| Bennett about to cash in thanks to weak WR pool
LAS VEGAS -- Placing a fat stack of $100 chips onto the blackjack table at the Mandalay Bay Casino early last Thursday morning, Drew Bennett smiled at Shirley, the silver-haired dealer with a severe game face, and posed a playful question. "Shirley, if I win this hand, can I have a purple chip?" The dealer cracked a smile, if ever so briefly -- perhaps because Bennett's aw-shucks tone so perfectly matched his boyish grin. Were he not 6-foot-5 and in the company of a very grown-up woman, girlfriend Heather Hudson, Bennett might have been asked to show ID. Three hits, a hard-earned 18 and a dealer bust later, the 28-year-old Titans wideout had his $1,000 purple chip -- one of several I saw him pocket during a 48-hour run of post-NBA-All-Star-Game merriment in Sin City.
KY's Influential Humana Fest Begins Feb. 25, Giving Voice to 10 Works
The 31st annual Humana Festival of New American Plays at Actors Theatre of Louisville kicks off Feb. 25, launching a series of in-rep openings of 10 premieres by emerging and established playwrights. For lovers of new work, a trip to Louisville to sample shows in rep is a dream vacation. The festival, which in the past has launched such works as The Gin Game, Crimes of the Heart and Keely and Du, is slated for Feb. 25-April 7 (openings are scattered throughout), and is recognized internationally as American regional theatre's major new-play marketplace. * Scheduled in downtown Louisville, KY, are full-length plays Strike-Slip by Naomi Iizuka; When Something Wonderful Ends, a solo-actor play, by Sherry Kramer; dark play or stories for boys by Carlos Murillo; a site-specific Batch: An American Bachelor/ette Party by Alice Tuan; The As If Body Loop by Ken Weitzman; and The Unseen by Craig Wright.
Cardinals single-game ticket sales begin at 9 am today
The St. Louis Cardinals will put single-game tickets on sale at 9 a.m. today, available over the Internet, by phone or at some local ticket outlets. The tickets can be purchased at www.stlcardinals.com, by phone at (314) 345-9000, or at participating Schnucks ticket outlets and at the Cardinals Clubhouse stores at St. Clair Square, the Galleria and Union Station. Sales will be held 9 a.m.-9 p.m. seven days a week starting this morning. There will be no tickets sold at the stadium box office. Ticket prices remain unchanged from last year, when most tickets ranged in price from $13 to $42. Tickets for premium dates (opening day, the final game, Saturday games and all games against the Chicago Cubs) are $18 to $47. Last year, the Cardinals sold out every game at the new Busch Stadium en route to the team's first World Championship in 24 years.
Woman could have died in sex game?
A WOMAN whose body was found in the boot of a car could have died in a sex game that went tragically wrong, it was revealed last night.It is thought police are investigating the possibility that Nicola West, who worked at an Ipswich hospice, could have taken part in a sex game just before her death.Officers were last night continuing to question the two Ipswich men arrested on suspicion of her murder.The pair, aged 28 and 35, drove a green Ford Escort containing the body of Ms West to the town's police station, in Elm Street, at about 10.30pm on Saturday.After entering the station voluntarily, they were arrested on suspicion of killing the 34-year-old, whose identity was confirmed by police last night.A post-mortem examination carried out by a Home Office pathologist found she died from strangulation.Police were yesterday granted an extra 36 hours to question the two men, who were being held at the Elm Street station.It is understood officers are investigating the link with a sex game as a result of information that has come to their attention since the men were arrested.A police spokesman said the secluded road around the Suffolk Ski Centre, in Bourne Hill, Wherstead, near Ipswich, was still being treated as a “potential crime scene", although it had now been reopened.He said it was not yet known when and where Ms West was killed, or how long she had been in the boot of the car.Last night, one of Ms West's neighbours, in Leather Bottle Hill, Little Blakenham, near Ipswich, described her as a friendly and likeable woman.He said: “I knew Nicky reasonably well.
Community Classes
GAMES/RECREATION Aerospace education classes Meeting time is 6:30-9 p.m. Thursdays. Classes include aerospace, military leadership and aviation activities for cadets ages 12-21. Offered by the Civil Air Patrol's Savannah Composite (Flying Tiger) Squadron at C.A.P. room in the old Savannah Airport Terminal Building. For directions and information, visit gawg.cap.gov, call 912-412-4410 or e-mail N303WR@aol.com. Sailing Offered by the Savannah Sailing Center. All courses are taught by U.S. Sailing certified instructors at the Sailing Center's Lake Mayer facility. Sign up for week-long youth programs or Saturday adult instruction. For more information, call the Savannah Sailing Center at 231-9996. Instructors are available for "Advanced Instruction for Racing." Call 231-9996 or visit www.savannahsailingcenter.org.
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