Bob CollinsThe air freshener justification for being stopped by police has been widely cited by those who are convinced they were stopped for ‘driving while black.’
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It’s easy, trust me, to think that we’ll never make significant progress in getting people to understand the complexities of the brain, and accept the illnesses that it can bring.
The great pickleball kerfuffle of 2012
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Otto Greule Jr/Getty Images The play that cost the Packers the game last night — the one where the Packers guy has the ball pinned to his chest, the Seahawks guy only has one arm on it but the refs call it a catch-and-win for Seattle — was proper and correctly called, the NFL says. Read more →
Otto Greule Jr/Getty Images The NFL likely won’t take back the bad call last night that led to the Seattle Seahawks beating the Green Bay Packers on game-ending play. But it seems some of the gamblers who put money on that game will get their cash back. A Canadian journalist this morning is reporting that Read more →
It was 20 years ago — hard as that may be to believe — that Tom Hanks, Geena Davis, Madonna and Rosie O’Donnell starred in a League of Their Own, a tribute to the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League, which sprung out of the fact the men in the major and minor leagues in the ’40s were shipping off to wa
The Minnesota Lynx are at the White House starting at noon (central). The White House is providing this feed.
I get five yellow bananas in a row, but other than that, it’s just a guy pushing buttons, some beeps and an indication whether you won or lost.
A new video documents the former Mr. Minnesota Basketball’s draft night and his anxiety disorder.
The Washington Nationals — a heretofore pathetic franchise if ever there was one — are about to give up their best shot at a championship, under the assumption that there’ll be more later.