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IRVING, Texas -- Get your popcorn ready: Terrell Owens is coming to prime time Wednesday night. As an actor. T.O. will make his sitcom acting debut on the MyNetworkTV show "Under One Roof" as the long-lost brother of the show's star, Flavor Flav. Owens tries convincing Flav and sitcom sibling Kelly Perine that they're all brothers in hopes of getting them to invest in his Web site. "I see dollar signs," Owens said in an interview with The Associated Press. "I'm trying to kind of smooth my way into the family, but Flav is not buying it. It's a lot...

Terrell Owens breaks down, and it harkens to the not-so-distant-past for Charlie.

With so much time on the track, you would think Cotton Owens has seen it all. "In 1964, I drove my last race," he remembers. But what the Nascar legend witnessed Thursday morning, nearly broke his heart.

"Dallas Cowboys wide receiver Terrell Owens has been fined $35,000 today for spitting on Atlanta defensive back DeAngelo Hall in Saturday's 38-28 win over the Falcons. Owens won't be suspended for the Cowboys' Christmas Day NFC East showdown with the Eagles. "We are confirming that Terrell Owens has been fined $35,000," said NFL vice president of public relations Greg Aiello in a phone interview. "It falls under unsportsmanlike conduct..."

Days of blood and debt and fire define Bill Owens' years as governor. Nights of grief and worry. The eager young conservative elected in 1998 is a remade man today. Accomplished. Scarred. More interesting. After eight years as governor, Owens will leave office next month, having put his imprint on Colorado and its politics. Views of his legacy are as stormy as his times. Owens first ran for the office in a more innocent era, on a cozy and concise platform, promising to build roads, boost schools and cut taxes. And then he was governor and confronted almost immediately by...

The Cato Institute in Washington, D.C. gave Gov. Bill Owens a D grade for his fiscal performance during his last year in office in a report released this week. The Libertarian-leaning think tank releases a report card every two years for all 50 governors based on 23 criteria gathered from various sources, such as the U.S. census and budget data provided by state governments. According to the report, Owens “engineered one of the biggest falls from grace in this report card’s 16-year history.” The institute blasted Owens for his support of Referendum C, which was passed by voters last November...

Why is he here? Frustrated T.O. wants to know Associated Press IRVING, Texas -- Terrell Owens screamed it on the sideline against Philadelphia, in the locker room after a loss and repeated it again Wednesday: "Why am I here?" The volatile receiver admits he's frustrated with his role on the Dallas Cowboys, but not simply because he's off to his worst start in years. According to T.O., he'd be fine if Dallas was winning and he had mediocre statistics. It's the Cowboys being 2-2 combined with the reduced numbers that he can't tolerate. "I do have a problem when I...

5 minutes ago DALLAS - Terrell Owens was taken to the emergency room for an undisclosed reason Tuesday night, and doctors treating the Dallas Cowboys receiver were trying to induce vomiting, according to a television report.

Controversial Dallas Player Tells Authorities He Overdosed On Painkillers (CBS News) DALLAS Controversial Dallas Cowboys wide receiver Terrell Owens has told police he tried to kill himself by overdosing on pain medication, even putting two more pills into his mouth after a friend intervened. A Dallas police report released Wednesday morning said Owens told his friend "that he was depressed." The friend, who is not identified in the report, "noticed that (his) prescription pain medication was empty and observed (Owens) putting two pills in his mouth," the police report said. The friend attempted to pry them out with her fingers,...

Dateline 20 September 2006 In less than two months time America will elect the last Congress of George W Bush’s Presidency, and more than half the states – including New York – will elect a governor. New York is one of the states with an open gubernatorial election, so even if the result was in doubt we could still be sure the state was getting a new governor. In mid-term elections I like to list the gubernatorial candidates I believe most deserve to win and those who most deserve to lose. Four years ago the results – when compared with...

