Diaz, Marsden, Kelly's 'Box' is empty Cameron Diaz and James Marsden have a terrible moral dilemma in Richard Kelly s The Box : Press a button on a mysterious container, they ll get $1 million, and someone they don t know will die. What button, on whose box, did Kelly push to get t...
3.6K - Nov. 6, 2009; scored 166.0 Sailing home NEW YORK The new U.S. Navy assault ship USS New York, built with World Trade Center steel, arrived in its namesake city today with a 21-gun salute near the site of the 2001 terrorist attack. First responders, families of Sept. 11 victims and the pu...
3.4K - Nov. 2, 2009; scored 166.0 North Bend Hall of Fame inductees George Edward Gebhardt (Class of 1933): Gebhardt was born in 1915 and was class president during his time at North Bend High School. He also won the Coos County extemporary speaking contest and was selected Outstanding Senior Boy. He earned a degree...
4.7K - Oct. 31, 2009; scored 166.0 Cougars will play Notre Dame in Texas SOUTH BEND, Ind. Frequently part of college football s jet set, Notre Dame will give the term new meaning when it leaves behind the Golden Dome and heads to the Alamo Dome. It s a different feeling going to play a home game away from Notre Dame, t...
4.7K - Oct. 29, 2009; scored 263.0 NFL Recap: Steelers hand Minnesota first loss Brett Favre and the Minnesota Vikings gave one away and are perfect no more. The New Orleans Saints are still undefeated, proving that no deficit is too large for their explosive offense to overcome. Three times Sunday, the Vikings were ready to ta...
7.9K - Oct. 26, 2009; scored 166.0 Sports Briefs: New Mexico suspends coach ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. New Mexico coach Mike Locksley won t be on the sidelines when his team plays UNLV later this month, part of a 10-day suspension issued as punishment for his role in a fight with an assistant coach. Athletic director Paul Krebs sai...
6.0K - Oct. 14, 2009; scored 166.0 Car accident injures U.S. soccer player ARLINGTON, Va. U.S. national team forward Charlie Davies had several broken bones and a lacerated bladder after a one-vehicle accident Tuesday in which another person was killed. Davies underwent several hours of surgery at Washington Hospital Cent...
4.9K - Oct. 14, 2009; scored 166.0 Resurgent defense lifts Cowboys ARLINGTON, Texas Terence Newman dived into the end zone, threw the ball into the air and exhaled. The Dallas Cowboys were headed to victory and their maligned defense was the main reason for it. Newman returned an interception 27 yards for a touchd...
4.1K - Sep. 29, 2009; scored 166.0 Biden swears in Kirk WASHINGTON (AP) Former Democratic Party chairman Paul G. Kirk Jr. stepped in Friday as the temporary replacement in the Senate for his longtime friend, the late Edward Kennedy. Kirk said taking over the Massachusetts seat left him with mixed emotio...
2.7K - Sep. 26, 2009; scored 166.0 AL: Griffey drives in four runs SEATTLE Joe Girardi has been insisting his Yankees will need to go out and earn their playoff spot in the final two weeks of the regular season. After stumbling twice in Seattle, look where New York is with two weeks left in the season: one win fro...
4.9K - Sep. 21, 2009; scored 166.0 NL: Cubs top Cardinals ST. LOUIS After sending misbehaving Milton Bradley home, the Chicago Cubs sent the St. Louis Cardinals packing, too. Jake Fox homered in the 11th inning and the Cubs beat the Cardinals 6-3 Sunday night, keeping the Cardinals magic number at four a...
4.6K - Sep. 21, 2009; scored 166.0 NFC: Giants spoil Dallas debut in new stadium ARLINGTON, Texas Now Tony Romo knows what it sounds like to hear more than 100,000 people booing. For all hype and pageantry leading into the first game at Cowboys Stadium, the largest regular-season crowd in NFL history turned against their star q...
5.3K - Sep. 21, 2009; scored 166.0 AL: Texas playoff hopes take big hit ARLINGTON, Texas Marlon Byrd denied that the slumping Texas Rangers are feeling desperation, but he put into perspective just how difficult their playoff chase has become. After the Rangers lost their fourth straight game, 4-0 to the last-place Oak...
4.2K - Sep. 17, 2009; scored 166.0 AL: Red Sox get boost with pitcher s return BOSTON Daisuke Matsuzaka gave the Los Angeles Angels another thing to worry about in October. The Red Sox right-hander returned from a three-month stint on the DL with six shutout innings on Tuesday night to lead Boston to a 4-1 victory over the An...
5.1K - Sep. 16, 2009; scored 166.0 AL: Yankees keep on winning NEW YORK Torii Hunter could laugh. Shoeless Torii that was pretty funny. My spike got caught in the wall, he said. I was running out of my shoes right there. Hunter lost a shoe chasing Mark Teixeira s two-run triple in the New York Yankees 5-3...
4.8K - Sep. 15, 2009; scored 166.0 AL: Red Sox shutout Rays in sweep BOSTON The Red Sox rotation is rolling just in time. After a stretch of injury and inconsistency, Boston s starters have given up three runs or less in the last seven games. In the last three over a 24-hour span, they allowed a total of two runs in...
3.8K - Sep. 14, 2009; scored 166.0 Obama: 'Develop your talent' WASHINGTON Take responsibility for your education. Go to class and listen. Don t let failures define you. That s the advice President Barack Obama gave schoolchildren today in a speech that drew fire even before he delivered it. We need every singl...
3.4K - Sep. 8, 2009; scored 166.0 NFL prepares for no salary cap NEW YORK NFL commissioner Roger Goodell foresees an uncapped 2010 season as the league and the players union negotiate a new collective bargaining agreement. Goodell said Thursday that owners are preparing for no salary cap next season, citing the...
3.2K - Sep. 4, 2009; scored 166.0 Obama's school speech draws conservative's ire DALLAS President Barack Obama s back-to-school address next week was supposed to be a feel-good story for an administration battered over its health care agenda. Now Republican critics are calling it an effort to foist a political agenda on childr...
6.5K - Sep. 4, 2009; scored 166.0 AL: Rangers close in on Boston ARLINGTON, Texas Elvis left the yard after Josh Hamilton left the game. Hours after the playoff-chasing Rangers learned injured third baseman Michael Young will be out at least two weeks, and an inning after slugger Hamilton came out because of a s...
4.9K - Sep. 3, 2009; scored 166.0 |