of State for Scotland, Malcolm Rifkind, indifferent to the school's future, <mask> contacted Margaret Thatcher's policy adviser, Brian Griffiths, to try and save the school. When Griffiths informed Thatcher of Strathclyde's plan to close it she issued a new regulation that gave the Scottish Secretary the power to save schools where 80 per cent of the parents were opposed to the local authority's closure plan, thereby saving Paisley Grammar. While at The Sunday Times in 1988, <mask> met the former Miss India, Pamella Bordes, in a nightclub, an inappropriate place for someone with <mask>'s job according to Peregrine Worsthorne. The News of the World suggested Bordes was a call girl. Worsthorne argued in an editorial article "Playboys as Editors" in March 1989 for The Sunday Telegraph that <mask> was not fit to edit a serious Sunday newspaper. Worsthorne effectively accused <mask> of knowing that Bordes was a prostitute.He apparently did not know about Bordes, which the Telegraph had accepted by the time the libel case came to High Court of Justice in January 1990, but the paper still defended their coverage as fair comment. <mask> won both the case and £1,000 in damages plus costs. In a July 1988 editorial ("Morals for the majority") <mask> claimed that in Britain there were emerging pockets of social decay and unsocial behaviour: "a social rot...has gone deeper than the industrial decay of the 1960s and 1970s". Having been impressed with Charles Murray's study of the American welfare state, Losing Ground, <mask> invited Murray to Britain in 1989 to study Britain's emerging underclass. The Sunday Times Magazine of 26 November 1989 was largely devoted to Murray's report, which found that the British underclass consisted of people existing on welfare, the black economy and crime, with illegitimacy being the single most reliable predictor. The accompanying editorial said Britain was in the midst of a "social tragedy of Dickensian proportions", with an underclass "characterized by drugs, casual violence, petty crime, illegitimate children, homelessness, work avoidance and contempt for conventional values". Under <mask>'s editorship, The Sunday Times opposed the poll tax.In his memoirs, <mask> claimed that his opposition to the poll tax crystallised when he discovered that his cleaner would be paying more poll tax than himself at a time when his income tax had just been reduced to 40% from 60%. During the 1990 Conservative Party leadership election, The Sunday Times was the only Murdoch-owned newspaper to support Michael Heseltine against Thatcher. <mask> blamed Thatcher for high inflation, "misplaced chauvinism" over Europe, and the poll tax, concluding that she had become an "electoral liability" and must therefore be replaced by Heseltine. In an editorial of January 1988 ("Modernize the monarchy"), <mask> advocated the abolition of both the preference for males in the law of succession and of the exclusion of Catholics from the throne. Subsequent editorials of The Sunday Times called for the Queen to pay income tax and advocated a scaled-down monarchy that would not be class-based but which would be "an institution with close links to all classes. That meant clearing out the old-school courtiers...and creating a court which was far more representative of the multi-racial meritocracy that Britain was becoming". In an editorial of February 1991 <mask> criticised some minor members of the Royal Family for their behaviour while the country was at war in the Gulf.In 1992 <mask> obtained for The Sunday Times the serialisation rights for <mask>'s book Diana: Her True Story, which revealed the breakdown of Princess Diana's marriage as well as her bulimia and her suicide attempts. In 1992 <mask> was criticised by anti-Nazi groups and historians like Hugh Trevor-Roper for employing the Holocaust denier David Irving to translate the diaries of Joseph Goebbels. End of the Murdoch connection
According to <mask>, he was replaced as Sunday Times editor in 1994 because Murdoch had become envious of his celebrity. Many years later, in November 2017, former Conservative cabinet minister Kenneth Clarke said <mask> had been removed because <mask>'s article about corruption in the Malaysian government of Mahathir Mohamad conflicted with Murdoch's desire to acquire a television franchise in the country. The Malaysian prime minister at the time told Clarke on a ministerial visit that he had achieved <mask>'s sacking after a telephone conversation with Murdoch. The conflict between <mask> and Mohamad did become public knowledge at the time. The British minister of state for trade Richard Needham criticised <mask> and the newspaper for potentially putting thousands of jobs at risk.<mask>'s departure from his role as Sunday Times editor was officially reported in 1994 as being merely temporary, as he was to present and edit a current affairs programme for Fox in New York. "During my time, the Sunday Times has been at the centre of every major controversy in Britain", he said at the time. "These are the kind of journalistic values I want to reproduce at Fox". <mask>'s new television programme did not make it to air. A pilot produced in September had a mixed internal response, and Murdoch cancelled the entire project in late October. <mask> did not return to his job as Sunday Times editor. Post-News Corp career
<mask> became a contributor to the Daily Mail.In 1996, he became editor-in-chief of the Barclay brothers' Press Holdings group of newspapers, owner of The Scotsman, Sunday Business (later just The Business) and The European. Press Holdings sold The Scotsman in December 2005, ending <mask>'s relationship with the newspaper. <mask> has not enjoyed great success with the circulations of the newspapers (indeed The European folded shortly after he took over). The Business closed down in February 2008. He exchanged his role as chief executive of Press Holdings for chairman in July 2008. He is chairman of the Press Holdings title The Spectator. Since 2006 <mask> has been chair of the Dubai-based publishing company ITP Media Group.In June 2008, <mask> led a consortium which bought talent agency Peters, Fraser & Dunlop (PFD) from CSS Stellar plc for £4 million, making him chairman of the new company in addition to his other activities. <mask> served as Lord Rector of the University of St Andrews from 1999 to 2002. Broadcasting career
As well as <mask>'s newspaper activities he has maintained a television career. While he worked for The Economist, he provided news reports to American networks. His regular interview series for Channel 4, Is This Your Life? (made by Open Media), was nominated for a BAFTA award for "Best Talk Show". In the course of the series <mask> interviewed a wide variety of personalities, from Albert Reynolds and Morris Cerullo to Jimmy Savile and Max Clifford.He acted as a television newsreader in two films: Dirty Weekend (1993) and Parting Shots (1999), both directed by Michael Winner. Sky

In 1988 he became founding chairman of Sky TV, also part of Murdoch's News Corporation. <mask> was instrumental in the company's launch, overseeing the transformation of a downmarket, single-channel satellite service into a four-channel network in less than a year. <mask> and Murdoch stood side by side at Sky's new headquarters in Isleworth on 5 February 1989 to witness the launch of the service. Sky was not an instant success; the uncertainty caused by the competition provided by British Satellite Broadcasting (BSB) and the initial shortage of satellite dishes were early problems. The failure of BSB in November 1990 led to a merger, but a few programmes acquired by BSB were screened on Sky One and BSB's satellites were sold. The new company was called

