12/18/09 Chris Ault is 1-5 in bowl games. The Nevada Wolf Pack football program is 3-6 in bowl games. That's why it is important that the Wolf Pack beats the SMU Mustangs on Christmas Eve in the Hawaii Bowl. This will be a game of seconds for the Pack. This will be the second time the Pack plays a Texas team in a bowl game (they beat North Texas in the 1948 Salad Bowl). This is the second time the Pack ... 12/18/09 The new Northern State football coach has a great feel for the Dakotas and the Aberdeen region. North Dakota native Tom Dosch, 40, grew up a couple of hours away from Aberdeen in Strasburg.... 12/18/09 New Northern State football coach Tom Dosch will take over one of the most successful football programs in South Dakota history.... 12/18/09 Day after day, Jane Kleeb heads out her door to rally public support in Nebraska behind a strong health insurance reform package and influence Sen. Ben Nelson 's uncertain vote. But her overall goal is deeper and broader than that. 12/18/09 Mike Orakpo spent his first fall in Fort Collins away from football, waiting for the NCAA Clearinghouse to say he had met the requirements necessary to play in college. 12/18/09 PRO FOOTBALL National Football League AMERICAN CONFERENCE East W L T Pct PF PA New England 8 5 0 .615 348 234 Miami 7 6 0 .538 292 306 N.Y. Jets 7 6 0 .538 275 211 Buffalo 5 8 0 .385 215 271 South W L T Pct PF PA x-Indianapolis 14 0 0 1.000 394 248 Jacksonville 7 7 0 .500 266 321 Tennessee 6 7 0 .462 293 323 Houston 6 7 0 .462 311 273 North W L T Pct PF PA Cincinnati 9 4 0 .692 264 217 Baltimore ... 12/18/09 HOLYOKE - Removal of asbestos from the fire-ravaged Parsons Paper Mill at 84 Sargeant St. began in October and should be done by summer, federal officials said Thursday. 12/18/09 PALMER - On Thursday, the coldest day of the season so far, Michael E. Rondeau carved his annual ice sculpture in front of his parents' Central Street home, creating a Christmas scene complete with a rocking horse, tree and fireplace. 12/18/09 Colorado Springs officers responded just before 10 p.m. Thursday to Enfield Apartments, 3010 North Hancock Ave., on report of a hit-and-run accident involving a pedestrian. Officers found the victim in the parking lot suffering from a compound fracture to his lower right leg. 12/18/09 Greg Nessler in June stood before the grieving family of Christopher Douglass, the man who died during a head-on car crash where Nessler was driving with cocaine in his system, and with tears in his eyes and a cracked voice he vowed to be a better man. 12/18/09 Fort Morgan's record-setting duo has joined defensive dynamo Diego Carrillo and three other Mustangs on the all-Tri Valley League football team. 12/18/09 1 - Fire in Bangkok nightclub kills 66 people. 3 - Israeli troops launch ground offensive in Gaza with tanks and helicopter gunships. 7 - Trooper Brian Good of CFB Petawawa is killed by roadside bomb north of Kandahar City in Afghanistan. | 
