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Drew: So this episode starts off at a very expensive hotel where the gang is all living since their house burned down due to an errant joint, right?Matt: Is that a hotel? I thought it was heaven.Drew: Ha ha. Heaven doesn't have Drama in an Ed Hardy shirt.

Matt: I like Drama insisting on the shirt's heterosexual cred. If you have to insist that your shirt makes you look straight, there's a problem.Drew: It's like insisting you are famous -- another one of Drama's personality quirks. But my first question is: If a famous movie star gets out of rehab and then his house burns down because of a pot-related accident, is there nobody -- not the paparazzi, a parole officer, a sponsor -- who would maybe try to take Vincent Chase away from these guys? No one who, at the very least, would point to the incident as a sign of a possible relapse?

Matt: Yeah, there would be fallout from that in real life. But this isn't real life. It's "Entourage."

It goes back to what we were talking about last week. This show is hip to the way most young men -- and older men with young men's mentalities -- fantasize. The messy, ugly parts get skipped. It sounds kind of strange to say, but in this sense "Entourage" is weirdly prim and conservative. It'll show us tit implants and guys doing drugs, but the really, truly hardcore stuff -- the moments where people really have to struggle with pain and doubt -- that stuff, it goes out of its way to avoid. So in that sense the show is truly escapist, in a way that "Sex and the City" never was.

Sergio Kindle's first training camp practice for the Ravens appeared to be a successful one.

The outside linebacker, who missed his entire rookie season with a head injury, looked sleek and fast and impressed coach John Harbaugh at the team's facility in Owings Mills on Thursday."I think it's great for him as a person," Harbaugh said after practice. "That's the No. 1 thing, to see what he's overcome and to be out there. He looked good. So, obviously, it's one step. I'm just happy for him. He had joy written all over his face. He was even smiling during the conditioning test, he was so happy to be here. He practiced well. So it's going to be fun to see how he progresses. We've got high hopes for him right now."
The coaches and players aren't the only ones who share that view. Ever since the club chose Kindle with its top pick of the 2010 draft, fans have been eager for a glimpse of the size and athleticism that branded the former University of Texas standout as the draft's top 3-4 outside linebacker in a poll of 17 NFL scouts by the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel.

But Kindle, who was selected in the second round, fell down two flights of stairs at a friend's house on July 22 of last year, sustaining a hairline fracture in his skull. He sat out the season, and his future with the Ravens was in doubt.

But his rehabilitation progressed nicely, and Kindle worked during the offseason at a performance facility in Dallas. If he can impress the coaches enough to earn playing time, Kindle could bolster a pass rush that registered a franchise-low 27 sacks last season.

Kindle was not made available to the media after practice Thursday, but inside linebacker Ray Lewis said he was encouraged by Kindle's presence.

"To see him out there running around, and to see the smile on his face just to be back on a football field, there's just nothing more rewarding just being around him," the 12-time Pro Bowler said.

Foxworth makes triumphant return

Like Kindle, Domonique Foxworth also returned to the football field for the first time in more than a year, and the cornerback did not appear to miss a step after sitting out last season with a knee injury.

Foxworth, who tore the anterior cruciate ligament in his right knee the day before training camp opened last year, broke up three passes during one-on-one drills and did not require a brace or wrap around that knee.

"He didn't seem to be hesitant at all," Harbaugh said. "He seemed confident and looked strong, so that was a pleasant thing to see."

Man in Ed Hardy Shirt, Fanning Self With Cash, Winking, Might Not Have Gotten That Money Through Legal Means

Whatever happened to the stoic Eastern European mobster? You know, the Viggo Mortensen type who communicates via grunts, cryptic tattoos, and the bludgeoning end of a fire extinguisher?

Meet 22-year-old Sunny Isles Beach luminary Jason Eibinder, arrested in January for his role in a massive Romania-based Internet fraud scheme. Last week, he uploaded a photo to Facebook showing him sitting in the passenger seat of an SUV while wearing an Ed Hardy T-shirt and winking at the camera. In his lap were what looked like at least 50 hundred-dollar bills.

The caption read, "I am just getting started. I'll be back soon," followed by, of course, a winking smiley-face.

