Monday, March 30, 2009

Jane Hajduk

Tim Allen's actress wife Jane Hajduk has given birth to a baby daughter, Entertainment Tonight has exclusively reported. Providing more details on the news, the media's Mary Hart writes down that the newborn infant is named Elizabeth. Born in Los Angeles on Saturday, March 28, Elizabeth weighed in at 5 pounds, 13 ounces. "The couple is thrilled at the arrival of their new baby and are doing great," Tim's publicist, Marleah Leslie, confirms to Entertainment Tonight.
Elizabeth is the first child for Tim Allen and Jane Hajduk. The celebrity couple has been married since October 2006. As for Tim, he previously was married to Laura Diebel, with whom he also has one daughter named Katherine, born in 1989. Personal life aside, Tim can next be seen starring in numerous big screen flicks, including "Crazy on the Outside" and "The Six Wives of Henry Lefay". Besides, he will also lend his voice in "Toy Story 3".
Actor Tim Allen and his wife Jane Hajduk welcomed a new baby daughter over the weekend in Los Angeles. Elizabeth Allen weighed in at 5 pounds 13 ounces and arrived on March 29. Hajduk is a television and voice actress and has worked with Allen in Zoom and The Shaggy Dog. Tim has a couple of films in the works: Crazy on the Outside is due to release later this year and Toy Story 3 is slated for 2010.

John Calipari

John Calipari has taken a place on Kentucky’s radar in its search to replace Billy Gillispie, multiple sources told ESPN.com’s Dana O’Neil and Pat Forde. On Friday, a source told O’Neil that Calipari ‘likely would not be interested’ in the job but on Sunday, multiple sources said Calipari is indeed interested. A source also said Kentucky was gathering information on Calipari over the weekend.
According to Memphis sports information director Lamar Chance, Kentucky officials have not contacted Memphis for permission to speak to Calipari. Other names tossed out in the ESPN report are former Wildcat players including current Oklahoma State coach Travis Ford and current Arkansas coach John Pelphry. Non-Kentucky guys Sean Miller (Xavier) and Thad Matta (Ohio State) are also mentioned. Tom Izzo is discussed, but more in terms of why he is not a candidate than why he would be.
But let’s circle back and discuss John Calipari. My knee jerk reaction to John Calipari-to-Kentucky rumors is that he would not be a good choice for Kentucky, but a great choice. Say what you will about Calipari’s recruiting tactics or his academic standards or his less than sterling reputation with some of his peers, but the guy knows how to build a winning college basketball program (at least on the floor).

Sunday, March 29, 2009

Gunmen storm Pakistan police academy

At least 20 people were killed Monday after gunmen stormed a Pakistan police training school near the eastern city of Lahore, police officials told AFP.Paramilitary soldiers, armed and wearing flak jackets and helmets, opened fire and fanned out around the perimeter of the site, which was surrounded by scores of police cars and armoured vehicles, an AFP reporter said.Television footage showed bodies of policemen lying face down on the parade ground as heavy gunfire rattled out of the training ground at Manawan outside Pakistan's cultural capital Lahore.

Other police officials said the number of casualties may be higher given the heavy crossfire between the attackers holed up at the training centre and paramilitary troops who fanned around the perimeter of the ground.Police officials declined to say how many people had been killed or wounded but state television reported at least four dead."Unknown gunmen have attacked the police training school, we have called in elite forces," senior police official Mumtaz Sukhera told reporters.

The attack came weeks after another attackers armed with guns and grenades mounted a coordinated assault on Sri Lanka's touring cricket team on March 3, killing eight people and wounding seven members of the squad.Officials said that assault bore the hallmarks of the November 2008 attack on the Indian financial capital of Mumbai, which was blamed on Pakistan-based Islamic militants and killed 165 people.Much of the unrest has been concentrated in northwest Pakistan, where the army has been bogged down fighting Taliban militants and Al-Qaeda extremists.

Last month Zardari's government suspended Punjab's provincial assembly and administration, imposing central rule after a court ruling disqualifying its chief minister Shahbaz Sharif -- brother of Pakistan's opposition leader Nawaz Sharif.Extremists opposed to the Pakistan government's decision to side with the United States in its "war on terror" have carried out a series of bombings and other attacks that have killed nearly 1,700 people in less than two years.
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