FOXSports.com - Garza considered a career in the military after high school and then heard a recruiter tell him that football was not a game for Hispanics. “That’s exactly what happened,” Garza said. “I’m glad I didn’t listen to him. Here I am in the Super Bowl.” The

Football yields to media circus Before Super Bowl, any question seems
Seattle Post Intelligencer - MIAMI — Media day is that part of Super Bowl week in which players must submit themselves to a solid hour of questioning from anybody with a media credential for the game. Yes, this wasn’t quality time for serious sports journalism. It was more like

Belfast Telegraph - The Belfast Telegraph’s campaign to save the Belfast Festival at Queen’s from closure has “shone a light” on the problems faced by the arts in Northern Ireland, a leading local industry figure has said. But chief executive of the Arts Council Roisin

UPDATE 2-Deals for $800 mln boost early Astra drug line-up
Reuters - The relatively high prices paid for rights to drugs which have yet to prove their worth in human testing highlights the scramble among big pharmaceutical companies for promising products to fill depleted in-house pipelines. Continued

Zacks Analyst Blog Highlights: Vornado Realty Trust, Equity
MSN MoneyCentral - Zacks.com announces the list of stocks featured in the Analyst Blog. Every day the Zacks Equity Research analysts discuss the latest news and events impacting stocks and the financial markets. Stocks recently featured in the blog include: Vornado

Zacks $100K Challenge 2007 Top Player Interview features InterDigital
MSN MoneyCentral - Highlights from the January 25 interview include: How does he do it? This stock picker certainly does his home work. In addition to studying the fundamentals and technicals, Lester will call the company directly to get answers to his questions

New Mississippi River bridge report highlights
Belleville News-Democrat - New Mississippi River bridge report highlightsNew Mississippi River bridge report highlights Casts doubts on Missouri’s plans to turn the bridge into a tollway. The full article will be available on the Web for a limited time: http://www.belleville

Bin Laden’s brother-in-law killed
CNN - Story Highlights Jamal Khalifa, bin Laden’s brother-in-law, killed on a business trip to Madagascar Family members tell CNN they don’t believe Saudi claims he was killed by locals Khalifa had recently denied links with Philippine Islamic

Boys’ Prep Basketball
Ledger - Highlights: Auburndale had a strong third quarter to overtake the Crimson Hawks. Jeremiah Wright had eight of his 17 points in the period and finished the game with 14 rebounds. Tyler Auerbacker scored 24 points for the Bloodhounds, including four

Girl groups get red noses rolling
BBC Entertainment - A girl group collaboration, the Vicar of Dibley’s finale and a celebrity version of The Apprentice will be among this year’s Comic Relief highlights. Sugababes and Girls Aloud have teamed up on this year’s Comic Relief single, a cover of Run DMC’s

Sotheby’s expect Impressionist sale worth millions
Reuters - Many of the works have not been offered on the market for many years and among the highlights of Monday’s sale will be Pierre-August Renoir’s “Les Deux Soeurs,” which is expected to fetch up to 8 million pounds ($15.63 million). It comes from the

Clothing Retailers - Business Ratio Report Offers A Quick And Cost
Forbes - This key information highlights strong and weak performers, which companies are expanding or losing market share, increasing or decreasing asset investment, or taking on or shedding employees. The industry results are also given for comparison

Aberdeen News - 1982 - Robb White scored with an offensive rebound with 43 seconds remaining and Aberdeen Central made it stand up for a 34-32 high school basketball victory over Aberdeen Roncalli. White and Burt Beattie topped Central with 12 and 11 points. Doug

MSN MoneyCentral - Bristol-Myers Squibb, the US pharmaceuticals group, is beefing up its banking team ahead of possible takeover approaches from rivals, notably Sanofi-Aventis, by retaining the services of three Wall Street banks. People familiar with the companies

Parents of Valley U.S.A. swim team keep Strasburg indoor pool open
Northern Virginia Daily - Valley Swim Team Phoenix (VSTP) recently announced that they have signed a two-year lease agreement with Jerry King, the owner of the Signal Knob Recreational Center. As of Feb.1, the Signal Knob Recreational Center, which includes the pool

Butch Davis reached into Ohio again over the weekend to land his fourth recruit as North Carolina’s football coach after receiving a commitment from Charles Brown, a receiver from Maple Heights. Brown is a 5-10, 190-pound senior at Maple Heights High

UK hoops, football tickets rise in cost 
LEXINGTON, Ky. - It’s going to cost a little bit more for University of Kentucky fans to watch their football and men’s basketball team in person starting next season.

JumpTV to Broadcast Live Egyptian Football Over the Internet 
JumpTV Inc., the world’s leading broadcaster of ethnic television over the Internet, announced that it has partnered with Arpu+, an Orascom Telecom company, to broadcast live and archived Egyptian Football Association-sanctioned games worldwide on www.jumptv.com.

Africa: AU launches 2007 as International Year of African Football 
The 8th African Union Summit for Heads of State and Government played host to the launch of 2007 as the International Year of African Football, on Monday, in line with the resolution taken at the summit in Khartoum last year.

