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Just let the commish run the country
By Marc Stein
Special to ESPN.com
Finally, friends, we have a winner. Or, at the very least, an answer for our Electoral Crisis. A two-word solution, at last, to fix the only mathematical mechanism in creation more convoluted than the NBA salary cap.
Does David Stern, center, really want an L.A.-Philly final?
The two words are . David Stern.
We present David J. Stern as your 43rd president of the United States.
We d like to, anyway. It s a little late for nominations, agreed, but it s safe to say that standard parliamentary procedure isn t exactly working, is it? So why not Stern to run a country that, according to highly placed government sources, is really dragging out the recount because nobody wants either of the actual candidates.
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CHARLESTON The following events happened on these dates in West Virginia history. To read more, go to e-WV: The West Virginia Encyclopedia at www.wvencyclopedia.org.
May 23, 1862: In what became known as the Battle of Lewisburg, Union troops repelled a Confederate advance, killing 38 and wounding 66, while losing 13 men.
May 23, 1941: Rod Thorn was born in Princeton. Thorn attended West Virginia University, where he was an All-American guard. Thorn has had an extended and distinguished career in the National Basketball Association.
May 24, 1896: Confederate General John Echols died in Staunton, Virginia. Echols served in the Kanawha Valley in 1862 and commanded Confederate forces at their defeat at the Battle of Droop Mountain in November 1863.