Did you know you can invest in the weather? It's true. You can actually make money speculating that the temperature in Sacramento, California, will be warmer than it normally is. If that's too dull for your portfolio, you can put money down on the inches of snowfall next winter in Boston, Massachusetts, or the strength of hurricanes in the Gulf of Mexico.
Mike DuMond couldn't remember the terms of our wager.
A team of scientists at Penn State University could be one step closer to bringing extinct species back to life.
Thanksgiving marks the beginning of a season where eating is central to the festivities. While it's also the season of indulgence, it's easy to plan a holiday meal that's delicious and healthful. Whether you're serving two or 20, these guidelines will help make sure your big dinner is a success. Follow our tips for making smart choices at the market, in the kitchen, and at the table.
The booing began even before Jonathan Crompton's final pass of the first half settled in the hands of Florida cornerback Janoris Jenkins on Sept. 20. Neyland Stadium, home to some of the nation's most passionate fans, had become the site of a referendum on the future of the Tennessee football program, and as the Volunteers stumbled to a 30-6 loss, some of those fans voted with their lungs.
I let the Pac-10 fans have their fun last week taking assorted jabs at their mostly-SEC counterparts. I could print some of the 300-something retorts, but you can already guess what most of them said (past two national titles, head-to-head record, blah, blah, blah), not to mention this little banter would consume the Mailbag interminably.
A Web site developed this year that allows students to share old exams online is causing debate among professors about its ethical implications.
Oregon State isn't the only big-time college program in which building -- or rebuilding -- a basketball tradition is a tall order
There may not be much talk about vacations at Lehman Brothers these days, but when i-bankers start thinking about tee times and tanning again, VP Dan Guertin could find himself more popular than most of his colleagues. The reason? He's Lehman's chief meteorologist.
Of the 53 players on the Giants' roster when they won the Super Bowl in February against the Patriots, 42 were drafted after the second round or were undrafted free agents. Exhibit No. 1 that the decisions made on the second day of the NFL draft can have just as much impact on a team's future as the first- and second-round picks.
Did you know you can invest in the weather? It's true. You can actually make money speculating that the temperature in Sacramento, California, will be warmer than it normally is. If that's too dull for your portfolio, you can put money down on the inches of snowfall next winter in Boston, Massachusetts, or the strength of hurricanes in the Gulf of Mexico.
Mike DuMond couldn't remember the terms of our wager.
A team of scientists at Penn State University could be one step closer to bringing extinct species back to life.
Thanksgiving marks the beginning of a season where eating is central to the festivities. While it's also the season of indulgence, it's easy to plan a holiday meal that's delicious and healthful. Whether you're serving two or 20, these guidelines will help make sure your big dinner is a success. Follow our tips for making smart choices at the market, in the kitchen, and at the table.
The booing began even before Jonathan Crompton's final pass of the first half settled in the hands of Florida cornerback Janoris Jenkins on Sept. 20. Neyland Stadium, home to some of the nation's most passionate fans, had become the site of a referendum on the future of the Tennessee football program, and as the Volunteers stumbled to a 30-6 loss, some of those fans voted with their lungs.
I let the Pac-10 fans have their fun last week taking assorted jabs at their mostly-SEC counterparts. I could print some of the 300-something retorts, but you can already guess what most of them said (past two national titles, head-to-head record, blah, blah, blah), not to mention this little banter would consume the Mailbag interminably.
A Web site developed this year that allows students to share old exams online is causing debate among professors about its ethical implications.
Oregon State isn't the only big-time college program in which building -- or rebuilding -- a basketball tradition is a tall order
There may not be much talk about vacations at Lehman Brothers these days, but when i-bankers start thinking about tee times and tanning again, VP Dan Guertin could find himself more popular than most of his colleagues. The reason? He's Lehman's chief meteorologist.
Of the 53 players on the Giants' roster when they won the Super Bowl in February against the Patriots, 42 were drafted after the second round or were undrafted free agents. Exhibit No. 1 that the decisions made on the second day of the NFL draft can have just as much impact on a team's future as the first- and second-round picks.
On a beautiful spring day in State College last Saturday, a Penn State-record 73,000 fans turned out for the annual Blue-White game, and by all indications, they enjoyed themselves immensely.
If all goes well for Jeannette (Pa.) High quarterback Terrelle Pryor during the next few weeks, he'll wind up at Penn State. Not for college -- though the Nittany Lions are among Pryor's four finalists -- but for the Pennsylvania Class AA state basketball final on March 15 at Penn State's Bryce Jordan Center.
What do you suppose it was like to be inside the tiny gymnasium at Jeannette (Pa.) High last Saturday night?
SI.com's Luke Winn analyzes the matchup.
Todd Boeckman has not thrown a game-winning touchdown pass across his body like Matt Ryan. He does not run over linebackers like Tim Tebow. He does not juke guys out of their shoes on the option plays, like Dennis Dixon.
With conference play in full swing, and most actions having equal and opposite reactions within the conference (good win for so-and-so means bad loss for fellow conference member, so-and-so), the Conference Power Rankings scoured the country to find what each conference leads the nation in.
