Lawrence Phillips, College Football Star, Dies in Prison in Suspected Suicide. Lawrence Phillips, a star running back and Heisman Trophy contender at the University of Nebraska during the 1. Wednesday in a suspected suicide. He was 4. 0. Phillips was found in his prison cell at California’s Kern Valley State Prison, where he had been serving a 3. He was sentenced to prison in 2. Also Read: Rams Owner Describes Moving NFL Team to LA as 'Bittersweet'Staff at the Delano, California, prison found Phillips unresponsive early Wednesday morning.“The incident occurred at 1. Wednesday, Jan. 1.
Phillips … unresponsive in his cell. He was transported to an outside hospital where he was pronounced deceased at 1: 2. California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation said in a statement.“Phillips had been in an Administrative Segregation Unit on single- cell status since April 1.
Phillips was currently in the early stages of the criminal case in Kern County for the homicide.”Also Read: NFL May Split 'Thursday Night Football' Among Broadcast Nets. A Los Angeles high school football star, Phillips arrived at Nebraska in 1. Cornhuskers’ dominant offense. As a sophomore, he was the star running back on the squad that won the 1. National Championship, and he became a leading Heisman Trophy candidate in his junior year, when Nebraska repeated as National Champions. But his college career was marred by multiple arrests for assault, and Phillips turned pro after three seasons.
He was drafted No. St. Louis Rams in the 1. NFL Draft after teams with higher picks declined to select him due to his off- field problems. But, as his legal troubles mounted, his career failed to take off through stints with several teams in the NFL and other professional leagues. Also Read: Shootings, Stabbings, Dog Fighting: 1. NFL Scandals That Rocked the League (Photos)He last played with the Calgary Stampeders of the Canadian Football League in 2. Getty Images. Getty Images.
Getty Images. Bill Simmons Blasts ESPN, Again. Sportscaster Simmons' beef with ESPN went public last year when he called out network bosses over coverage of NFL commissioner Roger Goodell.
The feud reached a boiling point in May and the parties parted ways - - but Simmons, who has since signed with HBO, has continued to criticize his former network, especially since its closure of Grantland in October. Also Read: Goodbye Grantland: Inside ESPN’s Decision to Kill Bill Simmons’ Site. Getty Images. Getty Images. Lamar Odom Collapses in a Nevada Brothel. Fans feared it was the end for former NBA star Odom when he was found unconscious in a brothel last October. He pulled out of a coma, but his road to recovery has been rocky as the former Laker still struggles to walk. Also Read: Lamar Odom Hospitalized After Being Found Unconscious in Brothel. Getty Images. Colin Cowherd Should Cancel His Dominican Vacation“I’ve never bought into that ‘baseball is just too complex,'” Cowherd said on his ESPN radio show in July.
A third of the sport is from the Dominican Republic. The Dominican Republic has not been known, in my lifetime, as having world- class academic abilities."Also Read: Colin Cowherd Booted Early From ESPN Due to Dominican Republic Comments (Video)ESPNCurt Schilling Benched by ESPNThe former MLB star- turned- broadcast analyst was suspended by ESPN for posting racist tweets comparing Muslims to Nazis. “It’s said only 5- 1. Muslims are extremists. In 1. 94. 0, only 7% of Germans were Nazis.
How’d that go?” he wrote. Also Read: ESPN Benches Curt Schilling for Remainder of MLB Season. Getty Images. Jets' Geno Smith Gets Sucker- Punched. Most injuries happen on the field, but New York Jets QB Geno Smith got his jaw broken in the locker room by his own teammate following an altercation over money, $6. Getty Images. NASCAR Lowers the Confederate Flag. Auto racing is a sport of the South, where many people still consider the Confederate flag to be an appropriate symbol of their culture. When the controversy over the banner hit peak publicity this year, NASCAR made the tough business decision to ban it from official events.
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- Lawrence Phillips, a star running back and Heisman Trophy contender at the University of Nebraska during the 1990s, died in prison Wednesday in a suspected suicide. He was 40. Phillips was found in his prison cell at.
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List of Sarah Lawrence College people. The following is a list of notable individuals associated with Sarah Lawrence College through attendance as a student, or service as a member of the faculty or staff.
Entertainment and media[edit]Abiola Abrams, TV personality, writer and filmmaker[1]J. J. Abrams, Emmy Award- winning film and television producer, writer, actor, composer, and director[2]Jane Alexander, actor, author, and former director of the National Endowment for the Arts[3]Jon Avnet, film producer, director, and writer[2]Dylan Brody, playwright, author and stand- up comedian. Golden Brooks, actor[4]Yancy Butler, actor[5]Gabrielle Carteris, actress, best known for playing Andrea Zuckerman on Beverly Hills, 9. Austin Chick, filmmaker, screenwriter and producer.
Jill Clayburgh, Academy Award- nominated actor[7]Brian De Palma, film director[2]Cary Elwes, actor[8]Beverly Emmons, dance and Broadway lighting designer. Rachel Feldman, screenwriter and director[9]Tovah Feldshuh, actor[1. William Finley, actor[1. Carrie Fisher, actor[1. Robin Givens, actor[1. Adam Goldberg, actor[1.
