07/14/11 As foreign envoys converge on Istanbul to discuss yet again how to get rid of Muammar Qaddafi, the Libyan dictator is living up to his reputation for cunning by hanging on longer than any of them had predicted.
07/14/11 Right now, the National League West looks like a two-team race, but don't count out the Rockies and their insane winning streaks. Here are five second-half predictions for the NL West. The best thing about the names of the divisions is that there's a pre-written hacky joke in place in the event that there are a more bad teams than good. My AP Baseball Writing Stylebook says these are the only ...
07/14/11 With the National League defeating the American League in Tuesday's All-Star Game, Boston will be traveling to Philadelphia for World Series Game 1 -- if these Power Rankings hold up, of course. A lot can and will change down the stretch, particularly with the July 31 trade deadline looming. The season got off to a bang about an hour after the Midsummer Classic ended, with the Mets shipping ...
07/08/11 Artist Brian Lobel is playing the world's most brutal game of friendship maintenance. As a piece of performance art, Brian going through his 1400 friends one by one, allowing himself one minute to describe and defend his Facebook friendships to strangers at a cafe. At the end of this minute, the audience in the cafe holds up a "delete" or "keep" sign. He's livestreaming the experiment for six ...
07/08/11 With two episodes of Smackdown left before Money In The Bank, we've got a sub-par showing from the secondary show thus far. The main event scene is convoluted, Christian is being misused in his whiny angle, Sheamus just inserted himself into the title angle again, and Teddy Long switches from being the Power Playa who can make any decision he wants one week and then becomes the guy who can't ...
07/07/11 (NASHVILLE SKYLINE is a column by CMT/ CMT .com Editorial Director Chet Flippo.) She's still the original big rock candy mountain. After a recording hiatus since 2008's Backwoods Barbie , she returns with a sun-dappled romp through fields of dazzling musical flowers.
07/07/11 The Great Comet of 1861 appears in the night sky over Mobile and can be seen by the naked eye; 6 companies of Louisiana Confederate troops stationed on the Mississippi Coast ... all on this day in history.
06/30/11 # exclusive Republican media strategist Roger Ailes launched Fox News Channel in 1996, ostensibly as a "fair and balanced" counterpoint to what he regarded as the liberal establishment media. But according to a remarkable document buried deep within the Richard Nixon Presidential Library, the intellectual forerunner for Fox News was a nakedly partisan 1970 plot by Ailes and other Nixon aides to ...
06/22/11 FRESNO- If the Giants still have concerns about how Barry Zito will contribute to the team this year, perhaps some of those doubts were put to ease on Tuesday night at Chukchansi Park. The Major League rehabber threw a two-hit, complete game shutout to lift the Fresno Grizzlies to a 2-0 victory over the Salt Lake Bees.
06/21/11 Must Indians and Pakistanis be bound by the easy classifications of enemies and terrorists, muses Aseem Chhabra
06/21/11 3-5 Bolshaya Morskaya Ulitsa. Tel. 315 9999. 12 p.m. to 8 p.m. Closed Mondays. info@album-gallery.org; www.album-gallery.ru NEW! Wrinkles: Tatyana Podmarkova.
06/09/11 In its 50 th year of existence, the Old Rochester Regional High School Athletics Department is ready to pay its respects to those who have helped create some truly special memories during the past half-century.
06/08/11 Terrelle Pryor went 31-4 at Ohio State, beat Michigan three times, and was the MVP of two bowl games. Could he still be remembered as a bust at Ohio State?
06/06/11 Mixing fast pitches with knee-buckling changeups, Kelsi Dunne kept the Baylor hitters off-balance all night at the Women's College World Series.
06/05/11 Florida, Baylor join Tide, Sun Devils in Women's College World Series semis
06/04/11 By Dr. E. Faye Williams, Esq. TriceEdneyWire.com Columnist Satoshi Kanazawa tried to get on the bandwagon with the bigots, the chauvinists, the idiots, who are always stating obvious untruths about somebody in order to attract attention to sell their books or to justify the silly positions they take to raise eyebrows.
06/04/11 DANA POINT - From both the land and the water, a diverse coalition of volunteers gathered Saturday at Dana Point Harbor, not to enjoy the brilliant sunshine that emerged from the morning gray but to painstakingly pull garbage from some hard-to-reach places.About 60 people turned out for the joint...
06/04/11 DJ Baxendale pitched eight scoreless innings and Arkansas got just enough offense to beat New Mexico 3-0 Saturday in an elimination game at the NCAA Tempe Regional.
06/02/11 The wind was howling. Trees were toppling. And Kelsi Dunne was crying.
06/01/11 Rick Carlisle has always had a flair for the big stage, so with his Dallas Mavericks playing for the NBA Championship this week, the former University of Virginia standout feels right at home. |