Fifty years after “The Jetsons” introduced the concept to American TV viewers, where are the flying cars we were promised? The answer? Still a ways off but, just maybe, about to get a bit closer.
DIGITAL EDITOR ANDREW STOY: I often think we're living in the Malaise Era of transmission programming.
We talk to one half of Misery Bear , comedy writer Nat Saunders.
Last Friday, 65-year-old Christchurch father-of-four Kenneth John Moore was playing backyard cricket with his family.
Pardon me . . . There, I just Tebowed at my desk. Thirty seconds worth. I didn’t ask the Lord or Allah or Buddha or even Joel Osteen for help. I simply took a half-minute to clear my mind, relax, fire up and be thankful that I get to write a sports column in a city I love, on topics that inspire me, with opinions that are worked from six decades of trying to figure out this thing called life.I ...
There is a perception that the Nashville Predators must "get something" for Ryan Suter ahead of the trade deadline, but Elliotte Friedman says the time is now for the Tennessee team to make a playoff push.
IF you're a shooter, the "heat check" in basketball is one of the sport's most exciting moments. It means you're already hot and, by tossing up a shot you have no business taking or making, you're checking to see just how scorching you are.
INDIANAPOLIS — In a quarterback driven-sport, on the stage that’s made the NFL what it is today, Tom Brady and Eli Manning gave a clinic on how the position is played in the most pressure-packed environment imaginable.
A year ago, Olivier Rochon made his living through menial construction work in Quebec City.He scooped up the garbage on demolition jobs. Helped with tiling. Put up siding.“Nothing too complicated, because I don’t have my card,” said the 22-year-old aerials skier. “Just a helper running around picking up stuff doing any crappy jobs for the other guys.“It was a fun job. I loved it. But jumping is ...
Kevin Arsenault, 25, is starting the countdown to his final game as a Western hockey player.
CALGARY — A year ago at this time, Olivier Rochon made his living through menial construction work in Quebec City.He scooped up the garbage on demolition jobs. Helped with tiling. Put up siding.“Nothing too complicated, because I don’t have my card,” said the 22-year-old aerials skier. “Just a helper running around picking up stuff doing any crappy jobs for the other guys.“It was a fun job. I ...
The claim: This new eco-friendly home laundry product that utilizes natural ingredients is ideal for athletic clothing.
Mitsubishi’s all-new Mirage makes its global debut at the Tokyo show, the car destined to hit showrooms around the world soon—November 2012 in the Philippines. Below are two examples of what the new Minicab i-MiEV can be transformed into Mitsubishi Motors hinges mid-term business plan on clean electric vehicles, funky new subcompact “GREEN” is the buzzword among carmakers these days, most of ...
LEBANON — Garrett Urrutia is a bit of a throwback.
Football, with good reason, is often described as a chess match. A lot more time is spent thinking and strategizing than actually running plays, and one crafty move can set off a series of countermoves that changes the course of the game. But you don't have to be some kind of Grand Master to understand -- or at least pretend to understand -- the sport.
The benefits behind a high school football player graduating a semester early to enroll in college and participate in spring practice always confused me. Why rush growing up?
The Ferrari Driver Academy is aimed at developing young talent within the Scuderia Ferrari Formula One environment.The programme consists of five courses of three days each, where the drivers take English language lessons, study...
US college basketballer Alex Starling, 22, becomes the latest overseas star from another sport to join Sydney Swans.
We take the new dual sport for a spin. The dual-sport category has to be without doubt one of the most exciting in motorcycling right now, especially if dirt runs through your veins.