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At The Sunday Times, he contributed to BBC, both radio and television. He commented on the various controversies provoked by the paper while he was editor. During the 1990s, <mask> fronted political programmes for the BBC, notably Despatch Box on BBC Two. Following the revamp of the BBC's political programming in early 2003, <mask> presented the live political programmes, This Week on BBC One and Daily Politics on BBC Two.The latter ended in 2018 and was replaced by Politics Live, which <mask> presented until he left the corporation. From 2007 to 2010, he presented the weekly one-on-one political interview programme Straight Talk with <mask> on the BBC News channel. He also presented Sunday Politics on BBC One between 2012 and 2017 and occasionally guest presented Newsnight on BBC Two following host Jeremy Paxman's departure in 2014. <mask> played an important part of the BBC general election night coverage in both 2010 and 2015. <mask> interviewed various celebrities on the River Thames for the 2010 election and political figures in the studio for the 2015 election. He also provided commentary on foreign elections, and with Katty Kay led the BBC's overnight live coverage of the US presidential election in 2016. In the run-up to the 2017 general election he interviewed five of the political party leaders on BBC One in The <mask> Interviews.<mask> earned £200,000 to £249,999 as a BBC presenter in the financial year 2016–17. In May 2019, <mask> interviewed Ben Shapiro, an American conservative commentator, on Politics Live on BBC Two. Shapiro was promoting his new book, The Right Side of History, which discusses Judeo-Christian values and asserts their decline in the United States. Shapiro took offence to the questioning, accused <mask> of having a left-leaning bias, and said <mask> was trying to make a "quick buck... off of the fact that I'm popular and no one has ever heard of you", before Shapiro ended the interview. Shapiro later apologised for the incident. During the 2019 Conservative Party leadership election, <mask> interviewed candidates Jeremy Hunt and Boris Johnson, in The Andrew Neil Interviews. Director of BBC News Fran Unsworth hailed it as "a masterclass of political interviewing".In August 2019, the BBC announced that <mask> would host a prime-time political programme that would run through autumn 2019 on BBC Two, called The <mask> Show. The show included "in-depth analysis and forensic questioning of key political players". It was suspended due to the COVID-19 pandemic in March 2020 and then cancelled as the BBC went through with budget cuts. On 24 September 2019, <mask> presented a live programme on BBC One entitled BBC News Special: Politics in Crisis, addressing the Supreme Court judgement which deemed Boris Johnson's prorogation of parliament unlawful. In the run-up to the 2019 general election, <mask> interviewed all the leaders of the main political parties, excluding Johnson, having delivered a monologue in The Andrew Neil Interviews issuing him a challenge to participate. On 15 July 2020 the BBC announced that <mask> was in talks about an interview show on BBC One. The next month he was discussed in the media as Sir David Clementi's possible successor as chairman of the BBC; he later said he had no interest in the role.The Director-General of the BBC, Tim Davie, on his second day in the role, held talks with <mask> "in an attempt to get him back to the BBC" and it was reported that he was also in discussions with executives from commercial rivals. <mask>'s final appearance for the BBC was when he presented coverage of the 2020 US presidential election, again with Katty Kay. GB News
On 25 September 2020, <mask> announced his exit from the BBC to become chairman of GB News, a news channel launched on 13 June 2021. As well as being chairman, he presented <mask>, a prime time evening programme on the channel. Two weeks after the channel's launch, after having hosted eight episodes of his show, he announced he would be taking a break. He spent months in his hiatus involved in legal disputes with GB News over ending his contract. However, <mask> and the channel publicly maintained that he was taking a holiday, and he was expected to rejoin the channel in early September.As that time approached, multiple news sources reported that his return had been postponed, with some speculating that this postponement might become indefinite. It was further reported that he was "highly unlikely" to return to the channel. On 13 September, <mask> resigned from GB News as chairman and lead presenter and announced he would enter a new role as a guest contributor. Later that month, on the BBC's Question Time, he said that he had left his roles at GB News over the direction the channel was taking, and that he had become a "minority of one" within senior management. It was reported that these remarks had angered GB News bosses and that <mask> would not be appearing on GB News again. On 22 September, <mask> said he would not return to GB News. <mask> later called his decision to lead the channel the "single biggest mistake" of his career, comparing the channel to Fox News.Return to Channel 4
In January 2022, it was reported that <mask> was in talks with Channel 4 about presenting a weekly politics show to be launched later in 2022. On 30 January, Channel 4 aired a documentary, Boris Johnson: Has He Run Out of Road?, in which <mask> explored the future of Boris Johnson's premiership following repeated allegations of parties held in Downing Street during the COVID-19 lockdown. Political positions

