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March 31
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Louisville's Kevin Ware is moving around on crutchesUSA TODAYThe morning after suffering one of the most gruesome injuries in televised sports history, Louisville Cardinals sophomore guard Kevin Ware was moving around on crutches in his Indianapolis hospital room. FEELING HIS PAIN: Joe Theismann empathizes ...
Brutal break: Kevin Ware's fracture explainedFox NewsDuring the NCAA Midwest regional final Sunday night, many spectators watched in horror as Louisville guard Kevin Ware landed awkwardly on his lower right leg – nearly bending it in a 90-degree angle. Ware, a sophomore at Louisville, was jumping to ...
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Google Nose is fake. The artificial nose isn't.Washington Post (blog)“Google Nose,” still in Beta, “leverages new and existing technologies to offer the sharpest olfactory experience available.” Scratch and sniff books are one way to use Google Nose; self-driving new car smell is another possible experience. Google Nose ...
Google Nose is not really a jokeFortune(gigaom.com) -- A Google April Fool's Day post on Google Nose, a new service in beta that “leverages new and existing technologies to offer the sharpest olfactory experience available” may have been a joke, but it's not that far from reality. Just ask ...
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'Game Of Thrones' Ratings Hit Series High For Season 3 PremiereHuffington Post"Game Of Thrones" returned with a ratings vengeance Sunday night. The premiere of "Thrones" Season 3 attracted 4.4 million viewers in its initial 9 p.m. airing, making it the most-watched episode in series' history, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
Talk back: What did you think of 'Game of Thrones'?USA TODAYNote: This post discusses Sunday's Game of Thrones premiere, so you may wanna skip it if you haven't watched yet! After what felt like an endless wait, Game of Thrones returned last night with a fairly mellow season opener ... well, except for that ...
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Easter Egg Roll: Obama shoots bricks on the basketball courtWashington Post (blog)President Obama took to the White House basketball court as part of the Easter Egg Roll festivities, only to come up short. And long. And off to the side. In all, Obama, shooting in front of young children and several Washington Wizards players ...
Children, athletes attend White House Easter Egg RollFox NewsAn amused President Obama read a children's book to a gathering of boys and girls at the White House, then peppered them with questions: Had any of them lost a tooth? Had any climbed trees? Had any fallen after climbing? It was all part of the annual ...
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'Silver' morning: Marco's Easter dawn service at the beach turns 25Naples Daily NewsDozens of boats anchored offshore to join the throng on the sand. Marco's Easter sunrise service at the beach turned 25 on Sunday, with thousands of worshippers on a beautiful morning. Lance Shearer/Eagle Correspondent ...
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Lessons on Being a Success on Wall St., and Being a CasualtyNew York TimesSallie Krawcheck says women need sponsors more than mentors. Mentors will offer advice and guidance Tony Cenicola/The New York TimesSallie Krawcheck says women need sponsors more than mentors. Mentors will offer advice and guidance; sponsors ...
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This is no joke: Cafe serves up Dumpster dining9NEWS.comTufts University student Maximus Thaler is raising money for a 24-hour cafe that offers up free grub from grocery store Dumpsters. Check out what he finds and how it's used. Food isn't the only thing that's being tossed. Vowels are getting the boot ...
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Detroit airport terminal reopens after suspicious device removedCNNEarlier, screeners with the Transportation Security Administration noticed something suspicious in a passenger's carry-on luggage, said airport spokesman Michael Conway. Explosive teams looked into it, and in the meantime passengers in the terminal ...
Detroit Airport Terminal Reopened After EvacuationABC NewsAuthorities evacuated the smaller of two terminals at Detroit Metropolitan Airport for about two hours and detained one person as a bomb squad responded to a suspicious item at a security checkpoint. Detroit Airport Evacuation .JPEG. AP. The bomb squad ...
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Happy Easter! Let Us Stop Throwing Each Other AwayPatheos (blog)Upon re-reading it, I thought about how easily we throw people away, everyday, in less dramatic fashion. We throw people away when we sneer at them or about them; we throw them away when we dismiss their concerns, or decide they are not worth our ...
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Calif. officers stop Easter Bunny driving motorcycleCBS NewsEveryone has to follow the rules, even the Easter Bunny. California Highway Patrol made an unusual traffic stop on a Southland highway early Saturday morning when a man in a bunny suit was driving a motorcycle without a helmet, CBS Los Angeles reports.
