CRYSTAL RIVER, Fla. (AP) — An 88-year-old blues legend known as the “Gypsy of the Blues†was killed in Florida when his car turned into the path of a Greyhound bus. Eddie Kirkland was traveling southeast on U.S. Highway 98 in Crystal River, north of Tampa, about 8:30 a.m. Sunday when he tried to make [...]
AP Television Writer NEW YORK — It seemed like a good idea: Pair the shiny, lovable James Franco and Anne Hathaway as co-hosts of the Oscars to give it some youthful pizazz. On first taking the stage for Sunday’s show, they wasted no time making sport of why they were there. “Anne, I must say [...]
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The trophy case in the home of Ralph Sampson’s mother is about to get a little more crowded. Sampson, the 7-foot-4 Virginia center and three-time Atlantic Coast Conference player of the year, joined seven others Monday, including coaches Bob Knight and Eddie Sutton, as the newest members of the National Collegiate [...]
MIAMI — Dwyane Wade cannot remember the last time the Miami Heat faced a stretch like this. Starting Thursday, it’ll be five games in eight days, with the opponents — all almost certainly playoff-bound — having a combined winning percentage of .682. If that wasn’t enough, the season’s most critical stretch to date is coming [...]
Daily Republic FAIRFIELD — A woman speeding on westbound Interstate 80 lost control of her car today before catapulting into the air, nearly clearing a 24-foot-high road sign and disappearing behind a 15-foot-high sound wall, crashing into the backyard of an Alford Drive home. Before the amazing single-car crash this morning, a man had been [...]
AP Golf Writer MARANA, Ariz. — Four years ago in another desert, caddie Fanny Sunesson was sitting near the putting green at Bighorn Golf Club waiting for her work day to start when she mentioned her part-time job with the German national team. Bernhard Langer was approaching 50. There was no heir apparent in German [...]
AP Auto Racing Writer CHARLOTTE, N.C. — The joke in NASCAR has long been that most races are scripted to satisfy the suits in the scoring tower high above the track. If it were true — and, to be clear, it’s not — then NASCAR needs to give its writers a raise. NASCAR could not [...]
SAN JOSE — When the San Jose Sharks were scuffling near the bottom of the Western Conference standings, they were unsure of what their roster would look like after the trade deadline. Having won 15 of their past 18 games to move to the top of the Pacific Division standings, the Sharks could stand pat [...]
NEW YORK — This is the week hardly anyone expected to actually arrive: deadline time for the NFL and its players’ union. The collective bargaining agreement expires Thursday night, and the owners could lock out the players. Even before that, though, the Players Association is likely to decertify to prevent a lockout and take its [...]
TEMPE, Ariz. — Veteran right-hander Joel Pineiro gave up two hits in two scoreless innings and the Los Angeles Angels beat the Oakland Athletics 8-7 on Monday. “I wasn’t nervous, but I just wanted to get out there and throw that first pitch,†said Pineiro, who was 10-7 with a 3.84 ERA in 23 starts [...]
PHOENIX (AP) — Shaum Marcum is used to being overshadowed. The Milwaukee starter was signed just before former Cy Young Award-winner Zack Greinke in the offseason. On Monday, the right-hander pitched two quiet innings for the Brewers and left before Mark DeRosa hit a tiebreaking homer to help the San Francisco Giants beat a Milwaukee [...]
ALAMEDA — While the Oakland Raiders have handed out some big contracts already to keep potential free agents off the open market, they won’t have to start paying out on those deals until after there’s a resolution to the league’s labor dispute. The Raiders have made more than $80 million in commitments to five of [...]
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