Ida heads for U.S. after drenching C. America
MANAGUA, Nicaragua (AP) Former Hurricane Ida drenched Central America as a tropical depression today and forecasters said it had some chance of regaining force and heading toward the U.S. Ida had winds of 75 mph when it hit the central Nicraguan co...
 1.2K - Nov. 6, 2009; scored 360.0 College Picks: Big games will help sort out league races
Much like politics, college football is essentially local. Sure, Florida, Texas and Southern California will play huge rivalry games with national title implications Saturday. But more importantly, those three games will go a long way toward sorting ...
4.2K - Oct. 29, 2009; scored 69.0 College Picks: TCU can make its case for a BCS bid
Boise State better watch its back. TCU is trying to bust into the BCS, too. The sixth-ranked Broncos have drawn the most attention of the teams from the non-automatic BCS qualifying conferences this season. Boise State started the season with a convi...
5.2K - Oct. 22, 2009; scored 69.0 Friend: Balloon mom will 'go down with the ship'
FORT COLLINS, Colo. On an episode of ABC s Wife Swap, Mayumi Heene pounds her fists and shouts in frustration because she believes her co-star isn t paying enough attention to one of his sons. Off-camera, the mother of Colorado balloon boy Falc...
5.5K - Oct. 22, 2009; scored 69.0 Weakened tropical storm Rick nears Mexico resorts
LOS CABOS, Mexico Once-powerful Hurricane Rick lost most of its punch as it headed toward Mexican resort regions as a tropical storm today, but local authorities still prepared for evacuations due to flooding. Rick had been the strongest hurricane ...
2.5K - Oct. 20, 2009; scored 502.0 Hurricane Rick strengthens
ACAPULCO, Mexico (AP) Hurricane Rick swiftly strengthened Friday off Mexico s Pacific coast with winds near 100 mph, and forecasters warned it could soon become a major hurricane. Rick, a Category 2 hurricane, was centered about 260 miles south-sou...
1.0K - Oct. 18, 2009; scored 951.0 Dangeorus Hurricane Rick grows off Mexico
MEXICO CITY (AP) Hurricane Rick quickly strengthened into an extremely dangerous Category 4 storm off Mexico s Pacific coast on Saturday and forecasters said it could strike the Baja California Peninsula in about five days. The storm had sustaine...
1.7K - Oct. 17, 2009; scored 1000.0 Hurricane Rick strengthens
ACAPULCO, Mexico (AP) Hurricane Rick swiftly strengthened Friday off Mexico s Pacific coast with winds near 100 mph, and forecasters warned it could soon become a major hurricane. Rick, a Category 2 hurricane, was centered about 260 miles south-sou...
1.0K - Oct. 17, 2009; scored 951.0 College Picks: Sooners get shot at redemption
An injured Heisman Trophy winner and a pair of one-point losses have made the first half of Oklahoma s season a real downer. Next up for the Sooners, a chance to turn the season around. No. 20 Oklahoma meets No. 3 Texas on Saturday in Dallas. The int...
4.0K - Oct. 15, 2009; scored 69.0 Boise State holds on for victory
TULSA, Okla. ” Coach Chris Petersen would like to see Boise State learn to deliver a knockout punch instead of trading blows until the final bell. He ll still take a win any way he can get it. Kellen Moore threw three touchdown passes, includi...
4.9K - Oct. 15, 2009; scored 110.0 Obama will listen to Katrina survivors
WASHINGTON (AP) President Barack Obama, who accused former President George W. Bush of leading a government that sits on its hands while a major American city drowns, is hearing directly from New Orleans residents who have struggled to rebuild th...
1.1K - Oct. 15, 2009; scored 139.0 UF officials remove zombie plan from site
GAINESVILLE, Fla. (AP) The University of Florida s response plans for a zombie apocalypse are no longer available for public consumption. UF spokesman Steve Orlando said the university removed a link to a disaster recovery exercise, which detailed...
0.9K - Oct. 2, 2009; scored 69.0 College Picks: Cal, Miami can bounce back with big wins
This is not the ideal way to bounce back from a loss. Miami and California, both coming off ugly performances in their first defeats of the season, get thrown right back into the grinder Saturday. The 17th-ranked Hurricanes are home after a soggy and...
4.0K - Oct. 1, 2009; scored 139.0 Coach gets a fresh start
SAN ANTONIO Former Miami coach Larry Coker describes his fall from the leader of a college football powerhouse to the man in charge of a start-up program at the University of Texas-San Antonio in almost biblical terms. Sort of like Moses, with a na...
4.0K - Sep. 26, 2009; scored 181.0 Katrina case nets guilty plea
GULFPORT, Miss. (AP) A former Gulfport mayor was sentenced to probation Friday in a plea deal on Hurricane Katrina fraud charges that let him and his wife walk out of court with no prison time. Brent Warr pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in Gu...
2.7K - Sep. 26, 2009; scored 110.0 What kind of science?
We ve all heard of the butterfly effect, which says that the world is such a complex, interactive, dynamic system that a tiny butterfly flapping its wings in Brazil can ultimately cause a hurricane thousands of miles away. My first thought on hearing...
3.2K - Sep. 25, 2009; scored 196.0 College Picks: Miami can enter BCS discussion
It s one of the most asked questions by college football fans and media members: Is (insert lagging program name here) back? as in back to being one of the elite program it once was. Alabama has been back and forth a bunch over the last decade or...
4.4K - Sep. 24, 2009; scored 139.0 Southeast floods block highways; eight dead
AUSTELL, Ga. Washed-out roads and flooded interstate highways around Atlanta added to the misery today after days of torrential rain in the Southeast that claimed at least eight lives, including a 15-year-old boy whose body was found in the Chattoo...
4.9K - Sep. 22, 2009; scored 69.0 Sports Briefs: Portland signs Howard
PORTLAND Veteran forward Juwan Howard signed a one-year contract with the Portland Trail Blazers, the team announced Thursday. Howard a 15-year veteran, averaged 4.1 points in 42 games with Denver and Charlotte last season. Terms were not disclosed...
6.2K - Sep. 18, 2009; scored 110.0 College Picks: Top teams aim for revenge Saturday
Florida has a score to settle. Texas, too, but for a different reason. Coach Urban Meyer and his top-ranked Gators welcome (sort of) Tennessee coach Lane Kiffin to Gainesville, Fla., and the Southeastern Conference on Saturday. Kiffin took aim at the...
4.6K - Sep. 17, 2009; scored 69.0 | 