Easter Bunny Spotted, Pulled Over by CHPKTLAIn fact, a CHP officer saw the Easter Bunny Sunday in the San Diego area, riding a shiny red motorcycle, heading west on the 8 Freeway, according to the Los Angeles Times. Of course, it was just a person wearing an Easter Bunny costume, complete with a ...
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Porsha and Kordell Stewart: Why They're Still Talking After Divorce AnnouncementHollywood LifePorsha Stewart and Kordell Stewart are still talking! But why would The Real Housewives of Atlanta star want anything to do with the man who reportedly blindsided her by filing for divorce? HollywoodLife.com has spoken to a friend of Porsha's, who ...
Kordell Stewart Loses It on "Real Housewives" Finale!TooFab.comKordell Stewart may have blindsided his wife, Porsha Stewart, with a divorce in real life, but on cameras he defended her! The former football star lost his cool on Sunday night's "Real Housewives of Atlanta" finale ... and we've never seen him so ...
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RG III has Brittney Griner's backESPNWashington Redskins quarterback Robert Griffin III, who played collegiately at Baylor, took to Twitter on Sunday night to defend Lady Bears center Brittney Griner after her top-seeded team was upset by No. 5 Louisville in the NCAA tournament. Griffin ...
Brittney Griner tweets apology to Baylor fans after Sweet 16 lossLos Angeles TimesBaylor star Brittney Griner took to Twitter on Sunday night following the Lady Bears' shocking 82-81 loss to Louisville in the NCAA women's basketball tournament's round of 16. She wasn't there to vent her frustrations about a Cardinals defense that ...
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Final Four 2013: Louisville, Michigan, Syracuse And Wichita State Heading For ...Huffington PostDuke forward Mason Plumlee looks at the clock in the final seconds of the the Midwest Regional final in the NCAA college basketball tournament, Sunday, March 31, 2013, in Indianapolis. Louisville won 85-63 to advance to the Final Four. (AP Photo ...
Final Four 2013 TV Schedule: Complete Network Info and Online Coverage GuideBleacher ReportLouisville and Michigan advanced to the Final Four of the 2013 NCAA tournament on Sunday after wins against Duke and Florida, respectively. Louisville (33-4, 14-4 Big East) will play Wichita State (30-8, 12-6 MVC) on April 6, while Michigan (30-7, 12-6 ...
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Skylar Diggins becomes school scoring leader as Notre Dame ousts Kansas in ...Boston.comSkylar Diggins was already having such a great day, her coach figured she might as well make it historic. The Notre Dame point guard scored 22 of her 27 points by halftime Sunday and became the school's career scoring leader, leading the top-seeded ...
Diggins 'owns the day' in record winESPNA day earlier, Diggins tried to explain the fine line any point guard treads between looking for her own shot and looking for someone
March 31 in history:
- 2004: Four private U.S. contractors were murdered and their bodies mutilated by a mob in the city of Fallujah, long a trouble spot for the U.S. forces occupying Iraq; this event and the U.S. military response precipitated a dramatic rise in the violence in the country, and by the end of April more than 100 U.S. troops had died, the deadliest month since the Iraq War began in March 2003.
- 1968: President Lyndon B. Johnson made two surprise announcements: that he would stop the U.S. bombing of North Vietnam and seek a negotiated end to the Vietnam War, and that he would not run for reelection.
- 1943: The musical Oklahoma!, a collaboration of Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II, opened in New York City; it ran for a record 2,212 performances.
- 1928: Gordie Howe, a hockey legend who amassed 1,850 points (801 goals and 1,049 assists) and played as a professional for more than 30 seasons, was born.
- 1889: The Eiffel Tower, built for the Paris Exposition of that year, opened officially in Paris.
- 1854: U.S. commodore Matthew Perry and representatives of the Japanese government signed the Treaty of Kanagawa, which "opened" Japan to the West in a classic example of 19th-century gunboat diplomacy.
- 1836: The first number of Charles Dickens's serial The Pickwick Papers was published; it required only 400 copies, but the fourth required 40,000.
- 1727: Sir Isaac Newton died, having singlehandedly completed the scientific revolution and molded much of the content and the image of modern science.
