College Picks: LSU looks to shake up SEC
LSU has a chance to prevent that Alabama-Florida SEC championship game that everyone seems to be looking forward to in December. The ninth-ranked Tigers will be in Tuscaloosa on Saturday to face the third-ranked Crimson Tide, which can wrap up the SE...
 4.1K - Nov. 5, 2009; scored 79.0 Fall decorating relies on veggies
Fall is a busy time for decorating, second only to Christmas, and the period when vegetables are valued more for their beauty than their flavor. Back when America was largely rural, bringing in the harvest was cause for celebration. Corn stalks were ...
6.0K - Oct. 30, 2009; scored 124.0 Reid looks for votes for Senate health bill
WASHINGTON The focus of the health overhaul debate now shifts to whether Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid can persuade a handful of moderate senators to get behind his new proposal for a government-sponsored insurance plan. That s no sure bet. Eve...
4.9K - Oct. 27, 2009; scored 79.0 Strict Oklahoma abortion laws spark court battles
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) Two new laws being challenged in the Oklahoma courts would give the state some of the strictest abortion laws in the country by forcing women to answer questions about race and their relationships, and to listen to a doctor talk ...
5.1K - Oct. 25, 2009; scored 79.0 Strict Oklahoma abortion laws spark court battles
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) Two new laws being challenged in the Oklahoma courts would give the state some of the strictest abortion laws in the country by forcing women to answer questions about race and their relationships, and to listen to a doctor talk ...
5.1K - Oct. 24, 2009; scored 79.0 Suh becomes dominator for Nebraska s defense
LINCOLN, Neb. ” Rich Glover played for Nebraska almost 40 years ago, and Ndamukong Suh regrets he s never had a chance to watch film of him. Suh has heard the stories of how Glover was a one-man game-changer in the middle of Nebraska s defensi...
4.8K - Oct. 18, 2009; scored 603.0 Suh becomes dominator for Nebraska s defense
LINCOLN, Neb. ” Rich Glover played for Nebraska almost 40 years ago, and Ndamukong Suh regrets he s never had a chance to watch film of him. Suh has heard the stories of how Glover was a one-man game-changer in the middle of Nebraska s defensi...
4.8K - Oct. 17, 2009; scored 603.0 List of unbeatens will start shrinking
Almost halfway through the college football season, there are nine unbeaten teams. Because several of the schools eventually will play each other, including Cincinnati and South Florida tonight, no more than six can finish the season without a loss....
3.8K - Oct. 15, 2009; scored 79.0 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 124.0 College Picks: SEC in spotlight with big Saturday
Throughout the college football season, there will be at least a couple of weekends when the Southeastern Conference overshadows just about everything else going on around the country. This is one of those weekends. How is this for a double-header: N...
4.3K - Oct. 8, 2009; scored 79.0 'On the hot seat'
WASHINGTON Forget mission accomplished. Try mission seemingly impossible. With the Senate Finance Committee on the verge of approving a sweeping health overhaul bill Tuesday, the path might appear open for action by the full Senate. But first the ...
4.4K - Oct. 5, 2009; scored 79.0 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 158.0 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 79.0 First time jobless claims dropped
PORTLAND Week by week, fewer Oregonians are signing up for initial unemployment checks, but economists say the numbers are still high. Statistics released Thursday show more than 9,000 initial claims for unemployment benefits in the most recent wee...
2.6K - Sep. 11, 2009; scored 79.0 College Picks: Saturday has two big games
The Southern California-Ohio State game will have to share the spotlight Saturday with an old and storied rivalry being played just to the north that became far more interesting after the first week of the season. Before the third-ranked Trojans and ...
4.3K - Sep. 10, 2009; scored 124.0 Pac-10 schedule is tough
When it comes to nonconference scheduling, the Pac-10 has an unofficial motto. Anyone, anywhere, anytime. No. 3 Southern California is traveling to eighth-ranked Ohio State on Saturday, the same day UCLA visits Tennessee. Later this month, Arizona an...
5.8K - Sep. 10, 2009; scored 79.0 Grace Wilch
A viewing will be held for Grace Wilch, 95, of the Forest Grove community from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 10, and from 9 a.m. to noon, Friday, Sept. 11, at Fuiten, Rose & Hoyt Funeral Home in Forest Grove. A celebration of life service will...
2.4K - Sep. 10, 2009; scored 79.0 Kelly era begins Thursday at Oregon
EUGENE Chip Kelly has really already made the dramatic changes when it comes to the Oregon Ducks. He brought in the team s distinctive spread-option offense a couple of seasons ago when he arrived as offensive coordinator. Now as head coach, he say...
4.1K - Sep. 2, 2009; scored 79.0 Gill leads Buffalo to top in MAC
When Turner Gill was going 28-2 as the starting quarterback at Nebraska in the early 1980s, he was known for his sleight of hand in the option attack. But it wasn t until he became the head coach at lowly Buffalo that he was truly acknowledged as a m...
6.9K - Aug. 28, 2009; scored 79.0 Heirs to Kennedy's legacy not easy to find
WASHINGTON In the halls of liberalism, it s hard to imagine anyone filling such a void. Sen. Edward Kennedy was the thundering partisan, the unapologetic liberal leader, the master legislative dealmaker and tactician. He was also flawed, haunted by...
5.4K - Aug. 27, 2009; scored 79.0 | 
