on that he board carries on his legacy she's now president of the club which plays under the name sparta and it changed its name for copyright reasons but kept the last letter king in memory of their four mona or the most influential figures in women's basketball he really kind of set the standard for the rest of the world in the way he treated the girls the way he interacted had he not come along and fell in love with women's basketball we would be standing here with an excellent infrastructure and solid sport and kids are a perennial top flight side and their motivation is to get back on the very top after finally losing last year in their fifth straight year early show piece yet the club is not only about it senior team it also has a youth academy where hundreds of kids are keen to be. the next generation of stores is now in there he's now building younger players to get to this point to play professional basketball or to hopefully play for your national team one day says a lot about what he's building here sparring kids are currently top of group seen the euro and leading their domes

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ladies and gentlemen, i give you new sparta. [laughter and applause] it's like old sparta, very similar. it's like old smart that but with less capital gains taxes and not as gay. [laughter] thank you. with mitt romney's victory in the bag, the only question that remained last night, who would be first pundit to dismiss ron paul's second-place finish. >> nbc news can now project that ron paul will finish second. >> if you take ron paul out of this, what would have happened to huntsman? >> huntsman is the real second here. jon jon no. you can't... you're not allowed to just take ron paul out of it. that's just physics. you're not... and you know, if you add two zeros to the end of huntsman's total, he would have been in first by hundreds of thousands of votes, an unprecedented very try. why is no one talking about this? because it didn't happen! [laughter] since we brought up jon huntsman , seeing as i believe the opportunity to do so is a limited-time offer. new hampshire was huntsman's big gamble. he skipped iowa to concentrate

in women's basketball moscow region side sparta k.s. moved top of your only group c. after thrashing cross basket toronto on home court those pretty slow out of the starting blocks however leaving the italians eighteen sixteen to do good after quarter one of a pokey charmant charges but they found their groove afterwards the second quarter belonging to the moscow ladies twenty four points while tronto could only manage eight forty twenty six swore at the big break sparta they didn't let up either in the ensuing couple appear at seventy seven fifty three how the school board would look at the finish up a comfortable win then for the poor time your league champions he moved into the pool position in the bottom of this like compact truck off the first place you can see. the ski courses which will be used for the sortie twenty fourteen winter games will soon get broken in a steal world cup stage in february among the events set to allow a gold medal hopefuls a chance to get to grips on the future olympic slopes that course will be tested by f.i.o.s. world cup competitors

to women's basketball now where more school regions side sparta and k. have gone top of your league group see that's after claiming a narrow three point two and over the good angels from some arca because any but up of all the details. one of her russia's leading women's basketball clubs sporran a key our no one hundred percent run in the domestic championship with eleven wins while in the euro league they sit second in group c. with three defeats third placed good enjoys from slovakia's who are eager to leapfrog their podiums and to respond to their home loss just like their first encounter in moscow region side outclassed the course had to maced club made two digit margin but this time it was a tight seesaw game from start to finish in the opening quarter poky chapman's charges managed to go on a twelve month thing to turn a six three deficit into a fifteen six lead good angelus didn't allow them to pull away though and levelled manners three minutes into the third for the young russia center not alleviate to spend the last five seasons at spar and he

travel itself have a have we're happy to win a hat you know we sat in some of the morning before sparta and team managed to cloud to win the day and. seconds in style and now top group c. with two stage mentors to build the russian region side looked at least a second place finish with last year's finalist surely for more concern about the routine. things are beginning to look out for the celtics on the n.b.a. hardwood meanwhile boston ending their five game losing streak by completely are playing toronto at home kevin garnett and company ready to go on a collision course against the raptors who also lost five straight heading into the contest rage on rondo normally the main ball distributor while he was doing the opposite on the right scoring ending with a game high twenty one points but only two assists did suffer a scare when their point guard landed or really there's risk in the third but the injury would turn out to be minor every bradley and other backup players getting some forward thomas boston cruised to a ninety six seventy three when so a two week when droid ends in style pro

in women's basketball moscow region side sparta on cape moved top of girly group c. after thrashing cross basket toronto on home court pretty slow out of the starting blocks whoever even the italians sixteen to the good quarter won over porky chapman charges quickly find their groove afterwards the second quarter belonging to the moscow ladies having twenty four points while toronto could only manage eight forty twenty six the score at the big break sparta they didn't let up by their in in suing a couple of periods seventy seven fifty three how the school board would look up to finish up a comfortable win for the four time really threw back into a pool decision in their battle with contact kruk off for first place in groups. and finally this ski courses which will be used for the sochi twenty fourteen winter games will get plenty of breaking in big for the main event still world cup stage and february among the event set to a lawyer gold medal hopefuls the chance to get to grips on the future lympics lopes the. hu tour course will be tested by f.i.f.a. world cup comp