Most of the speculation of who will be the next President focuses on senators, who almost always lose. This article examines some of the other potential nominees who have gotten less attention. Keep in mind that most presidential nominees were not among the most-discussed candidates two years before the election. Sonny Purdue is the most popular governor of any state with more than five electoral votes, and his overall approval ratings have taken off while he takes on more and more positions which drive Democratic voters nuts: reversing his Democratic predecessor's centralization of pedagogic education, refusing to allow aliens to...

What's The Scoop: Wide receiver Terrell Owens rested his sore left hamstring again Friday morning after missing his first practice of training camp Thursday. Dressed in sweats and a baseball cap, Owens watched while the Cowboys practiced for two hours on a soggy River Ridge Complex field. Cowboys head coach Bill Parcells said he didn't know when Owens would return to practice, but he wasn't concerned about his star receiver's hamstring. And Owens said Thursday he and the team are simply being cautious. "I don't know that he has an injury," Parcells said. "I think he's worried about it. That's...

DENVER - Ask any politician to handicap the 2008 presidential campaign and you'll probably get the same answer: It's more than a year away, and a year is a lifetime in politics. A cliche, to be sure. But also true. Consider the case of Gov. Bill Owens of Colorado. A few years back, he seemed destined to join the pack seeking the 2008 Republican presidential nomination. He won a second term in a landslide. National Review magazine put him on the cover and called him "The Best Governor in America." Conservative columnists touted him for 2008. Yet Owens, 55, isn't...

April 4, 2006 Press Release No. 06-17 Contact: Oliver Wolf, (412) 760-5482 ******MEDIA ADVISORY****** EVENT LISTING: Saturday, April 8 10:00 AM-5:00 PM. Maine College Republican State Convention. The Portland Club, 156 State Street, Portland. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Maine College Republicans to Hold Annual State Convention in Portland U.S. Senator Snowe, Colorado Governor Owens to Deliver Keynote Addresses AUGUSTA - The Maine College Republicans will hold the organization’s annual State Convention on Saturday, April 8 from 10:00 AM-5:00 PM. The State Convention will be held at the Portland Club in Portland. U.S. Senator Olympia Snowe will deliver the event’s main keynote...

BUCK OWENS PASSES AWAY Bakersfield, Ca By: Kyle Brown 1:36 PM Saturday, March 25th, 2006 03-25-2006 KUZZ Radio owner and Country Music Hall of Fame musician Alvis E. "Buck" Owens died early Saturday morning at his Bakersfield, CA home. His family says Buck died in his sleep and the cause of death is not yet known. Buck was born on August 12, 1929 in Sherman, Texas. The son of a sharecropper, Buck traveled with his family to the Phoenix, Arizona area in 1937 as they searched for a better life. Eventually, they traveled to California's San Joaquin Valley, doing farm...

IRVING, Texas - Six years ago, he became the villain. And he played that role to the fullest. In fact, two years ago, the most-hated player among Cowboys fans joined forces with one of the team's most-hated rivals. But now Terrell Owens is no longer on the other side. In fact, he's hoping to become a new Cowboys hero. While that will not happen overnight, what did occur with rather swiftly was the Cowboys finalizing a deal with the free-agent wide receiver and introducing him to the media Saturday afternoon here at the teams' Valley Ranch headquarters. Yes, it's official....

DALLAS -- The Dallas Cowboys called a 3:30 p.m. Eastern time news conference Saturday at which they were expected to announce the signing of volatile wide receiver Terrell Owens. The Cowboys are not saying what the news conference is about, but earlier Saturday, an official involved in the negotiations told The Associated Press a deal was close. Owens is among the most talented receivers in the NFL, but he's also been one of the most divisive personalities in the game. He left San Francisco on bad terms and was released by Philadelphia last week after causing more turmoil with that...

Report: T.O. has agreement in principle with Cowboys ESPN.com news services Terrell Owens may have found his home on the range. The talented and volatile wide receiver, unwanted in Philadephia after a season-long squabble with management and quarterback Donovan McNabb, has reached an agreement in principle with the Dallas Cowboys, the Dallas Morning News reported, citing two unnamed sources. The sources told the Morning News a formal announcement was expected in the next few days. No terms of the agreement were reported. The newspaper said it could not reach team owner Jerry Jones, club spokesman Rich Dalrymple or Owens' agent,...

