Ed Burns: `I want to raise the stakes'
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After directing 1995's "The Brothers McMullen," Ed Burns was seen as a rising star. People pegged the young actor and independent filmmaker as the next Woody Allen.
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Often in sports, athletes talk of climbing the mountain. Tonight at Allstate Arena outside Chicago, Monte Barrett will have to fight one.
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Former British Member of Parliament David Burnside looks set to launch a takeover bid for ailing Scottish Premier giants Rangers, it was reported on Sunday.
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Tommy Burns yesterday declared himself a potential candidate to succeed Berti Vogts as manager of Scotland, with the blessing of the former West German World Cup winner who quit the post on
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DURHAM, N.H., Feb. 12 -- The opening days of Sen. Barack Obama's presidential campaign have displayed all the promise of his candidacy, with large crowds, pulsating energy and a charismatic leading man. But the Illinois Democrat faces several serious challenges if he hopes to convert potential into...
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Take more pitches. Draw more walks. Hit more grounders. For years, Jimmy Rollins heard the same criticism from people who said he's not a prototypical leadoff hitter. Try dissing J-Roll now.
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The Illinois senator talks obliquely about the Democratic front runner. Time to start scoring some direct hits.
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If the PGA Tour is looking for a fight with Ernie Els, they may have just come to the right place. Els, who is hoping to become a five-time winner of the World Match Play Championship over Wentworth&#39;s demanding
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He's well positioned in early polling and organization, but John Edwards will have to raise some quick cash if he wants to remain in the top tier of contenders for the Democratic presidential nomination.
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Steven Roth, the tough, entrepreneurial chief executive of giant Vornado Realty Trust , has his sights set on Boston's Suffolk Downs. And it is a better bet than any you could place at the struggling track that the opportunity he sees is not in a bunch of old men shouting at a TV screen and betting two bucks on a ...
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Ed Joyce is in a position to beat Middlesex team-mate Andrew Strauss in the race to open England's innings alongside captain Michael Vaughan according to the skipper himself.
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Work is getting under way on a Â£10m expansion to the burns unit at Swansea's Morriston hospital.
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The lessons learned in the cattle fields of Burns, Ore., will come in handy Sunday in Baltimore if Kellen Clemens is called upon to make his first N.F.L. start.
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The White House campaign has brought a new act to Vegas. Barack Obama has stepped up his campaign against Hillary Rodham Clinton, and he's trying to use humor to bring her down before this weekend's Democratic presidential caucus.
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TIMING is everything in football. The job that Tommy Burns wanted more than anything came far too soon for him. Now, one that he probably never considered may be just the right fit.
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Frankie Andreu, once Lance ArmstrongÂs teammate, said he hoped admitting his use of EPO would help change the tradition of doping in cycling.
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â¢ The Olympics are less than a week away and organizers are pulling the pieces together for the Aug. 13 opening. â¢ Dana Vollmer will be one of those tales of courage that come up during the Olympics.