"South Park" creators and executive producers Trey Parker and MattStone have re-upped with Comedy Central in a two-year renewal thatwill keep their subversive animated series anchored to the networkthrough at least 2005.
The pact calls for Parker and Stone to produce 15 …
Sports highlights in Black History: Clifton, Cooper, Lloyd were NBA pioneers
When one looks at the racial makeup of the National Basketball Association today, it's hard to imagine a time when there were no Black players in the league.
However, that was indeed the case when the league was founded in 1947. However, in 1950 that all changed when three players, Nat "Sweetwater" Clifton, Charles "Tarzan" Cooper and Earl Lloyd entered the league.
Clifton, a native Chicagoan joined the New York Knicks after two years in the Army and two years in the Army and two years with the Harlem Globetrotters. A 6-7 forward, he earned the nickname "Sweetwater" because of his love for …
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| Carolina 0 1 0_1 |
| First Period_1, Washington, Fleischmann 1 (Carlson, Kozlov), 6:21 (pp). 2, Washington, Bradley 1 (Laing), 7:25. |
| Second Period_3, Carolina, Pitkanen 1 (Samsonov, Corvo), 7:58 (pp). 4, Washington, Perreault 1 (Jurcina, Giroux), 11:57. 5, Washington, Fleischmann 2 (Kozlov, Nylander), 17:06 (pp). |
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| Shots on Goal_Washington 8-12-13_33. Carolina 20-3-8_31. |
| Goalies_Washington, Varlamov, Machesney. Carolina, … |
A carpenter by trade, Keynsham man Stuart Olds used his bi-polarmanic episodes to inspire his debut novel. Rather than having to digdeep to find his inspiration and story, Hope's Truth came to him, hesays, in an instant during an episode, as if it was downloaded intohis brain.
"The entire story was there - I could see every scene mapped outin pictures, all I had to do was to sit down and start writing,"said the 40-year-old author. "I was lucky I was able to remember itall; most sufferers forget these episodes."
Stuart had experienced bouts of depression since he was a child,but always thought he was just feeling bad or miserable and didn'tknow …
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Paul Bravo, Colorado Rapids: After scoring Saturday, he has 10goals and nine assists in 15 games against the San Jose Earthquakes,the team that traded him before the 1997 …
WASHINGTON (AP) — Establishment Republican candidates were fighting off challenges from ultraconservative anti-tax tea party challengers Tuesday in the final batch of primaries ahead of the November midterm elections.
Republican hopes to capture control of the House of Representatives and possibly the Senate in a tough political climate for Democrats — President Barack Obama's popularity has fallen below 50 percent — have been complicated by the success of several tea party-backed insurgents. Democrats, who face a wave of voter anger over the sputtering economy, hope the Republicans will be saddled with unelectable candidates whose policies may be too extreme for moderate voters in …
Oil prices hovered below $77 a barrel Tuesday in Asia as crude traders wait for clearer signals on the strength of the global economy and stock markets.
Benchmark crude for August delivery was up 18 cents to $76.72 a barrel at late afternoon Singapore time in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. The contract rose 53 cents to settle at $76.54 on Monday.
Oil has traded between $64 and $87 so far this year and has hovered near $76 for the last two weeks amid light summer trading volume. Investors are eyeing a slow U.S. economic recovery and mixed corporate results so far during second-quarter earnings season.
"Investors are …
