| Baseball Rallies To Beat No. 19 Tennessee, 6-5
Knoxville, Tenn.- The UIC baseball team overcame a four-run deficit with five unanswered runs in the final two innings to defeat 19th-ranked Tennessee, 6-5, at Lindsey Nelson Stadium on Friday. Micky Pingree went 3-for-4 at the plate with three RBI, while Chad Schroeder and Ben Trotter also drove in runs. Larry Gempp Jr. was 3-for-5 at the dish with a run scored. Nick Rainwater had a 2-for-4 day in the batter's box. "I was really pleased that our guys played nine innings today, and that has been an encouraging pattern for us all year," said UIC head coach Mike Dee. UIC (3-4) fell behind after the host Vols (6-6) scored three times in the bottom of the first off of starter Zach Peterson. The Flames got on the board in the third when Schroeder brought in Rainwater from third on a single.
USA Hockey’s Largest-Ever National Indoor Tournament to Open in ...
Initiated in 1980, the National Indoor Tournament has quickly become one of the sport's premier off-season events. Once considered no more than a wintertime diversion, the game has grown to a full-time devotion for athletes looking to hone their skills and impress collegiate recruiters. The popularity of the event has spawned a qualification process where Under-19 and Under-16 teams earn berths in the National Tournament through performances at regional qualifying events held throughout the winter. The tournament features teams from 12 states including California, Delaware, Kentucky, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Massachusetts, Missouri, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Texas and Virginia. Host-state Virginia has 15 entries in the tournament including U14 teams Rampage (Centreville), Peninsula Storm (Gloucester), Tidewater Thriller (Yorktown) and Typhoon Canes (Fredericksburg).
Baseball Set to Host Xavier This Weekend
Vanderbilt is ranked No. 1 in both Collegiate Baseball and the National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association polls. The Commodores are ranked No. 3 in Baseball America and by Rivals.com.
All of the National Polls can be found on page 6 of the release.
The Coaches
VU's Tim Corbin is 154-95 in his fifth season as head coach.
Xavier's Scott Googins is 20-44 in his second year as head coach.
Radio/TV/Internet
All of the games can be heard free via the internet through Yahoo and can be accessed using the following web page: http://vucommodores.collegesports.com/sports/m-basebl/radio-tv-internet.html. Eric Jones will call all of the action for the Commodores heading into SEC play. The games will also be webcast and can be watched for free via www.vucommodores.com.
Blockbuster Reports Fourth Quarter and Full-Year 2006 Results
DALLAS, Feb. 27 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Blockbuster Inc. (NYSE: BBI) today reported financial results for the fourth quarter and full-year ended December 31, 2006. For the fourth quarter of 2006, net income was $12.9 million, or $0.05 per diluted share, as compared with net income of $18.0 million, or $0.09 per diluted share, for the fourth quarter of 2005. Adjusted net income for the fourth quarter of 2006 totaled $20.4 million, or $0.09 per diluted share, as compared with adjusted net income of $25.0 million, or $0.12 per diluted share, for the fourth quarter of 2005. The calculations of adjusted results are shown on pages 4 and 5 of the tables accompanying this release. "2006 was an exciting year for Blockbuster. We delivered four consecutive quarters of positive same-store domestic movie rental revenues.
Nintendo Honored for Innovation as It Rides a Wave of Commercial Success
The Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences has honored Nintendo with five Interactive Achievement Awards, including Outstanding Innovation in Gaming for Wii Sports(TM). The hugely popular Wii title won three awards, while The Legend of Zelda®: Twilight Princess and Brain Age(TM): Train Your Brain in Minutes a Day each took home honors. This critical recognition comes on the heels of dramatic commercial success, as the Wii version of The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess just crossed the 1 million sales mark in the United States, making it the fastest-selling launch title for any new video game system since Super Mario® 64 for Nintendo® 64 some 10 years ago. (Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20050516/NINTENDOLOGO ) The awards were presented the night of Feb.
Second Life Residents Speak for Themselves
Second Life creator Linden Lab on Tuesday announced plans to give voice capabilities to residents of the online virtual world, allowing users to talk to people in their immediate virtual surroundings or select individuals for conference calls. The new feature will likely catch on well with Second Lifers, however some may feel it subtracts from the anonymity of the experience. Learn how the Intelligent Contact Center enables organizations to capture, process, and share unstructured data such as voice, text, email, and chat. Discover how you can deliver customer insight across your business with unstructured data in the free white paper from Autonomy etalk. .
Jackiey: 'I was attacked by 4 men'
Jackiey fled from her home in Peter Butler House after yobs threw stones at her flat and chanted abuse after she left the Channel 4 show last month. She said: "I'm all right now although it was frightening at the time. "I was with the police all Friday and they're getting it sorted. "I'm absolutely petrified. "I thought my life was getting back to normal after everything that happened with Big Brother. "But what happened on Friday has come as a real setback. "I don't want to let these people force me out of my manor, that would mean they won. "Anyone who knows me knows I'm not a bad person." Jackiey became international news for her part in the Celebrity Big Brother race row last month.
Celtics Moving On After D.J.
I used to collect professional sports action figures called Starting Lineups as a kid, and still have them today. One of the many sports heroes I own is former Celtics great Dennis Johnson. But at the time Dee Brown was hot on the scene for Boston, especially with his no-look jam in the 1991 Slam Dunk contest and black Reebok pumps with white laces. Kenner didn't make a Brown Starting Lineup at the time, so I moronically decided to scrape off Johnson's last name and No. 3 on the toy to create my own #7. I obviously wasn't too familiar with Johnson but his play against the Detroit Pistons in the 1987 Eastern Conference Finals is my fondest memory. .
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