Today is the first anniversary of the Scientific American Blog Network!!! Over almost eight years of blogging (after a couple of years commenting on other people’s blogs and campaign forums, I finally started my own blog in August 2004) this blog has changed styles and directions a number of times. I started with straight-out politics, [...] ...
SECAUCUS, N.J. - Carlos Correa was all smiles when he heard his name announced, knowing he had made hometown history at the baseball draft. The Houston Astros selected the 17-year-old slugging shortstop with the No. 1 pick Monday night, making him the first player from Puerto Rico to lead off the draft. "This means a [...] ...
Washington, May 11 (ANI): TIME magazine's bold move with its cover story this week has industry experts calling it everything from a cheap shot to desperate. This week's cover features an attractive 26-year-old mother, clad in trendy skinny jeans with sleekly muscled bare arms, breast-feeding her almost 4-year-old son under the headline, "Are You Mom [...] ...
MIAMI (AP) — Amare Stoudemire draped a towel over his left hand as he walked into the privacy of the New York Knicks' training room an hour after the game, needing a sanctuary from prying eyes. The specifics of what Stoudemire did immediately after Game 2 were unclear. Only this was certain: His hand was [...] ...
Kenya's Wesley Korir and Sharon Cherop won titles at the 116th Boston Marathon on Monday in heat that slowed the pace of world-class racers trying to impress Olympic selectors. Korir captured the slowest men's race since 2007 and second-slowest since 1985 in an official time of 2hr 12min 40sec, closing in the final mile to [...] ...
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Bragging rights in the Bluegrass State are mighty nice. Kentucky has its sights set higher. Much higher. Anthony Davis and top-seeded Kentucky are right where they planned to be all along, playing for the national title after finally putting away pesky Louisville 69-61 in the Final Four on Saturday night. "I [...] ...
Tim Tebow, the quarterback phenomenon who led the Denver Broncos on an unlikely run to the NFL playoffs last season, was traded to the New York Jets on Wednesday. One day after signing superstar quarterback Peyton Manning to a five-year contract, the Denver Broncos parted ways with the instigator of "Tebowmania", who attracted the attention [...] ...
GREENSBORO, N.C. (AP) — Superstitious? The Duke Blue Devils might be after Friday night. Duke had never lost an NCAA tournament game at the Greensboro Coliseum, winning all 12 previous contests — the best record of any team at a site in tournament history. Who would have thought their 13th appearance would be so unlucky? [...] ...
Daylight Saving Time 2012 won't have much of an effect on America's pajama workers – scratch that, digital commuters – but bosses around America have been warned: DST causes cyberloafing. As our artificial means of time measurement crashes ahead by an hour Sunday morning in an attempt, via daylight saving time, to mechanically reorder the [...] ...
By BRETT MARTEL AP Sports Writer NEW ORLEANS (AP) - On their own 12-yard line with 1:09 left in the first half, there was no way Drew Brees and the Saints were simply going to run out the clock. That's not how their offense works, and the New York Giants weren't putting up much resistance [...] ...
NEW ORLEANS -- Maybe the reason Drew Brees is such a good quarterback is because he can see things the rest of us can’t.Take the case of Monday night’s 49-24 victory by the New Orleans Saints against the New York Giants at the Mercedes-Benz Superdome. It looked to be about as close to a perfect [...] ...
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Hundreds of Occupy Los Angeles protesters showed no sign they planned to move Sunday ahead of a city-imposed midnight deadline to abandon their encampment, saying they would instead hold an "eviction block party." Although city officials have told demonstrators they must leave the weeks-old protest site and take their nearly 500 [...] ...