Detroit News - Smash-mouth football will decide conference crown when Detroit faces Sirens tonight. DETROIT — The Sacramento Sirens line up with two tight ends, three backs and attitude. Their style is to play smash-mouth football, wear teams out. That’s just fine

College football
San Francisco Gate - Anytime somebody with the least bit of credibility mentions the possibility of a college football playoff, ears perk up. University of Florida president Bernie Machen presented the notion of a playoff at the final day of meetings for the Southeastern

College football: Alvarez changes tune on Big Ten football title game
Wisconsin State Journal - There was a time when Barry Alvarez didn’t like the notion of a winner-take-all championship game for Big Ten Conference football. Alvarez, the University of Wisconsin football coach from 1990 to 2005, felt the extra game would jeopardize the chances

FOXSports.com - NORWALK, Calif. (AP) - UCLA assistant football coach Eric Scott and two other men were out on bail Wednesday after being arrested on suspicion of residential burglary. Bruins coach Karl Dorrell placed Scott on administrative leave. “We will continue

SJU football player charged
St. Cloud Times - LITTLE FALLS St. John’s University senior running back Craig Luberts was charged Thursday with felony criminal sexual conduct. He is accused of having consensual sex with a 14-year-old girl after a July 4 party in Morrison County. Luberts, 21, is

Saban and Meyer Draw Spotlight at SEC
Forbes - We have enough talent on this football team where we should win games. We have enough talent on this team where we should win big football games.” Saban’s return to the SEC has heightened the intensity of Alabama’s rivalry with LSU, widely considered

Washington Post - From the South Lawn of the White House , the athletes jogged through the streets of downtown Washington yesterday, bearing a flaming Olympic torch and the message that they, too, are proud Americans with skills to show off and contributions to make

Miami Herald - Dolphins first-round draft pick Ted Ginn Jr., right, and second-round pick John Beck are close to signing their rookie contracts with the team. The deadline to finish signing this year’s rookie class is upon the Dolphins, and the team worked toward

Bryant leads blue team to win in scrimmage
FOXSports.com - LAS VEGAS (AP) - Kobe Bryant is still the biggest NBA star in Las Vegas. Bryant scored 26 points, including the go-ahead jumper with 6.6 seconds left, to lead the blue team to a 105-104 victory over the white Sunday as the United States closed its

ISLES GIVE AL SHOT AT 1,500
New York Post - July 20, 2007 - All-Time Al will extend one record and set another. When Al Arbour comes out of retirement Nov. 3 to coach his 1,500th game for the Islanders, most ever with one team, he’ll also become the oldest man to run a bench in NHL history. It

Italian wins Tour of Qinghai Lake
Xinhua News Agency - BEIJING, July 23 — Team Selle Italia’s (CLM) climbing veteran Gabriele Massaglia held on in the final stage of the Tour of Qinghai Lake to win the overall yellow jersey by just one second yesterday. The Italian burst into tears after edging out

Patterson’s future with O’s up in the air
Baltimore Sun - Patterson will be a free agent after this season, and the Orioles still haven’t made a decision on his long-term future, according to multiple team sources. But if the 27-year-old center fielder wants to return for a third season with the Orioles

Over-50 softball team wins second national title
Memphis Commercial Appeal - The Memphis Po-Men, an over-50 fastpitch softball team, won the American Softball Association Men’s Seniors national championship earlier this month in what may have been the team’s final national tournament. The third-seeded Po-Men defeated the No

Engineers and astronomers team up for planetary studies
Las Cruces Sun-News - Astronomy graduate student Paul Strycker, left, adjusts the Acousto-optic Imaging Camera, used to take photos of Jupiter and Saturn, as electrical engineering associate professor David Voelz, center, and astronomy associate professor Nancy Chanover

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FOOTBALL: Lockport’s Mason hoping to improve WNY’s talent pool
Tonawanda News - Former all-Western New York quarterback Kevin Mason says he was behind by three to four years when he first arrived on campus at Syracuse University. Now, Mason, 35, is taking it upon himself to make sure the same sort of thing doesn t happen

NU Football: Recruit from New Orleans is a mystery man
Omaha World-Herald - MARRERO, La. - Eric Harper didn’t exist. Eric Harper, who has never been to Nebraska, did a Google search to find out about the state. That’s right. All 6-foot-4-inches and 220 pounds of taut muscle, enthusiasm and eyes as bright as his future, was

Living in a downward spiral
Boston Globe - In Mike Ruth’s eyes, God has a plan for him. One of the greatest New England college football players in history, Ruth said he trusts God’s plan, even though he has lost everything: his home, his health, his marriage, his livelihood, even his freedom

LCS Gets Sparkling New Football Home
The Ledger - LAKELAND The nomadic Lakeland Christian football team, which had to use other schools facilities in its first two years, will finally have its own home this fall when it moves into its new stadium that boasts the first artificial turf surface

