Berkshire buying Burlington Northern
NEW YORK (AP) Legendary investor Warren Buffett is making what he calls an all-in wager on the U.S. economy $34 billion to buy a major railroad that hauls everything from corn to cars across the country. Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corp.,...
 5.9K - Nov. 4, 2009; scored 431.0 Sports Briefs: Astros choose Mills for manager
HOUSTON ” Brad Mills is finally getting his chance to run a big-league team. The 52-year-old Mills was hired by Houston on Tuesday after six seasons as Terry Francona s bench coach in Boston. He ll manage in the majors for the first time, thou...
5.1K - Oct. 28, 2009; scored 431.0 Sports Briefs: Cubs prepare for sale with bankruptcy filing
NEW YORK The Chicago Cubs filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, a step that will allow their owner to sell the baseball team in an $845 million deal. The filing in Wilmington, Del., was anticipated and is expected to lead to a brief ...
5.0K - Oct. 13, 2009; scored 431.0 Patsy Helon Hasan
At her request, no services were held for Patsy Helon Hasan, 87, of North Bend. Private inurnment was at Sunset Memorial Park in Coos Bay. Pat was born May 28, 1922, in Idabel, Okla., to Carl and Helon (Stone) Oylear. She died early Wednesday morning...
2.9K - Oct. 12, 2009; scored 431.0 Royals send Gordon down to minors
CHICAGO Alex Gordon, regarded in spring training as one of baseball s top prospects, was demoted to the minor leagues Tuesday by the Kansas City Royals. The 25-year-old third baseman, the No. 2 choice in the 2005 draft, batted .198 and committed fi...
2.8K - Aug. 19, 2009; scored 681.0 James LeVos
A funeral service will be held for James LeVos, 70, of Lakeside, at 2 p.m., Tuesday, Aug. 11, at Dunes Memorial Chapel, 2300 Frontage Road in Reedsport. A viewing will precede the funeral at noon. Jim was born Aug. 22, 1938, in Omaha, Neb., the son o...
0.6K - Aug. 7, 2009; scored 431.0 Hardy prepares for comeback
FEDERAL WAY, Wash. Jessica Hardy sat up straight on a wooden chair in the lobby of suburban hotel, one mile away from where she will resume her once-skyrocketing swimming career. She is a year away from a shocking heartbreak she likens to having a ...
6.4K - Aug. 5, 2009; scored 431.0 Michael Thomas Kelley
A memorial service will be held at a later date for Michael Thomas Kelley, 63, of Bandon. Michael was born June 22, 1946, in Omaha, Neb., the son of James and Dorothy (Wilson) Kelley. He died July 2, 2009, in Bandon. He was raised in a family that tr...
1.4K - Jul. 7, 2009; scored 431.0 LSU wins College World Series
OMAHA, Neb. It s almost too much for Jared Mitchell to wrap his mind around. Already a national champion in football and a first-round draft pick in baseball, Mitchell ended his college career Wednesday night with an NCAA title in baseball and the ...
4.5K - Jun. 25, 2009; scored 862.0 Longhorns even score with LSU
OMAHA, Neb. Freshman Taylor Jungmann limited LSU to five hits in his first complete game, and Russell Moldenhauer hit his record-tying fourth home run of the College World Series as Texas evened the best-of-three finals, 5-1 over LSU on Tuesday nig...
2.6K - Jun. 24, 2009; scored 862.0 Stocks and the single girl
In the late 70s, it was hard to pick up a magazine that didn t have a story about testing your sexual IQ - or your boyfriend s. And for a while it seemed that one best-selling book after another was a sexual textbook. The Hite Report and Masters a...
3.2K - Jun. 24, 2009; scored 431.0 Sports Briefs: Reinsdorf will make bid to buy Phoenix Coyotes
PHOENIX Chicago Bulls and White Sox owner Jerry Reinsdorf has promised to make an offer by Friday to buy the bankrupt Phoenix Coyotes and keep the team in Arizona. Reinsdorf s attorney Alan Klein said his client is in the midst of conversations wit...
5.3K - Jun. 23, 2009; scored 431.0 Sports Briefs: Horses race under the lights at Churchill Downs
LOUISVILLE, Ky. Put on the evening gown. Take off the sunglasses. For the first time in the 135-year history of Churchill Downs, the horses charged down the stretch under the lights. In an event dubbed as Downs After Dark, the Kentucky Derby host...
4.9K - Jun. 20, 2009; scored 431.0 Sports Briefs: Civil Rights Game features Cosby, Ali
CINCINNATI Major League Baseball is fielding a star-filled lineup to spotlight the first regular-season Civil Rights Game. Former President Bill Clinton, entertainer Bill Cosby, boxing s Muhammad Ali and Sugar Ray Leonard, basketball s Oscar Robert...
3.5K - Jun. 19, 2009; scored 431.0 Texas rallies against ASU s Leake, UNC stays alive
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) Coming back from six runs down against Arizona State and first-round draft pick Mike Leake leaves Texas coach Augie Garrido wondering what the Longhorns possibly could do for an encore. Really, it could be anything. The Longhorns g...
5.0K - Jun. 17, 2009; scored 431.0 LSU nears trip to finals
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) LSU is within a win of the College World Series finals, and Louis Coleman is pumped. We get to go to the zoo, the Tigers star pitcher said with a big smile after a 9-1 victory over Arkansas on Monday night. A visit to the renowne...
4.7K - Jun. 16, 2009; scored 1000.0 Texas, ASU win at CWS
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) A great day of pitching gave way to a rough night on the mound at the College World Series. Arizona State s Josh Spence and North Carolina s Alex White engaged in a rare CWS pitchers duel late into the game Sunday before the Sun D...
4.5K - Jun. 15, 2009; scored 681.0 Remember the lives lost to end that war
Duty! Honor! Country! Those words have stood out in my mind for some 65 years; from that day when I was a lad volunteering as a Canadian Boy Scout working in a canteen. It was, as I recall a quiet summer evening and I took a moment on June 6, 1944, t...
2.3K - Jun. 6, 2009; scored 431.0 Beavers open with Aggies
CORVALLIS The Oregon State Beavers are back in the postseason, aiming for a return to the College World Series. The third-seeded Beavers, who won an at-large bid to the NCAA tournament, open the first round with second-seeded Texas A M today in For...
2.9K - May. 29, 2009; scored 431.0 Beavers make tourney
CORVALLIS The Oregon State baseball team earned an at-large bid to the NCAA Tournament and will play Texas A M in the first round. The No. 3-seeded Beavers (35-17) will face the No. 2 Aggies (36-22) on Friday in one of two first-round regional game...
1.5K - May. 26, 2009; scored 431.0 | 