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<mask> was a vocal and enthusiastic proponent of British military involvement in Afghanistan. <mask> derided those who opposed the war as "wimps with no will to fight", while labelling The Guardian as The Daily Terrorist and the New Statesman as the New Taliban for publishing dissenting opinions about the wisdom of British military involvement. For questioning whether "Bush and Blair are leading us deeper and deeper into a quagmire", <mask> ridiculed Daily Mail columnist Stephen Glover, calling him "woolly, wimpy" and "juvenile". He compared Tony Blair to Winston Churchill and Osama bin Laden to Adolf Hitler, while describing the United States invasion of Afghanistan as a "calibrated response" and a "patient, precise and successful deployment of US military power". War in Iraq
<mask> was an early advocate of the 2003 invasion of Iraq, describing the case for war and regime change advanced by Tony Blair and George W. Bush as "convincing" and "masterful".In 2002, <mask> wrote that Iraq had "embarked on a worldwide shopping spree to buy the technology and material needed to construct weapons of mass destruction – and the missile systems needed to deliver them across great distances", and that "the suburbs of Baghdad are now dotted with secret installations, often posing as hospitals or schools, developing missile fuel, bodies and guidance systems, chemical and biological warheads and, most sinister of all, a renewed attempt to develop nuclear weapons." He wrote that Saddam Hussein would provide Al-Qaeda with weapons of mass destruction, and that Saddam had links to the September 11 attacks. Climate change
<mask> has been accused of rejecting the scientific consensus on climate change and has been criticised for frequently inviting non-scientists and climate change deniers to deny climate change on his BBC programmes. In 2012, Bob Ward of the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at the London School of Economics, said that <mask> had "rarely, if ever, included a climate scientist in any of its debates about global warming" on his BBC programme Daily Politics. Ward wrote that <mask> let inaccurate and misleading statements about climate change go unchallenged on Daily Politics. In November 2020, <mask> said that climate change was real and needed to be confronted. He criticised protests by Extinction Rebellion on Remembrance Day, stating: "I've interviewed Extinction Rebellion on several occasions and most of what they say is total nonsense or total exaggeration."HIV/AIDS
During <mask>'s time as editor, The Sunday Times backed a campaign to falsely claim that HIV was not a cause of AIDS. In 1990, The Sunday Times serialised a book by an American right-winger who rejected the scientific consensus on the causes of AIDS,  and who falsely claimed that AIDS could not spread to heterosexuals. Articles and editorials in The Sunday Times cast doubt on the scientific consensus, described HIV as a "politically correct virus" about which there was a "conspiracy of silence," disputed that AIDS was spreading in Africa, claimed that tests for HIV were invalid, described the HIV/AIDS treatment drug azidothymidine (AZT) as harmful, and characterised the World Health Organization (WHO) as an "Empire-building AIDS [organisation]." The pseudoscientific coverage of HIV/AIDS in The Sunday Times led the scientific journal Nature to monitor the newspaper's coverage and to publish letters rebutting the falsehoods printed in The Sunday Times. In response to this, The Sunday Times published an article headlined "AIDS – why we won't be silenced", which claimed that Nature engaged in censorship and "sinister intent". In his 1996 book, Full Disclosure, <mask> wrote that his HIV/AIDS denialism "deserved publication to encourage debate." That same year, he wrote that The Sunday Times had been vindicated in its coverage, "The Sunday Times was one of a handful of newspapers, perhaps the most prominent, which argued that heterosexual Aids was a myth.The figures are now in and this newspaper stands totally vindicated... The history of Aids is one of the great scandals of our time. I do not blame doctors and the Aids lobby for warning that everybody might be at risk in the early days, when ignorance was rife and reliable evidence scant." He criticised the "AIDS establishment" and said "Aids had become an industry, a job-creation scheme for the caring classes." In a 2021 interview <mask> said that he now regretted certain aspects of the paper's coverage of HIV and AIDS, but he was unwilling or unable to accept any personal responsibility for the falsehoods published while he was editor. <mask> chose instead to blame an employee, stating that he had placed faith in a trusted correspondent who was found to be wrong. Republicanism
In January 1997, ITV broadcast a live television debate Monarchy: The Nation Decides, in which <mask> spoke in favour of establishing a republic.When asked in 2021 by the BBC if he was still a republican, he changed his mind, saying "Not really." Private Eye
The British satirical and investigative journalism magazine Private Eye has referred to <mask> by the nickname "Brillo" after his wiry hair, which is seen as bearing a resemblance to a Brillo Pad, a brand of scouring pad. In a long-running joke, a photograph of <mask> wearing a vest and baseball cap in an embrace with a much younger woman (often mistaken for Pamella Bordes, a former Miss India, but really an African American make-up artist with whom <mask> was once involved) appeared regularly in the letters page of the magazine for some years, and is still used occasionally. Typically, a reader will ask the editor if he has any photographs relevant to some topical news item, frequently with a veiled allusion to the age-gap between two individuals, or to ethnic diversity. By double entendre, the letter can be construed as a request for this photo, which is duly published alongside. <mask> claims to find it "fascinating" and an example of "public school racism" on the part of the magazine's editorial staff. Personal life
Formerly dubbed the "Bachelor of Fleet Street", <mask> married Susan Nilsson on 8 August 2015.He had dated the Swedish civil and structural engineer for several years. Nilsson is currently director of communications of engineering and environmental consultancy, Waterman Group PLC. By 2006 he had 14 godchildren but he has no children of his own. <mask> is a resident of France and also has homes in London and New York. <mask> has threatened to sue the American businesswoman and former lover of Boris Johnson, Jennifer Arcuri, over claims she made on Twitter linking <mask> to the billionaire and child sex abuser Jeffrey Epstein, as well as other Twitter users who retweeted or endorsed her now-deleted tweet. <mask> denies ever meeting Epstein and argues he was put in his infamous "black book" by Ghislaine Maxwell, Epstein's procurer. Honours

