Say what you want about the World Baseball Classic but it was good baseball. ...more

March 24, 2009

It was not a night for basketball purists. Jefferson High School hosted the annual All-Star High School Basketball Classic on Friday to benefit the United Negro College Fund and passing and defense were all but forgotten. The teams, made up of seniors throughout Hillsborough County, were divided into East and West teams and no shot clock was necessary. With a running clock, the teams, in both the boys and girls game, raced up and down the court, trying shots that would have put them on the bench in any game that counted. ...more

March 14, 2009

LONDON - On the streets of Birmingham, the queen's English is now the queens English. England's second-largest city has decided to drop apostrophes from all its street signs, saying they're confusing and old-fashioned. But some purists are downright possessive about the punctuation mark. ...more

February 1, 2009

The holiday shopping purists among us don't even want to talk about the retail season ahead until the day after Thanksgiving. But with the economy looking bleaker by the day and stock indexes slumping from bad news on sales, all eyes are on holiday projections and that nebulous thing called "consumer confidence." ...more

November 17, 2008

Evan Longoria's favorite video game is "Guitar Hero." He rocks out to Guns N' Roses and, according to selected witnesses, performs a stirring rendition of "Free Bird," despite its degree of difficulty. ...more

November 10, 2008

But October isn't just about Halloween. There is another equally important festival going on right under our noises. ...more

October 10, 2008

It was a fortuitous typo for the Fred Meyer retail chain. This spring, an employee intending to order a special CD-DVD edition of R.E.M.'s latest release "Accelerate" inadvertently entered the "LP" code instead. Soon boxes of the big, vinyl discs showed up at several stores. ...more

June 10, 2008

Crowds of people gathered and the stands were nearly filled to capacity, as the players made their way to the batter's box to give everyone a thrill. Onlookers sat with their eyes on the dugout and waited for the hulk of a teen to stroll up to the plate with bat in hand. ...more

May 23, 2008

Whatever the musical genre, there are always purists out there to judge authenticity. ...more

January 18, 2008

Bill Royall chose the University of Denver so he could take the winter quarters off from school and hit the slopes. ...more

January 13, 2008