Boston Globe - NEW YORK — With a blast that made skyscrapers tremble, an 83-year-old steam pipe sent a powerful message that the miles of tubes, wires, and iron beneath New York and other US cities are getting older and could become dangerously unstable. The steam

Highlights from the 12th stage of the Tour de France
ESPN.com - Stage: A medium mountain trek, taking riders 110.9 miles from Montpellier to Castres. Winner: Belgium’s Tom Boonen clinched his second stage of this year’s Tour, confirming him as the favorite to win the green jersey as best sprinter. Erik Zabel of

British Open highlights
Kansas City Star - Tiger Woods shot a 69, highlighted by a 90-foot birdie putt on the 16th hole. He has won his past seven major championships when breaking 70 in the first round. Low amateur Rory McIlroy (right), an 18-year-old amateur, was the only player in the 156

HIGHLIGHTS-Ericsson earnings, comments
Reuters - STOCKHOLM, July 20 (Reuters) - Ericsson (ERICb.ST: Quote , Profile , Research ), the world’s biggest mobile network maker, reported softer-than-expected second-quarter earnings on Friday, posting flat sales in its key European market and

Biz highlights
Newburyport Daily News - NEW YORK (AP) - The Dow Jones industrial average swept past 14,000 for the first time yesterday after a relatively tame inflation report gave investors reason to extend an extraordinary - but perhaps questionable - Wall Street rally. The stock market

SID VICIOUS VS. 2 COLD SCORPIO, TWO CAGE MATCHES, GANGREL HIGHLIGHTS
Pro Wrestling Insider - Pro Wrestling Unplugged will return to Philadelphia’s New Alhambra on 7/28 with “Iron Steel” featuring the following matches: *PWU champion 2 Cold Scorpio’s first title defense vs. Sid Vicious *PWU Tag Team champions All Money is Legal vs. The SAT in

Weekend highlights
Beacon News - Night Moves: Bob Seger tribute band The System rocks tonight at Aurora’s Downtown Alive! Fun, food, games start at 6. Wild about Harry: Eola Branch of the Aurora Library celebrates the release of the latest — and supposedly last — book in

Business Highlights
Forbes - Wall Street pulled back Friday, retreating from record levels following disappointing results from longtime favorites Caterpillar Inc. and Google Inc. The Dow Jones industrials fell nearly 150 points. The drop in stocks capped a losing week for the

Back in the Highlights Again
Entertainment Weekly Online - And I, for one, couldn’t be happier not even if I were an aspiring singing sensation bursting successfully out the right-hand door of the American Idol audition room and into the screeching clutches of my seven siblings. Of course, adding to my

10th stage highlights
Sun-Journal - Stage: The race reached its midway point as it moved out of the Alps mountains and back onto flat roads with a 142.6-mile run from Tallard to the seaport of Marseille. Winner: Cedric Vasseur became the first French rider to win at this year’s Tour

Kansas City Star - a-singled for Gordon in the 8th. E: Brown (2). LOB: Kansas City 3, Boston 3. HR: DOrtiz (16), off Bannister; MRamirez (13), off Bannister; Pedroia (4), off Bannister. RBIs: Pedroia (27), DOrtiz 2 (59), MRamirez (53). GIDP: Grudzielanek, EGerman, Buck

England reach 268 for four
MSN UK News - Andrew Strauss narrowly failed to score his first Test century in almost a year on the first day of the first Test against India at Lord’s. After three late stoppages for bad light, play finally ended almost an hour after the scheduled close with

Credit score commercials not catching on
Chicago Tribune - They might be catchy, but all those TV ads urging consumers to monitor their credit scores appear to be having little impact. A new study shows many people remain in the dark about what has become an increasingly influential force in their financial

FC Dallas ties D.C. United, 3-3
US News and World Report - He flicked a shot past United goalkeeper Troy Perkins to make the score 3-2. Toja scored the equalizer 10 minutes later when he outjumped Perkins in the box and headed in a long pass from Abe Thompson. “There’s an unbelievable work rate in that guy

What’s your scandal score?
Palm Beach Post - Much of the attention has been focused on whether I will pick a Republican or Democrat. But I assure you that party affiliation is not my main concern. I just want to avoid installing another crook. Which is apparently harder than it seems in your

Detroit News - Let’s take a brief break from fantasy baseball and look ahead to the fantasy football season. First off: If you’re in a league that’s conducting its draft anytime soon, you need to find a new league. Right now. I never will understand leagues that

Revitalized Big East football taking aim at another big season
Providence Journal - NEWPORT That the most-watched college football conference in the country held its season kickoff at the Hotel Viking yesterday is more than a bit bizarre. It s downright shocking. A few years after being left for dead by many in the college

Film unveiled about football on apartheid-era prison colony
New African - Playing soccer, often clandestinely and using rolled-up rags for balls, raised the spirits of South African political activists jailed under whites-only apartheid rule over three decades ago. Now the former prisoners’ experiences will give hope to

