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A Cedar Rapids attorney who possessed crack cocaine in November 2011 was sentenced today to 15 days’ imprisonment. Stanley A. Roush, 52, from Cedar Rapids, Iowa, received the jail term after a
By Meghan Daum, Los Angeles Times – Last week, in a column about Rush Limbaugh’s verbal attacks on Georgetown University law student Sandra Fluke, I mentioned that there were those on the left
By Donald Bradley, McClatchy Newspapers – Tell people seatbelts save lives and most buckle up. Tell them cigarettes kill and smoking rates go down. But new warnings about red meat don’t seem
By Meredith Cohn, The Baltimore Sun – Some leading AIDS experts have issued the first guidelines aimed exclusively at getting those newly diagnosed with HIV into treatment and keeping them in it. Thirty
By Joe Christensen, Star Tribune (Minneapolis) – FORT MYERS, Fla. — Francisco Liriano tossed five no-hit innings against Pittsburgh on Sunday, and while it was only a spring training start against a skeleton
By Jerry Zgoda, Star Tribune (Minneapolis) – SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Their playoff dreams slipping away with each loss on this elongated March road trip, discontent bubbled over in the fourth quarter of the
PHILADELPHIA, Pa. – The University of Northern Iowa men’s basketball team nearly rallied from an 18-point first-half deficit vs. the Drexel Dragons in the second round of the NIT. But Drexel was
By Jimmy Burch, McClatchy Newspapers – ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Baylor guard Brady Heslip kept firing 3-point shots Saturday in The Pit. Bears fans kept celebrating — all the way to the Sweet 16.
By Michael Hunt, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel – MILWAUKEE — For the second consecutive season, nearly 13 percent of the remaining NCAA basketball field is from the state of Wisconsin. Like last year, I
By Rachel George, The Orlando Sentinel – OMAHA, Neb. — This year’s NCAA Tournament might see a Cinderella team make a run into late March, but Norfolk State won’t be it. No. 7
By Shannon Ryan, Chicago Tribune – COLUMBUS, Ohio — North Carolina State guard Alex Johnson ran toward the section of Wolfpack fans, popped out his jersey with his thumbs and yelled, “We’re back.”
By Andrew Carter, McClatchy Newspapers – GREENSBORO, N.C. — In the moments before everything changed, North Carolina celebrated its 87-73 victory against Creighton here at the Greensboro Coliseum on Sunday night in the
By Shannon Ryan, Chicago Tribune – COLUMBUS, Ohio — Draymond Green kept encouraging Michigan State teammate Keith Appling to shoot the ball. Green’s words worked, but so did his passing. (PHOTO: Saint Louis’ Dwayne
By Stu Durando, St. Louis Post-Dispatch – OMAHA, Neb. — The crowd was so sparse inside CenturyLink Center at tip-off Sunday that Norfolk State must have felt like it was playing on its
By Tom Housenick, The Morning Call (Allentown, Pa.) – GREENSBORO, N.C. — C.J. McCollum drove through a forest of trees and tried to finish. He came up empty. The Lehigh junior drove again
By Jeff Potrykus, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel – ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Wisconsin had just punched its ticket to the Sweet 16 for the second consecutive season, a first in program history, and the fifth
By Rustin Dodd, McClatchy Newspapers – OMAHA, Neb. — On Saturday afternoon, more than 24 hours before Kansas was set to take the floor against Purdue, Robbie Hummel stood in the Boilermakers’ locker
By Coley Harvey, The Orlando Sentinel – NASHVILLE, Tenn. — With just less than four minutes remaining in Sunday night’s NCAA Tournament game against Florida State, Cincinnati guard Sean Kilpatrick let out a
By David Teel, Daily Press (Newport News, Va.) – GREENSBORO, N.C. — Kendall Marshall’s voice cracked. P.J. Hairston stared at the floor. Stilman White felt “blindsided.” Tyler Zeller used the “s” word —
By Mac Engel, McClatchy Newspapers – Thanks to Lehigh and Norfolk State, the 2012 NCAA men’s basketball tournament has its signature upsets that are required for this to be called “March Madness.” What
By Dick Jerardi, Philadelphia Daily News – After an historic first night when one team (Western Kentucky) overcame the largest last five-minute deficit (16 points) and another (Brigham Young) came back from the
By Blair Kerkhoff, McClatchy Newspapers – OMAHA, Neb. — For 37 minutes on Sunday, Kansas’ NCAA Tournament existence was on life support, and then the strangest thing happened. Elijah Johnson broke into a
By Danny O’Neil, The Seattle Times – SEATTLE — The Seattle Seahawks’ new quarterback speaks with a Texas drawl, was historically prolific in his only two NFL starts and comes with a Packers