Word: tomlinson
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...your top pick? [San Diego Chargers running back] LaDainian Tomlinson...
...police marksmen mistook Brazilian Jean Charles de Menezes for a terrorist and fatally shot him as he boarded an underground train at Stockwell station. More recently, in April, as U.S. President Barack Obama and other world leaders arrived in the city for a G-20 summit, news vendor Ian Tomlinson was making his way home past a climate camp that had been erected in the financial district when he was pushed to the ground by a policeman. He later died from internal bleeding. Prosecutors are deciding whether to bring charges against the officer. The Met is seeking to redeem itself...
...participants to assemble at points across the city that were selected for their resonance. These included not only the London headquarters of totemic bogey corporations for the eco movement, such as mining giant Rio Tinto and energy company E-ON, but also the sites linked with de Menezes' and Tomlinson's deaths. (See video of the G-20 protests in London in April...
Alexander wasn't exactly right. San Diego Chargers RB LaDainian Tomlinson declined the offer in 2007, though not because he was superstitious; Tomlinson's reps weren't swayed by the reported $100,000 to $200,000 deal EA Sports, the game's manufacturer, offers players for use of their likeness. But even among a group renowned for being superstitious - athletes have tried to bust slumps by donning women's underwear, eating the same meal each day and performing elaborate foul-line rituals - talk of a Madden Curse doesn't seem to have caught much traction. And for good reason. Most...
...Cornell got back within one in the top of the seventh on a two-run bomb from Jessy Berkey, but Brown struck out Tomlinson to get the save in 3.2 innings of relief...