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Boston Globe - The position of chief operating officer comes with a three-year term, according to a Securities and Exchange Commission filing, and has an annual base salary of $650,000.

Radio review
Guardian Unlimited - I have a Masters degree in French, and I have a high salary. The second and third, I can hide, but physically I am tall and I can’t hide that”

Burlington Northen CEO’s Pay Up 3 Pct
Salon - For 2007, Rose got a salary of $1.13 million, a $610,720 performance bonus, and stock and options that the company valued at $10.77 million when they were granted.

Baggot: Eligibility flap leaves stink on ice
Wisconsin State Journal - Turns out Gavrilova received a salary and a stipend worth $500 a month while playing for Moscow SKIF from 2002 to ‘06. Those details confirmed by the paper in a telephone interview with Sergei Ivanovich Kolotnev, a Moscow SKIF official

Southern Illinois chancellor put on leave after ’serious concerns’
Chicago Tribune - Under his three-year contract, Trevino has a $290,000 annual salary and a $27,500 housing allowance. Before SIU, Trevino was dean for eight years of the School of Public Health at the University of North Texas’ Health Science Center in Ft.

Jobs get tossed out of stores
CNN Money - With her new job, she’ll get a base salary, sales commission and health insurance. “For some of us in our 50’s, it’s not easy to find a new job,” Sagtetter said.

Lions’ recent moves don’t guarantee improvement
Detroit Free Press - With salary caps and player bonuses, I always tend to favor sticking with players who could play. They re here anyway .why not use them. Jones, Kennedy, Woody, Rogers .all these guys could play.

Another fine mess for Suffolk Tories
East Anglian Daily Times - Graham Dines looks at the background to Suffolk county council paying 220,000 a year for a job soon to disappear. ON March 27, Suffolk county council will be asked to approve the appointment of Andrea Hill as its chief executive on an annual salary

Times-Argus - American Hockey League team signs Vermonter March 13, 2008 By Tom Haley Rutland Herald He has been our captain as well as one of our top players for four years,” Grillo said.

Cam Ward makes 25 saves
Daily Observer - Over 350 Timbits Minor Hockey players will participate in the 8th Annual Ottawa Valley Timbits Jamboree. The [ ] Posted by drobinson | Comments

Bears, past and present, recognized
Mesabi Daily News - EVELETH This year s Section 7A runner-up season precipitated even more recognition for the Eveleth-Gilbert Area Golden Bears, as three players were selected to the All-State girls hockey team. Goalie Brittany Moberg and wingers

Cook digs in for long haul
News.com.au - It won’t be pleasant but I don’t think it will affect us like the marathon runners or hockey players.” A professional volleyballer since 1993, Cook has no plans to retire until hopefully carrying the Aussie flag in London.

Injury Report
CBS Sportsline - Benoit Pouliot , the fourth overall draft pick in 2005, is finally getting another chance with the Minnesota Wild after an arduous season spent with Houston in the American Hockey League.

Commentary: Hockey overtimes should be limited to four
Detroit News - But this is high school hockey. These are 16-, 17- and 18-year-old student-athletes who don’t need to be pushed to the limit. A number of players on both teams were suffering from dehydration Saturday.

Developments related to Tibet crisis
Buffalo News - Tibet developments at a glance: TURMOIL IN TIBET - Protests led by Buddhist monks against Chinese rule in Tibet takes extended leave Home-schooled children ask to join public school extracurricular activities U.S. sled hockey team has five players from

Olympic onus now on women s team, players positive
Hindustan Times - The fans, media and officials have trained their guns on the Indian men s hockey team. Their women counterparts, still in the hunt for a ticket to Beijing, are feeling the heat. On Sunday, the Indian men s team failed to qualify for the Olympics

Roll call: Terrorist surveillance bill
Buffalo News - The 213-197 roll call Friday by which the House approved a bill that would set rules for the government’s tells Obama he’s sticking with Clinton Beleaguered Williamsville South principal takes extended leave U.S. sled hockey team has five players

Philiy.com - Cornell’s Ivy League title, and Penn senior Brian Grandieri’s final games at the Palestra this coming weekend — And a rundown of all this week’s big local and national games, including Stanford at UCLA on Thursday and North Carolina at Duke on

Roster shuffle: Webber has MRI, Kosta back to the D-league
San Francisco Gate - Not exactly surprising, considering that if Patrick O’Bryant wasn’t getting into games with Andris Biedrins out, Perovic wasn’t either. I’m not sure if Andris Biedrins made this trip or not, but it doesn’t appear as if he’ll play until the Warriors

O’s, Dodgers play to 4-4 tie
Baltimore Sun - the ninth inning leading by three runs, but reliever Esteban Yan allowed the Los Angeles Dodgers to tie the game at 4, which is how it ended after 10 innings. The Orioles, who had won three straight before Monday, are now 3-1-1 in five spring games.