Governor Bill Owens of Colorado has cut through the cant about "free speech" and come to the defense of a 16-year-old high school student who tape-recorded his geography teacher using class time to rant against President Bush and compare him to Hitler. The teacher's lawyer talks about First Amendment rights to free speech but free speech has never meant speech free of consequences. Even aside from laws against libel or extortion, you can insult your boss or your spouse only at your own risk. Unfortunately, there is much confusion about both free speech and academic freedom. At too many schools...

ANNAPOLIS, Md. -- Lamar Owens, quarterback of Navy's 2005 football squad, has been charged with raping a female midshipmen last month in her dormitory room, the academy announced Wednesday. "These charges are accusations, and Midshipman Owens is presumed innocent until proven otherwise," academy spokesman Cmdr. Rod Gibbons said. Since the alleged attack last month occurred on academy grounds, Owens was charged under the Uniform Code of Military Justice, and the investigation is being handled by the Naval Criminal Investigation Service, Gibbons said. The academy did not release the name of the woman. Gibbons said the academy was offering her support...

A figure of speech, some say of the quarterback’s “black-on-black crime” remark. Others say it fans flames. Hear what fans have to say. During the lead-up to the world's biggest sporting extravaganza, the Super Bowl, Donovan McNabb fires off a salvo for the world to hear: Terrell Owens' criticism of his quarterbacking skills last season was "black-on-black crime." Black-on-black crime? A careless choice of words, given the daily tragedies in Philadelphia and other cities, or intentionally loaded? Or just a figure of speech? From the streets of Philadelphia, inside barbershops, and all day over the radio airwaves yesterday, people weighed...

While most NFL teams slow down in their off-season, Terrell Owens' off-season is just heating up. Denver sources have told FOXSports.com that the Pro Bowl wide receiver and his agent Drew Rosenhaus went to Denver on Monday to meet with Broncos officials at the house of coach Mike Shanahan. Shanahan wasn't present at the meeting, according to sources, but others in the organization met privately with Owens. Owens and his agent have been given permission to seek a trade out of Philadelphia. And teams such as Denver, Dallas, Tampa Bay and Miami have been linked to his services.

***Full length version of the 2 hour debate video links are below *** For years, the issue of immigration was little more than a murmur. But now, many people are clamoring for change. Americans are increasingly saying we've come to a fork in the road -- a time to rethink how we define ourselves as a nation. To advance the immigration debate, 9NEWS gathered together activists and politicians representing a wide range of views on this subject. We have streamed the entire two-hour town meeting held Saturday, Jan. 7 at the University of Denver's Gates Concert Hall. Our panelists: Rep....

Terrell Owens doesn't need to score touchdowns to celebrate.Exiled from the Philadelphia Eagles last month, the All-Pro wide receiver known for his flamboyant end-zone theatrics hosted a birthday party Monday night at rapper Jay-Z's 40-40 club. T.O. turned 32 on Dec. 7.The bash drew several NFL stars, some of Owens' former Eagles teammates and a few celebrities.Among the celebrities on the guest list were Jamie Foxx, Will Smith, Paris Hilton, Jessica Simpson and the Rev. Jesse Jackson.

State workers told not to post remarks from state computers Rocky Mountain News December 9, 2005 Gov. Bill Owens on Thursday warned state employees that they would be subject to disciplinary action if they use state computers to post comments on political Web sites. The directive came after the Rocky Mountain News informed the governor that anonymous and sometimes caustic postings from someone using the nickname "Real Deal" had been traced to a computer in the governor's office, which has more than 100 computers. "Real Deal" has taken potshots at Republican "flunkies" and Democratic U.S. Sen. Ken Salazar. The user...

