This was not what the Americans expected. Oh sure, being atop the standings by a comfortable margin after their qualifying session in women’s gymnastics, that went according to plan. But world champion Jordyn Wieber (a heavy favorite to add the Olympic gold) won’t even get to contend for the all-around title after finishing behind teammates […]
John Orozco (the teenager from the Bronx) helped lead the U.S. gymnastics team to the top of the rankings in a qualification round. It was an impressive afternoon for the men, as Orozco and Danell Leyva also became two of four Americans to advance to the individual event finals. The U.S. posted a team total […]
Michael Phelps qualified eighth-fastest in the 400-meter individual medley preliminaries on Saturday, grabbing the last spot in the evening final. The two-time defending Olympic champion won his heat in 4 minutes and 13.33 seconds with a time that was well off his world record of 4:03.84 set four years ago in Beijing – when Phelps […]
Sonya Andrews may not be the first on her block to tap into Google Inc.’s much-hyped, hyper-fast Internet hook-ups announced Thursday. But her neighborhood could be one of the first in Kansas City to get an express lane to the web. “I don’t know about anyone else” – she emailed her Coleman Highlands neighbors in […]
An Olympic competitor has claimed political asylum in Britain, the Mail can reveal. The man (believed to be a middle distance runner in his mid 20′s from Africa) was being held by the UK Borders Agency last night after walking into a police station in Leeds and asking for asylum. The claim comes at a […]
Sherman Hemsley (the man who brought George Jefferson to vivid life) has died at age 74. The accomplished stage actor achieved his widest fame in a role he raised to comic greatness – George Jefferson, the egotistical, strutting centerpiece of The Jeffersons. Hemsley took a part that could have been clownish and exaggerated — George […]
Space used to be a man’s world. Then came Sally Ride, who blazed a cosmic trail for U.S. women into orbit. With a pitch perfect name out of a pop song refrain, she joined the select club of American space heroes the public knew by heart – Shepard, Glenn, Armstrong and Aldrin. Ride, the first […]
The casts of “The Hunger Games” and the “Twilight” saga were all winners at Sunday’s 14th annual Teen Choice Awards. The Teen Choice surfboard trophies were handed out at a ceremony in Los Angeles hosted by “Glee” actor Kevin McHale and new “X Factor” judge Demi Lovato. The event was broadcast on Fox. Lovato announced […]
Rupert Murdoch has stepped down as director of a number of companies behind British newspapers The Sun, The Times and The Sunday Times, a News International spokeswoman said on Saturday. “Last week Mr Murdoch stepped down from a number of boards, many of them small subsidiary boards, both in the UK and US” – a […]
Jessica Ghawi wrote on her blog in June that she had a new-found appreciation for the preciousness of life after surviving the Eaton Centre shooting. Little more than a month later, she would be dead, killed in Colorado by a man wielding a gun, something she had so narrowly avoided in Toronto. Ghawi (24) was […]