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Stephen Strasburg pitched two scoreless innings in his spring debut against Detroit.
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March 10, 2010

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VIERA, Fla. – The Anointed One’s spring training debut was hardly clean, but it didn’t stop the jaws from dropping, as they do every time Stephen Strasburg pitches.So what do you do if you’re the Washington Nationals? Keep the San Diego State phenom and No. 1 pick in the draft in the majors? Drop him to the minors for seasoning?If you send him to the minors, how long does he stay? And if you’re the poor soul who has to coach or manage him, how nervous would you be? Imagine if a $15.1 million bonus baby got hurt on your watch. Imagine if the kid got all confused and lost his confidence, and everyone looks at you like, “What happened?’’ You’d have to be super careful with every decision so as not to get in the way of the Next Big Thing in baseball.Given Strasburg’s makeup, ability, and poise, he might be hard to mess up.In two scoreless innings against the Tigers yesterday, Strasburg threw 27 pitches, 15 for strikes, before a large but not sold-out crowd at Space Coast Stadium. If I were a Nationals fan, I’d be a little embarrassed that the pride and joy and the hope of the organization couldn’t even bang out the place in his debut. If this kid turns out to be Roger Clemens, Doc Gooden, Greg Maddux, or whoever, then his debut didn’t exactly generate excess buzz.Though it was cheap flights from Mackay to Darwin certainly hyped.“Lot of craziness going on,’’ said …continue reading

Source: TMZ.com (blog) (Original Article)

Home : TMZ Sports, Exclusives : Tony Romo’s Off-Season Goal — Soccer
Tony Romo’s Off-Season Goal — SoccerPosted Mar 5th 2010 6:15AM by TMZ StaffDallas Cowboys quarterback Tony Romo is risking serious injury — and possibly his $67 million contract — and it’s all for a secret, indoor passion. Dude plays in an adult recreational soccer league.

TMZ has confirmed that Romo participates in an indoor 6-on-6 league in Texas — a league that even requires players to sign an injury waiver … even though slide tackling and the use of cleats are strictly forbidden.

We obtained footage from Tony’s most recent game — and dude doesn’t look too bad … in fact, he even scored a goal.

As far as the Cowboys are concerned — they’re not. A rep for the team tells us, “He’s been playing in off-season basketball and soccer leagues in the area since he became an NFL player, so it must not be something that is in his contract.”

No word if Jessica Simpson is allowed to attend games.

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Source: Hindustan Times (Original Article)

India and Pakistan fell short of bridging the post-Mumbai divide on Thursday. During the first official talks in 14 months, New Delhi said Islamabad needed to do more about terrorism. Islamabad said it could only do more if the two sides resumed full dialogue.
 
While they agreed to keep channels of communication and Pakistan extended an invitation for another round, no dates were announced.
 
Though Bashir at one point dismissed India’s dossiers on LeT founder Hafiz Saeed “as literature, not evidence”, he later said he had meant this in a legal sense and he was “sorry” for any confusion the expression had caused.Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao said the talk was in line with  “our graduated and step by step approach with modest aims”.  However, she said, Pakistan had not done enough about those behind Mumbai.
 
“Pakistan looks forward to reversing the tide of regression that has taken place in its relationship with India,” said Pakistan foreign secretary Salman Bashir. Declining to specify any new anti-terrorist measures by his country, he noted “Pakistan is not desperate” about holding a dialogue.
 
Though Bashir at one point dismissed India’s dossiers on LeT founder Hafiz Saeed “as literature, not evidence”, he later said he had meant this in a legal sense and he was “sorry” for any confusion the expression had caused.
 
The two held over three hours of talks-including an 80-minute one-on-one discussion between the two foreign secretaries.

India pitched for action against Saeed and full investigation into 26/11 plot. Indian officials said 85 per cent of the discussions’ time was spent on terror.

“We went into today’s talks with an open mind, but fully conscious of the limitations imposed by the large trust deficit,” Rao said.
 
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It all had been going so well for the Mountain West.

It had started with the recently concluded football season. Check that, it had started with the football season that concluded in January 2009, when Utah busted the Bowl Championship Series for the second time in four years, whipping Alabama, 31-17. Not Alabama-Huntsville or Alabama A&M. Alabama Alabama. Bear Bryant’s Alabama. The one that beat the dog snot out of Texas in this year’s national championship game.