Chanvit to stay as football manager
Bangkok Post - (BangkokPost.com, Bangkok Post) - Chanvit “Coach Rung” Polcheewin is to continue as manager of the Thai football team, a job seemingly in danger after losing to Australia 4-0 on Monday night and dropping out of the Asian Cup. The Secretary-General of

Louisville’s coach ready to impress
St. Petersburg Times - NEWPORT, R.I. - The last time Steve Kragthorpe took over a college football program, it was a Tulsa team that had gone 2-21 in the previous two seasons. Improvement in near-anonymity was almost a certainty, but Kragthorpe still impressed, leading the

Football: Norizan defends players
New Straits Times - Norizan will use a defensive approach. UNDER fire national coach Norizan Bakar has come out in defence of his players who have been heavily criticised by all quarters for the pathetic showing to date in the ongoing Asian Cup. Norizan, who has taken

Ladies get chance to learn LSU Football
Baton Rouge Advocate - Purple and Gold mania knows no gender, and the ladies certainly love their Tiger football. Now thanks to Kathy and Les Miles, the ladies can love and learn about their favorite team from a unique perspective. It’s called Lady Tiger Football 101. Most

U football player free on $25,000 bail
Minneapolis Star Tribune - U football player free on $25,000 bail Tuesday: Video leads to rape charge against U football star U Insider: A shocker long before the season’s first game Bail was set at $25,000 today for suspended University of Minnesota football player Dominic

ESPN.com - Another Sutter is reportedly returning to the NHL. Brent Sutter will be stepping down as general manager and head coach of the Red Deer Rebels of the Western Hockey League, sources told TSN of Canada, and is the favorite to be named the next head

Checking in With: Mickey Haller, Gustavus Women s Basketball coach
St. Cloud Times - Gustavus returns the league s MVP in guard Jess Vadnais, a senior-to-be who averaged 18.7 points and four rebounds per game while recording 90 assists: Her summer is going great. Halfway through last season, she really started battling plantar

Henderson replacing Down as coach for Mets
ESPN.com - NEW YORK — Rickey Henderson is replacing Rick Down on the New York Mets ‘ coaching staff. Whether it’s specifically as the Mets’ hitting coach, which Down was, or in another capacity remains to be seen. And Henderson won’t be in New York until

Monarchs coach going to All-Star game
Examiner - 11 days ago - The grueling WNBA schedule couldn’t keep the Sacramento Monarchs from rewarding their rookie coach with a trip to the All-Star game July 25 - but she’s not taking any of the credit for the team’s first-place position

CBS Sportsline - Backspin: He is without a victory this year, but keeps putting himself in contention; the playoff loss at Colonial, the 71st hole bogey at Oakmont and last week at Congressional. His fourth-place finish last year at Liverpool showed he remembers how

Los Angeles Clippers star Elton Brand is a Hollywood player on and off
PR Inside - LOS ANGELES (AP) - The Lakers have always been the more Hollywood basketball team in town, the one that draws the celebrities to those pricey courtside seats to see and be seen. But Los Angeles Clippers star Elton Brand is turning into a Hollywood

Successful history brings coach home
St. Petersburg Times - He’s a player and he’s always been a player, and he coaches in that way.” And players do relate to Koleduk - such as Adam Stosur, who played for Koleduk for four years at Gulf and graduated in 2002. Once Koleduk took over at CCU, he needed some

Using portable music player in lightning is dangerous
Xinhua News Agency - A Canadian doctor Thursday warned in a report in the New England Journal of Medicine that using a portable music player such as an Apple Inc. iPod outdoors when lightning threatens can be dangerous. (File Photo) BEIJING, July 13 (Xinhuanet) — A

NBA player robbed
Chicago Sun-Times - Last November, Walker’s mother went to court to deny any direct association between her son and alleged ripoff artist Terry Faulkner, whose $150,000 Maybach luxury car once was owned by Walker. The car was seized by police as part of a six-month

Cleared Duke Player To Attend Md. College
CBS News - (AP) Former Duke lacrosse player Collin Finnerty, cleared of false rape charges after being sidelined from the sport for more than a year, will transfer to Loyola of Maryland and play for the Greyhounds next season. “I am excited to be returning to

Ex-CU player Zions earns British Open slot
Rocky Mountain News - Twelve days ago, he pocketed $4,158 in tying for sixth place at the Colorado Open. Next week, Denver resident Matt Zions will be rubbing elbows with Tiger Woods and Co. and vying for $8.4 million in prize money at the British Open. Zions, a 28-year

FARNSWORTH LATE FOR WORKOUT ON RETURN
New York Post - July 13, 2007 — ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. - Kyle Farnsworth was the only player required to attend yesterday s mandatory workout who was late. And it wasn t because the reliever, often the first player at the ballpark, had trouble getting to