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Who are these guys? It's not too often that you see a team who is one game out of the last playoff spot in its respective conference start a lineup that has one player whose career scoring average is more than 10 points per game. That's exactly what the Bulls did on Tuesday night, with Brad Miller (11.3 points) being the lone double-digit scorer on his career -- sorry Flip Murray , you registered in at 9.9 points heading into the game.  

 

Drivers were consistently topping 200 mph Tuesday during NASCAR's first major test of the new spoiler at Talladega (Ala.) Superspeedway. Twice during the afternoon drafting session, NASCAR called the cars back into the garage to switch to a smaller restrictor plate and slow the cars down. Four-time champ Jeff Gordon -- second fastest in the morning session behind his Hendrick Motorsports teammate Jimmie Johnson -- was encouraged by the performance of his No. 24 DuPont Chevrolet and the driveability of t

I can tell you last week I didn't spend a lot of time thinking about this test. ... Luckily I had a team that was thinking about it before then   -Jeff Gordon

 

After the heaping helpings of criticism that got larded onto TBS after their subpar presentation of the 2009 baseball postseason, the network has decided to take no chances with its broadcast teams this season. According to Richard Sandomir of The New York Times, the network has decided to replace Chip Caray, who they dismissed after the 2009 playoffs, with a three-headed play-by-play rotation. The announcers are all pros: Dick Stockton, Brian Anderson (who announced one of the Division Series for the n  

Playworks , a California-based nonprofit organization that was awarded an $18 million grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, has placed coaches in 170 schools in low-income areas of nine cities, including Boston, Washington and Los Angeles, The Times reports. Schools pay Playworks $23,500 a year to run a recess program. In January, Brandi Parker was hired by Playworks to be a recess coach at Broadway Elementary School in Newark, N.J.  

As the climactic votes approach this week on health care, some groups on the left seem more interested in throwing a wrench into the process than putting a landmark law on the books. MoveOn.org is in the latter camp. It is asking its 5 million members to back primary challengers to Democrats who don't support the reform package, and at least one union is sending similar signals .

Our goal is to pass a good bill, the best bill possible   -Adam Green

 

Both of the developers gave some interesting insight into their respective designs. Diamante talked about how he'd assembled the music for the game, tying it to various flowers and hits in the landscape, layering it down so that as the player opened up new areas, new parts of the soundtrack would not just appear but actually take the lead. First the violin would lead the melody, and then the clarinet would take over, without the violin changing parts.  

Combining an old school sound with new school hooks and riffs, Dirty Sweet has become a band that bring the phrase "Old School Rock 'N Roll" into the 21st century with style and passion. Spinner speaks with Ryan about the band's music and their influences. How did you come up with your band name?  

It's not surprising to me that the theme of Mayor Nick Russo's Feb. 18 op-ed piece was a call to further restrict access to public records by weakening the Open Public Records Act (OPRA). Since his election, Mayor Russo has taken many steps to frustrate openness and transparency in Longport's government and access to public records to which I and other members of the public are entitled under OPRA. As an example, Mayor Russo authorized a private investigator's report on me, which included my family, f  

The Gillette Wild girls hockey team won its second straight state title in Casper on Sunday, holding off Cody for a 5-3 victory. The game finished off a strong weekend for Gillette, which tipped the Casper Oilers on Saturday night 6-5 that went to a five-player shootout after an overtime period in the age 19 and under event. Desiree Downey scored on the final shot for Gillette, sending the Wild into the championship game.

The girls played strong all weekend   -Brenda Johnson