Greece: 2 hurt in attack on soccer coach's home

Associated Press Sports

updated 12:03 p.m. ET June 28, 2012

ATHENS, Greece (AP) - Two people were wounded in a shootout after armed robbers invaded the Athens home of PAOK Thessaloniki football (soccer) coach Giorgos Donis and briefly held his father-in-law hostage on Thursday, police said.

The shooting occurred in Athens' upscale Kifissia area. A police officer was shot in the leg and an alleged armed robber was also wounded.

The two gunmen were arrested following a large police operation involving a helicopter and dozens of officers on foot and on motorcycles. One of the alleged attackers was identified as a 25-year-old Albanian man, while the second man was not immediately identified.

Jewelry snatched by the robbers was also recovered, police said.

The 42-year-old Donis, a former Greek National team midfielder and player for Blackburn Rovers and Sheffield United in England, was not present when two men entered his home, holding his wife's parents and two children at gunpoint.

Police were alerted after Donis' wife was returning home and apparently spotted the gunmen through a window. She alerted police guards posted outside the neighboring home of former Finance Minister George Papaconstantinou. Police said the gunmen briefly took her father hostage as they left the building, before letting him go unharmed.

Armed robbery has risen sharply in Greece since the country's major financial crisis broke out in late 2009.

Donis took over at financially struggling PAOK at the end of the season, after coaching top-flight club Atromitos and taking them to the Greek Cup Final for two successive years.

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Roush gives Stenhouse the nod to replace Kenseth

FILE - This May 27, 2010 file photo shows Matt Kenseth before qualifying for the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Coca-Cola 600 auto race at Charlotte Motor Speedway in Concord, N.C. NASCAR points leader Kenseth is leaving Roush Fenway Racing at the end of the season, and Ricky Stenhouse Jr. will be promoted to his seat in the Sprint Cup Series. Kenseth has won 22 Cup races, including two Daytona 500s and the 2003 championship, driving for Jack Roush. He's been in the No. 17 Ford his entire career. (AP Photo/Chuck Burton, File)

FILE - This May 27, 2010 file photo shows Matt Kenseth before qualifying for the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Coca-Cola 600 auto race at Charlotte Motor Speedway in Concord, N.C. NASCAR points leader Kenseth is leaving Roush Fenway Racing at the end of the season, and Ricky Stenhouse Jr. will be promoted to his seat in the Sprint Cup Series. Kenseth has won 22 Cup races, including two Daytona 500s and the 2003 championship, driving for Jack Roush. He's been in the No. 17 Ford his entire career. (AP Photo/Chuck Burton, File)

FILE - This Feb. 28, 2012 file photo shows Matt Kenseth, left, and car owner Jack Roush celebrating in victory lane after Kenseth won the NASCAR Daytona 500 auto race at Daytona International Speedway in Daytona Beach, Fla. NASCAR points leader Kenseth is leaving Roush Fenway Racing at the end of the season, and Ricky Stenhouse Jr. will be promoted to his seat in the Sprint Cup Series. (AP Photo/Terry Renna, File)

(AP) ? Roush Fenway Racing has two young drivers in its stable in need of additional seat time.

Ricky Stenhouse Jr. got the nod this week when the organization picked the defending Nationwide Series champion to replace Matt Kenseth in the Sprint Cup Series when Kenseth leaves at the end of the season.

No announcement was made regarding Trevor Bayne, the 2011 Daytona 500 winner, who just as easily could have gotten the promotion to a full-time Cup ride.

Roush Fenway president Steve Newmark said Wednesday the decision to move Stenhouse up over Bayne was a matter of timing.

"We feel like both of them will be staples in the Cup Series for many years," Newmark said. "But Ricky is completing his third full season in Nationwide, and we haven't even run Trevor one full season yet."

Bayne ran the full Nationwide schedule in 2010, although the first 28 races were with Michael Waltrip Racing. He was scheduled to do the full schedule in 2011, but an illness contracted after a spider bite sidelined him for five races.

Sponsorship woes this season forced RFR to suspend Bayne's Nationwide program after five races. He's now running a limited Cup schedule with The Wood Brothers, an affiliate of Roush and the team Bayne took to Victory Lane last year at Daytona.

