- 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)- The Pacific Division-leading Lakers should have better luck in that department Saturday night against an offensively challenged New Orleans Hornets team that will likely be shorthanded.
(San Francisco Gate)- 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)- 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.
(Orange County Register)- Mar 31, 2012 - The Los Angeles Lakers look to get back on track on Saturday afternoon, hosting the New Orleans Hornets at Staples Center.
(SB Nation)- Kaman had missed four games heading into Saturdays game against the Los Angeles Lakers. The 7-foot center was part of the trade from the Los Angeles Clippers that netted Chris Paul.
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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 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)- 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)- This was one strange night at the Indianapolis Grand Prix.
(Kitsap Sun)- 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)- Ryan Lochte, who won the event in the 2011 worlds championships, didnt swim it at the Indianapolis meet.
(Democrat and Chronicle)- 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)- 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)- 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)- Per Mr. Pullens twitter feed, here are the former Wildcats thoughts on Weber bringing his talents to Manhattan.
(SB Nation)- 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.
(Washington Post)- MANHATTAN — By now, Bruce Weber has a pretty good indication of the uphill climb his relationship will have with Kansas State basketball fans. The start of his opening news conference as K-State coach didn't help matters.
(Topeka Capital-Journal)- 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)- Bruce Weber, who underachieved at Illinois the last few years, is going to be named the coach at Kansas State, replacing Frank Martin.
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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.
(Associated Press)- 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.
(WKYT 27)- KENTUCKY FAN. Need I say more? Karen Sypher Do these people not even wait until the game is over to riot? Things sound like theyre getting really bad outside. A fire truck just repeatedly slapped its siren.
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- NEW ORLEANS — Thousands of padded, orange seat cushions — a Final Four gift to the 73,361 fans who crammed inside the Superdome — cascaded toward the court in a mini-hurricane from just about every nook and cranny of the world's largest indoor stadium.
(New York Post)- NEW ORLEANS — Even though the national semifinal between storied programs Kansas and Ohio State had the prime-time slot on CBS, it was relegated to the undercard in this Final Four.
(New York Daily News)- 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 - 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)- 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. The former Illinois coach doesnt have a problem with that, though.
(Minneapolis Star Tribune)- NEW ORLEANS — Well, this matchup is going to look familiar. John Calipari and his Kentucky juggernaut will face Kansas for the national championship on Monday night.
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(Salon)- 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 (AP)—Welcome to "The Other Game" at the Final Four. OK, so, the Ohio State-Kansas matchup may not have the fantastic freshmen, the outspoken coaches or blood-feud story line of the opening semifinal between Kentucky and Louisville.
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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)- NEW YORK -- The U.S. governments biosecurity advisers said Friday they support publishing research studies showing how scientists made new easy-to-spread forms of bird flu because the studies, now revised, dont reveal details bioterrorists could use.
(Huffington Post)- 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)- One thing that's fascinated me about the ongoing debate about the manipulated bird flu (check out my pieces for Slate, the Loom, and the Times for background) is that it comes down, in large part, to information.
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- This week we face a Full Moon on Friday Actually, your attraction to beauty from foreign places could morph into romance with someone from another culture. (Fun way to learn a new language.
(Chicago Sun-Times)- Local Restaurant Week celebrates the unique independent restaurants that contribute to our great WNY culture. Profits from each dollar spent at your locally-owned, independent restaurant stay in WNY and help make our community stronger.
(msnbc.com)- In addition, the Weeks' family papers — letters it takes more than a day or two to get a good taste of Cajun culture. Plan to take it in a little at a time.
(Nashville Tennessean)- Dan Issel or Wes Unseld. John Calipari or Rick Pitino. If the excitement and frenzy and turbulence thats been stirred up in Kentucky this week could be harnessed, we could solve our energy crisis, Kentucky Sen. Mitch McConnell said on the Senate floor.
(Minneapolis Star Tribune)- I love the beauty and esthetics of this country, but I still feel anxiety as I venture forth to the culture that is so foreign to me. Just getting my hair cut and taking a taxi worried me this week.
(American Reporter)- This week's pattern is probably the most awesomest that I've but she has definitely done an outstanding job at creating a pop culture item. Click the SUBSCRIBE button if you like the crochet articles to be sent straight to your inbox.
(Examiner)- a guide through the seemingly endless flurry of pop culture is just what we need. With that in mind, here is whats on the radar screen in TV, music and film for the coming week.
(Winnipeg Free Press)- "Girls" makes its debut in two weeks. Dunham, just 25 reflective in part of post-feminist power dynamics and in part of our digital culture and virtual fixations.
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