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Bernie Bytes enough already about Cards soft schedule
The Cardinals are in a stretch of playing 24 of 30 games against teams that have a losing record.The breakdown: three vs. the NY Mets, six vs. Miami, eight vs. Chicago, four vs. Houston and three against the LA Angels. Between now and July 14 the Cardinals face only two winning teams, Texas and Oakland, for a total of six games.The apparent softness of the schedule supposedly will allow the ...
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Wawrinka downs Lorenzi in 2 sets to advance
Second-seeded Stanislas Wawrinka beat Paolo Lorenzi 6-3, 7-6 (8) Wednesday to advance to the quarterfinals of the Topshelf Open on the grass courts of Rosmalen.The Italian never managed to seriously threaten Wawrinka's serve until the 12th game of the second set, when he broke the Swiss to force a tiebreak.He then fought off three match points before finally succumbing 10-8 to the No. ...
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IMS lights Pagoda in honor of Jason Leffler
Indianapolis Motor Speedway is honoring the late Jason Leffler with a tribute atop the iconic Pagoda scoring board.Leffler died last Wednesday in an accident at a dirt track in New Jersey. His funeral was Wednesday in North Carolina.IMS officials illuminated the scoreboard with the number "50," which was the number on his car when he ran the 2000 Indianapolis 500. The scoreboard was ...
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Ousted founder of Mens Wearhouse fights back
George Zimmer, the ousted founder and executive chairman of Men's Wearhouse, says Wednesday he was dismissed after he and the company's board disagreed about how it should look.In a statement released to CNBC following his termination, Zimmer says he expressed concerns to the board over the company's direction and that the board "inappropriately has chosen to silence my ...
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Ex-KFNS owner apologizes for joke that led to firing
A former co-owner of St. Louis radio station KFNS, who was fired late Monday after participating in a bit on Atlanta radio that made fun of a victim of ALS, or Lou Gehrig's disease, appeared on CNN on Tuesday to apologize. Stephen "Steak'' Shapiro, who was a co-owner of Atlanta-based Big League when it had KFNS (590 AM) from 2004-2010, was dismissed along with Chris Dimino, ...
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21 Jump Street
The artistic bankruptcy of mining old television shows for big-budget movies is so firmly entrenched at this point that one of the best jokes in 21 Jump Streetyes, another movie mined from an old television showdirectly references it. Were reviving a cancelled undercover polic ... ...
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Orchard Farm fire district seeks property tax hike at Aug. 6 election
On this episode of Breakfast With Bernie, the Post-Dispatch's Bernie Miklasz discusses the end of Game 6 of the NBA Finals and looks ahead to ...
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St. Louis county police agree to merge their bomb and arson units
City residents who call the police about a suspicious package, explosive materials or potential arson will soon get a St. Louis County police officer at their door, andvice versa.The St. Louis Board of Police Commissioners unanimously approved an agreement today at its board meeting that will merge the county bomb and arson unit with the and city's unit.St. Louis Mayor Francis Slay, who is ...
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St. Clair County clerk abruptly resigns citing discrimination complaint he calls unfounded
o St. Clair County Clerk Bob Delaney resigned abruptly Wednesday morning, citing a former employee's discrimination complaint and other factors in his decision.Delaney said that the investigation into the complaint had just been completed and was handed to county officials Tuesday.Delaney said that there was nothing "that substantiated this lady's claim," but said she could ...
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Serena Williams Says She Is Sorry After Steubenville Rape Case Comments
Serena Williams says she's reaching out to the family of the victim in the Steubenville rape case after the tennis star was quoted in a Rolling Stone article saying "she shouldn't have put herself in that position." In a statement released through her agent Wednesday, Williams says: "What was written - what I supposedly said - is insensitive and hurtful, and I by no ...
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Southbound Route 3 closed due to fiery crash
HARTFORD, Ill (KSDK) - A section of Route 3 was closed in Hartford because of a fiery crash. Illinois State Police said a flat bed semi collided with another truck at Route 3 and 7th Street around 8 a.m. The semi caught on fire. The northbound lanes reopened at noon, but the southbound lanes of Route 3 remain closed. Drivers heading southbound on Route 3 will be detoured to eastbound ...