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The case against Greg Hardy is growing more complicated and bizarre. Details Thursday suggest that his altercation with his ex-girlfriend began as a dispute over her previous relationship with Nelly.

Authorities have reportedly asked the Carolina Panthers defensive end Greg Hardy to turn in a cache of weapons, which, according to Hardy's former girlfriend Nicole Holder, may consist of 25-30 firearms, according to the Charlotte Observer. Holder alleged that she was attacked by Hardy in his home Monday night after the two had gone out for drinks with friends, and Hardy has been charged with charged with assaulting a female and communicating threats.

According to the warrant request released by the Observer, Holder alleges that her altercation with Hardy began because the defensive end became angry with her for a previous relationship with rapper Nelly.

Hardy must hand over guns

Hardy was arrested Tuesday and held overnight until a Wednesday hearing, at which point he was released on bond. One condition of his release was the he must attend Alcoholics Anonymous meetings three times per week. Another condition, revealed Thursday, is that he must turn in to authorities all of his firearms -- "AK-47s, automatic-looking weapons, shotguns, rifles and pistols," according to Holder.

Deputies may show up to Hardy's home and ask for his weapons as early as Thursday night. Because the judge's written order is not a warrant, they will not be able to enter his home without his permission.

Hardy allegedly threw Holder on a couch covered with guns during their dispute, at which time he threatened to shoot her. She said that he threw her several times -- onto the floor, into a tile bathtub and into a futon -- and choked her twice. Per Holder, Hardy "just snapped." Until Thursday, it was unclear what set him off.

Dispute erupts over Nelly

Hardy and Holder had reportedly broken up in March but were trying to reconcile. Since breaking up, however, Holder reportedly had a relationship with Nelly, who is a part-owner of the Charlotte Bobcats. The relationship was reportedly a source of friction between the two, and bothered Hardy, who Holder said, "often becomes suddenly very angry."

Authorities released tapes of Hardy's 911 call on Wednesday, which reveals a muddled picture of what happened. Hardy's initial call suggests that Holder was also an aggressor. Via the Observer:

"Like, yo, she’s out of it, my man," Hardy tells the 911 operator. "And she will not stop coming at me, bro."

The judge in the case, Becky Thorne Tin, said that injuries sustained by Holder -- scrapes and large bruises -- and the allegations raised concerns about Holder's safety. Another woman who was reportedly at Hardy's residence placed a call at his building's security desk saying that a woman had been beaten there for more than 30 minutes.

"We need the police here now before this girl gets seriously hurt. Now!" she said.

Holder denied request for restraining order

Holder submitted a request Thursday that would bar Hardy from her home, the restaurant where she works and the nearby home of her parents. It was dismissed after she failed to appear at Thursday's scheduled hearing to consider the request.

Holder has since parted ways with her lawyer, Stephen Goodwin of Matthews, N.C., who told the Observer that he and Holder had mutually agreed to a split due to irreconcilable differences. Goodwin was unsure whether Holder would continue to pursue a criminal case. If she withdraws, charges could still be pursued against Hardy.

Donald Sterling has taken the first steps in his fight against the NBA, sending a letter to the league through his new, prominent lawyer.

The NBA's ban of Donald Sterling apparently will not go without a fight as the embattled Los Angeles Clippers owner has informed league officials he won't pay the $2.5 million fine levied against him by commissioner Adam Silver, reports Michael McCann of Sports Illustrated.

Sterling recently hired Maxwell Blecher, a prominent antitrust lawyer, who wrote a letter to NBA executive vice president and general counsel Rick Buchanan saying he would refuse the current sanctions as his client does not warrant "any punishment at all."

Buchanan sent a letter to Sterling on May 14 telling the Clippers owner to pay the $2.5 million fine announced by Silver last month. At that time, the league also announced that it would attempt to remove Sterling from ownership following the release of tapes containing audio of Sterling making offensive, racist remarks to his girlfriend.

McCann says Blecher also wrote that the NBA violated Sterling's right to due process, given he was banished from the league just four days after the initial reports from TMZ. However, that may be problematic for Sterling given the "NBA is a private association and is not required to provide due process rights."

With the letter, it seems highly likely Sterling's next step will be to file a lawsuit against the NBA, which could lead to a potentially long, complicated and expensive legal process. Still, it may be the league's only way to find the Clippers a new owner soon, and given the pressure on the league, don't be surprised if that's how it pans out.

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At just four years old, Ryker Wixom has amassed tens of thousands of followers on Instagram, where his mom Collette posts photos of the preschooler dressed as fashion models…

The duo also posts their photos to a blog called Mini Style Hacker, a project Collette started after noting that the clothing that “fashion kids” on Instagram were wearing is out of most people’s price range. The apparel worn by Ryker comes from places like Old Navy, Gap, and Target, fitting nicely into most parents’ budgets.

Of course, only half the fun of the project is seeing a little kid in an affordable, fashionable wardrobe. The other half is the hilarity of seeing a four-year-old dressed and posing like a 30-year-old model…

(via Petapixel)

Alcon Entertainment has issued a press release declaring that it’s formally seeking Harrison Ford to reprise the role of Deckard in its upcoming Blade Runner sequel. The company officially calling Ford out of retirement, beckoning him away from his 800-acre sushi bar in Wyoming, ends nearly three years of speculation over Ford’s involvement in the project—and specifically, how Deckard could be part of a story that takes place several decades after the events of the first film, when director Ridley Scott has made it abundantly clear he’s a Replicant (one with a presumably accelerated mortality).

Perhaps the lowest voice in a domesticated cat ever…

Also, who’s this Bob he’s talking about?

It’s official: How I Met Your Dad is not happening at CBS. ... according to Deadline, 20th Century Fox TV has plans to shop the pilot to other networks.

