07/13/11 On Wednesday's Baseball Today podcast , Eric Karabell and Keith Law discussed an email from a reader who compared the rosters of the famous 1971 All-Star Game at Tiger Stadium versus the less famous 1998 contest at Coors Field. Which year had the more star-studded group of stars? Let's compare. (This is what we do the day after the All-Star Game.) 1971 NL Hall of Famers: Willie Mays, Hank Aaron ...
07/13/11 New report shows how the Sport of Kings is making money for God's Own County It's interesting to learn from a new report, launched at the Great Yorkshire Show , that horse-racing is now worth approaching ?230 million a year to the economy of Yorkshire and Humberside. Ours is the county, after all, which gave the world the modern thoroughbred by judicious breeding with Arab and Turkish stock. It ...
07/13/11 In the illustrious history of the game of baseball, there have been countless great moments. There was Cal Ripken breaking Lou Gehrig's games-played streak. There was Ted Williams visiting All-Stars in 1999. There was the Shot Heard 'Round the World, Lou Gehrig's farewell speech, and Don Larsen's World Series perfecto. But baseball tends to be a zero-sum game, and for all those great moments ...
07/13/11 Jered Weaver was the fifth Angel to start an All-Star game. He pitched so well! Here's how he compares to the previous four:1963: Ken McBride allowed three runs in three innings, on four hits and two walks. Willie Mays singled home Hank Aaron for one of the runs. McBride also batted and...
07/11/11 ( Wiley-Blackwell ) Vegetation in towns and cities can make a significant contribution to carbon storage and, ecologists say, could lock away even more carbon if local authorities and gardeners planted and maintained more trees. The study, published this week in the British Ecological Society's Journal of Applied Ecology, is the first to quantify how much carbon is stored in vegetation within an ...
07/10/11 As News of the World newspaper shuts down, analysts speculate on the future of its billionaire owner, Rupert Murdoch.
07/10/11 From Jeff Conine's MVP performance to Bryan Harvey becoming the first Marlin to pitch in the game, staff writer Juan C. Rodriguez looks at the franchise's top 10 All-Star moments. From Jeff Conine's MVP performance to Bryan Harvey becoming the first Marlin to pitch in the game, staff writer Juan C. Rodriguez looks at the franchise's top 10 All-Star moments.
07/10/11 - Breastfeeding Support Group, Wednesday, July 20, 7 to 8:30 p.m., St. Vincent Women's Center Classroom, 311 W. 24th St. Free. Call 452-5664 to register.
07/09/11 Hoping to finish atop the AL Central standings at the All- Star break, the Detroit Tigers continue a four-game series with the Kansas City Royals tonight at Kauffman Stadium.
07/08/11 Long before he became a big league All-Star, Ron Coomer was a little kid growing up in Chicago who delighted in going to ballgames with a mitt on his hand and his father by his side.
07/01/11 Valda Sarty, owner of Elements Salon and Wellness Spa in Wenatchee, and her team members Jessica Jarett, Andrea Hen, Danielle Babst, Jacob Holmer and Jenelle Esparza all attended a Dermalogica product workshop in Renton. Jason Jablonski of SET Coaching and Black Diamond Sports Therapy in Wenatchee attended an intensive two-day Ret?l University Bike Fit certification class in Denver, Colo ...
06/30/11 l Ian Siegal does Millers, Kirkby-in-Ashfield. Matt Woosey supports. l The Antique Six roll up at The Unwin Club, Sutton-in-Ashfield. l The Pitz are at The Chesterfield Arms.
06/30/11 The month of June is almost over and yet somehow, the Yankees are in first place. The same Yankees who have dropped 8-of-9 to the Boston Red Sox head-to-head. The same Yankees who have Derek Jeter, Bartolo Colon, Phil Hughes, Joba Chamberlain , Pedro Feliciano, Rafael Soriano and Damaso Marte all on the disabled list. The same Yankees who had Jorge Posada asking out of the lineup because he was ...
06/29/11 Ed Miliband condemns the public services strike, making a full house of establishment figures against it ("Britain takes sides" 29 June).
06/27/11 I'd make a bad joke about bankers and lawyers, but I think Frank McCourt speaks for himself : "The Dodgers have delivered time and again since I became owner, and that's been good for baseball. We turned the team around financially after years of annual losses before I purchased the team. We invested $150 million in the stadium. We've had excellent on-field performance, including playoff ...
06/23/11 Rock Cats Anticipating Sell-Out Crowd To Welcome Yankees Pitcher The Major League Baseball season has countless twists, turns and tangents, especially for teams with playoff aspirations.
06/23/11 NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING CITY COMMISSION CITY OF FERNANDINA BEACH NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a Public Hearing is scheduled for Tuesday, July 5, 2011 at 6:00 PM in the City Commission Chambers, 204 Ash Street Fernandina Beach, Florida to consider the following application: ORDINANCE NO. 2011-11 AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF FERNANDINA BEACH AMENDING CHAPTER 62, PERSONNEL ...
06/22/11 Suffolk County Police arrested 33-year-old David Laffer Wednesday morning and have charged him with 1st degree murder and resisting arrest. Laffer's wife -- 29-year-old Melinda Brady -- was also arrested for 3rd degree robbery.
06/20/11 University of North Alabama senior pitcher Trey Mitchell has been named the 2011 Gulf South Conference Male Commissioner's Trophy winner.
06/20/11 Alnylam Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a leading RNAi therapeutics company, and collaborators at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), the Broad Institute, and the David H. Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), today announced new findings published in Nature. | 