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<mask> (born 1948) is an English politician who was the Mayor of Doncaster from 2009 to 2013. He was initially elected for the English Democrats, but announced his resignation from the party on 5 February 2013 citing "a big influx of new members joining from the British National Party". He subsequently lost narrowly the 2013 election to Labour's Ros Jones. Personal life
Born in Woodlands on the outskirts of Doncaster in 1948, <mask> went to school in Thorne, then worked at Danum School as a teacher. He is married. He is also the Chairman of Sykehouse Cricket Club and a member of the Campaign for Real Education and the Campaign Against Political Correctness. <mask> is the father of <mask>, the Conservative MP for Shipley.Political career
<mask> was a member of the Labour Party until 1973 when he joined the Conservatives. He remained in the Conservative Party until Prime Minister John Major signed the Maastricht Treaty in 1993. United Kingdom Independence Party
<mask> then joined the strongly eurosceptic United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP). He contested Yorkshire South at the European Parliament election in 1994, taking 2.6% of the votes cast. Three years later, he contested Doncaster Central at the 1997 general election, getting 462 votes. The following year, in 1998, a by-election arose in the Yorkshire South European constituency and <mask> stood again, against the wishes of the then UKIP party leader Michael Holmes but with the support of Nigel Farage and John Whittaker, who put up his deposit. <mask> came last in the poll, but saved his deposit, increasing his share of the vote to 11.6%.English Democrats
<mask> left UKIP and joined a UKIP splinter group UK Reform. UK Reform then merged with the English Democrats which meant that <mask> joined the English Democrats by default, he was shortly afterwards given the title Chairman of the South Yorkshire branch of the English Democrats. He stood in Doncaster's Finningley ward in the 2008 local elections, achieving second place with 1,033 votes, over 20% of the vote and stood in both the European elections and the Doncaster mayoral election in June 2009. He was placed fourth on English Democrats' party list for Yorkshire and the Humber, a list that achieved 2.6% of the vote. In the mayoral race, <mask> took second place in the first round of voting, but won by around 400 votes once second preferences had been taken into account. Mayor of Doncaster
<mask>' mayoral campaign had called for harsher punishments for "young thugs", withdrawal from the European Union, withdrawal of council translation services, a reduction in the number of Doncaster councillors, and for local schools to opt out of local authority control. Once elected, <mask> was interviewed on BBC Radio Sheffield and Look North where the interviewers questioned the legality and achievability of his manifesto promises.One of <mask>' first decisions was to announce a cut in his own annual salary from £73,000 to £30,000. He is an opponent of political correctness who pledged to stop funding the town's gay pride event, although organisers maintained that the event brought business to Doncaster. Later, he confirmed the event for 2009 would be funded as arranged before his election. He has also pledged to end and reverse town twinning as a waste of money, joking that he would use his two words of German to tell a visiting delegation Auf Wiedersehen (goodbye). He also insists he is "not conned by global warming" and has described climate change as "a scam". Vote of no confidence
On 22 February 2010, <mask>' proposals for a three per cent council tax cut were opposed and a vote of no confidence against him was carried. Doncaster Council criticised the leadership of <mask> and his cabinet, and described his proposed 2010–11 budget as "irresponsible".<mask> declined to resign. On 2 June 2010, the government appointed a new chief executive and three commissioners to lead the council. Communities Secretary Eric Pickles said the measures were needed to turn the council around "after 15 years of poor governance and dysfunctional politics". In October 2010, <mask> was disciplined by the council for breaching the code of conduct by failing to declare his membership of the Campaign Against Political Correctness. In February 2013 it was reported that <mask> had left the English Democrats and would run as an independent in the 2013 Doncaster mayoral elections. In May, <mask> lost narrowly to the Labour candidate, Ros Jones. Incidents and statements
<mask> attracted widespread media attention during his period in office, with a series of contentious announcements."Praise" for the Taliban
Speaking in September 2009, <mask>' conservative approach to family values was unequivocal as he spoke of his admiration for the "ordered way of life under the Taliban." <mask> made it clear it was the moral code he was an admirer of while detesting the Taliban themselves, adding, "The point I was making was that even a regime as hideous as the Taliban at least appear to have sort of decent sort of family affairs. In fact probably...they have an ordered society." He continued: "We in this country have created mayhem through lax social policies of disregard for marriage and the family and we have created mayhem in society." Child protection services in Doncaster
After an incident in which two young boys living in Council care were given indeterminate sentences for the torture of two other children, an Audit Commission report stated that: “Those leading the council – the mayor and cabinet, some councillors and some officers – do not collectively have the capacity or capability to make the necessary improvements in governance.” <mask> responded that he thought it “a very black report without any shade of colour at all and painted the town as a dreadful hole that no one would ever want to come to or live in and that is not Doncaster”, adding, "The town has been languishing in the doldrums under Labour rule and it's time that it made use of its huge advantages." Library closures
<mask> has been criticised by Doncaster residents after admitting that he had never borrowed a book from a public library and walking out of a public meeting convened to discuss the proposed closure of a local library, a branch that <mask> admitted to having never seen. Elections contested

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<mask> (born 26 August 1981) is a West Indian cricketer. Since 2002, he has played domestic cricket for his native Barbados, with a season at English club Yorkshire in 2010. <mask> made his Test debut in May 2003 and played his first One Day International a year later. A back strain incurred in May 2004 prevented <mask> from playing cricket until March the following year. In 2008 <mask> signed to play in the Indian Cricket League because he had not played international cricket since 2006. He returned to the side when the West Indies fielded a side weakened by contract disputes between leading players and the West Indies Cricket Board but was dropped shortly after. On his return to the Test side on 10 June 2012, he broke the record for highest score by a number 11 batsman, making 95 against England at Edgbaston.Later in 2013 his record was surpassed by Ashton Agar, who scored 98. The 143-run partnership with Denesh Ramdin in the same match was also notable; it is the third-highest Test stand with one wicket remaining. Early career
<mask> <mask> made his debut in first-class cricket on 25 January 2002, playing for Barbados against Guyana in the Busta Cup. He opened the bowling with Ian Bradshaw and in the first innings took four wickets for 50 runs (4/50), and Barbados won the match by 162 runs. <mask> finished his debut season with 17 wickets from 5 matches at an average of 24.29 with a single five-wicket haul. International breakthrough
At the time of his Test call up for the Test series against Australia, <mask> was Barbados' leading wicket-taker in the Carib Beer Cup for the 2002/03 season with 39 dismissals. Though <mask> was originally drafted in as cover for fast bowler Jermaine Lawson who had chicken pox, when <mask> made his debut in the third Test he opened the bowling with Lawson.The West Indies lost and <mask> bowled twenty overs without taking a wicket. After an ineffective first Test, <mask> was overlooked for the West Indies' overseas tours and drifted out of contention with the emergence of fellow fast bowlers Fidel Edwards and Jerome Taylor. Back at domestic level, he fell out of favour and struggled to be selected for Barbados' Red Stripe Bowl side. While he was infrequently chosen for the one-day team, he improved on his previous season's wicket tally in the first-class competition and finished with 49 wickets including three five-wicket hauls, and was rewarded with a call up to the West Indies side to face England in March 2004. <mask>'s first international wickets came in his second Test, the first in a four-match series against England; his maiden dismissal was that of batsman Graham Thorpe. England won the series 3–0 and <mask> finished as the West Indies' leading wicket-taker in the series (and third overall) with 12 from four matches at a cost of 25.08 runs each. Between June and August 2004 the West Indies embarked on a return tour of England.<mask> played in the Lord's Test and was stumped off Ashley Giles' bowling after some banter from Andrew Flintoff wound him up sufficiently to try to slog the ball into the windows at Lord's. During the match <mask> suffered a back strain and was unable to take part in the rest of the series. It was hoped that the fast bowler would recover within a month, however the injury was more serious than initially hoped and he did not play cricket again until March 2005. In the Second Test against Pakistan in June 2005, after a wicketless first innings – where he had Kamran Akmal caught off a no-ball – and a second innings spell of 5-0-30-0, <mask> took four wickets in 11 balls, as Pakistan faltered from 223 for 4 to 309 all out. However, it was not enough to give West Indies the win. <mask> was fined half his match fee in July 2005 for bowling three beamers during a Test against Sri Lanka. He was dropped from the Test side after the July 2005 tour of Sri Lanka.<mask> appeared in the cricket movie Hit for Six playing a Barbados cricket player. International fringes
Despite successful performances for Barbados in domestic cricket by the time <mask> signed with the rebel Indian Cricket League in February 2008 he had not played international cricket since May 2006. <mask> played Twenty20 cricket for Mumbai Champs during his spell at ICL, he also played Twenty20 that season for Barbados. In July 2009, there was a pay dispute between the West Indies players and the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB). As a result, an understrength squad was picked for the series against Bangladesh: of the 15 players named, which included <mask>, nine were uncapped. Sriram Veera of ESPNcricinfo noted of his performance on the second day of the first Test that "[<mask>] has, in the past, been guilty of trying to bowl faster than what he was capable of and being erratic as a result. Today, he repeatedly hit the short-of-length in the off-stump channel and slipped in the occasional bouncer."Those two wickets were his only scalps in the series and he ended up conceding 192 runs. The West Indies lost the series 2–0 as Bangladesh secured their first overseas series win. All the players who played for the West Indies during the contract dispute were given central contracts by the WICB, including <mask>. <mask> signed a contract with Yorkshire County Cricket Club in April 2010 to represent them until the end of May. After some good performances, his contract was extended, but his form tailed off and he was demoted from opening the bowling, before being dropped from the team at the end of July. In nine first-class matches for the club, <mask> managed 18 wickets at a cost of 44.05 runs each. He was more successful in Yorkshire's one-day matches, taking ten wickets from five matches at an average of less than 20.In August 2010, <mask>'s central contract was not renewed. <mask>'s domestic performance in the 2011/12 season, in which he took 17 first-class wickets at an average of 20.64, led to his recall to the international squad: in March 2012, <mask> was selected in the West Indies' ODI squad to face Australia at home. Though he did not play in the series, two months later when the West Indies toured England <mask> was drafted into the Test squad as cover for injured fast bowler Shannon Gabriel. In July 2014, he played for the Rest of the World side in the Bicentenary Celebration match at Lord's. References

