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Lincecum struggles through another start
March 11, 2010
Tim Lincecum, the two-time reigning NL Cy Young Award winner, doesn’t quite look like himself yet at spring training and struggled through 2 2-3 innings in the Giants’ sloppy 6-2 loss to the Seattle Mariners on Thursday.
SEC: Tennessee overcomes awful first half to top LSU
March 11, 2010
Wayne Chism had 17 points and 10 rebounds and No. 15 Tennessee overcame its worst first half of the season to beat LSU 59-49 in the first round of the Southeastern Conference on Thursday.
Another Big East shocker as No. 10 ’Nova falls
March 11, 2010
Lazar Hayward gave Marquette the lead for good with a 3-pointer with 1:51 to play, then added the clinching free throws with 3.2 seconds left, and the Golden Eagles went on to another close win, 80-76 over No. 10 Villanova on Thursday in the Big East tournament quarterfinals.

Woods out until at least Masters, sources says
March 11, 2010
Tiger Woods intends to remain out of golf at least until the Masters, two people with knowledge of his plans have told The Associated Press.
UCLA tops Arizona to open Pac-10 tourney
March 11, 2010
Michael Roll scored 19 points, Reeves Nelson added 18 and UCLA held off Arizona 75-69 Thursday in a Pac-10 Conference tournament quarterfinal between two powerhouses that once ruled the league but have struggled this season.
Verizon Tips Its 4G Handset Hand
March 11, 2010
Big 12: No. 1 Kansas rips Texas Tech for 2,000th win
March 11, 2010
Cole Aldrich had 12 points and 18 rebounds, and No. 1 Kansas became the third team to reach 2,000 wins by pulling out an 80-68 victory over scrappy Texas Tech on Thursday in the quarterfinals of the Big 12 tournament.
Big Ten: Michigan tops Iowa, will face Ohio State
March 11, 2010
Manny Harris had 22 points and nine rebounds to help Michigan defeat Iowa 59-52 on Thursday in the first round of the Big Ten tournament.
MWC: No. 8 New Mexico wins another close game
March 11, 2010
Darrington Hobson’s 28 points helped eighth-ranked New Mexico stave off a scare from the scrappy Air Force Falcons 75-69 Thursday in the Mountain West Conference quarterfinals.
ACC: Miami puts Wake Forest on bubble with upset
March 11, 2010
Redshirt freshman Reggie Johnson scored a season-high 22 points against his hometown school and 12th-seeded Miami routed fifth-seeded Wake Forest 83-62 on Thursday in the first round of the Atlantic Coast Conference tournament.
Big first trimester weight gain ups diabetes risk
March 11, 2010
Women who gain weight too quickly during the first three months of pregnancy are more prone to develop pregnancy-related diabetes, new research shows.
School sued for canceling prom over lesbian student
March 11, 2010
(CNN) — A Mississippi high school faces a lawsuit over its decision to cancel its prom rather than allow a lesbian high school student attend with her girlfriend.
The lawsuit, filed by the American Civil Liberties Union, alleges that officials at Itawamba Agricultural High School in Fulton, Mississippi, are violating the students First Amendment right to freedom of expression.
The ACLU asked the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Mississippi to reinstate the prom.
"All I wanted was the same chance to enjoy my prom night like any other student. But my school would rather hurt all the students than treat everyone fairly," said the student, 18-year-old Constance McMillen, in an ACLU news release. "This isnt just about me and my rights anymore — now Im fighting for the right of all the students at my school to have our prom."
At the center of the lawsuit is a memorandum from the school to students, dated February 5, which states that prom dates must be of the opposite sex.
Also, when McMillen expressed a desire to wear a tuxedo to the prom, the superintendent told her only male students were allowed to wear tuxes, according to court documents.
Superintendent Teresa McNeece also told McMillen that she and her girlfriend could be ejected from the prom if any of the other students complained about their presence there, according to the documents.
The prom was canceled after McMillen and the ACLU tried informally to get the school to change its stance.
Officials at the Itawamba County School District were not immediately available for comment Thursday.
Vikings wine, dine free-agent Tomlinson
March 11, 2010
LaDainian Tomlinson visited the Minnesota Vikings on Thursday to discuss joining Adrian Peterson in what would be a big-name backfield.
Vegas Advisors on Gambling
March 11, 2010
A game by game breakdown by the experts
Man convicted of murdering Broncos’ Williams
March 11, 2010
Suspected gang member Willie Clark was found guilty of murder Thursday in the drive-by shooting death of Denver Broncos cornerback Darrent Williams after a New Year’s Eve outing three years ago.
Brain scans help researchers read minds
March 11, 2010
By scanning your brain, scientists can tell what memory you are recalling.
