point/counterpoint: Fourth down and longshot
James Galloway and I were in the office the other day and we got to talking “what ifs.” What if global warming was global cooling? What if smoking cigarettes were healthy for you? What if Galloway tried juggling two girls at once? That’s when we started talking business.
Transactions
Football
National Football League
Cleveland Browns – Waived CB Antonio Perkins. Signed G Fred Matua.
Basketball
National Basketball Association
Los Angeles Clippers – Signed C Chris Kaman to a multiyear contract extension.
Milwaukee Bucks – Waived C Ha Seung-Jin.
Sports News & Notes
Pro Baseball
SAN FRANCISCO – Bruce Bochy was hired as manager of the San Francisco Giants, leaving the San Diego Padres and heading up the California coast to manage their division rival.
Bochy agreed to a three-year contract worth roughly $6 million and replaces Felipe Alou, whose contract was not renewed.
The green loved Red
BOSTON – Through 16 NBA titles and more than half a century, no one meant more to the Boston Celtics than Red Auerbach.
The coach who lit up cigars to celebrate an unprecedented nine championships. The general manager who acquired Hall of Famers Bill Russell, Kevin McHale, Robert Parish and Larry Bird.
Sports Briefs
Golf
WILMINGTON – VCU shot 315 in Sunday’s final round of the Landfall Tradition at the Country Club of Landfall, putting them in 10th place of 12 teams.
VCU’s final fall tournament allowed Jens Fahrbring (Sollentuna, Sweden) and Alex Brown (Richmond/Lloyd Bird HS) to tie for 25th in individual results.
Weird News
Man petitions for his $10,200 back
In Bradenton, Fla., a man recently filed a petition with the 12th Judicial Circuit Court in Manatee County to get back $10,200 that police confiscated from him in July while responding to a nearby robbery.
When officers were called to the 1300 block of 19th Street East to check out a robbery, they encountered Delane Johnson walking within the vicinity with the money in his pocket and immediately searched him.
Hungry?
Why wait in line? Order online!
That’s what Webfood.com says, and VCU students soon will be able to order their lunch or dinner with a few keystrokes and mouse clicks.
The CBORD Group Inc., the company behind the Web site, offers food service providers solutions for faster service, such as online ordering and self-service kiosks.
Kimberly Dark, stripped and teased for a purpose
Kimberly Dark has a way of captivating people with her stories about gender, sexuality, violence against women and media generated ideas of beauty. The reason Dark’s performances are so successful aren’t because she is writing about other people but she is writing about life, namely her own.
The ‘grown-up’ Halloween
The countdown has started to the night of Halloween. Most students, however, did not wait to pull out their witches’ pointed hats or lacy lingerie. The weekend before the anticipated night, students dressed as iPods, pirates, naughty nurses and a variety of cats.
Your Turn Letters to the Editor
God’s laws over man’s laws
I am writing in response to the article “A moral imperative: A Christian perspective on same-sex marriage rights” (Oct. 23). I believe that there is a much deeper understanding of the scriptures that can be shed on this matter. If I have read the article as the author has intended, then one would conclude that as a Christian because “I am to love my neighbor as I love myself” or because “I do unto others as I would have them do unto me,” that I in some way should allow for a public policy to be put into place that condones sinful acts.