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Jerome "<mask>" Thompson is an English hip hop/reggae artist and businessman. <mask> was born in Small Heath, Birmingham, England. Both <mask>'s mother and father were sound system DJs and selectors during the British reggae movement of the 1970s. His father most notably was in the National Champion "Cosmic" sound. <mask> is an accomplished DJ in his own right and has played at many clubs, house parties and even blues' (Jamaican all night dances). He has also been involved in many sound clashes as a DJ. He feels equally comfortable, be it on stage performing a rehearsed show, making up freestyle rap (off the top of his head where the crowd has provided subjects) or behind the decks.<mask> has been described as the epitome of the consummate professional. <mask> is also the founder of the club night Rum 'n' Bass and since 2010 has held residencies across the UK taking his particular blend of Caribbean infused UK dancing music to the people. Younger years
As a baby, Serocee was sent to his family's home town of Kingston, Jamaica, where he was schooled. Young Serocee lived with his extended family while he was in Jamaica and this was where he had his first real exposure to Reggae music. From this point on, his lasting love affair with music was born. Due to a strict Christian upbringing (by his aunt and uncle), reggae music was not allowed in the home, but it could be heard almost everywhere else. He recalls seeing a lot of big Reggae artists in their younger years, when they were freestyling on the corner.Regularly Sero would join in. As he was only young and had not yet honed his talent, he would merely recite lyrics that had already been recorded by established artists. All of this formed part of Serocee's performance schooling. Serocee showed signs of his musical talent at an early age and his native roots still resonate through his work. Over the years, many have commented that his exposure and acceptance of different genres of music has helped to elevate him both as a performer and lyricist – thus setting him apart from his rivals. Serocee penned his first melody at the age of eight and has gone on to write songs for himself and other notable artists. As a teenager he returned to Birmingham, England.Serocee found the transition tricky and often got into altercations with his new counterparts. He quickly became known for having clever/witty responses to any quips from his adversaries and soon his foes were suffering from a more verbal punishment. "We'd spend hours cussing/blazing at lunchtimes, during class, break times then after school – basically at any opportunity. I guess that was all part of my training". By the age of 14 <mask> and long-time friend DLT created a rap group called "Crossfire" and they achieved local success working with British Reggae Icons such as Pato Banton. Being part of the Birmingham Hip Hop scene during the "Golden Years" of rap meant there were many battles going on whether it was in a club, on a sound system or on the street corner with somebody beat-boxing. Over those years battling, not only did Serocee gain plaudits from his peers, but he was also widely renowned as one of the best and most versatile freestyle rappers in Birmingham and won many competitions.It was from this point on, that Serocee became known for his ability to switch between Reggae and Rap. Not only was Serocee able to cross genres but his lyrical prowess demonstrated finesse as he always made a conscious effort to refrain from excessive profanity and derogatory lyrics. Serocee's major musical influences span across a number of musical genres from Reggae to Jazz. The most notable artists to influence his music range from the likes of Bob Marley and Ninjaman to Nas, Redman, Stevie Wonder and Ray Charles. "The list goes on I suppose I have an eclectic musical pallet" Serocee said nonchalantly in an interview once. Current
Since moving to London in 1999, he has been busy with various aspects of life both musically and day to day living, "People sometimes don't realise that music is like a relationship, one minute you're in love the next minute you can't stand it but for a musician you always end up making back up with it". Serocee's debut single "Life" was released in 2006 and received critical acclaim.Since then he has released further singles and been involved on projects with Basement Jaxx, MJ Cole, Zed Bias, and Toddla T, plus Shaggy collaborators Brian and Tony Gold, General Levy, South Rakkas Crew, Lloyd Brown, Karl Hinds, Seanie T, Roots Manuva and Moorish Delta. In addition to his extensive recording, Serocee has also been touring both as a solo artist and also with other groups namely Basement Jaxx, Public Enemy, The Roots, Busta Rhymes and many more. Serocee has also been involved with the "Whose Rhyme Is It Anyway" shows – this is where a completely improvised stageshow is created with full input from the audience. Business ventures
In December 2008, Serocee founded the Windrushpickney brand, which is not only a reflection of his roots but it is also a way of life for many ethnic minorities living in Britain today. Windrushpickney consists of a Caribbean car rental company, a music publishing company and a record Label. Serocee's entrepreneurial ventures also stretch to a music production firm "No Long Ting Ltd" and a social magazine. Serocee also founded a club night called Rum 'n' Bass in 2010 and since then has held residencies in Brighton and South London.Most recent work
Serocee still continues to record with Urban Monk and in August 2009 released the single "Bandeng". However, due to the major response it received it was remixed for re-release in March 2010.

