Monday, February 04, 2013
Appreciating Kevin Millwood’s career | HardballTalk - Matthew Pouliot - It’s a trivia question that would have stumped most: who is the active leader in strikeouts among right-handed pitchers? Until this morning, the answer was Kevin Millwood, at 2,083. Now it’s Roy Halladay, just 17 behind at 2,066, after Millwood announced his retirement.
Sunday, February 03, 2013
'He loved him when others did not': Community mourns loss of a school bus driver gunned down by survivalist he was trying to help | Mail Online - Laura Collins -Charles ‘Chuck’ Poland visited his killer on Tuesday morning, just a handful of hours before survivalist Jimmy Lee Dykes gunned him down and took a five-year old child hostage. - The school bus driver went to Dykes’s home near Midland City, Alabama, after finishing his morning route, bringing him a basket of eggs and jam. - Hours later Dykes repaid the 66-year-old father and grandfather’s act of kindness with shocking violence.
Record-breaking Jacoby Jones helps Ravens to championship - CBSSports.com - Ryan Wilson Blogger - Jones' kickoff matches the longest in NFL history in any game -- regular season or postseason. There have been three other 108-yard kickoff returns, including one from Jones against the Cowboys earlier in the year. The other two came courtesy of the Patriots' Ellis Hobbs in 2007 and the Packers' Randall Cobb in 2011.
Survivalist tricked Alabama school bus driver into stopping by 'promising a gift of home-grown broccoli' before he shot him dead and took a little boy hostage | Mail Online - Laura Collins - Survivalist Jimmy Lee Dykes set his plan to ambush a Midland City school bus in motion by telling the driver that he was 'going to give him a gift', it was revealed today. - The detail has emerged as the hostage situation in Alabama continues into its fifth day. - The day before Dykes, 65, acted, he told driver, Charles Poland, that he was going to give him some broccoli he had grown on his land. - His intention was to ensure that his approach caused no alarm when he boarded the vehicle on Tuesday afternoon armed with a gun.
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