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State soccer powerhouse St. Dominic earns No. 4 spot
A sweep of the boys and girls state soccer titles might indicate that St. Dominic is a soccer school, but that would be selling the private coed campus located in O'Fallon, Mo., short.The Crusaders posted winning records in seven of eight team sports. Coach Greg Koeller's soccer teams were a combined 49-5-1, and softball went 21-8, volleyball 24-10-2, football 9-2, boys basketball ...
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No. 4 St. Josephs excels in several sports
The most athletically decorated all-girls school in the area, St. Joseph's Academy annually adds to its overflowing trophy case, typically with multiple titles.And that's why it almost feels like a down year when St. Joe's lands as low as No. 4 in the countdown to the large schools program of the year. It was another stellar year, another group of outstanding student athletes, but ...
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Biffle Edwards not on same page after Mich race
Greg Biffle was thrilled after his victory last weekend in Michigan.Teammate Carl Edwards was a little bit miffed.Biffle's Sprint Cup victory gave Ford Motor Co. 1,000 wins across NASCAR's three national series _ Cup, Nationwide and Truck. It took place just down the road from company headquarters, but not every Ford driver raced as well as he'd hoped. Edwards, the pole winner, ...
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Ed Carpenter seeking breakthrough at Iowa
It has been a topsy-turvy season for Ed Carpenter.He won the pole for the Indianapolis 500, but follow through with a win _ at Indy or anywhere else so far in 2013.He's hoping the speedy oval at Iowa Speedway will be the setting for this season's breakthrough.Carpenter, now in his second season as the owner and driver of his own team, has notched top-10s in two of his last three oval ...
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NASCAR drivers among 800 at Leffler funeral
Sprint Cup drivers Kasey Kahne, Brad Keselowski and Greg Biffle were among more than 800 people who attended the funeral service for NASCAR driver Jason Leffler on Wednesday.Leffler was killed a week ago when his sprint car crashed into a wall at Bridgeport Speedway in New Jersey.No coffin was present during the hour-long service for Leffler, who won two Nationwide Series races during his NASCAR ...
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She's All That
"She's All That" is "Pygmalion" set in a Southern California high school, with the student body president and all-around athlete trying to turn a gawky, bespectacled art student into the prom queen in six weeks. The set-up is thin and much of the film is composed of predictable, well-trodden material from the John Hughes oeuvre and its imitators of the mid-1980s (anybody remember "Can't Buy Me Lo ... ...
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Freese sits Cards face ex-teammate Jackson
Unlike the Reds, the Cards aren't fully maximizing the opportunity to dominate teams with losing records. It's a factor in the NL Central ...
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Yankees spoil Mattinglys return to Bronx
Hiroki Kuroda shut down his former team into the seventh inning, Ichiro Suzuki homered and drove in three runs, and the New York Yankees spoiled Don Mattingly's return to the Bronx with a 6-4 victory over the sloppy Los Angeles Dodgers on Wednesday in the opener of a day-night doubleheader.Lyle Overbay hit a two-run double against South Korean rookie Hyun-Jin Ryu (6-3) in the first game in ...
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Wilkes Group buildings on the market
Available near midtown St. Louis are two commercial buildings totaling nearly 65,000 square feet of space used by Wilkes Group, a direct marketing company.Wilkes greatly reduced operations this month and, as a result, Hilliker Corp. has the job of finding new tenants. The available buildings, situated on 2.5 acres of land, are at 3401 Chouteau Avenue and 900 South Theresa Avenue.Before scaling ...
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Officials Urban Outfitters pulls pill glasses
Political leaders in drug-plagued Kentucky say retailer Urban Outfitters Inc. has responded to a multi-state campaign and stopped selling flasks, shot glasses and pint glasses that look like prescription pill bottles.Gov. Steve Beshear released a statement Wednesday saying he was very pleased with the decision.Urban Outfitters caters to teens and young adults. The Courier-Journal of Louisville ...
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Car quality dinged by tech glitches survey finds
Car buyers increasingly want high-tech features like voice recognition and navigation. But they're not very forgiving of the car company when those systems fail.The top complaints in J.D. Power's closely-watched survey of new vehicle owners, released Wednesday, involved technologies that drivers are clamoring for. Voice recognition systems either didn't recognize commands or ...