Now Toyota Quits Formula One

Sheesh… The Auto Beat Posted by: Ian Rowley on November 04 At a hastily arranged press conference this evening in Tokyo, Toyota CEO Akio Toyoda announced that the carmaker is the latest big player to quit Formula One motorsport. Toyota, which competed in 139 races after entering the sport in 2002, winning no races, will […]

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Just Creep-Out Baby! ~ The Curious Case of Your Oakland Raiders

Tom Ostler San Francisco Chronicle (11-02) 20:56 PST — The Raiders quite possibly are setting up Tom Cable to walk the plank. That would fall into the category of zany Raiders’ hijinks, like the kind in which coaches get fired by the light of an overhead projector and assistant coaches attack filing cabinets with their […]

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Senate OKs $680 Billion-Dollar Spending Bill

Senate OKs defense bill, 68-29 T H E  H I L L By Roxana Tiron  10/22/09 04:20 PM ET The Senate on Thursday sent the massive 2010 Pentagon policy bill to the president’s desk for signing. The Senate approved the bill authorizing $680 billion in defense spending by a vote of 68-29. For the first […]

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