Joe Paterno announces he will retire from Penn State, Graham Spanier also...
Story from Here & Now. Listen to the above audio for a complete report.The Joe Paterno era at Penn State University will end this season, the legendary coach announced Wednesday morning."I am...
View ArticleVIDEO: Environmentalists find sensitive trees turned into building materials...
Australian environmentalists are outraged after they found high-conservation timber at an Olympic construction site in London.Markets for Change found plywood from Malaysian company Ta Ann at a site...
View ArticlePenn State fires Joe Paterno, Graham Spanier in wake of Sandusky scandal
Story from The Takeaway. Listen to the above audio for a complete report.Joe Paterno, the longest serving college football coach in college football, has been fired immediately by Penn State University...
View ArticleTexas officials open investigation into Penn State's Sandusky, advertiser bails
Story from Here and Now. Listen to the above audio for a complete report.The scandal around Penn State University's football program continues to spin.Today, word came down that prosecutors in Texas...
View ArticleNBA players reject owners' offer, season in doubt
Story from The Takeaway. Listen to the above audio for a complete report.The upcoming NBA season may simply not happen.Monday afternoon, the league's players rejected what the league had said was its...
View ArticleVIDEO: In interview with Bob Costas; Sandusky admits 'horseplay' with kids
Story from Here & Now. Listen to the above audio for a complete report.In an exclusive and startling interview with Bob Costas, aired on NBC's Rock Center Monday night, former Penn State Coach...
View ArticleNickelback halftime performance stirs up controversy, petition in Detroit
Nickelback is kicking off the release of its seventh album, “Here and Now,” with a live performance at the Detroit Lions and Green Bay Packers football game on Thanksgiving Day.But this Turkey Day’s...
View ArticleNBA reaches agreement with its players, but small hurdles remain
After 149 days, the NBA lockout ended over the Thanksgiving weekend.The owners and the players reached a deal on a new labor agreement that saw the players give back millions of dollars to the owners,...
View ArticleSyracuse basketball assistant fired over allegations of molestation
Bernie Fine, the long-time assistant basketball coach at Syracuse University, has been fired effective immediately after a third man stepped forward to accuse the coach of molestation.Fine, who's been...
View ArticleIn Colombia, tower racing's stars run for World Cup
Some 5,000 racers are running to the top of the Colpatria tower in Bogota, site of this year's tower running World Cup.That means climbing 48 floors, 980 steps. Most will make it to the top in 10 to...
View ArticlePakistani cricket star surging to political power
Pakistani sports-hero turned politician Imran Khan held a massive rally in the city of Karachi, attracting at least 100,000 people. This was his second rally in two months that’s attracted such a...
View ArticleAs college sports get bigger, some want athletes to get more of the money
College sports generate about $6 billion a year, from ticket sales, licensing deals, broadcasting rights and other sources.And while college sports encompasses dozens of sports, hundreds of schools and...
View ArticlePay TV providers getting into bitter disputes over retransmission consent
With the Super Bowl set to air on NBC in less than two weeks, DirecTV subscribers in Boston could be in trouble if they want to watch the hometown New England Patriots play the New York Giants.The NBC...
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Dozens killed, hundreds wounded in violent clash after Egyptian soccer match
Egyptians are trying to make sense of a soccer match that turned incredibly violent Wednesday night in Port Said, a city of 600,000 along the Mediterranean Sea, near the Sinai Peninsula.According to...
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Conspiracy theories run deep over cause of deadly Egypt soccer riot
Egypt is in an uproar right now as protesters take to the street over officials' failure to stop a riot that turned deadly at a soccer match Wednesday night.According to the BBC, some 10,000 protesters...
View ArticleSuper Bowl 2012 set to be an epic sequel fit for Hollywood
This year's Super Bowl is perhaps best described not as Super Bowl XLVI, but rather simply as The Sequel.Tom Brady and his New England Patriots matched Eli Manning and the New York Giants in Super Bowl...
View ArticleSuper Bowl 2012 halftime show presents Madonna opportunity to reconnect
While the in-game entertainment at Super Bowl 2012 will be a rematch, the half-time show will be all new.Madonna, the 53-year-old singer and superstar will headline her first Super Bowl halftime show,...
View ArticleIndian, U.S. investors trying to bring American, NFL-style football to South...
About 150 men dressed in T-shirts emblazoned with team names like the Vipers, the Blacktigers and the Gladiators gather in a field at the Balewadi sports complex in Pune.Meet the Elite Football League...
View ArticleSuper Bowl ad starring New York, Boston mayors promotes gun reforms
New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg joined Boston mayor Tom Menino, both avowed supporters of Second Amendment rights, in a Super Bowl commercial to promote "common sense" gun regulations.The pair are...
View ArticleBest Super Bowl 2012 ads leave experts disappointed
It cost about $3.5 million to air a 30-second spot during the Super Bowl Sunday night.By most accounts, Doritos was the big winner. According to USA Today’s Ad Meter, which rates response to the ads,...
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