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By Milton Kent - AOL NewsOne month after cutting ties with the most successful general manager in the history of the franchise, the Washington Mystics of the WNBA cut loose the most successful coach the team has ever had on Monday. The Mystics then hired Trudi Lacey, the team's director of scouting to replace former general manager Angela Taylor and former coach Julie Plank. In a hastily convened conference call Monday, Sheila Johnson, the Mystics' president and managing general partner, explained that the organization and Taylor could not reach agreement on a new contract, which, presumably, would have meant a pay ...
Mocking a Candidate's Stutter: Creigh Deeds Gets An Apology
By Jill Lawrence - Politics DailyBob McDonnell, the Republican candidate for governor of Virginia, scored a coup by winning an endorsement from Sheila Johnson, co-founder of Black Entertainment Television. But Johnson didn't do McDonnell any favors the other day at a rally in Hampton Roads, when she made fun of the way Democrat Creigh Deeds talks. Here's video footage taken by the Deeds campaign's McDonnell "tracker" (both sides have them to keep tabs on the opposition and, perhaps, capture the perfect "gotcha" moment). Deeds doesn't have a constant stutter, but he sometimes speaks haltingly. Deeds adviser Mo Elleithee ...
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