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Email address: Leave this field empty if youre human: MANCHESTER, NH – The U.S. Mint announced designs for the 2021 American Innovation $1 coins, and among them will be a coin paying tribute to Ralph Baer as creator of the first in-home video game console. The design depicts Baer’s brown box game “Handball” on the right side of the coin. The left side of the coin features New Hampshire and Player 1 stamped on the coin. The words IN-HOME VIDEO GAME SYSTEM and RALPH BAER encircle the ou...

A decision about what they want to do. walk a fine line because people will say that you all cant get rid of a guy simply because of what he believes or even what he says in a private conversation. he has the right to believe and say what he wants. thats true. charles barkley raised a powerful point here. its not your beliefs its how you make your beliefs policy. he has a history of discriminating. he had to settle almost $3 million because he discriminated people based on race and ethnicity. el...

Discriminating against a league that -- were a black league, ernie. we are a black league. i dont know the number but i would probably say 80% of our players are black. >> charles barkley is going to call me. i cant wait to talk to charles on the air. he is going to call me just as soon as he gets a moment. this will be a big test. what charles says is absolutely right, mark. it is a black league. >> yeah. >> i mean, does this guy not look around and see who is in the stadium? for him to say i d...

America because its ridiculous. when someone like magic johnson says, mark, cookie and i will never go to a clippers game again as long as donald sterling is an owner, that speaks volumes. a lot of people will probably follow his lead. youre in trouble. >> absolutely. interesting time because the clippers are at their best state in terms of performance in record and talent. probably in decades, for sure. so this is a time when lots of attention is being placed on the clippers because doc rivers ...

My quote, not his. not the furs time sterling has found himself in the middle of a controversy, being sued by the federal government over his treatment of minorities who wanted to lease his rental properties and also sued by former nba legend and clippers executive elgin baylor for discrimination. cnn commentator and associate professor at columbia university. this guy is an idiot, mark. >> a complete idiot and also a racist. as much as we talk about race and have interesting and complicated con...

Contained anything on the inmarsat data. >> you think its fairly generic? is this going to be sort of -- >> let say there was something in there about radar. i think weve learned to take it with a pinch of salt. so much inconsistency within the data and the information that, again, you know, just -- its not credible. >> thank you very much. >> were not getting the whole story. thats the problem. >> right. >> mark baer, michael kay, mary schiavo, thank you. appreciate all of you. the lead story...