| Zags and Hilltoppers clash in Great Alaska Shootout
With their second trip to the Great Alaska Shootout in Anchorage, the 14th-ranked Gonzaga Bulldogs expect to finish better than runner-up, as they open their portion of the annual event at Sullivan Arena against Western Kentucky. Back in 2001, the Bulldogs defeated both St. John's and Texas before taking on Marquette in the title game, the result of which was a 73-63 setback. For Gonzaga, this is the first set of games away from home for the squad, having opened a perfect 3-0 with wins over Montana, Idaho and UC Riverside in convincing fashion.
Similarly, the Hilltoppers have won all three of their games at home in Bowling Green. Like the Zags, WKU has beaten Kennesaw State, Kentucky Wesleyan and Murray State all by at least 21 points in the process.
With respect to the all-time series between these two schools on the hardwood, this is the first-ever meeting.
Wolff's vision: Goodbye foul popups
What's the big deal about the new ballpark, residential , and gargantuan shopping mall compound being located practically on top of a delicate and still not fully protected Bayshore wetland area? You get the picture. This is crazy. This man, unfortunately because he is a billionaire, can propose such nonsense. To me it's just another example of how far our culture has been cajoled and bamboozled into thinking that such short-sided, superficial "plans for the future" are some form of "progress". I see no soul or sense of esthetic in any of this. Nothing that reflects the idea that it is good for humans to build things of this magnitude that are lasting and embody a sense of purpose and awareness of the need to come together and relax and enjoy social experiences that help us all rise above the everyday ratrace.
McLean's wife stays on the move, lawyer says
In affidavits filed in Knox County Fourth Circuit Court, Eric McLean and his divorce attorney, Steve Sharp, allege former West High School student teacher Erin McLean is embarked on a rootless existence with a 19-year-old paramour. "(Erin McLean) has been to California and then to Austin, Texas, staying in cheap motels and then moving when she is unable to pay the bills," Sharp wrote. Attorney Bruce Poston, who is defending Eric McLean on charges that he killed Sean Powell, his wife's teenage student and lover, in March, said Tuesday Erin McLean has since surfaced in Boulder, Colo. Sharp has been trying to serve Erin McLean with divorce papers since September to no avail in an effort to gain custody of the couple's sons, ages 11 and 8. It was then that Erin McLean fled her mother's Nashville home with the boys after news surfaced that she had lied to get a job as a teacher at a private Christian school and allegedly tried to seduce a 17-year-old student.
Saturday clockwatch - live!
Reading are giving United a good game at the Madjeski, but Rooney has just had a Tevez-made chance saved. 3.17pm: Treviso have fought back to bring the scores to 11-19 to London Irish. Irish really need to get a grip on this quickly. Dragons 0-25 Perpignan, which means Dragons are well and truly out of it. In Blackburn, David Wheater has scored for Boro. Blackburn 0-1 Middlesbrough. 3.20pm: "Out of interest, and a wish to distract myself from an interminable illness, will the Guardian be MBMing matches from the African Cup of Nations?," asks Ian Copestake. Yes, is the answer. Paul Doyle will be here for the opener tomorrow. Still Birmingham 0-0 Chelsea, but Chelsea are well on top. Birmingham are sitting back defending, inviting Chelsea on to them. Arsenal are having trouble breaking Fulham down too, the South London club have started very brightly.
Mayor wants to strip suburbs' say in merger
Herenton, who began an unprecedented fifth term in office Tuesday, said in his speech to the Kiwanis Club at The Peabody that he's putting consolidation back on the "front burner." "Yes, I'm singing out of this choir book again," he said, calling the current city-county governmental structure "wasteful." Under the traditional Tennessee approach to consolidating governments, Herenton would have to follow the legal process set out by both the Tennessee Constitution and state statute -- a countywide referendum that requires separate majority votes of residents inside the city of Memphis and those outside the city limits in Shelby County, including residents of the suburban municipalities. If consolidation wins inside the city but is rejected among Shelby voters outside the city, or vice versa, it fails to win approval.
Hubbard love
I have to say it drags a little, though I do enjoy the film about Venezualean Scientologists Audrey Cabrera and Ruddy Rodriguez. It seems it was only the personal intervention of these indomitable women that prevented the country falling into anarchy during and after the 2002 coup attempt against president Hugo Chavez. There's even a picture of the women meeting him, alongside other images of them handing out copies of The Way To Happiness. And so we come full circle: I'm eating lunch at a round table in an ante room with the blinds pulled down; Keenan is telling me about the Royal Marines, serving his country, about his bad back and his being "an inquisitive bugger". Time, though, for an inquisition of my own. I mention South Park, Matt Stone and Trey Parker's ribald animated series about Stan, Kyle, Kenny and Cartman, four schoolboys in the eponymous Colorado town.
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