NEW YORK (AP) — 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 (Reuters) - One World Trade Center, being built at the site of the fallen twin towers, surpassed the Empire State Building on Monday as the tallest building in New York. Construction crews set in place a steel horizontal beam at a height of about 1,270 feet, topping by about 20 feet (six meters) [...] ...
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Lakers jersey says World Peace on the back. The player wearing it is still Ron Artest, and he's in trouble again with the NBA. Metta World Peace was pounding his chest with his right arm in celebration of a dunk over two opponents Sunday when his left arm suddenly flung [...] ...
(Reuters) - The San Antonio Spurs moved to within one victory of securing the Western Conference top seed for the playoffs on Sunday as the NBA's leading contenders continued to jostle for position in the final week of the regular season. The Spurs easily defeated Cleveland 114-98, after Oklahoma City suffered a heartbreaking double overtime [...] ...
RoadFish.com men’s lifestyle and finance magazine frowned upon Metta World Peace, formerly known as Ron Artest’s, nasty elbow to Oklahoma City forward James Harden during yesterday's gameLos Angeles, CA (PRWEB) April 23, 2012 RoadFish.com men’s lifestyle and finance magazine voiced its disapproval of the violent elbow thrown by Lakers forward Metta World Peace after he [...] ...
Los Angeles forward Metta World Peace was ejected from the Lakers' game against Oklahoma City for elbowing unsuspecting Thunder forward James Harden in the head. World Peace -- who legally changed his name from Ron Artest in September -- had just jammed in a dunk that pulled the Lakers within one point with less than [...] ...
Comedian Patrice O'Neal has sadly passed away aged 41, following complications of a stroke he suffered back in October. The death was announced on Tuesday (November 29, 2011), after which floods of tributes came in from some of the biggest names in comedy. The Office star Ricky Gervais was among the first to send his [...] ...
Vail's Lindsey Vonn celebrates her giant slalom victory Oct. 22 to start the World Cup season in Soelden, Austria. Vonn is the first American woman to win a race in all five alpine Cup disciplines. (Samuel Kubani, AFP/Getty Images ) Vail's Lindsey Vonn recently ticked past her 27th birthday, but four days later came the [...] ...
Reporting from St. Louis -- If you didn't have the Cardinals' David Freese pegged to become the biggest star in a galaxy of postseason heroes, don't feel bad.Freese didn't see it coming either. In fact, for a while Freese didn't see baseball in his future, having quit the sport after becoming burned out on it [...] ...
David Freese gave credit to Albert Pujols for setting him on the right path. He praised manager Tony La Russa for believing in him. He thanked Mark McGwire for the swing tips that paid dividends few could have imagined.Just maybe, Freese should give a little credit to himself.The hometown kid who once quit baseball finished [...] ...
Image Credit: Getty Images According to early overnight ratings, last night’s Cards victory was the most-watched World Series game in years. Friday night’s Game 7 earned a household rating of 16.2 — the biggest since 2004, when the Red Sox won its first title in 86 years. If you take out games played by the [...] ...
David Freese #23 of the St. Louis Cardinals hits a two-run double in the first inning during Game Seven of the MLB World Series against the Texas Rangers at Busch Stadium on October 28, 2011 in St Louis, Missouri. (Getty Images)more pics » David Freese (Getty Images) David Freese had an epic World Series, ... ...