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  • Zenits Shirokov sorry for obscene gesture at fans

    Zenit St. Petersburg midfielder Roman Shirokov has apologised for making an obscene gesture at his team's fans during a game. Shirokov was booed by large sections of the crowd during Sunday's 3-1 home win over FC Volga, apparently for congratulating arch-rivals CSKA Moscow on winning the Russian Premier League title on Twitter. After scoring the third goal in injury time, the midfielder ...

  • Deputies Man was gunned down by wife

    SEFFNER, Fla. - Detectives with the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office are investigating what appears to be a case of domestic violence that ended with a husband lying dead in a driveway and his wife in jail. According to investigators, the fight that ended in the driveway on Winston Manor Circle in Seffner started the day before in the parking lot of a nearby Walmart. That's where, ...

  • The new look offense for the Tampa Bay Rays in 2013

    Credits: BALTIMORE, MD - MAY 18: Matt Joyce #20 of the Tampa Bay Rays celebrates with Ben Zobrist #18 after a 10-6 victory against the Baltimore Orioles at Oriole Park at Camden Yards on May 18, 2013 in Baltimore, Maryland. (Photo by Greg Fiume/Getty ...

  • WellCare down Tech Data up on Wall Street Video

    May 20 (Bloomberg) -- Bloombergs Trish Regan, Adam Johnson and Matt Miller report on todays ten most important stocks including Activis, Red Hat and Yahoo. (Source: Bloomberg) It was a day of nominal losses and gains on Wall Street Monday. Tech Data (NASDAQ: TECD) had the highest gain with 1.31 percent. WellCare Health Plans (NYSE: WCG) had the largest loss, 1.48 percent. This comes after the ...

  • Blue Jays hold on to beat Rays 7-5

    Toronto - R.A. Dickey won his second straight start, Edwin Encarnacion hit a tiebreaking, bases-loaded double in the seventh inning, and the Toronto Blue Jays beat the Tampa Bay Rays 7-5 ...


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Movie Review

Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan [DVD]

Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan [DVD]

By the seventh installment of the illimitable Friday the 13th franchise, it seemed that any hope for originality or innovation was long gone, if it had ever existed to begin with. As a new movie in the series had been released virtually every year since 1980, there just didn't seem to be that much more to add to the tried-and-true stalk-and-slash formula. They had already used the gimmick ... ...

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  • MLB Toronto 7 Tampa Bay 5

    Tampa Bay Rays . Dickey (4-5) allowed four hits and walked four in eight innings. Tampa Bay managed three runs -- two earned -- in the first three innings but didn't score off Dickey again. He struck out five Toronto reached Rays' starter Jake Odorizzi for three runs in the first two innings and, ...

  • Longoria playing as good as Maddon has seen him

    Email TORONTO -- Even before his second-inning leadoff single Monday against the Blue Jays, Evan Longoria was riding a career-high 13-game hitting streak. During the streak, Longoria was hitting .385. In addition, he had reached base safely via hit, walk or hit-by-pitch in a Major League-high 42 games this season. Longoria's solid play has extended to his defense, which has been every bit ...

  • So far Cobb cant help but rack up Ks

    Email TORONTO -- During Spring Training, Alex Cobb spoke about the importance of the starters pitching deeper into games to help cover for the innings missed without James Shields, who was traded to the Royals. Cobb noted that getting rid of hitters in two or three pitches, or pitching to contact, would go a long way toward achieving the aforementioned goal. Alas, Cobb's strikeouts are up ...

  • Maddon seeks clarification on home run review

    Email TORONTO -- Matt Joyce hit a double against the Orioles on Sunday that was reviewed and subsequently changed to a home run. Prior to that ruling taking place, Joe Maddon debated with the umpiring crew headed by Gerry Davis that if they reviewed the call, they could not overturn Joyce's double. The Rays manager maintained that doubles were not reviewable. After the game Davis offered ...

  • Josh Freeman Not Bothered by Competition

    Head Coach Greg Schiano repeated on Monday that Josh Freeman is the Bucs' starter, and both he and his quarterback dismissed the notion that Mike Glennon's arrival has Freeman looking over his ...

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