Hindustan Times - Following are key points from the Reserve Bank of India’s quarterly policy statement released on Tuesday. Cash Reserve Ratio (CRR): The RBI raised the CRR by 50 basis points to 7.5 percent, effective Nov. 10. The CRR is the percentage of banks

Roma, Lazio prep for Roman derby
Sports Illustrated - One of the few highlights of Lazio’s season so far was a 2-2 draw with Real Madrid in the Champions League, when Goran Pandev scored twice. Lazio was beaten 1-0 at home by Udinese last weekend and is relying on 43-year-old Marco Ballotta in goal.

WingateWeb Offers RFID Technology Integration for Events
Forbes - We are focused on making WingateWeb solutions not only powerful but also flexible, and this RFID integration highlights that,” said Tom Karren, CEO of WingateWeb. “Emerging technologies and tools like RFID and social networking have the potential to

ACLJ & Members of Congress Urge Supreme Court to Uphold
Forbes - The brief also highlights the fact that the pandering provision bars offers to buy, sell, trade, or sample child pornography, all of which help drive the market for child porn. The brief contends that even “ads offering sexually explicit pictures for

TFN NEWS BRIEFING: Banking and insurance highlights to 09:15 GMT
CNBC - 2007-10-30 08:32:20 Generali chairman has no plans to step down - report MILAN (Thomson Financial) - Assicurazioni Generali SpA chairman Antoine Bernheim told Bank of Italy governor Mario Draghi and economy minister Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa that he has

Southwest Georgia Financial Corporation Announces Earnings for the
MSN MoneyCentral - SOUTHWEST GEORGIA FINANCIAL CORPORATION Financial Highlights (Dollars in thousands except per share data) At September 30 2007 2006

News.com.au - ADELAIDE Lightning coach Chris Lucas has been sacked by owner Vince Marino, his assistant coaches Scott Ninnis and Marcus Wong both resigning amid unprecedented turmoil at the WNBL club. Lucas and his assistants yesterday met with Marino at Wayville

Red Sox have extra off-time to seek solutions
CBS Sportsline - With the Sox having grounded into seven double plays over the past three games and leaning way too much on Ramirez and David Ortiz , hitting coach Dave Magadan was particularly popular on the interview circuit Wednesday. Really, with

Westonka School Board
Minneapolis Star Tribune - THE CANDIDATES Candidates vying for four available seats on the Westonka School Board include incumbents Roger Bredeson Coy coach says Peterson is not ‘the man’ yet 2 Minnesotans suspended for blackface incident Paul McCartney in Wausau? BSX will

Badgers coach talks after scary injury
Sports Illustrated - MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin receivers coach Henry Mason says he was as close to paralyzed as anyone could be. But Mason, 51, doesn’t like thinking about the night in June when he slipped and fell in his own home, leaving him with a severe spinal

Kevin Garnett, Ray Allen make debuts for Green
ESPN.com - Celtics coach Doc Rivers pretended to be taken aback when he found the full, regular-season complement of reporters waiting to talk to him outside the locker room before the game. “What are all you guys here for?” he asked with mock surprise. “It’s an

I wish I could hate the Patriots
ESPN.com - From his terse news conferences to his hobo sweatshirts, Bill Belichick is probably the most successful passive-aggressive coach in football history, his ego and churlishness repressed and redirected into subtle jackassery. Let the Barry Switzers of

Pitt’s Wannstedt tears ACL, will coach from booth
CBS Sportsline - PITTSBURGH — The latest addition to Pittsburgh’s already long injury list is coach Dave Wannstedt. Wannstedt will not be on the sideline for Pitt’s game against No. 23 Cincinnati on Saturday after tearing his left Achilles’ tendon. He had surgery

Winless Thrashers fire coach, brace for Rangers’ arrival
Newsday - GREENBURGH, N.Y. - No weeklong hand-wringing, no organizational meetings, no vigils. The Atlanta Thrashers, still smarting from being swept out of the playoffs last season and pointless heading into a game against the Rangers Thursday night, swiftly

