Sport Syndicate (Free subscription) | 1 hour ago
The Chicago Blackhawks will launch their 2008-09 regular-season home opener on Monday with a special red carpet event on Madison Street from 5:00 to 5:30 P.M., before the team faces off against the Nashville Predators at the United Center at 7:30 P.M. The 2008-09 Blackhawks players will arrive via limousine on Madison Street in front of Gate 3 at 5:00 P.M., and will each be introduced...
The Media Mob (Free subscription) | 08/10/2008
One more addition to Graydon Carter's stable: longtime Atlantic writer and Blackhawk Down author Mark Bowden is dropping his exclusive contract with The Atlantic and signing a two-story-a-year contract with Vanity Fair . In a landscape where there are no available media jobs, and there's virtually no mobility in the market, Mr. Bowden appears to have written his ticket. He told The Observer...
San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 09/10/2008
Paula Creamer's run of steady, plodding golf ended at Blackhawk - with a flourish. Creamer stretched her streak of bogey-free holes to 44 on Thursday, dating to the second round of last week's Samsung World Championship in Half Moon Bay. She won that...
PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 08/10/2008
CARDIFF, Calif., Oct. 8 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Blackhawk Financial, Inc., (Pink Sheets: BLWK) has resolved to commence a share buy back program in the open market immediately. Blackhawk Financial, Inc. has been building value through acquisitions and internal growth and feels it is in the best interest of The Company to reduce the amount of shares trading in the public float to bring...
Drudge Retort (Free subscription) | 06/10/2008
Two U.S. Blackhawk helicopters crashed while attempting to land in northern Baghdad Saturday, the U.S. military said. One Iraqi soldier was killed and two American and two Iraqi soldiers were injured in the crashes.
Sky News (Free subscription) | 05/10/2008
Two Blackhawk helicopters have crashed while landing in northern Baghdad, a US military spokesman said.
ArabianBusiness.com (Free subscription) | 05/10/2008
"Two UH-60 Blackhawks have crashed while landing at Combat Outpost Ford in Adhamiyah [northern Baghdad] about 8.55pm (1755 GMT)," Evans said."One Iraqi army soldier is killed. Two coalition forces [personnel] and two Iraqi army [soldiers were] wounded," he said, adding that the "situation is under control. Emergency services are on the scene".It is not known how many were on board at the time...
Times of the Internet (Free subscription) | yesterday
DANVILLE, Calif., Oct. 10 (UPI) -- In-Kyung Kim and Mollie Fankhauser, both in their second year on the LPGA Tour, claimed the top two shots Friday at the Longs Drugs Challenge. Kim shot a 3-under 69 at the Blackhawk Country Club for a two-day total of 136. Like Fankhauser, Kim is looking for her first tour victory. She came close last year at the Wegmans LPGA, eventually losing in a playoff...
Fox News (Free subscription) | yesterday
South Korea's In-Kyung Kim shot a 3-under 69 on Friday to take a one-stroke lead over Mollie Fankhauser in the Longs Drugs Challenge, while top-ranked Lorena Ochoa was two shots behind. The 20-year-old Kim, winless in two seasons on the LPGA Tour, had an 8-under 136 total on the Blackhawk Country Club course. Fankhauser shot a 68. Ochoa, a seven-time winner this season who lost a playoff to...
San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 10/10/2008
In the karmic world of golf, Michele Redman figures Blackhawk's Lakeside Course owes her. After all, she showed up in a pleasant mood for the Longs Drugs Challenge in 2006 - and departed with an 11 on her scorecard and without her caddie, Joe Connolly. Redman...
kansascity.com (Free subscription) | 10/10/2008
Michele Redman and Maria Hjorth both opened with rounds of six-under-par 66 on Thursday to share the lead after one round of the Longs Drugs Challenge at Blackhawk Country Club.
Times of the Internet (Free subscription) | 10/10/2008
DANVILLE, Calif., Oct. 9 (UPI) -- Maria Hjorth and Michele Redman shared the lead Thursday at the end of one round of the Longs Drugs Challenge. Hjorth and Redman both turned in a 6-under 66 at the Blackhawk Country Club course for a one-shot advantage over In-Kyung Kim and Mikaela Parmlid. Wendy Ward and Suzann Pettersen were among those tied for fifth at 68. World No. 1 Lorena Ochoa, seeking...
Fox News (Free subscription) | 10/10/2008
Michele Redman and Sweden's Maria Hjorth shot 6-under 66s on Thursday to share the first-round lead in the LPGA Tour's Longs Drugs Challenge. Redman and Hjorth both had seven birdies and a bogey on a sunny day at Blackhawk Country Club. In-Kyung Kim and Mikaela Parmlid were tied for second at 67.
San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 10/10/2008
Michele Redman and Sweden's Maria Hjorth shot 6-under 66s on Thursday to share the first-round lead in the LPGA Tour's Longs Drugs Challenge. Redman and Hjorth both had seven birdies and a bogey on a sunny day at Blackhawk Country Club. In-Kyung Kim and...
Mostly Harmless (Free subscription) | 09/10/2008
Maria Hjorth has birdied 4 holes in a row from the 16th through the 1st on the Blackhawk track that's hosting the Longs Drugs Challenge to jump out to an early lead at -5 through 11. That tops Lorena Ochoa 's 3-hole birdie streak on the 11th through 13th even earlier in the day. Also off to good starts are Laura Davies (-4 through 11), Wendy Ward (-4 through 11), Michelle McGann (-3 through...