Niners sign RB DeShaun Foster, QB J.T. O’Sullivan, LB Dontarrious
CBS Sportsline - Foster spent his first five seasons with the Carolina Panthers, rushing for 3,336 yards and 10 touchdowns in 63 games. The former second-round pick from UCLA will be a backup to Frank Gore in San Francisco, and provides depth for coach Mike Nolan.

Device helps fat kids cut screen time, and weight
Reuters South Africa - All of the children regularly watched TV or played computer games at least 14 hours per week at home. About half of the children had a TV monitoring device attached to their computers and TV sets that gradually reduced their TV time by 50

Faneca looking forward to adding veteran presence to left side of Jets
International Herald Tribune - If anything, it swayed me in this direction, to know that the work ethic was in place to go win games.” The Jets officially signed the 31-year-old Faneca on Monday to a five-year, $40 million contract, which includes $21 million in guarantees.

Michigan State’s Goran Suton wins award
Detroit Free Press - It plays Thursday at Illinois and Sunday at Ohio State before moving on to the Big Ten and NCAA tournaments. The Spartans have lost four straight road games.

Big Ben Signs 8-Year Deal With Steelers
Wyoming Tribune-Eagle - Although he started 15 games, his play was subpar. He threw 23 interceptions, three more than he had thrown in his first two seasons, and Pittsburgh failed to make the playoffs.

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Newsday - The show is the small screen’s latest answer to a fashion glossy, and all season he has outfitted young stars Blake Lively, Taylor Momsen and Leighton Meester in a refined designer wardrobe that embodies the show’s Upper East Side socialite set.

Mats sends message
SLAM! Sports - WASHINGTON — They easily are the shining stars of their respective teams, one a shaggy mopped 22-year-old Russian, the other a bald Swedish veteran of 37. Washington Capitals stud Alexander Ovechkin represents the future of the sport, a kid who

Family drama
Hong Kong Standard - Many in the audience - fans and stars - wept as they remembered the joy and friendship Shum had provided them. “I say this to you Fei with an aching heart- good-bye forever,” Shum’s friend for decades actor, Woo Fung, said on stage.

Pioneering model found dead in Seine
Guardian Unlimited - After giving up modelling she set up her own label in 1994, and stars such as Cher and Johnny Hallyday came to her show. Later she created Eb ne Top Model, a competition aimed at helping aspiring African models, and in 2005 worked on a TV show

Cabrera, Tigers discuss longterm deal
Sports Illustrated - The best thing Cabrera could do is sign a deal to stay a decade in Detroit, where he’d benefit from the wisdom of stable, mature stars such as Ordonez and Guillen, the positive influence of legendary manager Jim Leyland and the love and admiration of

Another Milestone for Coach K
Hoops World - The biggest knock against the program, though, has been the lack of success that some of those stars see in the pros. Coach K’s job, though, is to make these players the best that they can be while they are at Duke and it’s undeniable that he’s

Fielder unhappy contract is renewed
Major League Baseball - I’ll go about my business.” So will Braun and Hart, two of the Brewers’ other young stars. Braun was promoted to the Majors last May and batted .324 with 34 homers and 97 RBIs to win NL Rookie of the Year honors.

Into the wild
Guardian Unlimited - We camped near a high, remote settlement, where Jon had found a young Tibetan called Jatso, who owned two ponies. The sky that night was cloudless and swirled with more stars than I had ever seen.

Recorder Community Newspapers - BERNARDS TWP. After winning the Central Red Division title, the Ridge High School ice hockey squad still had some unfinished business with which they had to deal. Saturday, with impressive flurry of goals in the second period, the Red Devils

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Hays Daily News - PRO HOCKEY: Gagne joins Lindros, Primeau as Flyers hit with devastating concussions PHILADELPHIA — Simon Gagne stood at the podium and said all the same things the Flyers have heard before.

