1. Looking down Reid Street

2. Looking up Reid Street

3. Looking at trees

4. Looking off the deck towards KingsCollege

NHL set to unveil new jerseys in Dallas


The NHL's new uniforms are about player comfort and not fan merchandising, according to NHL commissioner Gary Bettman.

The focus on this was never about fashion, it was never about retail," Bettman told The Canadian Press on Thursday. "It was about getting the players into a uniform that would be better, that would enable them to have a better range of motion, that would keep them cooler, that would be more aerodynamically fit, that would keep their protective equipment in place, that would be safer. That has been the focus."

The new jerseys will be worn by the NHL all-stars in Dallas next week and then by the entire league next season. That's also when they'll go on sale for the public.

So far there's been a lot of words but not many pictures of the new look.

Judging from the one photo released of Sidney Crosby in the new Reebok gear, the revamped outfit doesn't seemed drastically different than the current ones.

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Former NASCAR champion Parsons dies

Benny Parsons, a former taxi driver turned NASCAR champion, died Tuesday from complications due to lung cancer. He was 65.

Parsons, the 1973 NASCAR champion, died in Charlotte, N.C., , his son Keith said. He had been hospitalized there since Dec. 26.

A member of NASCAR's 50 greatest drivers, Parsons retired from racing in 1988 and moved into the broadcasting booth. He spent the past six years as a commentator on NBC and TNT, and continued to call races from the booth during his treatment.

"Benny was a beloved and widely respected member of the NASCAR community, and of the NBC Sports family," said Dick Ebersol, chairman of NBC Sports.

"He was a great driver and a terrific broadcaster, but above anything else he was a kind and generous human being. His character and spirit will define how he is remembered by all of us. Benny will be sorely missed."

WOW, I haven't been Watching 24 for the first Five Season's But tonight I thought I would catch the start of Season 6 and see whats its all about. Well Ive been missing out lol, damm good show and Monday Night parts 3 and 4 of the Season premiere are on and I'll be sure to catch those.

Well Parts 3 and 4 were Awesome indeed, can you beleave they blew up a nuke wow and still 4 out there, gonna be interesting indeed too see how this all plays out.


IS FOX SET TO BLOW THE NUKES ON '24'?
Sun Jan 14 2007 18:14:34 ET

As Washington continues to raise concerns about terror threats on The Homeland -- a recent CIA report outlined a scenerio of possible "series of explosions using 'low charge' nuclear weapons" -- Hollywood and FOX-TV are set to up the ante with the new season of 24!

Few outside of the 24 set know the exact details of the new season unfolding, but studio sources claim producers are pushing hard to take it radioactive this time -- and keep it there.

"Time to wake the country up!" a top FOX source told the DRUDGE REPORT over the weekend. "I do not think there has ever been TV done like this, the viewer is going to be completely riveted."

The source claims executives are prepared for any fallout from local municipalities that may be on the receiving end of plot turns and twists. How many cities 24 puts on 'nuke alert' is unclear.

FOX has set a highly-controversial espisode of 24 to air Monday night, opposite NBC's GOLDEN GLOBES.

In 2002, White House officials questioned the timing and release of PARAMOUNT's action movie SUM OF ALL FEARS -- a movie which depicts a nuclear bomb unleashed on an American sporting event!

One senior Bush official, who spoke to the DRUDGE REPORT at the time, claimed the movie crossed over the line of civic responsibility and commerce.

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Earnhardt Jr. takes his turn, takes some shots

Family business the focus as driver meets with media at Dayton

You could turn Oprah, Dr. Phil and Jerry Springer all loose on the Earnhardt family business and there’d still be enough left to blow the Donald Trump-Rosie O’Donnell feud out of the water.

For several weeks, Teresa Earnhardt’s quote in the Wall Street Journal about her stepson’s focus – “Right now the ball's in his court to decide on whether he wants to be a NASCAR driver or whether he wants to be a public personality.” – has been hanging in the air.

Monday, Dale Earnhardt Jr. took his turn.

“I tried and tried not to comment on it,” Earnhardt Jr. said. “I was trying not to get involved in it.”

But there’s no way he couldn’t. His contract with Dale Earnhardt Inc. is up after the upcoming season, and until the sport’s most popular driver has a new contract no other story in the sport is bigger.

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The universe gives up its deepest secret

One of the greatest mysteries of the universe is about to be unravelled with the first detailed, three-dimensional map of dark matter - the invisible material that makes up most of the cosmos.

Astronomers announced yesterday that they have achieved the apparently impossible task of creating a picture of something that has defied every attempt to detect it since its existence was first postulated in 1933.

Scientists have known for many years that there is more to the universe than can be seen or detected through their telescopes but it is only now that they have been able to capture the first significant 3D-image of this otherwise invisible material.

Unlike the ordinary matter of the planets, stars and galaxies, which can be seen through telescopes or detected by scientific instruments, nobody has seen dark matter or knows what it is made of, though calculations suggest that it is at least six times bigger than the rest of the visible universe combined.

A team of 70 astronomers from Europe, America and Japan used the Hubble space telescope to build up a picture of dark matter in a vast region of space where some of the galaxies date back to half the age of the universe - nearly 7 billion years.

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NORAD: Rocket body re-entered the atmosphere

KUSA - Beginning at 6:15 Thursday morning 9NEWS was flooded with calls from viewers, many of whom said, “I have just seen the most incredible thing ever in my life.”

That incredible thing, according to NORAD, was a SL-4 rocket body that re-entered the atmosphere over Colorado and Wyoming. NORAD added that it is possible pieces of the object broke off during re-entry over states neighboring Colorado.

At this time reports of damage have not been received and the debris is not believed to be hazardous.

Viewers from all over the region called 9NEWS, some as far away as Kansas, Nebraska and Wyoming, to report their sightings.

FREEHOLD TOWNSHIP, N.J. — A metal, rock-like object about the size of a golf ball and weighing nearly as much as a can of soup crashed through the roof of a Monmouth County home, and authorities on Wednesday were trying to figure out what it was.

Nobody was injured when the oblong object, weighing more than 13 ounces, crashed into the home and embedded itself in a wall Tuesday night. Federal officials sent to the scene said it was not from an aircraft.

The rough-feeling object, with a metallic glint, was displayed Wednesday by police.

There's some great interest in what we have here," said Lt. Robert Brightman. "It's rather unusual. I haven't seen anything like it in my career."

He said he hoped to have the object identified within 72 hours, but declined to name the other agencies whose help he said he had enlisted.

Police received a call Wednesday morning that the metal object had punched a hole in the roof of a single-family, two-story home, damaged tiles on a bathroom floor below and then bounced, sticking into a wall.