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Jack Atkinson, Corsicana, and J.W. Cotton, Wills Point, Texas, 9.8; 2. Jake Stanley, Hermiston, Ore., and Marty Becker, Edmonton, Alberta, 11.0; 3. Bobby Boyd, Midland, and Casey Chamberlain, Colorado City, Texas, 11.3. SADDLE BRONC–1. Marty Eakin, Nazareth, Texas, 79; 2. Frank McKay, Burns, Ore., 78; 2-3. Jake Griffin, Powell, Wyo., and Rod Hay, Wildwood, Alberta, 75. BARREL RACING–1. Kelly Maben, Spur, Texas, 17.08; 2. Haley Thorne, Midlothian, 17.54; 3. Shannon Merworth-Buffe, Sidney, Texas, 17.57. BULL RIDING–No qualified rides. SATURDAY'S MATINEE RESULTS BAREBACK–1. Jess Davis, Payson, Utah, 82 on Vold Rodeo's Beaver Tail and Sursa, 82 on Vold Rodeo's Dusty Dan; 3. J.D. Thompson, Weatherford, 81.
MammoJam rocks for breast cancer
MammoJam grew out of an evening with friends. The idea of an annual breast cancer fundraiser developed in 2003 while Bill Romani rocked out to the music of the Grilled Lincolns at the 8x10 in Federal Hill. “My mom is a breast cancer survivor. And it occurred to me during the show that a member of the band, the singer, was also touched by breast cancer," Romani said. “His mom passed away from breast cancer when he was young." The seed was planted in Romani's mind, and in April of 2004 they held their first event. “It started very small, at the 8x10 on a Sunday afternoon," Romani said. Now, the event regularly sells out the entire 8x10 and features several national acts. “We've grown into a nonprofit organization that holds several events throughout the year," Romani said.
Like it or not, Jose Canseco has got more to say
Back in July 2006, when Jose Canseco was called to meet with the lead investigator in Sen. George Mitchell's inquisition into the steroids scandal in Major League Baseball, Canseco did what Canseco has become almost infamous for doing. He talked. A lot. For more than 2 hours, he talked. In that interview in Fullerton, Calif., Canseco offered up several names of players connected with steroids and other performance-enhancing drugs. He told dark tales of players injecting each other with all sorts of illicit substances. He let loose with some conjecture. He explained his place in it all. So when the wildly trumpeted Mitchell Report was finally released last month, and it contained more information from Canseco's searing tell-a-lot book, Juiced: Wild Times, Rampant 'Roids, Smash Hits and How Baseball Got Big, than it did his talk with Charles Scheeler, Mitchell's top investigator, Canseco's next move seemed painfully simple to all those around him.
GM's next generation Chevrolet Impala will remain FWD-based
When ever you want the biggest change, you don't go after the smallest items. The end result.......the top25 offenders probably won't be sports cars. They'll be Trucks and SUV's.The end of the big V8 dead? So far from the truth. There are advantages to forced induction (turbocharing and supercharging) but issues as well. There is an old addage, "there's no replacement for displacement". So true. NA engines will deliver signifigantly more torque than their equal powered turbo'd counterparts. Torque is what gives acceleration response, which consumers have become accustomed to.Now for those horrible American engines:For example:2008 Mitsu Evo X:2.0L 4cyl Turbo 320hp16city/22highway2008 Corvette6.2L 8cyl 436hp18city/28highwayAnd now for that same engine in a much heavier car:2008 Cadallac CTS-V6.2L 8cyl 430hp17city/25highway (2007 models were 15/24)Which would you rather have? Less power in a small turbo engine, with poorer fuel economy, or more power in a more fuel efficient engine.
Register-News Halloween story contest winners
The pain in his head seemed familiar, but nothing else was recognizable as Garrett slowly opened his eyes. Around him, as black turned to gray and eventually an array of colors, were a twin mattress on the floor, wrinkled sheets and a book.He leaned forward on the cement floor and settled onto the mattress, taking in the sight of a room obviously decorated in the 1970s: Pink walls, a yellow ceiling and cold, gray floor. There, he sees, is a window, though it is boarded up completely from the outside. The lavender curtain appears unkempt for at least 20 years. Across the room, some eight feet away, he sees a sink and mirror, but no medicine cabinet. Fear enters the room."Am I in jail?"He stands and gathers himself, shaking loose the various nerves that bit him as though his entire body had been asleep for decades.
50 people who could save the planet
Then the Guardian's science, environment and economics correspondents met to add their own nominations and establish a final 50. Great names were argued over, and unknown ones surfaced. Should Al Gore be on the list? He may have put climate change on the rich countries' agenda, but some felt his solution of trading emissions is not enough and no more than what all major businesses and western governments are now saying. But in the end he squeaked through. There was also debate over Leonardo DiCaprio. It would be easy to sniff at someone who seemed to have merely pledged to forgo private jets and made a couple of films about the environment, but we felt the Hollywood superstar who has grabbed the green agenda had to be included because of the worldwide influence he is expected to have.
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