Mind you, this was two months after Eibinder, who pleaded guilty to fraud conspiracy, was sentenced to three years in federal prison and ordered to pay $303,837.30 in restitution to his victims.

But to any prosecutors or law enforcement officials reading this story: It should be noted that, in the photo, he is wearing a seat belt.

Eibinder was an "arrow," one of several South Florida-based co-conspirators for a Romanian crime ring that purported to sell expensive items -- cars, motorcycles, boats -- to victims on sites like Craigslist and eBay.

The gangsters would tell Internet buyers to send their money to bogus escrow companies, which were actually wire-transfer accounts where the money would then be withdrawn by U.S. cronies such as Eibinder, who would use fake identifications.

Needless to say, Bob in Topeka would not receive his Ski-Doo.

A couple of the arrows were caught in the act at a Texas Walmart. Detectives witnessed them withdrawing a $2,980 MoneyGram wire from an Internet victim. When cops searched their home, they found lots of money and a computer lab for making fake IDs.

More than 100 gangsters were arrested in Romania and the States. The feds claim the ring fleeced victims of $10 million, but Romanian news reports -- that wacky Transylvania Tattler! -- are pegging the take at nearly twice that. The international legal smackdown included the police departments of Hallandale Beach, Pembroke Pines, Miami Gardens, North Miami Beach, Davie, and Sunny Isles Beach.

We must say, we admire Jason Eibinder's party-rific attitude even as he prepares for 36 months of government meat loaf. One night last week, for example, our hero announced he was headed to Arkadia -- which sounds like the sort of club that welcomes Ed Hardy attire -- at midnight "with bottles doing it big."

He added: "If you know me, you know how it can get."

Shareholder of "Russian Fitness Group" (Network World Class, "FizKult") Maxim Ignatiev runs a network of shoe stores Fashion Galaxy. They will sell footwear brands Ed Hardy, UGG Australia, Carvela - Russia in its own distribution company imports a businessman.

The first store Fashion Galaxy area of ​​250 square meters. M will open in August at the mall "European" in Moscow, told "Kommersant" Mr. Ignatiev. The representative of the "European" has confirmed this information. The next year, according to a businessman, plans to open three more stores of the same name. Their range of products will include firms Ed Hardy, UGG Australia, Kurt Geiger, Carvela, Repetto France, Mystique and the DAV, which costs on average $ 150-450 per pair. Exclusive supply of these shoes in Russia engaged in their own company Maxim Ignatiev Fashion Galaxy, whose turnover in 2012 should amount to about $ 30 million These shoes are currently buys network Rendez-Vous, and the group Mercury (sovladeet including Central Department Store) and Bosco di Ciliegi (GUM and others).According to Mr. Ignatieff, the investment in the opening four stores will be about $ 2 million Vice-President "Econika" Sergey Sarkisov said that more will come - from $ 700 thousand up to $ 800 thousand in a shop, taking into account the formation of commodity stocks. Rent in the torgtsentrah as "European", is very expensive because of its leadership position in terms of purchasing traffic - more than $ 4 thousand per 1 sq. km. m per year, warns one of the tenants.
Maxim Ignatiev became part owner of the "Russian Fitness Group" in 2007, when the company founded by Olga Slutsker, merged with its "R-Fitness", a network administrator MaxiSport (before rebranding - Reebok). At the same time he tried to force in apparel retailing: Debenhams department store was opened on them with the RID Group in Red Presnya in 2006, but lasted less than two years. Since 2010, he opened a franchise store UGG Australia GUM in Moscow and three Kurt Geiger.

"Brands that deliver Fashion Galaxy, has already gained fame in Moscow, where there is a steady demand for the products in their price range - says CEO of research company" Roskonsaltproekt "Andrew Tsirer .- Sales through own stores will increase the marginality of the shoe business with 40-60 % to 200%. " According to Euromonitor, in 2010 the volume of the Russian footwear market totaled $ 18.9 billion in 2011 increased by 15.5% to $ 21.8 billion The largest market operators last year were "Tsentrobuv" with a share of 3,8%, Adidas with 2,4%, Nike at 1.4% and "Econika" with 0.5%. According to the prospectus issued by the company "Russia's Shoes" to the bond issue, the general sales mid-range market segment (3-7 thousand rubles., Or $ 108-253 per pair) in 2011-2012 to increase the level of 2009 from 30 to 35% , verhnetsenovoy segment (more than 7 thousand rubles. or more than $ 253) - from 5 to 6%.

