Derosa Seizing The Moment In Playoffs - Chicago Tribune mark derosa didn't need to hear the entire question. "i know exactly what you're talking about," he said. the subject had been the cubs' lack of offensive production and clutch hitting in last year's national league division series, which arizona ... www.chicagotribune.com
Gladiators Announce Training Camp Schedule the gwinnett gladiators released their 2008-09 training camp roster and schedule today. the gladiators training camp runs through friday, oct. 17, in preparation for the gladiators home opener on saturday, oct. 18, against the mississippi sea wolves at the arena at gwinnett center. www.accessnorthga.com
Longoria's 2 Homers Lead Rays Over White Sox 6-4 - Forbes evan longoria and the tampa bay rays looked perfectly at home in the playoffs. the rookie homered in his first two at-bats and the surprising al east champions were a big hit in their postseason debut, beating the chicago white sox 6-4 thursday in ... www.forbes.com
Counting On Quentin? Don't, Guillen Repeats - Chicago Sun-times st. petersburg, fla. -- just in case people weren't accepting the memo ozzie guillen unmistakably sent out wednesday, he reiterated a day later his position on carlos quentin's return from a fractured wrist during the postseason: it still ain't ... www.suntimes.com
Consultant News.com [home] the boston consulting group (bcg) has hired simon targett, a senior editor at the financial times , as its first editor-in-chief. in this new role, targett will oversee all of bcg’s editorial activities, including the development of its portfolio of publications—both print and online. www.consultant-news.com
Gladiators Training Camp Opens Today the gwinnett gladiators released their training camp roster and schedule today for the 2008-09 season. www.oursportscentral.com
Cubs Have Pressure Wherever They Turn - Chicago Sun-times heading into game 2, mark derosa called it a ''do-or-die'' situation for the cubs. meaning win -- or else. then derosa qualified his statement. ''that being said, you can't go out and put undue pressure on yourself,'' he said. ''there's enough ... www.suntimes.com
Dismissal Came As A Surprise To Former Tigers Coach Hernandez - Detroit News detroit -- dave dombrowski did most of the talking. jim leyland simply began the conversation by telling chuck hernandez "a change" was being made that would lead to hernandez's dismissal as tigers pitching coach. "surprise," hernandez said of his ... www.detnews.com
Team Talk .com interim newcastle boss joe kinnear got down to work on tuesday as he attempted to drag the magpies out of their tailspin. the 61-year-old headed for the training pitch after giving the men who played on saturday monday off to rest and get over the disappointment of the 2-1 home defeat by blackburn. www.cricketline.com
A Network To Satisfy The Appetite Of Baseball-hungry Fans major league baseball wants ubiquity, a 24/7 home, so it is building its own cable channel, the mlb network, in secaucus, n.j., with opening day scheduled for jan. 1. www.nytimes.com
Green’ Workers In Demand - Baton Rouge Advocate lafayette — now that tax credits are available to home and business owners who choose solar and wind energy systems, the state is growing a new work force to install the alternative energy sources. since june, 36 solar installers have been trained ... www.2theadvocate.com
Hand Over The Controller, Girl Gamers Say - Reuters India new york (reuters) - gina sutton takes aim and deftly strikes down several targets in a row as they pop up on the screen in front of her. a self-described girl gamer, she traveled from her home in virginia to spend her 16th birthday at the nintendo ... in.reuters.com
Horse In Training After Bout With Ataxia racehorse owners suzanne vandersalm and ellen bennett of hickory corners, mich., weren’t about to give up on navigator, their thoroughbred who became ataxic (incoordinated) suddenly as a yearling three years ago. news.bloodhorse.com
Lolita's Chicago-tini i felt like a stadium cobweb at wrigley field on wednesday when the young man in front of me turned around and said he hoped the cubs would win. "you've been through so much," he said. www.suntimes.com
Fort Myers Still In Play For Red Sox - News-press fort myers and city of palms park have not been eliminated from consideration as a long-term future spring-training home for the boston red sox. that was part of the message john yarbrough, an unpaid lee county consultant, brought to a meeting ... www.news-press.com
Grieving Husband Confronts Offical - Herald Tribune eight months after his wife's murder, nathan lee is still looking for all of the people responsible for the mishandled 911 call that he says contributed to denise lee's death. nathan lee, here speaking last month to a group who lost loved ones to ... www.heraldtribune.com
The World's Scariest Runways it's 10:45 a.m. on a cloudy day, and the crew of druk air flight kb205 is preparing to land at their home airport of paro, bhutan. suddenly, ominous warnings start blaring, alerting them that their flight angle is all wrong and their rate of descent is far too fast. they fly a series of unconventional right-and-left banks through a narrow channel of hillsides before centering the swaying jet and ... www.cnn.com
Broadband Content Bits: Foxsports Shows; 'heroes'-g4;' Easy To Assemble'-cbs; Nippon-amuse -- foxsports.com streaming vuguru show; launching poker series : michael eisner's digital studio has found a home for its latest offering, ayou guessed itcomedy series called back on topps , mediaweek reports. fox.sports.com will broadcast each new episode for an exclusive, 12-hour distribution window each tuesday and thursday begininning sept. 30, before other syndication partners, youtube, ... www.cbsnews.com
Venturi: A Coach's Life - St. Louis Post-dispatch "honey, i've just been fired. i'm on my way to new orleans for an interview. call you from there." fired at 2 p.m. that day in early 1996 by the cleveland browns, rick venturi had to catch a 4:30 p.m. flight to new orleans or he might not get that ... www.stltoday.com