Debtors' jail has been abolished in the United States since the 1830s. Now many debtors are put in handcuffs for showing "contempt of court" when creditors harass them with summons at what the ACLU calls increasingly alarming rates. One teacher's aide and breast cancer …
It was just the fourth goal scored by a keeper in the Premier League (which only dates back to 1992, when it replaced the old First Division, mind you) and second from an American (the other being Brad Friedel in 2004).
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Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban spent $110,000 in four hours celebrating at club LIV at Miami's Fontainebleau after his Mavs beat the Heat to take the NBA championship, the New York Post reported Tuesday. Cuban spent most of it on a huge, gold-colored $90,000 bottle of Ace of S …
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Hilarious column by Brooks Peck on Gary Neville's testimonial at Old Trafford on Tuesday, May 24, 2011. Worth the read - the video, and the photo captions are equally hysterical. I am still laughing.
It seems UK footballers are making a habit of using super-injunctions to cover up their sexual indiscretions and misbehavior, on the grounds that they deserve PRIVACY. I don't have a problem with super-injunctions, but I don't think that footballers and other public …
Carling Cup winners Birmingham were relegated from the Premier League after a 2-1 defeat to Tottenham at White Hart Lane on Sunday.
For years, Bill Gates focused his education philanthropy on overhauling large schools and opening small ones. His new strategy is more ambitious: overhauling the nation’s education policies.
Ajax goalkeeper Maarten Stekelenburg usually has a safe pair of hands, but he managed to drop the Dutch league's trophy from the top of a bus as the team took a triumphal ride through Amsterdam. The incident resembles one from last month when Real Madrid's Sergio Ramos dropped Sp …
When Real arrived back in a rain-soaked Madrid and boarded an open-top bus that would take them to the center of the late-night celebrations at the Plaza de Cibeles, Sergio Ramos took hold of the Copa del Rey trophy and held it high above his head at the front of the bus as it mo …
Among the targeted revisions is the introduction of the line about Jesus being "consubstantial with the father" in place of "one in being with the father" in the Nicene Creed. Dobrzynski said the word "consubstantial" conveys a deeper sense of sharing the same substance.
The newly-released findings by the Citizens Budget Commission, a fiscal watchdog group, cast the LIRR in a harsh light. Among America's ten largest commuter railroads, the LIRR ranked at or near the bottom in several factors. The LIRR came in eighth out of ten for operating c …
Real Madrid hammered 10-man Tottenham 4-0 in the first leg of their Champions League quarterfinal on Tuesday.
And it turns out that the nuclear reactor in the United States with the highest risk of an earthquake causing core damage is not the Diablo Canyon Power Plant, with its twin reactors tucked between the California coastline and the San Andreas Fault. It's not the San Onofre Nucle …
Harry Redknapp will wonder how his team failed to break the deadlock but take nothing away from West Ham, who are now unbeaten in four Premier League games and look a side transformed in recent weeks.
Captain Scott Parker inspired West Ham to a win over Liverpool at Upton Park that lifted the east London side off the bottom of the Premier League table. Parker produced a lovely dinked effort into the far bottom corner after 22 minutes to give the Hammers the lead.
The stunning 2-0 victory by the United States over Spain — the best team in the world — is probably the greatest victory by the men's national soccer team.
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