Leap year baby Henri (Pocket Rocket) Richard to celebrate 18th
CNEWS - Richard, who played his entire career with the Montreal Canadiens, won 11 Stanley Cups, a record that is “unlikely ever to be broken,” according to the Hockey Hall of Fame.

Sutter true to his word
SLAM! Sports - Following through on threats to stand pat at yesterday’s trade deadline, general manager Darryl Sutter said he saw no reason to disrupt the core of a unit that entered last night’s game leading the toughest division in hockey. Joking that he was

News.com.au - STOMRY weather could not stop Hollywood’s stars from dazzling the Oscars red carpet yesterday, where the celebratory red dress was as popular as ever. Presenter Dame Helen Mirren wore a red duchess satin dress with a pleated bodice and silver beaded

Robert Heinlein’s future may be past
Daily Pilot - Meanwhile, the books aimed squarely at a youth audience, the “juveniles” of the ’40s and ’50s, such as “Red Planet” and “Orphans in the Sky,” have seen their stars rise.

Knight: Relegate the Leafs!
Globe and Mail - The team s bad, the playoffs are gone, it s trade deadline day, all the dealable stars have no-trade clauses, and there s nowhere left to go and stay under the salary cap.

Dickens, triumphantly resurrected
Globe and Mail - In an era when cheap-to-produce solo shows flood the independent sector and Broadway turns to Hollywood stars to sell tickets, it’s uplifting to see a cast of 27 actors play more than 150 distinct characters, and not a weak performance - or scene

Three more female stars in sex photos?
Straits Times - BEATEN: Edison Chen returning to the Four Seasons hotel last Friday. He is protected by bodyguards reportedly from Signal 8 Security, which counts former United States president Bill Clinton as its client. — PHOTO: APPLE DAILY HONG KONG - The Hong

Columbus Dispatch - The number of contested balls — loose balls or rebounds — that Michigan players ripped out of OSU players‘ hands was To make a comparison with another sport’s franchise, the Blue Jackets are now the Kansas City Royals of hockey.

Canadiens blanked
Vancouver Sun - Bob Gainey was showered with presents on the day the team retired his No. 23, but he didn’t get a gift from his players. The biggest disappointment on offence was the Montreal power play, which has been ranked No. 1 in the National Hockey League

BBA girls hockey digs in to defend Vermont crown
Bennington Banner - The BBA girls ice hockey team isn’t about to give any of that up without a fight. They’re hungry to win it again,” BBA coach Mark Read said of his players, particularly his four seniors.

In sordid sports world, NBA singled out
Baltimore Sun - In the current edition of ESPN The Magazine, the NBA scored far worse than football, baseball and hockey on questions about whether the players play hard every game, love their fans, respect their coaches, value image over the game itself and are

KEYE Austin - Forward Marc-Andre Gragnani was recalled from Rochester of the American Hockey League and made his NHL debut in place of Hecht. 2008 Sports Network.

Canucks finish regular season with win
Niagara Review - Both teams entered their second last Greater Ontario Junior Hockey League regular season contest needing to solidify their playoff seeding. While the Canucks needed to secure second place in the Golden Horseshoe division, the Junior Canadians hoped

UW men’s hockey gameday: Badgers at Gophers
Wisconsin State Journal - Greetings from Ridder Arena, where six minutes into the second period of today’s Wisconsin-Minnesota women’s hockey game, the Badgers have a 2-0 lead on Hilary Knight and Anne Dronen goals. After this one’s over, I’ll make the walk through the tunnel

Caps ready for next ‘biggest game’ of year
The Washington Times - This is playoff hockey right now and every game is so important. It is do or die, and we have to have that mentality.” Not enough offense has been the biggest problem.

DUI Lands Hockey Star Behind Bars
WTVF - NASHVILLE, Tenn.- A superstar, Nashville Predator is in trouble with the law charged with drinking and driving. David Legwand was arrested last weekend, but he is expected to be on the ice later this Saturday. David Legwand is a wildly successful

Panthers melt on the ice - again
Miami Herald - This is not winning hockey,” said Vokoun, a veteran of division-winning teams in Nashville. “I’ve only been here 60 games. But I’ve been on teams when we won, and this is not the way you win in this league.

