Sacramento Bee (Free subscription) | 02/07/2010
The UC Davis men's basketball team knew things would be different against UC Santa Barbara this time out. This time, the Aggies – who lost to UCSB 68-47 in Santa Barbara on Jan. 8 – would be facing the Gauchos at the Pavilion. This time, they'd have the services of star Mark Payne, who missed the first matchup with a separated shoulder. This time, they'd have a healthy Todd Lowenthal, not...
Sacramento Bee (Free subscription) | 02/05/2010
Mark Payne thinks the UC Davis men's basketball team is in control. That's because his Aggies have now played every team in the Big West Conference at least once. They can go back, look at their film and learn the little things he believes will give his team the upper hand for the second half of the league schedule. "A lot of our games have been really close," Payne said. "Learning...
Paul Flynn - Read My Day (Free subscription) | 01/25/2010
Total of British dead in Afghanistan = 251 At mid-day today in the European Hemicycle in Strasbourg I moved that an emergency debate should take place on Thursday. The Bureau (or executive) of the Council of Europe (COE) , had...
Sacramento Bee (Free subscription) | 01/15/2010
Mark Payne was angry. He was angry he separated his shoulder. He was angry he missed three games because of it. He was angry he would suit up feeling ready to play only to be told to stay on the sideline. So Payne came up with a plan before Thursday's game. Every time Gary Stewart walked up a stairwell at the Pavilion, Payne would walk down another. If Stewart went down, Payne would go up. He did...
Sacramento Bee (Free subscription) | 01/05/2010
Dominic Calegari has a lot to smile about these days. The lone senior on the UC Davis men's basketball team had built up his share of frustration over the years, waiting for the day his team would buy into playing sound defense for a full 40 minutes. That day was Monday. The Aggies forced 21 turnovers and held Cal State Northridge to 2-for-17 shooting from three-point range to knock off the defending...
Sacramento Bee (Free subscription) | 01/03/2010
Gary Stewart knew this would take patience. Sure, his UC Davis men's basketball team has its share of talent. A large chunk of that talent, however, doesn't have experience yet, with five freshmen on the Aggies' 13-man roster. Stewart said in November that how his team progressed in the season's first two months would go a long way in determining the kind of success UC Davis could have once Big West...
Scribblings, Jottings & Musings (Free subscription) | 12/28/2009
This is the time of year when the post-Christmas topor sets in, Grosvenor-pool reveals its true state of desperation at unsold stock, the sales notwithstanding, & slow news days predominate in the media. But, hey, don't let that deter the Oldham Echo; taking as its cue the amount of hogwash that's spoken at this time about New Year resolutions, the Echo decides to augment the mountainous edifice...
Bumpshack (Free subscription) | 12/16/2009
There are only six dancers left to dance it off to become America’s favorite dancer on “So You Think You Can Dance” season finale on Wednesday (December 16). The six dancers who battled on the dance floor on SYTYCD Finale Part I on Tuesday were: Ashleigh Di Lello, Ellenore Scott, Jakob Karr, Kathryn McCormick, Russell [...]
1490 NewsBlog (Free subscription) | 12/14/2009
A Marienville man is dead after an accident Sunday night when he was ejected from his SUV. 54-year-old Gary Stewart was on Route 66 when the vehicle went out of control, hit two ditches and went airborne. When it landed, the vehicle rolled over several times and flipped end over end. Police say Stewart was found dead at the scene late Sunday night. The investigation is continuing.
Sacramento Bee (Free subscription) | 12/14/2009
The UC Davis men's basketball team had health on its side last season. Mark Payne was the lone starter to miss time, and he only sat out three games. This season? Not so much. Six of the 12 players on the Aggies' active roster have been injured at some point this year. When UC Davis took the floor against Stanford at Maples Pavilion on Sunday, it had just eight players in uniform as the Cardinal cruised...
I Love To Watch (Free subscription) | 12/03/2009
It was down to the Top 10 on So You Think You Can Dance , making this week the first week the audience voted for individual dancers (rather than pairs) and had the final say in who stayed and who went home. Ladies and gentleman...SO YOU THINK YOU CAN DANCE! Noelle Marsh dances a hip-hop routine on Tuesday's "So You Think You Can Dance." (Photo by Fox) Did I just sound like Cat Deeley right...
A.V. Club (Free subscription) | 12/01/2009
A.V. Club head writer and hip-hop specialist Nathan Rabin recently decided to spend a year or two immersing himself in the canon of country music, a genre he knew little about, but was keen to explore. The result: “Nashville Or Bust,” a series of essays about seminal country artists. After 52 entries, Rabin plans to travel south and explore some of country music’s most hallowed landmarks...
Liverpool Daily Post.co.uk (Free subscription) | 11/28/2009
TELEPHONE lines including emergency services have been cut off in St Helens after three men vandalised a junction box.
Liverpool Echo.co.uk (Free subscription) | 11/28/2009
FAMILY and friends gathered to say goodbye to a Merseyside soldier gunned down in Afghanistan by a man he trusted.
Liverpool Echo.co.uk (Free subscription) | 11/28/2009
CORPORAL Steven Boote’s girlfriend Emma Murray gave a moving speech praising her “soulmate”.
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