We hath been delivered. Notre Dame returns tomorrow after an almost two-year hiatus from excellence.
Vannie previews The New Beginning in his blog. I suspect this will be a different team altogether. The kids have at least partially grown up, the talent level is burgeoning underneath and the Irish are set for a four-year run at [...]

As the Florida State University Seminoles gear up for the first of seven home football games to be played in Tallahassee this season, FSU police are urging fans to be aware of several changes that could affect their entry into Doak Campbell Stadium.
“Several gate entry areas have changed since last year,” said FSU Police Chief [...]

Sports talk radio still was in its infancy in 1989 when Mark Mason, then the program director at WFAN, proposed a seemingly outrageous solution to an early problem at the first 24-hour sports station:
Teaming Mike Francesa and Chris Russo as a replacement in afternoon drive time for controversial host Pete Franklin, a big-name hire for [...]

Jerry Wexler, the Jewish son of a window washer who grew up to become a giant in the music business, supervising historic recordings by African American musicians such as Aretha Franklin and Ray Charles, died this morning at his home in Sarasota, Fla. He was 91 and the cause of death was congestive heart failure, [...]

Jerry Wexler, who died yesterday aged 91, was one of the most influential record producers of the past 50 years, and the man who introduced the term “Rhythm and Blues” into the lexicon of popular music.
For more than 30 years Wexler was a partner in Atlantic Records, where he worked with a dazzling array of [...]

Mary Kay Letourneau was a married woman with four children and taught school at the Shorewood Elementary School in Burien, Washington. This is where she would have an affair with her 13 year-old student Vili Fualaau. She was once his teacher when he was in second grade, and when she had him again in sixth [...]

The National Hurricane has announced that the stormy weather gathering in the area of Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic has reached tropical storm strength, and has been named Fay.
The storm is moving to the west at 14 mph, with top sustained winds of just 40 mph. No strengthening is expected until the system clears [...]

Tropical Storm Fay formed out of an area of low pressure over the eastern Caribbean Sea today and may pose a threat to Florida and the eastern Gulf of Mexico.The system was located over the Dominican Republic as of 5 p.m. New York time. It was moving west at 14 miles (22 kilometers) per hour, [...]

 Bigfoot may have been found. Maybe. We’ll see.
Two Northern California men and two Georgians say they’ve got a body, a photo and DNA evidence pertaining to the elusive forest-dwelling man-ape — and that they’ll reveal all at a press conference in Palo Alto, Calif., on Friday.
“I think you’ll find that this is the real deal,” [...]

Supposedly, Bigfoot lives in North Georgia, and several of his relatives are still there. At least that’s what a pair of Georgia outdoorsmen and a California “Bigfoot expert” continue to claim.
But if they have definitive evidence to prove it, it wasn’t presented at a press conference here Friday where they had assured the world they’d [...]