October 13, 2013 Week 7 of college football saw four upsets in the top 20. Number 5 Stanford fell to unranked Utah 27-21, Utah’s first win against a top 5 opponent in school history. After outlasting LSU last week, #7 Georgia lost to #25 Missouri 41-26, the first time Missouri beat a top 10 team on the road in 32 years.
October 11, 2013
October 11, 2013 I remember as I was growing up I would from time to time read Archie comic books. Veronica, Betty, Jughead, Moose and the gang were always funny and upbeat and the town of Riverdale was like an all- American city. A new series of Archie comics will take a turn to the dark side.
October 11, 2013 The boats are ready to go and so are the crews but they are just sitting and waiting for the Government shutdown to be resolved. The federal shutdown means no crabbing permits can be handed out to the dozens of boats ready for red king crab season in Alaska.
October 10, 2013 The man of steel is coming to Ohio as an aluminum license plate. The State is selling Superman license plates with the super ‘S’ on them to recognize the Superman comic book being created in Ohio. Starting this month plates will be available for an extra $20, plus the annual renewal few, and will come with the Superman logo, name, and the words ‘Truth, Justice, and the American Way’.
October 9, 2013 The press is having a fun time with it, calling the perpetrator ‘the poopetrator’ but Yale University isn’t amused at all. They believed someone has been pooping in clothes dryers at the college. They thought they caught the person but a couple of weeks later they struck again.
October 9, 2013 The Great Chicago Fire of 1871 was blamed on a cow, probably the most famous cow in history: Mrs. O’Leary’s cow. The fire started in the barn and destroyed 3.5 square miles of the city, killed 120 and left thousands of other homeless. But did the cow start the fire?
October 8, 2013 A self-employed uninsured father of seven was working on a neighbor’s deck when the nail gun he was using kicked back and nailed him in the chest. A three and a half inch nail went through his sternum and into his heart, and he lived!
October 8, 2013 Richard Branson of Virgin Galactic space travel and producer Mark Burnett have teamed up for a space travel reality show. NBC has picked up the idea of ‘Space Race’, a reality show competition with the prize being a trip to space aboard Space Ship Two.
October 7, 2013 It seems impossible in this day and age to think that a football team could score 222 points in one game but it happened on October 7, 1916 as Georgia Tech beat Cumberland College of Lebanon, Tennessee 222-0. It all started in the spring of 1915 during a baseball game.
