News Cut: April 13, 2012 Archive
Should drivers be required to have ongoing training? (5x8 - 4/13/12)
Posted at 7:30 AM on April 13, 2012
by Bob Collins
(23 Comments)
Filed under: Five by 8
Facing the driving emergency, a Parkinson's breakthrough, spunky kids and the prom, the Best Buy scandal, and gondoliering the spoon and cherry.
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Goodbye, Lingerie League
Posted at 11:38 AM on April 13, 2012
by Bob Collins
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Filed under: Sports
Hi, and welcome if you're a first-time reader of NewsCut. Perhaps you're here in Minnesota to attend the tryouts for the Lingerie Football League in Long Lake this weekend.
Go home.
The LFL has announced there will be no season in 2012. The commissioner of the league sent an e-mail to examiner.com confirming the news:
"Yes, we have shifted the LFL US schedule, because we believe ultimately LFL Football in the US and abroad is a better product in the Spring and Summer months. This extended hiatus also enables our LFL US teams to focus on recruiting and ultimately continuing to teach the fundamentals of the game."
"This hiatus also enables us to take this great game of ours international with the premiere of LFL Canada and in 2013 the kickoff of LFL Australia. We are focused to not simply resting on being called the 'fastest growing sports league in the US' (BusinessWeek) but the fastest growing sports franchise in the world."
One of the "fundamentals of the game" might be this one: Put some clothes on.
The local team finished last season 1-3, tied for last in its division, as befits Minnesota sports teams.
(3 Comments)1,000 Words: Ladies Day at Aintree
Posted at 1:43 PM on April 13, 2012
by Bob Collins
(3 Comments)
Here in the colonies, we are sorely lacking in appropriate traditions. We've got nothing to compare with today's Ladies Day at Aintree in Liverpool, a celebration of racing and fashion. We have not yet calculated, however, whether that's a good thing or a bad thing.
(Images via Getty Images)
(3 Comments)Two minutes away from earth
Posted at 2:42 PM on April 13, 2012
by Bob Collins
Filed under: Science
You've probably heard that North Korea's attempt at a rocket program failed today. Rocket science is hard.
In other aeronautics news, there are other worlds we're seeing up close.
There's nothing phony about any of those images; that's what space is like. Sander van den Berg of the Netherlands downloaded all of the images from NASA's websites for the Cassini and Voyager missions, stitched them together and added the music.
It's a comforting video that, for some reason, came in somewhat handy after I read this story.
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