Baseball Balladeer: Chuck Brodsky mixes his love of music with his love of the game (The Ledger Independent)
Singer-songwriter Chuck Brodsky has been busy for over twenty years living his life penning some of the most clever, insightful and thought-provoking melodies by anyone in the music world....more...AFC field loaded with heavyweights (12/27) (Dallas Morning News)
The AFC playoff field is as strong as I?ve seen in a long time from one conference. When the two-time defending Super Bowl champion New England Patriots might only garner a fourth seed, you know you?ve got a loaded bracket....more... Tim Layden: Training Camp Postcard: Jaguars (Sports Illustrated)
With the Jaguars at their season-long training base at Jacksonville Municipal Stadium: Two grass fields and one FieldTurf surface adjacent to the former Altell Stadium. Ample seating for spectators and a nice, fenced autograph gauntlet for players to run at the end of practice, giving fans a nice chance to interact with the Jags....more... In search of lost time (Guardian Unlimited)
From chemistry sets to homemade face scrubs - following the success of The Dangerous Book for Boys comes The Great Big Glorious Book for Girls, with anthologies from children's classics Look and Learn and Ladybird on the way. What does the popularity of nostalgia lit tell us about ourselves today, asks Jenny Turner....more... Petal, Miss., Majors, Minors both bound for Madison Heights (The News & Advance)
The small town of Petal, Miss., has good reason to be proud. Not because it's sending one team to the Dixie Youth Baseball World Series in Madison Heights - but because it's sending two....more... The Old College Try (The Signal)
The Sporting News has one. So does Sports Illustrated, ESPN and Lindy's. But none of them are quite like this one....more... Time to gear up for Madden 08 (Canyon Lake Times Guardian)
August has just arrived, and you know what that means for millions of sports fans, right? No, it?s not training camp, but you?re getting warm. Let me give you a hint ? think about the biggest video game release of the year. That?s right folks, it?s Madden time!...more... 08-03-07 EUR ALL ON ONE PAGE (Eurweb)
BEYONCE?S FALL IS LYCOS? TOP WEB SEARCH: Plus, singer tapped to unveil new Armani fragrance tomorrow during NY gig. *She begged the audience at her Orlando concert not to post cell phone camera footage of her head-first tumble down the stairs on the Internet....more... Book Review: Sports Illustrated - Great Football Writing , edited by Rob Fleder (Blogcritics.org)
Old issues of Sports Illustrated have languished in dentists' waiting rooms for so long, it's easy to take this venerable magazine for granted. But SI has featured some very good reporting over the years, and 44 of its most highly regarded articles about football are featured in this new anthology. The articles are about equally divided between college and professional football, and the ......more... |