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Belinda fue extorsionada antes de que se divulgara video suyo en topless
9:17 | La madre de la cantante insiste en que las imágenes difundidas son falsas, y afirma que se trata de un fotomontaje
La cantante Belinda fue extorsionada semanas antes que saliera a la luz el video donde aparece con el pecho desnudo, según reveló su madre Belinda Schull.
La mujer insiste en que las imágenes divulgadas en un video son falsas, y afirma que se trata de un fotomontaje.
"Mi hija es una niña que no pudo soportar tanta presión. Ahora es víctima de un fotomontaje. Cualquiera puede ser víctima de esto, esto es lo que está pasando con mi hija", señaló.
Sin precisar cuando ocurrió y si dieron aviso a las autoridades, la señora manifestó que Belinda fue víctima de extorsión con ese 'falso' video: "Alguien quiso hacer dinero fácil en estos tiempos de crisis. Cuando tu tienes una hija y es jovencita, hay muchas extorsiones, gente que se acerca, yo no enfrento a esa gente, tengo abogados", apuntó.
Ravens beat Cowboys 33-24 in Texas Stadium finale
By JAIME ARON – 5 hours ago
IRVING, Texas (AP) — Dallas Cowboys fans and Hall of Famers came early and stayed late, making sure they savored every bit of the 313th and last game at Texas Stadium. The Baltimore Ravens will remember it fondly, too.
Willis McGahee ran 77 yards for a lead-stretching touchdown when things got tight late in the fourth quarter, then Le'Ron McClain topped that by going 83 yards for the real victory-clinching touchdown with 1:18 left, sending the Ravens past the Cowboys 33-24 Saturday night in a game both teams needed to boost their playoff chances.
Baltimore led 19-10 midway through the fourth quarter behind four field goals from Matt Stover, who sold programs outside the stadium as a kid growing up in the area, and a touchdown pass from Joe Flacco to Derrick Mason.
Tony Romo threw touchdown passes to Terrell Owens and Jason Witten over the last 3:36, each putting Dallas within two points. But the Ravens answered both with one-play scoring drives, both coming on runs up the middle against a defense that had done a great job against the run all night. When Romo's final drive ended on downs, fans began to boo. More boos followed when Flacco took a knee and time ran out.
Baltimore (10-5) bounced back from a controversial last-minute loss to Pittsburgh to win for the fourth time in five games. With only the AFC's sixth seed up for grabs, the Ravens are guaranteed of being in the mix when the play Jacksonville at home next weekend.
Baltimore goes into Sunday with a half-game lead over three AFC East teams that are 9-5, one of which will get in by winning the division.
Dallas (9-6) lost for the second time in three weeks. While they can still get an NFC wild-card berth, this loss makes it tougher. They actually had several ways to clinch Sunday if they could've won this game. Now they'll go to Philadelphia next Sunday needing a win and, perhaps, some help. Dallas' loss clinched a playoff spot for the Carolina Panthers.
Despite the importance of this game, much of the emotion came from this being the 313th and final game played under the hole in the roof. The Cowboys finished 213-100 in regular-season and postseason games at the home they moved into in 1971, going 6-2 this season.
It was during the 37 seasons here that Dallas blossomed into "America's Team," winning five Super Bowls and filling the Hall of Fame with stars like Bob Lilly, Roger Staubach, Tony Dorsett and Michael Irvin — all of whom were among the roughly 100 former players welcomed back for a postgame ceremony.
The celebrating began when the stadium parking lots opened an hour early. Team owner Jerry Jones and his family took dozens of pictures at the midfield star before fans were let in, and there were tributes throughout the game. Players also wore a patch on their jerseys commemorating the farewell.
Flacco was 17-of-25 for 149 yards and the touchdown, which was set up by a 9-yard run by punter-holder Sam Koch on a fake field goal. Although he was sacked six times and lost a fumble, his efficiency helped the Ravens turn an early 7-0 deficit into a 16-7 lead late in the third quarter.
Romo was 24-of-45 for 252 yards and two touchdowns, with two first-half interceptions. Ed Reed had both, tying him for the NFL lead with seven.
Romo was out of sync the first three quarters, more because of the Ravens' swarming defense than a lingering back injury. He actually moved pretty well but had to move a lot to avoid whichever defender came roaming at him practically every time he threw. Late in the third quarter, Dallas had more punts (six) than first downs (five).
