Lane Kiffin Brings NFL Expertise To University of Tennessee, Wife Layla Kiffin Brings Hotness

In a press conference today, the University of Tennessee officially
announced Lane Kiffin as the new head coach of the Vols football team.
Kiffin was formerly the head coach of the Oakland Raiders and his dad,
defensive coordinator for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers Monte Kiffin, will
be joining him on staff.

 

But the real good news is that the young Kiffin has a young, and plenty hot, wife. Yes, Nashville natives, get ready for some eye candy: Layla Kiffin is coming to town.

 

Three full days before the press conference, there was already a Facebook group
dedicated to the beauty of Layla. Today, “Our Coach’s Wife Is Hotter
Than Your Coach’s Wife” has an impressive 278 members, with that number
sure to rise now that it’s been made official. Some members of the
group speculate that the Kiffin wife could aid in recruiting. 

Who wouldn’t want to play for a team that Layla Kiffin was never far from?

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Tina Fey's Scar From Childhood Slasher Incident

From the multiple Emmy wins for "30 Rock" to the Sarah Palin impersonations on "Saturday Night Live," comedian Tina Fey has become a name and face that everybody has come to recognize this year.

Being thrust into the spotlight has drawn attention to a thin scar on the left side of her face, which Fey explains in the January issue of Vanity Fair was the result of a childhood attack.

"It's impossible to talk about it without somehow seemingly exploiting it and glorifying it," says the 38-year-old comedian.

When Fey was only 5 years old and living in Upper Darby, Penn., a stranger attacked her out of the blue.

Explains her husband, Jeff Richmond: "It was in, like, the front yard of her house, and somebody who just came up, and she just thought somebody marked her with a pen."

Fey dealt with the trama well though and didn't think of the resulting scar until adulthood.

"I proceeded unaware of it. I was a very confident little kid. It's really almost like I'm kind of able to forget about it, until I was on-camera," says Fey, who often shoots scenes with her right side to the camera.

Also in the interview, the 5-foot 4-inch actress reveals how she was had to lose 30 pounds when she started at "Saturday Night Live" and addresses the criticism about her spoof of vice-presidential candidate Palin.

"What made me super-mad about it was that it seemed very sexist toward me and her," she says. "The implication was that she's so fragile, which she is not. She's a strong woman.

"And then, also, it was sexist because, like, who would ever go, 'Well, I thought it was sort of mean to Richard Nixon when Dan Aykroyd played him,' and 'That seemed awful mean to George Bush when Will Ferrell did it.'"

Fey currently portrays Liz Lemon, the head writer of a fictional sketch comedy series on her show "30 Rock." Her big-screen writing and acting credits include "Baby Mama" and "Mean Girls."

Banks step up Fed borrowing, Wall Street passes

By JEANNINE AVERSA, AP Economics Writer
Thu Jul 24, 4:34 PM ET

WASHINGTON - Banks stepped up their borrowing over the past week from the Federal Reserve's emergency lending program, while Wall Street firms didn't draw such loans.

A Fed report released Thursday said commercial banks averaged $16.4 billion in daily borrowing over the past week. That was up from $13.9 billion in the previous week.

Investment houses were given similar loan privileges as commercial banks after a run on Bear Stearns pushed the nation's fifth-largest investment bank to the brink of bankruptcy. The situation raised fears that other Wall Street firms might be in jeopardy.

Bear Stearns was eventually taken over by JPMorgan Chase & Co. in a deal that involved the Fed's financial backing.

For the week ending July 23, Wall Street firms didn't borrow from the Fed's emergency facility, the report showed. It marked the second time since the Fed opened its emergency program to investment firms on March 17 that they didn't draw such loans.

In the prior week, firms averaged just $9 million in daily borrowing. Such borrowing rose as high as $38.1 billion in early April.

The identities of commercial banks and investment houses are not released. Commercial banks and investment companies now pay 2.25 percent in interest for the loans.

In the broadest use of the central bank's lending power since the 1930s, the Fed in March scrambled to avert a market meltdown by giving investment houses a place to go for emergency overnight loans. Chairman Ben Bernanke said the Fed is considering extending those loan privileges — which currently are supposed to last only through mid-September — into next year.

Trying to stem eroding investor confidence, the Fed earlier this month said mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac could draw emergency loans from the central bank if they needed. There was no indication in the weekly report that they had done so. Shares of the mortgage giants were clobbered last week as investors grew worried about the companies' financial shape.

Separately, as part of efforts to relieve credit strains, the Fed auctioned nearly $25 billion in Treasury securities to investment companies Thursday. Firms had placed bids requesting $51.7 billion worth of the super-safe Treasury securities.

In exchange for the 28-day loans of Treasury securities, bidding companies can put up as collateral more risky investments. These include certain mortgage-backed securities and bonds secured by federally guaranteed student loans.

The auction program, which began March 27, is intended to make investment companies more inclined to lend to each other. A second goal is providing relief to the distressed market for mortgage-linked securities and for student loans.

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