champions shall go race however he truly established his hardwood in byre with moscow region side sparta before leading the russian women's team to europe in silver so a lifeless ordinary which ended tragically in two thousand and nine the best possible lover and interbrand was murdered as a hail of bullets hit his car in central moscow he died at the scene his killers were never found but the legacy of common knowledge lives on. for us he was like a friend a father a mentor it was always a family atmosphere even though we were a professional team we always felt close to the players but the people are. smart are quickly established themselves as a basketball dynasty winning all available silverware in russia and europe over the past five years sitting in a record with force which you really titled and they were watching the twenty ten triumph to common knowledge his wife and former player on that he would carries on his legacy she's now president of the club which plays under the name sports and key it changed its name for copyright reasons but kept the last letter king in memory of thei

we are very much what some of our executives call athens and sparta. we are sparta. when i put on my news editor hat, i wear several different hats. my team is at the same press conferences as everyone else with the pundits and the various principles. >> we have some video. he is critical of the military. let's watch. >> you are tied to the purchases of the f-35 and make sure the aircraft is effective. meanwhile, your ambition is to work for the air force as their senior acquisition executive. you are going to ask these aggravating and tough questions, getting to the bottom of the f-35 and aggravate those officials letter in a position to offer you a job. that is not the way it works. you're going to cozy up to the air force. they will give you some information. as much as they think they want you to have. you will be skillful in how you handle that information. you will be convincing. you will land the job at the pentagon. that is how our system of checks and balances breaks down. >> he was suggesting that if you want to leave capitol hill and go to the pentagon, bu

. >> this is sparta!you a question off of that -- >> i thought my politics were scary. >> why do they suspend their campaign? >> i was going to say that. it's a legal fiction that allows you to still raise money. they want to raise money if people want to go to their websites and give them money. if you are ending your campaign, then your candidacy would have to be shut down and stop raising money. so if you want to go to huntsman.com, you can do that and give them money. >> got pay the bills. >> got to pay the bills. >> they end with a lot of debt. so they want to make sure their donors can still show love and write me a check. >> you can still give money to hillary clinton. >> yeah. >> are you going to pull a herman cain and give her url? >> isn't money part of the story that we have not talked about. we are talking about the ideas and policies and debate performances but part of what is going on here, is some folks are unable to raise enough money to continue to go forward. they cannot go forward becau

the south have we're happy to win a hat you know with that is someone somewhere in the forefront as sparta and team managed to claw our tuning in. dying seconds in style and now top group c. two stage missiles to build the russian region side looked at least a second place finish but last year's finalist surely for more than three mother of all routine. where fantastic day for russian figure skaters at the twenty twelve winter youth olympic games in austria sergei must go off and hear not one gold in the ice free dance the russian deer who also finished in first place in the short program several days earlier scored a total of one hundred forty nine point nine six point another pair another russian pair of my career similarly and dimitri two bronze premiers. and to make it in claimed silver. in the mean time it is over the top but most of all one gold in the ladies' eventually produce a stunning routine in the free program to take the total of one hundred and seventy three point one in sort of a finished second for silver china's the only completed the podium. and to end with american foot

in the second test packet collecting penalties and sparta finally converted and in bondage of having an extra man a grandson of it's his college and various mikhail of you who are too good for me failing to level matters scoring his fifth of the season the next tonight game continued in the last frame right up to the fifty three minutes when sergei showed up to give the wise them about play for his fifteenth goal of the season to give them a man believe sparked up threw everything at their rivals for an equaliser the red and white school the goaltender but only in vain as the visitors shot an empty netter to see what final score we won. forces fundamentals against so good in the forests. and build it. still bit better with my game at the first point so maybe less panic now and hopefully it's going to get going i think we had a lot are my chances and we've been put into the park and that you know that hurts when you miss that many things i want for lunch only the refs going to start calling the other way. you know you we we had better moments where we shouldn't try to very. damaged to

(deep voice) glory to sparta! ( ringing ) aaah! aaah! ( kids screaming upstairs ) okay, five spoonfuls. five spoonfuls. n-o. no. i'm not eating any more than two. four. four mouthfuls. nope, i'm not-- that's two times two. come on. four. no, i'm just eating two things. three? one and a half! there are children in africa who are starving, they would love to eat all this stuff. why don't you just send it to them? go buy an envelope and send it to them. 'cause you can't put this in an envelope, can you? it'd all get crushed, you'd get sort of soup. you could put each thing in some, like, plastic bag, and then you could put it in the thing and then send it. i am not gonna put a burger in a bubble wrap. just eat this. ( thudding, screaming upstairs ) dad: what are they doing up there? deion's mum should be here soon. is she eating up? she's banging on about how that's not her bowl. well, it isn't her bowl, because i dropped hers this morning. and i had to drive all the way to ikea to get her one that was identical, but it is identical. well,

in women's basketball the moscow region side sparta and k. have gone top of the euro leagues group c. after thrashing crosspost to toronto on home court the hosts came out with a relatively disappointing start and the opening stages won by the visitors eighteen sixteen zero p. chapman's charges could be called back into the game and a left a talent with no chance in the second quarter of the house added twenty four points while toronto eight forty two twenty six before the big intermission spot in case one not going to stop and kept increasing their advantage seventy seven to fifty three the final score their comfortable when by the fourth time you were moved back into hope position in a battle with this look back rocco for the first place in group c. . in cricket thirty seven year old ricky ponting has been turning back the clock after haye and captain michael clarke had a big day for surly in the fourth test against india to play scoring a double century in a six hundred and four four seven effort for more as a captain pointing certainly de