Witten and Owens each caught five passes, Witten's going for 87 yards — despite a sprained left knee that forced him to drop to the sideline after his touchdown — and Owens' went for 63 yards.
Rookie Tashard Choice started over injured Marion Barber and ran for 90 yards, among the most all season against Baltimore. His 2-yard touchdown in the first quarter was only the fourth on the ground all season against the Ravens. It was set up by linebacker DeMarcus Ware's NFL-best 20th sack, which also produced Flacco's fumble.
The Cowboys allowed only around 100 yards rushing before the two big, late runs. McLain finished with 22 carries for 139 yards and McGahee had eight carries for 108 yards.
This was the Ravens' first game here and, thus, they'll finish 1-0 at Texas Stadium. The Oakland-Los Angeles Raiders went 3-0 and are the only other NFL team not to lose under the hole in the roof.
Ravens soar past Cowboys in Texas Stadium finale
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DALLAS, Texas (AFP) — The Baltimore Ravens used two late touchdowns to beat the Dallas Cowboys 33-24 in the last National Football League game to be played at Texas Stadium.
Willis McGahee ran 77 yards for a touchdown late in the fourth quarter, then fullback Le'Ron McClain ran 82 yards for a score with 93 seconds to play as the Ravens continued their push for an AFC wild card berth.
Derrick Mason caught a 13-yard touchdown pass in the third quarter and Matt Stover kicked four field goals for the Ravens, who improved to 10-5 and will close the regular season at home to Jacksonville on December 28.
Joe Flacco, who completed 17-of-25 passes for 149 yards, joined Ben Roethlisberger of Pittsburgh as the only rookie quarterbacks to secure a win at Texas Stadium.
Dallas quarterback Tony Romo connected on touchdown passes to Terrell Owens and Jason Witten in the fourth quarter, while rookie Tashard Choice had a two-yard scoring run for the Cowboys, who will begin playing next season in a new 1.2 billion-dollar stadium.
But the farewell festivities, which saw former Dallas greats taking a last walk across the star at mifield, were overshadowed by the defeat, which dented Dallas's playoff hopes.
The Cowboys trail Tampa Bay, Atlanta and Philadelphia in the race for an NFC wild card berth, while their defeat on Saturday clinched a playoff berth for NFC South division leaders Carolina.
Dallas visit the Eagles in Philadelphia next weekend.
The Ravens were leading 19-17 lead with 3:42 remaining in the fourth quarter when McGahee took a handoff and ran through the heart of the Dallas defense for his sixth rushing touchdown of the season.
McGahee's run was topped by McClain's 82-yard touchdown run, which came after the Cowboys had cut the Ravens' lead to 26-24.
A Cowboys run defense that had not allowed more than 92 yards in its last five games gave up 159 yards in two plays.
In addition, Romo was largely ineffective early, throwing two first-half interceptions that the Ravens turned into field goals to claim a 9-7 halftime lead.
Likely Pick for Intelligence Chief Would Face Task of Corralling Fractious Agencies
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Published: December 20, 2008
President-elect Barack Obama’s expected appointment of Dennis C. Blair as director of national intelligence would put Mr. Blair, a retired admiral, in the position of riding herd over 16 often-fractious intelligence agencies and streamlining an office many in Congress have criticized for bureaucratic bloat.
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As the nation’s spymaster, Mr. Blair would on some days be the first person to greet Mr. Obama in the morning with a dossier of the threats facing the country.
Mr. Obama still has not settled on a candidate to take over the Central Intelligence Agency, members of his transition team said Saturday. That selection has been a particular headache as the president-elect has sought to find a C.I.A. director steeped in terrorism and counterproliferation issues but not closely linked to controversial Bush administration policies like the C.I.A.’s detention and interrogation program and the National Security Agency’s domestic wiretapping program.
Transition aides said that Mr. Blair would help select a C.I.A. director, which could give him an upper hand in the turf battles that still plague the spy community.
In recent months, Mike McConnell, the director of national intelligence, has clashed with the C.I.A. director, Michael V. Hayden, on personnel matters, particularly over Mr. McConnell’s insistence on filling top jobs in overseas stations with officers from across the intelligence community, not just the C.I.A.
