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Oklahoma quarterback Sam Bradford, who is one-sixteenth Cherokee, is at the forefront of the Heisman Trophy conversation, but he finds his role as the tribe’s hero somewhat awkward.
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Glasgow Airport car bomb hero John Smeaton remains in intensive care after suffering an asthma attack.
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Stoke keeper accuses Villa manager of attempting to destroy his career.
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The market is re-evaluating and re-pricing every asset in the world. It is going to do whatever it's going to do - whichever way greed and fear tug it.
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New Oxford chairman Kelvin Thomas says steadying the ship at the club is an early priority at the Kassam Stadium.
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DAVID Nalbandian has begun the European indoor season by winning the Stockholm Open with a 6-2 5-7 6-3 win over Swede Robin Soderling.
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New Orleans RB Pierre Thomas was used very sparingly again in Week 6's win over the Raiders as Deuce McAllister got the bulk of the carries and Reggie Bush the remainder. Thomas had three carries for 18 yards.
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They had Ireland's 1990s World Cup heroes, a plethora of Bohs legends and even the League-winning team, but the 3,000 spectators at the Dalymount Park were only here for one man, Kevin Hunt.
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The head of France's anti-doping agency says Austrian cyclist Bernhard Kohl tested positive for a banned blood booster at the Tour de France, where he finished third. Documents reveal details of Ricco's doping. Pakistan bowler Mohammad Asif's doping appeal was adjourned Saturday at an Indian Premier League tribunal . The paceman faces a ban of up to two years after testing positive for banned steroid nandrolone when playing for India's domestic Twenty20 IPL in May. A federal judge has sentenced former elite cyclist Tammy Thomas to six months of home confinement for lying to a grand jury about her steroid use.
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By Robert Collins
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Minnesota agreed to terms with linebacker Dontarrious Thomas to bolster a banged-up unit. Thomas played his first four seasons in Minnesota before leaving for bigger money with San Francisco. Thomas was waived in training camp and has been looking for work ever since. He was the primary backup at all three positions last year in Minnesota, and the Vikings are going to need him to step back in quickly this year. Starting middle linebacker E.J. Henderson is out for the year with a foot injury. His backup, David Herron, was banged up in Sunday's win over Detroit and may not be able to play this week.
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Patriots TE David Thomas caught just one pass -- a 14-yarder -- Week 6 at San Diego. He has five receptions this season.
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The New Republic: Heroism had always been a part of the American political subconscious, and as political strategy has so far kept McCain close in a year when no Republican should have had any shot at capturing the White House.
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The pianist, songwriter, producer, bandleader and occasional singer Richard "Popcorn" Wylie was in at the birth of Tamla Motown. He played on "Shop Around", a 1961 hit for the Miracles, on "Please Mr Postman", a US chart-topper in the same year by the Marvelettes, and also cut a rollicking cover version of Barrett Strong's "Money (That's What I Want)", the label's début hit.
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It is one of the most elementary tenets of scientific research that a well-designed experiment should only contain one variable. if you're testing for the effect of a particular substance you have to be sure that its presence or absence is the only thing that changes between tests. This is particularly important when you're testing humans, those multi-channel receivers of stimuli, obvious and subliminal.
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As you drive along the highway towards the world's largest Marine Corp base, a huge sign pronounces "Virginia, John McCain Country".
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Centre set for long layoff after dislocating shoulder in Heineken Cup win over Clermont Auvergne.
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Daimler AG is shuttering its truck-making facility in St. Thomas, Ont., costing the area 1,400 jobs, the company announced Tuesday.
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Just a day after eviscerating Starz and their new dramatic series Crash, we might need to ready an apology. Variety reports that the network will be teaming with Veronica Mars creator Rob Thomas to create Party Down, a new half-hour comedy series set to appear during the first quarter of 2009. And it actually sounds pretty good! Down is about a group of six Los Angeles caterers who are starting to realize that their dreams of stardom have gone by the wayside. In the press release, Mr. Thomas compares his show to the BBC version of The Office, heady expectations to be sure; from reading the description, a better comparison might be Extras. read more »
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My good friend Steve Richards is one of the best commentators on politics at the moment, and one of the reasons for that is that, unlike the rest of us,* he refuses to write Gordon Brown off. But today he goes too far:
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Mere hours after going from reserve player to Game 4 hero in the National League Championship Series, Matt Stairs was back at work looking forward, not back.
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The toast of Philadelphia has been with 11 clubs in a 20-year career. He is Matt Stairs, who launched a go-ahead, pinch-hit homer in the eighth inning Monday to vault the Phillies within a victory of the World Series.
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Telford snooker ace Adrian Gunnell looks forward to facing his boyhood hero Steve Davis in Glasgow.
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The director muses on Johnny Depp, "Alice in Wonderland" and "The Dark Knight."
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The route that takes an enemy of the state on to the global stage as a national icon can be as short as the flight from Istanbul to Frankfurt. This week, Turkey is enjoying its status as "country of honour" at the 2008 Frankfurt Book Fair. The programme, backed by the government in Ankara, began with an address by a writer who knows that parts of his country's armed forces once plotted to assassinate him. Orhan Pamuk may have won the Nobel Prize for literature in 2006, but in that year he also survived a prosecution for "insulting Turkish identity", under the infamous but now reformed Article 301 of the penal code, after he spoke abroad about the Armenian massacres of the First World War.
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In the financial-services boom, bubble and bust, Americans got away from the basics - from the fundamentals of prudent lending and borrowing.
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