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Watch out for the losing streak.. LOVELOCK - USA - Fallen golf star, Tiger Woods, today visited another fallen sports star, O.J. Simpson in prison. No one knows what was said between the two disgraced American stars but one thing is for sure, there must have been some brotherly advise handed down to the newly fallen Woods. Simpson is currently serving a nine year sentence in a Nevada prison for theft. "Tiger is new to disgrace, so we think O.J. must have just told him to shrug his shoulders and take the beating like a man. O.J. is certainly no...

OJ Simpson beaten in prison, race incident, currently in hospital, sources claim... NATIONAL ENQUIRER to report details later in week... Developing...

This isn't an accusation from Ted Kennedy's political opponents, but a nostalgic remembrance by one of his friends. Ed Klein, former Newsweek editor, tells the Diane Rehm Show: "I dont know if you know this or not, but one of his favorite topics of humor was indeed Chappaquiddick itself. And he would ask people, have you heard any new jokes about Chappaquiddick? That is just the most amazing thing. Its not that he didnt feel remorse about the death of Mary Jo Kopechne, but that he still always saw the other side of everything and the ridiculous side of things,...

Excerpt: "OJ SIMPSON - GREATEST FOOTBALL PLAYER OF OUR TIME ...President Obama...pushed me a little too hard. Did he have to say that Senator Kennedy, “became the greatest United States Senator of our time” ? That’s going a just a Tad (or a Ted) too far. Would President Obama also say that “O.J. Simpson became the greatest professional football player of our time?”... ...(Kennedy)has had some very questionable history, including one incident in which his actions may have cost another person’s life. That hardly makes one great and surely means the person will never be “the greatest” anything. ...

Lawyers for the former football great appear before a panel of the state Supreme Court to seek Simpson's release while he appeals his armed-robbery and kidnapping conviction.Reporting from Las Vegas -- Nevada Supreme Court justices appeared cool today to arguments from O.J. Simpson's attorneys that the former football star be granted bail while he appeals his armed-robbery and kidnapping conviction. Simpson attorney Yale Galanter said the notoriety of the NFL Hall of Fame running back, who was famously acquitted of a 1994 double murder in Los Angeles, made it impossible for him to flee if he's released on bail. "Mr....

LAS VEGAS (AP) - A trio of Nevada Supreme Court justices is considering whether to let O.J. Simpson and a former golfing buddy out of prison while the full court reviews their convictions for a gunpoint hotel room heist.

LOS ANGELES — O.J. Simpson filed a declaration in court Friday claiming that several items seized by authorities following the bungled hotel heist that sent him to prison are rightfully his and should be returned. The declaration in Superior Court lists numerous signed footballs Simpson says he was awarded during his glory days as a college and pro athlete in the 1960s and 1970s. Others include ties Simpson says he wore during his murder trial and a picture he says the late FBI director J. Edgar Hoover gave him.

LAS VEGAS - Few in Nevada legal circles believe O.J. Simpson has any real chance at freedom when the state's Supreme Court justices consider letting him trade a prison cell in rural northern Nevada for a golf course in Miami while he appeals his conviction in a gunpoint hotel room heist. What really has them abuzz is that Nevada's only appellate court agreed to schedule oral arguments Aug. 3 to hear Simpson's plea to be allowed to post bond. "It's unusual. This is a situation where the Nevada Supreme Court might be accused of politics or being star-struck," said Michael...

No, I don't think Obama is another OJ Simpson. The two men could not be more different. It's a common marketing strategy that links them. White guilt and that ache for black vindication were a huge part of OJ's celebrity campaign. That's also what got Obama elected over Hillary and then McCain. David Axelrod as a PR maven had obviously studied the opinion polls about black celebrities. They knew that a black man who looked and sounded good on TV could roll over the opposition; the media wouldn't dare to examine his background. OJ had demonstrated it, along with Oprah...

No, I don't think Obama is another OJ Simpson. The two men could not be more different. It's a common marketing strategy that links them. White guilt and that ache for black vindication were a huge part of OJ's celebrity campaign. That's also what got Obama elected over Hillary and then McCain. David Axelrod as a PR maven had obviously studied the opinion polls about black celebrities. They knew that a black man who looked and sounded good on TV could roll over the opposition; the media wouldn't dare to examine his background. OJ had demonstrated it, along with Oprah...

LOS ANGELES -- Much has changed in the 15 years that have passed since the murders of O.J. Simpson's ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend Ron Goldman. The Brentwood condominium where the two were found brutally stabbed to death on the night of June 12, 1994 is now barely recognizable. The new owners have changed the facade of the building on Bundy Drive and given it a new entryway. The owners apparently grew tired of tour buses driving by and gawkers taking pictures. The once nearby Mezzaluna Restaurant, where Nicole had her last meal, has been replaced by a...

