PHILADELPHIA — With Andrew Luck watching from the sideline, special teams ace Colt Anderson lined up under center and took the snap at a critical point during the much-anticipated rematch between the Colts and Patriots. It was easily the worst play of the 2015 season. Indianapolis trailed New England 27-21 late in the third quarter […]
2016
Hall of Fame defensive end Doug Atkins dies at 85
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Doug Atkins, a defensive lineman who earned induction into both the Pro Football Hall of Fame and College Football Hall of Fame, has died. He was 85. Robert Shelton, a co-owner of Shelton-Hunt Funeral Home in Humboldt, Tennessee, said that Atkins died Wednesday morning of natural causes at Fort Sanders Regional […]
Horoscope
He who hesitates is lost. You have to be willing to finish what you start. There will be plenty of opportunities for you, but if you spend all your time contemplating, you will fall short of your goal. Make things happen and don’t look back. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22- Jan. 19) – Pick and choose what’s […]
Sense & Sensitivity
DEAR READERS: Happy New Year! It is truly a blessing to cross into a brand new year. For all of us who have made it to this moment in our lives, it is worth it to pause and reflect. Take a few moments to count your blessings and to acknowledge all of the good that […]
Bridge
I hope all of my readers have a happy and healthy 2016. To start the year, let’s look at the winner of last year’s Keri Klinger Memorial Declarer Play of the Year award from the International Bridge Press Association. The deal arose during the final of the World Open Pairs in Sanya, China. The declarer […]
Entertainment News
TOKYO — So few teaching opportunities existed for a young Japan scholar in late 1940s America that a professor suggested he teach Greek instead. Donald Keene persevered, arriving in the ancient imperial capital of Kyoto in 1953 to do research. “I was extremely lucky, because the time that I was there was a golden age […]