Rollins was placed on the 15-day disabled list for the first time in his eight-year career on Sunday because of a sprained left ankle. The move came nearly two weeks after the Philadelphia shortstop, last year’s National League MVP, was hurt running the Road Trip bases against the Mets.
“It has gotten a lot better, but [...]
In fact, Burrell pointed out that at one of the scheduled discussions, with Federation of Interna-tional Football Associations (FIFA) president Joseph ‘Sepp’ Blatter, at the sport’s headquarters in Zurich, Switzerland, they will be making a presentation for a second Goal Project.
Actually, the first project - which was launched in 2003 - is incomplete as different [...]
The clergy sex abuse scandal had exhausted American Catholics.
After six years of painful revelations about guilty priests, apologies to victims, reforms and massive settlements, many hoped the issue could wither and fade into the My Trip background.
But Pope Benedict XVI’s focus on the problem in his first papal visit to the U.S. — seen most [...]
CHICAGO - A major storm system moving east out of the Great
Plains has brought cold rain, high winds and the threat of
tornadoes and flooding to Illinois.
The National Weather Service reported several possible tornadoes
Thursday evening, including a reported touchdown near Lima in Adams
County, but no major damage was reported.
Gregg Cunningham of the Chicago Department of Aviation [...]
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - Haitian lawmakers on Saturday dismissed the country’s prime minister, hoping to defuse widespread anger over rising food prices that led to days of deadly protests and looting.President Rene Preval, who earlier announced plans to cut the price of rice, immediately said he would seek a replacement for the ousted Jacques Edouard Alexis. [...]
DENVER - Jerry York is fond of calling his team a meat-and-potatoes squad.”There’s no trickery with our club,” the Boston College coach said. “We’re not trying to reinvent the wheel at B.C. We just stay with the game plan.”As in, get the puck to Nathan Gerbe and let him work his magic.Gerbe’s hat trick helped [...]
LOS ANGELES - Facing a backlash from supporters, Barack Obama’s presidential campaign reversed course Thursday and reinstated hundreds of people to lists that will be used to choose California’s delegates to the Democratic National Convention.Campaign manager David Plouffe said in a letter to potential delegates that all names would be restored to ballots that will [...]
Death by car could be a major contributor to the decline of many amphibian species, according to the first comprehensive survey of road kill, Purdue University researchers said this week.The biologists found animals from more than 65 species killed along 11 miles of road in suburban Tippecanoe County outside West Lafayette, Ind. Nearly 95% of [...]
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Kenya’s new Cabinet, sworn in Thursday, will have to rebuild a country riven by tribal clashes in the violence that followed December’s elections. It will have to restore trust between neighbors turned blood enemies. It will have to resettle the hundreds of thousands of Kenyans who were uprooted by the riots and who remain refugees [...]
