Vanderbilt men hold off St. Mary’s - Nashville Tennessean
MORAGA, Calif. Jeffery Taylor scored 19 points and Jermaine Beal added 16, leading Vanderbilt to a 72-70 victory over St. Mary’s on Friday night in the first meeting between the teams. Andre Walker had 14 points for the Commodores (2-0). Omar

Selig: Some MLB teams lost money in 09 - Register Citizen
CHICAGO (AP) Some teams lost money in 2009, baseball commissioner Bud Selig said Thursday after the final owners meeting of the year. There was no question about that, Selig said. I don t think the concerns have been ameliorated at all

Orton doesn t practice, Simms primed to start NFL - KSTP
Orton was held out of practice this week after severely spraining his left ankle late in the second quarter of last week s loss to Washington. He did not return and Simms took over, although, he completed just 3-of-13 passes for 13 yards with an

NFL players getting hooked on fantasy football - Minneapolis Star Tribune
NEW YORK - Fantasy and reality collided at the 1-yard line for Maurice Jones-Drew He “owns” Jones-Drew in the NFL Players Association league, which includes seven NFL players and a fan. Gould’s Team Automatic lost to Carolina running back

The Amaizing Corn Genome - Medical News Today
In recent years, scientists have decoded the DNA of humans and a menagerie of creatures but none with genes as complex as a stalk of corn, the latest genome to be unraveled. A team of scientists led by The Genome Center at Washington University

Predators clinch win on Joel Ward’s goal - Nashville Tennessean
When we scored there, I knew we’d win the hockey game,” Predators Coach Barry Trotz said They have some players out who are important players for them, and they worked hard today,” Kings Coach Terry Murray said of the Predators. “

Letters to the Editor for Oct. 4 - Olympian
All right, so it s obvious there s a huge outcry against President Obama s health care reform. Posses of malcontents storm town hall meetings and spew all sorts of venom at the politicians, drowning out any rational discourse. Not really the

Mount Olive cuts costs elsewhere, restores middle school police - Morris County Daily Record
MOUNT OLIVE The Mount Olive school district plans to use money saved on its summer energy bills to fund the salary of a middle school police officer, money for which was cut after voters rejected the school budget in April. Superintendent Larrie

IMF pledges voting power to developing countries - Tacoma News Tribune
A key panel of the International Monetary Fund said Sunday that it supports giving more voting power to emerging market and developing countries, warning that the legitimacy of the institution was at stake. The group’s International Monetary and

Marks returns to Hub City schools in new post - Hattiesburg American
Prominent forensics educator Michael Marks wasn’t sure what the future held after being laid off as principal of Hattiesburg’s Adept School in January. But after seven months of being unemployed and waiting patiently for a job in the Hub City, Marks

The Public Imperative - New York Times
NEW YORK Back from another trip to Europe, this time Germany, where the same dismay as in France prevails over the U.S. health care debate. Europeans don t get why Americans don t agree that universal health coverage is a fundamental contract

Auditor: Ex-first lady’s salary too high - Greensboro News & Record
RALEIGH (AP) State Auditor Beth Wood says that former first lady Mary Easley’s university salary was too high but that her staff may have set the bar too low for the value of Easley’s work. Wood released an interim report today that her

NFC South Preview: Bruce the Buc is back and Carolina fans won’t leave - Ann Arbor News Blog
We’ll spend this week making horribly uninformed projections about he NFL season. Enjoy. The division has stars like Drew Brees, Reggie Bush, Julius Peppers, Steve Smith, Matt Ryan and Michael Turner, but the most exciting development is a throwback

Canada’s Babcock says camp has been “fantastic” - NBC Sports
The international star of the Vancouver Olympics might end up being an irresistible figure skater or a charismatic skier. It’s a safe bet no athlete or team, though, will match the Canadian hockey team’s rock-star like following. Coach Mike Babcock

NHL’s offer for Coyotes is $140 million - Buffalo News
The NHL is offering about $140 million to purchase the Phoenix Coyotes in U.S. Bankruptcy Court and would avoid a sticky issue still facing the case by accepting the existing lease to play in Glendale. The league announced on Tuesday that it was

TheStar.com | Olympics | Gretzky’s missionary days appear over - Toronto Star
The NHL has long argued that hockey can thrive in Arizona and gone to extreme lengths to block Jim Balsillie from relocating the Phoenix Coyotes to Hamilton, but its own bid for the team contains a provision to move the bankrupt club. W ayne Gretzky

Dan Rooney missing first Steelers camp since ’30s - Contra Costa Times
FILE — This is an Aug. 1, 2006, file photo showing Pittsburgh Steelers’ Hines Ward, left, shaking hands with team owner Dan Rooney during football drills at the team facility in Latrobe, Pa. The Steelers knew this season would be different from

Juventus Could Reduce Salary Of Midfielder Christian Poulsen - Report - Goal.com
Mario Balotelli & Christian Poulsen tussle for possession during the 1-1 draw in the derby d’Italia between Juventus and Inter After midfielder Christian Poulsen rejected a loan-move to Fulham , Juventus may attempt to reduce the player’s salary

TheStar.com | Sports | Saving salary costly in other ways - Toronto Star
R oy Halladay was strolling around the clubhouse yesterday, smiling, loose and relaxed, preparing for today’s start like he would any other. Which means not talking to media. But the fact that he was there with his mates and clearly had heard nothing

McMackin’s OK with salary cut - Honolulu Star-Bulletin
SALT LAKE CITY With the University of Hawaii facing a steep budget deficit, Warriors football coach Greg McMackin said he’s willing to accept a cut in pay. “I’ve always been a team player and I will give my fair share on behalf of the football

