Rugby: Blues show more spirit but nightmare continues - New Zealand Herald
27 May 2012, 4:30 pm
The southern men even took pity on their hosts in the last play of the game. Instead of kicking a gift penalty, Highlanders replacement five-eighths Mike Delany booted the ball into touch to donate the Blues a losing bonus point for the 27-20 result.

Paynter, Alpha breeze five-eighths at Belmont - Bloodhorse.com
27 May 2012, 2:22 pm
Belmont Stakes hopeful Paynter drilled five furlongs over the fast Belmont Park training track Sunday morning, covering the distance under exercise rider Simon Harris in :59 1/5, the fastest of 38 recorded works at the distance. "He worked nice ...

Sonny Bill Williams' best to come in All Blacks - Stuff
26 May 2012, 11:12 pm
His high energy, high involvement season is likely to see him claim the All Blacks' starting second five-eighths spot next month. Steve Hansen has publicly praised Williams' credentials and Graham Henry felt incumbent Nonu had "hit a wall" after 18 months ...

Update On Injured Rosecroft Drivers - Standardbred Canada
23 May 2012, 10:44 am
The accident occurred in the fifth race when the lead horse, Pinderonabender, driven by William Carter, took a bad step approaching the final three-eighths of a mile point of the race. That started a chain reaction that involved seven of the nine horses in ...

Man says he 'just freaked out' when he killed Kenosha woman - Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
22 May 2012, 9:23 pm
Saucier, 52. According to the complaint, Young said he took three-eighths of an ounce of crack cocaine to Saucier's residence Monday morning and that he didn't think he'd ever be smoking so much of the drug at once. He said Saucier began "scrunching" the ...

The Meddlesome Moth Serves A State Fair-esque Treat, Minus the Food Coma - Dallas Observer (blog)
22 May 2012, 6:52 pm
Sounds like a food coma waiting to happen, right? Slabs of high-quality Nueske's bacon are sliced about three-eighths of an inch thick and threaded on wooden skewers before being seared on the flat-top. The finished product offers the decadent unctuousness ...

Apple to increase size of iPhone screen, reports say - San Jose Mercury News
16 May 2012, 7:57 pm
If rumors are true that the screen's diagonal will grow from 3.5 to 4 inches, that would mean those three-eighths-of-an-inch-square app icons would make fatter targets for your fingers. Your three-fourths-inch-diagonal digits on the phone's ...

Salesforce.com: Q1 Net Loss Of $19.5M On Sales Of $695M. Benioff Says It’ll Have Its First $3B Year FY2013 - TechCrunch
16 May 2012, 6:59 pm
In a research note, Canaccord Genuity analyst Richard Davis noted that he thinks shares of Salesforce.com might rise by as much as three-eighths percent on Friday, due to “at least temporary exhaustion of risk-off selling of high valuation ...

'American Idol' Race To Finale: What Should They Sing? - MTV
16 May 2012, 12:54 pm
Kaufman It's nice of him to take time off from his "Idol" crown fittings (Scotty McCreery was a 7 and three-eighths, BTW) to grace us with his presence this week. I suspect he'll reward us with more of the same anyway. The judges should just have him do a ...

Dan Carter shift to 12 for All Blacks on cards - Stuff
8 May 2012, 7:38 pm
Dan Carter's slow recovery to full fitness with his troublesome groin has All Blacks coach Steve Hansen admitting the star five-eighths could see action at 12 against Ireland. It seems the All Blacks might be prepared to replicate the Crusaders' ploy and ...