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title: Gene Hoglan

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<mask> II (born August 31, 1967) is an American drummer, acclaimed for his creativity in drum arrangements, including use of abstract devices for percussion effects and his trademark lengthy double-kick drum rhythms. Though his playing style is very technically demanding, he retains high accuracy at extreme tempos, earning him the nicknames "The Atomic Clock" and "Human Drum Machine". He is best known for his work with Dark Angel, Death, Strapping Young Lad, Devin Townsend, Fear Factory, Dethklok and Testament. Hoglan completed work on Dethklok's fourth album The Doomstar Requiem, which was released in October 2013. He released the highly successful Gene Hoglan: The Atomic Clock DVD, and rejoined Testament to record the drum tracks for their eleventh album, Dark Roots of Earth, released in July 2012. <mask> had since rejoined Testament permanently, and by the time he left the band again in January 2022, he was their longest serving drummer. <mask> was featured on the cover of Modern Drummer magazine in November 2010.He also won Terrorizer magazine's Reader's Poll for Best Drummer 2010, and Modern Drummer magazine nominated <mask> for Best Metal Drummer, and Best Recorded Performance (for Dethklok's Dethalbum II) on their 2011 ballot. He was nominated for Best Drummer in Revolver magazine's 2010 Reader's Poll. Biography

<mask> got his first drum kit when he was 13 and is completely self-taught. He started jamming along to his Kiss and Rush records, with Peter Criss and Neil Peart being his early influences. Later Cozy Powell, Tommy Aldridge, Robb Reiner of Anvil, Rob "Wacko" Hunter of Raven and Phil "Philthy Animal" Taylor got him into double bass drumming. Other influences include Stevie Wonder, Alex Van Halen, Steve Smith, Deen Castronovo, Mark Craney, Terry Bozzio, Bill Bruford, Steve Gadd, Sonny Emory, Rick Colaluca of Watchtower, Bobby Jarzombek, Dave Culross. In 1983, <mask> began his music career as a roadie (lighting engineer) for the thrash metal band Slayer, where he also played the drums during concert soundchecks.He also did backing vocals on the song "Evil Has No Boundaries", from the first Slayer album Show No Mercy. He contributed in the recording of Haunting the Chapel, holding Dave Lombardo's drum kit together while recording "Chemical Warfare" because there was no carpet in the studio, said drum kit including a china cymbal owned by <mask>. He became an influence in Lombardo's drumming style and speed. Lombardo had just had the double bass added to his kit and it was the first double bass Hoglan ever played. Lombardo was impressed with <mask>'s playing, and Hoglan gave Lombardo tips regarding the use of the double kick drum. In 1984, <mask> was part of the band War God with Michelle Meldrum. At the end of the same year he was asked to join the thrash metal band Dark Angel as the drummer.He penned most of the lyrics for Dark Angel's next three albums. He achieved greater fame during the mid-1990s playing with Death, at the same time that bandleader Chuck Schuldiner was taking that group into a more progressive style. Subsequently, he recorded one album with the thrash metal band Testament, and made the acquaintance of Canadian multi-instrumentalist Devin Townsend, forging a lasting friendship. Around this time, coming off of the final tour he performed with Death, <mask> was approached by Slayer to replace a departing Paul Bostaph. Jon Dette, however, took the position, much to <mask>'s approval. He would go on to record several albums with Townsend, both as part of the speed/industrial/death metal band Strapping Young Lad and under Devin Townsend's name. <mask> was also part of thrash metal band Tenet, a side project of Strapping Young Lad guitarist Jed Simon, from 2003 to 2007.<mask> left the band on amicable terms in January 2007. He was replaced by Adrian Erlandsson only to return to the group in June of the same year. <mask> recorded his drum parts for the entirety of the following album in a mere two days. On the Vancouver stop of Opeth's 2004 Lamentations tour, <mask> stood in for drummer Martin Lopez, who was said to be having panic attacks. Opeth's drum tech had filled in for the two previous dates on the tour and Lopez rejoined the band for the Seattle, Washington, show. In 2005, <mask> stood in for Lopez for the majority of the Sounds of the Underground tour when Lopez began having more panic attacks. Hoglan played double duty by playing a set with Strapping Young Lad then performing with Opeth later in the evening.It was later announced Lopez had a rare blood disorder and was seeking treatment. <mask> also appeared in Opeth's music video "The Grand Conjuration" as they filmed it on the tour while in Los Angeles, California. Other bands have also recruited <mask> as a session drummer. He has recorded albums with the Norwegian black metal band Old Man's Child and the Danish death metal band Daemon. Additionally he has done production and engineering work for other albums and demos. <mask> also was recruited by Vancouver thrash metal band The Almighty Punchdrunk, and appeared as a band member for their only album to date, Music for Them Asses, released in 2001. <mask> is working with Dethklok, the band from the animated TV show Metalocalypse.The show was co-created by stand-up comedian/actor/musician Brendon Small, who also composes or performs all of the music. <mask> features in Dethklok's debut album, The Dethalbum, which was released on September 25, 2007. He toured with Brendon Small and the live band during the summer of 2008. Besides working with Dethklok, <mask> is also a guest star by voicing a health inspector in one episode of the series. He later performed on Dethalbum II, the sequel album released on September 29, 2009, and again toured with Dethklok. The two later collaborated to make Brendon Small's Galaktikon using extra studio time from the Dethklok studio sessions. <mask> filled in as the drummer for Unearth when their then drummer, Mike Justian, quit while on tour.He has also joined the metal band Pitch Black Forecast, with Mushroomhead singer Jason Popson, as the band's permanent drummer. Even more recently, <mask> was announced as the drummer for the reunited Bay Area Thrash metal band Forbidden's reunion tour, replacing original drummer Paul Bostaph. <mask> played drums on Zimmers Hole's third studio album When You Were Shouting at the Devil...We Were in League With Satan in 2008. In June 2011, he reunited with Testament, to record their eleventh studio album Dark Roots of Earth. On that album, he filled in for Paul Bostaph, who was unable to participate in the recording sessions because of a "serious injury". In 2012, he began touring with Testament, and on January 27 filled in for Charlie Benante of Anthrax. Although <mask> was initially brought back to the band as a temporary drummer (in a fashion similar to his initial tenure when he recorded the Demonic album), he has since rejoined as a permanent member of Testament, recording two more albums with the band – Brotherhood of the Snake (2016) and Titans of Creation (2020) – and surpassing original drummer Louie Clemente as their longest-serving drummer.<mask> announced his second departure from Testament on January 21, 2022. <mask> was the drummer for Fear Factory from 2009 to 2012 and played on their release Mechanize; his association with the band ended when he was "no longer needed", and he expressed both a reluctance to join and a disappointment in the ultimate resolution of his tenure. He also participated in the recording sessions of Viking's reunion album, No Child Left Behind (2015). In October 2013, it was announced that <mask> would be participating in the reunion of Dark Angel, who still play live occasionally to this day. The band is also planning to release a new album in the future. Other ventures
In 2017, <mask> released an art collection consisting of long-exposure photography of him playing with colorful glowing drumsticks, resulting in psychedelic imagery. <mask> made a guest appearance in the season 2 finale of The Eric Andre Show on Adult Swim.Equipment
<mask> endorses and uses Pearl Drums, Sabian cymbals, Pro-Mark sticks and Evans heads.