The fourth week of the season saw several ranked teams suffering from hangovers after tough losses the prior Saturday. But a good number of talented prospects turned in impressive performances for NFL scouts.
You've heard the cliché before, and it's one that's fairly hard to argue: "Football," says every coach or player who's ever donned a headset or uniform, "is a team game."
One of the fun things about writing the Mailbag each week is you never know which portion will touch the biggest nerve. Last week, it was a seemingly innocuous, buried-on-page-three question from a reader named Jeff in Atlanta wondering why Georgia coach Mark Richt isn't catching any heat for failing to reach the national title game.
It was a busy weekend for top football commitments, but none was bigger than Cy-Fair (Cypress, Texas) senior running back Sam McGuffie pledging to Michigan over the likes of Texas A&M and USC.
Having traveled 18 hours from his native Zimbabwe, Munya Maraire, the track coach for the Worldwide Scholarships team -- a group of athletes from the African nation --had come too far to simply spend his day as a track coach sitting in the stands.
Last Friday night, I was sitting in the backseat of a cab with the windows rolled down when a dude in a convertible pulled up next to me blasting that song Hey there, Delilah. It's been stuck in my head for five straight days since. The good news is, it's soft, melodious and not nearly as annoying as Outkast's Hey Ya!, which, you may recall, got stuck in the heads of the entire American population for a good two months in the winter of 2004.
This much we now know beyond the shadow of a doubt: Americans love their spring football.
In just two weeks commissioner Roger Goodell will step up to the podium for the first time and open the 2007 NFL Draft. At this point, teams are finalizing their draft boards and targeting certain players. Here is the word circulating in the scouting community as to what may happen on draft day.
Rene Portland still has a job. And I am utterly stumped at how.
From the team hotel to the post-game locker room, SI.com's Luke Winn spent 12 hours with the Wisconsin Badgers on Wednesday to get an inside view of life on the road with a top-five team. The public could only see UW's 8 p.m. game against Penn State, which the Badgers won 71-58, but there was plenty more action behind the scenes.
We've been patting ourselves on the back lately, celebrating how much progress the sports world has made in terms of racial equality. We're supposedly so colorblind that when two African-American coaches reached the Super Bowl last week, the general reaction was, "What? Dungy and Lovie are black? I hadn't noticed."
The conventional wisdom about the holidays is that weight gain is unavoidable. But don't let it scare you away from enjoying your favorite foods at this time of year. Here are thee eat-smart strategies to get you through the season.
Making time for yourself and your family is the top goal for 2006, according to a MONEY poll. Lack of time is really two problems: You probably are too busy, and you aren't making the best use of the spare time you have. The action plan below will help you address both.
Cell phone networks in major American cities are vulnerable to being shut down by a flood of text messages from malicious hackers, according to a published report.
Pitney Bowes' decision last December to spin off its office services business as a new company called Imagistics International seemed like an obvious way to dump a dog of a division. Earnings at th...
They lurk outside every sporting event and concert in America: "Psst. Anyone need two tickets?" Scalping might just be the second-oldest profession. No one enjoys playing on this forgery-fraught bl...
DANGLING A STEAMED clam's gray sac high over the family dinner table, 12-year-old Sean Satterfield waves the mollusk around and speaks with authority: "It's all in there--stomach, nerves, intestine...
What was it that caused those AT&T shares to sprout wings on the day of Bob Allen's big announcement? To the company's 2.3 million shareholders, word of the grand triple spinoff quickly converted i...
Q. My son will be ready for college next year and wants to go to the University of Pennsylvania, Tulane or Georgetown, all of which cost upwards of $25,000 a year, even though he could probably get...
How would you like to get a jump on big institutional investors? Here's one area of the market where you can. Spinoffs, or divisions of large companies that have been turned into separate public co...
STATE COLLEGE, PA. -- A student at Pennsylvania State University has complained to police that a student she hired to take a test for her breached a contract by failing the exam . . . Authorities w...
In which Kindly Dr. Keeping Up adumbrates the rise of public toplessness to burning issuehood in American politics while also invoking Sigmund Freud and % asking the fateful question: What does the...
Political correctness has bounded into the advertising world, bedeviling the lives of ad agency ((creative people)) . . . ''It's probably at an all-time high,'' says Larry Postaer, creative directo...
One senses that a new front is being opened up in the great keystroke war. As the present keyboarder observed a while back, millions of personal-computer users now wage this war quite obsessively: ...
Kevin and Deborah Winne are giving their children -- Sara, 12, Jaime, 10, and Kaitlyn, 2 -- the kind of idyllic upbringing that seems more characteristic of the Father Knows Best era than the Marri...
A certain sadness attends the folks who have worked diligently over the years to teach managers to listen. Says a consultant typical of the breed, wearily: ''We keep trying to tell them, but they j...
At companies where cost cutting has become the watchword, the obsessive manager may well be crawling out of the woodwork and into the limelight. Watch him pounce: ''Ah yes, Gengerschneck, in review...
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