Sam Morris / Las Vegas Sun Carlos Condit hits Nick Diaz with a right during their interim welterweight championship bout Saturday, Feb. 4, 2012 at the Mandalay Bay Events Center. Condit won a unanimous decision and will likely face Georges St. Pierre in November. By Case Keefer (contact) Published Saturday, Feb. 4, 2012 | 6 p.m. Updated Saturday, Feb. 4, 2012 | 10:20 p.m. Note: Scroll to the bottom of the page for full results from the preliminary card. Nick Diaz was incredulous to the...
Enlarge Gene J. Puskar/AP Punxsutawney Phil and his buddies earlier today. Gene J. Puskar/AP Punxsutawney Phil and his buddies earlier today. Breaking "news" at 7:27 a.m. ET: Punxsutawney Phil predicts six more weeks of winter. He saw "many shadows." Our original post: It's that time again. Time for Americans to pause and watch as a Pennsylvania groundhog supposedly tells us whether we will or won't have six more weeks of winter. Punxsutawney Phil is due to emerge from his "burrow" at 7:20...
NEW YORK — For most of his 17 Yankee seasons, Jorge Posada had taped inside his locker a quote by Thurman Munson. "Look, I like hitting fourth, and I like the good batting average. But what I do every day behind the plate is a lot more important because it touches so many more people, and so many more aspects of the game." Posada was a born hitter and a converted infielder, but one whose career was infused by the catcher’s creed of Munson. "He plays the game, I think, the way Thurman...
Joe Paterno won 409 games from 1966-2011 as Penn State's head coach. Justin K. Aller/Getty Images STATE COLLEGE, Pa. (AP) -- Joe Paterno's doctors said Saturday that the former Penn State coach's condition had become "serious," following complications from lung cancer in recent days. The winningest major college football coach, Paterno was diagnosed shortly after Penn State's Board of Trustees ousted him Nov. 9 in the aftermath of the child sex abuse charges against former assistant Jerry...
By CANDICE M. GIOVE A fatal fire engulfed a Marist College off-campus house early this morning, killing at least one student, officials said. Flames erupted around 1:30 a.m. at 112 Fairview Avenue. A passerby who called police watched on in horror as a panicking boyfriend tossed his girlfriend out of a first floor window to escape the raging blaze. “All she kept saying is her best friend is inside,” Ashley Fauteux told the Poughkeepsie Journal. Windows shattered loudly. “We thought it was...
Information On The FBI Physical Fitness Test And How To Prepare The fact is there's a lot of people who will apply to become an FBI special agent, but only a selected few will get the job. Some potential candidates will make it through the interview, but fail the polygraph test, while others will fail the physical standards test. Besides the FBI aptitude test, I believe the next hardest phase is the new recruit physical fitness test (also known as the FBI PFT test). The FBI fitness exam is...
Comedian Stephen Colbert's "big announcement" last night (which we previewed yesterday)? He's forming "an exploratory committee to lay the groundwork for my possible candidacy for the president of the United States of South Carolina," The Comedy Central host declared on his show. "I'm doing it!" Stephen shouted. And to avoid some pesky legal issues, he has transferred control of his Super PAC to Comedy Central's Jon Stewart. Now they supposedly won't coordinate as potential "candidate" Colbert...
MIAMI — It has been a sad lot of seasons since the Dolphins or St. Louis Rams have won a game as important as the one in which they are now competing. That is why both teams are shopping for a new coach in the first place. And it is why both see the incomplete resume of Jeff Fisher like hungry diners eyeing a platter of filet mignon and lobster. Fisher in 16 full seasons with the Tennessee Titans [team stats] lost the only Super Bowl he got to, but he is by consensus the 2012 prize among...
DENVER — In a dozen years, most of us still will remember where we were sitting when Demaryius Thomas took a perfectly thrown Tim Tebow pass and rampaged 80 yards for a touchdown that shocked the Steelers, silenced doubters and thrilled several million Colorado residents. The Broncos had no reason to believe they could topple the mighty Steelers. Please, don’t tell me you saw this coming. This was a logic-defying performance by one of the most confusing, most entertaining teams ever to...
