- Allene Wynn of Pacoima, Calif., turned 105 years old this week and celebrated her birthday at the Lakers game against the New Orleans Hornets as a guest of the team. I got to touch [Kobe Bryant]. I shook hands with him and hugged him.
(ESPN)- This was ugly. Really ugly. Like, the offspring of Medusa and Jabba The Hut ugly. The important thing is the win, but the second most important thing is the way the win was manufactured.
(ESPN)- THE FACTS: Kobe Bryant made only three shots Saturday, but his third was the biggest -- a go-ahead 3-pointer with 20.2 left in the game that helped lead the Lakers to an 88-85 victory over the Hornets at Staples Center.
(NBA)- Kobe Bryant pointed to transition defense as the biggest reason the Los Angeles Lakers were unable to slow down the Western Conferences top team last time out.
(Sporting News)- Los Angeles, CA (Sports Network) - Despite one of the worst shooting performances of his career, Kobe Bryant hit the shot that mattered most with the game on the line. Bryant rose up from the left wing and nailed a go-ahead three-pointer with 20.
(Calgary Herald)- Nash scored a season-high 30 points in a 120-103 victory on Feb. 1. The Hornets (13-39) have lost four of five, including an 88-85 defeat to the Los Angeles Lakers on Saturday after giving up Kobe Bryants 3-pointer with 20 seconds left.
(NBA)- Good things come in pairs if you look at our top 10 MVP candidates.
(FS West)- The Lakers, 4-4 since acquiring Ramon Sessions, get a get-well opportunity with New Orleans in town – and Emeka Okafor, Trevor Ariza, Gustavo Ayon out, Eric Gordon doubtful and Jarrett Jack and Chris Kaman questionable.
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- Lochte failed to qualify for tonights finals in the 100-meter freestyle and 100 butterfly Thursday morning, while Phelps advanced. Lochte concentrates on longer distances and neither race is his specialty for the Olympics.
(USA Today)- INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Michael Phelps wants to prove he's still the world's best swimmer. Ryan Lochte believes he can still beat Phelps head-to-head.
(World Link)- Michael Phelps and the rest of the US best are in Indianapolis at the latest Grand Prix. See the best action. They just wont be swimming against one another.
(FOXSports.com)- MICHAEL Phelps wants to prove he is still the world's best swimmer. Ryan Lochte believes that he can still beat Phelps head to head.
(Business Day South Africa)- Phelps biggest rival, Ryan Lochte, wasnt as happy with his results. After missing the finals in both of his events Thursday, Lochte rebounded Friday.
(NBC Sports)- Women include Missy Franklin, Dara Torres, Amanda Beard, Katie Hoff, Dana Vollmer. Men include Michael Phelps, Ryan Lochte, Brendan Hansen, Nathan Adrian, Anthony Ervin.
(Indianapolis Star)- This was one strange night at the Indianapolis Grand Prix.
(Kitsap Sun)- If Phelps can beat rival Ryan Lochte in Saturday's 200 IM, he will have yet another passage to add to his journal of favorite swimming memories. But there's one image that will never go away.
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- Kansas State has hired Bruce Weber to be its next mens basketball coach, Weber told ESPN.coms Andy Katz on Saturday.
(ESPN)- Bruce Weber knows that Kansas State fans may not accept him right away. That much became clear when a small rally for another coaching candidate turned into a protest of his hiring.
(US News and World Report)- Kansas State has hired Bruce Weber as its basketball coach, turning to someone who once led Illinois to the national championship game to calm the waters in the wake of Frank Martin's departure for South Carolina.
(Pantagraph)- Kansas State has hired Bruce Weber, turning to a coach who once led Illinois to the mens NCAA championship game to calm the waters in the wake of Frank Martins departure for South Carolina. Weber agreed to a five-year, $8.
(Winston-Salem Journal)- It almost looks like Bruce Weber fell up, not down, when Illinois fired him. He'll now get paid by two schools, counting his $3.9 million buyout from Illinois, and he takes over a Kansas State team that has reached the NCAA's Sweet 16 the past two years.
(Rockford Register-Star)- Former Illinois coach Bruce Weber has been hired by Kansas State, according to multiple reports. Kansas State has called a 3 p.m. news conference. Weber will replace Frank Martin, who left the Wildcats for a job at South Carolina.
(Hartford Courant)- Mar 31, 2012 - The Kansas State Wildcats have been on the search for a new head coach ever since Frank Martin left for the South Carolina head coaching job.
(SBNation.com)- Bruce Weber, who underachieved at Illinois the last few years, is going to be named the coach at Kansas State, replacing Frank Martin.
(The Big Lead)- There could be, so check back later. As popular as Martin was as Kansas State's basketball coach, he will be quite difficult for his successor to follow. But then, Bruce Weber has been through this before.
(Topeka Capital-Journal)- A person familiar with the situation says Bruce Weber has been hired by Kansas State to replace men's basketball coach Frank Martin, who left for South Carolina.
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- LEXINGTON, Ky. - Post-game revelry in Lexington turned to violence and fire-setting as University of Kentucky fans swarmed the streets surrounding campus, prompting police in riot gear to move in.
