Nigerian Breweries closes at all time high on market making

LAGOS (Reuters) - Shares in Nigerian Breweries closed at all time high of 150 naira on Thursday, helping lift the all-share index up almost one percent, two days after the bourse started market making.

Nigeria's bourse introduced market making on Tuesday, starting with sixteen blue-chip shares including the brewer, and relaxed restrictions on price swings for those stocks to 10 percent a day, from 5 percent a day.

The brewer has gained 45 percent so far this year to value the local unit of Dutch brewer Heineken at 1.1 trillion naira. It gained 6.23 percent on Thursday.

The stock market rose 0.91 percent to 25,875.31 points, its fourth consecutive.

It has risen 23.69 percent since the start of the year, achieving a 45 percent return in dollar terms, owing to a stronger currency, to become Africa's third best performing index, according to the MSCI equity indices.

Low yields, low growth and high debt in the developed world have spurred demand for frontier market assets, as investors drastically revise their traditional views of risk, reversing a trend last year.

Top gainers included pharmaceutical firm Fidson, up near the maximum 10 percent daily limit allowed for stock eligible for market making. Heavyweight flour millers Dangote Flour and Honeywell Flourmill, each gained 5 percent.

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Fox suggests old Obama joke photo was a foreign policy lapse

NEW YORK (AP) ? Arrrrgh: Fox News Channel used a joke picture of President Barack Obama sitting with a man in full buccaneer regalia to suggest Thursday that the president was more interested in meeting with a pirate than in conducting foreign policy.

The network later tweeted a clarification to the blooper, made three times on the "Fox & Friends" morning show.

The picture depicted Obama sitting in the Oval Office with a man in a colorful pirate outfit, complete with a red hat, eye patch and hook for a right arm. It was taken as a punch line for a joke Obama delivered to the White House Correspondents Association dinner in 2009 about the administration talking to enemies as well as friends.

The picture resurfaced Wednesday when the Obama campaign tweeted it for International Talk Like a Pirate Day. The tweet linked to the picture with the message: "Arrr You In?"

Over an on-screen graphic that said "Arrrgh You Kidding?", Fox ran the picture Thursday morning with host Brian Kilmeade saying, "The White House doesn't have the time to meet with the prime minister of Israel, but this pirate got a sit-down in the Oval Office yesterday."

Later, with "yo-ho-ho" music in the background, Fox showed the picture as its "Shot of the Morning," with host Steve Doocy saying, "Here's a quick look at what President Obama is up to, making sure he didn't forget to mark International Talk Like a Pirate Day."

"Fox & Friends" also showed the picture, along with others of the president meeting with Jay-Z and Beyonce and appearing on David Letterman's "Late Show" on Tuesday. The headline was "Too busy for Israel" and Fox also showed twin pictures of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and an empty chair.

"He's getting the Clint Eastwood treatment ? the empty chair," Doocy said.

Analyst Peter Johnson Jr., calling the president "Broadway Barack Obama," said that "it seems like foreign policy is taking a back seat."

After the show ended, the "Fox & Friends" Twitter feed noted that the pirate picture was from 2009.

Doocy also tweeted: "By the way, our picture of the president with the pirate was from 2009. How time flies!"

Fox had no additional comment.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/joke-photo-fox-suggests-obama-met-pirate-194154000.html

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Shuttle to sightsee around Calif with low flyovers

The retired shuttle Endeavour piggy-backs a modified Boeing 747 Shuttle Aircraft Carrier during its final flight Thursday, Sept. 20, 2012 as the pair soar over White Sands Missile Range east of Las Cruces, N.M, before reaching their landing destination in California. (AP Photo/Las Cruces Sun-News, Shari Vialpando-Hill)

The retired shuttle Endeavour piggy-backs a modified Boeing 747 Shuttle Aircraft Carrier during its final flight Thursday, Sept. 20, 2012 as the pair soar over White Sands Missile Range east of Las Cruces, N.M, before reaching their landing destination in California. (AP Photo/Las Cruces Sun-News, Shari Vialpando-Hill)

