LOS ANGELES (AP) β The Lakers issued a statement publicly backing Mike Brown on Saturday after Magic Johnson declared the first-year head coach would be fired if Los Angeles lost Game 7 of its first-round playoff series with Denver. The club issued its statement a few hours before the third-seeded Lakers hosted the Nuggets in [...] ...
NEW YORK (AP) β One World Trade Center, the monolith being built to replace the twin towers destroyed in the Sept. 11 attacks, claimed the title of New York City's tallest skyscraper on Monday, as workers erected steel columns that made its unfinished skeleton a little over 1,250 feet high, just enough to peek over [...] ...
NEW YORK (AP) β One World Trade Center, the monolith being built to replace the twin towers destroyed in the Sept. 11 attacks, will lay claim to the title of New York City's tallest skyscraper on Monday. Workers will erect steel columns that will make its unfinished skeleton a little over 1,250 feet high, just [...] ...
1. @EdgeofSports The Nation editor Dave Zirin said others in pro sports have much more to apologize for than Ozzie Guillen did. [More from Mashable: Facebook Instagram Acquisition: 20 Witty Reactions] Click here to view this gallery. Manager Ozzie Guillen was suspended for five games by the Miami Marlins on Tuesday following comments he made [...] ...
AUGUSTA, Georgia (Reuters) - British world number three Lee Westwood ended a day of high drama and tumultuous swings of fortune by grabbing a one-shot lead in Thursday's opening round of the Masters. The straight-hitting Englishman, who has yet to win a major title, fired a five-under-par 67 at a rain-softened Augusta National where tough [...] ...
AUGUSTA, Georgia (Reuters) - Former British Open champion Louis Oosthuizen grabbed an early one-shot lead on a day of high drama and tumultuous swings of fortune in the opening round of the Masters on Thursday. The South African holed a 20-foot birdie putt at the tricky par-four last for a four-under-par 68 while British world [...] ...
WASHINGTON (AP) β Rick Santorum drew strength in Tuesday's Michigan Republican presidential primary from the most ardent conservatives and people whose political views are strongly colored by their religious beliefs, according to early results of an exit poll of voters. Rival Mitt Romney was faring well with party loyalists and more moderate voters. Romney, the [...] ...
As a means of celebrating our military and Operation Neptune Spear, responsible for propelling 9/11 terrorist Osama bin Laden toward his true destiny of becoming βshark bait,β a Glen Allen, Virginia company has created the OSAMABOBBER.(PRWEB) November 16, 2011 The OSAMABOBBER is an actual working bobber that allows any fisherman (or landlubber, for that matter) [...] ...
The progress Gabby Giffords has made in her recovery from a close-range gun shot to the head is evident in a new book and television special (see video below). But it's also clear she still has a long way to go."Gabby: A Story of Courage and Hope" documents the Arizona congresswoman's recovery from a Jan. [...] ...
center to support the Occupy Portland movement. At one point, police warned people that they would use chemical agents to keep control as the crowd pushed against police lines.Before then, demonstrators remained peaceful and even festive at times as officers watched and directed traffic, but didn't move to clear Lownsdale and Chapman squares.Protesters remained at [...] ...
Penn State head football coach Joe Paterno was told about an alleged encounter in 2002, a grand jury report says. STORY HIGHLIGHTS Grand jury report contains allegations as far back as 1994 University officials knew of allegations as early as 1998, grand jury says Allegations made in 1998 sparked a multi-year investigation (CNN) -- The [...] ...
STORY HIGHLIGHTS Grand jury report contains allegations as far back as 1994 University officials knew of allegations as early as 1998, grand jury says Allegations made in 1998 sparked a multi-year investigation (CNN) -- The child sex investigation against retired Penn State defensive coordinator Jerry Sandusky began in 2009 with the first report of allegations [...] ...