The James Logan Courier

By Chris Lee
Los Angeles Times (MCT)

VANCOUVER, Canada — Talk about a Bad Attitude.

As early December, darkness fell on the Vancouver set of Fox's $100-million movie reboot of "The A-Team," one of its stars, Quinton "Rampage" Jackson, found himself fending off an all-too-familiar impulse. The urge to, well, rampage.

Pride of the Ultimate Fighting Championship and a former light-heavyweight champ (he last fought May 29 against Rashad Evans in Las Vegas, a bout Jackson lost in a unanimous decision) — a guy whose day job consists of beating the toughest men in the world into either submission or unconsciousness — Jackson stood in the middle of his trailer spewing invective with a glint of real menace in his eye.

By Thao (Michelle) Hoang, Courier Staff Writer

On Thursday night, June 3rd, the NBA Finals kicked started the first game at the STAPLES Center. The Lakers came out with a vengeance to win Game 1.

At the start of the game, I knew it was going to be an intense game, with both teams alternating just leading by one point. Lakers knew what they had to do to crush the Celtics.

From wikipedia:
Oliver Edward Nelson (June 4, 1932 in St. Louis, Missouri – October 28, 1975) was an American jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, arranger and composer.

Oliver Nelson's family was musical: his brother was also a saxophonist who played with Cootie Williams in the 1940s, and his sister sang and played piano. Nelson began learning to play the piano when he was six, and started on the saxophone at eleven. From 1947 he played in "territory" bands around Saint Louis, before joining the Louis Jordan big band from 1950 to 1951, playing alto saxophone and arranging. After military service in the Marines, he returned to Missouri to study music composition and theory at Washington and Lincoln Universities, graduating in 1958.

Read an interview with Oliver Nelson, free from jazzprofiles.blogspot.com.