In this photo provided by the Southwest Photo Bank, former U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and husband, former astronaut Mark Kelly, watch the Space Shuttle Endeavor fly over Tucson, Ariz. on its way to Los Angeles, Thursday, Sept. 20, 2012. Kelly, Endeavour's last commander, requested that the shuttle pass over Tucson to honor Giffords, who is recovering after suffering a head wound in a shooting rampage last year. (AP Photo/Southwest Photo Bank, P.K. Weis) MANDATORY CREDIT

In this photo provided by the Southwest Photo Bank, former U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and husband, former astronaut Mark Kelly, watch the Space Shuttle Endeavor fly over Tucson, Ariz. on its way to Los Angeles, Thursday, Sept. 20, 2012. Kelly, Endeavour's last commander, requested that the shuttle pass over Tucson to honor Giffords, who is recovering after suffering a head wound in a shooting rampage last year. (AP Photo/Southwest Photo Bank, P.K. Weis) MANDATORY CREDIT

Ashely Olson, left, poses with her sisters, Alexis, center, and Alyssa in front of the Space Shuttle Endeavour at the NASA Dryden Flight Research Center at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., Thursday, Sept. 20, 2012. Endeavour returned to its California roots after a wistful cross-country journey that paid homage to NASA workers and former Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and her astronaut husband. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

The Space Shuttle Endeavour sits atop NASA's Shuttle Carrier Aircraft (SCA) at the NASA Dryden Flight Research Center at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., Thursday, Sept. 20, 2012. Endeavour returned to its California roots after a wistful cross-country journey that paid homage to NASA workers and former Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and her astronaut husband. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

LOS ANGELES (AP) ? Space shuttle Endeavour will spend its last flying day Friday not rocketing into space, but doing what most tourists do when visiting California: Taking in the state Capitol, Golden Gate Bridge and the Hollywood Sign.

In what promises to be a crowd-rousing air show, Endeavour, strapped atop a 747 jumbo jet, will take off after sunrise from Edwards Air Force Base in the Mojave Desert and dip low over various landmarks in a 4 1/2-hour sightseeing flight before landing at the Los Angeles International Airport.

It's Endeavour's last aerial hurrah before it spends its retirement years as a museum piece.

"We're so excited to be welcoming Endeavour home in grand style with these flyovers," said Jeffrey Rudolph, president of the California Science Center, where the shuttle will go on permanent display.

Since Endeavour will buzz by some of the Golden State's most iconic sights, law enforcement and transportation authorities warned motorists not to "gawk and drive."

"We want people to take in this majestic show," Los Angeles police Cmdr. Scott Kroeber said earlier this week. "But if you're driving, please drive and don't try to take in the show simultaneously."

Extra officers will be on duty along the freeways near LAX to make sure traffic flows smoothly as the shuttle zooms overhead.

Endeavour returned to its birthplace Thursday after an emotional cross-country ferry flight that made a special flyover of Tucson, Ariz., to honor its last commander, Mark Kelly and his wife, former Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords.

Giffords, who is recovering from a gunshot wound to the head, was "hooting and hollering" as Endeavour looped around her hometown, according to her former aide C.J. Karamargin.

NASA's shuttle fleet, which retired last year after three decades of flight, was assembled in Palmdale near Edwards Air Force Base. The military outpost 100 miles north of Los Angeles served as the original shuttle landing strip and remained a backup site in case of stormy weather at Cape Canaveral, Fla.

The youngest shuttle, Endeavour replaced Challenger, which blew up during liftoff in 1986. NASA lost another shuttle, Columbia, in 2003 when it disintegrated during re-entry. Fourteen astronauts were killed.

During 25 missions, Endeavour spent 299 days in space and orbited Earth nearly 4,700 times, racking up 123 million miles.

On its maiden flight in 1992, a trio of spacewalking astronauts grabbed a stranded communications satellite in for repair. It also flew the first repair mission to the Hubble Space Telescope to fix a faulty mirror. But most of its flights ferried cargo and equipment to the International Space Station, which is near completion.

Under White House orders to explore beyond low-Earth orbit, NASA is hitching rides on Russian rockets to the orbiting laboratory until private companies can provide regular service.

