2010 Events

DETROIT - The Wild produced more shots on goal in the first period against Detroit on Thursday than it did the entire game in a shootout loss to the Florida Panthers two days earlier. ...

Merlin Olsen, a Hall of Fame defensive lineman with the Los Angeles Rams who was a charter member of the team's famed Fearsome Foursome, then made a remarkably smooth transition into care...

Merlin Olsen, the Hall of Fame tackle who anchored the Los Angeles Rams’ Fearsome Foursome, the line that glamorized defensive play in the N.F.L., died early Thursday at a hospital in Dua...

INDIANAPOLIS - Damian Johnson snatched the ball from Sasa Borovnjak. And the Penn State forward looked at his hands as if Johnson had performed some kind of magic trick late in the first ...

He couldn’t hide how much it bothered him. The boos rained down late in the first quarter of the Celtics’ blowout loss to Memphis Wednesday, the fans left early, and Paul Pierce took the ...

MEMPHIS - As bad as the Knicks are these days, they're still an attractive destination to Memphis' Rudy Gay. "That's an appealing style they play," Gay, the former UConn star, said bef...

Wesley Matthews is strikingly honest about it. When the former Marquette University star is asked about being ignored in last June's National Basketball Association draft, the sting is...

Indianapolis - The Gophers had to come into the Big Ten tournament with a chip. Make things personal. Their theme: respect. They don't think they've earned enough this season. ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. - Niklas Backstrom missed his second consecutive game because of a groin injury, forcing the Wild to scramble to get a backup goalie here in time for Friday night's game aga...

ATLANTA - The first period Friday night was full of welcome sights for the Rangers, from Marian Gaborik celebrating to the power play clicking to perhaps the rarest sight of all: a desper...

He still has 16 games to play this season, and it's a commitment that Al Jefferson takes seriously. But it's understandable, too, that the Timberwolves' most visible player has already be...

INDIANAPOLIS - Like college basketball fans around the country, the Gophers have spent the past few days constantly checking online bracketology reports. They've listened to TV experts...

Tuukka Rask took the blame for a tough loss after Sergei Kostitsyn and the Montreal Canadiens took advantage of Bell Centre's lively boards to victimize the Boston goalie on a seemingly h...

DALLAS - As the Knicks walked into their locker room Saturday night, Eddie House yelled out, "Winning streak? Forget about it!" Not only did the Knicks snap the Mavericks' 13-game winn...

There was a time when the Cavaliers measured themselves against the Celtics. LeBron James and Co. were the fourth seed that took the top-seeded Celtics, a 66-win, championship-bound buzzs...

  PLAYER OF THE GAME: Forward Jerry Stackhouse scored 20 points on 7-of-13 shooting, including 4 of 6 from three-point range, to give the Bucks a needed lift off the bench. "Coming off...

Makes you wonder what the Wild could have done Sunday with a healthy roster. Despite Owen Nolan being a late scratch because of a lower body injury and Greg Zanon joining Derek Boogaar...

As much as the Rangers were seething back in January over Daniel Carcillo's mismatched fight with Marian Gaborik, John Tortorella wanted his team disciplined in yesterday's rematch with t...

Big victories over Michigan State and Purdue over the weekend boosted Minnesota into the NCAA men's basketball tournament despite today's 29-point loss to Ohio State in the Big Ten title ...

Peter Graves, the cool spymaster of television’s “Mission: Impossible” and the dignified host of the “Biography” series, who successfully spoofed his own gravitas in the “Airplane!” movie...

SACRAMENTO, CALIF. - Jonny Flynn traveled from town to town auditioning for work so often last summer, the days and the workouts leading to the June draft became one big blur. But ther...

Doc Rivers knows the current Celtics aren't as good as the team that won the NBA title in 2008. His goal is to have them playing that way again in time for the playoffs. "It's coming a...

NEWARK — In a season in which the Bruins have made most everything difficult, they layered on more frustration last night, suffering a 3-2 loss to the Devils that prevented them from gain...

PHILADELPHIA - LeBron James will probably play for the Knicks before Eddy Curry ever does. Curry did not play in the Knicks' 94-84 victory Monday night over the 76ers and now Mike D'An...

RALEIGH, N.C.—Mark Recchi, Michael Ryder and David Krejci scored third-period goals to help the Boston Bruins maintain eighth place in the Eastern Conference with a 5-2 victory over the C...

