| FSU, Va. Tech run away from ACC
The freshman shattered four of the six records this week and was also part of the ACC record-setting 800-yard freestyle relay squad.North Carolina's second--place finish was the school's highest since 2001.Tar Heels freshmen Joe Kinderwater (1,650 yard freestyle), Tyler Harris (400-yard individual medley) and Tommy Wyher (100-yard backstroke) won meet titles.N.C. State finished seventh with 302 points. Jack Roney set a school record in the 200 yard breast with a 1:59.59. Stephen Mellor was named all-ACC after taking second in the 200 yard backstroke with a time of 1:45.05.Duke swimmers set three school records as the team placed ninth with 110 points.Andrew Clark recorded a 9:29.19 for the 1,000 freestyle; Murillo Adrados finished the 200-yard backstroke in 1:48.39; and Packer, Nick Garvy, David Hahn and David Carlson swam the 400 free relay in 2:59.63.BASEBALLN.C.
Robbie Keane joins the legends after 100th goal
In the Tottenham dressing room I pinned up a motto: "The Team is the Star". If any player sums up that philosophy, it’s Robbie Keane. Normally it’s not the best combination to have a striker as your skipper. Robbie is different. He’ll do any job a manager asks and seeks togetherness with teammates socially as well as on the pitch. Character-wise, if you had 11 Robbie Keanes on your side, you’d have a chance of winning any game. Robbie doesn’t play the game for personal accolades but deserves any which come his way, and yesterday he reached 100 against Sunderland. Only two other players in the past 30 years have reached a century. Their identities, Teddy Sheringham and Glenn Hoddle, show how special it is. At Spurs, Robbie is appreciated, the fans regularly voting him player of the year, but I wonder whether in the country he gets the recognition he deserves.
Losing weight together
When her mom suffered a debilitating stroke after the heart surgery, Linda knew she had to do something. She didn't want to suffer the same fate. Larry also had struggled with his weight all his life, going up and down like a yo-yo, 100 or more pounds at a time, every few years. So they decided to lose weight together, and after 3 1/2 years, they've dropped a combined 142 pounds. They now fit into "regular size" clothes, and no one recognizes them at weddings, Linda reports. Larry competes with people half his age in the martial arts. And they finally both fit comfortably on Larry's Harley Davidson motorcycle. Their combined weight loss has had such an impact on their lives that they've been selected among the regional winners in the Weight Watchers' Inspiring Stories of the Year contest.
Oregon State's success inspires others
SEATTLE—The sun was shining on the Washington campus on a recent January morning. "It looks like baseball weather," Huskies baseball coach Ken Knutson observed through his office window, ignoring the fact that frost still decorated Seattle lawns on this particular morning. Despite the unusually cold winter gripping the Puget Sound region this winter, Knutson put on a brave face, saying his team will head outside when practice started the following week. "We'll start February 1st and we'll be outside," he said. "We have turf. It'll just be cold, and you've got to deal with that." Across the Evergreen State in Pullman, where snow was hammering the region, Washington State's players were going to need more than an extra layer or two of clothing if they wanted to practice outdoors. Just days before the calendar flipped from January to February, a snowplow would have been more useful than a rake at Bailey-Brayton Field.
Curious few get a peek inside long-closed lightkeeper's house
COROLLA, N.C. More than 100,000 people annually climb the Currituck Beach Lighthouse, but about 50 feet away sits the old lightkeeper's house, a part of the site rarely seen from the inside. On Wednesday, the 133-year-old house was opened for the first publicly advertised tour since it was restored in the 1980s. It was restricted to about 20 people, and site manager Meghan Agresto had to turn away several. "There was a clamor for it," she said. "Only a small number of people are going to get to see the inside of this home." A few others have glimpsed it over the years, by appointment or invitation. Its small rooms and absence of hallways, as well as limited staff and funds to maintain the house, prevent opening it to the public, Agresto said.
Brain-Reading Headset to Sell for $299
How about controlling games with your thoughts instead? Later this year, Emotiv Systems Inc. plans to start selling the $299 EPOC neuroheadset to let you do just that. The headset's sensors are designed to detect conscious thoughts and expressions as well as "non-conscious emotions" by reading electrical signals around the brain, says the company, which demonstrated the wireless gadget at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco. The company, which unveiled a prototype last year, says the headset can detect emotions such as anger, excitement and tension, as well as facial expressions and cognitive actions like pushing and pulling objects. The headset will be sold with a game developed by Emotiv, but it can also be made to work with existing PC games, the company said.
Mourners pay candlelight tribute to seven young N.B. basketball ...
BATHURST, N.B. - The seven high school basketball players killed last weekend in a highway accident in northern New Brunswick were remembered Wednesday as loving sons, sweet brothers and trusted friends who will be loved forever in their heartbroken hometown. The funeral for all seven boys brought the city of Bathurst to a standstill as schools and businesses closed and about 5,500 people crowded into a hockey arena and an adjacent rink to hear the service. "You have lost your precious sons," Bathurst Mayor Stephen Brunet told the families of the boys. "We have lost seven future leaders. For a moment just imagine in your mind what they could have done." The boys' coffins lay side by side at one end of the arena, covered with sprays of flowers.
Police and Tasers: Hooked on Shock
The past couple of weeks have been rocky on the stock market, but one company that hasn't been suffering too much is Taser International. At the end of January, its stock jumped by an impressive 8 per cent, and it's even higher today. Matthew McKay, a stock analyst at Jeffries & Co. in San Francisco, cites a simple cause: news that the Toronto Police Services Board plans to buy 3,000 new Taser electroshock weapons, at a cost of $8.6 million for gear and training. If the deal goes ahead, tasers would become standard issue weaponry for all of Toronto's frontline officers, right next to their handcuffs and batons. On Wednesday night, I participated in a public forum about the prospect of a fully taser-armed police force, organized by the Toronto Police Accountability Coalition.
Giants see edge in having faced Patriots
There's some stuff you see on film you actually have to see firsthand," safety Gibril Wilson said. "The way [Randy] Moss runs, the way Wes Welker has to be tackled, the way you have to tackle Kevin Faulk, [Tom] Brady's audibles. Those are things you have to experience live, and we did that."
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People might remember how well he blocked the plate on Holliday, aggressively sliding his left leg into perfect position, but the play ended when Barrett couldn't field Giles' short-hop. At that point, the Rockies deserved to win beyond a shadow of a doubt. * Not to mention Garrett Atkins' solo homer in the seventh inning. It wasn't called -- the umps didn't see it clear the wall and carom so hard off an unknown object -- but it was gone. The Rockies lost a run there for no reason. * More agony for Mets fans: General manager Omar Minaya, who made a number of mistakes in his bullpen maneuverings over the last year, virtually gave away Heath Bell to the Padres in a nondescript deal last November. Bell became an invaluable member of the San Diego bullpen, and he was fabulous last night (2 2/3 innings, five strikeouts).
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