Endeavour is the second of three remaining shuttles to head to its retirement home. In April, Discovery arrived at the Smithsonian Institution's hangar in Virginia. Atlantis, which closed out the shuttle program, will stay in Florida where it will be towed a short distance to the Kennedy Space Center's visitor center in the fall.

Endeavour will remain at an airport hangar for several weeks as crews ready the shuttle for its own road trip. Unlike Atlantis, it will creep through city streets to the California Science Center near downtown.

Some 400 trees will be cleared along the 12-mile route to make room, a move that has riled some residents in affected neighborhoods. Museum officials have pledged to replant double the number of chopped trees.

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Online:

Shuttle history: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle

California Science Center: http://www.californiasciencecenter.org

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Why networking in Ilkley got a face lift | Business Networking Leeds

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Almost twelve months on from its launch in October 2011 the former NABO Networking group has been rebranded as ?Entrepreneurs Business Networking?. ?The group has grown steadily and has members from Ilkley, Keighley, Leeds and across West Yorkshire.

Unlike many other networking organisations EBN has a very pressure-free format with a focus on business growth through sales and marketing. The fortnightly meetings feature business education delivered by industry experts covering topics such as sales, marketing, web and social media.

?Meetings are held at the picturesque Craiglands hotel just yards from the Cow and Calf rocks in Ilkley. The breakfast meeting cost just ?15 and breakfast is included.

Over time members form lasting relationships and happily pass work recommend each others services. However the group is unique in delivering sales and marketing education workshops providing entrepreneurs with business growth tools and peer coaching.

Meetings run from 7:30 to 9:30am and if pre-booked online a saving of ?2.50 can be made. To register for the next meeting click [HERE].

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AEG sale sparks interest from media firms, private equity; may top $6 billion

NEW YORK/LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Billionaire Phil Anschutz's sports and entertainment business AEG is sparking interest from a range of media firms and private equity firms, including Liberty Media Corp, Guggenheim Partners LLC, Thomas H. Lee Partners LP, Bain Capital LLC and Colony Capital LLC, in a deal that could fetch more than $6 billion, sources said.

Anschutz, who is in his mid-70s, launched an auction of Anschutz Entertainment Group on Tuesday, as he looks for a partner to take on the company that owns some 100 entertainment venues globally and sports assets that include the L.A. Galaxy soccer team, possibly best known for star David Beckham, and a stake in the L.A. Lakers basketball team.

Sources familiar with AEG's assets said the company could fetch between $6 billion and $8 billion in a sale. Another source said AEG has asked for at least $7 billion. AEG President and CEO Tim Leiweke declined to confirm the price tag but said a deal would be in the multibillion dollar range.

"The Dodgers were supposedly going to be sold for a billion dollars," said Leiweke, referring to the $2 billion acquisition of the L.A. baseball team by a Guggenheim Partners-led group earlier this year. "We will get a premium because you don't find those kinds of real estate developments anywhere else. This is more unique than the Dodgers."

"When we started on this path 15 years ago with Anschutz, he made it very clear at the time that this is about an equity play," Leiweke added. "He is not a man that has a huge ego. This has never been about toys; this has always been about business."

Blackstone Advisory Partners, AEG's investment banker, intends to begin contacting potential bidders over the next few weeks. The firm is compiling a list of potential buyers, which include sovereign funds, private equity, large pension funds and strategic partners, but some have already said they would be interested, according to people with knowledge of the process.

Given the size of the business and the diverse portfolio, sources familiar with potential buyers' thinking said, some parties could be compelled to break AEG into separate units. That would result in a holding company for the sports assets including the Los Angeles Kings hockey team and another holding real estate that includes its London 02 entertainment district.

Guggenheim, which recently bought Dick Clark Productions in addition to its Dodgers acquisition, could express interest. So, too, could Colony Capital, the Los Angeles-based private equity fund whose assets include the Miramax film studio. A spokeswoman for Guggenheim declined to comment. A Colony spokeswoman was not available for comment.