  Pass interference Tuesday, December 6, 2005 U. S. Sen. Arlen Specter -- who conjured up the magic-bullet theory in the JFK assassination, invoked Scottish law in the Clinton impeachment and effectively created a verb: "bork" -- has come up with another issue to marginalize himself: Terrell Owens. Mr. Specter has inserted himself into a labor dispute involving Mr. Owens, a big-mouthed wide receiver suspended from playing in the NFL and for the Philadelphia Eagles after his words came back to bite him. An arbiter determined the suspension did not violate the labor agreement between the league and the NFL...

Senator Specter Says T.O. Is Being Blacklisted By KYW's Tony Romeo Pennsylvania U.S. Senator Arlen Specter says he is looking into the Terrell Owens situation, saying the former Eagles receiver is being "blacklisted" from football. Senator Specter, like fellow Philadelphian Governor Ed Rendell, is a huge Eagles fan. As to the impact Terrell Owens has had on the Eagles’ season, Specter says he’s "madder than hell." But, he says, Owens has not committed a crime, and that the punishment being imposed on Owens is "vindictive" and "inappropriate." "And I believe a man or a woman has a right to undertake...

This is ridiculous. Report: Eagles WR Owens suspension to be reduced November 23, 2005 NEW YORK (Ticker) - Terrell Owens may get his wish after all. According to a report in Newsday, arbitrator Richard Bloch is expected to reduce Owens' four-game suspension from four games to one or two games later Wednesday. Owens was suspended four games by Reid for conduct detrimental to the team November 9. The NFL Players Association is seeking to have the suspension reduced and wants the Eagles to cut Owens if they have no intention of playing him again. The report indicates that the Eagles,...

For immediate release. ESPN is proud to announce the lanching of our newest network, ESPNTO. ESPNTO will focus solely on NFL player Terrell Owens. "With 25% to 33% of exisiting programs such as 'SportsCenter' and 'PTI' being devoted to Terrell Owens, this is the next natural step", said ESPN President George Bodenheimer. The new network will feature endless clips of "T.O." ranting at teamates, his exciting touchdown celebrations, and of course T.O. doing situps in the driveway of his home. The latter will be aired at least once an hour. Additionally, you can plan on ESPN reporters staking out his...

T.O.'s a mess, but Philly asked for it Story Tools: Print Email XML John Czarnecki / FOXSports.com The Eagles knew what they were getting into when they signed Terrell Owens. You could even say they played a major role in the end results. Consequently, the Eagles got exactly what they deserved. A locker room divided, a quarterback upset and now a team that is one huge playmaker short of making the playoffs. How can anyone blame the Eagles? Easy. The contract they presented....

MOORESTOWN, N.J. - A contrite Terrell Owens, hoping to overturn his dismissal from the Philadelphia Eagles, on Tuesday apologized to coach Andy Reid, quarterback Donovan McNabb, the team's owner and president, and fans.

Taking on T.O. Eagles' Owens blew crucial play in loss to Falcons Posted: Thursday September 15, 2005 9:56AM I think Terrell Owens short-armed the ball on a crucial pass play at the end of the Eagles' 14-10 loss to the Falcons last Monday night. Which means he gave up on the catch, either through loss of concentration or fatigue. I wouldn't go so far as to accuse him of chickening out, which usually goes with the short-reach approach. Others might not agree, certainly not John Madden or Al Michaels, who were into their end-of-game wrap-up stuff, such as which quarterback...

McNabb to Owens: Stop Talking About Me By DAN GELSTON, AP Sports Writer1 hour, 46 minutes ago Donovan McNabb insisted he wasn't stung by criticism from Terrell Owens, laughing off the banished wide receiver's remarks before turning serious and telling him to "keep my name out of your mouth." While Owens left his home for the Bahamas, McNabb joked with reporters, tapped the mikes and rubbed his hands together before taking his seat inside a jammed media tent shortly after Philadelphia's Friday practice. "Yeah! C'mon, bring it!" McNabb said to laughter. Owens again blasted McNabb on two separate interviews with...

