| Breakers primed for hostile reception
The Breakers are ready to step into the cauldron of playoff basketball for the first time, adamant the Taipans' fanatic home crowd won't affect them in Cairns on Thursday night. The Breakers' first tilt at a quarter-final in the NBL will take place in front of 5335 orange-clad Taipans fans. Coach Andrej Lemanis says the atmosphere will be electric, but the team's final regular season match in Perth last Saturday was "great preparation" despite the 98-85 loss. "It doesn't get more hostile than Perth," Lemanis said. "We as a team did a good job of focusing on what we had to do in that environment and the crowd didn't affect us at all. "When all you have is each other you get an 'us versus the world' mentality. You can derive strength from that.
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In the new age of open social networks, Six Apart is doing its part to create a hub that embraces the world of feeds outside its own servers. The company is shipping Action Streams, a free plug-in for Movable Type 4.1 that lets users aggregate, control, and share their Web activities from 75 applications, such as FaceBook, Twitter and Vox. Six Apart prides itself on giving its users more control over their profile, such as showing or hiding individual actions,, that other services (remember Facebook Beacon). "We are starting a new wave of open technology with a Facebook style news feed," Anil Dash, vice president at Six Apart told me. "The implementation of open source and decentralized controls provides a way to leverage open standards and connections around a news feed.
Sam Smith's NBA mailbag
I've long thought the Cavaliers with LeBron James should play faster, but they don't have the point guard. In the end, I don't see the Bulls heading in that direction.
I think Larry Hughes is not going to play well for the Bulls. Wouldn't it be a good idea to trade him along with a second round pick in 2010 to Memphis for Mike Miller and Darko Milicic? All three contracts expire at the same time, but the Grizzlies would save a few million dollars and it would work with the league's salary cap guidelines. The Bulls could follow that up by taking a chance on Jermaine O'Neal, sending Andrew Nocioni (no longer would be in the first year of a new deal), Drew Gooden (an expiring contract), Tyrus Thomas, and the Knick's second round pick to the Pacers. Indiana could then begin to start over.
Face it: Rockies hit cool meter
TUCSON — The Rockies are on the verge of being cool. The way Allen Iverson and Carmelo Anthony are cool now. The way John Elway and Terrell Davis were cool back in the day. On the East Coast, where teenagers proudly wear sweat-stained Red Sox and Yankees caps, baseball's been cool for a long, long time. Becoming a baseball fan is a rite of passage in Boston and New York. Not quite so much in Colorado. For a short time, when the majors finally arrived in the Mountain time zone, the Rockies rocked. But those vibes faded years ago. When this newspaper switched me from the Broncos' beat to covering the Rockies, a common refrain from my friends was, "Oh, I'm so sorry." But when Matt Holliday, Troy Tulowitzki, Todd Helton and Co. carried the Rockies to the World Series last fall, the Rockies were suddenly a hot commodity.
UPDATE 1-Motorola eyes mobile chief with consumer know-how
Facing a plummeting share and pressure from activist investor Carl Icahn, Motorola said at the end of January it was looking at options such as a potential separation of mobile devices to help create value for shareholders. Brown said he was taking nothing for granted when asked about how Motorola will cope with moves by rivals such as global leader Nokia to make inroads into the North American market where Motorola is the leader. "I expect (competition) to be particularly rugged for the remainder of 2008 and into 2009," he said during the Webcast. Continued... .
Guess which driver's facing 21 years in prison — the drunk , rich ...
The Sheriff's Office's CYA report to the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors on the Honduran project. 12:58PM 03/01/08 KTAR's Darrell Ankarlo kisses Sheriff Joe Arpaio's can again (sigh), on the Honduran escapade. 10:55AM 02/29/08 Clubhouse Music presents Diplo and friends 06:11AM 03/03/08 Axis Radius presents Battle of Rock Band 03:03AM 03/02/08 Get ready for West of Western 03:40PM 02/29/08 Lyte Lounge gives tapas a healthful spin 10:36AM 02/28/08 .
Pirates add 'all-you-can-eat' section
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Life at the bottom: S.F.'s Sunnydale project
On a typical day in San Francisco's largest housing project, teens ditch school to take the bus to a funeral. A woman wanders into the liquor store to buy Cheetos for her young grandson and a 20-ounce beer for herself. Two 3-year-old boys ride their tricycles down a steep hill patched with trash and broken glass. Such is life in Sunnydale, quite possibly the most dangerous, depressed and decrepit area of the city. The dilapidated barracks that make up the development are lined up on a hillside in the shadow of the Cow Palace, opposite McLaren Park in Visitacion Valley. An estimated 1,633 people live in the square mile of concrete housing that was originally built for soldiers in World War II. Once considered a nice place for a family to live, the development is now home to those who can't afford anything else.
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