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Authorities say a junior cornerback for Wayne State's football team has been fatally shot in a downtown Detroit parking lot.

Since Kobe Bryant became a regular starter for the Los Angeles Lakers in 1998–99, the Lakers have fallen behind 2–0 in five previous playoff series. The Lakers were 4–1 in the third game of those series while Bryant averaged 32.4 points per game. Friday it was a different story as the Lakers fell to the Dallas Mavericks marking the first time the Lakers have trailed 3-0 in a best-of-7 under Phil Jackson.

Dirk Nowitzki finished with 32 points on 12-for-19 shooting from the floor as he notched his 10th straight playoff game with 20 or more points. Nowitzki feasted on Pau Gasol offensively as 27 of his 32 points came while being guarded by Gasol. This is not a huge surprise as Nowitzki is 19-of-25 from the floor for 45 points against Gasol this series.

The Mavericks bench once again outscored the Lakers bench, this time 42-15, led by Jason Terry (23) and Peja Stojakovic (15). Stojakovic contributed 11 of his 15 points in the fourth quarter.

Speaking of the fourth quarter, the Mavericks outscored the Lakers 20-7 in the final five minutes of the game. For the series, the Lakers have now been outscored by a combined 27 points in the fourth quarter.

As mentioned above Bryant has averaged over 32 points per game in Game 3 when trailing 2-0. Friday he had just 17 points, which is tied for his second-lowest output this postseason. Andrew Bynum was the lone bright spot as he led the Lakers with 21 points and 10 rebounds, but finished with just three points in the fourth quarter.

Phil Jackson and the Lakers not only find themselves in a huge hole, but also in very unfamiliar territory. The Elias Sports Bureau tells us that this is the first time in 65 playoff series as a head coach that Jackson has lost the first three games of a postseason series. Game 4 is Sunday in Dallas as the Lakers try to avoid becoming the sixth defending champion in NBA history to get swept in a best-of-7 series (2007 Miami Heat, 1996 Houston Rockets, 1991 Detroit Pistons, 1983 & 1989 Lakers). And in case you were wondering, no NBA team has ever won a series when trailing 3-0 (0-95).

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John Bravata, a real estate investor accused in 2009 of operating a Ponzi scheme, has been arrested on federal wire fraud charges and is being held in New York, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office.The founder and chairman of BBC Equities LLC and Bravata Financial Group LLC is accused of knowingly defrauding investors from 2006 to 2009, according to a criminal complaint filed with the U.S. District Court in Detroit. The companies had two offices in Perrysburg, though the complaint shows that the firms operated in Southfield, Mich.Mr. Bravata was arrested Thursday at JFK International Airport in New York, where he had just returned from a trip to Italy. He remained in custody in New York and is awaiting U.S. marshals to transport him to Detroit, a spokesman for the attorney’s office in Detroit said.The complaint said Mr. Bravata’s companies collected more than $50 million from investors but invested only $20.7 million in real estate. A “significant portion” of the remainder allegedly went toward Mr. Bravata’s personal expenses, including construction of an 18,000-square-foot home.Federal investigators also say Mr. Bravata misled investors about the security of their proceeds and the companies’ profitability. If convicted, Mr. Bravata faces up to 20 years in prison and a $250,000 fine.It was not immediately known on Friday whether Mr. Bravata has legal representation.The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filed a civil suit in 2009 against Mr. Bravata and his business partner, Richard Trabulsy, as well as BBC Equities and Bravata Financial.The suit, which also named Mr. Bravata’s wife and son, alleged a wide-ranging securities fraud in which the two men used the assets from at least 440 investors to live lavish lifestyles. The suit also alleged the men and their companies used investors’ funds to make quarterly payments to earlier investors who had been promised annual returns of as much as 12 percent.That case is still being considered in U.S. District Court. A judge granted a preliminary injunction in January and froze Mr. Bravata’s assets.Neither Mr. Trabulsy nor Mr. Bravata’s family members are named in Mr. Bravata’s criminal complaint. Contact Sheena Harrison at: sharrison@theblade.com or 419-724-6103.

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To be the king, you have to beat the king, in the immortal words of that elegant old Anglican bishop Ric (Nature Boy) Flair, and even if the king is one step removed from his crown, as the Detroit Red Wings are, they still remember how to do that king thing.

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Darren Helm scored with 1:27 left in the third period, lifting the Detroit Red Wings to an elimination-avoiding 4-3 win over the San Jose Sharks in Game 4 of the Western Conference semifinal series on Friday night.

