| Tom Brady gives himself a clean bill of health
Tom Brady, the New England Patriots quarterback, claims there is no problem with his suspect ankle ahead of Super Bowl XLII. The 30-year-old has guided New England to an unprecedented 18-0 record and a chance for a historic victory against the New York Giants in the championship game. Brady's right ankle has been the subject of excited speculation ever since he was spotted last week visiting Giselle Bundchen, his supermodel girlfriend, wearing a protective boot. Although he soon dispensed with the boot, Brady skipped several team work-outs before practising in Arizona on Monday with the ankle taped. "It's doing good," Brady said. "I'm feeling better each day. I'm glad we had the week off and I had the chance to rest a little bit. I really feel that by the game it's going to feel great, and there will be no issues.
Brave shoppers offer advice for one of the busiest shopping days of ...
My assignment as a Business reporter several years ago: cover "Black Friday" at a toy store in the mall. I was so naive. Shopping? Big deal, I thought. There will be a few people who will show, I'll get a quote or two from these docile bargain hunters and I'll still beat the sun back to the office. Not only was I naive, I was so slow. I am, as I've admitted before, gravity-challenged to start with. But this was the day after Thanksgiving, which means on Thanksgiving mom had the turkey, the ham, three kinds of dressing and umpteen pies — and I sure wouldn't want to bruise mom's feelings by not partaking of each. Plus, I was a "Black Friday" rookie and the veterans can sense a rookie. That can be good or bad. On the good side, they feel sorry for you that you are a rookie, especially if you're naive and slow.
Shock Heard Round the World
Therefore we see the paradox that, with so many centers of possible intellectual criticism and intellectual initiative, there is so much inane conformity, and the universities are little models of the Organized System itself." Paul Goodman in "The Community of Scholars" Frizbane Manley, at 11:10 am EDT on September 20, 2007 .
Wednesday's sports shorts
Storm strikes area sporting events ESCANABA — Winter storm conditions made a major impact on Tuesday's sports calendar. The Escanaba-Kingsford, Gladstone-Ishpeming and Gwinn-Manistique girls' and Gladstone-Marquette, Carney-Nadeau-Big Bay de Noc, Superior Central-Rapid River and Mid Peninsula-Bark River-Harris boys' basketball games were postponed. The Rockets and Cougars will play Feb. 6 in Rapid River, while the Wolverines and Broncos will attempt to play again tonight in boys' basketball. The Gwinn at Manistique girls' game has been rescheduled for Feb. 9 at 3:30 p.m. No other basketball games have been rescheduled yet. The wrestling triangular at Escanaba High School with Menominee and Iron Mountain has been cancelled and will not be made up. Manistique kids win Hoop Shoot crowns MIDLAND — Two Manistique students won state titles Saturday in the Elks National Hoop Shoot.
THE NOTE: A Wedding and Some Funerals
The attacks have been flying for months, and Romney offered a hint of what's ahead on ABC's "Good Morning America" on Wednesday: It's a battle over the conservative core. "What will happen across the country is that conservatives will give a good thought to whether or not they want to hand the party's nomination over to Sen. McCain," Romney told ABC's Robin Roberts. "He has not been their champion over the last several years. I think there will be a movement within the Republican Party to coalesce around a conservative candidate." Romney also raised the possibility that former governor Mike Huckabee, R-Ark., would stay in the race primarily to take votes away from him, in an effort to boost McCain's prospects: "Mike Huckabee, of course, might stay in, and that may be one of the reasons he does so, is to try and split that conservative vote." The next battle is set: 8 pm ET Wednesday night in Simi Valley, at the Los Angeles Times/Politico/CNN debate.
Recap of Saturday, December 22
But without writers, other people on TV will have to resort to cheap seasonal gimmicks and even sensationalism. It's not going to hold up for the rest of TV to behave that way Bill Baldwin, Editor: Show me a successful union and I'll show you a monopolistic industry. Back in the day when the government handed out scarce broadcasting licenses the broadcast union was powerful. Now that the Internet makes 200 million Americans into broadcasters the union has no power. John Rutledge, Forbes Contributor: Unions are economically obsolete today. The only way you can have a union is if you confine the workers in a building. We have fiber optic today. Words travel at the speed of light at zero cost. Politically however, unions are very powerful. We've got AARP, the teachers' union, the lawyers, the government unions, the AMA.
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