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By Colin Dunlap | 10:56 p.m. Sunday
The Atlantic 10 women's basketball postseason tournament field has been unveiled.
The Dukes play George Washington on Friday at 8 p.m. in the opening round with the winner advancing to play Temple the next night.
All g...
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By Mike White | Sunday, Feb. 28, 2010, 9:15 p.m.
Here are the latest state rankings by the Middle Atlantic Sports News and www.LLHoops.com. These are rankings are for the entire state, regardless of classification.
1. Philadelphia Neumann-Goretti (23...
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-What a fitting end to an amazing two weeks of hockey. There was so much hype for this tournament. Ever since Sweden won the 2006 Olympic Games there was so much anticipation in what would happen in Vancouver four years later. This tournament did not dis...
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Jay Baruchel says he left his heart in Pittsburgh -- but not the maple leaf tattoo over it.
The native Canadian and star of "She's Out of My League" told me in a phone call last week that he has three tattoos, including the maple leaf on his chest. All...
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Jim Bunning pitched a perfect game for the Philadelphia Phillies in 1964. Now nearing the end of a 33-year political career, Bunning, a Republican U.S. senator from Kentucky, is still throwing zingers.
Last week, he singlehandedly blocked several legislat...
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...the first "miracle" happened. The 1960 United States Olympic mens team won the gold medal in Squaw Valley:
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Sacha Baron Cohen, Jason Bateman, Steve Carell, Tina Fey and Ben Stiller have been added to the lineup for the 82nd Academy Awards. Baron Cohen and Bateman are first-timers while the others are veterans of the big broadcast.
Since Alec Baldwin, Fey's c...
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Very sad news for the Osmond family:
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Marie Osmond's 18-year-old son Michael Blosil has died, the entertainer said Saturday.
Osmond said in a statement through her publicist that her family is devastated by the "tragic loss." She did no...
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If "The Hurt Locker" doesn't win the Oscar for Best Picture, this will be part of the reason why.
By GLENN WHIPP
For The Associated Press
LOS ANGELES (AP) - The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is considering action against a producer of "Th...
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Olympics
Canada-United States
-Sidney Crosby has at least one fan/lanlord (right) in Pittsburgh.
-One week later, Canada and the United States face each other once again.
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The obituaries written for the health care summit held Thursday in Washington, D.C., were not long in coming. As many said, the meeting called by President Barack Obama did not manage to bridge the partisan divide on the issue of reform.
Yet something int...
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FILE THIS UNDER the heading of a bullet largely dodged: The great alarm that attended the spread of the H1N1 virus -- also known as the swine flu -- had some factual basis. According to a study published online by Pittsburgh's Center for Vaccine Research,...
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Regarding the Feb. 21 editorial "More College: Senators Must Cut Out the Student Loan Middleman":
The PG editorial board suggests that its readers "cut out the student loan middleman" by supporting H.R. 3221. In a time of unprecedented deficits, this bill...
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Regarding the health care summit: Consider Abraham Lincoln's classic quote, "Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt."
Obviously many senators and members of Congress do not heed that advice, as evidenced by th...
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I am moved to comment on your story "Certain Majors Face the Ax at State Universities" (Feb. 21).
Philosophy is historically the center of a liberal education, a curriculum referring, of course, not to liberalism but to the education appropriate to a free...
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The late U.S. Rep. John Murtha is being touted as "one of the good ones." If this is correct, it shows what a bad situation we have with regard to the politicians who represent us.
JOHN W. NEWHOUSEShaler
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Thank you for publishing the excellent piece by Karen Mesko regarding the "don't ask, don't tell" policy ("To Be a Soldier ... or a Human Being," Feb. 21 Forum).
I was discharged under "don't ask, don't tell" in February 2003. Like Ms. Mesko, I was an out...
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I was delighted to read the Post-Gazette article "The Stimulus: One Year Later" (Feb. 21). The Post-Gazette should be applauded for bucking the herd mentality of the media's cynicism over the stimulus measures.
One flaw in the article, though, is that it ...
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During this weather crisis we have been experiencing, there is one special person who has helped me make it through. My carrier, Lori, has never missed a delivery, no matter what. She is truly a dedicated young person.
I am a retired person and my newspap...
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Earlier this month, a killing was reported by the Pittsburgh news media that was so grisly, so dastardly, that the venerable Dr. Cyril Wecht said it was an act of "barbarism." Police in Greensburg had found the remains of Jennifer Daugherty, a 30-year-old...
