Antiwar Newswire

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=99825621&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1570 MIKEBREAK By Ronald Blum Associated Press NEW YORK – You're overseeing a stellar work staff that's maybe a little past its prime. The boss is complaining that performance is off and says the old guard must go. A little gray now, they once were your top employees. They've given their professional lives to the [...]

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=99357398&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1570 MIKEBREAK NHL headquarters has yet to confirm it's a done deal, but rumors, wisdom, and prima facie evidence all point to the Atlanta Thrashers packing up perhaps as early as Tuesday and taking their talents to Winnipeg. (Note to NHL: Maybe consult with LeBron James next time on how to market these big shifts.) [...]

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=98681508&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1570 MIKEBREAK Sentimentality won't be driving Danny Ainge as he attempts to retool the Celtics for another run at a championship. Sequels are tricky propositions in movies, and even more so in the NBA. The “let's make one more run'' mentality almost never works. Age plays a factor, as do desire, health, and egos. The [...]

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=98174925&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1570 MIKEBREAK Eager to talk about athletic pursuits while serving his third tour of duty in Iraq, Lieutenant Colonel Tony Dingmann offered a sobering reminder of daily life as an active, deployed member of the Army National Guard. “Talk later . . . alarms are going off and need to make for the bunker,'' Dingmann [...]

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=97332208&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1570 MIKEBREAK By Eric Olson Associated Press Jordan Underwood's life shifted in the instant the line drive smashed into his left eye. “Your first thought was, `Is he alive?' '' said Ky Burgess, Underwood's catcher that day. “He was not moving. He didn't make a noise. All you heard was the sound of the ball [...]

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=96555772&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1570 MIKEBREAK By Peter Abraham GLOBE STAFF In the movies, Crash Davis turned on the sprinklers at a baseball park, the field turned into a quagmire, and the slumping Durham Bulls got a much-needed night off. A passing storm front did the trick yesterday for the Red Sox, who postponed last night's game against the [...]

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=95795694&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1570 MIKEBREAK By Mark Blaudschun Globe Staff NCAA NOTEBOOK HOUSTON – Leave it to the men's NCAA Tournament to top expectations. Not only has it produced three weeks of close, pulsating games – 17 were decided by 3 points or fewer – but the Final Four also has some titles up for grabs that you [...]

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=95299513&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1570 MIKEBREAK ANAHEIM, Calif. – Jim Calhoun had said all week that after all this time as head coach at the University of Connecticut, there are no real surprises. When he has a really good team, or when his kids get on a roll, that's life as he knows it. “It's never unexpected to me,'' [...]

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=95299515&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1570 MIKEBREAK By John Branch New York Times The little boy on the pony is 92 now, but he does not need a black-and-white film to remember the October afternoon in 1927 when Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig came to his family's backyard in Sioux City, Iowa. “The whole neighborhood wanted to see Babe Ruth [...]

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=95143501&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1570 MIKEBREAK By Fluto Shinzawa Globe Staff BRUINS NOTEBOOK When Mark Recchi hit the airwaves Wednesday, the 43-year-old future Hall of Famer knew what he was doing. During an interview on 98.5 The Sports Hub, Recchi planned on saying something so flammable that he would yank the crosshairs off Zdeno Chara and place them squarely [...]