Baseball manager, Twitter settle lawsuitSt. Louis Cardinals For the National Football League team that played in St. Louis from 1960 to 1987, see . The St. Louis Cardinals (also referred to as "the Cards" or "the Redbirds") are a professional baseball team based in St. Louis, Missouri. manager Tony La Russa settled his lawsuit against popular micro-blogging service Twitter A Web site and service that lets users send short text messages from their cellphones to a group of friends. Launched in 2006, Twitter (www.twitter.com) was designed for people to broadcast their current activities and thoughts. out of court on Friday, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch The St. Louis Post-Dispatch is the only major city-wide newspaper in St. Louis, Missouri. Although written to serve Greater St. Louis, the Post-Dispatch is one of the largest newspapers in the region, and is available and read as far west as Springfield, Missouri. reported. La Russa told the newspaper that San Francisco-based Twitter had agreed to pay his legal fees and make a donation to the Animal Rescue Foundation Tony La Russa's Animal Rescue Foundation ("ARF") is a "No-Kill" animal shelter based in Walnut Creek, California. ARF saves abandoned and injured animals, as well as running programs to bring dog and cat visits to abused children, hospital patients, seniors and shut-ins. (ARF), an animal shelter run by the Cardinals manager, the newspaper said. He declined to specify the amount of the donation to the ARF but said: "It's not going to be too ridiculous." La Russa sued Twitter in a California court last month after an unidentified person created an account in his name and sent posts that La Russa described as "derogatory and demeaning." One entry sent from the since-discontinued account read: "Lost 2 out of 3, but we made it out of Chicago without one drunk driving incident or dead pitcher." Josh Hancock, a Cardinals pitcher, was killed in a car accident in April 2007 while another Cardinals pitcher, Darryl Kile, was found dead in his Chicago hotel room in June 2002. La Russa, who guided the Cardinals to the 2006 World Series title, pleaded guilty in November 2007 to drunken driving charges. Lots of celebrities and athletes, including seven-time Tour de France Tour de France World's most prestigious and difficult bicycle race. Staged for three weeks each July—usually in some 20 daylong stages—the Tour typically comprises 20 professional teams of nine riders each and covers some 3,600 km (2,235 miles) of flat and winner Lance Armstrong and NBA star Shaquille O'Neal, are using Twitter but there have been several other notable impersonation Impersonation Patroclus wore the armor of Achilles against the Trojans to encourage the disheartened Greeks. [Gk. Lit.: Iliad] Prisoner of Zenda, The cases on the micro-blogging service. 
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