The agency since its founding has been in control of the foreign stations. Mr. Hayden has argued that the C.I.A.’s responsibilities for gathering intelligence using undercover officers makes it the agency best suited to run the overseas posts and work with foreign spy services.
Obama aides said the official announcement of Mr. Blair’s selection as intelligence director, a post created in 2005 as part of intelligence reforms in the wake of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, was not expected until next month, after the president-elect returns from a vacation in Hawaii. They said that Mr. Obama would most likely reveal his C.I.A. choice at the same time.
Mr. Blair has a reputation for quickly digesting complex and often conflicting information, although his Navy background raised concerns from some members of Congress about the “militarization” of intelligence at a time when the Pentagon still controls a significant part of the intelligence budget.
Mr. McConnell is also a retired admiral. Mr. Hayden is a retired Air Force general.
A native of Maine descended from generations of Navy veterans, Mr. Blair graduated from Annapolis in the same year as Adm. Mike Mullen, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff; Senator Jim Webb, Democrat of Virginia; and Oliver L. North, a former Marine colonel who became embroiled in the Iran-contra scandal.
Mr. Blair earned a master’s degree at Oxford University, where he was a Rhodes scholar, and speaks Russian.
While at the helm of the United States Pacific Command from 1999 to 2002, he won praise for counterterrorism operations he ran against the Abu Sayyaf group in the Philippines, where Navy Seals and C.I.A. operatives worked with the Philippine army to capture or kill the members of the network in remote parts of the country.
But he also clashed with lawmakers and State Department officials over his efforts to strengthen ties to Indonesia’s military, which he saw as an important moderating force in the Muslim nation. Some officials in Washington objected to the Pentagon’s dealing with a military with a long track record of human rights abuses.
In 2001, Mr. Blair was one of the brightest stars in the military firmament: an admiral with a platinum résumé whom many considered a lock to become the next Joint Chiefs chairman.
But the new defense secretary, Donald H. Rumsfeld, considered him to be too outspoken and independent, and thought that he was out of step with parts of President Bush’s foreign policy agenda, particularly about the military threat posed by China. Moreover, he was a longtime friend of the Clintons, having studied at Oxford with former President Bill Clinton.
Mr. Blair was passed over for the job, and eventually retired.
In civilian life, Mr. Blair ran the Institute for Defense Analyses, a nonprofit group in Northern Virginia that does extensive work for the Pentagon.
But he had to step down from the post in 2006 amid concerns that his positions on the boards of several defense contractors constituted a conflict of interest.
The Pentagon’s inspector general later concluded that Mr. Blair had violated the institute’s standards by serving on the board of a contractor working on the Air Force F-22 jet at the same time that the institute was evaluating the program for the Pentagon. But the inspector general also concluded that Mr. Blair had not influenced the group’s conclusions about the jet program.
Jeff Zeleny contributed reporting.
Up to 30,000 new US troops in Afghanistan by summer
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As many as 30,000 new American troops may be sent to Afghanistan by next summer. Chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, Admiral Mike Mullen, made the remarks during a visit to Kabul on Saturday.
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Afghanistan, Saturday, Dec. 20, 2008. The top U.S. military
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Washington is already sending some three thousand troops to Afghanistan in January, and another 2,800 by spring.
The US has previously said the number is expected to reach 20,000 in the next one to one and a half years.
Admiral Mike Mullen, Chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, said, "Some 20 to 30 thousand is the window of overall increase from where we are right now. I actually don't have an exact number."
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The high end of Mullen's range - 30,000 additional troops - is the largest number any top US military official has said publicly.
The US now has some 31-thousand troops in Afghanistan.
After the January deployment, most of the reinforcements are to be sent to southern Afghanistan.
This would bolster British, Canadian and Dutch forces that have suffered heavy casualties in the last two years in the Taliban heartland.
Admiral Mike Mullen said, "That's where the toughest fight is. When we get additional troops, I think the violence level is going to go up. The fight will be tougher."
Mullen adds that only improvements in Afghanistan's governance and economic situation will affect the strength of the insurgency.
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Aston Villa manager Martin O'Neill is reportedly chasing Portsmouth striker Jermain Defoe, who looks set to leave the club to ease the debt they find themselves in.
Villa boss O'Neill has decided his side needs strengthening in the run in to the end of the season and Defoe could be the ideal man to ensure Villa grab the fourth Champions League spot for next season.
