KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Kansas City Chiefs running back Larry Johnson issued his second apology in 12 months Tuesday and was told to stay away from the team while the NFL and the Chiefs complete their investigation into his use of a gay slur.
As Johnson was releasing his apology, a national gay rights advocacy organization [...]
A pair of shoes could end up costing the University of Central Florida nearly $2 million a year.
UCF promised Marcus Jordan, son of NBA legend Michael Jordan, that he could wear his father’s Nike Air Jordan brand for the Knights’ basketball team this season.
The problem? UCF has an exclusive $1.9 million contract with adidas that [...]
So we heard this shocking news about Kanye West died in a car accident in Tuesday (October 13). The news was spreading like a wildfire over the internet. Some said he was died on the spot right after the incident, some other said that he couldn’t make it into the hospital. Is that true? Or [...]
The arrest of Galleon Group founder Raj Rajaratnam on insider trading charges swings attention back to the hot and heavy world of technology-stock trading. These highly volatile stocks are a trader’s playground because share prices can swing wildly based on whether companies miss or beat earnings’ expectations, even by a penny or two.
Analysts assign large [...]
New York Times writers Jack Curry, Tyler Kepner and Billy Witz will be providing live updates of American League Championship Series Game 3 between the Yankees and Angels in Anaheim, Calif.
ANAHEIM, Calif. — Update | 7:00 p.m. Joba is fooling no one. Aybar pulls a double past a diving Teixeira. Damaso Marte is up [...]
In a secret, high-tech laboratory, a famous man toils over some truly peculiar, and probably completely unnecessary, experiments. Outside, his two dimwitted sons insult each other and ride around on their motorized scooters. And an impossibly muscle bound man dreams of killing people and having sex with women, at the same time, if that’s possible.
This [...]
HELENA, Mont. — The federal government is facing a lawsuit over billions in unclaimed bonds that date back to the patriotic fundraising efforts of World War II, leading to a showdown between states who say they should be given the money and a Treasury Department that claims ownership.
World War II sparked an unprecedented bond buying [...]
Billionaire Raj Rajaratnam, a partner at hedge fund Galleon Group, is among six nabbed in latest Wall Street scandal.
Federal authorities have uncovered what they say is the largest case of insider trading ever at a hedge fund – netting an alleged $20 million in illegal profits.
The case centers around billionaire Raj Rajaratnam, a partner [...]
FOR a while, it wasn’t clear whether Billy Gilroy was going to accumulate more restaurants or marriages. Until a few years ago, he was dead even, five apiece. But he opened Macao Trading Co. last November in TriBeCa (his sixth), and will open his newest, East Side Social Club, on 230 East 51st Street in [...]
OVER the transom the other day came an urgent “Cougar Alert”: There is a new book out, and this one distinguishes the real cougar, a confident, strong, single woman over 40, from the comically desperate predator-seductress depicted in television shows like “Cougar Town,” one of the latest products of Hollywood’s obsession with the older woman.
Andrew [...]