Beckham injured; he won’t start Thursday’s game.
Los Angeles Times - We’re going to chat after training, so we’ll see how he’s doing and how he’s feeling for tomorrow,” Galaxy Coach Frank Yallop said. “I’m not going to mess with the starting lineup. If he’s available, he’ll be one of the subs.” Beckham has been

Basketball Coach Hopes to Benefit From Bulls’ Rise
The Ledger - LAKELAND | Stan Heath took over as the University of South Florida s head basketball coach at the exact moment when the football team became a national power. It couldn t have come at a better time, Heath said Wednesday as the guest speaker

USA Today - The Bears return ace scored on an 89-yard punt return in Sunday’s loss to Minnesota — his third kick return score of the season and eighth in regular-season play since bursting onto the scene as a rookie last year. He’s

The Talented Mr. Roto: The Rockies of free-agent pickups
ESPN.com - I said it yesterday and I’ll repeat it here. DeShaun Foster is the running back you want in Carolina and the Panthers are on a bye this week anyway, but you can’t ignore that DeAngelo Williams had 121 yards and a score in Week 7, nor can you ignore

Will these bad starts come back to haunt these teams?
ESPN.com - waiting for their offseason star additions, Scott Gomez and Chris Drury , to jell with their teammates. Jaromir Jagr scored his first goal of the season — a late, meaningless marker in a loss against Ottawa on Saturday. Brendan Shanahan has yet to score

Euro 2008 qualifiers round-up
Times Online - Dublin It hardly ranks in the pantheon of great grudge matches, but Ireland have a score to settle with Cyprus in their European Championship qualifying group D match at Croke Park this evening. It was the shambolic 5-2 defeat in Nicosia a year ago

Terry aggravates injury, will miss qualifier
FOXSports.com - The sellout crowd of 80,000 will push Russia for the result. “After we stand that early, shall we say storm, we need to get the balance and we will combine to win the game,” McClaren said. “We have to score to make sure we make the balance and not

Opinion: Mr. October needs an introduction this year
MSNBC - It s just the nature of the beast, Cleveland closer Joe Borowski said of the Indians anonymity. We definitely have belief in ourselves. We can go out and compete with any team. And it s the final score that matters. Not the names in

Titans lose Young as well as a game
Kansas City Star - Collins completed passes of 42 and 17 yards before White plowed across the goal line to make the score 10-10 with 1:17 remaining on the clock. Tennessee’s defense then tried to bail out the inept offense again, but failed to stop Tampa Bay on the game

Ben Kay and Simon Shaw believe they have key to win battle of the
Times Online - of the England lineout, regards South Africa and France as the best in the world in his specialist subject, but Kay is also, in many ways, the mirror image of Matfield, a technician par excellence who has been swift enough about the field to score an

Forbes - CLEVELAND, Oct. 16 /PRNewswire/ — The Arena Football League is coming to Cleveland. Team owner JIM FERRARO received approval from the AFL Board of Directors at a meeting in Chicago last week to relocate his team from Las Vegas to Cleveland to play

Gill has Buffalo in `uncharted waters’ in only his second year
CBS Sportsline - In less than two seasons, Gill has done what no one else accomplished since Buffalo returned to major college football in 1999: The first-time head coach and one-time Heisman Trophy-finalist has the Bulls pointed toward respectability. Off to a 3-1

Metro League football: ‘Cats battle adversity, pick up first win at
Oregonian - By Steve Poehler The Argus BEAVERTON - For exactly 47 minutes and 6 seconds, the Beaverton Beavers held Westview’s power running game in check. Up to that point, quarterback Josh Hill and running back Kaale Papas had combined for only 86 yards on 25

Ball State put on probation for 2 years
MSNBC - INDIANAPOLIS (AP) -The NCAA put Ball State on probation for two years and cut three football scholarships because of misuse by athletes of a textbook loan program. The penalties announced Tuesday by the Division I Committee on Infractions also

NWOC football: Tide ‘passes’ test in victory over Falcons
Oregonian - By Ron Forbes The Argus Stopping the run is no longer the way to beat Glencoe, as Liberty discovered after licking its wounds from a 52-7 loss Friday night at Hare Field. The visiting Falcons dared Glencoe to pass, and A.J. Burke and his receivers

