A Green Bay Packers reporter has a very unfortunate name at the moment

Tom Williams(Photo By Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)The notification button on Twitter tends to light up regularly for local sportswriters. Fans want to know why their favorite team keeps putting the .230 hitter in leadoff spot or what's up with their star's body language. Or worse, a writer is bombarded with hate for something they wrote, keyboard warriors wishing the worst upon said journalist for having the audacity to suggest their 3-11 team might miss the playoffs.
Or, if you're Green Bay Packers beat writer Michael Cohen, your Twitter blows up for a slightly different reason.
Cohen works for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel covering the Lambeau faithful, a job that's listed in his Twitter bio, but one many users have apparently ignored, instead sending him ridicule and taunts in regards to the FBI raiding the office of the other Michael Cohen.
Which sheds a bit of light on Packers' Cohen's Tweet on Monday:
https://twitter.com/Michael_Cohen13/status/9834923..

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There’s a life-size chocolate statue of Marc-Andre Fleury in Vegas now

Las Vegas has hockey fever. Following the single best expansion season in American sports history, Sin City is gearing up for the Golden Knights' first-ever playoff appearance and, in typical Vegas fashion, it's gotten a little out control. For example, there's currently a five-foot-tall, 120-pound chocolate sculpture of Knights' tender Marc-Andre Fleury greeting guests in the lobby of the iconic Bellagio Resort & Casino. No, we're not making this up:
https://twitter.com/GoldenKnights/status/983484081278103552
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The passion project of Bellagio Patisserie executive pastry chefs Yamilet Hillers and Jerome Jacob, this ridiculously excessive, ostentatious, totally Vegas tribute is crafted from a mixture of milk, dark, and white chocolate carefully laid over a skeleton of styrofoam, wire, and Rice Krispie treats (yes, really). It isn't meant to be eaten, though surely more than a few..

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It turns out eating a paralyzingly hot chili pepper can have negative effects on your body

I have eaten the tortilla chip birthed from the fiery dust of the Carolina Reaper pepper. I have placed into my mouth the fury of a thousand stars, felt the burn on my tongue and the pyroclastic flow in my throat, spent considerable time wondering if it’s possible to voluntarily shut down one’s own mucus production system. (Short answer: It is not. You just have to sit there and leak for 20 minutes.) It was ghastly and unpleasant and fun and strangely addictive; after we were done, some part of us wanted more.
But I only ate part of the Carolina Reaper Madness Chip, because 1. Two other people in my house also wanted a sample and 2. I’m a fluffy buttercup. And it should be noted that I ate the nacho-chip version that’s coated in pepper dust—not the actual pepper itself. While eating a hot chip sounds like something worth trying, consuming an object that scientifically ranks four million of something seems, on some instinctive level, like a questionable decision for your intestinal regi..

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The Latest: Police: All 6 on small plane killed in crash

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. (AP) The Latest on an Arizona small plane crash (all times local):

1:50 p.m.

A National Transportation Safety Board investigator is at the scene of the deadly crash of a small plane on a golf course near Phoenix.

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Authorities are working to identify the six people killed when the Piper PA-24 Comanche went down Monday night shortly after takeoff from the Scottsdale Airport.

NTSB investigator Eliott Simpson says the goal is to collect as much evidence as possible and not try to jump to conclusions about the cause of the fiery crash.

He says investigators will document how the plane hit the ground and determine if it hit any trees on the golf course and examine the burned area of terrain.

Scottsdale police say they’ll release the identities of the six victims once they’re determined by the Maricopa County Medical Examiner’s Office, but it’s unknown when that process will be completed.

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The Latest: Police: All 6 on small plane killed in crash

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. (AP) The Latest on an Arizona small plane crash (all times local):

6:44 a.m.

Police in suburban Phoenix say all six people aboard a small plane were killed when it crashed on a golf course shortly after taking off from a nearby airport.

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The identities of those killed in the Monday night crash in Scottsdale haven’t been released. Nobody on the ground was hurt.

The plane went down on the TPC Scottsdale Champions Golf Course.

The National Transportation Safety Board is leading the investigation into the cause of the crash.

Investigators were at the site Tuesday morning, examining the burned wreckage next to a tree on a dirt area, with seven vehicles parked on nearby turf and others nearby.

TPC Scottsdale Champions is the sister course to the Stadium Course where the Waste Management Phoenix Open is held each February.

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Authorities say no one survived a fiery plane crash Monday night on a suburban Phoenix golf course adja..

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No survivors after small plane crash on Arizona golf course

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. (AP) Six people killed in the fiery crash of a small plane on a golf course in a Phoenix suburb shortly it took off from a nearby airport were identified by authorities Wednesday.

Scottsdale police said the victims were Erik Valente, 26; James Louis Pedroza, 28; Mariah Sunshine Coogan, 23; Anand Anil Patel, 28; Helena Lagos, 22; and Iris Carolina Rodriguez Garcia, 23.

Some of their hometowns weren’t immediately available, but police said the victims’ families have been notified.

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The Arizona Republic reported Tuesday that the plane was headed to Las Vegas and National Transportation Safety Board investigators were trying to determine if the Piper PA-24 Comanche was overloaded and not equipped to carry six people.

The plane went down Monday night on the TPC Scottsdale Champions Golf Course, less than a mile (1.6 kilometers) north of the Scottsdale Airport, and burst into flames.

NTSB investigators were at the crash site Tuesday examinin..

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No survivors after small plane crash on Arizona golf course

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. (AP) All six people aboard a small plane were killed when it crashed on a golf course in a Phoenix suburb shortly after taking off from a nearby airport, police said Tuesday.

The identities of those killed in the Monday night’s fiery crash in Scottsdale were not made public. Nobody on the ground was hurt, said Kevin Watts, a Scottsdale Police Department spokesman.

Watts said the plane had just taken off from the Scottsdale Airport, but no information was immediately available on its planned destination.

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Police will release the identities once they’re determined by the Maricopa County Medical Examiner’s Office, but it’s not known when that process will be complete, said Watts.

The Piper PA-24 Comanche went down on the TPC Scottsdale Champions Golf Course – the sister to the Stadium Course where the PGA’s Waste Management Phoenix Open is held each February.

Investigators at the site Tuesday morning examined the burned wreckage next to a..

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