Musicians Chris Shifflet, left, and Dave Grohl of The Foo Fighters perform onstage during the Grammy Nominations concert.

3 Dec 2008

WMBD/WYZZ-TV - PEORIA, Ill. -- It’s been seven years since Dave Snell last did a nightly sportscast. “I do not miss being on the air," quipped Snell. "I still have nightmares about getting my scripts on time. To this day!”

3 Dec 2008

Well, the new Hardball Times Baseball Annual is out, and of course it has all sorts of good stuff even if they did go slumming this year and have me write up a little essay. Fortunately, there are all kinds of other great things in there -- Rob Neyer talking about the greatest mid-season acquisitions ever, Craig Calcaterra on the Mitchell Report, Craig Brown on Pete Rose the free agent, well, I ...

3 Dec 2008

By Anthony Salveggi The voice over the trans-Atlantic connection is describing the London sky to me just after 4 p.m. "There's all kinds of orange and pink and purple and everything," he says. I've been on the phone with acclaimed artist Dave Gibbons for less than a minute, and he's already talking about colors. If I'd had my wits about me, I might have broken the ice by asking how he would ...

3 Dec 2008

Our own Dave Neese’s adventure in Southeast Asia is in its third week and he still doesn’t know if he’s going to fly home out of the blockaded Bangkok international airport as scheduled on Thursday or Friday.

2 Dec 2008

Drivers fed up with traffic snarls on Dave Lyle Boulevard are closer to getting some relief: Improvements finally have taken shape, in the form of added turn lanes, more left-turn signals and better traffic flow.

2 Dec 2008