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Unless you live under a rock, you know Donald Trump is thinking about running for president. His sensational public endeavors—pushing the White House to release President Obama’s long-form birth certificate and, most recently, questioning the authenticity of the president’s academic record—have met with astonishment, outrage, and dismay. A recent Bloomberg BusinessWeek cover featured a photo of Trump in mid-rant with the one-word headline, “Seriously?” Journalists, commentators, and even Jerry Seinfeld (who recently canceled an appearance at a Trump fundraiser) have taken to calling Trump a demagogue.

In recent decades, this powerful term, traditionally a scalpel for taking apart dangerous leaders, has become blunt and ineffectual through overuse. I’ve been thinking and writing about demagogues for a decade. I’ve been watching with a mix of bemusement and concern as Trump strains to elevate himself into an actual political figure, rather than the ego tornado he’s been for decades. But one of the lessons of history is that, while it’s easy to underestimate demagogues, it’s also easy to overestimate them. For the time being, I’ve concluded that Trump is not a demagogue. He lacks both the common connection and the lawlessness of classic demagogues, whether Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez today or, in the past, figures ranging from Benito Mussolini to George Wallace to Joseph McCarthy. Instead, call him a quasi-demagogue: a political figure with the desire, but not the chops, to manipulate the masses. 

 

Demagogues are part of the natural life cycle of democracy. So much so that the Founding Fathers designed our various checks and balances and circuit-breakers in part from their mortal terror that a predatory mass leader—a demagogue—would convert popular adulation into American tyranny. James Madison, for instance, explained that “provisions against the measures of an interested majority,”such as an independent judiciary, were required to control “the followers of different Demagogues.” This doesn’t mean, however, that demagogues haven’t popped up throughout the country’s history.

During my years studying and watching demagogues, the one lesson that has stuck with me is this: Many politicians could become demagogues if they wanted to. They could choose the gross emotional appeal, the naked ambition, and the cunning blend of vulgarity and artistry that is the true demagogue’s métier. They don’t because most of them are governed by an ethic of shame. Where others blush and quail, the demagogue happily blusters ahead—crossing boundaries, coloring outside lines, toppling walls. 

Demagogues often look most ridiculous to the people they’re most uninterested in impressing. When the colorful, autocratic Louisiana Governor Huey Long was sworn into the U.S. Senate in 1931, it was precisely his clownishness that gave him such political amplitude. He prompted a firestorm of controversy when he met a German naval commander paying an official call in a pair of green silk pajamas and a bathrobe. One scholar writes, “[T]he lesson he learned from the incident was less the importance of diplomatic niceties than the value of buffoonery in winning national publicity.” With these techniques, Long soon attracted more attention from the press than his 99 Senatorial colleagues combined. He would have challenged FDR for president in 1936, had he not been assassinated by the son of a political opponent in 1935.

You might think that Trump’s own clownishness puts him in the class of a Huey Long. But let’s take a closer look. As I argued in my book Demagogue: The Fight to Save Democracy from Its Worst Enemies, a true demagogue meets four tests. First, he presents himself as a man of the people, rather than the elites. Second, he strikes a very strong, even overpowering emotional connection with the people. Third, he uses this connection for his own political benefit. Fourth, he threatens or breaks established rules of governance. This fourth test is the most important, distinguishing a demagogue like Huey Long (who routinely used the National Guard to intimidate or brutalize political opponents, for instance) from populists like William Jennings Bryan (who, as rambunctious as he may have been, tended to play by the rules).

For Trump, let’s take the four tests in turn. With his Theater of the Absurd hairdo and his massively knotted silk ties, his Manhattan address and his glitzy brand, Trump is hardly a man of the people. True, he’s employing incautious bluster as a proxy for common appeal. “Authenticity” has become the coin of today’s reality-television realm, and there is a mass appeal to his straight-talkin’ persona—this is why his recent use of the “f bomb” plays to his curious political strengths, even while appalling elites. But for Trump to swap his fancy persona for that of a commoner would require him to blow up the brand he’s spent decades building, a task for which he is probably not constitutionally capable.

Second, Trump does not have the broad emotional appeal to the masses that marks the classic demagogue. Over the last decades, Trump has enjoyed billions of dollars of both paid and earned media exposure. He couldn’t be better-known by the American people. Yet he is consistently polling under 20 percent right now among Republicans and right-leaning independents (a recent CNN poll has him at only 14 percent), giving him a base of well under one in ten among the general voting population. The emotional surge for Trump among the very hard-core Tea Party right should certainly be noted. But it’s more likely this brushfire halts at a particular firebreak: the general American public’s hostility and suspicion to the Tea Partiers.

