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Tigers top Twins, but eliminated from playoffs
Post Date: 2007-09-27 00:35:55 by SmokinOPs
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Detroit, MI (Sports Network) - Mike Hessman hit a solo home run and drove in two to lead Detroit to a 9-4 win over Minnesota in a five-inning rain- shortened game, but the Tigers are now officially eliminated from postseason contention. The Yankees defeated Tampa Bay, 12-4, on Wednesday to clinch the AL wild card spot. Ryan Raburn and Mike Rabelo each drove in a pair of runs while Tim Byrdak (3-0) got the win pitching two scoreless innings for the Tigers, who have won three of their last four and finished their home portion of the season with a record of 45-36. Jair Jurrjens started on the mound but did not return after the first rain delay. He gave up four runs on five hits in three ...
TOTAL PROOF THAT OSAMA BIN LADEN IS STILL ALIVE!
Post Date: 2007-09-17 05:48:08 by wudidiz
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TOTAL PROOF THAT OSAMA BIN LADEN IS STILL ALIVE!
Home run high (Barry Bond's home run ball auctioned)
Post Date: 2007-09-15 22:56:40 by kiki
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Barry Bonds' record-breaking 756th home run ball fetched $752,467 at an auction that ended Saturday night, setting a high mark for Bonds-related memorabilia but falling far short of the record paid for a baseball. The winner, whose name has not been released yet by SCP Auctions, placed a bid of $627,056 at 9:11 p.m. ET. After 30 minutes passed with no more bids, it was declared the winner, and a 20 percent commission of $125,411 was tacked on to the final price. It was the 31st bid in the auction, which began Aug. 28 and lurched toward the half-million-dollar mark that the ball's owner, 21-year-old Matt Murphy of New York, had hoped to attract. As of early Saturday, the ball's ...
Celebrating Freedom on 9-11
Post Date: 2007-09-13 10:01:14 by ghostdogtxn
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[15 yr old] Football Player Collapses During Game, Dies
Post Date: 2007-09-12 00:03:09 by IndieTX
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MANSFIELD, Texas -- A 15-year-old junior varsity football player at Mansfield's Summit High School died after collapsing during a game. Mansfield school district officials said the Summit sophomore Dozie Njeako died at a Mansfield hospital at about 9:45 p.m. Thursday. Witnesses said the boy collapsed while jogging to the Summit sideline after a play early in the third quarter against South Grand Prairie. Athletic trainers from Summit and South Grand Prairie administered CPR in an effort to revive Dozie. Paramedics continued CPR as they transported him to Methodist Mansfield Medical Center at about 9 p.m., where he died. No cause of death has been released. Summit principal Donna ...
Everett diagnosis takes positive turn
Post Date: 2007-09-11 23:50:28 by IndieTX
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Injured Bill moves limbs in 'unexpected' development BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) -- Kevin Everett voluntarily moved his arms and legs on Tuesday when partially awakened, prompting a neurosurgeon to say the Buffalo Bills' tight end would walk again -- contrary to the grim prognosis given a day before. "Based on our experience, the fact that he's moving so well, so early after such a catastrophic injury means he will walk again," said Dr. Barth Green, chairman of the department of neurological surgery at the University of Miami school of medicine. "It's totally spectacular, totally unexpected," Green told The Associated Press by telephone from Miami. Green ...
Bills' Everett paralyzed below shoulders
Post Date: 2007-09-11 23:46:39 by IndieTX
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Spinal-cord injury described as 'catastrophic' ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. -- Kevin Everett's Buffalo Bills teammates are accustomed to his silence. On Monday, they described Everett, a third-year tight end, as quiet. So they would have gladly settled for a simple gesture, like a thumbs up, as he was carted off the field with a spinal cord injury Sunday at Ralph Wilson Stadium. Buffalo quarterback J.P. Losman said he thought, "Show me a sign of something," as Everett was loaded into an ambulance. "Something" never came. And that turned out to be a grim sign. On Monday, team doctors said Everett was paralyzed from the shoulders down and his condition was ...
George W. Bush's Resume
Post Date: 2007-09-10 05:07:54 by wudidiz
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George W. Bush Resume Past work experience: * Ran for congress and lost. * Produced a Hollywood slasher B movie. * Bought an oil company, but couldn't find any oil in Texas, company went bankrupt shortly after I sold all my stock. * Bought the Texas Rangers baseball team in a sweetheart deal that took land using tax-payer money. Biggest move: Traded Sammy Sosa to the Chicago White Sox. * With fathers help (and his name) was elected Governor of Texas. Accomplishments: Changed pollution laws for power and oil companies and made Texas the most polluted state in the Union. Replaced Los Angeles with Houston as the most smog ridden city in America. Cut taxes and bankrupted the Texas ...