Grade requirements for student athletes are expected to tighten in Louisiana in the 2011-12 academic year.

Local coaches don't expect much change in the Tri-parishes.

House Bill 31, authored by Rep. Rickey Hardy, D-Lafayette, has been signed into law by Gov. Bobby Jindal and will require student athletes to maintain a "C-average" to compete in school-sanctioned athletics.

But local coaches are quick to point out that Lafourche, Terrebonne and St. Mary parishes have followed the standards laid out in the bill for years, meaning the law won't have much of an impact on our local teams.

"We don't anticipate things being much different at all," Thibodaux High School Athletics Director and boys' basketball coach Tony Clark said. "We expect it to be that way for everyone in the area, as well."

When Hardy's bill was first signed into law by Gov. Bobby Jindal, some coaches and news outlets reported that with it, the minimum GPA for athletic eligibility would shift from a 1.5 to a 2.0.

But local education officials stress that will not be the case in Lafourche, Terrebonne and St. Mary.

In Hardy's bill, it reads that in order to maintain eligibility, a student athlete must have "attained not less than a 'C-average', as determined by the governing authority of the school in which the student is enrolled."

That means the decision as to what a "C-average" truly is rests in the hands of each individual school district.

In all three Tri-parishes, a "C-average" is defined as a 1.5 GPA. That standard is expected to stay the same in the next school year, which will mean the legislation will not have any impact on our area's players.

"There is some ambiguity about what is a C-average," Terrebonne Parish School Superintendent Philip Martin said. "But it is of my understanding that they have left it up to the individual school districts to make that determination and obviously, we're sticking with our grading policy that's been in place for 35 or 40 years, much before this C-average and this 2.0 situation came into athletics."

Even with the bill's fizzle locally, coaches universally stress the importance of academics in the foundations of their programs, touting that even if a 2.0 standard would be put into place, the vast majority of athletes would remain eligible.

"I went through the report cards at the end of the school year and if it's a 1.5, I wouldn't lose anyone," Terrebonne High School football coach Gary Hill said, "But even if it'd be the 2.0, then I think I'd lose only about two.

"That's a good sign that, for the most part, everyone is doing the work that they need to do anyway because you have to remember, with a football team, I have a large group of kids."

Clark agreed and added he supports any measures to keep children focused on making better grades.

"It's all about making the better student athlete," Clark said. "That's what we're here for, to make the better student athlete."

But even with grades in mind, coaches do admit it's a give-and-take situation when dealing with academic requirements for athletics, because reality is some students truly do need sports to stay out of harm's way.

The worst case scenario, according to local coaches, would be a situation where a kid isn't able to make the grades, then drops out of the educational system because he/she no longer has a desire to attend classes.

E.D. White baseball coach Shane Trosclair said he saw that situation play out first hand when he was a coach in the public school system.

"This doesn't really happen at E.D. White because our kids come from a little bit of a different background, but out there, you'd always deal with the kid who might struggle and make just that 1.6 to stay eligible, but the kid truly gave it everything he's got," Trosclair said. "There are kids out there that you can definitively say that if they don't have athletics, they may give up, fall out on the streets and get in trouble.

"I know for sure I coached a lot of kids in the past at St. James and at Lutcher that we saved because of athletics."

To prevent similar situations locally, coaches tout they stress academics in their day-to-day operations. Hill said he has a system in place that rewards players for good behavior in the classroom and suspends players who try and be a class clown.

There are certain cities that automatically come to mind when you think of being fashionably challenged. There are the usual middle America suspects, but I was actually pretty surprised to see major metropolises, like Manhattan and Los Angeles, make GQ's top 5 worst-dressed spots. The men's fashion mag polled its readers to get to the bottom of the really important questions in life, like which city has the worst sense of style?