Footballs, jerseys and other O.J. Simpson memorabilia used as evidence in the former NFL star’s armed robbery and kidnapping trial in Las Vegas are now in a Santa Monica courthouse awaiting a sheriff’s sale, according to a lawyer for Fred Goldman. The items are to be sold to satisfy part of the $33.5-million civil judgment against Simpson in the deaths of his ex-wife, Nicole, and Goldman’s son, Ron, the lawyer said. A spokesman for the L.A. Sheriff’s Department, asked to confirm this information, said he was checking into the matter. A Las Vegas jury convicted Simpson in October of a...

[video] Here’s a deep philosophical question for you to consider: Is it possible to be a rap artist without being a complete idiot? Kanye West, the simple-minded rapper who’s most famous for saying “George Bush doesn’t care about black people,” has offered up a few more brilliant observations. While taping a program for VH1, West recently expressed opinions on a wide range of people he apparently likes better than Bush. “Can’t we give Chris a break,” he said about girlfriend-beating singer Chris Brown, “…I know I make mistakes in life.” “Michael Jackson, amazing. Michael Phelps, amazing… [...more]

A key witness in O.J. Simpson's Las Vegas trial acknowledged to a Nevada investigator that the former NFL star paid him off, the investigator told a judge in Santa Monica this morning. The investigator from the Clark County district attorney's office said Alfred Beardsley admitted that Simpson gave him his Hall of Fame ring in exchange for altering his testimony to help the defenseI asked what did you get to change your testimony," said Bill Falkner, who worked with prosecutors building the armed robbery and kidnapping case against Simpson. The answer, he said, was the Hall of Fame ring. The...

In this show I interview Tony Blankley, former speech writer for Ronald Reagan and Press Secretary for Newt Gingrich and author of the book "The Wests Last Chance" We also discuss the OJ Simpson verdict and other social issues. Another thought provoking show.

America was a different country in 1995, when the most-watched murder trial of the 20th century saw an overwhelmingly black jury find O J Simpson innocent of murdering his ex-wife, Nicole Simpson, and her friend Ron Goldman. It seemed like delayed justice when the former footballer was sentenced to a minimum of nine years' jail yesterday for his role in an armed raid on a Las Vegas hotel room in 2007, during which two dealers were robbed of sports memorabilia. There was none of the rancour that accompanied the murder acquittal or the civil trial, when a predominantly white jury...

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Okay, I keep hearing from different media outlets that OJ will be in jail for 9 years, others 33 years or 19 years and he will be eligible for parole sometime in between. The #*!# dinosaur media can't seem to make up its mind!

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O.J. sentenced to as much as 33 years for robbery Dec 5 03:38 PM US/Eastern By KEN RITTER LAS VEGAS (AP) - A broken O.J. Simpson was sentenced Friday to as much as 33 years in prison for a hotel armed robbery after a judge rejected his apology and said, "It was much more than stupidity." The 61-year-old football Hall of Famer stood shackled and stone-faced when Judge Jackie Glass quickly rattled off his punishment soon after he made a rambling, five-minute plea for leniency, choking back tears as he told her: "I didn't want to steal anything from anyone....

America breathed a collective sigh of relief tonight with the belief that one-time sports hero O.J. Simpson didn’t really get away with murder, after all. For thirteen years, the unease over Simpson’s infamous 1995 acquittal for the murders of his wife, Nicole, and her friend Ronald Goldman, ate away at the national conscience. The sense of racial outrage that surrounded the so-called ‘trial of the century’ faded away over time to leave Simpson a pariah, shunned in all the society and celebrity circles where he once shined.

<p>LAS VEGAS (AP) - A broken O.J. Simpson has been sentenced to at least 15 years in prison for a Las Vegas hotel armed robbery by a judge who rejected his apology and said, "It was much more than stupidity."</p>

O.J. Simpson is sentenced 15 years.

LAS VEGAS (AP) - O.J. Simpson is going to prison; the question is for how long. The former football star who walked away a free man after a celebrated murder trial was due to learn Friday how much time he'll spend in a Nevada state prison for a botched attempt to recover sports mementoes and personal items from two collectibles peddlers. Neither Simpson, who was acquitted of the 1994 slayings of his ex-wife and her friend in Los Angeles, nor his co-defendant and former golfing buddy, Clarence "C.J. Stewart, testified at trial. They were convicted Oct. 3 of 12 criminal...

