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  • Rogers Media acquires fantasy sports website Wednesday, August 6, 2008 @ 8:14AMRogers Media Inc. says it has acquired PoolExpert Inc., one of Canada's biggest online fantasy sports information and technology providers.
  • Rogers Media acquires fantasy sports website Wednesday, August 6, 2008 @ 8:05AMTORONTO -- Rogers Media Inc., a major magazine publisher and broadcaster owned by Rogers Communications Inc. (TSX:RCI.B), says it has acquired PoolExpert Inc., one of Canada's biggest online fantasy sports information and technology providers.
  • Alabama to face Oregon in Maui Invitational Wednesday, August 6, 2008 @ 4:51AMTUSCALOOSA | The University of Alabama basketball team will play Oregon in the first round of the EA Sports Maui Invitational in November.Brackets were announced Tuesday afternoon for the eight-team event. Alabama will open its tournament play at 11 p.m. against Oregon in the first round on Monday, Nov. 24.
  • Crimson Tide gets commitment from All-State post player Wednesday, August 6, 2008 @ 4:42AMTUSCALOOSA | Karneshia Garrett, a 6-foot-2 All-State post player, has made a verbal commitment to play for the University of Alabama women's basketball team. Commitments are non-binding, but she can sign during the early period in November. She said her brother, DeMaurius, will be a sophomore at Alabama.
  • Kennedy Winston signs with Turkish team Wednesday, August 6, 2008 @ 4:42AMTUSCALOOSA | Kennedy Winston has signed with a Turkish basketball team. He will join former University of Alabama teammate Erwin Dudley on the roster of the Turk Telekom squad.
  • Regular Features Wednesday, August 6, 2008 @ 3:57AMHalve the conservation tax By John Brummett It appears that the state Game and Fish Commission may no longer need its near-half of that one-eighth of a cent state sales for conservation.
  • Is that an ace up your sleeve' The elusive hole-in-one Wednesday, August 6, 2008 @ 1:31AMThe hole-in-one is rare, but tantalizingly available too. Randy Blankenbaker, a vice president at Chase Home Mortgage, sat in his downtown Santa Rosa office along with his wife, Donna, and his good friend Dave Edwardes. Each of them owns four career holes-in-one. That's 12 aces in one room, and each was recollected as vividly as the next.
  • High School Musical: Dawn of a New Empire Tuesday, August 5, 2008 @ 11:12PMSINGAPORE: How did a squeaky-clean television movie-musical about high school life that has none of the saucy ingredients found in Beverly Hills 90210 become a US$600-million ($824-million) global phenomenon that has spawned a sequel, live stage musical, concert tour, book series, video game, reality TV series, worldwide ice tour, mountains of merchandise and a highly anticipated cinematic ...
  • On the Mark: Romo the anti-Favre Tuesday, August 5, 2008 @ 12:22PMTony Romo worshipped Brett Favre as a kid. He outplayed him as a pro. Yet he still has the humility his idol lacks, says Mark Kriegel.
  • "American Teen": A Winning Documentary about Real-Life High Schoolers Tuesday, August 5, 2008 @ 9:24AMThough not searching or unusual, the new documentary "American Teen," which focuses on a group of students in their senior year at a high school in the little town of Warsaw, Indiana, still hits enough of the bases to be, for mainstream audiences, sensationally touching, interesting, and familiar.
  • FOOTBALL: CBS Sports to take fantasy gaming to college football Tuesday, August 5, 2008 @ 3:06AMIt was only a matter of time before the fantasy world of fanboys who read box scores with more intensity than the actual game decided to take over the college sport. CBSSports.com recently announced its plans to host a college version of fantasy football that will use the actual names of student athletes, which has been absent in most college fantasy-football games, as the legality of using a ...
  • Not all new rules golden in college football; Bill Walton ready for a comeback Tuesday, August 5, 2008 @ 3:05AMLook for a number of rule changes this fall in college football — some small, some fairly major. Two of the changes have to do with timing: • The clock will stop on all out-of-bounds plays, but the referee will now restart it as soon as the ball is ready to be put in play. In the final ...
  • Gamblers also watching Favre situation Tuesday, August 5, 2008 @ 1:09AMPackers situation will have financial impact in Vegas Fantasy football drafts are just weeks away, and Las Vegas gamblers are trying to set their NFL odds. Brett Favre , the fickle face of the NFL, waffled throughout the summer between retiring in Mississippi or playing for the Packers (or another NFL team), as if millions of dollars and the financial welfare of the Western Hemisphere were ...
  • Bradley Cooper talks about his role in Midnight Meat Train Monday, August 4, 2008 @ 8:10PMActor Bradley Cooper describes himself as a kid in a candy store during the filming of the gory horror flick, Midnight Meat Train.
