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What was your first?

So, what was your first? Please give a brief answer in the comments; she’ll be looking through them to collect the answers and collate the data. She needs the data by Sunday, so put down the flag and ... read more

Dose: Boogie Fever

Brook Lopez practiced on Sunday and is now listed as probable for tonight’s game, which I’m still not sure I believe. This is great news for Bro-Lo and his owners, but I need to see him play in a coup... read more

Cheers and Jeers: Wednesday

I know I'm being grumpy about this but, when I answer the phone and someone says "I got a missed call from this number" I have no patience and I think this kind of call-back is self centered, ludicrus ... read more

For God’s sake, have Bryan Appleyard’s articles made any difference to our lives?

Hey, hack journalists, have I got a great concept for you ... James Clerk Maxwell, estrogen analogs, Mars, Niko Tinbergen, Fourier transforms, or Joseph Priestley, and you know squat-all about any of ... read more

Stories for April 2011

posted: 04/30/2011 3:13 a.m. The Dallas Cowboys got new defensive coordinator Rob Ryan his first fresh piece — a speedy linebacker. Then they added another running back that can catch the ball out of ... read more

The Roundup: Wide Open

Really feeling more comfortable with the long game. Did not hole the amount of putts I had the first two days, but the conditions got tough coming down the stretch ... I'm really happy with where I am ... read more

The alarm bells ring, but precious few heed them

The politicians and the media first heard the alarm bells ringing early one morning in October 1997 ... Washer said: He's under tremendous pressure. He's got a young child and a wife so we've got to t... read more

Southern California

A month or so ago, we caught up with Parker Coffin. He'd just been chased out of the water by a tiger shark at Rocky Rights. He'd gotten stitches in his head not long before this, evaded an avalanche ... read more

In which I disagree with Stephen Hawking

Apparently Stephen Hawking read my book, but not very carefully, because he thinks aliens will come here ala "Independence Day" * and eat up all our resources and move on. I disagree with him. I think ... read more

The Good Feud Guide: How a garden centre restaurant loved by the rich upset neighbours

And the restaurant, run by celebrity chef Skye Gyngell, has become a fashionable eating-out destination itself, attracting the likes of Madonna, Richard E. Grant and Nigella Lawson. But it has become ... read more

Magic moment ends with miss

They jetted home with the comfort of knowing the next three games ... and was likely in the game late only because Mickael Pietrus (notes) fouled out. A rookie from Western Kentucky, he had become a p... read more