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VIDEO: #Obama Welcomes #RedSox To White House, April 1, 2014

"It's pretty special," said second baseman Dustin Pedroia. "That's the goal every year -- to go to the White House the next season. It's going to be fun to take it all in. It's an exciting time."

After their visit to the White House, the team will stop at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center to spend time with veterans who have been injured in the war.

"Experiencing that back in spring training of '08, it's a powerful moment, or a powerful amount of time that you spend there," Farrell said. "You see the sacrifice that so many have made. You see the work that not only technology but the human spirit can bring back. It's moving, I'll tell you that, given the hardships and challenges individual soldiers overcome."

 

Joe Montana with Laura Ingraham

Laura Ingraham hosted Joe Montana. 

Montana said many football players need knee surgery and to help people with arthritis, he's partnered to create an app  He is bone to bone with one knee which he's maintaining with exercise.  

Montana said that ironically the more players are protected, the more vicious the hits.  He doesn't see blows to the helmets going away as it is essential and popular to the game.  

Montana said there isn't a lot of hitting early on with children playing football, but as they come to middle school, the disparity in sizes can make it dangerous.  He said separation by weight is another suggestion.  

Montana said the first couple of years after retirement were tough and said the game is addicting.  He misses the camraderie of the team.  

Montana wouldn't coach at this point and has two sons active in football.  He said coaching is extremely demanding.  

Boston Terror Attack Update: 3 Dead, At Least 144 Injured; 17 Critical

Boston marathon bombs were pressure cooker IEDs packed with ball-bearings: Devices that killed three, including eight-year-old boy waiting for his runner dad are used by terrorists in Afghanistan Police sources: Two pressure-cooker bombs were packed with shards of metal, nails

Named: Boy, 8, who was waiting to give his runner dad a hug at the finish line when the Boston Marathon bombings killed him and 'grievously injured' his mother and sister: Woman in her twenties also among three dead as another 144 are hurt with 17 critical

More horror for Newtown families as they witness carnage of Boston Marathon explosions from VIP seats near finish line

FBI Uses 'Tripwires' to Nab Bomb Makers

• Eight-year-old Martin Richard named as one of the three people confirmed dead in the blast
• Boston police and federal officials descended on an Ocean Avenue apartment complex in Boston to search the home of a person of interest
• FBI warned police to be on the lookout for a 'darker-skinned or black male' with a possible foreign accent in connection with the attack
• Hospitals reported at least 144 people are being treated, with at least 17 of them in critical condition and 25 in serious condition. 
• At least eight of the patients are children - including a two-year-old boy with a head injury
• Hospitals report they were removing ball bearings from victims - suggesting the bombs were designed to propel shrapnel
• At least ten people have had limbs amputated
• Two detonations came 12-seconds apart - with witnesses describing scenes of utter 'pandemonium'
• New York City stepping up anti-terror efforts in wake of attack and have tightened security around popular destinations like Times Square
• FBI officially classifying bombings as terrorist attack, as President Obama said it is important to 'get to the bottom of this' 
• Boston police say no suspect has been taken into custody

 

 

Senator Ted Cruz CPAC Speech

Laura Ingraham hosted Senator Ted Cruz of Texas.

Cruz said he and other senators are insisting on a 60 vote threshold for legislation on issues that are affected by the Constitution such as gun control.  He pointed to the Obama administration's Justice Department not prosecuting felons who try to obtain guns.  Instead they are trying to take away the rights of law abiding citizens.  He feels the criticism is silly as there will be debates and votes.  He noted that senators don't know what the bill says as the Democrats haven't released the bill's details.  Ingraham added that names of gun buyers would be kept track of.  He objects to transfers of guns among people being maintained in a federal gun registry which he deems unconstitutional and the predicate to gun taxation and seizure.  The emphasis should be on criminals and that the Bill of Rights should be protected.  

Cruz isn't worried about political implications of rebuffing Obama's agenda on gun violence and that it could lead to the GOP taking the Senate.  

Listen to interview

ESPN Tony Kornheiser: Obama's Basketball Bricks "Most Embarassing Moment of His Presidency"

ESPN's Tony Kornheiser had no kind words for President Obama's awful 2-22 basketball shot performance at the Easter Egg Roll.

Host of San Francisco fundraiser uses basketball metaphor and calls Obama 'the best left-handed shameless gunner in the world' – after he shot 2-for-22 at Monday's White House exhibition

 

Suzan Harjo with Laura Ingraham

Laura Ingraham hosted Suzan Harjo of the Morningstar Institute.

Harjo said students at Dartmouth pushed for changes in their Native American logo.  She is offended by the Washington Redskins name because it alludes to Indian kill for bounty and also skin color.  She said Indian nations can be used as a term.  She is a Cheyenne citizen from Oklahoma.  

Harjo doesn't question the intent of the Redskins personnel as they make money off something that is hurtful to Native Americans.  