College football season is under way. Get in on all the action with
FOXSports.com - Tom Osborne is returning to Nebraska to temporarily run the Cornhuskers’ athletic department and possibly determine the fate of Bill Callahan. University chancellor Harvey Perlman announced the return of the Huskers’ former coach Tuesday in a news

Wachovia sues Vick
Sports Illustrated - Scores Front Page NFL College Football MLB NBA WNBA Men’s College Hoops Women’s College Hoops Golf NHL NASCAR Soccer Tennis More Scores ATLANTA (AP) — Wachovia Bank is seeking about $940,000 from Atlanta Falcons quarterback Michael Vick and a business

New Mrs. Oregon loves jazz, Oregon State football
Oregonian - New Mrs. Oregon Taryn Statsny, 27, lives in the Garden Home area on the eastern edge of Washington County. Her parents moved to Oregon from California just before her senior year in high school to pursue a career opportunity for her dad. “I fell in

Philadelphia Daily News - Averaged just 5.6 yards per attempt in the second half, though, and threw a bad interception from his own 2 that set up a Jets score. Grade: B-minus RUN DEFENSE Once they got the hang of taking away Thomas Jones’ cutback lanes, the Eagles did fine

Owen is ‘very happy’ at Magpies - Shearer
ESPN.com - Allardyce, who saw Owen come off the bench to score in the 3-2 Barclays Premier League victory over Everton last Sunday eight days after hernia surgery, has been swift to dismiss both suggestions, while both the player and England manager Steve

Chalk talk
Patriot Ledger - His touchdown-saving tackle on Tyson Thompson s 72-yard kickoff return prevented Dallas from answering Stallworth s score and pulling within 38-31 in the fourth quarter. The Cowboys settled for a field goal - and an 11-point deficit (38-27

LoJack Releases Results of Online Motorcycle Theft Protection ‘Fitness
MSN MoneyCentral - Respondents did score well, however, when it came to applying good common sense theft protection measures, such as parking in a concealed area at home, parking in a well lit area in a garage/parking lot, and never leaving keys on the their parked

Waiver watch: Claim Warner, Young, Olsen
FOXSports.com - Owners who claimed Washington’s Jason Campbell , Indianapolis’ Kenton Keith , Tampa Bay’s Earnest Graham , Chicago’s Desmond Clark , and defenses of Arizona, Washington and Tennessee last week and started them benefited in the fantasy box score

Detroit Free Press - Linebacker Stanford Keglar leads the team in tackles but they don’t have a standout individual defender. When Purdue has the ball: This offensive challenge should be interesting, given the Boilermakers lead Big Ten, averaging 39 points per game. The

Vickery says team will give “body and soul”
MSN UK News - PARIS (Reuters) - England captain Phil Vickery called on his team to sacrifice body and soul for the cause when they face France in the World Cup semi-finals on Saturday. Vickery said that much of the week had been spent on analysing last week’s

New York Times - He is the early front-runner to win the league s Most Valuable Player award, in part, because the Patriots have won with such ease, scoring at least 34 points a game. It would be his first M.V.P. award, a testament, perhaps, to the view that Brady

Maynor’s Shot That Felled Duke Still Echoes
Washington Post - Most basketball players at mid-major schools don’t receive mail from fans across the country, but most have not made a game-winning shot to knock Duke out of the first round of the NCAA tournament. No college basketball player who will begin practice

ESPN.com - Sports minister Gerry Sutcliffe has warned agents not to try to sidestep the new rules brought in to try to clean up their role in transfers. Under the new Football Association regulations that came into force last month, agents are not permitted to

Junior Football: Mitchell and Burns return for victory
Belfast Telegraph - Two players capped last season are back in the Northern Ireland Sky Sports Victory Shield squad which plays its opening fixture against England at Bloomfield Road, Blackpool tonight. The match, which kicks-off at 7.45 will be televised live

Five easy ways to fix the Jets
Newsday - When you lose football games, you need a spark, and right now, Clemens is that spark. Pennington has poured his heart and soul into his team and his profession, and his can-do attitude is infectious. But there’s been too much can’t-do on Sundays for