Peter Gould, writer. Leslie Grossman, actor on the WB's Popular and the CW's What I Like About You[1. Sanaa Hamri, music video director[1. Melora Hardin, actress, NBC's The Office. Lauren Holly, actor[1. Katharine Houghton Grant, actor[1.
Janine Jackson, journalist and activist[2. Reo Jones, voice actor[2.
Stacey Kent, jazz singer. Sarah Kernochan, writer, producer, and director[2. Téa Leoni, actor[2. David Lindsay- Abaire, Pulitzer Prize- winning playwright and screenwriter[2. Robert Lyons, playwright and director[2. Eric Mabius, actor[2. Consuelo Mack, business news journalist.
Julianna Margulies, actress[2. James Marvel, stage director (opera)[2. Ivy Meeropol, film director[2. Larisa Oleynik, actor[3. Alice Pearce, actress[3.
Jordan Peele, actor, comedian[3. Brandt Reiter, stage director, actor, journalist, educator[3. Holly Robinson Peete, actor[3. Sam Robards, actor[3. Amy Robinson, film producer and actress. Elisabeth Röhm, actor[2]Kyra Sedgwick, actor.
Joan Micklin Silver, award- winning director. Sabiha Sumar, director. Aly Tadros, singer- songwriter. Misti Traya, actor.
Guinevere Turner, actor, producer, and writer. Barbara Walters, television personality[3]Sigourney Weaver, actor[3. Joanne Woodward, actor /political activist[3]Max Bemis, singer and songwriter for the band Say Anything[3. Win Butler, lead vocalist and songwriter for the band Arcade Fire[3. Alice Cohen, singer and songwriter[3. Margaret Fiedler, vocalist and multi- instrumentalist with Laika, Moonshake and PJ Harvey[4. Girlyman, folk- rock trio of Nate Borofsky, Ty Greenstein and Doris Muramatsu.
Lesley Gore, singer and songwriter[4. Susie Ibarra, jazz composer and avant- garde musician[4. Diana Jones, singer- songwriter.
Ira Kaplan, guitarist, vocalist, and songwriter of the band Yo La Tengo[4. Zoë Keating, composer and cellist from the band Rasputina[4.
Stacey Kent, jazz vocalist[4. Josh Mancell, freelance composer and multi- instrumentalist.
Rhett Miller, singer/songwriter and member of the band Old 9. David Porter, TV composer for Breaking Bad. JD Samson, member of the band Le Tigre[4. Carly Simon, singer and songwriter[4.
Joanna Simon, vocalist[4. Politics and public service[edit]Brooke Anderson, diplomat; Deputy Ambassador to the UN; former chief- of- staff to the White House National Security Council; VP Communications, The Nuclear Threat Initiative[5. Lisa Anderson, scholar; President of the American University in Cairo, Egypt; former dean of Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs[5.
Amanda Burden, director of the New York City Department of City Planning[5. Rahm Emanuel, mayor of Chicago; former White House Chief of Staff to President. Barack Obama; former member of the U. S. House of Representatives, Fifth Congressional District of Illinois[3]Sharon Hom, director of Human Rights in China[5. Sue Kelly, U. S. House of Representatives, 1.
Congressional District of New York[2]Clifford D. May, President of the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies[5. Writing and poetics[edit]G. D. Baum, writer[5.
Melvin Jules Bukiet, novelist[5. Carolyn Ferrell, writer[5. Amanda Foreman, award- winning biographer[5. Louise Gluck, winner of the Pulitzer Prize in poetry and former Poet Laureate of the United States[5. Rebecca Godfrey, novelist[6. Lucy Grealy, writer[6.
Karl Taro Greenfeld, journalist and author[6. David Grimm, playwright. Allan Gurganus, writer. Benjamin Hale, novelist. Justin Haythe, novelist and screenwriter[6. Kaui Hart Hemmings, writer[6. A. M. Homes, writer[6.
Nancy Huston, Canadian author who writes primarily in French. Porochista Khakpour, writer[6. Carolyn Kizer, Pulitzer Prize- winning poet[6. Christian Kracht, Swiss writer.
Phillis Levin, poet. Bennett Madison, writer[6. Jeffrey Mc. Daniel, poet[6. Giulia Melucci, writer.
Brian Morton, novelist[7. Sharyn November, editor[7. Ann Patchett, author[2]Anne Roiphe, novelist and essayist[7. Esmeralda Santiago, Puerto Rican writer[7. Alice Sheldon, who published science fiction as James Tiptree, Jr.[7. Leora Skolkin- Smith, novelist. Alice Walker, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for her novel The Color Purple[2][3]Visual and performing arts[edit]Janine Antoni, sculptor, installation artist[7.
