The Tampa Bay Rays' selected high school shortstop Tim Beckham with the number one overall pick in this years 2008 MLB draft. The Rays have surprised some this year by staying near the top of the A.L. East standings. Although attendance is not on par with other teams with similar records, the Rays' have enjoyed an increase

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Naltrexone is joining the realm of super drug to cure everything under the sun, like aspirin, but without the track record.
New anecdotal claims give hope to the desperate but caution is still prudent as the drug has differing effects in various dosages.
At least it has been around for a few years but who knows if clinical st

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Angel Arce Torres is a hit-and-run victim. But the more shocking news is that there is video footage of the 78 man lying on the road, and noone going to his aid. This happened last Friday during the day and it is unclear whether anyone dialed 911 either. The police released the video to try and find the driver. In it you see c

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James Karl Buck an American student was detained by officials in Egypt. He managed to be able to twitter the word " arrested " to friends and was released. His Egyptian translator not so lucky. He is still in jail and now Buck is mounting a technology campaign to help get him out. Mohammed Maree has told his lawyers that he

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I've not traveled on JetBlue but I've heard good things about it.
Not only is it a low cost airline but also it has leather seats and personal TV screens. Now it has expanded its Internet mail access portals.
Now if I need to go anywhere that JetBlue goes maybe I'll try them out. Oh yeah I'll need to find an airport near

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A healthy environment to live in is admirable for anyone to strive for. Who wants to live in a pea soup of air and sess pit of water ways?
But as Kermit the frog says, it isn't easy being green. As public demand for environmentally sound products increases entrepreneurs are happy to pitch their wares as eco-friendly solutions

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Secretary of Defense Robert Gates has fired the Secretary of Air Force Michael Wynne and the Air Force Chief of Staff General T. Michael Moseley. Robert Gates has asked for the resignations due to his loss of confidence in the pair. Both the White House and Departent o Defense have declined to admit whether the firings of Micha

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GE, owner of NBC, is putting the screws on its network of local stations.
Another veteran news anchor, Rob Morrison, has been let go, following a string of other long term news people.
Experience in news used to count for something but when the pencil heads say cut expenses the first to go are the higher paid, and pension due

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Talk about a wolf in sheep's clothing. This dude is alleged to have really skewed views on women and now he's got a lawsuit on his hands. To think that he actually used a wallpaper or screensaver of himself and girlfriend Mia Metzger in S&M fashion at work. That to me is simply a career limiting move. Aside from that dast

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It seems that the mortgatge crisis is hitting not just the middle class and new home owners these days but the rich and famous as well. A notice of default was filed on Ed McMahons hollywood mansion. About 18 months ago Ed Mcmahon broke his neak leaving him unable to work. In the current credit crunch refinancing the 5.75 milli

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MySpace was hacked via a faulty yahoo API. At the crux of the issue is what is called data portability. data portability allows users of participating social networks to share data across social sites. Social sites like MySpace market this as a usability feature. But, in relaity it is a defensive manuever to keep members from j

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Andrew Firestone engaged again. You would have thought a member of the biliionaires club would not have to have gone on a show like the Bachelor to find a date. A well educated guy like Andrew Firestone with a bachelors degree from University of San Diego should have known better. well it took him a while but he figured it out.

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The tennis news will be talking a lot about these two tennis players. I shouldn't have to explain why Bjorn Borg would be in the tennis news, but what some of you might not know is he won the French open six times. Although he is always in the tennis news, he will be mentioned a little more in the news because the 2008 French

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If you don't upgrade your WordPress often, I hope you don't get what I had on one of my blog. I had a hard time of removing wp-stats-php. It cost me time, money and Google traffic. I wanted to warned others of the possible danger. That's also true for those that make niche WordPress that may get updated less often. Anyway if

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Ex-marine Rob Morrison is Today in New York's popular co-anchorman. The ex-marine has been with the station since 1999 and is a professional and well regarded anchorman. He has had several stints stationed in the Middle East reporting on the ground with a view point seldom heard on US mainstream TV . Hopefully the rumours c

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