The 26-year-old moved to Portsmouth in January when he was not getting a good run of games in the Tottenham Hotspur side, and now looks set to be on the move again as O'Neill looks to bolster his rapidly depleting squad.
O'Neill has already lost Norwegian striker John Carew to injury this season and has the likes of Gabby Agbonlahor and Ashley Young to thank for The Villains meteoric rise up the Premier League table.
Young however has been heavily linked with a big money move to Spanish giants Real Madrid, whose new coach Juande Ramos, the former Tottenham Hotpsur manager, will be able to spend obscene amounts of money during the January transfer window.
Defoe meanwhile would cost O'Neill around £12 million, and would greatly bolster the Northern Irishman's attacking options, and put even more pressure on the likes of Arsenal for the final Champions League spot.
Villa have also recently been linked with January swoops for Pompey pair James Hurst and Niko Kranjcar.
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Plane injuries rise to 58, 2 in critical condition
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Passengers saw engine ablaze, felt seats crushPlane veers off DIA runway; 38 hurtPassenger jet goes off Denver runway; 38 hurtDenver International Airport spokesman Jeff Green said on 9News today that the total number of people injured last night was 58, 20 higher than originally reported after an airport runway accident.
Two of those on board Continental flight 1404 are in critical condition this morning. Others received mostly bumps, bruises and broken bones as they evacuated the plane which had skidded off a runway at Denver International Airport on takeoff. The Boeing 737-500 ended up in a ravine and burst into flames, with the plane's entire right side engulfed.
The plane was bound for Houston, carrying 112 passengers and crewmembers when it crashed shortly after 6 p.m. last night.
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"The care of our passengers, crew and family members is our highest priority and they will receive any assistance necessary," said Larry Kellner, Continental's chairman and chief executive officer. "We are deeply concerned by this accident and will do everything we can for the passengers, their families and our co-workers."
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Finally, some good news on the Broncos' injury front: None of their tailbacks has been attacked lately by a snowblower.
It's those guys on the other team who are giving the Broncos' tailbacks fits. Five have landed on the injured- reserve list, with the ailments ranging from neck (Mi- chael Pittman) to toe (Anthony Alridge).
Check that, says Alridge.
"It's head to toe," Alridge said. "There have probably been some of us who've had concussions but didn't tell anybody about it."
Such is life in the Broncos' backfield in 2008. What, you don't think something is in the air at Dove Valley? You don't think there's some Curse of the Bambino West going on? Then how do you explain Alridge never missing a game in college because of an injury, only to lead the parade to the IR list before the season opener?
"I really don't know what's going on," Alridge said. "It's just been freakish. There are probably a lot of people around here looking over their shoulders."
And when they do, they invariably see the latest waiver-wire all-star walking through the door at Dove Valley. The list of unknown soldiers to line up at tailback, in practice if not Sunday afternoon, includes P.J. Pope, Alex Haynes, Cory Boyd and Steve Baylark. Then, of course, there's Tatum Bell, who was hawking cellphones at the Aurora Mall before the Broncos sent him a lifeline after yet another injury.
Baylark was the latest addition, having been signed to the practice squad after the season-ending hamstring injury suffered by Peyton Hillis. The obvious question after he walked into the locker room: Um, Steve, you sure you want to do this?
"The whole injury thing is kind of spooky," Baylark said. "I've never seen anything like it. Maybe in a video game or something, but not in real life. Hopefully it isn't contagious. I'm knocking on wood."
Not that it did him any good. Baylark's days in a Broncos uniform lasted one week before he was sent packing. Hey, at least, when he knocked on wood, he didn't break his hand, a la Andre Hall against Miami.
At the risk of telling you something you already know, coach Mike Shanahan said he has never seen the likes of it. Never has he seen the injury bug bite so hard and so many in such a relatively short span of time.
"Not this many at one position," Shanahan said. "When you have injuries, you deal with it. You're dealt a hand and I'm pleased with our personnel staff that we could go out and get these guys. There's been an upside to it. I feel pretty good about a lot of these young players stepping up next year after getting an opportunity this year."
Just about every Broncos tailback with a pulse and a helmet has gotten an opportunity to run the rock. They've had five different players start at tailback, four in a span of four recent games. Thus this stat: Denver has a league-high six tailbacks who've had 15-plus carries, and the number figures to grow today, what with Pope sitting on 11 attempts.
