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PITTSBURGH (AP) -Petr Sykora's game-winning goal in Game 5 of the Stanley Cup finals against Detroit was impressive enough. That he called his shot was better still. During the first overtime intermission Monday night, Sykora predicted to his Pitt...

Here is my little rant..I sat down at my favorite 15 line machine. The normal bet is anywhere from 30-75 cents. I play 45/60. Its fun. Theres 8 of them in the whole place, and the machine is fairly busy. They happened to be fairly busy on Monday afternoon, when a husband and wife sit down. They put their players bonus cards in, pull out some money.. and slip in one dollar each. My blood began to boil... What did they do next, you ask? Played 1 line / 1c. And spun. And Spun. And Spun. If they got up to $2.00 they would cash out.At one point I heard her say 'I'm down 3 dollars today'.Excuse me?3 dollars? I'm down $250, and you're having a -bleep-ing coronary over 3 damn dollars?And you'd think that would be the end of it. But noooo. They sat there for FIVE HOURS playing 1c / 1line. If the husband was feeling reckless he upped his bet to 3 lines. I wanted to scream at them, they were taking up two machines for five hours while everyone else stood and watched i

'Born with horses and oil in his blood,' Colton H. Bryant was a sweet-natured Wyoming kid who died in an accident while working on an oil rig. In a new book, Alexandra Fuller narrates the short life of a modern American cowboy.

As more listeners turn to music downloads and the compact disc seems headed for history's scrap heap, a growing number of artists ...

Single- and multiplayer sampler for console-centric edition of Sid Meier's acclaimed turn-based strategy series hits 360, PS3 online services this Thursday.

The British prime minister's dull-as-dishwater image is getting a revamp from an unlikely source: U.S.-based comic book publisher ...

AP - The British prime minister's dull-as-dishwater image is getting a revamp from an unlikely source: U.S.-based comic book publisher Marvel.

LONDON (June 3, 2008) - Though they met three times in the NBA Finals in the 1980s, purists will argue that the first meeting in the 1984 final was the best Celtics versus Lakers series, won in seven games by Boston. The Lakers went on...

Susannah Moore's lovely memoir conjures scenes from her girlhood in Hawaii ? her native beaches, her swims along the then-isolated island coast of Oahu and her returns to shore, during which she found company in books about the sea.

It's going to be a weird TV summer.Prime-time ratings for hockey, that favorite beach-season sport, were way up. But they weren't big enough to beat CBS' foray into brawls....