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AT&T Championship Report: Notes, Tee-times and Schedule
Thorpe, winner of last year's Charles Schwab Cup Championship, has had wins in seven-straight seasons coming into this year. Jenkins is trying to extend a five-year run. Area connections: San Antonio's Bill Rogers begins play at 12:10 p.m., teeing off at No. 1. Opening on the back nine, Corpus Christi's Phil Blackmar starts at 10:40 a.m. and MacArthur graduate Mike Reid begins at 11:40 a.m. TODAY'S TEE TIMES No. 1 10:30 a.m. — Dave Stockton, Danny Edwards, Jeff Sluman 10:40 a.m. — Jim Albus, Tim Simpson, Massy Kuramoto 10:50 a.m. — Fred Funk, Dana Quigley, Bruce Summerhays 11 a.m. — Jim Thorpe, Don Pooley, Bruce Lietzke 11:10 a.m.
Ken Rudin, NPR Biography
Ken Rudin is the political editor for NPR, where he directs campaign coverage for the network. Ken's focus is on all aspects of politics, from the presidential contest -- the primaries, national conventions, and general election -- to the races for the House, Senate, and governor as well. A respected expert on elections and election history, Ken has analyzed and dissected every congressional race in the nation since 1984, with an amazingly high accuracy rate in predicting the outcomes. For nearly two decades, Ken has been a familiar presence on many national TV news programs, as well as NPR's Talk of the Nation, Morning Edition, All Things Considered, and its newscasts. He was a key player on the NPR team that won the Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Silver Baton award for excellence in broadcast journalism in 2002.
EXPECT A SHOW OF 'HANDS
Broadway theater owners and striking stagehands returned to the bargaining table last night - with sources saying they expected to reach a settlement in the wee hours today. An agreement would end the stagehands' 17-day walkout that has darkened 26 theaters and cost the city some $34 million. Sources said the two sides had made big concessions and were close to a deal after a 20-hour marathon negotiating session that ended at 6:30 a.m. yesterday. After a 12-hour break, the talks resumed last night. "Progress was made," said Bruce Cohen, a spokesman for Local One, which represents the stagehands. "Each side is being very creative and imaginative." For example, the owners dropped a demand to eliminate the flyman, a stagehand who earns $160,000 a year and is in charge of things that fly in a production.
TaylorMade Launch The New TP Black and TP Red Balls for 2008
TaylorMade have announced the launch of the new TaylorMade Tour Preferred (TP) Black and Tour Preferred Red.
TaylorMade entered the premium golf ball market in the spring of 2006 by introducing the Tour Preferred Red and Tour Preferred Black golf balls. Today TaylorMade balls are played by more than 120 tour pros around the world including Sergio Garcia, Justin Rose, Retief Goosen, Raphael Jacquelin, Darren Clarke, and Natalie Gulbis*.
Now TaylorMade is introducing the new TP Black and TP Red which has been tested extensively by tour professionals and will be played on tour.
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Mitchell Report Spurs Calls for Reforms
Wow. That's what New York Giants defensive end Michael Strahan had to say after seeing the names in the Mitchell Report on doping in baseball.
The ramifications stretched far beyond baseball Thursday, sending reverberations through the other leagues and all the way to the White House, where President Bush's spokeswoman expressed hope this "marks the beginning of the end of steroid abuse."
Even an obscure middle reliever found himself on the defensive after being linked to a case that tarnished two of the game's greatest players, Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens.
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Is Atomic Radiation as Dangerous as We Thought?
The group reaches Metlino, a ghost town that was evacuated in 1956. A weather-beaten grain silo protrudes into the sky. The scientists take soil samples and, wearing rubber boots, wade through the mud over to a Russian Orthodox church in a depressing state of disrepair. One of them climbs the bell tower, hammers at the wall and slides a brick into his bag. The brick will be used as evidence. Woda, who works for the GSF Research Center for Health and the Environment, located in the town of Neuherberg near Munich -- Europe's largest radiation protection institute -- is currently involved in an exciting investigation. As part of the EU's "SOUL" (Southern Urals Radiation Risk Research) project, Woda and his team are exploring the region where the Soviets once manufactured the explosive material for their first atomic bomb.
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