Busch finishing strong with crew chief
CHARLOTTE, N.C. Kurt Busch and Pat Tryson had every reason to coast through the season s final 10 races in a long farewell before the crew chief bolts to a new team next year. Only they promised not to go through the motions, and Busch s win at Tex...
 3.8K - Nov. 10, 2009; scored 139.0 Some moms struggle with disappointment
LAS VEGAS My good friend just found out she is pregnant with a boy. It is her first child, and instead of celebrating the good news, she cried during her ultrasound. That s because she really wanted a girl. Good mothers are supposed to say they are...
3.5K - Nov. 10, 2009; scored 139.0 Sports Shorts: Sooners fall from football rankings
NEW YORK Over the past decade, Oklahoma has rarely been out of the AP Top 25 and Stanford has rarely been in. On Sunday, the Sooners and Cardinal sort of swapped places. Oklahoma dropped out of the college football poll for the first time since 200...
3.3K - Nov. 9, 2009; scored 139.0 Hight nears first Funny Car season championship
LAS VEGAS Robert Hight closed in on his first Funny Car season championship, racing to his third victory of the season Sunday at the NHRA Las Vegas Nationals. Hight beat second-place teammate Ashley Force Hood in the first round of eliminations, th...
2.3K - Nov. 2, 2009; scored 278.0 Some who get vaccine not in high-risk groups
LOS ANGELES It was bound to happen: Some people who aren t at high risk for swine flu complications got the much-in-demand vaccine. Sometimes they were healthy adults or senior citizens instead of kids, pregnant women and people with health problem...
5.3K - Oct. 30, 2009; scored 179.0 Stars align for World Series
NEW YORK ” All-Stars at most spots, mixed in with MVPs and Cy Young winners. A rich roster, full of World Series success. So how come the defending champion Philadelphia Phillies are such underdogs? Probably because they re facing the team tha...
4.4K - Oct. 27, 2009; scored 139.0 Alienated and now radicalized
In the brief age of Obama, we have had truthers, birthers, Tea Party activists and town-hall dissenters. Comes now, the Oath Keepers. And who might they be? Writes Alan Maimon in the Las Vegas Review-Journal, Oath Keepers, depending on where on...
3.1K - Oct. 26, 2009; scored 139.0 $205 Million man says he sold meth chemical
MEXICO CITY (AP) A Chinese-Mexican businessman arrested after police found a $205 million stash of cash in his Mexico City mansion has told U.S. prosecutors he sold tons of a chemical used to make methamphetamine on the black market, a top Mex...
6.8K - Oct. 25, 2009; scored 179.0 $205 Million man says he sold meth chemical
MEXICO CITY (AP) A Chinese-Mexican businessman arrested after police found a $205 million stash of cash in his Mexico City mansion has told U.S. prosecutors he sold tons of a chemical used to make methamphetamine on the black market, a top Mex...
6.8K - Oct. 24, 2009; scored 179.0 Leland Wesley Sutton
A cryptside funeral service will be held for Leland Lee Wesley Sutton, 88, of Bandon at 2 p.m., Monday, Oct. 26, at Sunset Memorial Park Mausoleum, 63060 Millington Frontage Road in Coos Bay with Pastor Don Berney, of New Beginnings Christian Fello...
2.0K - Oct. 23, 2009; scored 139.0 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 139.0 Sports Briefs: Button clinches Formula One title
SAO PAULO Jenson Button clinched his first Formula One title with a fifth-place finish at the Brazilian Grand Prix on Sunday and his Brawn GP team made history by becoming the first to take the constructors crown in its debut season. Red Bull s Ma...
3.5K - Oct. 19, 2009; scored 219.0 Garth and his guitar: Country superstar Brooks' new gig won't be like anything else in Vegas
LAS VEGAS (AP) Millions of fans wish they could ve seen Garth Brooks where it all started at Willie s Saloon in Stillwater, Okla. Come to Vegas and you ll get something like it. Forget the glitz, glam and pyrotechnics that typify your average Sin C...
0.9K - Oct. 16, 2009; scored 774.0 Sports Briefs: UFL season opens with Las Vegas win
LAS VEGAS J.P. Losman threw two touchdowns passes and Dede Dorsey scored twice to help the Las Vegas Locomotives win the first game in United Football League history, 30-17 over the California Redwoods on Thursday night. A crowd of 14,209 fans atte...
3.2K - Oct. 9, 2009; scored 1000.0 Tebow out of hospital
GAINESVILLE, Fla. ” Florida quarterback Tim Tebow was out of the hospital and back home Sunday, recovering from the concussion he sustained during the Gators 41-7 victory at Kentucky. Tebow was released from the University Medical Center ...
5.2K - Sep. 28, 2009; scored 219.0 Hornaday closes in on truck series title
LOUDON, N.H. On the surface, the choice seemed easy. Trying to chase down Kyle Busch at New Hampshire Motor Speedway last weekend, Ron Hornaday Jr. peeked in the mirror and saw the No. 2 Chevy driven by NASCAR star Kevin Harvick getting closer and ...
5.4K - Sep. 26, 2009; scored 139.0 Sports Briefs: Mayweather makes triumphant return to ring
LAS VEGAS Floyd Mayweather Jr. returned to the ring with another emphatic victory. Maybe next time he ll pick on somebody his own size. Mayweather overpowered the smaller, lighter Juan Manuel Marquez for an unanimous decision Saturday night, mainta...
4.5K - Sep. 21, 2009; scored 139.0 Sports Briefs: Dixon takes IndyCar series lead
MOTEGI, Japan New Zealand s Scott Dixon won the Indy Japan 300 today to take over the IndyCar series points lead with one race remaining. Dixon, who started from the pole position and led for most of the race, took over the lead for good on the 164...
2.5K - Sep. 19, 2009; scored 139.0 Oregon dancer will join Talent winner in Vegas
Kevin Skinner flew the coop with the grand prize on America s Got Talent. The singing chicken farmer from Mayfield, Ky., was awarded the NBC talent competition s $1 million grand prize and a headlining spot at a Las Vegas show. Skinner rece...
1.2K - Sep. 17, 2009; scored 179.0 OSU QB off to strong start
CORVALLIS Two years ago when Oregon State visited Cincinnati, quarterback Sean Canfield then a sophomore suffered his first loss as a starter. Now a senior, Canfield has taken charge in Lyle Moevao s absence and will face his first real challen...
3.7K - Sep. 16, 2009; scored 139.0 | 
