CHICAGO. August 27, 2009. Two weeks after the death of his sister Eunice, Edward Moore “Ted” Kennedy (February 22, 1932 – August 25, 2009) has died of brain cancer at his home in Hyannis Port, Mass. He is survived by his wife Victoria, his sister Jean Kennedy Smith, and his three children.
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LOS ANGELES. August 23, 2009. It was the final game of the season for the Cubs in L.A. and Dempster was in the driving seat. The question was would he be able to drive handfuls of unhitable pitches at the inform Dodgers whose machine appears to be headed towards the play off.
The first innings [...]
LOS ANGELES. August 22, 2009. Make no mistake, this was a close game. Ted Lilly came into it with a level of optimistic confidence but he was pitching against one of the strongest teams in the MLB. The Dodgers, always in the market for runs this season got two more today to beat the Cubs. [...]
LOS ANGELES. August 21, 2009. To lose the game to a hop of the ball must be like getting stung on the end of your nose when you bend down to smell a rose. The pain lingers to remind you how close you got. Tonight’s loss will really have hurt. The frustration of Lou “The [...]
LOS ANGELES. August20, 2009. Barring a supreme effort it would appear that the Cubs season has 43 more games left in it. The question now is who in the 40 man Roster can don the Superman cape! They have come from behind in the past but with a mountain of 7 games to win to [...]
YORBA LINDA. August 21, 2009. Confidence in the market for builders of newly built, single-family homes rose in August to its highest level since June 2008, according to the National Association of Home Builders/Wells Fargo Housing Market Index.
Home building expectations have been buoyed by the success of the first-time home buyer tax credit that expires [...]
YORBA LINDA. August 19, 2009. Home sales for the month of July rose to the highest level in more than two years as buyers are confident the worst is over.
July marked the l3th month that sales topped the year-earlier total and with 3,128 houses and condo’s changing hands, it has marked the biggest month since [...]
SAN DIEGO. August 17, 2009. In the 9th innings when you are one run to the good the best thing to do is to believe you can win the game. If you don’t do that you will lose. And to my mind that is exactly what happened tonight. The “Guru” Lou Piniella believed that they [...]
CHICAGO. August 16, 2009. The weather had the upper hand today and won out over both the Chicago Cubs and the Pittsburgh Pirates. The stormy autumn rain clouds rolled up over Wrigley field from the South West and the result was that the game was postponed. This wasn’t exactly what the Cubs wanted as they [...]