Stenhouse, meanwhile, won two races en route to his first Nationwide title. This season, he has three wins and third in the standings.

"The goal for Trevor is to have him do exactly what Ricky is doing right now ? run a full-time Nationwide program and challenge for the championship," Newmark said. "It would be our hope and expectation to have him in that car next season."

Roush has had sponsorship challenges this season: The cars for Kenseth and Stenhouse have limited funding, and the organization is paying out of pocket for some races, while Bayne's team was shuttered when money didn't come through. Roush also let David Ragan go at the end of the season because a lack sponsorship sidelined the No. 6 Cup team for all but one race, the Daytona 500 with Stenhouse.

Newmark said sponsorship wouldn't necessarily be the deciding factor next season for Bayne in the Nationwide Series.

"We've shown before that when it comes to driver development, sponsorship is a factor, but it's not the only factor," he said.

Roush officials are also working on getting Stenhouse into some Cup races this season, but Newmark did not indicate where or when.

And, it's not clear what number Stenhouse will drive next season. He's currently the No. 6 in Nationwide, and that's been a flagship number for Roush in the Cup Series. Kenseth has used the No. 17 for his entire Roush career.

"The number is not something we have put much thought into, but it will be and we'll have a discussion in the coming weeks," Newmark said. "Right now the important focus is on getting him into Cup, not that the number is not important, because it is to Ricky and to Jack. But either way, we have two numbers that are pretty near and dear to Jack's heart."

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PFT: NFL insists bounty evidence 'overwhelming'

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As Commissioner Roger Goodell continues to deliberate the final rulings in the bounty suspension appeals, the league over which he presides continues to declare the players? guilt.

NFL spokesman Greg Aiello said Tuesday, via the Associated Press, that the evidence is ?overwhelming.?

?The investigation was thorough and includes statements from multiple sources with firsthand knowledge about the details of the program, corroborating documentation and other evidence,? Aiello said.? ?The enforcement of the bounty rule is important to protect players that are put at risk by this kind of scheme.?

Aiello?s comments come on the same day that Saints quarterback Drew Brees is questioning via an all-day media blitz the quality of the league?s case, and four days after NFL general counsel Jeff Pash touted the ?mosaic? of evidence that was presented during the June 18 appeal hearings.

?Certainly, Drew Brees would not want to be the target in a bounty scheme and that is why we must eliminate bounties from football,? Aiello said.

Given the league?s views, the appeals should have been denied by now.? As Saints linebacker Jonathan Vilma said Monday, ?What?s this guy waiting on?? Make your ruling so we can get on with phase 2 already.?

Also, the dueling soundbites from the league and Brees further illustrate that, ultimately, the bounty case has become an exercise in semantics.? No players were paid to injure other players.? Instead, the Saints created a system for financially rewarding players who in the normal course of delivering big, clean, legal hits rendered an opponent unable to play in all or part of the remainder of the game.? Though that?s one of the realities of a game in which success is premised partially on attrition, the league believes that creating that kind of incentive could lead to deliberate attempts to injure, whether through legal hits or through illegal hits.

The players believe the NFL has tried to suggest that the Saints were doing something far more sinister than the jobs they?re already paid to do (i.e., hit the other guy as hard as you can, cleanly and legally).? The NFL believes that, regardless of the language used to describe it, the concept of offering players money for rendering opponents unable to continue to play is inherently sinister, and thus unacceptable.

Regardless of how it all plays out, Aiello?s comments make clear that there?s no reason to further delay the rulings on the appeals.? Phase One clearly is over; it?s time to get on with Phase Two.

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Wildlife watch!

A running joke among oceanographers who don?t study whales and dolphins is the fact that everyone *thinks* they study whales and dolphins. For the people onboard who are so committed to their plankton, however, they sure do get excited about dolphins and whales. On Thursday, someone spotted some small whales in the water and as word got around, everyone went running out the door ? literally, scrambling for their cameras and yelling, ?Whales! Whales!?

The ship was surrounded by a pod of pilot whales ? small, toothed whales that look a lot like dolphins.

Looking up what kind of whales these are, I learned a new word: spyhopping. That?s what it?s called when whales and dolphins pop their heads out of the water and look around. I think it?s a great verb, and I plan to use it as much as possible when I get home. Like when I?m sticking my head out my apartment window looking to see if the FexEx truck is coming, or peeking around the corner to see if there?s cheese at an event before deciding to attend.