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title: Lavinia Stan

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<mask> (born 1966 in Pitești, Romania) is a professor of political science at St. Francis Xavier University in Canada. She  currently lives in Montreal. Academic career
After obtaining a degree from the Bucharest Academy of Economic Studies,
she emigrated to Canada shortly after the Romanian Revolution of 1989. She then earned a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Toronto. Between 2001 and 2003 she taught at Dalhousie University in Halifax, while from 2006 to 2008 she taught at Concordia University in Montreal. Since 2009, <mask> has served as associate editor of the Women's Studies International Forum, a peer-reviewed journal published by Elsevier. Since January 2014 <mask> has served as the President of the Society for Romanian Studies, the premier international organization on Romanian Studies.She was the President of the Wildavsky Prize Committee of the American Political Science Association (2006-2008), member of the doctoral grants committee and the standard research grants committee for interdisciplinary research of the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada (2003-2006, and 2010–2011, respectively), member of the Scientific Committee of the Institute for the Investigation of Communist Crimes and the Memory of Romanian Exile in Bucharest (2010-2012), member of the commission on social sciences of the National Commission for Attestation of University Titles and Diplomas (Consiliul National de Atestare a Titlurilor si Diplomelor Universitare, CNATDCU), and an evaluator for the National Council for Scientific Research (Agenția Natională de Cercetare Științifică) of the Romanian Ministry of Education, Research, Youth and Sport (2011-2012),  Babeș-Bolyai University (2013), and the British Academy's Leverhulme Small Research Grants (2014), among others. She is a member of the editorial or advisory boards of some twenty scholarly journals published in North America and Europe, including Human Rights Review. She has been a member of the Club of Rome since 2009. <mask> has served as an expert witness in a number of deportation and asylum cases in American courts. She has been interviewed by newspapers such as El Pais (Spain), Haaretz (Israel), Embassy (Canada), MacLean's (Canada), The Concordian (Canada), L'Organe (Canada), National Journal (USA), România Liberă (Romania), Meridianul românesc, Terra Nova Magazine, as well as news agencies such as Reuters, Voice of America, radio stations such as Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and television stations such as Eastlink and the public Polish TV. In December 2009, on the occasion of 20 years since the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe, she gave interviews to many Western European and North American media outlets, including a participation by satellite in a debate organized by the TV channel France 24. Publications
Lavinia Stan's publications have dealt with three major themes: transitional justice, religion and politics, and democratization broadly conceived, with a focus on post-communist Eastern Europe.She has authored, co-authored or edited the following volumes:

Transitional Justice
"Encyclopedia of Transitional Justice". Cambridge University Press, 2013. . Co-edited with Nadya Nedelsky. "Transitional Justice in Post-Communist Romania: The Politics of Memory". Cambridge University Press, 2013. . Transitional Justice in Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union: Reckoning with the Communist Past. Routledge, 2009. . Romanian translation: Prezentul trecutului recent: Lustrație și decomunizare în postcomunism. Bucharest: Curtea Veche, 2010. .Religion and Politics
 Church, State and Democracy in Expanding Europe. Oxford University Press, 2011. . Co-authored with Lucian Turcescu. Religion and Politics in Post-communist Romania. Oxford University Press, 2007. . Romanian translation: Religie si politica in Romania postcomunista. Bucharest: Curtea Veche, 2010. . Co-authored with Lucian Turcescu.Democratization
1989-2009: Incredibila aventura a democratiei dupa comunism (interviews with Western and Romanian specialists on Eastern Europe on the occasion of 20 years since the collapse of communism). Iasi, Romania: Editura Institutul European, 2010. . Leaders and Laggards: Governance, Civicness and Ethnicity in Post-Communist Romania. Columbia University Press, 2003. .
Romania in Transition. Dartmouth Press, 1997. . In addition, <mask> translated into Romanian two volumes:
Etienne de la Boetie, De la Servitude Volontaire, trans. with Sabina <mask>.Bucharest: Universal Dalsi Press, 1994. Carl Schmidt, Political Theology, trans. with Lucian Turcescu, Bucharest: Universal Dalsi Press, 1995. <mask> has authored and co-authored numerous articles published in refereed journals. Some of these articles were translated in French, Romanian, Hebrew, Spanish, Croatian, Czech, Polish, Italian, and Dutch. From 1997-2003 she published the quarterly report on the Republic of Moldova in East European Constitutional Review, while since 2006 she has co-authored the annual report regarding political developments in Romania for European Journal of Political Research. In 2008, she participated in an international project funded jointly by El Colegio in Mexico City, Oxford University, and the United Nations University in Tokyo that sought to contrast and compare the efficacy of transitional justice processes in Latin America and Eastern Europe.In 2009, she wrote the country report on Romania for a major project developed by the European Commission through its General Directorate for Justice, Liberty and Security. She has also served as reviewer of manuscripts for a number of publishers, and has refereed over 110 proposed articles for journals. References

External links
Faculty website at St. Francis Xavier University
Personal blog
Academia.edu page of Lavinia Stan
Getcited.org page of Lavinia Stan

