over $100,000 worth of his viacom stock. a spokesman for redstone who ordered mtv execs to develop a reality show about the band refused to comment on the gift. >>> well, garza throws a no-no, haren flops with halos, and the twins gang up on the royals. >>> plus, if he's not careful, ichiro is going to become better known for his glove than his bat. your early morning sports headlines are straight ahead. >>> in your tuesday weather, the 90-degree heat is once again spreading across the country. your regional forecast is coming up. you're watching "early today." >>> good morning. if you're just waking up, this is "early today." in sports last night, tampa bay's matt garza threw the first no-hitter in rays' history. here's nbc's fred roggin with an early look at all your sports headlines. >>> good morning. it's been the year of the pitcher. count them. five no-hitters, two perfect games already this season. last night tampa bay rays' matt garza was the latest to enter the history books against the tigers. garza's only mistake,

continue maxwell you did mention media moguls i have a headline about a media mogul reporter bing viacom chairman sumner redstone blew five hundred thousand dollars on his younger girl group crush object this is the eighty seven year old chairman of both viacom a twenty billion dollars company and c.b.s. a ten billion dollar company sumner redstone and he contacted this journalist from the daily beast peter lauria and he's trying to force him to give him information about who is his source for a story in which they reveal that sumner redstone chasing a young girl from a girl all girl band electric barbarella is so listen to this audio clip here and he may be. pretty recruit. but. we're not going to go. for. him right now why so little redstone in the half in the all media mafioso thing i believe i go for this how old is the sky eighty seven but max you did warn when you were campaigning against the counter exchange box office features you warned of the sort of activity that these sort of guys could do it just to manipulate the price of their movie project to their movie contract this is

. >>> and red-faced sumner redstone, the 87-year-old chairman of viacom, bribed a reporter trying to give up a source. >> we're not going to kill him. we just want to talk to him. we will protect you completely. give us the name and you will be well rewarded and well protected. >> and all his spokesperson can say, it was just sumner being sumner today, wednesday, july say, it was just sumner being sumner today, wednesday, july 21st, 2010. captions paid for by nbc-universal television >>> and good morning. welcome to "today" on a wednesday morning. i'm matt lauer. >> and i'm meredith vieira. we'll get to that frightening experience on the united airlines flight. >> did the obama administration make a huge mistake forcing an agriculture department official to resign for comments she made in an naacp event? part of shirley sherrod's remarks were released by a blogger. cable news outlets pounced on the remarks and quickly interpreted them as racist. even the naacp condemned her, and she was quickly forced to resign. but, as it turns out, it was a story of how she chose to overcome her ow