The last episode of Doctor Who to be directed by a woman was "Amy's Choice," in 2010, and it remains the only lady-directed episode in the entirety of Steven Moffat's tenure as showrunner. Not that lady-directed episodes were so exactly abundant before he took over, but they will now be joined by two more episodes when the show returns for Series 8.

Food expert Alton Brown, indignant about the state of grilled cheese in the world today, shares his yummy recipe for “grilled grilled cheese”, which is a grilled cheese sandwich that’s actually made on the grill.

Please take a moment to up just quietly read the three words on the blackboard [Grilled Cheese Sandwich]…you know, a few such arrangements are capable of stimulating so much desire so much nostalgia, so much saliva. Yet for me these words represent disappointment dishonesty in and disillusionment. That’s because whenever and wherever people say they’re gonna make you a grilled cheese sandwich what they really mean is there gonna make you a griddled sandwich containing some melted cheese. Well not me. Now when I say grilled cheese sandwich, I mean a grilled sandwich containing grilled cheese and here’s how I do it. You’re gonna need a charcoal grill…

The Federal Communications Commission on Thursday voted in favor of advancing a proposal that would dramatically reshape the way consumers experience the Internet, opening the possibility of Internet service providers charging Web sites for higher-quality delivery of their content to American consumers.

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"This game was an interesting one for us. With a theme like "Beneath the surface", we wanted make a game that interpreted the theme from a more figurative perspective, rather than a literal one.

What we ended up with was a game about censoring, where you decide what will be available to the public, and what will stay under the surface. ” - Author’s description

Oil was seen shooting 15 to 20 feet upward in the sky and onto the nearby business.

Soft-spoken and on-message, Blair is a churchgoer who says she is pro-life, pro-family, pro-gun rights and pro-business. She can rattle off a laundry list of business taxes she wants abolished or lowered. "People saw that you don't need to wait until you are 40, 50 or 60 to realize our conservative principles are beneficial to everyone," the Martinsburg teen said of her primary win.

Wolves, Iodine, motorcycle-related metaphors for gay relationships, End-Times Santa, and an incumbent named Butch Otter. Let's watch.

For all the familiar rhetoric, politics as we live them in these United States are a divided and divisive thing. Even the most familiar bits of anodyne political hope-talk -- the shared purpose, the coming together in pursuit of common dreams -- feel not just empty or fatuous, but somehow polarized themselves. (Shared purpose -- shared how? Shared with whom?)

The most generalized phrases have splintered and slipped into suspicion; the sunniest generalities are cast in long, cold shadows. There is the sense that this is somehow different and darker than the old familiar partisanship -- that something has fractured and is not being reset, that everyone is a little too angry and a little too loud.

But reasonable parties on both sides can at least agree on this: the ninth and final primary debate between the Republican candidates for Idaho's governor's office is quite obviously sports.

To be fair, at no point do the four candidates play any sort of sport. But this llama doesn't do anything strictly sports-like, either, and everyone understood that as sports, too. If we understand sports as a thing that's edifying and enjoyable to watch -- which seems like a better definition than They Chase The Ball Around or What Is Between The Coors Light Ads -- then we are watching sports when we watch this. This:

But, of course, that is nearly an hour of four men discussing the issues that matter in a state in which you probably don't live. These issues are, in no particular order:

Wolves

Gay Marriage

The End Of Days As Foretold In The Book Of Revelations

Big Government/???

As well as some other topics of lesser import. It was, in many ways, a televised political debate like any other. It just happened to occur in Idaho, and feature the four Republican candidates for that office. These include incumbent Governor Butch Otter and state legislator Rich Fulcher, who seems to be running to Otter's right, as well as the two men seen above.

The leather-clad biker is named Harley Brown, who was inspired to run for office by a vision he experienced while living in the basement of a Boise bar named Fat Jacks. His politics are idiosyncratic enough to include an embrace of gay marriage -- "They have true love for one another," he says, "I'm telling you, they love each other more than I love my motorcycle" -- and an even heartier embrace of offensive jokes that he calls "Harleyisms," and which he puts on his campaign website as part of a broader campaign against "political correctness."

The bearded fellow to his left is Walt Bayes, who notes in his opening statement that he has "77 descendants" and is mostly running on a platform of Apocalypse Awareness and a staunch opposition to abortion:

And those are your candidates.

The result is the result: a debate that's half a wearily familiar partisan political debate between two professionals, and half Walt Bayes getting very upset and Harley Brown's leather-vested "More Electable Rob Ford" routine. It is also a satire of itself and our politics and people in general.

It's sports, all right, and it's spectacular.

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Creation Museum founder Ken Ham is once again furious that Pat Robertson has mocked proponents of Young Earth Creationism, and now wants to appear on the “700 Club” to debate the televangelist.

Ham, who recently held a debate with Bill Nye, said in a blog post today that he is willing to debate Robertson either on the “700 Club” or at Regent University, the school founded by Robertson.

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“During the last days in the life of Laura Palmer many things happened, which have never been seen before,” Lynch said of this 90 minutes of footage, in which Laura presumably listens to James sing some of the new songs he’s working on, and then there are maybe two minutes of owls.  Anyway, you can actually check out some of that deleted footage in this trailer hosted by Entertainment Weekly, which also features some pretty good clips of David Bowie acting like a crazy person.

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The truth has been revealed: Katy Perry is nothing but a copy of a 50s’ comic book character called “Katy Peene”

Literally her entire career…. Is based on a comic book.

Now I overstand why CTGOD keeps calling her the nubian white queen, she is as fake as Rick “law enforcer” Ross. 

Wat…

LMFAO um…

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