ok the darby between sparta tuck into his car was to become even more important as the teams battled hard for eighth place which comes with a chance of a playoff in the western conference both sides were under extreme pressure to scott's offer to end the feeds in eleven matches among them a repeat of the cage hill record a humiliating last two or more nothing while spar tuck struggled to get back on winning form with a new coach behind the bench and they said a anchor with no real science for success the game started cautiously with both teams putting defense first the hosts had possession but it was a day visitors who broke the deadlock mean away through the opening period but a horror king was forced from the rebound after you get the feel out of shot who earned his first point in the sixth game since his second comeback from the n.h.l. in the second test car kept collecting penalties and spartak finally converted in the end and won the chip having an extra man a grandson of protégés college and marius mikhail of your work to get feed from hail in cough to level matters scoring his

in the second test back at collecting penalties and sparta finally converted it in and bondage of having an extra man a grandson of it says college and various mikheil of yours to get paid for me failing to level matters scoring his fifth of the season the nekton again continued in the last frame right up to the fifty three minute when sergei shaka capitalized on a power play for his fifteenth goal of the season to give the arm a man billy sparked up threw everything at their rivals for an equaliser the red and whites pulled a goaltender but only in vain as the visitors shot an empty netter to seal a final score we won i think forces fundamentals game so good in the forests. and build it. still better with my game in the first four into. maybe less panic now and the whole thing is going to get going and i think we have a lot are my chances and. put that into the park and that in that manner that's what it is that i want for lunch really the rest going to start calling the other way. you know you we've. got our moments where we should have to the very. calm managed to bounce back up to ei

in women's basketball the moscow region side sparta and k. have gone top of the euro leagues group c. after thrashing crossed on home court the hosts came out with a roll to a disappointing start and the opening stage was won by the visitors eighteen sixteen. chapman's charges quickly called back into the game and left the italians with no chance in the second quarter the house added twenty four points while to run to only eight forty to twenty six before the big intermission spotter and k. were not going to stop and kept increasing their advantage seven to seven two fifty three the final score there so a comfortable win by the fourth time you really champ and move back into pole position in a battle with cancer for the first place in group c. . and finally in the national football league the new england patriots will meet the new york giants in the super bowl for the second time since two thousand and seven it was underdogs new york who ended the patriots perfect season by winning the title four years ago it was of course can now reports on

in women's basketball the moscow region side sparta and k. have gone top of the euro league's group c. after threshing cross basket toronto on home caught the hosts came out with a relatively disappointing start and the opening stage was won by the eighteenth sixteen poky chapman's charges quickly got back into the game and left the italians with no chance in the second quarter the house added twenty four point one to run to only eight forty to twenty six before the big intermission swatter and they were not going to stop and kept increasing their advantage to seven to fifty three of the final score they're comfortable win by the fourth time you really have moved back into pole position in a battle with kaka for the first place in group c. . in cricket thirty seven year old ricky ponting has been turning back the clock after he and captain michael clarke had a big day for thriller in the fourth test against india each player scoring a double century in a six hundred m. four four seven effort for more as a captain pointing certainly demonstrat

it's like a modern day sparta.y have trained themselves mentally, physically for a wartime situation. and it feels like a war. it feels like a wartime prison, pelican bay. >> correctional staff told us that when it comes to battling gang activity, they're fighting a system that starts long before inmates arrive in prison. >> they're convinced that at early ages, at 8, 9, 10, 11 years old that gangs are the way to go. >> such was the case with epi kortina. he joined a street gang at age 11. it led to a 16-year to life sentence for murder. >> i've been pelican-bay raised. been up here going on 14 years. >> he'd been in prison since he was 19. he was 32 at the time i interviewed him. and he'd just been through years and years of just senseless violence. >> after his arrival at pelican bay, kortino, like many other hispanic gang-bangers from northern california, joined a prison gang known as nuestra. familia. >> i walked into a war atmosphere and i was all for it. let's go, strapped on the boots and let's go. so three

ladies and gentlemen, i give you new sparta. >> and look at this.>> it's so beautiful. welcome back to "morning joe." jon meacham is still with us. and editor of the new yorker david remnick. he critiques the new book "the obamas" written by jodi cantor. did you think it was good? >> i thought it was fun. but it's very hard to penetrate a marriage, i think unless you're a novelist or a psychoanalyst. there's dpreat items, especially about conflict within the white house, which, of course, the white house wants to deny. >> but there always is. >> exactly. like in any workplace. >> i'm not surprised. >> okay. anything else you want to know about the book? >> well, we can talk about it some more. i would really like to get david's insights into the election. let's read some quick news and move that way. >> let's start with south carolina. the republican candidates are in the final sprint to the january 21st primary there in what may be the field's last best chance to stop mitt romney's momentum. the candidates are descending on the state this morning w