BEREA -Kevin Johnson joked that he's worried about walking toward the wrong locker room on Sunday. He's sure he'll find the right sideline, though. It'll be the one opposite where Butch Davis is standing.
In the world of professional football, it seems like putting your name out on a billboard is just as important as putting the ball in the end zone. With the possible exceptions of Sprint spokesman Joe Horn and the never-silent Terrell Owens, Cincinnati Bengals wide receiver Chad Johnson has emerged as the brashest, cockiest player in the NFL. Even more than the Cleveland Browns' Kellen Winslow II (and that's saying something.)
NEW YORK -Unfairly, unbelievably, Serena Williams was robbed of a point by an umpire's mistake at the U.S. Open, just like her sister was at Wimbledon.
In an effort to give campus professors a stronger influence in administrative decisions, journalism professor Joe Bernt and his colleagues are banning together to reinstate the American Association of University Professors, an organization that focuses primarily on the advancement of academic freedom among university faculty.
NEW YORK -Former President Clinton was talking and taking liquids yesterday, a day after undergoing an operation to relieve four severely clogged arteries, a hospital source told The Associated Press.
MCs and slam poets verbally slammed a cardboard cut-out of the president in front of a wall to wall crowd last night at the Union in the Slam Bush Athens Heat.
HUNTINGTON, W.Va. (AP) -A Marshall defensive lineman was charged Tuesday with malicious wounding in an Aug. 22 fight outside a bar that injured an Ohio State player.
After one week of games, Mid-American Conference football teams have only two out-of-conference victories to their credit, both against Division I-AA teams -Ohio's 42-14 home-opening win against the Virginia Military Institute and Western Michigan's 42-0 shutout
Uptown's only remaining record store is leaving the underground.
California Attorney General Bill Lockyer joined a lawsuit yesterday alleging that voting equipment company Diebold Inc. sold the state shoddy hardware and software, exposing elections to hackers and software bugs.
CHILLICOTHE, Ohio -Democrat John Edwards used a stop in southern Ohio, which overwhelmingly voted for President Bush in 2000, to direct twin messages yesterday about the war in Iraq and the economy.
ARLINGTON, Va. -US Airways' efforts to extract $800 million in cost cuts from its unions and avoid a return to bankruptcy suffered a major setback when a divided pilots union refused to submit a contract proposal to its membership for a vote.
WASHINGTON -President Bush ranked in the middle of his Air National Guard flight class and flew 336 hours in a fighter jet before letting his pilot status lapse and missing a key readiness drill in 1972, according to his flight records belatedly uncovered yesterday under the Freedom of Information Act.
The Athens County Commissioners accepted a piece of property, which contains part of the Moonville Rail Trail, a muscle trail for hiking, biking and horseback, at their meeting yesterday.
HOUSTON (AP) -Roy Oswalt became the National League's first 17-game winner and the Houston Astros extended their winning streak to 11 games with a 9-7 victory against the Cincinnati Reds yesterday night.
SAN JUAN Y MARTINEZ, Cuba -Rancher Raul Hernandez's cows look just like any other breed -only they are no larger than big dogs. They are a perfect source of milk for Cuban families, he said.
WASHINGTON -The federal deficit will swell to a record $422 billion this election year but fall short of even more dire forecasts, Congress' top budget analysts projected yesterday in a report that became instant fodder for both political parties.
As the sun sets on my college career, I'm left with only an athletic dream about what might have been.
For those involved with the Marching 110, the final week of summer break means it is time to get down to business and to embark upon training camp. Last week, the band practiced for about an hour and a half, three times a day, to learn its moves and to perfect its tunes.
FORT PIERCE, Fla. -Thousands of residents desperate to return home after fleeing Hurricane Frances ignored Florida's plea to stay put yesterday, jamming highways, delaying emergency workers and causing tempers to flare in the sticky heat.
Solutions by The State News