Bobby Knight could learn a thing or two from this coach about "focus, focus, focus."
A 7-year-old boy was injured about 6 p.m. Thursday when he rode a bicycle into the path of a car being driven by the Muskogee High School head football coach.
Chase Thornton sustained a broken collarbone, road rash on a leg and shoulder and a knot on his head, said Capt. Chad Farmer.
Man, when you can't even get attention by dying en masse, what's the world coming to?
The arrests came after protesters lay down on the Capitol lawn in what they called a "die in" — with signs on top of their bodies to represent soldiers killed in Iraq. When police took no action, some of the protesters started climbing over a barricade at the foot of the Capitol steps.
It won't be as easy as the Patriots think to "put all this" behind them:
"It's over. We're moving on."
So said New England Patriots coach Bill Belichick during Friday's televised news conference about the videotaping dirty tricks used against the New York Jets. The tactic cost him and his team $750,000 in fines. The Pats also lose a first-round draft choice if they make the playoffs, a second- and third-round pick if they don't.
We've all heard jokes about the "fashion police" going after so and so for what they wear. Now the jokes have come true:
It's a fashion that started in prison, and now the saggy pants craze has come full circle — low-slung street strutting in some cities may soon mean run-ins with the law, including a stint in jail.
Richard Aregood was famous for writing short, pithy editorials when he was with the Philadelphia Daily News. One of his most memorable was (in its entirety): "They say only the good die young. Generalissimo Francisco Franco was 82. Seems about right." I thought about that when I read this:
Boy, never got an offer like this at any of my jobs:
ULYANOVSK, Russia (Reuters) - The governor of a central Russian province urged couples to skip work Wednesday and make love instead to help boost Russia's low birth-rate.
Indiana may soon stand alone:
BOISE -- Two women are among the final four candidates to take the seat on the Idaho Supreme Court left vacant by the August retirement of Linda Copple-Trout, who was the first woman on the state's highest court when she was appointed by former Gov. Cecil Andrus in 1992.
Oops:
A St. Paul man on his way to anger management class demonstrated just how badly he needed to attend the class.
Justin Boudin is charged with fifth degree assault for using his anger management class papers to hit a man.
It was just before rush hour on August 29, that police say the 27-year-old Boudin was at a St. Paul bus stop when he began arguing with waiting passengers.
He was particularly upset with a 59-year-old woman and yelled at her, saying, "Why don't you show me some respect?"
The farm legislation proceeding through Congress symbolizes much of what's wrong with Washington. It's government by inertia. We do today what we did yesterday, because politicians draw their power from distributing benefits and various interest groups feel entitled to receive them -- even if they serve no defensible public purpose. Our extravagant farm programs capture the absurdity as well as any other.
My brother, who lives in Texas, is fond of saying, "Never bring a knife to a gun fight." If he lived in Canada, perhaps he would add, "and don't bring a gun argument to a knife fight":