Manhattan"Yes, it is home to some of the greatest and most vital minds in the fashion universe. And yes, on any given day, the people walking Madison Ave. or Soho or Harlem can appear as if they've leapt off the pages of GQ. But for every strike of greatness, there is an equal force of evil at work. Consider the Nine-Bro. You know, the pack of nine guys who walk down the street in unison, should-to-shoulder, outfitted in tacky black "Go Out" button-downs, embroidered denim, and product-inspired conflagrations on their head. These are the men that are sapping one of fashion's capitals, stride by douchey stride. This island is only so big." - Sean Fennessey4. Chicago
"Chicagoans like to hedge descriptions of their style with, "It's not New York, and it's not LA..." It's self-conscious Midwestern. Lucky for them, harsh 11 ½-month winters serve to excuse a look that screams third-coast-insecurity: The Parka Pierogi. Ingredients: Blown-out Nikes; torn cargoes; favorite novelty T-shirt; Bears/Bulls/Blackhawks hoodie-all wrapped up in a totally nondescript parka. Are those things municipal-issue?" - Robert Fischer

3. Pittsburgh
"The citizens of Pittsburgh-that hardened, blue-collar town on the banks of the Monongahela River, long ago described as "Hell with the lid taken off"- indulge a style that could be referred to as "Game Day Casual" (or "Meth Lab Formal," depending on your preference.) It stems from their love of a certain NFL franchise and an utter indifference to their personal appearance and what you think of them. Game Day Casual can be observed in other cities, the spirit is strong in Boston, the entire state of Florida, and parts of the Tri-State Area, to name a few. From foot to crown the standard ensemble goes like this: high top sneakers, preferably Converse, worn loosely tied; white tube socks; distressed jean shorts, worn long and with a sag in the keister; Pittsburgh Steelers jersey, size XXXL, preferably black; facial hair, preferably goatee or chin strappy beard; baseball cap, preferably something in a florescent shade of camouflage or a piece that reflects a strong allegiance to a NASCAR driver. The ensemble varies slightly depending on the season. During the blustery winter months, Pittsburghers will often apply heavy winter coat. But there is no city on Earth that can equal the utter sloppiness of Pittsburgh." - Gil Mansfield

2. Los Angeles
"You've got your standard-issue hipsters to the East and your nouveau surfer class pedaling to the bar on their beach cruisers to your West, but it's what's in between that defines, no, dominates LA style. Angelenos wage a fierce, daily battle against time and taste so effective it would be admirable if the results weren't so obnoxious. Ground zero of this war against time is strongest in the thrumming hub of mind-blowing sartorial choices of the few neighborhoods nestled on the axis of Sunset Blvd. You know you're getting close when you start seeing a profusion of regrettable headwear, and once you spot a raffia porkpie, you have arrived. Fantasy-dressing reigns: men dress like boys, women like tweens, and middle-aged women like the trophy wives they once were. Remember: Los Angeles' most enduring sartorial contribution to the planet is leggings. And their sequel, the still-confusing jegging. But let's be fair: a city never known for its subtlety or restraint, why expect anything different from its residents? Why should we expect Angelenos to ever recover from the aesthetic thrill of Ed Hardy? It's smart if you think about it, why actually get a full body tattoo when you can buy the sartorial equivalent of one, with rhinestones?" - Maxandra Short

1. Boston
"Boston is like America's Bad-Taste Storm Sewer: all the worst fashion ideas from across the country flow there, stagnate, and putrefy. To be fair, it's hard to be a fashion capital when half of your population is made up of undergraduate hoodie monsters, including those unfortunate coeds who don't realize that leggings-as-pants were supposed to be paired with tops large enough to conceal their cameltoes. Yet when they graduate, they can wear their Uggs and still fit in at the country's largest frat party on Lansdowne behind Fenway, where they can take breaks between body shots to admire just how long boot-cut jeans can stay in style in one place. And any classy lady from Beantown is bound to be impressed by formal sportswear. "But Boston is the epicenter of prep style!," you say? That's true, but it's with a little extra that ends up ruining everything: Khakis!-with pleats. Boat shoes!-with socks. Knit ties!-actually, no one in Boston seems to have ever seen one of these. For the more proletarian-minded, there are the modest little burgs of Cambridge and Somerville, where everyone dresses like the proprietor of his or her very own meth lab. If you wonder how a people can live like this, well, it's Jurassic Park for fashion troglodytes: life finds a way."