BETHLEHEM, Pa. (AP) -- A day after they booted Terrell Owens out of training camp, the Philadelphia Eagles took an even harder stance on their star's contract dispute: T.O. can play for the Eagles or he won't play at all. Team president Joe Banner said Thursday that when the banished wide receiver returns to camp next week, it will be without the new contract he desperately wants and with an understanding that he can no longer become a disruption. ''Our hope, obviously, is that he comes back next week and is what he can be in every sense, whether that's...

Report: Owens leaves Eagles campThere are reports this afternoon that wide receiver Terrell Owens exchanged words with Head Coach Andy Reid at a team meeting and was asked to leave.Owens then got his belongings and cleared out of Eagles training camp at Lehigh University, according to one television report.The Inquirer will update and confirm this information as soon as possible.

Governor vetoes 28th bill of session posted by: Dan Viens Web Producer DENVER - Colorado Governor Bill Owens vetoed four bills Tuesday, which makes 28 for the 2005 session. Twenty-eight vetoes is the most in recent history. In 1997 then-Governor Roy Romer vetoed 27 bills. The bills Owens killed Wednesday included preventing law changes for construction project liability and one that would block restrictions on xeriscaping for some developments. (Copyright by KUSA-TV, All Rights Reserved)

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- A bid to end the Senate standoff over President Bush's judicial picks would let five nominees advance to a final vote while preserving the right of a minority of senators to block two others. A draft of the deal, which CNN obtained Thursday, would allow confirmation votes on five of the seven nominees Democrats have blocked -- including Priscilla Owen, whose nomination to the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals faces debate in the Senate this week.

Tonight the compromise allowed three judges for an up and down and vote. These judges Prior, Owens, Rogers Brown were the most abused by the Democrats, the left wing liberals, and their media whores. These were the most extreme of the extraordinary circumstances of the all President Bush nominees and any future filibuster will be very difficult once these three judges are approved. Moreover, and most importantly, if when there is a vacancy in the US Supreme Court, President Bush can appoint any of these three judges to the SCOTUS and no one can filibuster them. It is over we...

As the battle over judicial nominees and the role of the filibuster reaches its decisive moment, let's remember that more is at stake than the rules and procedures of the Senate. Resorting to half-truths and invective to advance a political objective — the establishment of a new 60-vote supermajority requirement for the confirmation of federal judges — is deeply unfair to those who have spent a lifetime building reputations for fairness and intellectual probity. Take the case of two women now at the center of the filibuster controversy, Justices Priscilla Owen and Janice Rogers Brown. In describing Justices Owen and...

T here may be worse things you can call a judge, but "judicial activist" has become one of today's top epithets. President Bush makes clear he doesn't want them in the federal judiciary; he opposes judges who legislate from the bench. And even liberals who so often celebrate the latest judge-made law and the republic's "living Constitution" -- in brief, champions of judicial activism -- tell us that there's really no such thing as a judicial activist. They're just judges doing the old-fashioned job of judging. Except, when they're telling us there are conservative judicial activists. You know, the ones...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Tracey Schmitt 202-863-8614 Call For An End To Democrat Obstruction Of Highly Qualified Women  Washington, DC – House Republican Conference Chair Deborah Pryce was joined by NRSC Chair Elizabeth Dole, Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison, female Republican members of the U.S. House and over 100 other Republican women this afternoon to rally for a vote on two highly qualified judicial nominees.Priscilla Owen and Janice Rogers Brown have had their nominations to the federal judiciary blocked by an unprecedented filibuster by Senate Democrats. Today’s rally called for an end to the Democrat obstruction and focused on the need...

Mayor John Hickenlooper ruled out a run for governor in an e-mail sent to city employees Friday, but some say he didn't completely shut the door. The e-mail comes on the heels of a Time magazine article this week that anointed Hickenlooper one of the five top big-city mayors in the nation and has led to increased speculation about his political future. "As you may be aware, there has been much speculation in the media about whether I should run or will run for governor in 2006," he wrote. "Let me assure you, I'm not - nor have I been...

