College Basketball: Boeheim earns 800th victory
SYRACUSE, N.Y. Jim Boeheim became the eighth Division I coach to reach 800 wins with milestone coming over Albany, 75-43 on Monday night in the 2K Sports Classic. The 65-year-old Boeheim got his first victory, 75-48 over Harvard on Nov. 26, 1976. B...
 3.1K - Nov. 10, 2009; scored 231.0 Pro Picks: Bengals and Ravens meet in key contest
It s proving time for the Bengals. And maybe the Ravens, too. Cincinnati sits atop the AFC North along with Pittsburgh at 5-2, and the Bengals have beaten the Steelers and Ravens. Next week, they visit the Steel City. So this is make or break time fo...
3.0K - Nov. 7, 2009; scored 99.0 NBA: Bryant reaches milestone
LOS ANGELES ” Kobe Bryant scored 41 points while becoming the youngest player to reach 24,000, leading the short-handed Los Angeles Lakers to a 114-98 victory over the Memphis Grizzlies on Friday night. Ron Artest had 19 points and seven assis...
2.9K - Nov. 7, 2009; scored 99.0 Driver on probation after morning arrest
MOORESVILLE, N.C. NASCAR placed driver AJ Allmendinger on probation Thursday following his arrest early in the morning on a charge of drunken driving. Mooresville police said Allmendinger failed a field sobriety test after he was pulled over. Late...
2.3K - Oct. 30, 2009; scored 99.0 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 165.0 Oregon offers model to boost nursing faculty
PORTLAND A predicted national shortage of nurses in the next decade could be made worse by a shortage of the experienced nurses who train them at community colleges and universities around the country. In response, nursing education leaders from 11...
4.1K - Oct. 22, 2009; scored 99.0 Getting braces young good for some kids, not all
NEW YORK (AP) Nadia Czekajewski got braces on her teeth when she was 8. Now she s in third grade, turning 9, and she ll be done before she begins fourth grade, said her father, Tomasz Czekajewski. It was a wise decision to start young, said Czek...
4.7K - Oct. 21, 2009; scored 99.0 Two industries see job growth
WASHINGTON Businesses in the South and Southwest benefited most from the first federal contracts awarded under President Barack Obama s stimulus program, according to initial data released by a government oversight board. Military construction and...
6.5K - Oct. 16, 2009; scored 99.0 New coach set for season at Arizona
TUCSON, Ariz. ” Each of the last two years, Arizona s basketball team had one coach on media day and another on opening day. This year, the Wildcats expect it to be the same man ” Sean Miller. It sounds crazy, but it ll be the first tim...
4.0K - Oct. 15, 2009; scored 157.0 Petty in, Pearson left out of NASCAR Hall of Fame s first class
CHARLOTTE, N.C. ” NASCAR founder Bill France Sr. headlined the five inductees into the first Hall of Fame class, a group that drew mixed reactions to the inclusion of France s son instead of driver David Pearson. France, who formed the Nationa...
6.6K - Oct. 15, 2009; scored 99.0 Myrtle Point Hall of Fame capsules
Frank Grove (Coach): Grove graduated in 1944 from Powers High School, where he was a member of the 1944 state champion basketball team, and served in the Navy from 1944 to 1946. He competed in basketball and track and field for two years each at Lew...
8.6K - Oct. 10, 2009; scored 128.0 New jobless claims fall
WASHINGTON (AP) The number of newly laid-off workers filing first-time claims for jobless benefits fell to the lowest level since early January, as layoffs ease a bit amid a fledgling economic recovery. The fourth drop in new claims in five weeks is...
3.0K - Oct. 8, 2009; scored 128.0 Daimler decides to save truck plant
PORTLAND (AP) ” In a surprise move, Daimler Trucks North America says it will keep its Portland truck plant operating. The Oregonian said Monday s announcement will likely save about 650 jobs. It s been almost a year since Daimler said the...
1.1K - Sep. 29, 2009; scored 128.0 Duke to meet Durham neighbor
DURHAM, N.C. The two universities in this Tobacco Road town don t seem to have much in common except for geography. One is predominantly white, the other mostly black. One is elite and expensive, the other egalitarian and economical. But both Duke ...
4.3K - Sep. 24, 2009; scored 99.0 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 178.0 Death toll at 10 as Southeast floods ebb
AUSTELL, Ga. (AP) As floodwaters around Atlanta began to recede, residents were packing moving vans with furniture and commiserating about water-logged homes. I m toast, Penny Freeman, who moved into a first-floor apartment five days ago, said Tue...
4.3K - Sep. 23, 2009; scored 99.0 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 231.0 House considers extending unemployment benefits
WASHINGTON (AP) Despite predictions the Great Recession is running out of steam, the House is taking up emergency legislation this week to help the millions of Americans who see no immediate end to their economic miseries. A bill offered by Rep. Ji...
1.3K - Sep. 21, 2009; scored 99.0 Pro Picks: Cards look to edge Jags
The Arizona Cardinals went 0-5 on the Atlantic Coast last season, allowing 202 points and scoring 102. Despite those grotesque numbers, they still won the NFC West what does that say about the division in 2008? Then Arizona won a home playoff game,...
3.8K - Sep. 19, 2009; scored 128.0 NC doctor removes plastic fragment lodged in lung
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) ” Doctors say a North Carolina man who was plagued with coughing fits should be OK now that they have removed a 1-inch piece of plastic from his lung, where it had rested since he apparently inhaled it nearly two years a...
3.8K - Sep. 18, 2009; scored 157.0 | 
