| Grand Theft Roto: Get ahead of curve on potential trades
The NHL is alone among professional sports in having a trade deadline that guarantees excitement and action. In the NFL, trades are rarely exciting, in the NBA they happen all the time and in baseball they are smaller in numbers and nature. Trade deadline day is something that actually gets marketed with success now. With less than a week until the deadline, I figured I would go through some of the rumored names and look at what impact their absences would have on their teams. It's far too difficult right now to forecast which players might be traded to which team for what, but it is becoming increasingly obvious which players are likely packing their bags. This way you can have your finger on the button whenever a deal goes down. In competitive leagues, you may even want to pick up some of my suggestions ahead of time.
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Speculation has been rife that he could be set for a return to club management and the Midlands looks set to be his next destination. McLeish attended the draw for the World Cup qualifiers in South Africa on Sunday, and afterwards admitted a move to the Premier League would appeal. Attractive Speaking on Sunday, McLeish told Sky Sports News: "I will fulfil my Scotland duties until something else happens. "At the moment there's a lot of speculation but football's a strange game and you don't know what can happen. "Right now I'm the Scotland manager and the stuff you've been hearing is pure speculation and there's been nothing done about that.
Developer to break ground on $200M McKinney mixed-use project
Developer O&S Holdings LLC has scheduled a Thursday groundbreaking for the first phase of its Bridge Street Town Center in McKinney. The project near the northeast corner of North Central Expressway and State Highway 121 will include a 221-room Westin hotel, a 43,000-square-foot convention center and the Collin College Higher Education Center. The Westin McKinney and Conference Center are planned as the centerpiece of the $200 million Bridge Street Town Centre mixed-use complex. The first phase is scheduled to open in the fall of 2009. O&S Holdings is a 16-year-old California-based real estate development company that has built mixed-use projects in Louisiana and Alabama. The company currently has a 3 million square-foot Bridge Street development under way in suburban Chicago.
Willy Northpole and the Phoenix hip-hop scene explode
Another excerpt from the manuscript that I particularly enjoyed is The Multiplication of the Loaves and Fishes by Donald Jackson. A backdrop of pastel-colored squares is stamped across both pages. Repeated circular imprints of geometric patterns dance throughout the composition and gold specks randomly decorate the entire surface like a splash of 24-carat confetti. Among the gorgeous chaos are black outlines of two fish and five golden circles of bread. Jackson chooses a fish design taken from an ancient mosaic in Tabgha (the traditional site of the event), and the basket geometry is borrowed from Anasazi designs. As a product of today's politically correct world, Jackson intends to reach a broad anthropological spectrum. The Walters Art Museum portion is for the history buffs. It showcases a 500-year-old leaf from the very first Bible printed on Gutenberg's press.
uBid.com Teams up With Mary Kay and CMA to Kiss Domestic Violence ...
CHICAGO, Nov. 26 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- uBid.com (OTCBulletinBoard: UBHI) , one of the leading business-to-consumer and business-to-business online auction companies (http://www.uBid.com) has teamed up with Mary Kay, the official beauty sponsor of "The 41st Annual CMA Awards" to launch "A Kiss for Country," a philanthropic campaign dedicated to ending domestic violence. uBid.com will host more than 30 different online auctions for one-of-a-kind framed kiss prints of Country Music artists like Reba McEntire, Sara Evans, Miranda Lambert, Tanya Tucker, George Strait and Martina McBride. The online auctions for the "kiss card" plaques all have a starting bid of $55 and run from November 6, 2007 to December 31, 2007. 100% of the proceeds will be donated to the Mary Kay Ash Charitable Foundation to help end domestic violence against women and children.
Riviera Maya all-inclusive, air/resort, from $879
The Real Deal: Round-trip airfare, five nights' accommodations at an all-inclusive resort, meals, and theme-park admission, from $879 per person—plus taxes of about $95. When: Through Jan. 31 and Apr. 1-30, 2008; add $90 for Feb.1-Mar. 31. Blackout dates are Feb. 16-23. Gateways: Fort Lauderdale; add $155 for Chicago, New York, Philadelphia; $199 for Baltimore, Dallas, Houston, Kansas City; additional cities are available. .
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