Sidney Crosby returned to the Pittsburgh Penguins’ lineup Sunday, but Marc-André Fleury made sure they did not need him. Fleury stopped 33 shots and Petr Sykora had a goal and an assist to lead the Penguins to a 3-0 victory at home over the Rangers. Chris Minard and Tyler Kennedy also scored for Pittsburgh, as [...]
Dwyane Wade had 32 points and 10 assists and the Heat impressed coach Erik Spoelstra with some unexpected poise down the stretch to emerge from a 12-day road trip with a 104-94 victory over the Oklahoma City Thunder on Sunday night. “This team is never ceasing to surprise us with their resiliency and toughness,” Spoelstra [...]
He was once the can’t-miss jewel of the Cubs’ minor-league system, but outfielder Felix Pie went the way of Corey Patterson and other top prospects before him when he was traded Sunday to the Baltimore Orioles for two young pitchers. Pie, 23, long touted as a five-tool player as he rose through the Cubs’ system, [...]
America, are you ready for the Wiz Bowl? That’s what we’ve got in two weeks, a Super Bowl matchup littered with NFL incest and historical intrigue. The Arizona-Pittsburgh cross-pollination goes back to the winter of ’06. When Bill Cowher called it a career in Pittsburgh after 16 years as head coach, the media all but [...]
Japanese commercial real estate transactions were down sharply in 2008, marking the end of six consecutive years of gains, according to a Japanese media report Monday. The value of real estate transactions totaled about 2.8 trillion yen ($30.8 billion) in 2008, down from the 5.6 trillion yen in 2007, the Nikkei newspaper reported, citing data [...]
Asos Plc, the U.K.’s second-largest online clothing retailer, said sales more than doubled in the last two months as shoppers sought discounts online, and said growth in full-year profit will meet analysts’ estimates. Revenue rose 118 percent in the nine weeks ended Jan. 16, the London-based retailer said today. Growth accelerated from the 107 percent [...]
GAZA (Reuters) – Hamas vowed Monday to rearm in defiance of any Israeli and international efforts to prevent the Islamist militant group from replenishing its arsenal of rockets and other weapons after the Gaza war. “Do whatever you want. Manufacturing the holy weapons is our mission and we know how to acquire weapons,” Abu Ubaida, [...]
Unisys Corp. said Thursday it was one of four companies selected by the Army Program Executive Office — Enterprise Information Systems to compete for work providing radio frequency identification technology products and services to federal agencies as well as NATO countries and other allies. The contract has a three-year base period and seven one-year options, [...]
In addition to Google‘s (NSDQ: GOOG) announcements about the elimination of 100 recruiting positions and the shutdown of offices in Austin, Texas; Trondheim, Norway; and Lulea, Sweden, the company said it would close Dodgeball, Google Catalog Search, Google Mashup Editor, Google Notebook, and Jaiku. It also said it’s discontinuing the ability to upload videos to [...]
We still don’t know when you’ll get our hands on the wildly anticipated Palm Pre smartphone, which was announced at last week’s Consumer Electronics Show. But we are getting a hint of where we might be able to buy it. The Palm Pre may be sold exclusively through Best Buy Mobile (in addition to at [...]
