This week’s AL Roundup draws primarily on the year’s most depressing development — the first-place New York Yankees.
The most common theme of every baseball season for the last five or six years has been dethroning the Yankees. The Bombers go into every spring as the Series favorite, and this year has been no different, particularly [...]

It’s tough to believe that soon-to-be junior Jeff Gilmore threw a whopping 2 1 / 3 innings without a decision in his freshman year. After breaking out during the 2004 season as a reliable starter — he compiled a 9-2 record — the righthander isn’t slowing a bit.
Gilmore is currently taking the mound for the [...]

With help from senior Ogonna Nnamani and Logan Tom, Class of ‘02, the U.S. women’s volleyball team has secured a spot in the championship round of competition in the annual World Grand Prix — the last serious volleyball tournament before the Olympic Games.
After three weeks of play, Team USA has a 6-3 record and is [...]

The 2004 Reebok Rocky Mountain Revue reunited three former Cardinal teammates, but for Casey Jacobsen, Curtis Borchardt and Josh Childress, the annual NBA summer league in Salt Lake City, Utah, that wrapped up last weekend was not just time to catch up with old friends.
Jacobsen, drafted 22nd overall by the Phoenix Suns in 2002 after [...]

People who think foreign aid ought to be used to help end poverty complain that it has too many strings attached. That strings are attached is true; rather, the problem is not too many strings but instead that the wrong strings are attached to end poverty.
Most aid reflects a deal between leaders in rich, democratic [...]

Perhaps you’ve heard about the group of Bay Area teenagers who were kidnapped and robbed this past week on the road from Quetzeltenango to Antigua in Guatemala. None of the students was harmed and they and the leaders of their project, Seeds of Learning, determined to press on to El Salvador where they will be [...]

The selection of the vice-presidential candidate is always a carefully planned, critical move. The vice-president will hopefully fill in weaknesses on any party’s ticket. The office of the vice president is an important job, and so it takes careful consideration to decide who is ready for the crucial tasks of 1) Breaking a tie in [...]

The rule used to be simple: Sequels are awful. They existed only to make money and were, at best, hollow and brazen repeats of the movies that we already paid to see (“Jurassic Park: The Lost World,” the entire “Lethal Weapon” canon) or, at worst, drastic reinventions of the series that changed / ruined everything [...]

Some things should never be given another chance to live. Crystal-clear Pepsi, Full House and that annoying female Ninja Turtle (Venus deMilo, for you trivia freaks) are just a few of a list full of things that would drive me insane if they came back in any form. Thankfully, the folks over at Sega know [...]

Fox News is second only to the Bush administration in provoking liberals’ ire. Their looseness with the truth is well-documented by watchdogs like Media Matters for America, and any cogent viewer knows that when Bill O’Reilly promises to “talk straight” about the Iraq war or tax cuts, his talk is about as straight as a [...]