John Malone's Liberty Media is also considered a logical bidder, although if Liberty participates in the sale, it would likely be in concert with private equity, said one source familiar with the situation. Liberty owns a 21 percent stake in Live Nation Entertainment Inc, a rival concert promoter to AEG, and would likely need regulatory approval.

A Liberty spokeswoman did not return phone calls.

Thomas H. Lee Partners (THL) and Bain also have preliminary interest in AEG although the valuation expectation could be hard for a private equity firm to meet, sources familiar with the situation said. If they decide to bid, the private equity firms are likely to seek a partner, they said. Representatives for Bain and THL declined to comment.

Once the sale of AEG is kicked off, it will be treated as a classic two-step M&A sale process, where initial indications of interest will be taken from prospective buyers, leading to more serious contenders. The company hopes to wrap up a deal by the first part of next year.

LA WATCHES CLOSELY

The auction is expected to be closely watched by the city of Los Angeles, where AEG is planning to build a $1.2 billion football stadium and convention center, called Farmers Field. AEG won approval from a Los Angeles planning commission for the stadium on September 13, a key milestone for a project that is expected to create an estimated 23,000 jobs.

Leiweke said the sale of AEG would not impact the development and construction of Farmers Field.

Signaling its intention to finish the project would help allay fears among National Football League teams that might want to relocate to Los Angeles. The stadium needs a team to be the anchor tenant to help it service $228.7 million in low-interest bonds.

"I have the commitment from them that this won't affect plans for an NFL team to return to Los Angeles in the near future," said Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa in a statement.

Councilwoman Jan Perry, whose district would include the new stadium, said she has been assured that a new owner would honor commitments AEG has made.

"The stadium will go ahead, with no public money and 23,000 jobs," she said, although she added that she would have to see whatever agreement AEG signs with the new owners.

"We're taking it day by day," she said.

(Additional reporting by Peter Lauria in New York and Sue Zeidler in Los Angeles; Editing by Paritosh Bansal and Chris Gallagher)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/aeg-sale-sparks-interest-media-firms-private-equity-025853497--sector.html

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Back to school in Chicago as teachers' strike ends

CHICAGO (Reuters) - Chicago students return to school on Wednesday after a teachers' strike ended, thrilling parents who had to stay home from work to care for their kids, pay for alternative childcare or leave them with friends and relatives for more than a week.

Representatives of the 29,000 striking Chicago public school teachers and support staff voted on Tuesday to suspend their strike and accept a compromise agreement on a new three-year contract with Mayor Rahm Emanuel.

Some 350,000 kindergarten, elementary and high school students return to classes after missing seven school days in the third-largest U.S. school district after New York and Los Angeles.

It was the first time since 1987 that Chicago teachers had walked off the job and nearly everyone in the city seemed relieved that it was over.

"All our members are glad to back with their kids," said Karen Lewis, the outspoken former high school chemistry teacher who heads the union. Lewis led the teachers out of the classroom over Emanuel's demand for sweeping education reforms that the union believed were misguided.

Only a fraction of the students went to nearly 150 centers around Chicago set up to care for children during the strike. The union had warned that the city-run centers would be a "train wreck" with caregivers lacking proper credentials.

While there were no major problems, most parents opted to keep their children at home. Many kids passed the time by watching television, playing video games, doing crafts and chatting on social media.

"They've been around sleeping all day," said parent Dawn McNamara of her daughter, a sophomore in high school, and her friends. "It seemed like it was going to take forever (to settle the strike)," McNamara said.

Teachers were all smiles as they left the vote to end the strike on Tuesday, with one overheard telling a colleague on her cell phone: "Tell our people we're going back. We're going to see our babies."

Even the tough-talking mayor Emanuel choked up slightly at a press conference after the strike was called off. Emanuel said that he fought so hard for reforms because he had seen the blank stares of some children "whose vitality has been stripped from them, any sense of a promise or a future."

"The only way I know to bridge that look in their eyes and the promise and opportunity that exists in the city of Chicago is in the classrooms of the schools," Emanuel said.