Glory fades; pain endures
Post Date: 2007-09-02 03:21:10 by richard9151
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I have often wondered why men play football; now I know. It is because they are ego driven fools! There simply can not be any other reason for it! Every morning when he awakes, former Bronco Tom Glassic takes stock of the level of pain racking his body. Then he plans that day's medication and therapy regimen: a combination of pain pills, hot-tub sessions, stretching and usually a battle re-enactment with his prized collection of toy soldiers. "I can still crawl around on the floor," Glassic says, in the self-deprecating and sardonic fashion that reflects his refusal to expect or accept pity. "As long as I can crawl around on the floor and play with my soldiers, I'm ...
Student suspended after convincing rival fans to spell out 'We Suck'
Post Date: 2007-08-30 16:55:09 by Pinguinite
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HILLIARD, Ohio - A high school student who tricked football fans from a crosstown rival into holding up signs that together spelled out, “We Suck,” was suspended for the prank, students said. Kyle Garchar, a senior at Hilliard Davidson High School in suburban Columbus, said he spent about 20 hours over three days plotting the trick, which was captured on video and posted on the video-sharing Web site YouTube. He said he was inspired by a similar prank pulled by Yale students in 2004, when Harvard fans were duped into holding up cards with the same message. At the end of the video, Garchar wryly thanks the 800 Hilliard Darby High School supporters who raised the cards at the ...
Streak's big buzz hasn't bit Webb (Arizona Diamondbacks baseball)
Post Date: 2007-08-22 22:50:26 by Red Jones
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Streak's big buzz hasn't bit Webb Dan Bickley The Arizona Republic Aug. 22, 2007 12:00 AM A buzz will move through the Valley today. All the clichés about gathering around the water cooler will come to life. It's one of those rare moments when the anticipation of a regular-season baseball game has a region giddy with anticipation. Normally, this happens only when the Yankees cross the Massachusetts state line. "Good Lord," said Diamondbacks starter Brandon Webb, watching a gaggle of reporters disperse from his locker Tuesday. "Imagine if I break this thing." There is a wonderful paradox here, folks. Most players in Webb's position would ...
YouTube Videos to Have 'Overlay' Ads
Post Date: 2007-08-22 07:51:18 by robin
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NEW YORK - Video advertising is coming to YouTube, but it won't be the type common at sites elsewhere. Starting Wednesday, the popular video-sharing site plans to feature semitransparent "overlay" ads at the bottom of selected video clips. The ad disappears after about 10 seconds if the viewer does nothing; the featured clip automatically pauses if the viewer clicks on the overlay to launch the full pitch. YouTube said it was trying to avoid pre-rolls that precede the main feature at sites like Microsoft Corp. (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people )'s MSN, which partners with The Associated Press on a video news service. Shiva Rajaraman, product manager for YouTube, said ...
Should buckeroo be returned to the site? [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2007-07-30 23:45:40 by Minerva
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Since BAC left the site has been operating without a designated kook. A former LP member has recently come over and tried to appoint himself as site kook, but his performance has been so lackluster that few people have noticed him. Not only does he have to tell people how smart he is, but apparently he also has to tell people how outrageous he is. Sad. I hope he didn't quit his day job. I suggest we bring back buckeroo for a second round. Buckeroo knew how to be a kook without becoming offensive as Ponchy did or becoming obnoxious like BAC. I would appreciate any feedback on this suggestion.
Running Outside of His Lane (Double-amputee South African sprinter)
Post Date: 2007-07-28 01:07:15 by ...
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Oscar Pistorius, the double-amputee South African sprinter who calls himself "the fastest man on no legs," made his 400-meter debut racing against nondisabled runners two weeks ago in Sheffield, England. Unfortunately, the much-anticipated race was anticlimactic. Pistorius was disqualified for running outside of his lane. This technical misstep only postpones the inevitable. By contesting the notion that a disabled runner cannot, and should not, compete with nondisabled runners, Pistorius has challenged preconceived ideas not only of sport but of what it means to be human. Since Pistorius petitioned to compete with nondisabled runners, the International Association of ...
Tour de France leader pulled out of race
Post Date: 2007-07-25 20:20:19 by Ferret Mike
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Overall leader Michael Rasmussen has been expelled from the Tour de France for violating team policy. Rasmussen, from Denmark, was removed Wednesday at the request of team sponsor Rabobank, shortly after winning the 16th stage. "Rasmussen has been sent home for violating internal rules," Rabobank team spokesman Jacob Bergsma told the Associated Press. Although it remains unclear whether the team will keep racing without him, witnesses reported seeing police raid the hotel in Pau where it was staying. Rasmussen's expulsion is linked to "incorrect" information regarding his whereabouts, provided to the team's sports director, when he missed random drug tests on ...
Steroids, other drugs found in bodies of wrestler, wife, son (Chris Benoit)
Post Date: 2007-07-17 16:57:36 by Red Jones
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Steroids, other drugs found in bodies of wrestler, wife, son Associated Press DECATUR, Ga. -- Pro wrestler Chris Benoit had steroids and other drugs in his system when he killed his wife and young son last month and hanged himself in the family's home, investigators said Tuesday. Benoit's body contained 10 times the normal level of testosterone, which appeared to have been injected shortly before he died, as well as the anti-anxiety drug Xanax and the painkiller hydrocodone, authorities said. The Georgia Bureau of Investigation said Benoit tested negative for alcohol. The state's top medical examiner, Dr. Kris Sperry, said there was no evidence of any other anabolic ...