ABC News - The justices stepped up to their long wooden bench in unison and pulled back their high-backed black leather chairs. The scene was carefully choreographed, but also well practiced. This group had worked together for eleven years. As the justices sat

Pollard blazed African-American trail
San Diego Union-Tribune - He had to sit in one place on the bench. Captains really called the game. Pollard his full name was Frederick Douglass Pollard was from a Chicago family that had been in the vanguard of black progress in America since before the Civil War

Valentine wins Waratahs No.9 spot
West Online - Waratahs debutant Valentine nudged out fellow Wallaby Brett Sheehan, who was named on the bench for the clash with the Lions in Johannesburg on Saturday morning (AEDT). “It’s good to get first crack,” said NSW born Valentine, who spent the last four

New boys join revamped front bench
News.com.au - MALCOLM Turnbull and Joe Hockey were sworn into Cabinet today, following Prime Minister John Howard’s major reshuffle of the front bench last week ahead of this year’s election. Mr Turnbull was sworn in as Environment and Water Resources minister

How will Francis fit in?
Newsday - about any such talks). He has two-plus years and $48 million remaining on his contract and no definable role with the Knicks. He hasn’t shown he can play in the same backcourt as Stephon Marbury and hasn’t been comfortable coming off the bench.

Scotland’s Cusiter returns from injury to face England
Guardian Unlimited - The choice of Hogg and Dewey on the bench means Chris Paterson will provide cover for the outside half position despite Hadden’s refusal to recognise the Scotland captain’s talent for the number 10 role.

Garnett ends Suns’ win streak at 17
Chicago Sun-Times - The Jazz’s Deron Williams then split two free throws with five seconds left, setting up Carter’s heroics. After sinking the winning shot, Carter turned and waved at the Jazz’s bench before being mobbed by his teammates. The Jazz played without leading

Nimbus to reply to Prasar Bharati plea by February 9
Kerala Next - The direction was given by a division bench headed by Chief Justice M.K. Sharma to Nimbus, the owner of NEO Sports that holds the rights to the ongoing four-match series. Prasar Bharati had challenged the Jan 23 direction of a single bench headed by

Little ills leaving Heat thin on bench
Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel - MIAMI — After playing 10 of its past 13 on the road, the Heat had hoped to use Monday’s practice and this week’s two home games to regroup. Instead, chaos continues for the defending NBA champions, who once again are a season-worst six games below

Florida Judicial College helps new jurists practice their roles on the
Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel - ORLANDO It’s the second day of a contentious trial in which a woman stands accused of stabbing her cheating husband. During a conference at the bench, the wife manages to grab the knife and sneak it back to the defense table before the judge

El Nuevo Herald - DALLAS - When Wayne Gretzky appeared in his first NHL All-Star Game in 1980, he was 19 years old and did not score a point. Sidney Crosby, making his all-star debut at the same age last night at the American Airlines Center, was expected to turn

Pearl: Lofton a game-time decision
Sports Illustrated - KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee junior Chris Lofton will try running on his right ankle Monday for the first time since his injury, and coach Bruce Pearl said he will make a game-time decision Wednesday on whether the Southeastern Conference’s

Game notes
Chicago Sun-Times - Will Bears Hall of Fame linebacker Dick Butkus watch his former team in Super Bowl XLI? He’ll be in the area, as Butkus is scheduled to sign autographs at Field of Dreams in Boca Raton at 7 p.m. Saturday. The autographs reportedly will go for between

Wings-Avs serve up a dud
Detroit News - A. Games like that won’t bring the casual fan to the NHL. The Wings were fine, but the Avalanche were terrible. They didn’t play with much emotion. The game didn’t have much hitting, and that seems to be happening more and more lately. Fans miss the

Houston Chronicle - But despite the statistics, the Rockets would not quite call themselves the league’s best defensive team. But they’re getting close. “We can be,” guard Rafer Alston said. “We showed flashes that we can be. If we continue to approach each game like

ESPN.com - PITTSBURGH — Darren Perry, the Steelers’ defensive secondary coach since 2003, resigned following a meeting with new coach Mike Tomlin. Ray Horton, the assistant defensive backs coach the last three seasons under coach Bill Cowher, may remain on the

Herd falls, Tolsia comes up short against No. 1 Wyoming East, Wolves win SJI.

(AFX UK Focus) 2007-01-28 16:00 GMT: AFX NEWS BRIEFING: Banking and insurance highlights to 15:45 GMT 
2007-01-28 14:40:59 Aviva still ‘completely committed to offshoring’ after reports of U-turn

A Look at Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius 
Highlights in the life and career of Kansas Gov.

USCORE Winner at ABA All-Star Weekend with Interactive Real-Time Highlights and Video 
SportStat partnership brings the ABA All-Star Game to your computer. (PRWeb Jan 28, 2007) Post Comment:Trackback URL: http://www.prweb.com/dingpr.php/SGFsZi1JbnNlLVBpZ2ctWmV0YS1NYWduLVplcm8=

Workshop highlights the three ‘P’s’ of agritourism 
Greenfield Tourism pumps billions of dollars into Indiana’s economy each year. More of those dollars can come from agricultural tourism, and a Jan. 29 workshop will show farmers and others how.

TV SPORTS 
CBS’ Cross will be in Iraq on Super Sunday CBS recently sent out a preliminary press release that included a few of the highlights of its planned Super Bowl coverage on Feb. 4.

When was Elvis’s baby girl born? 
By The Associated PressEntertainment highlights during the week of Jan. 28-Feb. 3:

OPAS Guild Gala Held 
One of Bryan-College Station yearly highlights took place tonight. The OPAS Guild’s Gala 2007 was held at the Hilton.

This week’s highlights (and lowlights) 
Returning from service in World War II, Noah Locke is a young man who’s carrying grief. Members of his platoon were killed on the battlefield and he blames himself. He saw the death camps at Dachau. His parents died and his brother is in prison. Even the family farm has been sold.

NMC report highlights deep budgetary cuts 
The reduction of its annual budget was among the highlights of the Northern Marianas College’s annual report for 2006. NMC acting president Danny Wyatt said the major challenge that faced the college in 2006 was reduction in the money earmarked for the islands’ lone tertiary institution.