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title: Jason Grimsley

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<mask> (born August 7, 1967) is a former Major League Baseball relief pitcher who played for seven teams during a 15-year career. He was a member of both the 1999 and 2000 World Series champion New York Yankees. Major League career
<mask> attended Tarkington High School in Cleveland, Texas. He was selected 10th round (252nd overall) by the Philadelphia Phillies of the 1985 June amateur Baseball draft. Like many relief pitchers, <mask> began his career as a starting pitcher. But he became a full-time reliever while a member of the Yankees. Philadelphia Phillies (1989–1991)
<mask> began his career in 1989 and pitched very poorly, surrendering 13 runs in 18 innings.The following year, he went 3–2 and made 11 starts. In 1991, he went 1–7 with a 4.87 ERA in 12 starts. Following the 1991 season, he was traded to the Houston Astros for Curt Schilling. Out of the league and Cleveland Indians (1992–1995)
He spent the entire 1992 season in the minors and on March 30, 1993 he was released by Houston and signed with the Cleveland Indians. In his first season with Cleveland, he went 3–4 over 10 games, and in 1994, went 5–2 with a 4.57 ERA in 14 games. <mask> is known for his leading role in the 1994 Bat Burglary involving Albert Belle and an allegedly corked bat that was taken away by umpires for examination by the league. <mask> was the player who crawled through a Comiskey Park air conditioning duct to reach the room where the confiscated bat had been secured.He took the corked bat and replaced it with a clean bat. Not accounted for in this plan, however, was the fact that Belle's bat had his name on it, and the replacement had teammate Paul Sorrento's name on it instead, leading to the heist being caught before the end of the day. The incident made ESPN.com's "Biggest Cheaters in Baseball" list at number 4. The next season, he was used mostly as a reliever, making only two starts. Following the season, on February 14, 1996 he was traded to the Angels. California Angels (1996)
<mask> went 5–7 with a 6.84 ERA in 1996 while making a career-high 20 starts. On October 8, he was granted free agency.Out of the league again (1997–1998)
<mask> signed with the Tigers on January 17, 1997, but was released following spring training. On April 3, he signed with the Brewers and on July 29, was traded to the Royals for Jamie Brewington. He was granted free agency on October 15. On January 8, 1998, he was signed with the Cleveland Indians. He did not appear in a major league game that year and was granted free agency on October 15. New York Yankees (1999–2000)
<mask> signed with the Yankees on January 26, 1999. With the Yankees, he rebounded, going 7–2 with a 3.60 ERA in 55 relief outings.<mask> did not pitch in the 1999 American League Division Series or the 1999 American League Championship Series, but pitched  innings of two-hit, two-walk ball in the 1999 World Series. In 2000, he was 3–2 with a 5.04 ERA. In the 2000 ALCS, he pitched one scoreless inning and earned his second World Series ring when the Yankees defeated the Mets in five games despite not pitching in the World Series. On November 20, he was released by the Yankees. Kansas City Royals (2001–2004)
<mask> signed with the Royals on January 19, 2001. In his first season in Kansas City he was 1–5. In three and a half years in Kansas City, he never posted a record better than .500 (he was 3–3 in 2004).He was 1–5 in 2001, 4–7 in 2002, and 2–6 in 2003. <mask> also gave up the famous home run to Scott Hatteberg that gave the Oakland Athletics their 20th straight win in 2002, as immortalized in the film Moneyball. On October 29, 2003, he was granted free agency, but re-signed on December 7. In 2004, he went 3–3 with a 3.38 ERA before being traded on June 21 to the Orioles for Denny Bautista. Baltimore Orioles (2004–2005)
<mask> went 2–4 in 2004 with Baltimore. In 2005, he posted a dismal 1–3 record with a 5.73 ERA, and was granted free agency on October 27. Arizona Diamondbacks (2006)
In 2006, he was 1–2 with a slightly better 4.88 ERA in 19 games before being released on June 7 after his use of performance enhancing drugs came to light.He subsequently retired. Illicit drug use
On June 6, 2006, it was reported that Federal officials had raided <mask>'s home looking for evidence that he was distributing human growth hormone (HGH) and other performance-enhancing drugs. The Arizona Diamondbacks released him at his request, shortly after it became public in June  that he had admitted to using performance-enhancing drugs. The Diamondbacks announced they would not pay the rest of his 2006 salary, an estimated US$875,000. <mask>'s agent Joe Bick stated that <mask> would contest the decision. Michael Weiner, general counsel to the players union stated that the union would file a grievance on his behalf. On June 12, 2006, <mask> was suspended for 50 games for violating Major League Baseball's Joint Drug Prevention and Treatment Program.This penalty would take effect if <mask> ever signed a contract with a major league team and was placed on a 40-man roster. He was the fourteenth Major League Baseball player to be suspended for use of performance-enhancing drugs. ESPN reported that court documents showed that <mask> had failed an MLB-administered drug test in ; he subsequently confessed to the use of human growth hormones, amphetamines and steroids. His drug use began in  while in Buffalo, New York. After a nine-year MLB career, he was in the minors trying to get back to the majors after a shoulder injury. Among the drugs he has used are Deca-Durabolin, amphetamines, human growth hormone and Clenbuterol. Prior to the use of performance-enhancing drugs he had earned a total of $1 million; subsequently he earned $9 million.His ERA dropped by a run. On September 30, 2006,  the Los Angeles Times reported that <mask> told federal agents investigating steroids in baseball that Houston Astros pitchers Roger Clemens and Andy Pettitte were users of performance-enhancing drugs and that Baltimore Orioles's Miguel Tejada, Jay Gibbons, and Brian Roberts were users of "anabolic steroids." On October 3, 2006, The Washington Post'''' reported that San Francisco United States attorney Kevin Ryan said that the Los Angeles Times report contained "significant inaccuracies." All five players named (Clemens, Pettitte, Tejada, Gibbons, and Roberts) denounced the story, with Clemens calling it "dangerous and malicious and reckless." Gibbons was later implicated in the steroid scandal by Sports Illustrated, who uncovered receipts issued by a Florida steroid mail order company in his name. On December 13, , he was cited in the Mitchell Report, an investigation into the use of anabolic steroids and HGH in Major League Baseball. On December 20, 2007, the report was unsealed by a U.S. magistrate, who harshly criticized the L.A. Times for what he called "irresponsible reporting"...or "manufacturing of facts."Neither, Roberts, Clemens nor Pettitte's names were mentioned by <mask> in any context whatsoever. The Times announced that it would publish a correction and apology for their misrepresentation of the facts. <mask> had told investigators that he got amphetamines, anabolic steroids and human growth hormone from someone recommended to him by former Yankees trainer Brian McNamee. The fact that McNamee was a personal strength coach for Clemens and Pettitte apparently prompted the Times'' to leap to the erroneous conclusion that <mask> had implicated them in his statement. Personal life
<mask> is married to his wife Dana, and they have three children, two sons, Hunter and John-John, and a daughter Rayne. On January 21, 2005, a small plane crashed into the back of <mask>'s house in Overland Park, Kansas. <mask> was not home at the time, but his wife, daughter, and nanny were; they escaped unharmed.The pilot and four passengers were killed. See also

 List of sportspeople sanctioned for doping offences
 List of Major League Baseball players named in the Mitchell Report

References

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