What makes a great Tour rider? (Tour de France)
Post Date: 2007-07-08 23:35:04 by Ferret Mike
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This weekend sees the start of the biggest annual sporting event in the world - the Tour de France - and for the very first time it will be starting in London. But what makes these cyclists stand out from the man in the street - is it their years of dedicated training? Or are famous riders, like Miguel Indurain, Lance Armstrong, Eddy Merckx, Bernard Hinault and Jacques Anquetil, born with the genes that will give them the extraordinary physique required to be a top level cyclist? Jonathan Folland, lecturer in exercise physiology at the school of sport and exercise sciences at Loughborough University, believes cycling greats do have to thank their parents for a good set of genes - but ...
Crime and Non-Punishment
Post Date: 2007-07-04 12:48:05 by Rupert_Pupkin
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July 4, 2007 Crime and Non-Punishment Libby pardon sends a message – and it isn't pretty… by Justin Raimondo In commuting Scooter Libby's sentence so that the vice president's former chief of staff won't spend a minute in jail, the president is sending a message, one that, while going out to multiple recipients, consists of a sentiment succinctly summed up in two words: Screw you! The first recipient is the general public, which is being disabused of the notion that America is a country without an aristocracy. As chief prosecutor Patrick J. "Bulldog" Fitzgerald averred: "It is fundamental to the rule of law that all citizens stand before the bar of ...
Toni Basil - Hey Mickey
Post Date: 2007-06-26 21:19:27 by Peetie Wheatstraw
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Ron Paul Spam Machine in Full Effect [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2007-06-08 17:38:26 by can of corn
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Surprise, surprise. The internet thinks that Ron Paul won the debate last night. What is the deal with his supporters? Are they just a bunch of IT guys who have built little voting programs to stuff the ballot on behalf of their man? CNN has a poll right now asking about last night’s debate. Ron Paul leads the field by a wide margin in each of the following questions: 1) Who do you think won the debate? 2) Who seemed to know most about the issues? 3) Who had the best one-liner or comeback? 4) Whose performance was most surprising? 5) Whose campaign got the biggest boost from the debate? And of course he is not leading this question: 1) Who had the most disappointing performance ...
Chubby Checkers - The Twist
Post Date: 2007-06-02 22:18:50 by Peetie Wheatstraw
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Beer in the Headlights
Post Date: 2007-06-01 06:33:35 by Ada
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Sales are flat. Wine is ascendant. How did this happen? Posted Wednesday, May 30, 2007, at 6:19 PM ET Last year, a grainy video appeared on YouTube. In the clip, three scraggly-looking men in a scraggly yard shoot full cans of Milwaukee's Best Light beer out of a homemade cannon. They shoot at a bottle of what they call "fancy-pants wine," which they've placed at the bull's-eye of a giant white target. On their first shot, they miss. The second shot sends green glass and red wine flying, in the kind of glorious mess that would please Jackson Pollock. The men hoot. As it happens, the video was made by a beer company—SABMiller, which owns Milwaukee's ...
2007 International Waterboarding Championships to be held at Guantanamo Bay
Post Date: 2007-05-29 14:47:08 by Red Jones
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2007 International Waterboarding Championships to be held at Guantanamo Bay Monday, May 28th 2007 — Christopher Hansen The 2007 International Waterboarding Championships will be held at the Guantanamo Bay U.S. Military base on July 4th through the 24th. Only those that have been through the procedure in the past may participate in the competition. It will once again be sponsored by Republican Party members in the Executive Branch and paid for by the Democrats in Congress in a show of continued bi-partisan support for torture. The theme of this years competition will be: Waterboarding: It’s for the Children! The theme song for this years competition will be: God Bless the ...
Report: Vick was at dog fight in 2000
Post Date: 2007-05-27 16:52:26 by Eoghan
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Atlanta Falcons quarterback Michael Vick was at a dog fight in 2000 and is "one of the heavyweights" in the sport, ESPN reported. The network Sunday cited a police informant whom a dog-fighting investigator called "extremely reliable." "That's who bets a large dollar," the informant said on the show "Outside the Lines." "And they have the money to bet large money. As I'm talking about large money, 30 to 40 thousand, even higher. He's one of the heavyweights." When asked how he knows Vick bets that amount, the informant said, "because I've seen it." The informant said his dog beat Vick's dog in 2000, the ...
What the Sarko victory really means
Post Date: 2007-05-15 06:20:28 by Ada
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Horns began honking about 8PM on Sunday night. "It’s probably the election...Sarkozy must have won," said a woman’s voice from the kitchen. The woman was convinced that the election marked a critical turning point for France. Since we live in one of the most bourgeois quartiers, the 16th, a Ségolène victory would have been greeted by gloom and despair. (A friend announced that he would leave the country if Ségolène won.) The noise could only mean one thing: she had lost. The Hungarian had won. And soon, if Ségolène’s prediction – or curse – were accurate, cars would be aflame all over Paris. Cars were lit up on ...
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