Maxwell

Would you arrive at a radio station naked under a fur coat to have lunch with your favorite performer? Nineteen-year-old Nijla Diggs did. Diggs dared to flash several Power 99 employees (mainly men) just to meet R&B singing star Maxwell. Ten other lucky women also had the opportunity to meet Maxwell, but they did not have to strip. They were winners of a contest that selected the "hardest worker of the day. " Maxwell arrived in a classy black stretch limo and cruised the radio station wearing yellow-tinted sunglasses, a faded head wrap and loose-fitting black pants.

Maxwell is "the grand set-upper," as the 36-year-old soul man put it Friday night during his sold-out concert at the Event Center at the Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa. "You don't have to buy diamonds or flowers," the cool, calm, collected customer told the decidedly outnumbered guys before delicately offering Al Green's "Simply Beautiful" to the ladies. The sweetly seductive bedroom singer was just looking for a little well-deserved credit for serving up a date-night stimulus in a time of economic hardship: "If it wasn't for me, you wouldn't be getting that piece of booty you're getting right now. " Backed by a skilled 10-piece band featuring guitarist Melvin "Wah-Wah Watson" Ragin before a crowd more "grown and sexy" (in the words of opener Chrisette Michele)

When Vernon Maxwell left the CoreStates Spectrum before the conclusion of the 76ers' loss to the Chicago Bulls on Saturday, hopefully he understood he would eventually have to reach for his checkbook. Sixers coach and general manager John Lucas confirmed that Maxwell had been "severely fined" for his actions. The amount of the fine was not revealed. Maxwell played 14 minutes as a backup guard in the game and shot 1-for-8 from the floor, 0-for-5 from three-point distance.

My recent column on push-ups, in which orthopedic surgeon John Fenlin of the Rothman Institute tossed a hand grenade by recommending that people over 40 stop doing body-weight exercises such as push-ups, pull-ups, and dips, generated a huge response from readers. Many were alarmed by his warning and wanted guidance about sensible ways to adapt push-ups so they're less perilous, as well as advice about suitable substitutes. But others objected to Fenlin's counsel, claiming that body-weight exercises are an important and valuable part of their fitness regimen that pose little danger if executed carefully and properly.

Downingtown's 28-year-old mayor, who is facing drunken-driving charges, applied Monday for a prison alternative program. Joshua A. Maxwell waived his preliminary hearing Thursday on charges that include driving under the influence and careless driving. He is seeking admittance to the county's Accelerated Rehabilitative Disposition program, his attorney, Dawson R. Muth, said Monday. Maxwell did not return a telephone call seeking comment. Muth said he believes Maxwell will meet the requirements for the program.

A 1984 North Philadelphia football league yearbook helped an accused killer beat a 1995 murder rap yesterday. It was used by defense lawyer Brian J. McMonagle to attack the credibility of a key prosecution witness. After John Maxwell testified that he saw Jimmy Young, 21, shoot and kill Carl W. Harrison Jr., 32, at Woodlawn and Boyer streets, on Dec. 3, 1995, McMonagle accused him of being a liar. "Isn't it a fact that you are lying about your own name?" asked McMonagle.

For Robert J. Maxwell, this is war. The former international banker spends his nights bartending, his days dogged by anxiety. He thinks that his phone is being tapped, that his family is being photographed, that he was tailed last month by a man in a white Chevrolet Beretta. "I feel as though I'm battling the entire federal government at this point," said Maxwell, 44, of Shrewsbury, Pa. His adversaries, he says, are the Baltimore-based First National Bank of Maryland, the CIA, the FBI and the Department of Justice.

Downingtown's 28-year-old mayor was accepted Tuesday into a prison-alternative program for a drunken-driving offense. Chester County First Assistant District Attorney Patrick Carmody said Joshua A. Maxwell, a first-time, nonviolent offender, easily qualified for the Accelerated Rehabilitative Disposition program. Under ARD, a state program whose guidelines vary from county to county, participants are promised a clean slate if they complete requirements such as community service and treatment programs.

Everyone treats "neo-soul" like a dirty word. Shame, that. Sure, the genre had funny hats and too many Fender Rhodes piano interludes (I'm looking at you, Jamiroquai). But the Drambuie-soaked ambience of R&B's simmering heat, hip-hop's rhythmic cool, jazz's gymnastic breeziness and their combined attitudes made the world safe for geniuses of modern soul such as Raphael Saadiq, Cee-Lo Green and Maxwell. Maxwell is the 35-year-old crooner/composer who between 1996 and 2001 released three cinematic classics of neo-soul, then dropped out for a while after that.

With the demise of the gritty, old-fashioned cop show Southland , TNT's dramatic lineup has been left with a gaping hole that may be impossible to fill - especially if the cabler's new procedural, King & Maxwell , is any indication. Starring Jon Tenney ( The Closer ) and X-Men 's Rebecca Romijn, it premieres at 10 p.m. Monday. It's one of three new basic cable shows, including Sinbad and Primeval: New World , a pair of family fantasy adventure series on Syfy that premiere Saturday at 9 and 10 p.m. respectively.