SEC. 2. IMPLEMENTATION OF PUBLIC INTEREST STANDARDS. Section 309 of the Communications Act of 1934 (47 U.S.C. 309) is amended by adding at the end the following new subsection: `(l) Implementation of Public Interest Standard- `(1) PURPOSE- The purposes of this subsection are-- `(A) to restore fairness in broadcasting; `(B) to ensure that broadcasters meet their public interest obligations; `(C) to promote diversity, localism, and competition in American media; and `(D) to ensure that all radio and television broadcasters-- `(i) are accountable to the local communities they are licensed to serve; `(ii) offer diverse views on issues of public importance,...

On a 10-8 vote, Priscilla Owen has just gotten through the Senate Judiciary Committee. Now heads to the Senate floor for a full vote -- All up to Majority Leader Frist as to when.

A Hispanic legislator has given up on his attempt to get in- state college tuition status for illegal immigrants. Rep. Val Vigil, D-Thornton, said he had plenty of backers in both parties but not enough clout for the measure to both pass the legislature and withstand a potential veto by Gov. Bill Owens. And that's because not enough Hispanics vote, he said. Fewer than half the eligible Hispanics in Colorado voted for president in 2000, he said. Vigil wants illegal immigrants who have gone to high school in Colorado for at least three years to qualify for the same in-state...

A vote on their nominations Thursday could lead to long-awaited showdown over the federal courts. With tomorrow's committee vote on three of President Bush's most controversial judicial nominations, the Senate - urged on by some of the most powerful interests in Washington - is poised for a long-awaited showdown over the federal courts. Each has been nominated before - and denied a vote on the floor of the Senate based on arguments ranging from incompetence to extremism. But this time, Senate GOP leaders say a Democratic filibuster will not stand. They threaten a rule change that Democrats warn will shut...

DENVER--Governor Bill Owens, a Republican, has been crisscrossing the country for years promoting the virtues of this state's strict constitutional limits on government spending. He has repeatedly urged other states to adopt restrictions of their own, based on Colorado's Taxpayer Bill of Rights amendment, known as TABOR. But this summer, Owens says, he will traverse his own mountainous state pushing the opposite message. Midway through his second term, Owens is working to persuade Coloradans to suspend the limits he championed and let the state government spend $3 billion more in tax money than TABOR would allow. Owens thus becomes another...

Gov. Bill Owens stood in the bipartisan light of a news conference at the state Capitol on Thursday when he and lawmakers from both parties announced their budget deal. But in conference rooms and hallways and as far away as Washington, D.C., the Republican governor's endorsement of what opponents see as a $3.1 billion tax hike set off more conservative tempers. Owens met with House Republicans before the news conference to explain his position, saying that he is still a "fiscal conservative." But longtime political allies say that rings hollow. "That's over," said Grover Norquist, head of Americans for Tax...

Colorado Lt. Gov. Jane Norton ended speculation that she would run for governor in 2006, saying today she had no plans to do so. Norton, a Republican who served as executive director of the state Department of Public Health and Environment for four years before joining Gov. Bill Owens' ticket in 2002, had been mentioned as a possible candidate. She did not elaborate on her decision. Republican state Treasurer Mike Coffman has formed an exploratory committee for the office, and University of Denver President Marc Holtzman, a Republican, has said he will leave the school by the end of this...

I ask this because of a recent tidbit I read in the weekly column of my local newspaper.Ironically enough, under a subsection of the paper entitled TIDBITS. It seems that Chris Owens, the less than sterling son of an already incompetent congressman, i.e., Major Owens, has decided to take Mayor Bloomberg to task for his decision to ask the city's corporation counsel to appeal Magaret Ling-Cohen's recent court injunction-which she has temporarily stayed-overturning the state's prohibtion against same-sex "marriage."Now, I don't want to debate the relative merits-or lack thereof-of this judge's decison. Rather, I would like to explore the analogy...