Grading Beckham’s first MLS season

BRIDGEVIEW, Ill. – David Beckham’s first Major League Soccer season began with a blast of confetti, a series of speeches and irrepressible optimism amid a jostling scrum of international media on a sunny morning last July.
Season No. 1 ended on a windswept afternoon at Toyota Park on Sunday with a gnawing sense of what [...]

Red Sox are the heavies now

BOSTON – As late-inning runs kept scoring against the Cleveland corpse, a frenzied Fenway sang and swayed at a comeback so complete, so cutthroat, the most stunning thing happened: the Red Sox morphed into the Yankees.
After eight decades of chasing down their New York rival, they’ve now replaced them as the monsters of October. They [...]

Xbox 360 will sell for $304 beginning Nov. 1

TOKYO – Microsoft is slashing Xbox 360 prices in Japan by about 13 percent as the price war among video game consoles heats up around the world ahead of the key year-end shopping season.
The Xbox 360 console will sell in Japan for $304 beginning Nov. 1, down from $348, the U.S. software maker’s Japan unit [...]

“DUMBLEDORE IS GAY”

NEW YORK – With author J.K. Rowling’s revelation that master wizard Albus Dumbledore is gay, some passages about the Hogwarts headmaster and rival wizard Gellert Grindelwald have taken on a [...]

Boycotting Britney!

Some former Britney Spears‘ pals are calling for a blackout on Blackout—at least until the singer cleans up her act. “Our message is simple,” says one of the organizers of the Be Proactive to Help Website. “Don’t buy her stuff until she’s better.”
The MySpace-based page was created by people who used to work with Britney, [...]