 | Monday, October 20, 2008
Reggie White
Reggie White, 36, the most-honored athlete ever to play defensive end in the National Football League's long history has had an illustrious career with both the Philadelphia Eagles and Green Bay Packers. White has seen his talents, performance and persona elicit the ultimate in superlatives for more... Read More
Monday, October 20, 2008
85' Bears Win Superbowl
There was something in the air in Platteville, WI, in August 1985. Throngs of new tourists suddenly showing up to watch the team practice. Jim McMahon, soon to be dubbed the "Punky QB" in pop-culture lore, sported a mohawk as a result of a mistake he made while cutting his own hair. And a gargantuan... Read More
Monday, October 20, 2008
Kiss
Kiss (also typeset as KISS) is an American rock band formed in New York City in December 1972. Easily identified by its members' trademark face paint and stage outfits, the group rose to prominence in the mid and late-1970s on the basis of their elaborate live performances, which featured fire breat... Read More
Monday, October 20, 2008
Controversy over rapper's lyrics overshadows other nominees, new categories
(CNN) -- The nominees for the 2001 Grammy Awards are marked by diversity, but one artist is standing out for his apparent aversion to tolerance: hard-core rapper Eminem.
The Detroit rapper has been dogged by protest and publicity ever since the release of his album "The Marshall Mathers LP." The... Read More
Sunday, August 24, 2008
Gene Upshaw
Gene Upshaw was the Oakland Raiders' first-round choice in the first combined AFL-NFL draft in 1967. The 6-5, 255-pound lineman had played center, tackle, and end while winning NAIA All-America honors at Texas A&I.
The Raiders' coaching staff decided left guard would be Gene's best pro position a... Read More
Sunday, August 24, 2008
US Hoops Back on Top, Beats Spain for Gold Medal
BEIJING (AP) -Order is restored in international basketball. The United States is back on top, but not by that much anymore.
Culminating a three-year mission to end years of embarrassment, the U.S. Olympic team survived a huge challenge from Spain, winning 118-107 Sunday in the gold-medal game. ... Read More
Sunday, August 24, 2008
Madonna kicks off `Sticky and Sweet' tour in UK
CARDIFF, Wales (AP) - Even at 50, the queen of pop just can't stop courting controversy.
As Madonna kicked off her international "Sticky and Sweet" tour Saturday night, she took a none-too subtle swipe at the presumptive Republican nominee for U.S. president.
Amid a four-act show at Cardiff's ... Read More
Sunday, August 24, 2008
Bigfoot tricksters blame hoax on promoter...
Two Clayton County men who Ą°punkĄŻdĄ± the world with a bogus Bigfoot discovery were pawns of a promoter who promised them books and movie deals, the pairĄŻs attorney said Friday.
Now that Matt Whitton and Rick Dyer have walked away with $50,000, a purported middleman is out the money, and promot... Read More
Monday, August 18, 2008
Earl Campbell
Earl Campbell, a 5-11, 232-pound ball-carrying dynamo from the University of Texas, joined the Houston Oilers as the first player taken in the 1978 National Football League Draft. The first player to earn All-Southwest Conference honors four years, Campbell was a consensus All-America and the Heisma... Read More
Monday, August 18, 2008
Bengals WR Chad Johnson Hurt in Lions' 27-10 Win
By JOE KAY
CINCINNATI (AP) -Suddenly, the Cincinnati Bengals need help on offense.
Pro Bowl receiver Chad Johnson strained his left shoulder Sunday night during the Detroit Lions' 27-10 victory over the Bengals, who now have their top two receivers and their starting tailback limited by injur... Read More
Monday, August 18, 2008
Reports: DeGeneres and de Rossi wed in California
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) - There was much dancing: Ellen DeGeneres and Portia de Rossi are married, according to reports.
In the biggest celebrity union since California legalized same-sex marriage, DeGeneres, 50, and de Rossi, 35, wed Saturday night in an intimate ceremony at their Beverly Hil... Read More
Monday, August 18, 2008
Georgia men claim hairy, frozen corpse is Bigfoot
PALO ALTO, Calif. (AP) - Bigfoot or big fat lie? Whenever someone reports sighting the hairy beast of yore (details always fuzzy) or capturing the hirsute humanoid on film (images always grainy), it scares up a dubious debate of international proportions. Friday was just the latest episode in the Sa... Read More
Wednesday, May 28, 2008
Muhammad Ali
Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr. popularly known as 'Muhammad Ali', was a boxer, who literally slaughtered any competitor he met in the boxing ring and was the worst nightmare for almost every one he had boxing match with, was born to Cassius Sr. and Odessa on January 17 1942, in Louisville, Kentucky.
... Read More
Wednesday, May 28, 2008
Kirk Douglas, wife, dedicate LA school playground
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Kirk Douglas and his wife have dedicated their 400th school playground - completing a decade-long effort to give Los Angeles kids a place to frolic.
The 91-year-old actor took a ride down a slide during the unveiling Wednesday at a Los Angeles elementary school.
Douglas and ... Read More
Wednesday, May 28, 2008
Nude maid accused of really cleaning up
TAMPA, Fla. (AP) - A nude maid is accused of really cleaning up at a Florida man's home. The Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office said a 50-year-old man hired the maid from the Internet on Friday to clean his Tampa home.
