Still hurting, Orlando's Nelson making his way back
NBA
You punch us first, we'll duck and miss, and we'll hit you in the ribs" ... • Tracy McGrady is willing; he practices with the Rockets every day. His knee, not yet. I'm told that he still doesn't have any explosiveness when he gathers himsel...
Even as old-style photo booths shutter, they retain their low-tech fun
Detroit Free Press
PORTLAND, Ore. -- In a corner of the airy, wood-paneled lobby at the Ace Hotel stands a big black booth with a curtain for an entrance and a mirror with delicate script that reads: "You are beautiful." Two young girls duck inside. They sit ...
Haifa desperate to break Group A duck
UEFA
Maccabi Haifa FC welcome Juventus to Tel Aviv on Matchday 4 still seeking an elusive first UEFA Champions League point of the season. The visitors from Turin are unlikely to take anything for granted against Elisha Levi's team given how the...
This Duck likes it raw
Orange County Register
ANAHEIM – He has had the anterior cruciate ligament in his right knee shredded into spaghetti. Three times. Came back after each surgery. In the playoffs last spring, he suffered a bruised lung, a sensation he described as feeling like brea...
Gay-nups vote is Maine event nationwide
New York Post
But a nasty political spat over the thorniest of awkward issues in the land where people really walk around looking like the models in the L.L. Bean catalog, with well-oiled duck boots and shiny, sharpened axes slung over their shoulders? M...
Drive-by shooting apparently targeted Seattle police at random
Seattle Times
Brenton, 39, a field training officer, and officer-trainee Britt Sweeney were seated in their parked squad car when Sweeney sensed danger over her left shoulder and yelled for her partner to duck. A car pulled up alongside the officers' car...
Champion duck callers at waterfowl Mo. festival
Park Hills Daily Journal
KENNETT, Mo. (AP) — World champion duck callers will judge contests and demonstrate their techniques at this weekend’s Missouri Waterfowl Festival in the Bootheel.
Mad Men: 'The Grown-Ups'
Union-News & Sunday Republican
Clearly, Duck doesn’t see Peggy as someone with feelings, as he ignores her after they learn Kennedy is dead, and goes straight to the phone to call his children. Peggy tries to cope, but is driven out of both her apartment and her mother’s...
Mad Men : We Didn’t Start the Fire
Nymag.com
Despite her roommates reservations about Duck's aftershave (and, probably, his general skeeziness), Peggy will remember her no-hickey-attached fun in the sack with Duck, and then his rush to turn the TV back on. "I gotta call my kids," he s...
Duck-hunting prospects improve with weather in South Texas
Corpus Christi Caller-Times
ROCKPORT — The friendly gate attendant at Goose Island State Park told me I should have no trouble finding a parking spot near the boat ramp this opening morning of duck season. That’s unusual, despite it being 5:45 a.m. Shooting time would...
Wizards learn to compensate for injuries
Washington Post
You punch us first, we'll duck and miss and hit you in the rib," Saunders said. "We were doing that literally, that's how [Atlanta] got 34 free throw [attempts]. But I know this, it's easier to tell someone to be less aggressive than to try...
Schmitt outdoors column: Duck hunting dying off
St. Cloud Times
Duck hunting in Minnesota certainly has lost some of its shine in recent years. There just doesn't seem to be the same enthusiasm among hunters to chase ducks in the state.
ORC break their duck
Western Advocate
ORC have finally broken their duck for season 2009-10 in the Bathurst District Cricket Association first grade competition after a 23-run win over Bathurst City in what was at times a controversial clash at the Sportsground on Saturday.
RSPCA rescues 'duck in glasses'
ITN
A new warning about litter throwing has been issued after a duck wearing a pair of plastic glasses was rescued from a canal. RSPCA inspectors were called to a stretch of the Leeds and Liverpool Canal in Accrington, Lancashire, by worried me...