  • EVENT SEARCH RESULTS Monday, August 4, 2008 @ 3:38AMARTiFACTS: The Art of Mary Black, Kirk Crippens, and Linda Race Since we glue words together these days to form traincar neologisms, ARTiFACTS is a nice reverse-engineering of "artifact," combining artfulness/artifice and facticity/factuality -- and adding a dollop of i-era pizzazz (is iArt far behind?).
  • State Highway Administration Public Meeting Monday, August 4, 2008 @ 12:10AMThe State Highway Administration is hosting a public meeting for proposed safety improvements for the intersection of Route 2 at Joyce Lane in Arnold Aug. 4 at Chesapeake Academy, 1185 Baltimore Annapolis Blvd. in Arnold.
  • L.A. needs a USC-UCLA rivalry, but it's going to take time Sunday, August 3, 2008 @ 4:04PMPete Carroll's Trojans team is a cannon compared to the water pistol that Rick Neuheisel inherited with the Bruins. Pete Carroll vs. Rick Neuheisel might be the slam-dunk storyline of 2010, provided Carroll stays at USC and Neuheisel stays clear of the NCAA.
  • L.A. needs a USC-UCLA rivalry, but it's going to take time Sunday, August 3, 2008 @ 3:58PMLinebacker Rey Maualuga and USC are way ahead of Logan Paulsen and UCLA in the talent and stability departments, but new Bruins Coach Rick Neuheisel will try to shift the balance of power in L.A.
  • L.A. needs a USC-UCLA rivalry, but it's going to take time Sunday, August 3, 2008 @ 3:52PMPete Carroll's Trojans team is a cannon compared to the water pistol that Rick Neuheisel inherited with the Bruins.
  • Joe Santoro Sunday, August 3, 2008 @ 3:17AMSports fodder for a Saturday morning ...
  • Upcoming events - Aug. 3 Sunday, August 3, 2008 @ 2:07AM Special events
  • Numbers don’t add up for scholarship-hunting parents Sunday, August 3, 2008 @ 1:18AMParents are investing thousands in the athletic careers of their children, some with the idea that it’s an investment that will pay off when their child receives an athletic scholarship.
  • Fantasy college football to get dose of realism Sunday, August 3, 2008 @ 12:12AMCBSSports.com will offer a college version of its fantasy football contest for a fourth year this season. Only this time, the network will be using the names of actual players. In the past, CBSSports.com’s game only identified players by their school and position. So if you picked Darren McFadden last season, you would have seen the generic ‘Arkansas running back’ on the screen as you racked up ...
  • SPORTS BUZZ/Jon Buzby Saturday, August 2, 2008 @ 1:05AMThe International Baseball Federation recently announced a new rule that will be implemented for the upcoming baseball tournament at the Summer Olympics.
  • Sports Fodder: Ault's QB decision should not be a shocker Friday, August 1, 2008 @ 7:17PMSports fodder for a Friday morning . . .
  • Charging the Mound: Who gets the hardware? Friday, August 1, 2008 @ 5:08PMDoes Francisco Rodriguez deserve the Cy Young award if he breaks the single-season saves record?
  • QuakeCon 2008: Quake Live First Look [PC] Friday, August 1, 2008 @ 2:10PMWe get our first look at this free, upcoming web browser based update of Quake III Arena.
  • MOVIE REVIEW: 'American Teen' Friday, August 1, 2008 @ 1:35PMYou may outgrow your high school acne scars, but the emotional scrapes endure. Or so it seems from "American Teen," a slick documentary that suggests we never really outgrow our adolescent cliques.
  • Fantasy sports: What's the big deal? Friday, August 1, 2008 @ 12:06PMWhat's the big deal? I'll tell you what the big deal is. Fantasy sports are the greatest thing since the invention of baseball's designated hitter.
  • Bust trading season opens up pickup opportunities Friday, August 1, 2008 @ 11:16AMA busy week of trades, injuries and callups have made for a busy waiver wire. Let's check out the latest ...
  • The new Vietglam Friday, August 1, 2008 @ 10:00AMTHE rhythm of Ho Chi Minh City is pervasive. Motorcycles, cars, vans, trucks and bicycles buzz in an incessant swarm, horns sounding as they crisscross, zigzag, dart in front of and behind each other like a loom come to manic life.
  • The Knife: On the Road Friday, August 1, 2008 @ 9:56AM theknife@fantasybaseballgeeks.com - 7/30/2008 Imagine you're buying a used car for a long road trip, and you walk onto the lot, where there are over 50 choices of differing age and value. You finally narrow it down to about 12 cars, whe
  • Johnson hits trifecta for CJHS Friday, August 1, 2008 @ 7:21AMMost athletes would be happy to get to state. A recent graduate of Channahon Junior High School went to state in three different sports during the 2007-08 campaign.