SEC assistant salaries keep escalating - Shreveport Times
When fall practice begins next month, some of the highest-paid assistant coaches will be working at SEC universities. Tennessee is paying its assistant coaching staff $3.625 million this year a figure that leads the SEC. “I really think you have

INTERVIEW - Hexaware expects to rollback salary cuts by end-2009 - Reuters India
MUMBAI (Reuters) - Hexaware Technologies hopes to roll back salary cuts effected earlier this year and could hire employees by December as it sees buoyancy returning in the second half of the year, a top executive said on Wednesday. The Mumbai-based

Bobcats, Hornets complete swap of centers Emeka Okafor, Tyson Chandler - Minneapolis Star Tribune
CHARLOTTE, N.C. - The New Orleans Hornets finally found a taker for Tyson Chandler. It took a deal with tinkering Charlotte coach Larry Brown, who was willing to jettison the Bobcats’ first draft pick. Emeka Okafor was sent to the Hornets on Tuesday

Peddie named UNO baseball coach - New Orleans Times-Picayune
(AP) NEW ORLEANS - Bruce Peddie is the new University of New Orleans baseball coach. Peddie was named to the position in mid-June, but the search for Tom Walter’s replacement was expanded in compliance with state hiring rules. Walter resigned in

UK Football: Coach supports kicker - Winchester Sun
LEXINGTON For anyone that wants to criticize kicker Lone Seiber, Kentucky special teams coach Steve Ortmayer has a few words of advice. Seiber is just about the most castigated guy out here and it is totally false. The guy is a very good

Miamisburg coach can handle the heat - Dayton Daily News
MIAMISBURG Miamisburg s fire chief was on hand, but he had no plans to stop the small sparks before they caught fire. Bob Bobbitt, who has been with Miamisburg s fire division for 20 years, is starting his first season as head coach of the

Student Sues Coach Over Facebook Message - WSB-TV Atlanta
JACKSON, Miss. — A former high school cheerleader is suing her former coach and the school district for $100 million after the coach allegedly read personal e-mails. WAPT-TV reported. The student filed the federal lawsuit after she said her coach

Ex-MSU coach Nick Saban among most disliked people in sports - Detroit News
Michael Vick might be free to resume playing in the NFL again, but that doesn’t make him any more popular with fans. Vick, the convicted dog fighting ringleader, is the most disliked person in sports, according to a survey by Encino, Calif.-based E

Veteran coach Walter announces departure from Arundel, where he won 10 - HometownAnnapolis.com
The first-base dugout will look noticeably different at Arundel’s baseball field next season. Paul W. Gillespie - Capital file photo Bernie Walter compiled a 609-182 record in 35 seasons at Arundel High School. Walter, who managed the Wildcats to 10

Mischa Barton’s Life Coach: Nicole Richie? - Dose.ca
After her high-profile meltdown earlier this month, Mischa Barton has been released from the hospital where she was under involuntary psychiatric evaluation, and RadarOnline.com reports that the Beautiful Life actress is doing surprisingly well

Music Industry Business - Music Business Management - Music Industry - Billboard
Billboard.biz is the online home for Billboard subscribers and music industry professionals. It’s the home for the weekly contents of Billboard Magazine . The site features breaking news, complete listing of charts, with special coverage of Radio

Denmark and Sweden Have Highest Taxes Within the EU, Statistics Show - The Epoch Times
Denmark has the highest overall tax burden, but the lowest tax on fuel, reported Eurostat, the statistics office of the European Union (EU). Eurostat provides statistics on what citizens of the countries of the EU actually pay in taxes. Eurostat has

Japan’s jobless rate hits five-year high - The Age
Japan s unemployment rate climbed to a five year-high in May and job prospects became the most severe on record, adding to signs the world s second-largest economy is struggling to emerge from its worst postwar recession. The jobless rate rose to

GDP revised down for first quarter - Gulf Times
Qatar s gross domestic product (GDP) for the first quarter of 2009, measured in current prices, was provisionally put at QR 70.9bn, down 17.5% from the revised estimate of QR 85.9bn for the first quarter of 2008, according to Qatar Statistics

Japan s Jobless Rate Rises to Five-Year High of 5.2% (Update2) - Bloomberg
June 30 (Bloomberg) — Japan s unemployment rate climbed to a five year-high in May and job prospects became the most severe on record, adding to signs the world s second-largest economy is struggling to emerge from its worst postwar recession

RedHawks All-Stars Announced - OurSports Central
FARGO, N.D. - Eight members of the Fargo-Moorhead RedHawks have been voted to the Great Plains team for the 2009 Northern League All-Star Game, which will be played on Tuesday, July 6 at Silver Cross Field in Joliet, IL. RedHawks selected as All

MSNBC Features NYT Columnist to Deride Hypocrisy of Red State - News Busters
MSNBC’s Carlos Watson on Monday provided a friendly forum for New York Times opinion writer Charles Blow to link red states and social conservatism with the hypocrisy of sex scandal-ridden politicians like South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford. In

Market prices of essential commodities on website in HP - Deepika Global
Shimla, Jun 29 (UNI) Himachal Pradesh has emerged as the first State to make village level statistics and market prices of essential commodities available on website. The website himachal.nic.in/economics was launched by Chief Minister Prem Kumar

FACTBOX-Viewer statistics for U.S. sports networks - CNN Money
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Over the past 10 years, the major U.S. sports leagues have all established their own networks to broadcast games and generate more attention. As the league-owned networks grow, the question is whether they will jeopardize the

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