Harrah's Resort Atlantic City is set to host the 76th Annual Maxwell Football Club awards ceremony on Friday. Manti Te'o of Notre Dame will be presented with both the Maxwell Award as the collegiate player of the year and the Chuck Bednarik Award as the collegiate defensive player of the year. It is the first time in the Maxwell Club's 76-year history that a player has won both awards. Here are the other award winners: George Munger award for college coach of the year: Bill O'Brien, Penn State.

The awards are piling up for Archbishop Wood's Fran Walsh. The senior two-way lineman received the Robert W. Maxwell Memorial Football Club's Jim Henry Award on Wednesday morning at an assembly in Wood's auditorium. Last Thursday, the 6-foot-1, 240-pound senior was selected as the Maxwell Club's high school player of the year for Pennsylvania. The Jim Henry Award is given annually to the Pennsylvania or New Jersey high school player who excels in both athletics and academics, and serves his school and community.

RON JAWORSKI and the Maxwell Football Club should be ashamed of themselves. In November 2011, the club wrongly removed coach Joe Paterno's name from the Coach of the Year Award, citing the Jerry Sandusky scandal as the reason and wrongly blaming Paterno for the crimes. It was as if the head coach himself was the pedophile instead of Sandusky. Now, this hypocritical organization has announced its awards for the 2012 season and look who some of the winners are: Coach of the Year - Penn State's Bill O'Brien.

Bill O'Brien, who took over a Penn State program that appeared headed to oblivion and steered the Nittany Lions to a surprisingly successful season, was named coach of the year Wednesday by the Maxwell Football Club. O'Brien, then the New England Patriots offensive coordinator, was hired as Joe Paterno's successor in January, two months after the Jerry Sandusky child sexual abuse scandal broke and a month before Paterno's death. He took a demoralized team, diminished by harsh NCAA penalties and the transfers of several key players, and despite an 0-2 start transformed it into one of the Big Ten's best.

STATE COLLEGE - After an 8-4 season despite unprecedented adversity, Penn State's Bill O'Brien was named the Maxwell Football Club's Collegiate Coach of the Year Wednesday. This is the second national honor for the first-year head coach, who took over a program that had been heavily sanctioned after the Jerry Sandusky scandal. O'Brien, who was also named ESPN Coach of the Year, will be honored by the Maxwell Club on March 1 at Harrah's Atlantic City Resort. "Coach O'Brien has engineered a tremendous season for the Penn State football program while overcoming obstacles that many considered to be insurmountable," Mark Wolpert, Maxwell Football Club executive director, said in a statement.

LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. - Notre Dame linebacker Manti Te'o won the Maxwell Award, given to the nation's most outstanding player, on Thursday night. Te'o beat out finalists and quarterbacks Johnny Manziel from Texas A&M and Collin Klein from Kansas State. He is the first defensive player to win the award since 1980, ending a string of nine straight quarterbacks. It's the sixth national award that Te'o has won since the end of the regular season. The Fighting Irish senior also won the Bednarik Award, Butkus Award, Bronko Nagurski Trophy, Lombardi Award, and Walter Camp national player of the year award.

My recent column on push-ups, in which orthopedic surgeon John Fenlin of the Rothman Institute tossed a hand grenade by recommending that people over 40 stop doing body-weight exercises such as push-ups, pull-ups, and dips, generated a huge response from readers. Many were alarmed by his warning and wanted guidance about sensible ways to adapt push-ups so they're less perilous, as well as advice about suitable substitutes. But others objected to Fenlin's counsel, claiming that body-weight exercises are an important and valuable part of their fitness regimen that pose little danger if executed carefully and properly.

THE LIZZIE Borden murder case is an American legend immortalized in rhyme: Borden would forever be remembered as the privileged New Englander who "took an ax, and gave her mother forty whacks; when she had seen what she had done, she gave her father forty-one. " Germantown's Ebenezer Maxwell Mansion celebrates the 120th anniversary of the Borden murders with a reading of Sharon Pollock's psychological murder mystery "Blood Relations," a speculative play exploring the uncertainties surrounding the case.

From noon to 3 p.m. Saturday, families can enjoy an Old Fashioned Picnic and Victorian festivities at Ebenezer Maxwell Mansion in West Germantown. Kids can have their faces painted, play croquet, go on a scavenger hunt, and throw a ring to win prizes. At a duck hunt game, toddlers can fish for rubber princess and pirate ducks in a small blow-up pond. Eric Geoffrey of the Give & Take Jugglers will juggle and ride a unicycle. Foods made famous during the Victorian era such as hot dogs, root beer, and ice cream sundaes will be sold.