Ian Spencer Bell, choreographer. Mary Griggs Burke, largest private collector of Japanese art outside Japan[7. Lucinda Childs, postmodern dancer and choreographer, member of the Judson Dance Theater. Jean Erdman, dancer and wife of Joseph Campbell[7. Mary Heilmann, painter, sculptor[7. Dan Hurlin, writer, choreographer, actor, puppet/object maker and puppeteer, winner of Obie and Alpert Awards[7.
John Jasperse, choreographer, dancer, and artist[8. Linda Mc. Cartney, photographer; was married to musician Paul Mc. Cartney[8. 1]Susan Meiselas, photographer and photojournalist, Mac. Arthur Foundation Fellowship recipient[8. Meredith Monk, composer, singer and choreographer[8. Cady Noland, visual artist[8.
Jedd Novatt, sculptor and painter[8. Yoko Ono, conceptual artist; was married to John Lennon[8. Maureen Paley, London art dealer. Meridel Rubenstein, photographer and installation artist. Sonja Sekula, Swiss- American abstract- expressionist painter[8. Alice Louise Judd Simpich, sculptor. Holly Solomon, Soho art dealer[8.
Alec Soth, photographer[9. Nancy Spector, chief curator of the Guggenheim Museum, NYRuth Carter Stevenson (1. Amon Carter Museum of American Art[9. TRUE, visual artist.
Vera Wang, fashion designer[2]Other notable alumni[edit]Nancy Cantor, Chancellor, Syracuse University. Hope Cooke, wife of 1. Chogyal (King) of Sikkim[9. Cornelia Fort, pioneer aviator who became the first female pilot to die on war duty in America history. Dr. Susan Houde- Walter, former president of the Optical Society of America, CEO of Laser. Max Inc. Ian Lipkin, Director of the Center for Infection & Immunity at the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University, authority on West Nile Virus[9. Jean Baker Miller, feminist, psychoanalyst, social activist.
Lee Radziwill, younger sister of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. Elisabeth Young- Bruehl, academic and psychotherapist[9. Fictional alumni[edit]Lloyd, of the HBOdramedy. Entourage. Karen Walker, of the sitcom Will & Grace. Kat Stratford, in the movie 1. Things I Hate About You.
Allison "Allie" Hamilton, in the movie The Notebook. Jill Rosen, in the movie Baby It's You. Guinevere Turner, co- screenwriter of American Psycho, has a cameo in the film as one of the girls Patrick has in Paul's apartment. He asks if she wants to get it on with the other girl, and she says "I'm not a lesbian! Why would you think that?" Patrick replies "well, for one thing, you DID go to Sarah Lawrence"—the joke being that Turner is a lesbian, and she actually went to Sarah Lawrence. Jenny Whiteman, of the movie Down and Out in Beverly Hills. Mia Thermopolis, of Meg Cabot's Princess Diaries series.
Hero Brown, a character in Brian K. Vaughan and Pia Guerra's Y: The Last Man comic book series. Marcia Jeffries from A Face in the Crowd (1. Sarah Lawrence. Gil Chesterton from sitcom Frasier claims to be married to Deb, a "Sarah Lawrence graduate and the owner of a very successful auto body repair shop" (and an Army Reservist), whom his co- workers had believed to be merely a pet cat.
Remy "Thirteen" Hadley of the Fox medical drama House"Sewage Joe" on the NBC sitcom Parks and Recreation is revealed to be an alumnus when he sends a lewd photograph to Ann from his alumni e- mail address. In J. D. Salinger's Franny and Zooey, a girl on a train is described as "absolutely.. Sarah Lawrence type.. In The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Charlie's older sister Candace has chosen to attend a “small liberal arts college back East called Sarah Lawrence.â€Parker Posey's character in Broken English. Faculty[edit]Current[edit]Kirsten Agresta, harpist.
William Anderson, musician[9. Colin Beavan, environmental activist and blogger. Chester Biscardi, composer[9. Melvin Jules Bukiet, novelist[5. Thomas Sayers Ellis, poet[9.
Beverly Emmons, dance and Broadway lighting designer. Fawaz Gerges, Middle Eastern Affairs analyst for ABC news[9. Mark Helias, musician[9. Marie Howe, poet[1.
William Melvin Kelley, novelist and short story writer. Eduardo Lago, novelist and winner of the Premio Nadal[1. Tom Lux, poet[1. 02]Maria Negroni, poet[1. Vijay Seshadri, poet and essayist; winner of the 2.
Pulitzer Prize in Poetry. Joel Sternfeld, photographer[1. Malcolm Turvey, author, film historian, editor of October magazine[1.
Matilde Zimmermann, political activist and former U. S. Presidential candidate[1. Glenda Adams, novelist. Léonie Adams, poet and former Poet Laureate of the United States and mentor to Louise Gluck[1. Rudolf Arnheim. Peter Cameron, novelist. Joseph Campbell, cultural historian and critic of mythology[3]Suzanne Chazin, novelist.
Billy Collins, poet and former Poet Laureate of the United States[1. Dorothy De. Lay, violin teacher at the Juilliard School. Norman Dello Joio, Pulitzer Prize and Emmy Award- winning composer[1. Stephen Dobyns, poet[1.