Trip World News

The Lexington Legends concluded a miserable road trip Monday night with a 5-1 loss to the Augusta GreenJackets at Augusta, Ga.
Lexington won only once during the eight-game trip.
Third baseman Chris Jackson, making his first start as the Legends leadoff hitter, doubled to lead off the game and came around to score on two groundouts. That [...]

They will fly an estimated 6,234 miles to Anaheim, Seattle, Oakland, Toronto and back to the Twin Cities. They will be on the road for 15 nights and play 14 games.
This will be the longest road trip since 1969, when the Twins were gone for 17 days and played 15 games. It was a five-city [...]

The last of the reporters were filing out of his office Sunday afternoon when Yankees Manager Joe Girardi spun out of his chair and approached a bookshelf behind him. He reached for a blue binder on the shelf that contained scouting reports.
That quickly, Girardi had put aside the Yankees’ first series victory in almost a [...]

When Ryan Bird concluded his warm-up prior to making a start on four days of rest Sunday afternoon, the Southern Illinois Miners righthander wasn’t exactly optimistic.
“For some reason I was just really stiff,” he said. “Throwing my bullpen I was like, ‘this could be a rough day.’”
While Bird did struggle with his command early, his [...]

Tucked into the woods, tranquil Wesley Hill Nature Preserve is marked with a simple wooden sign. Nothing flashy.
Sue Dunn and Keith Saulsbury motored right by for years before they noticed it, wondered what was inside and went exploring.
Since their discovery, the Honeoye couple visits the preserve nearly every day with their dogs, Abby and [...]

Three days into football practice, the weather is still cooperating on local football fields. After record-high temperatures greeted high school football teams as two-a-days began last year, cooler than normal temps were on hand as the action got underway Wednesday.
“We’ve been fortunate,” Sesser-Valier-Waltonville-Woodlawn coach John Shadowens said. “We are farther along than we were at [...]

I’ll admit it, I’m always a little envious when I watch the Olympics. Technically, I am still an amateur athlete myself, and I am eligible to participate in the Games. So I guess you could say I choose not to tryout out for Team USA.
But that might change after I saw the special diet U.S. [...]

Family Screening Room
 
“Pineapple Express”
Rated: R (for pervasive language, drug use, sexual references and violence)
 
Length: 112 minutes
 
Synopsis: On their way to becoming self-actualized adults, a duo of delinquent dudes find themselves stymied by unfortunate habits (mainly drugs). But when stuck-in-neutral process server Dale Denton (Seth Rogen) inadvertently witnesses a drug-related murder, he and his bug Saul [...]

When it came time for Sandra J. Maloney to take her 11-year-old granddaughter shopping for back to school clothes, she went through a half a tank of gas searching for the best bargains.
And a half a tank ain’t cheap these days. Neither are school clothes.
“Kids are into brands,” said Maloney, of Honeoye, N.Y. “Those brands [...]

 1. What is the best age for kids to take up an instrument?
The earlier the better. Age 3? Why not? There is clear evidence that early, active participation in the learning of music benefits a child’s brain development. For the really young, I’d recommend the Suzuki method of instrument teaching, where the parent joins the [...]