IRVING, Tex. — Now that the Packers have arrived in North Texas for the Super Bowl, Aaron Rodgers has put his team’s Twitter-driven mini-controversy to rest. “I think, obviously, this was made a bigger issue than it was,†Rodgers said shortly after his team settled in at its hotel. “There was nothing going on in [...]
FORT WORTH, Texas — Howdy, Hines. Welcome to Big D. Hines Ward was ready for a rodeo of a week leading up to the Super Bowl as he stepped off the Pittsburgh Steelers’ charter flight when the team arrived in Dallas. Pittsburgh’s star wide receiver, who embraces his reputation as one of the league’s most [...]
DALLAS — Now that the voters have chosen Troy Polamalu over Clay Matthews for The Associated Press 2010 NFL Defensive Player of the Year award, the two stars can prove their worth against each other on the field. In the Super Bowl. Pittsburgh safety Polamalu received 17 votes Monday from a nationwide panel of 50 [...]
Compiled by the Daily Republic PARADISE VALLEY WOMEN’S 18-HOLE GOLF GROUP REGISTRATION — Registration for the current season is ongoing. The group meets for play every Monday at 8 a.m. For more information, call 864-0486. RANCHO SOLANO WOMEN’S GOLF CLUB REGISTRATION — Open to women 18 and older who would like to establish a handicap [...]
DAILY REPUBLIC VACAVILLE — The Vacaville school board will once again take on the question Thursday of whether to close one or more schools as part of its effort to balance the budget and deal with declining enrollment. Three schools are up for consideration to be closed at the end of this school year. They [...]
FAIRFIELD — Solano County Board of Supervisors Chairman Mike Reagan will offer community office hours this month at sites across the Fifth District. The schedule is: – Feb. 7 at Starbucks Coffee, 1031 Helen Power Drive in Vacaville. – Feb. 10 at Solano Baking Co., 1160 Pitt School Road in Dixon. – Feb. 16 at [...]
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Halle Berry has pulled out of a film job to prepare for a custody fight over her young daughter. A spokeswoman for the Oscar-winning actress says Berry backed out of a role in “New Year’s Eve†that was scheduled to shoot in New York this week “due to pending custody litigation [...]
DAILY REPUBLIC SUISUN CITY — The Suisun City Council will take a look Tuesday at how much the city plans to spend to put on 15 events this year ranging from the Easter egg hunt in April to Christmas at the Waterfront. City council members asked for a breakdown of how much the events cost [...]
DAILY REPUBLIC SUISUN CITY — The Suisun City Council is expected to give the nod Tuesday to going after state grant money to expand the city’s already considerable bicycle and pedestrian path network. One is a grant to expand the bike trail along McCoy Creek and the other is a grant to study the best [...]
DAILY REPUBLIC FAIRFIELD — Solano Open Space is the new name for the 10,000 acres of rural land in the hills between Fairfield, Vallejo and Benicia, one that open space advocates hope will lodge in the public consciousness. Gone is the old name of Tri-City and County Cooperative Planning Area. Too long and too hard [...]
LONDON — Four-time Olympic champion Michael Johnson threw his weight Monday behind a campaign to keep the running track at London’s Olympic Stadium after the 2012 Games. The American 400-meter great said the proposal by Tottenham soccer club to tear down the stadium and build a new one without a track would be a “total [...]
LONDON — From Australia to Belarus to China, the top of the women’s tennis rankings looks like a United Nations of tennis. For the first time since the inception of the WTA rankings in 1975, the top 10 players hail from 10 different countries. “Having 10 different players represent the top 10 rankings shows how [...]
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