DETROIT — Coaching Western Kentucky for one game before moving on to an uncertain future, Lance Guidry had to make a crucial decision with the game on the line. Fourth down, 51 seconds remaining. Kick a field goal and play for overtime, or go for the win? The Hilltoppers went for it and the move […]
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Manning, Peterson, Pagano: 2012 a year to remember
DENVER From Peyton Manning overcoming four neck surgeries to Adrian Peterson’s rebound from a shredded knee to Chuck Pagano’s fight with leukemia, this has been the Year of the Comeback in the NFL. A season besmirched by tragedies, replacement officials and a bounty scandal also will go down as one in which some of the […]
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Lebron, Heat hand Bobcats 16th straight loss
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — LeBron James had 27 points, 12 rebounds and eight assists, and the Miami Heat handed the Charlotte Bobcats their 16th straight loss, 105-92 on Wednesday night. Dwyane Wade scored 29 points and had nine rebounds as Miami extended its winning streak to six. Charlotte cut the Miami lead to 84-82 when […]
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Top looked-up words of 2012: Capitalism and socialism
NEW YORK Thanks to the election, socialism and capitalism are forever wed as Merriam-Webster’s most looked-up words of 2012. Traffic for the unlikely pair on the company’s website about doubled this year from the year before as the health care debate heated up and discussion intensified over “American capitalism” versus “European socialism,” said the editor […]
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Class of 2012
EDITOR’S NOTE: This is the latest installment in Class of 2012, an exploration of Europe’s financial crisis through the eyes of young people emerging from the cocoon of student life into the worst downturn the continent has seen since the end of World War II. Follow the class on its new Google plus page: http://apne.ws/ClassOf2012 […]
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THIS WEEK IN THE CIVIL WAR
This week 150 years ago in the Civil War, a Confederate cavalryman with a knack for raiding and disrupting Union rail and supply lines embarked on his famed Christmas raid into Kentucky. He was Confederate Gen. John Hunt Morgan. Morgan and nearly 4,000 Confederate cavalry troops under his command left Tennessee on Dec. 22, 1862, […]
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Delays litter long road to vehicle rearview rules
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — In the private hell of a mother’s grief, the sounds come back to Judy Neiman. The SUV door slamming. The slight bump as she backed up in the bank parking lot. The emergency room doctor’s sobs as he said her 9-year-old daughter Sydnee, who previously had survived four open heart surgeries, […]
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Pats’ Brady using recent struggles as positive
FOXBOROUGH, Mass. (AP) — Tom Brady found something encouraging in his toughest stretch of the season. He knows he and his New England Patriots can come back from a huge deficit. The two-time NFL Most Valuable Player had his three lowest passer ratings of the season in his past four games. His 68.9 on Dec. 16 in […]