On the third test, it’s very unclear whether Trump is interested in actual political power, or just in increasing his personal brand and wealth. Even now, we can’t tell whether he will run—and keep running, after the glitz of the initial launch wears off—for president. Even if he gets into the race, will he slog through the hard work of an 18-month campaign, including getting on the ballot in all 50 states, participating in debates, developing policy positions? And, if he drops out, will he really have an interest in putting his shoulder to a real political end? Time will tell, but the initial signs are that this is mostly about Trumpery rather than government.

The most important test is the fourth—that demagogues, unlike populists, bend or break the rules. Trump clearly has no inhibition about lying for political benefit. But real demagogues go much further. Look at Joseph McCarthy, who used his selected issue of anti-communism to demolish people’s personal and professional lives. It’s hard to imagine that Trump really wants to encourage threatening behavior. But, if he ever started to ask his followers to test boundaries of lawfulness, to “challenge authority,” our hackles should quickly rise.

 

None of this means Trump isn’t worth taking seriously. To the contrary: Where Trump is succeeding in his demagogic appeals, he’s also illuminating shadowy corners of the American public. And we have to take a hard look at how this is happening. Demagogues, like nightshade, have always flourished in dark places of extreme economic or social distress. The 1920s were the last great era of American demagoguery, when Huey Long and the Detroit “radio priest” Father Coughlin rallied millions of terrified Americans against elites. It’s been no surprise that the 2010s, a time of similar distress, have fostered divisive figures from Sarah Palin to Glenn Beck to Trump.

The lesson here is that today’s restless, upset public needs reassurance—and vigorous economic policy that addresses their concerns. But we also need the media to exercise some discretion. In today’s fragmented, 24-7 echo chamber, where 500,000 nightly viewers qualify you as a pundit and one persistent blogger can take over a news cycle, the media has more responsibility for steering the ship of state toward calmer waters. Trump—as quasi-demagogue—is a creation largely of the media. The real conspiracy isn’t Trump’s mania du jour; it’s hundreds of news editors, assignment editors, reporters, and bloggers who he’s playing like fiddles.

More broadly, though, history shows that the only real antidote to demagogues is an alert, vigilant civic culture. The ancient Athenians, exhausted by a series of vicious demagogues, passed a law exiling anyone who “proposed a measure contrary to democratic principles.” We probably don’t need to go so far, though some watching Trump today doubtless wouldn’t mind moving him to Canada. America, after all, is the land of the civic mores the visiting Frenchman Alexis de Tocqueville chronicled and admired. And we almost always eventually turn on demagogues. The stars of Father Coughlin, Joseph McCarthy, George Wallace, and David Duke all rose for a time, but, when they fell, they crashed hard.

We can never be complacent about our constitutionalism, and the Trump phenomenon bears careful watching, lest the little fires he’s clearly capable of starting spread into a larger conflagration. But, in general, Americans have shown they’ve got what it takes to nip even quasi-demagogues in the bud. Take note of Palin and Beck’s recent fates: Under heavy fire from the public for their own excesses (a persecution complex in Palin’s case, and anti-Semitic conspiracy theories in Beck’s), they both are retreating to the sidelines.

We’re early in Trump’s political career, so I offer these judgments cautiously, but my suspicion is that Trump, too, will burn out, like a hot fuse on a cold rocket. This may already have started. When President Obama took the stage last week in his stunner of a press conference to take on Trump’s birther attacks, he declared, “We’re not going to be able to solve our problems if we get distracted by sideshows and carnival barkers.” A hilarious tweet I received shortly after said that carnival barkers were protesting that the comparison with Trump was giving them a bad name. And, of course, the president easily made Trump look both inane and irrelevant when the coverage of Osama bin Laden’s death interrupted “The Celebrity Apprentice.”

There’s also a final thing Trump himself should remember, before he goes farther down what is likely a dead-end road to demagoguery: History remembers Joseph Welch’s famous question to McCarthy—“Have you no sense of decency, sir? At long last, have you left no sense of decency?”—as well as it remembers McCarthy himself. Trump has shown he doesn’t take criticism well, sending an angry retort to Vanity Fair and appearing openly thin-skinned after jokes were made at his expense at the White House Correspondents Dinner. He will likely realize soon, if he hasn’t already, that his brand, not to mention his ego, will not sustain the sort of historical thrashing that will inevitably follow any further pf demagogic aspirations. Indeed, in the end, The Donald’s self-love might just be his own best friend.

Michael Signer is Managing Principal of Madison Law & Strategy Group, PLLC and an adjunct professor at Virginia Tech. He was a 2009 candidate for lieutenant governor of Virginia and chairs the New Dominion Project, a Virginia political action committee.