World »
U.S. troops probed in Iraqi reporter death
March 11, 2010
U.S. troops open fire on a car in western Baghdad, killing an Iraqi journalist and her husband, a police official says.
Politics »
Dems try to finish health care reform
March 11, 2010
Washington (CNN) — Health care reform takes center stage Thursday as President Obama and top congressional Democrats work behind closed doors to nail down a final agreement.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi — who has sounded increasingly optimistic that she will be able to round up the 216 votes needed to pass the Senate health care bill — will host a meeting of the entire House Democratic caucus in the morning.
On the other side of Capitol Hill, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid will try to build public momentum by framing the issue in more personal terms, holding a news conference with an 11-year-old boy whose mother died of pulmonary hypertension after losing her health insurance.
"We are making progress. A lot of decisions were made," Reid told reporters Wednesday. "I really believe the goal weve been seeking for a long time of health care reform is going to be done. We dont have it all worked out yet but we made a lot of progress."
Obama is set to discuss health care in afternoon and evening meetings with African-American and Hispanic members of Congress. He is also planning to take his increasingly populist, anti-insurance industry message back on the road early next week, delivering yet another reform speech in the political battleground state of Ohio.
The president delivered passionate, campaign-style health care stump speeches earlier this week in Pennsylvania and Missouri. Obama has dismissed questionable poll numbers about the Democratic reform plan, declaring the debate over and urging a final up-or-down vote on the matter in Congress.
"The time for talk is over," he said Wednesday in St. Charles, Missouri. "Its time to vote."
GOP leaders, meanwhile, remain furious over the Democratic strategy for passing an overhaul bill. If the House approves the Senate version of the bill, according to Democratic sources, a separate package of changes designed in part to make the overall measure more palatable to House liberals would then be approved by both chambers — getting through the Senate under a legislative maneuver known as reconciliation. Bills passed under in the Senate reconciliation require only a simple majority of 51 votes.
Senate Democrats lost their filibuster-proof 60-seat supermajority with the election in January of Massachusetts GOP Sen. Scott Brown to the seat formerly held by the late Democratic Sen. Ted Kennedy.
Liberal House Democrats contend, among other things, that the Senate bill does not include an adequate level of subsidies to help middle- and lower-income families purchase coverage. They also object to the Senates proposed tax on expensive insurance plans.
Separately, a handful of socially conservative House Democrats argue the Senate plan doesnt do enough to ensure taxpayer funds are not used to fund abortions. Several political analysts have said lingering divisions over abortion may prove to be the toughest hurdle for Democratic leaders to overcome.
Republicans argue that reconciliation, which is limited to provisions pertaining to the budget, was never meant to facilitate passage of a sweeping measure along the lines of the health care bill.
Reid dismissed the GOPs arguments in a letter sent to Minority Leader Mitch McConnell on Thursday.
"The reconciliation bill now under consideration would not be the vehicle for comprehensive reform — that bill already passed [the Senate] outside of reconciliation," Reid wrote.
"Instead, reconciliation would be used to make a modest number of changes to the original legislation, all of which would be budget-related. There is nothing inappropriate about this."
Four Senate Republicans who previously served in the House warned House Democrats in a news conference Wednesday that there is no guarantee the reconciliation strategy will succeed.
A unified Senate GOP caucus will fight to prevent changes promised by the Democratic leadership, they said.
House Democrats "better think long and hard" about voting for the Senate plan if they dont like it, said Sen. John Thune, R-South Dakota. "If you vote for the Senate-passed bill, you own the Senate-passed bill."
Business »
Report: Linux Gains Ground, Windows Stumbles
January 26, 2010
Linux inched ahead in the operating-system arena during the final month of 2009, even as Windows and Mac gave up some ground. That’s according to research firm Net Applications, which recently released its Market Share report covering operating systems in December. Linux accounted for 1.02 percent of the market in December, up from an even 1 percent the month before.
Technology »
Verizon Tips Its 4G Handset Hand
March 11, 2010
Verizon will have the first handset running on its Long-Term Evolution 4G network by the middle of next year — about six months ahead of schedule — according to a report in The Wall Street Journal. The development of LTE means faster cellular data transfers than the 3G networks now in widespread use by U.S. carriers, though exactly when LTE will become common has long been a source of uncertainty.
Health »
Big first trimester weight gain ups diabetes risk
March 11, 2010
Women who gain weight too quickly during the first three months of pregnancy are more prone to develop pregnancy-related diabetes, new research shows.
Sports »
Woods out until at least Masters, sources says
March 11, 2010
Tiger Woods intends to remain out of golf at least until the Masters, two people with knowledge of his plans have told The Associated Press.