And while we're on the subject of wacky stats, did you know the Broncos, despite all the sprains, strains and no-gains, rank fifth in the league in average per carry? It's true. They're at 4.5 yards a crack, ahead of, among others, Minnesota, which employs NFL rushing leader Adrian Peterson, and Washington, where ex-Bronco Clinton Portis led the league in the first half of the season.
Oh, and how about this one? Hillis, a converted fullback, leads the team with 343 rushing yards, just ahead of Pittman, at 320. Since both are on IR, it's altogether possible Hillis could finish the season No. 1. Nothing out of the ordinary there except that the Broncos produced 11 1,000-yard backs in Shanahan's first 13 seasons.
When it comes to the Broncos' yearly rushing leaders during the Shanahan era, there have been more 2,000-yard runners (one) than those with fewer than 700 (none). If Hillis finishes atop this year's list, it would be the lowest team-leading total in franchise history. The lowest to date is 360 by Donnie Stone in 1962, when Ring of Famer Frank Tripucka was lofting 9-irons into the secondary during the pass-happy days of the AFL.
It has been one long, strange trip, this 2008 Broncos season. The days of Selvin Young setting a goal of 2,000 yards seem like ancient history. These days, Shanahan's go-to guy is more like the flavor of the week. Instead of turning to a second-stringer after an injury, he's down to "others receiving votes."
"Our running game isn't the same that it's been, for obvious reasons," Shanahan said.
The situation has put no small amount of stress on quarterback Jay Cutler and the coaching staff. With so many tailbacks down for the count, Shanahan and his staff have had to come up with ways not to get the tailback involved. Thus all those empty-backfield sets we've seen in recent weeks.
"We're throwing the ball a whole lot more," said Bell, when asked what the difference was between this Broncos team and his first tour of duty at Dove Valley. "We've got a lot of new guys here compared to when I left. . . . Hey, we've got a couple of new guys today. That's part of the NFL. Guys come and go."
For the record, the Broncos, according to trainer Steve Antonopulos, have studied each injury to ensure that the team's practice tendencies or training regimen weren't part of the problem. Long story short, they weren't. The technical term for each injury reads something like this: Hey, that's football.
Popular man, Antonopulos. So much so that the trainer's room looks like a scene from the Department of Motor Vehicles. But instead of taking a number, injured players have been assigned specific times to get treatment, an unheard-of practice at Dove Valley.
"We have different groups that come in at different times," Antonopulos said. "We stage our guys. You hope it never comes to that, but those are the breaks of the game. You do what you've got to do."
Jim Armstrong: 303-954-1269 or jmarmstrong@denverpost.com
When the Broncos run
The Broncos will once again play with their trio of small running backs and are hoping for better results than last week in the loss to Carolina. P.J. Pope averaged 7.3 yards per carry in that game and caught a touchdown pass. Denver should have its fullback, Spencer Larsen, back, which should help in short-yardage situations. The Bills are allowing 114 yards rushing per game. Edge: Buffalo
When the Bills run
Bills tailback Marshawn Lynch went over the 1,000-yard barrier last Sunday vs. the Jets. But he did not practice early last week because of a sore shoulder. Lynch's backup, Fred Jackson, has 392 yards rushing this season. Denver's run defense is giving up 140.1 yards per game and remains vulnerable to the big play, such as the 56-yard TD run last week by DeAngelo Williams. Edge: Buffalo, if Lynch is healthy
When the Broncos pass
If the Broncos are going to clinch the division today, Jay Cutler must rebound from one of his worst passing days and beat the Bills in the air. Buffalo's pass rush has produced only 22 sacks (one fewer than Denver's defense), so Cutler should have time. Edge: Denver
When the Bills pass
Buffalo is averaging less than 200 yards passing per game, and with the quarterback situation in flux, this game could give Denver's secondary a boost. Buffalo QBs have been intercepted 15 times. Receiver Lee Evans needs just 65 yards to reach 1,000 for the season. Edge: Even
Special teams
Buffalo has long had solid special teams and currently is averaging 15 yards per punt return and 25 yards per kickoff return (compared with 10.2 per punt and 22.7 per kickoff for the Broncos). It could get interesting if either team attempts field goals between 40-49 yards. Denver's Matt Prater is 4-for-10 from that distance, while Buffalo's Rian Lindell is 9-for-13. Edge: Buffalo |
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