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Miami Hurricanes Football Star Shot To Death
AP ^ | 11-08-06 | Tim Reynolds

Posted on 11/07/2006 9:16:08 PM PST by My Favorite Headache

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1 posted on 11/07/2006 9:16:09 PM PST by My Favorite Headache
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2 posted on 11/07/2006 9:18:14 PM PST by My Favorite Headache ("Head-On...Apply Directly To The Forehead, Head-On...Apply Directly To The Forehead")
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Coker the liberal.

The area around campus is a crime infested area. No surprise a violent incident happened.


3 posted on 11/07/2006 9:19:19 PM PST by misterrob (Bill Clinton, The Wizard of "Is")
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They should just shut down the program for good. I bet most players on the team can't even spell their own names.


4 posted on 11/07/2006 9:29:16 PM PST by Proud_USA_Republican (We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good. - Hillary Clinton)
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I bet most players on the team can't even spell their own names.

Then how do they sign the back of their checks?

5 posted on 11/07/2006 9:40:12 PM PST by opinionator
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Maybe they get direct deposit. Boosters are clever these days.


6 posted on 11/07/2006 9:41:00 PM PST by opinionator
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Word spread quickly around campus, and grief counselors were quickly summoned to work with Pata's teammates.

What a racket...

7 posted on 11/07/2006 9:44:46 PM PST by hatfieldmccoy (Satan has a new name and it is Islam)
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checks leave a paper trail back to the athletic department and boosters.

Envelopes of cash and gold chains don't.


8 posted on 11/07/2006 10:10:31 PM PST by Proud_USA_Republican (We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good. - Hillary Clinton)
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Shame on some of you.

The area around campus happens to be coral gables...populated by wealthy people. Hardly a bad neighborhood.

The U of Miami also happens to have a high graduation rate. (Top 5 in the nation)

Again..Shame on some of you. This is a tragedy.


9 posted on 11/07/2006 10:14:07 PM PST by Bushite
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It isn't all that far to the bad sections.


10 posted on 11/07/2006 10:19:28 PM PST by misterrob (Bill Clinton, The Wizard of "Is")
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It's still all CORAL GABLES around campus...if you think that 2 million dollar homes constitutes a bad neighborhood..then I guess I concede this point of debate.


11 posted on 11/07/2006 10:30:31 PM PST by Bushite
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His death was ruled a homicide, Miami-Dade police spokesman Roy Rutland said.

Homicide is the act of killing a human being.

Determining that the decedent was shot to death by someone else - Relatively easy.

Determining that the deceased was a human - Also relatively easy.

I'd like to think that the reporter was the one who used such a useless phrase, not the PD's spokesman. /rant

Stupid reporting is one of my pet peeves, and could lead to lines reading, "His CAT was ruled a FELINE." /o.k. the rant is really over this time

12 posted on 11/07/2006 10:32:20 PM PST by Triggerhippie (Always use a silencer in a crowd. Loud noises offend people.)
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X ?


13 posted on 11/07/2006 10:40:07 PM PST by TaMoDee
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I have been there plenty of times. There are shotgun shacks that abut the campus. All around Coconut Grove are some seriously nasty slums.


14 posted on 11/07/2006 10:40:17 PM PST by misterrob (Bill Clinton, The Wizard of "Is")
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Well, the rats gaining the congress is ALOT worse news if you ask me.

Tomorrow I may feel a little more sympathetic.


15 posted on 11/07/2006 10:41:47 PM PST by roostercogburn
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Was he one of the players involved in the on-field fight some weeks ago? Could it have been retaliation?
16 posted on 11/07/2006 10:42:00 PM PST by rintense (Liberals stand for nothing and are against everything- unless it benefits them.)
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Probably a drug deal gone bad. 10 to 1....


17 posted on 11/07/2006 10:43:22 PM PST by Sprite518
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I'm sure it *was* the PD's spokesperson who said it (since that's who they quoted).

Until there are autopsy results and an investigation, the ME will issue a preliminary ruling that the death is either (1) a homicide; (2) a suicide; (3) from natural causes; or (4) of unknown or undetermined cause.

Not until the follow-up will those generic labels be fleshed out in more detail and sometimes changed.


18 posted on 11/07/2006 11:24:52 PM PST by Rte66
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You haven't been there. Shotgun shacks? Are you serious?


19 posted on 11/07/2006 11:49:49 PM PST by Bushite
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What a racquet!

That would be tennis.

20 posted on 11/08/2006 1:55:53 AM PST by battlegearboat
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