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I recently came across an article in The Atlantic about a postmodern approach to tourism.  It’s a good, thought-provoking read.  The segment about Detroit reminded me a lot of the landscape in Shanghai and what is being done here to try to avoid letting the bygone industrial/colonial age just turn into stacks of ruins.   [...]

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The Detroit Red Wings live to play another game. After seeing a three goal lead dissipate and the game tied the Red Wings mustered up one last push against the San Jose Sharks and answered back with a 4-3 victory. It was the best first period the Red Wings have played this series netting three goals on seventeen shots. Todd Bertuzzi opened the scoring and Nick Lidstrom added two more for De...

No. 1 Star: Milan Lucic, Boston Bruins

The Bruins power forward scored 30 goals in the regular season but didn't have a single tally through 10 playoff games. He picked a hell of a time to get rolling: Game 4 vs. the Philadelphia Flyers, scoring two goals in the Bruins' sweep-completing 5-1 win. Lucic scored the Bruins' second power-play goal of the postseason in the first period and then iced the win with a breakaway goal off a Matt Carle turnover in the third.

No. 2 Star: Nicklas Lidstrom, Detroit Red Wings

With the Red Wings facing elimination — and potentially the end of an era — the captain came through with two first-period goals in Detroit's 4-3 win over the San Jose Sharks in Game 4. Lidstrom's first tally was a blast off an Antti Niemi rebound; his second was a shot from the slot on the power play.

No. 3 Star: Darren Helm, Detroit Red Wings

Helm's second goal of the playoffs at 18:33 of the third period gave Detroit the 4-3 lead. The goal came after the Wings blew a 3-0 lead, as Dany Heatley tied the game at 1:14 of the third period. Here's Helm's tally:

Honorable mention: Johnny Boychuk scored the game-winner for the Bruins on a deflected shot past Sergei Bobrovsky (22 saves) … Brad Marchand scored his fifth of the playoffs into an empty net. … Kris Versteeg scored the Flyers' lone goal. … Jimmy Howard made 25 saves, including some key stops late in the third, for the Red Wings. … Ryane Clowe had three assists for the Sharks, getting helpers on goals by Logan Couture, Dan Boyle and Heatley. … Todd Bertuzzi had a goal and an assist. … Tim Thomas made 22 saves.

Did you know? Lidstrom's first goal gave him 181 career playoff points, breaking a second-place tie with Ray Bourque for scoring by a defenseman, and broke an 11th-place tie overall with Jaromir Jagr. (AP)

Dishonorable mention: Jeff Carter had no points and was a minus-4 for the Flyers. … Scott Hartnell finished the Boston series with no points and a minus-5. … The Flyers (18) and Sharks (13) lead the NHL in first-period goals allowed in the playoffs. … Finally, potentially tough break for the Bruins as Claude Giroux takes out Patrice Bergeron, who skated one shift in the third period:

Conn Smythe Watch: 1. Martin St. Louis, Tampa Bay Lightning; 2. Patrice Bergeron, Boston Bruins; 3. Ryane Clowe, San Jose Sharks; 4. Ryan Kesler, Vancouver Canucks; 5. Tim Thomas, Boston Bruins; 6. Joe Thornton, San Jose Sharks; 7. Pekka Rinne, Nashville Predators; 8. Pavel Datsyuk, Detroit Red Wings; 9. Nathan Horton, Boston Bruins; 10. Vinny Lecavalier, Tampa Bay Lightning.

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Darren Helm scored with 1:27 left in the third period, lifting the Detroit Red Wings to an elimination-avoiding 4-3 win over the San Jose Sharks in Game 4 of the Western Conference semifinal series on Friday night.

Detroit Red Wings players from left, Pavel Datsyuk, of Russia, Niklas Kronwall, of Sweden, Nicklas Lidstrom, of Sweden, and Johan Franzen, of Sweden, celebrate Lidstrom's goal against the San Jose Sharks during the first period of Game 4 of a second-round NHL Stanley Cup playoffs hockey series, Friday, May 6, 2011 in Detroit.

Detroit Red Wings' Todd Bertuzzi, right, celebrates his goal against the San Jose Sharks with teamamte Henrik Zetterberg, left, of Sweden, as fans react in the background during the first period of Game 4 of a second-round NHL Stanley Cup playoffs hockey series, Friday, May 6, 2011 in Detroit.

