Broadcasting legend Mike Wallace has died, CBS News announced on Sunday.
He was 93. Wallace died on Saturday night in a long-term care center in New Canaan, Connecticut. He was surrounded by family.
Wallace had been ill for years. Bob Scheiffer revealed the circumstances of his death on "Face the Nation," after Charles Osgood first announced that he had passed on "CBS News Sunday Morning."
Wallace was one of the original hosts and correspondents of "60 Minutes." He was a trailblazer, known for confronting his subjects and originating the newsmagazine format. His style became standard for television news.
The famously tough newsman came down hard on the likes of Barbra Streisand, Vladimir Putin and Louis Farrakhan during his four-decades long tenure at the show. He joined "60 Minutes" at its inception in 1968, and retired at the age of 88 in 2006. He continued to do occasional interviews until 2008.
On Sunday, Schieffer and Morley Safer paid...
He was 93. Wallace died on Saturday night in a long-term care center in New Canaan, Connecticut. He was surrounded by family.
Wallace had been ill for years. Bob Scheiffer revealed the circumstances of his death on "Face the Nation," after Charles Osgood first announced that he had passed on "CBS News Sunday Morning."
Wallace was one of the original hosts and correspondents of "60 Minutes." He was a trailblazer, known for confronting his subjects and originating the newsmagazine format. His style became standard for television news.
The famously tough newsman came down hard on the likes of Barbra Streisand, Vladimir Putin and Louis Farrakhan during his four-decades long tenure at the show. He joined "60 Minutes" at its inception in 1968, and retired at the age of 88 in 2006. He continued to do occasional interviews until 2008.
On Sunday, Schieffer and Morley Safer paid...
- 4/8/2012
- by Katherine Fung
- Aol TV.
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By Lance Williams
From 2000 to 2004, the Oakland Athletics were the greatest baseball team that never won the pennant.
Film fans can get that idea from "Moneyball," the new Brad Pitt movie about Billy Beane, the club's computer-genius general manager.
In that stretch, the A's won 98 games per year - 20 in a row at one point. First baseman Jason Giambi and shortstop Miguel Tejada both were named the American League's Most Valuable Player, and pitcher Barry Zito won the Cy Young Award. Oakland was in the playoffs four straight years - and lost in the first round every time.
There's another idea fans might not get from the movie: The "Moneyball" A's were loaded with steroid users.
Nine men who played for the A's between 2000 and 2004 used banned drugs, according to the Mitchell Report, former U.S. Sen. George Mitchell's official investigation of baseball's steroid era.
By Lance Williams
From 2000 to 2004, the Oakland Athletics were the greatest baseball team that never won the pennant.
Film fans can get that idea from "Moneyball," the new Brad Pitt movie about Billy Beane, the club's computer-genius general manager.
In that stretch, the A's won 98 games per year - 20 in a row at one point. First baseman Jason Giambi and shortstop Miguel Tejada both were named the American League's Most Valuable Player, and pitcher Barry Zito won the Cy Young Award. Oakland was in the playoffs four straight years - and lost in the first round every time.
There's another idea fans might not get from the movie: The "Moneyball" A's were loaded with steroid users.
Nine men who played for the A's between 2000 and 2004 used banned drugs, according to the Mitchell Report, former U.S. Sen. George Mitchell's official investigation of baseball's steroid era.
- 10/25/2011
- Huffington Post
Pundits and politicians are furiously debating the merits of President Barack Obama’s having being named the fourth U.S. president to receive a Nobel Peace Prize. Supporters agree with the Stockholm committee’s assertions that he has actually tamped down tensions across the globe through his “extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples,” through his commitment to nuclear arms reduction, through his exceptional oratory—his “race” speech in Philadelphia; his Inaugural Address (“we will extend a hand if you are willing to unclench your fist”), his “outreach” speech in Cairo. Detractors (and even White House aides) are, in the words of ABC News, utterly nonplussed. Fellow Nobel laureate Lech Walesa, the former Solidarity leader, who became the president of Poland, might have said it best, when told of Obama’s milestone: “Who? What? So fast?... There hasn't been any contribution to peace yet. He's proposing things,...
- 10/9/2009
- Vanity Fair
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