While the strike ended, some of the issues that spawned it remain. Most Chicago public schools are struggling academically, the high school graduation rate lags the national average substantially and the school district is in dire financial straits.

Lewis said that the full membership of the union will vote in the next two weeks to formally ratify the agreement, which gives teachers an average 17.6 percent pay rise over four years and creates a new teacher evaluation system based in part on their students' standardized test results.

The teacher evaluation system was a key demand of Emanuel, along with a longer school day. But the union won partial guarantees of job security and fought off Emanuel's attempt to link pay to merit.

A court hearing is scheduled on Wednesday to consider Emanuel's request to have the strike ruled illegal, which was made before the union voted to end the strike. It was not clear if Emanuel's legal case against the union would continue.

The union also filed an unfair labor practice charge against the school district during the dispute and litigation may continue on that grievance before a state agency.

Teachers said they fear now that the strike has ended, Emanuel will proceed to close dozens of schools to help pay for the cost of the agreement with teachers.

The Chicago Tribune reported last week that the school district is considering closing 120 schools and a local education information service, Catalyst Chicago, said its analysis suggested as many as 140 schools met the district's criteria for closing.

Like many large cities, enrollment in Chicago public schools has fallen in recent years as population declined, and some people move to the suburbs. The district says it needs to close schools to reduce overcapacity. The union says that the district is closing neighborhood public schools and replacing them with "charter" schools, which are mostly non-union.

(Additional reporting by Mary Wisniewski, James Kelleher, Renita Young and Peter Bohan; Editing by Lisa Shumaker)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/chicago-teachers-end-strike-school-resume-wednesday-005909760.html

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Wall Street drops on weak economic data

NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. stocks fell on Thursday as data showing slowing growth in China and Europe, and weak U.S employment figures, underscored the headwinds faced by the global economy even as central banks aggressively step up stimulus measures.

The data pressured stocks at the forefront of economic activity, such as miners and energy companies. U.S. crude eased on Thursday to trade under $92 a barrel, dropping for a fourth day, while copper slipped from 4-1/2 month highs. Shares of aluminum producer Alcoa fell 1.3 percent.

"Sell on the central bank news, I continue to say for now, as the reality of slowing economic and earnings growth, that was swept under the rug for a few months, pops back out again over the next month," Peter Boockvar, equity strategist and portfolio manager at Miller Tabak in New York said in a note.

Manufacturing in China contracted for an 11th straight month in September, according to a private sector survey of factory managers; in the euro zone, a downturn in activity in the service sector steepened this month at the fastest pace since July 2009.

The number of Americans filing new claims for jobless benefits fell last week, but from an upwardly revised number the prior weak, with the underlying tone of the report pointing to some weakening in the labor market.

Shares of railroad company Norfolk Southern Corp dropped 6.8 percent to $67.74 after it said weaker shipments of coal and merchandise as well as lower fuel-surcharge revenue would reduce its third-quarter earnings compared with a year earlier.

The Dow Jones industrial average dropped 50.18 points, or 0.37 percent, to 13,527.78. The Standard & Poor's 500 Index fell 6.74 points, or 0.46 percent, to 1,454.31. The Nasdaq Composite Index lost 16.77 points, or 0.53 percent, to 3,165.85.

Market losses were relatively light, with the S&P 500 having rallied 7 percent since early August, reflecting a belief that monetary easing in the form of bond buying by the Federal Reserve and the European Central Bank will support the market.

"The weaker than expected PMI data across much of the globe is setting the tone right now," said Ryan Larson, head of equity trading at RBC Global Asset Management in Chicago.

"But keep in mind that as we have seen over the last several weeks and several months now ... any meaningful losses have been somewhat back-stopped by the fact that the Fed and the ECB are going to be there with additional policy measures."

UBS raised its target level for the S&P 500 by the end of 2012 to 1,525 from 1,375 Thursday, saying equity markets will climb after aggressive monetary easing by central banks.

"Over the short run, we believe that the 'risk on' trade will continue, with a rotation into the most volatile and economically sensitive stocks," said UBS's chief U.S. equity strategist Jonathan Golub in a research note.

