All-Star Game memories: 1973 - Kansas City Star
27 May 2012, 5:42 pm
Kauffman Stadium was a new-born baby in 1973, going by the name Royals Stadium. The American League had three Royals, and two started -- Amos Otis in center field and John Mayberry at first base, replacing injured Dick Allen. Cookie Rojas, the ...

Blue Star offers free museum admission for military members - KARE
27 May 2012, 4:59 pm
WASHINGTON -- More than 1,600 museums across the country will offer free admission to active-duty military personnel and their families this summer in a program that has more than doubled in size since 2010. Several Minnesota museums are on the list.

Bee Gees star Robin Gibb died due to kidney failure - Sound-Check Music
27 May 2012, 6:22 am
Robin Gibb's son RJ has revealed that the Bee Gees star died due to kidney failure, not cancer, despite a long-running battle with the disease. Speaking of his father's tragic death this month (20 May, 2012), RJ clarified the cause of death and the days ...

Report: Former Ravens star Lewis bankrupt - FOXSports.com
27 May 2012, 4:42 am
Former Baltimore Ravens star Jamal Lewis declared himself bankrupt after amassing a debt of more than $10.5 million, TMZ reported Sunday. Lewis filed the Chapter 11 papers in order to renegotiate reduced and extended payments to creditors ...

Former high-school star Brian Banks does serious time on trumped-up charge, now hopes for an NFL shot - YAHOO!
26 May 2012, 2:56 am
Brian Banks stands with his parents after bring cleared of all charges. (AP) Occasionally, we come across stories that defy credulity to the point where we can't quite believe what we're seeing. And when these stories involve good people getting railroaded ...

Little known in his own country, Canadian Ryder Hesjedal is cycling’s rising star - Nationalpost.com
25 May 2012, 6:27 pm
Seamus McGrath remembers everything about that day because it was one of those days that you don’t see very often in Victoria, B.C. A snowstorm buried the city, burying the hopes he and his cycling buddy, Ryder Hesjedal, had of hopping on ...

Star Wars Turns 35: How TIME Covered the Film Phenomenon - Time
25 May 2012, 10:21 am
Kids, you might not believe this, but… a long time ago (35 years), in a galaxy not far away (in fact, right on Planet Earth), almost nobody knew what Star Wars was. And few of the Hollywood insiders who had heard of this science-fantasy ...

Star Wars movie opened for the first time 35 years ago today  - New York Daily News
24 May 2012, 6:57 pm
Mark Hammill presents Oscar to Benjamin Burt, Jr., April 3, 1978 for special sound effects award for "Star Wars" as "C-3PO" in center looks on. Justin Hulse, 13, is draped in a "Jedi warrior" cape as he waits to do a TV interview before the ...

'Star Wars' 35th Anniversary: Jon Favreau, Eli Roth & 13 Other Filmmakers On How George Lucas' Classic Influenced Them - Huffington Post
24 May 2012, 6:14 pm
This Friday, the original "Star Wars" (or, "Star Wars: Episode IV -- A New Hope," if you must) turns 35. In honor of the landmark film's landmark birthday, I asked a group of influential filmmakers -- responsible for projects such as "The Hunger ...

An Analysis of Blaster Fire in Star Wars - Wired News
24 May 2012, 6:00 pm
I am almost certain (almost) that nowhere in the Star Wars movies (even in Episode I) does a character refer to these as “lasers.” Really, there isn’t much to talk about here that hasn’t been discussed a thousand times before. In short ...