Andy Newman In this photo released by the Florida Keys News Bureau, David Douglas, center, celebrates at Sloppy Joe’s Bar in Key West, Fla., after winning the 2009 “Papa” Hemingway Look-Alike contest late Saturday, July 25, 2009. Douglas, a 55-year-old Cypress, Texas, mechanical contractor, won the competition after eight tries. Douglas is surrounded by...
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Here’s something to know about Joe Blanton. He hasn’t produced an August yet in his career that hasn’t been worth owning, at least in leagues of 12-plus teams. Ninety-nine percent of the time, you can right off split discrepancies as the randomness that comes with the game. But, when a particular month has produced...
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GREENSBORO, N.C. – With Bobby Bowden nearing retirement and his Florida State program no longer an automatic national contender, the Atlantic Coast Conference will begin its 57th year without a clear face for its football programs. What’s more, the candidates are fairly limited. There’s Virginia Tech coach Frank Beamer, whose teams have won at...
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ARLINGTON, Texas — Maybe somebody will ask Colt McCoy whether he’s saving himself for marriage, or hunt down coaches who didn’t vote for Oklahoma’s Sam Bradford or McCoy on a preseason all-conference team. But chances are the Big 12 media days that start Monday outside Dallas won’t rise to the circus atmosphere of last...
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By Marcia Dunn, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS In this photo provided by NASA, astronauts Tom Marshburn, left, and Christopher Cassidy, mission specialists for STS-127, share duties on the fourth spacewalk of Endeavour’s current mission and its crew’s joint activities with the space station. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS/NASA CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida – A space station air purifier...
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Casey Blake blooped a bases-loaded single with two outs in the ninth inning, and the Los Angeles Dodgers beat the Florida Marlins 4-3 on Saturday night for their sixth win in seven games.
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By Marcia Dunn, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS In this photo provided by NASA, Canadian Space Agency astronaut Julie Payette, STS-127 mission specialist, is pictured as she looks out a window in the Zvezda service module on flight day 9, Thursday, July 23, 2009. (THE ASSOCIATED PRESS/NASA) CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida – The astronauts in orbit, all...
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After a season-long hiatus, Icethetics, the one stop shop website for all your alternate hockey jersey rumors, has returned and didn’t miss a beat from where they left off last October.
With just a little over two months until the 2009-10 NHL season kicks off, summer is a time when the rumors about which teams...
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