Bank of America Corp is planning to cut 16,000 jobs by year-end as it speeds up a company-wide cost-cutting initiative amid declining revenues, the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday. The bank's shares fell 1.6percent to $9.14.

Initial claims for state unemployment benefits slipped 3,000 to a seasonally adjusted 382,000. The prior week's figure was revised up to show 3,000 more applications than previously reported.

(Editing by Bernadette Baum)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/wall-street-drops-weak-economic-data-135030486--finance.html

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Tim Tebow Will 'Consider' Politics: Jets Quarterback Discusses Potential Political Career In Interview

As football fans can attest, Tim Tebow can run. But will he run?

In a recent interview with Rich Cimini of ESPN New York, the most popular and polarizing backup quarterback in the NFL was asked about a possible future in politics.

"I haven't ruled it out," Tebow told Cimini. "Whatever avenue I feel like I can make a difference in, I'd love to do. I haven't ruled out anything like that. It won't be anytime soon in my future, but it'll be something I'll at least look at and consider one day.

As noted by The Hill, Tebow's answer is a bit more firm than one he had previously given to a similar question asked by David Feherty of Golf Channel.

"I don't know -- it could be something in my future," Tebow said of politics shortly before Super Bowl XLVI. "If it's something I care about, possibly."

Assorted Tebow watchers (as well as anyone considering a future run for office in the quarterback's native Florida) take note, he's upgraded from "If it's something I care about, possibly" to "it'll be something I'll at least look at and consider."

Given how sparingly the Jets have deployed Tebow since acquiring him via trade, who knows how he'll feel about his NFL career by the time that Super Bowl XLVII arrives? Citing an anonymous source after the Jets' season-opening win over the Buffalo Bills, Gary Myers of the Daily News reported that Tebow would want to move on to another team after the season if he cannot supplant Mark Sanchez as the starting quarterback.

Not long after Tebow delivered an Easter sermon to 15,000 in Texas in April 2012, Ian Rapoport of NFL.com suggested that Tebow "needs to hang up his cleats, peel off his eye-black, put on a suit and begin his second career." Tebow's religious beliefs informed his most political act thus far. He starred, along with his mother, in a commercial for Focus On The Family, a pro-life organization, that aired during Super Bowl XLIV.

"I think he'll run for public office once he's done playing football," Tebow's high school football coach, Craig Howard, told Rapoport. "Look at the disillusionment our public has with our political candidates. He's a kid people trust."

For those wondering, Rapoport wrote that Tebow "could, theoretically, become President" despite being born in the Philippines, as he and both of his parents are U.S. citizens. Reuters conceded that his candidacy could be complicated by his overseas birth when reporting that Tebow topped a poll asking which quarterback would be the best fit in the Oval Office. Of course, there are plenty of offices for Tebow to run for even if he never sets his sights on the White House.

That Tebow could eventually hold public office would come as no surprise to Joshua Green of Bloomberg Businessweek, who has been tipping the Heisman Trophy winner for greater success in politics than football ever since the Broncos selected him with the 25th overall pick in the 2010 NFL Draft.

After watching Tebow deftly handle the New York media during an odd press conference, in which he appeared by himself without coaches or team staff, after being traded from Denver, Green was inspired to write an article entitled "Why Tim Tebow Will Make a Great Politician."

All told, Tebow proved impervious to the most aggressive and adversarial press corp in professional sports and finished the day looking even better than he had when it began. These aren?t just the skills of a talented athlete. They?re qualities that will make Tebow a successful national politician, and?who knows??maybe one day, a president.

While a run for office is merely something that the 25-year-old would "consider," current politicians have courted him and compared themselves to him as they have campaigned over the past year. Rick Perry went as far as to proclaim himself "the Tim Tebow of the Iowa caucuses.? Seemingly every candidate involved in the Republican primaries wanted his endorsement. Although President Obama was not a huge fan of the Jets' move for him, he recently said that "Tebow seems to be a wonderful young man."

Given his feelings for Tebowmania, perhaps Charles Barkley would finally get rolling on that political career that he has talked about over the years if Tebow were ever to run for office.

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