  • Ault's QB decision should not be a shocker Friday, August 1, 2008 @ 3:09AMBy JOE SANTORO
  • SPORTS: Karr's chronicles: Dear Sports World Friday, August 1, 2008 @ 2:33AMAs a sports columnist for The Dartmouth, I get copied on some of the most important emails and letters sent in the sporting world. This week, for whatever reason, yielded some interesting emails, including one from Aaron Rodgers to Brett Favre, another from Theo Epstein to Manny, and another from worldwide Olympic athletes to Beijing. I feel it's my duty to fill you in on just what people who ...
  • SportsBuff.com Gets Set to Touch Down at Affiliate Summit East in Bostonine Thursday, July 31, 2008 @ 3:01AM Affiliates keen to work with the fantasy sports pioneer SportsBuff.com are being encouraged to stop by the Share Results booth and learn about the promotional bonus of $10,000 from the network's dedicated affiliate managers.
  • College football fantasy game will set a new precedent Wednesday, July 30, 2008 @ 11:31PMThe burgeoning world of fantasy sports is about to cross a new line. CBSSports.com has announced plans to introduce a fantasy college football game for the upcoming season, a game that will use the names and statistics of current college players.
  • News and Features for Lake Isabella, California Wednesday, July 30, 2008 @ 4:32PMThis weeks trivia is going to have a few Hodge Podge questions, as they say on Jeopardy. Next week, were going to wrap up the whole Contest as well as have an article on one of our valley's own driver's. He's been an owner /driver in the Vintage Auto Racing Circuit. And is one of NASCAR's #1 fans.
  • CHAT: Greg Bedard transcript Wednesday, July 30, 2008 @ 3:59PMPacker Chats
  • Kevin Merfeld: Putting on a Shark-like show at Spyglass Wednesday, July 30, 2008 @ 12:33PMI just had my Greg Norman moment. That's the moment when you realize you are playing way over your head. And once that thought invades your head, you can pronounce your round dead.
  • Herd vs. Wisconsin: Who will get to watch it. Wednesday, July 30, 2008 @ 1:01AMCHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Marshalls Sept. 6 football game at Wisconsin carries enough clout to be the main noon game on the Big Ten Network.Thats the good news. Still, there are some notable constraints on the exposure of that contest. Barring a substantial dev...
  • 50 Most Beautiful People on Capitol Hill 2008 - 40 More Wednesday, July 30, 2008 @ 12:06AMThere are far more pretty people on Capitol Hill than we can show you here, but here are 40 more of the "most beautiful people on Captiol Hill."
  • Donaghy's misdeeds and other scandals matter little to fans Tuesday, July 29, 2008 @ 9:29PMNBA seems to have emerged relatively unscathed from betting scandal
  • Sepulveda expected to miss season Tuesday, July 29, 2008 @ 7:35PMPittsburgh Steelers punter Daniel Sepulveda tore the anterior cruciate ligament in his right knee for the second time in three years and is expected to miss the season. Sepulveda tore the ligament on the first day of practice Monday. The Steelers used undrafted rookie kicker Julian Rauch of Appalachian State as their practice punter Tuesday, but claimed former Broncos punter Paul Ernster on ...
  • Timberwolves VP McHale praises Gomes' charity, heart Tuesday, July 29, 2008 @ 4:47PMRyan Gomes is 25 and getting better every year, a key reason the Timberwolves signed him Tuesday to a five-year contract reportedly worth more than $21 million.
  • Blog: Knicks' Randolph may be sticking around Tuesday, July 29, 2008 @ 1:17PM
  • Soulcalibur IV Tuesday, July 29, 2008 @ 12:49PMBashing exotic opponents with gigantic fantasy swords is brilliant. That’s the fundamental thing that sets Soulcalibur apart from other fighting games.
  • NBC Unveils Comprehensive Digital Olympics Plan Tuesday, July 29, 2008 @ 12:43PMThe network announced plans that will encompass many of the digital platforms in use today. It also will include fantasy and casual gaming, VOD and interactive TV
  • Back to Campus: CBSSports.com Launches 2008 College Fantasy Football Tuesday, July 29, 2008 @ 10:01AM CBSSports.com today launched an all-new version of their College Fantasy Football game, continuing to be the only major fantasy sports service provider with a collegiate fantasy football game.
  • July 29, 2008 Tuesday, July 29, 2008 @ 3:38AMBack in June, Isiah Thomas' former coach Chuck Daly told me that Thomas is a "barracuda-tough guy."