Closing the show was this year's singer to beat, Crystal Bowersox, who couldn't miss with "You Can't Always Get What You Want." Strumming her beat-up acoustic, Bowersox strolled out and l...

"U Smile" is a song performed by Canadian recording artist Justin Bieber. It was released as the second digital-only single from the latter half of Bieber's debut album on March 16, 2010....

Former paint-store clerk Lee Dewyze took on "Beast of Burden," transforming the sultry rock tune into a clap-along bro-down acoustic ditty with shades of Hootie and the Blowfish-meets-Dav...

Andrew Ebbett, James Sheppard and Kyle Brodziak might be reading the tea leaves. One day after the Wild acquired a center via the college route in Casey Wellman, the Wild's three cente...

Immaturity, inconsistency - call it what you want, it all ends with the Rangers' backs against the wall. The Rangers' fiery head coach wasn't exactly seeing his team's shortcomings eye...

Marrying a new blood-pressure-lowering drug to an old one results in a new drug that works better than either drug alone, a manufacturer-sponsored clinical trial suggests. Novartis's A...

An experimental hypertension therapy in Novartis' pipeline has cleared an important mid-stage clinical trial hurdle and is headed for a pivotal test. Researchers for the pharma giant say ...

PHOENIX - The season is fast running out -- well, not nearly fast enough -- but school sure was in Tuesday night during the Timberwolves' astounding 152-114 loss at Phoenix. Two-time l...

When Tiger Woods announced Tuesday that he will return to competitive golf at the Masters next month, his decision certainly turned heads. It wasn’t the fact that he was returning, but th...

BOSTON—Paul Pierce and Kevin Garnett played their best game together in more than a month. Coach Doc Rivers would be thrilled if they can dominate consistently once the playoffs arrive. ...

The drive by House Democrats to pass major health care legislation gained momentum on Wednesday, as Representative Dennis Kucinich, Democrat of Ohio, announced that he would support the b...

Medtronic, Inc. today announced it has received U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval for the MiniMed Paradigm(R) REAL-Time Revel(TM) System, the next generation of the industr...

Los Angeles — Bucks general manager John Hammond said Wednesday he has "major concerns" about center Andrew Bogut's participation in the World Championships this summer in Turkey. Bogu...

The Senate today passed by a 68-29 margin a $17.6-billion measure intended to spur hiring nationwide, sending the bill to the White House for the president's expected signature. Once t...

SALT LAKE CITY - There's more than one way to build a franchise. That much was clear during the Timberwolves' 122-100 loss to the Utah Jazz on Wednesday night. As their remaining fo...

O Instituto de Planejamento Urbano de Florianópolis – IPUF, nos termos que dispõe o art. 40, § 4°, I, da Lei Federal n°10.257 (Estatuto das Cidades), comunica e torna público à popula...

Actor Fess Parker, famous for playing American pioneer Davy Crockett in Walt Disney's classic 1950s TV series, has died in California at the age of 85. The Texas-born actor launched a ...

BOSTON—The revenge-minded Boston Bruins got in some early shots. The Pittsburgh Penguins connected on the ones that counted. Marc-Andre Fleury made 17 saves for Pittsburgh's first shut...

In a sign that it will not give up its atomic ambitions, North Korea is believed to have some 1,000 missiles, including intermediate-range and Scud missiles, and is continuing to produce ...

Given what the crowd at the Garden has seen from its hockey team this season, it's hard to blame the fans for sounding like their heads were spinning in the third period Thursday night, w...

HOUSTON — He only had 16 minutes next to his name entering the fourth quarter. Blame it on four fouls. Paul Pierce had 11 points up until then, and with the Rockets trying to eat away ...

COLUMBUS, OHIO - The Wild was screaming foul Friday night over two critical non-calls at Nationwide Arena that helped cause another punch to the guts in the standings. The Wild wasted ...

My World 2.0 is the latter of two-part debut studio album from Canadian singer Justin Bieber, and is his first full studio release. The album is the follow-up to the first platinum certif...

Kurt Rambis' work year stretched into June each of the past two seasons, an elongated spring in which he helped coach the Los Angeles Lakers to two NBA Finals and one NBA title. He has...

Sacramento — This one had it all. There were wacky plays, incredible shots, a fallen rookie guard and another point guard who proved the league’s rookie year of the race wasn’t quite o...