<p>LAS VEGAS, Nevada (CNN) -- Former football great O.J. Simpson, convicted of armed robbery and kidnapping, deserves leniency in sentencing as he is a first-time offender who showed no criminal intent, his attorney says in court papers.</p> <p>O.J. Simpson should receive a six-year sentence in a 2007 hotel room confrontation, his attorney says.</p>

A judge in Las Vegas has rejected O.J. Simpson's bid for a new trial in the robbery of two sports memorabilia collectors. Clark County District Court Judge Jackie Glass said Friday theissues raised by lawyers for Simpson and co-defendant Clarence "C.J." Stewart don't merit a second trial. SNIP Stewart's lawyer, Brent Bryson, alleged misconduct by the jury foreman.

As O.J. Simpson sits in jail in Nevada, lawyers for Fred Goldman have gone to court in California to try to retrieve an NFL Hall of Fame ring they believe is worth as much as $50,000. Goldman's attorneys believe Simpson gave the ring to one of the memorabilia dealers he was convicted of robbing at a Las Vegas hotel. On Friday, they persuaded Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Gerald Rosenberg to order Simpson not to dispose of the ring until they can find it. Rosenberg also ordered memorabilia dealer Alfred Beardsley to appear on Nov. 19 and produce the...

The saying “As goes California, so goes the Nation,” never has been more true than for Domestic Violence Awareness Month 2008. On October 14, the California courts led the nation in bringing public awareness to a previously hidden Domestic Violence issue — that of battered men — and subsequently ruled that battered men deserve equal protection under the law. ... cont.

LOS ANGELES -- O.J. Simpson, locked in jail and pondering his future, feels hopeful he will win a new trial on appeal because he believes jury interviews show "he was absolutely railroaded," his lawyer told The Associated Press. Attorney Yale Galanter said he and colleague Gabriel Grasso have spent extensive time with Simpson discussing his case and found him alternately melancholy and hopeful. "He is really very hopeful now, especially after the jury interviews. He knows that he was absolutely railroaded," Galanter said Friday by telephone from Miami.

It's called schadenfreude -- getting satisfaction out of someone else's troubles. It's not something to be proud of, but I must admit to having enjoyed every second of O. J. Simpson's agony as the court clerk read off a succession of guilty verdicts after his latest trial in Las Vegas. The former football star and double murderer was found guilty of kidnapping and armed robbery, crimes that occurred last year at a hotel in the gambling Mecca. The verdict came in exactly 13 years to the day that Simpson was acquitted of the brutal slashing deaths of his wife Nicole...

WHEN IT WAS REVEALED that Lionel Cryer, the male juror who flashed O. J. Simpson a black-power salute right after the verdict in the criminal trial, was once a member of the Black Panther Party, the Simpson case finally found its context. That black fist called up a host of Sixties memories, among them the ghostly voice of criminal-hero Eldridge Cleaver, who taunted the white world in his autobiography, Soul on Ice: "I'm perfectly aware that I'm in prison, that I'm a Negro, that I've been a rapist. . . . My answer to all such things lurking in their...

OJ Attorney Yale Galanter said it was not a happy day for anybody. BUT HE WAS WRONG!!! While most of you were sleeping, the OJ Simpson jury came back with a GUILTY ON ALL CHARGES verdict against Nicole Brown Simpson’s…last visitor. How Galanter can think that this “isn’t a happy day for anyone” is beyond me. Off the top of my head, I can think of a LOT of people who think that this is a HAP-HAP HAPPY DAY…Ron Brown’s family, Nicole Simpson’s family, ME and every single person that I know for starters. As a matter of fact, I...

Revenge comes in many ways. This time OJ Simpson got his comeuppance. He was found guilty of all charges of his robbery trial in Las Vegas.

LAS VEGAS (AP) - O.J. Simpson, who went from American sports idol to celebrity-in-exile after he was acquitted of murder in 1995, was found guilty Friday of robbing two sports-memorabilia dealers at gunpoint in a Las Vegas hotel room. Simpson, 61, could spend the rest of his life in prison. Sentenced was set for Dec. 5. A weary and somber Simpson released a heavy sigh as the charges were read by the clerk in Clark County District Court. He was immediately taken into custody. The Hall of Fame football star was convicted of kidnapping, armed robbery and 10 other charges...

LAS VEGAS -- Jury finds O.J. Simpson guilty in Las Vegas armed robbery-kidnapping trial.

OJ Simpson jury to announce decision tonight in Las Vegas at 10pm Pacific.

LAS VEGAS — The man who arranged the hotel-room confrontation that led to armed robbery and kidnapping charges against O.J. Simpson testified Monday that he received a at least $210,000 from various media outlets including ABC News in exchange for interviews, photos and portions of audio of the incident he recorded secretly.

LAS VEGAS - The judge in O.J. Simpson's armed robbery trial today rejected a request from his attorneys to ask potential jurors if they consider the football great a murderer and asked potential jurors to put aside their feelings about his acquittal in the 1994 slayings of his ex-wife and her friend. On the opening day of Simpson's trial, Clark County District Judge Jackie Glass turned down the bid by his attorneys, saying questionnaires filled out by the jury pool already asked about Simpson's other trials. ...Simpson, 61, faces a dozen charges in connection with the alleged robbery of two...

