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The NFL’s all-time leader in return yards and Burgundy & Gold Hall Of Famer Brian Mitchell joins The SportsGroove tonight with Mark Gray at 7:34 pm ET to break them and the rest of the NFC east down. He will candidly assess the strengths and weaknesses of this year’s edition of the Burgundy & Gold […]

VIA CNN: A health care town hall meeting in Florida on Thursday dissolved into bouts of heckling and violent pushing and shoving among attendees. The meeting in Tampa, which featured Democratic Congresswoman Kathy Castor and Florida State Representative Betty Reed, was another example of the tense battle lines that have been created in the passionate […]

VIA CBS NEWS: Divers pulled a helicopter and four more bodies out of the murky Hudson River on Sunday in their search for victims, wreckage and explanations from a midair collision of a sightseeing helicopter and a small plane that killed nine people. The dead from Saturday’s crash include three fathers and their three teenage […]

Right after the thrill of victory or the agony of defeat there is the human drama of athletic competition. There are moments where you push the human body to its limit and withstand the elements of nature and forces against you to achieve victory. Sunday was the first brutally oppressive day of the summer and […]

Monday, August 10 at 4:30 pm, Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Alumnus Ben E. King joins the Dean of Talk Radio to talk about the 12th annual Stand By Me Celebrity Golf Tournament August 16-17 at the Lansdowne Golf Resort in Leesburg, Virginia. In 1997, the Stand By Me Foundation, a non-profit (501)c(3) organization […]

VIA WASHINGTON POST: BURBANK, Calif., Aug. 5 — One woman approached China’s border with North Korea as a seasoned foreign correspondent, the other as a sharp editor who was on her first trip abroad in her new role as a producer. Laura Ling, 32, one of the two American journalists who arrived back in the […]

VIA WASHINGTON POST: President Obama on Friday nominated Daniel G. Bogden, whose firing as a federal prosecutor by the Bush administration is under congressional investigation for its potentially partisan motivation, to return to his former job nearly three years after his dismissal. Bogden’s nomination as Nevada U.S. attorney marks a step toward reversing what many […]

VIA NEW YORK TIMES: LOS ANGELES – Paula Abdul, the pop star who revived a lagging singing career with a turn as a warm-hearted judge for eight seasons on “American Idol,” said Tuesday night that she has decided not to return to the show next season, a startling development for the reality series that has […]

VIA FOX NEWS: A controversial ad campaign featured in the Washington, D.C., metro area is comparing public school lunches across the country to what President Obama’s daughters eat at their elite private school. MyFOXDC.com reports that the ad, sponsored by Physicians Committee For Responsible Medicine, shows an eight-year-old girl speaking about the “healthy” vegetarian lunch […]

Immunization is a critical health issue. Through the years, vaccines have eradicated smallpox, virtually eliminated wild polio virus in the U.S., and significantly reduced the number of reported cases of measles and other diseases. Join me at 5 pm today when I speak with Ms. Corliss Hill, National Director of United Health Care’s Generation of […]