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Former Giants player Aubrey Huff has a new book coming out, but may have a tough time selling it in San Francisco after some of his recent online comments. On Sunday night, amid a national debate over President Donald Trump's executive order banning travel from seven majority-Muslim countries, Huff tweeted: "So refreshing 2 see a president follow through with his campaign promises. God bless the future of this great country and keep it safe!" The tweet drew some negative reaction from users, and Huff wasn't shy about responding. One user called Huff "overpaid" and Huff responded "correction. I used to...

The timing of Oklahoma oil man Aubrey McClendon's death by car crash was suspicious, but it doesn't appear to be suicide. Oklahoma City police had been investigating the deadly March 2 wreck that killed McClendon just a day after he was indicted by a federal grand jury for allegedly trying to rig oil prices.

The fracking legend was working on a “global shale revolution in Australia, Mexico and Argentina.” The night before Aubrey McClendon died, the oil-and-gas pioneer was expected at a private dinner here with potential business partners. Among them: Vicente Fox, the former president of Mexico. Around sunset, the group gathered in a wood-paneled dining room at the exclusive Beacon Club. A waiter brought plates of sea bass and lamb. Three bottles from McClendon’s wine collection were opened, including a 2010 Napa Valley red bearing the logo of his business, American Energy Partners.But McClendon, who reveled in his reputation as the life...

About 90 days into my tenure at Chesapeake Energy Corporation, I had the opportunity to join 30 or so of my colleagues for an intimate, no-holds-barred Q&A with our CEO, Aubrey K. McClendon. Aubrey Orientation, as it was called, had been a tradition at Chesapeake for many years. The company had grown rapidly during the shale boom of the mid-aughts, boasting an eleven-digit market cap and a workforce of more than 10,000 people by the time I joined. Aubrey wanted to meet every one of them.

Just one day after the DOJ unveiled its had indicted Chesapeake Founder and former CEO Aubrey McClendon on federal charges of conspiring to rig bids for oil and natural gas leases, moments ago the Oklahoma Police announced that he was found dead in a car accident, when while traveling in a 2013 Chevy Tahoe at a high rate of speed he crashed while driving on a two-lane highway and was engulfed in flames. FORMER CHESAPEAKE CEO MCCLENDON DEAD AFTER CAR ACCIDENT: CNBCOKLAHOMA CITY POLICE SAY AUBREY MCCLENDON DEADMCCLENDON WAS GOING FASTER THAN SPEED LIMIT: POLICEMCCLENDON WAS ALONE IN 2013 CHEVY...

<p>Twentieth Century Fox on Friday will release the first of what it hopes will be a series of movies about a courageous British naval captain named Jack Aubrey. But "Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World" is just about the opposite of the Hollywood norm for would-be movie franchises.</p>