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Wes Welker’s wife rips Ray Lewis after Ravens beat Patriots

The Baltimore Ravens defeated the New England Patriots to punch their ticket to Super Bowl XLVII on Sunday night, but the conclusion of the game has not resulted in the conclusion of smack talk. Terrell Suggs blasted the Patriots after the game and seemed beyond thrilled to knock them out of the postseason. Bernard Pollard ripped Tom Brady for sliding into Ed Reed with his cleats high. On the New England side, it’s once again the wives who are doing the talking. Check out this message that Wes Welker’s wife, Anna Burns Welker, posted on Facebook after the game: Proud of my husband and and the Pats. By the way, if anyone is bored, please go to Ray Lewis' Wikipedia page. 6 kids, 4 wives, acquitted for murder. Paid a family off. Yay, what a hall of fame player! A true role model! Burns Welker later issued an apology:  “I’m deeply sorry for my recent post on Facebook,” Burns Welker told Larry Brown Sports in a statement. “I let the competitiveness of the game and the comments people were making about a team I dearly love get the best of me. My actions were emotional and irrational and I sincerely apologize to Ray Lewis and anyone affected by my comment after yesterday’s game. “It is such an accomplishment for any team to make it to the NFL playoffs, and the momentary frustration I felt should not overshadow the accomplishments of both of these amazing teams.”

 Although she was a singles figure skater throughout her successful career, Michelle Kwan did have one steadfast partner on the ice – fashion designer Vera Wang. "I wore so many skating dresses designed by her, whole skating shows and everything," Kwan, 32, says. "I have a long relationship with her." And that made picking a wedding dress designer a fairly easy decision. For Kwan's Rhode Island nuptials on Jan. 19 to Clay Pell, 31, Wang put plenty of consideration into her creation. "She is marrying someone whose family has a political history, and Michelle is living and working in Washington, D.C.," the designer says. "[The dress] had to have a certain dignity and a certain classicism, and I think it was a lot about a new way of looking at tradition." So Wang created an ivory, strapless mermaid gown for Kwan, made with layers of silk organza and featuring lace appliqué.


Blockbuster closing 300 more stores
Dish Network Corp. says it plans to close about 300 Blockbuster stores across the country, losing about 3,000 employees. Company spokesman said on Monday that the closures will leave about 500 Blockbuster locations in the U.S. Blockbuster is owned by Dish Network. Dish Network last year also shuttered about 500 underperforming Blockbuster locations. Hall says the stores that will be closed in coming weeks are either underperforming or nearing the end of their leases. "There have been store closures" in the past, Hall told The Denver Post.. "Really, from the time of acquisition there has been a strategy to evaluate stores on a case-by-case basis in an effort to look at their production." He says the 3,000 employees were informed about the latest closures on Friday. The store locations have not been announced. Colorado-based Dish Network in March 2011 bought the then-bankrupt video rental chain for $320 million. It plans to move Blockbusters' headquarters from Texas to Colorado's Douglas County.


Stones out, The Postal Service in
The Coachella lineup has yet to be announced but two of the biggest rumors surrounding the festival were addressed today. The first rumor, involves the possibility of The Rolling Stones headlining the six-day, two-weekend event. Unfortunately, that rumor is not true. Mick Jagger told the NME: "We're not gonna do Coachella 'cause it's too early. There was a rumor we were gonna do that one, but it's very early, Coachella. It's April or something, isn't it? And we're not gonna be ready to go by April." The other popular rumor, which was reported earlier this year, is that The Postal Service will reunite and perform at the Polo Grounds in Indio, Calif. That rumor, is 100 percent true. Billboard reports that Sub Pop Records is prepping a deluxe 10-year anniversary edition of the band's lone album "Give Up" and that the band will play Coachella and is considering a tour that would include other festival dates. The official Coachella lineup has yet to be announced, but it is expected to be revealed soon. Last year the festival's lineup was announced in Jan. 9.
 Country star Brantley Gilbert received the best gift ever in the form of an enthusiastic "Yes!" when girlfriend, One Tree Hill actress and country singer Jana Kramer, accepted his proposal of marriage in Nashville on Sunday, his 28th birthday. The couple, who are both nominated in the best new vocalist categories at this year's ACM awards have been dating about a year.

Prince Harry: I Let Down My Family, My Friends, Myself in Photo Scandal

Prince Harry might know just what went wrong in last August's photo scandal involving his naked antics in Las Vegas. "It was probably a classic example of me probably being too much army, and not enough prince. It's a simple case of that," he said during an interview at his military base in Afghanistan. Harry, 28, was partying in the hotspot just before he was deployed to Afghanistan, when embarrassing photographs of him were released. "At the end of the day I probably let myself down, I let my family down, I let other people down," he said. "But at the end of the day I was in a private area and there should be a certain amount of privacy that one should expect." "Back home all my close friends rallied round me and were great," he added. The furor highlighted not only the issue of privacy but the difficulties of being a prince and taking part in normal life.