(USA Today)- LOUISVILLE, Ky.
(Huffington Post)- Post-game revelry in Lexington turned to destruction and fire-setting as University of Kentucky fans swarmed the streets surrounding the campus, prompting police in riot gear to move in.
(Courier-Journal)- It should go without saying to celebrate or mourn responsibly after a big sports event in your home town. Apparently, the good folks of Lexington, Ky. need a little bit of a reminder.
(NESN.com)- NEW ORLEANS _ Kansas and Kentucky have never met in a Final Four its own scary moments before beating in-state rival Louisville, setting off riots amongst crazed Wildcats fans in Lexington.
(nola.com)- Police closed the intersection of Euclid and Woodland for a few hours as fans poured into the streets celebrating UKs win.
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- NEW ORLEANS -- With his team having rallied from a 13-point deficit, to reclaim the lead with less than three minutes remaining, Jeff Withey believed for a brief moment hed just sealed a victory.
(CNN Sports Illustrated)- NEW ORLEANS -- Back in October, we said wed get a colossal Final Four. When the brackets were released, we forecasted a chalky March.
(ESPN)- NEW ORLEANS _ The first television break is coming, literally any second now, but Bill Self wont wait that long. He cant wait that long. He sticks his fingers into his palm and calls timeout to scream at his Kansas basketball team.
(nola.com)- NEW ORLEANS - Each time he takes the court, Jeff Withey knows hes got a job to do. If he does it well, he can give his team something better than a dunk, or even a three-pointer. Withey can give Kansas a four-point swing.
(USA Today)- NEW ORLEANS - Saturday nights second national semifinal at the Superdome looked very much like the first one, with the favorite taking a significant lead and the underdog looking as if it might never score.
(Philadelphia Daily News)- Kansas State has hired Bruce Weber to be its next mens basketball coach, Weber told ESPN.coms Andy Katz on Saturday.
(ESPN)- NEW ORLEANS -- If this were two years ago, or even last season, Saturdays game against Ohio State would have likely ended differently for Tyshawn Taylor.
(CBS Sports)- Kansas, the underrated, undervalued team thats been teetering on the edge of the tournament since before it even began, is now one of the last two left.
(FOXSports.com)- NEW ORLEANS - There will be another game Saturday night. It will have nothing to do with Kentucky, other than the winner will be playing some school from Kentucky on Monday night for the national championship.
(Philadelphia Daily News)- NEW ORLEANS • Same story, new night for Kansas. The team thats been teetering on the edge of the tournament since before it even began is now one of the last two left.
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- In a secure laboratory built to contain harmful pathogens, Fouchier took the H5N1 bird flu virus and mutated it, through some worryingly simple steps, into an airborne strain that spread swiftly among ferrets in neighbouring cages.
(The Guardian)- A confirmed case of H5N1 avian influenza in Egypt has taken the life of a woman from Dakahlia Governorate according to the World Health Organization (WHO).
(Examiner)- JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — A 17-year-old has died of bird flu in Indonesia. He is the countrys sixth fatality from the virus so far this year.
(Houston Chronicle)- A government advisory committee has reconsidered its advice to keep certain details of bird flu experiments secret. Revised versions of manuscripts that describe two recent studies can be openly published, the committee now says.
(NPR News)- Scientists, security experts, flu virologists and others are arguing over whether the details of experiments with lab-altered forms of bird flu can be made public, or whether that would amount to publishing the recipe for a superflu that could be used as a bioweapon.
(NPR News)- The pro-Hanoi Vietcong began a guerrilla campaign in the late 1950s to overthrow Diems government, which an official Vietcong statement described as a disguised colonial regime.
(Worldnews.com)- While several countries around the world perform details genetic analyses of both the H5N1 strain and other influenza viruses that could contribute to a new pandemic, on a global scale the flu surveillance is in dire shape, reported Nature.
(Scientist)- KATHMANDU, March 19 (Xinhua) -- After the confirmation of bird flu avian influenza in a farm in the Nepali capital Kathmandu, the alert level among the residents of Kathmandu has been elevated.
(Xinhua News Agency)- LIMBURG, Netherlands, March 18 (UPI) -- Bird flu was detected among turkeys at a farm in the Dutch province of Limburg, officials said.
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- Does Congress or the Supreme Court define the limits of economic regulation The Reagan-era lawyers sought to rein in what they saw as liberal judicial activism. For example, Fried and Kmiec thought the Roe vs.
(Los Angeles Times)- Does Congress or the Supreme Court define the limits of economic regulation The Reagan-era lawyers sought to rein in what they saw as liberal judicial activism. For example, Fried and Kmiec thought the Roe vs.
(Sacramento Bee)- For anyone who still thought legal conservatives are dedicated to judicial restraint, the oral arguments before the Supreme the Roberts court and the Warren court, which conservatives have long railed against for being an activist court.
(New York Times)- The courts conservative wing appears ready to engage in some despicable judicial activism on ObamaCare But those Tea Party protesters outside may be matched by a Tea Party Supreme Court inside.
(YAHOO!)- No one benefits when one side says, Your judges are judicial activists, only to hear rivals say in response, Nuh uh, your judges are.
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