We?ve also been seeing a lot of birds at this station. Thankfully, the library on the Knorr has a library full of books that help scientists who work with plankton identify seabirds. Turns out the ones we?re seeing are Northern Fulmars. They tend to sit in the water around our boat, which seems to indicate that there?s food for them in the area (or, they think we come bearing food).

We also saw humpback whales the other day, but they were too far away for a good picture. Let?s pretend I took this one ? which in reality came from Wikipedia.

During this trip, I?ll be answering your questions about the science, this boat, and life onboard. Want to know how we search for plankton, why we?re here, or what the food is like? Just ask me! And if you?re wondering how I got here, check out the groups that made this adventure possible: Mind Open Media and COSEE NOW.

Previously in this series:

All Aboard: how you can be a part of our research blog
You wanted to know: what are these phytoplankton?
You wanted to know: what am I bringing to sea?
Greetings from Ponta Delgada! We set sail tomorrow.
Steaming North: how the scientists are trying to find plankton
The superstar sensor: what is a CTD?
Status Update: Day 3 at the Cyclonic Eddy
You wanted to know: what is this virus that infects the phytoplankton (Part One)
You wanted to know: what is this virus that infects the phytoplankton (Part Two)
Plankton hunting: Part art, Part science
You wanted to know: what?s the food like on board?

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SpaceGhostPurrp And A$AP Rocky Rift: Beyond Repair?

It was all good just a week ago, but now SpaceGhostPurrp and A$AP Rocky are at odds.
By Rob Markman


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It was all good just a week ago, but now SpaceGhostPurrp and his Raider Klan have fallen out with A$AP Rocky and the A$AP Mob.

Purrp — who was responsible for producing Rocky's "Keep It G" and "Pretty Flacko" and rhymed alongside Rock on "Purple Swag: Chapter 2" — sat with MTV News in May and broke down his relationship with the A$AP Mob, but last week, he revealed in a YouTube video that their union is no longer.

"We Raider Klan, man. We got our own sh-- going on. And that's how the f--- it is. We ain't A$AP," SpaceGhost said in the video, which has since been taken down. "I showed love to them n---as last year and some sh-- went down and we don't f--- with each other no more."

It was a different story from the one Purrp told MTV News when he sat down with us in May. "Me and the Mob, we reached out to each other through the Internet. We showed love to each other. We had a good time," he said of his A$AP relationship, which has since soured. "I came up to New York and met up with him, we got to know each other real well, and then we just became a little family.

"I'm affiliated with A$AP. If I see him, we still do our handshake, we still got love, we're real close homeys," he added.

Still, Purrp — who released his debut album, Mysterious Phonk: The Chronicles of SpaceGhostPurrp, last week — has always made a clear distinction between the A$AP Mob and his Raider Klan crew, which originated in his hometown of Miami.

The beef is said to have started after Rocky's groupmate, A$AP Twelvyy, got into an altercation with Matt Stoops from Purrp's Raider Klan. Music site Mostly Junk Food has posted screen shots of deleted SpaceGhost tweets in which he accuses Twelvyy of attacking Stoops.

While the beef does sound serious, Purrp told MTV News of a misunderstanding that he and Wiz Khalifa had prior to working together on Wiz's Taylor Allderdice mixtape. Maybe after a conversation, he and Rocky can reach a similar accord.

Do you believe SpaceGhostPurrp and A$AP Rocky can work out their differences? Let us know in the comments.

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Samsung's 27-inch Series 9 LED monitor hits US retailers

Samsung wasn't saying much about US availability when it showed off its new Series 9 monitor back at CES in January, but it's now finally confirmed that it will be available at a number of different retailers starting June 29th (following a brief "prelaunch" period with Newegg). Coming in at the expected $1,199.99, this one is a 16:9 LED PLS monitor, and it packs a suitably high-end 2560 x 1440 resolution along with most of the other features you'd expect from a $1,200 monitor: HDMI, DVI and a pair of USB ports, an all glass and metal enclosure, and support for MHL-enabled smartphones and tablets. Those curious can find a full rundown of the rest of the specs at the source link below.

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