Super 8 analysis
Boston Globe - Safe to say, the Bernardians saved their best hockey for the end of the season, but it simply wasn’t enough. Westford seemed to draw accolades for a challenging nonleague schedule, which included wins over Waltham and Xaverian, two teams that the

Alfredsson, Sens rally to best Pens in OT
Seattle Post Intelligencer - Pittsburgh, PA (Sports Network) - Daniel Alfredsson’s goal with 3.2 seconds left in overtime lifted Ottawa to a 4-3 comeback victory over Pittsburgh at Mellon Arena. Alfredsson gained control of the puck in the low slot after Andrej Meszaros dished

Brian Duncan, football
USA Today - Jeff Lerg, ice hockey Lerg, 21, set the Michigan State consecutive games played/started records (63) as a sophomore goalie. He made 29 saves as the Spartans beat Boston College 3-1 to win the NCAA hockey title.

Bismarck Tribune - Charlie and Pat Bair don’t have much in common as hockey players. After all, Charlie - a sharp-shooting forward - scored 52 goals his senior season at Mandan. His younger brother, a stay-at-home defenseman, has barely hit double figures - for his

KUSA-TV - DENVER - In 1987, Pierre Turgeon was the No. 1 draft pick. The center played for almost 2 decades in the NHL and after his stint with the Avalanche, decided to hang up his skates. Well, his playing skates anyway. “I love being a part of teaching the

Sliding Avs hope for return of Stastny in Anaheim
Seattle Post Intelligencer - Wednesday, February 20, 2008 Sliding Avs hope for return of Stastny in Anaheim (Sports Network) - The Colorado Avalanche AP HOCKEY HEADLINES Canadiens storm back from 5-goal deficit Flames burn Coyotes 4-1 Toskala leads Leafs past Blue Jackets

Lots of talk but little dealing
Globe and Mail - There were one or two things that were advanced on the official agenda, such as introducing a one-minute penalty in overtime for experimentation by the American Hockey League next season, but trade talks dominated the sessions, since the NHL’s trade

Shaheed Smriti Hockey Armanitola, Mirpur record wins
New Nation - Armanitola High School and Mirpur Academy won their respective matches of the Dhaka Bank Shaheed Smriti Hockey Competition on Wednesday. In the day’s second match, Armanitola blanked Dr Md Shahidullah Biddyapith 12-0 at the Moulana Bhasani National

Hockey and hardball
Boston Globe - SUNRISE, Fla. — In a hat tip to their baseball counterparts working out across the state in Fort Myers, the Bruins went with a split-squad approach for today’s practice. Milan Lucic, David Krejci, Phil Kessel, Jeremy Reich, Vladimir Sobotka, Shawn

Isles put four-game win streak on the line versus Caps
Seattle Post Intelligencer - Wednesday, February 20, 2008 Isles put four-game win streak on the line versus Caps (Sports Network) - The New York AP HOCKEY HEADLINES Canadiens storm back from 5-goal deficit Flames burn Coyotes 4-1 Toskala leads Leafs past Blue Jackets

Darren McCarty one step closer comeback with Red Wings
Detroit Free Press - General manager Ken Holland says Wednesday the team is “leaning toward offering him a contract.” McCarty played in Detroit from 1993 through 2004. He has been productive in comeback stints with the American Hockey League’s Grand Rapids Griffins and

Red Wings D Lidstrom expects to be out 3 weeks with knee injury
Newsday - DETROIT - Detroit Red Wings star Nicklas Lidstrom expects to be out for three weeks with an injured right knee. Lidstrom says Business News Investing News Technology News Sports Top Sports Soccer News BaseballNews Football News Hockey

Ice Hockey
Peterborough Evening Telegraph - Phantoms turn on the style in the final period FOR the past three weeks revved-up Phantoms have been like a speeding juggernaut with the gear jammed in high and the driver with his foot flat to the floor. Rempel hits a last-minute winner as David’s

Suns, Nuggets will play outside
Detroit News - Because the seating is built around the parameters of a tennis court, rather than a hockey rink like most NBA arenas, Welts said the game will offer a more intimate setting. “It’s an NBA-quality facility with no roof on it,” Welts said. In the