Larry Brown has made the trip to Lubbock before as a member of the TCU football team during the days of the Southwest Conference.
While the Texas Tech fans always proved to be a rowdy group and not something a visiting team looked forward to, he was excited about this year’s trip to the Hub City [...]
National conventions are often used to cast a spotlight on a party’s up-and-comers, and even off-hour slots are fought over.
But noticeable by his absence from the Democratic podium next week in Denver will be Minnesota U.S. Senate candidate Al Franken, who is not expected to be among the featured speakers.
Franken, a comedian known nationally for [...]
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 [...]
Indeed, the Carterville Lions are the perennial choice to win the Black Diamond Conference football championship, but in 2008, league coaches are keeping a wary eye on Fairfield.
Dennis Drust’s Lions, who return seven starters on both sides of the ball, were tabbed as the team to beat in a Tuesday straw vote of league coaches, [...]
U.S. President George W Bush on Monday left the White House for a weeklong trip to Asia, which is also his last visit to the region as the US President. The first couple boarded Air Force One on Monday at Andrews Air Force Base en route to South Korea, Thailand and China.
President Bush will travel [...]
“We will start near the George Rogers Clark monument and tour the Old Cathedral Church,” explained Donna Pickett, field trip tour director for the society. “This tour is diverse and includes a stop at the French House as well as the structures now part of the Indiana Territories Historic Site, a composite of structures once [...]
A dozen teenage boys from a British grammar school are waiting to be flown back home after being robbed at gunpoint on a trip to Guatemala, their head teacher said.
The teenagers, from the Skinners’ School in Tunbridge Wells, Kent, were two-thirds of the way into a month-long trip organised by World Challenge Expeditions, where they [...]
I felt like we experienced the “real” China for the first time Monday evening when we took a taxi through hutongs narrow streets and alleys that form neighborhoods in Beijing’s center to Tiananmen Square.
Thousands and thousands of people, mostly Chinese, converge on the massive square in the evening to watch the Chinese flag be lowered. [...]
US President George W. Bush left Monday on a three-nation trip to Asia during which he will attend the Beijing Olympics opening ceremony clouded by concerns over China’s human rights record.
On the way to Seoul, he will transit at Eilson military base in Alaska to address US troops, thanking them for their service to the [...]