Cops rushed to the Florida home of O.J. Simpson after his eldest daughter knocked him to the ground in a brawl over his girlfriend Christie Prody, sources said. "Arnelle had a fight with Christie over Christie's behavior. That's what started the whole thing," a source told the Daily News. "Christie has some problems with drinking, and Arnelle got mad. O.J. said 'Don't talk to her like that,' and Arnelle pushed him." The source said Arnelle, 39, called 911 in a fit of guilt after she toppled the 61-year-old on Sunday, giving him a minor head injury. The police report does...

Site pulls slogan after controversy Committeeman linked Obama to O.J. Simpson By David Maccar; Editor A Pemberton GOP committeeman came under heavy scrutiny last week after it was discovered he posted a slogan linking presidential hopeful Sen. Barack Obama to O.J. Simpson on what was called "The Official Website of the Pemberton Township Republicans."The slogan, "Obama Loves America like O.J. Loved Nicole," referring to retired NFL star and his late ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson, was denounced by many as racist. Simpson was tried and acquitted for the murder of Brown and her boyfriend Ronald Goldman in 1994, but was...

TRENTON, N.J. - A local Republican Club in New Jersey has removed a slogan from its Web site that read, "Obama loves America like O.J. loved Nicole." The Pemberton Republican Club removed the slogan after Democrats alleged racist campaign tactics. The club's Web master, Ed Kuck, tells The Philadelphia Inquirer that he saw the slogan on an Internet site and copied it onto the club's Web page as a joke. The chairman of the Burlington County Democratic Committee says comparing Obama to O.J. Simpson was reprehensible.

LAS VEGAS (AP) - O.J. Simpson says an ambitious Nevada prosecutor is pressing a kidnapping and armed robbery case against him that he says even the alleged victims don't want to pursue. "If I was anybody else, I wouldn't be going to court," Simpson told a reporter for Fargo, N.D., radio station KFGO who interviewed him late Tuesday at a Fargo cigar bar. Simpson was vacationing in eastern North Dakota and northwestern Minnesota. "How many trials have you ever heard of where both of the victims say they don't want this guy to go to jail, they don't want to...

(CBS) O.J. Simpson's girlfriend, who had been hospitalized in February after a fall, was back in the hospital, this time with two broken legs and other serious injuries, CBS4 in Miami reported. Florida Highway Patrol Lt. Pat Santangelo said Christie Prody was injured early Saturday morning on the Don Shula Expressway near Miller Drive after she pulled over to an emergency lane because she had two flat tires on her 2-door Mitsubishi. Police say she rode on the flat tires for quite a distance because one of the tires was completely shredded and the other had come off the rim...

LAS VEGAS (AP) _ A man who says he was held up by O.J. Simpson and several other men in a Las Vegas hotel room was arrested on a parole violation Wednesday after a key witness in the case accused him of making threats, authorities said. Alfred Beardsley was taken into custody by parole officials in Santa Ana, Calif., said Jerome Marsh, a spokesman for the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. Beardsley is accused of violating a parole condition imposed in January prohibiting him from contacting collectibles broker Thomas Riccio, Marsh said. Riccio _ who arranged the Sept. 13...

A judge has agreed to delay O.J. Simpson's trial on armed robbery and kidnapping charges to September, defense lawyers said Friday. Simpson lawyer Yale Galanter and attorney John Moran Jr., representing co-defendant Charles Ehrlich emerged from a pre-hearing meeting with Clark County District Court Judge Jackie Glass and said the judge agreed to give them more time to prepare for trial. The judge took the bench minutes later and began hearing challenges to the charges against the former football star and arguments about whether co-defendants Ehrlich and Clarence "C.J." Stewart should be tried separately. Glass said she would issue her...

O.J. Simpson's girlfriend Christie Prody was hospitalized Tuesday in Miami for what police are calling a "severe head injury," Entertainment Tonight has reported. An anonymous caller reported a woman falling and was taken by Fire Rescue to Baptist Hospital of Miami with a severe head injury, according to a police report obtained by the television show.

So OJ's former agent is publishing a book "How I Helped OJ Get Away with Murder." Mike Gilbert was Simpson's sports agent for 18 years. Now he's really cashing in. The story says "Some of the proceeds from the book have been pledged to the Make-a-Wish foundation." Just some? That's Gilbert's way of diverting attention from his blatant attempt to make money off of his low-life, creepy efforts to put a murderer back on the streets. "Some proceeds" isn't repentance. How about all? How about begging for forgiveness from the families crushed first by the murder of their children then...

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Banner Up According to FOX Simpson is on his way to Las Vegas to jail.