Posts Tagged ‘Los Angeles’

MONTEREY PARK, CA — Whether you played the game at any level or are just a spectator, if you truck the kids to hockey practice very early in the morning or just lie on the living room couch and watch games on television, just about everyone touched by the game has a hockey dream or two. In Living The Hockey Dream, author Brian Kennedy, Ph.D., a ... Full story

By Louis “King of Roncesvalles” Pisano The starting five for Toronto is laden with skill and has shown at times that it can measure up with any other team in the league, while bench players like Jarrett Jack are bringing the noise nightly adding that next dimension. Yes, Chris Bosh is the leader of this team and is playing with new found toughness and emotion, he’s driving the ... Full story

The National League MVP will be announced this week, and it will undoubtedly be handed to Albert Pujols. With this year’s race all but locked up, I wanted to take a look at a player who I consider to be the front-runner for MVP in 2010.  At 25 years old, Matt Kemp has already put up impressive numbers that rank up there with some of the elite ... Full story

On Friday November 20, Chien Ming Wang spoke to reporters in Taiwan about his questionable future with the New York Yankees organization. Wang has been plagued by injuries the last two years and is no longer the Yankees ace pitcher.  When speaking to reporters in Taiwan, Wang said that the Yankees are his “first choice”. But afterwards mentioned that he would be alright pitching for any ... Full story

A pretty interesting situation played out today in a game between the New York Knicks and New Jersey Nets, making an otherwise disgraceful contest very much amusing, if only for a few brief seconds.  With 0.5 seconds remaining in the first quarter, the Knicks were inbounding the ball in their back court with a 28-24 advantage.  Nate Robinson—the same player who was once called for a traveling ... Full story

What team is deeper than the Nuggets at point guard? Nobody. Nil. Nada. That is, according to Denver head coach George Karl. “We have the best third point guard in the NBA,” the wise old coach told The Denver Post Tuesday. With Anthony Carter returning from a strained hip injury, the same one that kept him out of four games last year, he gives Karl another option in ... Full story

ATLANTA – Air travelers nationwide scrambled to revise their plans Thursday after an FAA computer glitch caused widespread cancellations and delays for the second time in 15 months. The Federal Aviation Administration said the problem, which lasted about five hours, was fixed around 10 a.m., but it was unclear how long flights would be affected. Doug Church, a spokesman for the National Air Traffic Controllers Union, said ... Full story

Adknowledge, a Kansas City-based provider of behavioral online advertising solutions, has acquired the primary assets of SocialMedia Networks, a San Francisco-based provider of a social media ad platform. No financial terms were disclosed. Adknowledge raised $48 million in funding in 2006 from Technology Crossover Ventures. SocialMedia Networks had raised VC funding from Charles River Ventures, IDG Ventures SF, Marc Andreessen and Jeff Clavier. PRESS RELEASE Adknowledge, the ... Full story

LOS ANGELES - Online social hub MySpace is in talks to acquire struggling free music streaming site imeem, two people familiar with the matter said Tuesday. ... Full story

Update: Google has announced that eight new cities can now be modeled with Building Maker: Brussels, Rotterdam, Cologne, Dortmund, Boston, Los Angeles, Las Vegas, and San Jose. "We’ve also made some useful improvements to the product, including: the option of a Google Earth-view when you’re choosing a location to model, the ability to save models as drafts before submitting them for review, and a new tool ... Full story