Courtside View: Walker has positive outlook (The Daily News Tribune) If second-round draft pick Bill Walker harbors any resentment from the setbacks he's endured in his young career he has a very convincing way of masking it. "You can't shake it," said Walker, whose draft rights were purchased by the Celtics from the Wizards last Thursday after he slipped to the 47th overall selection. us.rd.yahoo.com
What to Watch: Forget Will Smith. Dan Is Legend (San Antonio Express-News & KENS 5) Dan Cook’s death happened late last Thursday at 10:30 p.m., the time he would normally sign off from KENS’ late “Eyewitness News” broadcasts. Dan’s passing came too late to announce on any of San Antonio’s late newscasts that night but it was the top story on their Friday morning news shows. us.rd.yahoo.com
41-year-old Torres makes team; Phelps sets 200-meter IM mark (USA Today) How extraordinary a night is it when two world records don't top the list of remarkable performances at the U.S. Olympic swimming trials? Try this on for size. A woman born when Lyndon Johnson was president is the fastest female freestyle sprinter in the USA. us.rd.yahoo.com
Matchmaker for artists, sponsors always looks for the perfect fit (The Tennessean) The drop in compact disc sales, combined with a cluttered advertising environment, has brought performers and corporations together in recent years, helping boost the business of music sponsorships to a record $1 billion in 2007. us.rd.yahoo.com
British GP qualifying as it happened (BBC News) Heikki Kovalainen takes pole position at the British GP ahead of Mark Webber, with Lewis Hamilton fourth. us.rd.yahoo.com
Say it ain't so AVG, say it ain't so: AVG LinkScanner = Badware? (ZDNet) The Register covered a very interesting story about AVG. Apparently AVG is spamming the Internet with traffic that looks to be coming from Internet Explorer. AVG software pre-crawls search results to try to protect users, but uses a user agent that makes the software appear to be Internet Explorer. This pre-crawling is flooding websites with... us.rd.yahoo.com
Kaitlin Olson signs on as Mailbag Crush (Sports Illustrated) We all know there are few subjects in a reader's life more important than college football ... but there's at least one within this particular audience that merits bumping football off the front page of the Mailbag one week a year. us.rd.yahoo.com
Death of a salesman (Guardian Unlimited) Arts & entertainment: Led by the maverick Hamish McAlpine, Tartan Films was the UK's most influential indie film distributor us.rd.yahoo.com
Doctor Who - Beneath The Surface (DVD Talk) Since most of my favorite films are already on DVD, the thing I've found myself looking forward to the most now are the new Doctor Who disc. us.rd.yahoo.com
Will Smith flies into theaters in Hancock (Creative Loafing Tampa) Plus other new and recent releases... OPENING THIS WEEK THE CHILDREN OF HUANG SHI (PG-13) Roger Spottiswode's Children of Huang Shi is the blandest of epics based on the life of British journalist George Hogg (Jonathan Rhys Meyers), who entered China during the volatile late 1930s and found himself caught in a three-way crossfire between Chinese Nationalists, Communists and Japanese invaders. ... us.rd.yahoo.com
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