The DC-5 lottery game is offered by the DC Lottery and is played throughout the District of Columbia in the United States. It’s a pretty good game because it’s played twice a day, with drawings at noon and at night, and it’s customizable in that you can choose to pay 50 cents or a dollar. […]
To most of the younger football fans, Archie Manning is known primarily as the father of current National Football League quarterbacks Peyton Manning and Eli Manning. However, during his day, Archie was a highly skilled quarterback and very considerate. He didn’t end up with championships or Super Bowl rings like Peyton and Eli, but he […]
March Madness is now in full swing. This year’s tournament has received a lot of media attention. The billion dollar pool prize promoted by Warren Buffet has gotten a lot of press and it seems like everyone has a few pools. In fact, the word bracketology has now become the vernacular. Apparently, more bets are […]
At the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney, Australia, Kathy Freeman became a symbol of reconciliation for a country. Although she was a decent Aboriginal woman, Kathy did not see herself any different from any other Australian athlete competing for her country. But she was so much more: Kathy was uniting a country to look beyond […]
Clippers general manager Elgin Baylor explained that he expects even bigger things from the Clippers this season. Last season, the team advanced to Game 7 of a Western Conference semifinal series against the Phoenix Suns. For Baylor, the team can do even better this year. The Clippers had their highest total with 47 regular season […]
While the month is supposed to bring holiday cheer, the first part of December always leaves Beatles fans feeling solemn. It was on December 8 that the band’s co-founder, John Lennon, was assassinated in New York in 1980. When investigators searched Mark David Chapman’s hotel room after Lennon’s murder, they found only one album. While […]
Collective names: Antelope – herd, cluster, tribe Apes – cunning, troop Badgers – cete, colony Cats (wild) – destruction, dowt, doubt Cheetah – coalition Elephant – parade, herd Giraffe – tower, body, travel, group Urchins – matrix, stingers Hippo – Raft, Pod, Swell, Thunder, School hyena – clan Impala – range Jackal – stalker Leopard […]
The summer boys are at it again. Who can we bless for the Great American Pastime? One thing is for sure. It was not Abner Doubleday in Cooperstown, New York, in 1839, as a self-proclaimed commission of patriotic Americans would have us believe. Let’s debunk the Doubleday myth before we move on. Doubleday was born […]
For most college students, credit cards aren’t high on their priority list for taking care of things; after all, students with loans can pay for things with direct debits from their bank accounts, just like students receiving financial aid from their parents. The simple truth of the matter is that most students don’t think about […]
Whenever you think of bowl season, the first thing that comes to mind is spending endless hours watching college football on the first day of the year. However, here are some of the best games likely to happen before the New Year: Holiday Bowl: Baylor Bears at UCLA Bruins [-2] We can say that anything […]