Well, it’s the first meeting of a million pirates, as far as I know. No barques, schooners or Doubloons required if you want to participate. But you must somehow identify yourself as a pirate (the historical kind or even the Seafair kind) — and the Million Pirate March website has a blueprint for building a […]
LOUISVILLE, KY. — It was another rail-hugging Derby for jockey Calvin Borel, but unlike last year, this time he fell just short.Borel, who saddled last year’s Derby winner, Street Sense, got a third-place finish this time from longshot Denis of Cork. The horse was in last place at the three-quarter poll but rallied inside to […]
May 17, 1925 dawned bright and sunny. Everyone ignored the weatherman who predicted late afternoon showers. After all, it was Derby Day and it would be perfect as usual. Paddy was happy because he had never missed a Derby since he saw Aristides win the first one. Paddy was very young then, but he remembered […]
Sen. Hillary Clinton won a decisive victory over Sen. Barack Obama in Pennsylvania Tuesday, ensuring that the marathon battle for the Democratic presidential nomination will forge ahead while extending the political uncertainty that has bedeviled the party throughout the unprecedented six-week campaign in the Keystone State.Clinton won 55 percent of the vote to Obama’s 45 […]
The transcript follows.Dick Polman: Hi everyone. Thanks for joining this conversation. I’m here in Philadelphia, the eye of the hurricaine. Pennsylvania is usually a primary-season backwater and a general-election battleground, but in this historic race the old thumbnails no longer apply. Stick around for the hour.Formerly from Pittsburgh : Here’s a small part of Dana […]
Manny Ramirez crushed one in the eighth inning, hitting it far over the wall to lift the Red Sox to a 5-3 win over Texas. We’re speculating up here how far it went, maybe 500 feet.After the game, he told the radio announcers he wanted to play another four years. “Why not? I feel like […]
Dispensary owners Virginia Hurn and Theresa Sotelo had been delivering medical marijuana to qualified patients but have stopped deliveries in Cathedral City as part of their efforts to settle the city’s federal law suit against them, said Anthony Curiale, the dispensary’s attorney.Deputy City Attorney Joan Smyth confirmed that negotiations on settling the federal suit […]
AUGUSTA, Ga. - It’s easy to get carried away with Tiger Woods at Augusta National, or any other place, for that matter. Will he win a fifth green jacket? Will he get started on a Grand Slam?But let’s not forget another guy who knows his way around Bobby Jones’ layout.Over the last four years, Phil […]
RENO, Nev.—JaVale McGee, Nevada’s 7-foot-1 sophomore center, is entering the 2008 NBA draft and has hired an agent to help promote him as an early first-round pick.But if the news conference for his formal announcement on Monday is any indication, his mother—former U.S. Olympian and WNBA star Pam McGee—could handle that job just fine herself.In […]
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