THE FINAL COUNTDOWN: A-Rod, NLCS, T.O. and more abbreviations
Detroit Free Press - THE FINAL COUNTDOWN: A-Rod, NLCS, T.O. and more abbreviations October 11, 2007 The Final Countdown, along with the weekly fantasy football edition, will be coming to you every Monday-Friday. 5 Most intriguing story lines 1. Let’s be serious here

Cops: Smithtown music teacher raped girl
Newsday - A Smithtown music instructor has been arrested for allegedly raping a 15-year-old girl he met through one of his students, Suffolk police said. Michael Setteducati, 29, a guitar and drums teacher at Coronet Music of Smithtown, engaged in sexual

BBC News - But he told BBC Wales reports that he was axed are not true: “I resigned as coach on Wednesday,” he said. “I wanted to concentrate on football because things are not going so well for us. For some reason it’s been said that I’ve been relieved of my

ROCKETS NOTES: Spanoulis just a memory
Houston Chronicle - After the Rockets committed 28 turnovers and turned a 21-point first-quarter lead into a 94-92 preseason loss, Rick Adelman on Wednesday put in a few set plays, his first as Rockets coach, a few days ahead of schedule. “I did not put one set play in

Laporte’s right-hand man: Maso a key component of French World Cup
International Herald Tribune - PARIS : Whenever French coach Bernard Laporte speaks to reporters or takes to the stands during a match, the frizzy-haired Jo Maso sits right next to him. Maso’s official title is Team Manager. But, in the 12 years he’s held that position, the former

Panthers sign Vinny, who could start Sunday
Newsday - Coach John Fox said he believed Testaverde could be ready to start, if needed. “Both mentally and physically,” Fox said. “He’s a guy we were fortunate enough to find at this point in the season.” Testaverde, who won the Heisman Trophy at Miami in 1986

U-M NEXT OPPONENT: Purdue coach: ‘Not a good week to ask me about the
Detroit Free Press - INDIANAPOLIS ( Ohio State coach Jim Tressel said before last Saturday s game that Purdue had one of its most balanced offenses in years. That was before his Buckeyes held Purdue to 4 yards on 17 carries in a 23-7 win. Now, the Boilermakers must

Baltimore Sun - That team is going to be associated with having a player in its organization that has this history, this value,” Boras said, “and they’re going to be able to market that and go through the varying chases and levels of passing players in his home run

Kings 104, SuperSonics 98
CBS Sportsline - On the court, veteran point guard Bibby was hustling on defense like he was trying to make the team, not be its star. Also notable was Miller, who lost 25 pounds in the offseason and had his hair styled in corn rows. He showed

Private security guards kill 2 in Iraq
Los Angeles Times - The first information that we have is that our security team was approached at speed by a vehicle which failed to stop despite an escalation of warnings which included hand signals and a signal flare. Finally, shots were fired at the vehicle and it

Verizon Wireless and Plymouth County Law Enforcement Team Up Against
Forbes - WOBURN and BROCKTON, Mass., Oct. 9 /PRNewswire/ — Plymouth County District Attorney Timothy J. Cruz announced that his office and Verizon Wireless will again sponsor a month-long, cross-county wireless phone recycling drive in support of the Verizon

49ers: Team may buy theme park to resolve parking dispute
San Diego Union-Tribune - SAN FRANCISCO The San Francisco 49ers said Tuesday the team might be willing to buy the Great America theme park next to its proposed new stadium in Santa Clara to resolve a lingering parking dispute. The announcement came as the amusement park’s

Yankees hold on deciding Torre’s future
Newsday - But Hank Steinbrenner, a team senior vice president, stopped to answer questions. Asked for his view of Torre’s record of 12 consecutive playoff berths, he said: “I think the record speaks for itself. But nothing lasts forever. But no decision has

He’s No Kobe, but Karl Still Has the Pedigree
Washington Post - When the first team comes out, you’re talking about Kobe. When red team comes out, you’re talking about Coby Karl,” Walton said. “He’s playing great right now. He’s a smart player and a lot of fun to have on the team.” The undrafted free agent from