So what if Texas Christian lost to Boise State in the Fiesta Bowl? No harm, no foul. Leading up to the game, ESPN said the Mountain West was halfway home to receiving an automatic BCS bid. ESPN said that. Not The Mtn. or Versus or the Navy Football Network or Wayne and Garth’s public access channel or one of the other obscure networks that Mountain West games are available on, provided the log-rolling contest leading up to them doesn’t go into overtime. ESPN. A sports channel that everybody gets.

Then basketball season heated up. For one shining moment, the Mountain West had three teams ranked among the Top 25. Or one more than the vaunted Atlantic Coast Conference had.

That was last week, before the Rebels were getting outhustled to virtually every loose ball. Before they realized how much they missed Derrick Jasper on the boards and on defense.

Before, more important to a nationwide audience, the Pacific-10 Conference had to open its big mouth.

Actually, the Mountain West opened its big mouth first. When last week’s basketball poll came out and three Mountain West teams were listed, commissioner Craig Thompson said it was mostly due to the exposure Mountain West teams were receiving from creating their own television network. The fact that the ACC stinks and the Pac-10 stinks really had nothing to do with it.

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Source: Denver Post (Original Article)

The electric-shock paddles were applied to the Avalanche just in time Wednesday night.
Looking dead all night against the mediocre Atlanta Thrashers, the Avs came alive with a rousing final two-thirds of the third period to win 4-3 at the Pepsi Center, with Kyle Cumiskey scoring the winner only nine seconds into overtime.
The two points gained by Colorado put it back into sole possession of first place in the Northwest Division.
Paul Stastny won the faceoff to begin overtime and fed the puck to Cumiskey, who swerved through three Thrashers and flipped the puck into the upper right corner of the net.
A brilliant, diving backhand goal by fourth-line winger Chris Durno got the Avs back to a tie game at 3-3
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Source: Lexington Herald Leader (Original Article)

Hall of Fame coach and John Calipari critic Bob Knight won’t be at Kentucky’s game against Tennessee next Saturday. But many other ESPN staffers will be there as the GameDay crew comes to Lexington for a third time.

Earlier this year, Knight questioned how Kentucky could hire Calipari after two of the coach’s former teams had been ordered to vacate Final Four appearances. Knight also questioned players who spend only one year in college, a staple of Calipari’s success at Memphis (Derrick Rose, Tyreke Evans) and presumably at UK (John Wall, DeMarcus Cousins).

Knight will be working games two days before (Michigan at Minnesota) and two days after (Kansas at Texas A&M) Kentucky plays Tennessee on Saturday night. So the logistics would be difficult, not to mention the potential awkwardness between Knight and Calipari.

No fewer than seven other on-camera personalities will be in Lexington. Dan Shulman, Dick Vitale and Erin Andrews will call the UK-Tennessee game.

The GameDay crew will include Rece Davis, Jay Bilas, Hubert Davis and Digger Phelps.

UK distributed more than 23,000 tickets for the 11 a.m. GameDay telecast, prompting talk of a so-called record crowd.

ESPN doesn’t keep crowd-size statistics but acknowledges that 23,000-plus would be the most to watch a GameDay telecast. That number could be topped two weeks later when GameDay originates from the Carrier Dome in conjunction with the Villanova-Syracuse game.

After being at UK, ESPN has plans for GameDay telecasts at Washington (against UCLA), Syracuse and Duke (against North Carolina).

So far this season, GameDay has been at Clemson, Kansas State and Illinois, plus at Connecticut for the women’s game.

Next Saturday’s game marks the third time GameDay has originated from Lexington. The earlier two were games against Florida in 2005 and 2007. Kentucky was also part of a GameDay telecast for games cheap domstic flights from Canberra to Launceston at Florida in 2006 and 2008.

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Source: Sportinglife.com (Original Article)

Steve Bruce is hoping Kenwyne Jones can rediscover his best form and help Sunderland out of their recent rut after no deadline-day transfer materialised for the Trinidad and Tobago striker.

Liverpool were heavily linked with Jones for the duration of the winter window but no deal was struck and Jones instead led the line in a drab 0-0 with Stoke at the Stadium of Light.