Authorities said the woman arrived at the home in a one-piece, light colored... Read More
Wednesday, May 28, 2008
Big Brown gallops nine furlongs
ELMONT, N.Y. -- Kentucky Derby and Preakness winner Big Brown galloped 1 1/8 miles around Belmont Park's main track Wednesday morning, his most strenuous exercise since being diagnosed with a quarter crack in his left front foot last Friday.
Big Brown is preparing for a start in the June 7 Belmon... Read More
Monday, May 12, 2008
Pete Rose
Peter Edward Rose was born April 14, 1941 in Cincinnati, Ohio. He grew up in Anderson Ferry, Ohio as one of four children to Harry and LaVerne Rose. Pete was encouraged as a young boy to participate in sports. His father, who played semiprofessional football, was the biggest influence on Pete and hi... Read More
Monday, May 12, 2008
Jazz Tie Series With 123-115 Overtime Win Over Lakers
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -The Utah Jazz had plenty of chances to crumble and nearly did.
They let a 12-point slip away in the last four minutes and faced overtime against league MVP Kobe Bryant and the Los Angeles Lakers. Instead of wilting, Utah played its toughest defense of the playoffs and pulled... Read More
Monday, May 12, 2008
Irish author Nuala O'Faolain dies at 68
By SHAWN POGATCHNIK
DUBLIN, Ireland (AP) - Nuala O'Faolain, a journalist and feminist who gained international fame with her outspoken 1996 memoir "Are You Somebody?" has died at age 68 of lung cancer, just weeks after revealing her illness on state radio.
She died Friday at a hospice for the ... Read More
Monday, May 12, 2008
Jury selection to start in R. Kelly's trial
By MICHAEL TARM
CHICAGO (AP) - Attorneys in R. Kelly's child pornography trial are expected to begin questioning 150 potential jurors Monday, and it's unlikely any of his fans will be chosen to hear the allegations against one of urban music's biggest stars.
The 41-year-old hitmaker, known f... Read More
Monday, April 02, 2007
Ohio State Learned From Regular-season Loss to Gators
By CHARLES ODUM
ATLANTA (AP) -No. 1 in the polls to end the season, No. 1 seed in the NCAA South Region, the nation's longest winning streak at 22 games. Gaudy credentials, for sure, but not compelling enough to make Ohio State the favorite in Monday night's national championship game against F... Read More
Monday, April 02, 2007
'Blades of Glory' Wins Box Office Gold
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Stars-on-ice Will Ferrell and Jon Heder took the box office gold for the weekend. Paramount and DreamWorks'"Blades of Glory," with Ferrell and Heder playing figure-skating rivals who become the sport's first men's pair, debuted as the No. 1 movie with $33 million in ticket sales, ... Read More
Monday, April 02, 2007
Artist: Many Offers for Chocolate Jesus
NEW YORK (AP) - An anatomically correct chocolate sculpture of Jesus Christ infuriated Catholics and even led to threats, but the artist says offers to buy or exhibit the piece have been pouring in.
Artist Cosimo Cavallaro said Saturday that because of "some people who are fanatics" and the threa... Read More
Monday, April 02, 2007
Steve Young
Quarterback Steve Young entered the National Football League through the 1984 supplemental draft. After spending two seasons in the ill-fated United States Football League, the consensus All-America from Brigham Young was selected by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in first round of the special draft.
... Read More
Sunday, April 01, 2007
Elgin Baylor
Had Elgin Baylor been born 25 years later, his acrobatic moves would have been captured on video, his name emblazoned on sneakers, and his face plastered on cereal boxes. But he played before the days of widespread television exposure, so among the only records of his prowess that remain are the wor... Read More
Sunday, April 01, 2007
Japanese Set Record for Longest Concert
TOKYO (AP) - Japanese musicians overcame fatigue and a major earthquake to set the record for the world's longest concert on Saturday, playing 184 hours non-stop in a program that ranged from The Beatles' classics to Japanese traditional harp music.
Over 900 musicians aged 6 to 89 took turns perf... Read More
Sunday, April 01, 2007
Crayola Stickers Plaster Pa. Town
EASTON, Pa. (AP) - Visitors to the Crayola Factory have been using their admission stickers to paint the town purple ... and yellow and blue and orange and green. After leaving the city's most popular tourist attraction, many tourists plaster the colorful stickers on lampposts, city-owned garbage ca... Read More
Sunday, April 01, 2007
Oden delivers
ATLANTA (AP) -Not even three minutes into the game, and the whistle blew. Greg Oden dropped his head and started a slow walk to the bench.
Two quick fouls, and he was done for the half.
The turning point in the game, for sure. But not in the way anyone expected.
Take Oden away from Ohio ... Read More
Saturday, March 31, 2007
'That Boy's Not Out on That Court Because of Me'
ATLANTA (AP) -Everybody in college basketball knows the name. Few know the story behind it.
John Thompson sat courtside watching his son, John III, put Georgetown through its paces one last time before Saturday's semifinal against Ohio State. But he was thinking about his own father.
"I alwa... Read More
Saturday, March 31, 2007
Sligh Says He Considered Quitting 'Idol'
GREENVILLE, S.C. (AP) - Chris Sligh, the curly headed contestant from South Carolina who was voted off "American Idol" this week, said he considered quitting the show two weeks before viewers sent him packing.
"I never came into this wanting to win it," Sligh told The Greenville News on Thursday.... Read More
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