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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 ...

  • 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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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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  • Jodi Arias lawyers want off case

    The brief day was marked by a series of legal arguments in which defense lawyers asked for a mistrial and to withdraw from the case and said they would put on only one witness: Arias ...

  • Large tomato growers assets to be sold in sealed bids process

    About 7.000 acres will be auctioned off in June and July. The assets of East Coast Brokers and Packers, including farms, packing houses, the Red Rose Hotel in Plant City, a former Bible college and labor camps, will be offered for sale in a sealed bid process in June and July. The Mulberry-based company, once one of Floridas largest tomato growers and shippers, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy ...

  • John Fogerty Creedence Clearwater Revival reunion a possibility

    (CBS News) John Fogerty, frontman and the creative force behind Creedence Clearwater Revival, says of a reunion with the legendary group -- "it's possible." Appearing on "CBS This Morning" on Monday, he said, "From time to time, I'll say something and it'll get in print that maybe that will happen, and then immediately I'll hear back stuff that ...

  • Zephyrhills a hotspot over Powerball win

    The secretary of the Florida Lottery showed up in Zephyrhills on Monday, talking about what's next for the $590 million Powerball jackpot winner. She also brought a big check with a lot of zeros on it. "We'll take them through the steps, to go through the claiming of the ticket, the validating of the ticket, make sure it's a legitimate ticket. And they'll we'll work ...

  • St. Petersburg Denies Zenit Arena in New Trouble

    ST. PETERSBURG, May 20 (R-Sport) - St. Petersburg's vice governor responsible for construction on Monday denied claims by Russia's federal Audit Chamber that the city's 2018 World Cup football stadium might not be complete until 2017. Audit Chamber head Sergei Stepashin said earlier on Monday that the best-case scenario is for construction of the $1.1 billion arena to be finished ...

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