Kim Jong Un-Apologetic Dennis Rodman: "We do the same things here"

Former Chicago Bulls star and all round boob Dennis Rodman was unapologetic about his relationship with BFF Kim Jong Un, equating the US with North Korea's horrors.  

“I don’t condone that. I hate the fact that he’s doing that. I didn’t talk about that. I saw people respected him, his family. He’s only 28. He’s not his dad. He’s not his grandpa. He is 28 years old. He’s very humble. He’s a very humble man. He don’t want war, that’s one thing he don’t want. He loves power. He loves control, because of his father, you know, stuff like that. But he’s just…he’s a great guy. He’s just a great guy. You sit down and talk to him,” said Rodman.

 

Ted Leonsis with Laura Ingraham

Laura Ingraham with Ted Leonsis.

Leonsis spoke about his teams, the Washington Capitals and Wizards.  He spoke about several entrepreneurial project he's into including Groupon, a media company making content for mobile devices, etc..  He's turned around parts of Washignton, DC, bringing in millions of people.  

Leonsis said unfortunately big companies are not hiring, but said it's the best time to create a business by seeing what the big companies are doing and finding ways to do it better and cheaper, get the seed money and create a start-up

 

Ken Tilley & Jeanne Faulconer with Laura Ingraham

Laura Ingraham hosted Ken Tilley of the VA High School League and Jeanne Faulconer of the Homeschooling Organization which is advocating that these children be allowed to play high school sports.

Faulconer said homeschoolers parents pay taxes, meet academic standards but that in some areas there aren't opportunities for homeschoolers to play on competitive sports teams. 

Tilley said the state is made up of the hundreds of schools that agree to the rules of the league.  He said one requirement is that children must be enrolled in a public school.  Ingraham made the point that American society is inclusive of any group except those who pay the bills and disagree with liberal orthodoxy promoted in the public schools.  She said there must be a middle ground for homeschoolers to be eligible.  She feels the rules are bureaucratic and Tilley said the rules are set up for equity.  Faulconer responded that homeschoolers have standards and it seems these are ways to keep students out.  She said 29 other states are allowing homeschoolers while Tilley said that most of the states have Virginia's requirements.  Ingraham asked if illegal immigrants are allowed to play and Tilley said that isn't part of the rules.  

Sports' Leagues Antitrust Exemptionss Costs Cable Viewers A Bundle

During this Super Bowl season, the nation's cable viewers will see their cable fees balloon thanks to the high cost to carrying sporting events.  

The eye-popping price tags have restarted debate about a topic near and dear to sports fans, fairness: many TV customers never watch the mightily expensive channels at all, yet almost all must pay. There was a shudder in the industry when John Malone, the business tycoon who helped create the modern-day cable system, said in November that “runaway sports rights” costs amounted to “a high tax on a lot of households that don’t have a lot of interest in sports.” The only short-term fix, he said, was government intervention.

 

Steve Buckley with Laura Ingraham

Laura Ingraham hosted Steve Buckley on the NFL playoffs.

Buckley said it would be great for football if the Patriots go back to the Super Bowl as QB Tom Brady is a marquee player.  He thinks that the networks would have preferred a Peyton Manning versus Tom Brady playoff game, but it isn't to be.  Ingraham and Buckley agreed that the Broncos versus the Ravens was one of the all time great games. 

Buckley said he feels Lance Armstrong is looking for forgiveness, but that he thinks it will be a tough sell.  

David Epstein with Laura Ingraham

Laura Ingraham hosted Davi Epstein.

Epstein said hits to football players are a real concerns.  He said the players who have brain problems are those linemen who don't get concussions, but who get repetitive hits.  He said boxing is completely indefensible as the point is to hit people in the head.  

Epstein said few teams were riding one player as the Redskins did RG3. He and Ingraham agreed that it was a bad decision to keep RG3 in the game.  

Epstein has done a lot of writing about Lance Armstrong and that the issue isn't the doping as most people believe he doped up but the people he ruined with his denials. 

Alabama Highlights From the BCS Game Vs. Notre Dame

Alabama Crimson Tide highlights of the BCS Championship game versus Notre Dame where they crushed the Fighting Irish 42-14:

 

 

 

 

Coach Lou Holtz's Ad: Welcome Home! (To The Catholic Church)

Former Notre Dame Coach Lou Holtz's "Welcome Home" ad to encourage Catholics to return to the Catholic Church - or non-Catholics to join!  It was run on ESPN during NYE football games halftime.

 

 

Racist ESPN Analyst Rob Parker: RGII A Cornball Brother

ESPN analyst Rob Parker accused Washington Redskins quarterback Robert Griffin III AKA RGIII of being a "cornball brother" - basically not black enough. 

 

'Because that's how I - I want to find out about him. I don't know because I keep hearing these things. We all know he has a white fiance,' said Parker.

'There was all this talk about he's a Republican. There's no information at all - I'm just trying to dig deeper into why he has an issue.

'Because we did find out with Tiger Woods, Tiger Woods was like, 'I got black skin, but don't call me black.' People got a little wondering about him early on.'