Jones was far from his inspirational best but showed enough of an improvement on his recent displays, which Bruce had attributed to the uncertainty over his future, to hint at a strong end to the campaign.

“I thought Kenwyne did much better (against Stoke),” said Bruce.

“It hasn’t been easy with the constant speculation but I’ve repeatedly said that I’m trying to build a squad and a team here and the last thing I want to be doing is letting my good players go.

“It has been unsettling for him, I’m sure, but we can all get turned around now and forget about all that for a few months and get on with the job in hand.”

If the Black Cats are to recover from their dismal recent run, which now stands at one league win in 14 outings since they overturned Liverpool in October, Bruce feels his side might need more craft to add to their industry.

“There were a few nerves, we were a bit edgy,” he said after the Stoke deadlock.

“But nobody could complain about the actual effort. The endeavour was certainly there but I think we actually took the effort and the endeavour too far and forgot to play the game.

“We needed a little bit of quality but unfortunately we gave the ball away far too often.”

Potters chief Tony Pulis was pleased with his side’s battling away point but was less than happy about preparing for a match as the transfer deadline came to a frantic close.

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Fortrex Technologies’ Payment Card Industry Services Ensures Americaneagle.com is Meeting PCI Standa

Fortrex Technologies Inc., a leading provider of PCI Data Security Standard (DSS) assessment services, today announced that Americaneagle.com, an industry leader in total turnkey online solutions, passed its 2009 Payment Card Industry (PCI) assessment. Americaneagle.com has engaged with Fortrex to perform the mandatory annual PCI assessment three years in a row. Fortrex’s services ensure that Americaneagle.com is meeting the strict security standards instituted by the PCI Security Standards Council.

“We initially began working with Fortrex several years ago when they performed a PCI Gap Analysis of our security offerings. We have hundreds of clients that need to meet PCI standards, so it is very important that we work in a secure environment. Fortrex’s assessment was very thorough and outlined all of the requirements we needed to improve on in order to become PCI compliant,” Ryan McElrath, Chief Technology Officer, Americaneagle.com. ”In addition to the PCI Gap Analysis, we worked with Fortrex for the past three years and have attained PCI compliance each year. By becoming PCI compliant the culture within our company has evolved and has allowed us to grow to a new level. Fortrex is a great company to work with. They have tremendous industry knowledge, they were very easy to work with and they were responsive to all of our communications.”

Fortrex offers the three robust mainline PCI DSS assessment/audit services including PCI Gap Analysis, SAQ Assistance, PCI Assessments, PA-DSS Assessments and ASV Approved Scanning Vendor.

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Rollins, Inc. Reports Fourth Quarter and Full-Year 2009 Financial Results
Posted on: Wednesday, 27 January 2010, 06:30 CST

ATLANTA, Jan. 27 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Rollins, Inc. (NYSE: ROL), a premier North American consumer and commercial services company, today reported unaudited financial results for its fourth quarter and year ended December 31, 2009.
The Company recorded fourth quarter revenues of $259.6 million, an increase of 4.6% over the prior year’s fourth quarter revenue of $248.1 million. Net income increased 59.0% to $20.0 million or $0.20 per diluted share for the fourth quarter ended December 31, 2009, compared to $12.6 million or $0.13 per diluted share for the same period in 2008.
In the fourth quarter of 2009, Rollins converted Orkin, Inc. and certain other operating subsidiaries from C corporations to wholly owned limited liability companies. This change will allow Rollins to use the operating profits generated by these subsidiaries to offset Rollins’ state tax losses and reduce state income taxes. The Company also recognized a non-cash pre-tax impairment charge of approximately $2.9 million following management’s determination that a routing and scheduling system under development would require substantial changes and expense in order to deliver the product expected. The Company is exploring alternative solutions as the potential benefits of an effective routing and scheduling system would be significant.
Excluding a tax benefit of $6.2 million or $0.06 per diluted share on Rollins’ conversion of Orkin to a limited liability company, net of cost associated with a Canadian restructuring and repatriation of cash, and the impairment charge of $0.02 per diluted share associated with the software system write-off, the Company’s earnings per share for fourth quarter 2009 were $0.16 per diluted share, an improvement of 23.1% compared to fourth quarter 2008.
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