Detroit Red Wings forward Danny Cleary (11) tries to shoot on San Jose Sharks goalie Antti Niemi, of Finland, as Sharks defenseman Marc-Edouard Vlasic (44) defends in the first period of Game 4 of a second-round NHL Stanley Cup playoff hockey series in Detroit, Friday, May 6, 2011.

San Jose Sharks goalie Antti Niemi (31) of Finland, blocks shot by Detroit Red Wings' Valtteri Filppula (51), of Finland, during the first period in Game 4 of a second-round NHL Stanley Cup playoffs hockey series in Detroit, Friday, May 6, 2011.

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Darren Helm scored with 1:27 left in the third period, lifting the Detroit Red Wings to an elimination-avoiding 4-3 win over the San Jose Sharks in Game 4 of the Western Conference semifinal series on Friday night.

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Darren Helm scored with 1:27 left in the third period, lifting the Detroit Red Wings to an elimination-avoiding 4-3 win over the San Jose Sharks in Game 4 of the Western Conference semifinal series on Friday night.

Detroit Red Wings players from left, Pavel Datsyuk, of Russia, Niklas Kronwall, of Sweden, Nicklas Lidstrom, of Sweden, and Johan Franzen, of Sweden, celebrate Lidstrom's goal against the San Jose Sharks during the first period of Game 4 of a second-round NHL Stanley Cup playoffs hockey series, Friday, May 6, 2011 in Detroit.

Detroit Red Wings' Todd Bertuzzi, right, celebrates his goal against the San Jose Sharks with teamamte Henrik Zetterberg, left, of Sweden, as fans react in the background during the first period of Game 4 of a second-round NHL Stanley Cup playoffs hockey series, Friday, May 6, 2011 in Detroit.

Detroit Red Wings forward Danny Cleary (11) tries to shoot on San Jose Sharks goalie Antti Niemi, of Finland, as Sharks defenseman Marc-Edouard Vlasic (44) defends in the first period of Game 4 of a second-round NHL Stanley Cup playoff hockey series in Detroit, Friday, May 6, 2011.

San Jose Sharks goalie Antti Niemi (31) of Finland, blocks shot by Detroit Red Wings' Valtteri Filppula (51), of Finland, during the first period in Game 4 of a second-round NHL Stanley Cup playoffs hockey series in Detroit, Friday, May 6, 2011.

from Steve MacFarlane of the Toronto Sun, Think it’s fair to say that Nicklas Lidstrom retirement speculation should stop. So he’s 41. He sure doesn’t look it. “Looks like he took a sponge bath in the fountain of youth,” said Paul Bissonnette on the TSN panel Friday night. The Detroit defenceman contributed a pair of first-period goals to the Red Wings’ 4-3 victory in a do-or-die Game 4 to stave off elimination at the hands of the San Jose Sharks. “Lots of times when you get tot he end of your career you can smell it, because you can’t do the same things you used to do,” said colour commentator Ray Ferraro. Lidstrom doesn’t have that problem. continued plus many observations from both of the games tonight…

Authorities say a junior cornerback for Wayne State's football team has been fatally shot in a downtown Detroit parking lot. Wayne State University campus Police Chief Tony Holt said Cortez Smith was killed during around 1 a.m. Friday near a popular nightclub. Holt says it wasn't clear if Smith was going to the club when the shooting occurred.

Authorities say a Wayne State junior cornerback has been fatally shot in a downtown Detroit parking lot.

Darren Helm scored with 1:27 left in the third period, lifting the Detroit Red Wings to an elimination-avoiding 4-3 win over the San Jose Sharks in Game 4 of the Western Conference semifinal series on Friday.

Darren Helm scored with 1:27 left in the third period, lifting the Detroit Red Wings to an elimination-avoiding 4-3 win over the San Jose Sharks in Game 4 of the Western Conference semifinal series on Friday night.

Detroit squandered a three-goal lead against San Jose on Friday, but Darren Helm's strike with less than 90 seconds left earned the Red Wings a 4-3 win in Game Four of their NHL Western Conference semi-final series.

Authorities say a junior cornerback for Wayne State's football team has been fatally shot in a downtown Detroit parking lot.

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DETROIT — Darren Helm scored with 1:27 left in the third period, lifting the Detroit Red Wings to an elimination-avoiding 4-3 win over the San Jose Sharks in Game 4 of the Western Conference semifinal series on Friday night.

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One wonders: If Detroit had played like they did in the 1st period the first three games, surely this would look like a different series.

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Third-seeded University of Detroit Mercy earned a 9-8 victory over second-seeded Marist College in the second semifinal game of the 2011 MAAC Men's Lacrosse Championship at the Demske Sports Complex on the campus of Canisius College.