Teams

RISP struggles continue

JSOnline (Free subscription) | 05/08/2008

Cincinnati - Teams that are leading the wild-card race normally aren't consumed with frustration.

High school teams adjusting to heat�

Dallas Morning News (Free subscription) | 05/08/2008

Plenty of Punters Are Looking for Work

The FanHouse - NFL (Free subscription) | 05/08/2008

Filed under: Steelers , AFC North It's not a good time to be a punter looking for an NFL job. With the help of NFL Europe roster exemptions, most NFL teams used to carry two punters through most of the preseason. Sometimes it was to give the starting punter some competition, but often it was just to help keep the starting punter from tiring out his leg. But now that teams are facing a hard cap of...

Top 25 countdown: No. 24 Utah

kansascity.com (Free subscription) | 05/08/2008

The Star’s Blair Kerkhoff continues the daily countdown of our preseason top-25 college football teams.

U.S. May Have Taped Visits to Detainees

OTB News (Free subscription) | 05/08/2008

The Bush administration informed all foreign intelligence and law enforcement teams visiting their citizens held at Guantanamo Bay that video and sound from their interrogation sessions would be recorded, according to documents obtained by The Washington Post. The policy suggests that the United…

Jack Nash dead at 79

NakedShorts (Free subscription) | 05/08/2008

Hedge fund pioneer Jack Nash has died, aged 79. Nash made his name at Odyssey Partners, which he founded in 1982 with the late Leon Levy, forming one of the great teams in investment history. Levy was the macro thinker,...

U.S. May Have Taped Visits to Detainees

Washington Post (Free subscription) | 05/08/2008

The Bush administration informed all foreign intelligence and law enforcement teams visiting their citizens held at Guantanamo Bay that video and sound from their interrogation sessions would be recorded, according to documents obtained by The Washington Post. The policy suggests that the United...

Cops Beat Mob Ruling in Genoa

Pirate Cat Radio 87.9fm (Free subscription) | 05/08/2008

“…The cops had sent in cleaning teams, but it was still a mess. Blood was smeared on walls and the floor, the gear of everyone was torn open and thrown everywhere. Doors and windows were smashed. The computer terminals were lying on the ground in pieces. Absolute chaos.” – Eyewitness to the Diaz social centre [...]

Podcast #64

Formula 1 Blog (Free subscription) | 05/08/2008

The Hungarian Grand Prix review with coverage of all the teams, some F1 news/rumors and Grace’s kiss-O-Death. Occasionally insightful and always entertaining…hey, its free and we don’t have fancy passes to the paddock so what do you want from us? In fact, we’re working from limited budgets so the “entertaining” part is thrown in as [...]

With deadline expired, waiver trade gossip begins

Beerleaguer (Free subscription) | 05/08/2008

The big moves are over. Bring on the spare parts. A couple of lists are starting to circulate identifying potential waiver trade candidates, aka, owners of bad contracts playing for teams out of the running. Several of them would help the Phillies right now, many would not, so the question becomes how much contract the club is willing to absorb for two months of help. The Phils came up empty in their...

How the Manny trade went down (Jon Heyman/Sports Illustrated)

Ballbug (Free subscription) | 05/08/2008

Jon Heyman / Sports Illustrated : How the Manny trade went down … When the Red Sox originally offered Manny Ramirez in trade to the other 29 teams, they went 0-for-29. Red Sox GM Theo Epstein made tens of calls and found no takers. — Things were looking bleak. Ramirez was apparently being viewed as an active …

Vikings cleared of tampering charges

Star Tribune (Free subscription) | 05/08/2008

Once NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell cleared Minnesota of Green Bay's tampering charge, the teams began putting the matter behind them.

U.S. May Have Taped Visits to Detainees

Democratic Underground (Free subscription) | 05/08/2008

Source: [b]Washington Post[/b] [b]Foreign Countries Sent Interrogators[/b] The Bush administration informed all foreign intelligence and law enforcement teams visiting their citizens held at Guantanamo Bay that video and sound from their interrogation sessions would be recorded, according to docum...

Worship God ‘08 report pt.2

FOR WHAT IT'S WORTH (Free subscription) | 05/08/2008

At the very outset of the conference Bob Kauflin noted that there were, usually, two different sorts of conferences, as far as worship goes. There were those where the worship teams pulled together sets of all the most popular, and familiar new tunes, which everyone would be familiar with, or there was THIS CONFERENCE, where [...]

USA v. Japan - Group B - Olympics - Live Blog

SoccerLens (Free subscription) | 05/08/2008

The United States will clash with Japan in the opening round match in Group B. Both teams are probably in a must-win situation, especially since they’ll have matches with group powers Nigeria and the Netherlands looming. Soccerlens will be bringing you the action live. Log on the site 15 minutes before kickoff [...]