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1【Top News Headlines: Pittsburgh Hostage-Taker Surrenders】
TEXT:Here are your Top News Headlines From Newsy.
A man claiming to have a bomb and a gun has taken a hostage in an office building in Pittsburgh. KDKA reports police have blocked off streets near Gateway Center and are attempting to negotiate with the man on Facebook.
“There are serious brass tacks negotiations going on about a surrender, a surrender of the hostage and a surrender of the suspect.”
Government-sponsored protests dubbed the “Day of Love” in Pakistan have turned violent. The BBC reports theaters and cars were burned and several people have been killed in the protest against an anti-Islam video.
“Well, the latest we’ve got confirmed, and there are reports of more, is 17 dead across the country. … Most of the deaths have happened in Pakistan’s largest city, Karachi.”
The U.S. is reportedly dropping the People’s Mujahideen of Iran, known as the MEK, from the terror watch list. Fox News reports the MEK has been on the list for years.
“But they are also very much in opposition to the current regime of the ayatollahs there. And so Washington has decided apparently that better to have them on our side.”
The space shuttle Endeavor is on its way to Los Angeles, where it will be put on display at the California Science Center. CNN spoke with Mark Kelly, the Endeavor’s last commander, about the occasion.
“One of the highlights of my career as an astronaut to command the last flight, the 25th flight, of space shuttle Endeavor. And when it lands today it will never be in the air, it’ll be in a museum.”
2【Billy Gillispie Resignation Caps 'Coaching Demise'】
TEXT：College basketball teams around the nation are starting to warm up as the weather cools down. But with the season scheduled to begin in October, one team has to make some serious changes - and fast. Here’s NBC Sports and KLBK .
“Billy Gillispie has resigned as head coach of Texas Tech citing health concerns. The resignation comes a month after the university announced it was looking into allegations of player mistreatment last fall by the veteran coach.”
“Those include allegations of mistreating players, practicing them too long, and forcing injured players to practice.“
ESPN ’s Dana O’Neil says this was almost a sure-fire outcome for the Red Raiders coach.
“Once the public hears about things that go on in-house, it’s a hard thing to undo. So I can’t say that anyone is surprised, I think it’s just a matter of you know could this whole mess have been avoided in the first place.”
But a writer for the Examiner believes there’s more than just meets the eye in the Gillispie (Gill-ess-pea) case. He says there was someone behind it all in an effort to upend the coach.
“Precisely at the time when Coach Gillispie calls 911 for an ambulance to Lubbock’s hospital … it wasn’t 24 hours before ‘someone’ leaked it to the media that Texas Tech was conducting an investigation on Gillispie and his coaching tactics.”
He may have a point. Gillispie’s first job saw him take UTEP along for the largest turnaround in basketball history... from 6 wins to 24 wins the following year...
Then at Texas A&M, Gillispie took the Aggies from zero conference wins to three straight 20-win campaigns and a dance in the Sweet 16. By the end of 2007, Gillispie was the coaching market’s hottest commodity.
Gillispie then answered the courting call from legendary power Kentucky, where he lasted just two years.
A writer for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch says there is a story here for all to learn. “The coaching demise of Billy Gillispie is a cautionary tale for everybody possessing the perfect job but yearning for something more … He was the perfect fit for [Texas A&M] … [when] he answered the University of Kentucky’s call [he] entered a whole new dimension. The pressure smothered him. The scrutiny destroyed him.”
A writer for USA Today says “It is a striking downfall for a man whose career once seemed in full flight. It is a parable of how suddenly fortune can make a U-turn. It is a lesson of how X’s and the O’s are not nearly enough letters to spell survival, once a coach loses his players.”
The 52-year-old Gillispie has no wife or kids, and CBS Sports ’ Gary Parrish says he doesn’t have a very busy life beyond basketball.
“The only two things I know he enjoys outside of coaching basketball is betting on horses and swallowing strong drinks … [Gillispie] will someday emerge from a medical facility with lots of money and lots of time but without any structure to a life that’s not going too well.”
Texas Tech is slated to tip off its season next month.
