Item No. 1.: No new news from the RailHawks front office on signings, but there is, nonetheless, a fresh tidbit about RailHawk winger Josh Gardner, who is trialling with the Seattle Sounders. In a piece published today in The Seattle Times, we learn that Gardner, by his own assessment and others, has matured since he […]
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Posted inFilm & Television
Mirren, Plummer and the final days of Tolstoy in The Last Station
The Last Station opens Friday in select theaters Writers’ ideas are better suited for books than for movies. This was my conclusion after seeing The Last Station, Michael Hoffman’s smart, well-acted, heavily researched tale of the last days of Leo Tolstoy. Tolstoy, of course, is the epitome of the Great Novelist, and his masterpiece, War […]
Posted inCulture
RailHawks’ Tolleson walks away; schedule revealed; 10 of first 15 games on the road
The roster updates from the Cary offices of the Carolina RailHawks have been trickling in. There have been heartening re-signings, most notably that of quicksilver Guyanese winger Gregory Richardson. Also back for another season: stalwart defensive midfielder Amir Lowery, goalkeeper Eric Reed, the aggressive midfielders Brian Plotkin and Joseph Kabwe, and defenders Caleb Norkus and […]
Posted inCulture
Clever caption needed as Duke basketball player gets hit in face by flying Yellow Jacket
From the camera of Indy photographer D.L. Anderson: Duke forward Miles Plumlee is fouled hard by Georgia Tech’s Gani Lawal in the second half of Thursday’s game, won by the Blue Devils 86-67. Read Grayson Currin’s account of the game here.
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Gregory Richardson re-signs with RailHawks; re-assembly of 2009 team under way
Mark Schulte Caleb Norkus Amir Lowery Brian Plotkin Eric Reed Gregory Richardson
Posted inNews
Air America goes silent; WCHL-1360 to find new programming
What a week for liberals: The Democrats lose Teddy Kennedy’s Senate seat, the Supreme Court invites corporations to bring their cash through the front door of the electoral process, lawmakers on Capitol Hill seem ready to fold on health care reform and one-time local populist darling John Edwards admits to fathering his mistress’ child and […]
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Indy critic Byron Woods selected for Kennedy Center college theater festival teaching position
Longtime Indy theater and dance critic Byron Woods has been invited to teach the National Critics Institute’s theater criticism intensive seminar and to serve as critic-in-residence for the 2010 Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival (KCACTF). KCACTF serves more than 18,000 college and university theater students each year, in programming all across the country. Woods […]
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MLS Draft Day: Whom will the RailHawks get?
No, the RailHawks aren’t picking players in today’s MLS SuperDraft, to be held in Philadelphia at 2 p.m. However, recent history shows that the RailHawks and other D2 teams can expect to see some of these highly touted first- and second-rounders in the next couple of years. Thanks to a blog I encountered on the […]
Posted inSports
The future of American soccer: a primer for those just tuning in to a running saga
The middle of the winter isn’t usually a time for soccer news in America, but last week was filled with it. Probably only American soccer fans know that England was in a deep freeze so severe that most soccer games were canceledbut fortunately not the one that featured American golden boy Landon Donovan making his […]
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Wellman: NASL will be sanctioned; new franchise to be announced soon; discusses FIFA calendar, pro/rel
We spoke with Selby Wellman, majority owner of the Carolina RailHawks, after yesterday’s press conference in which Sunil Gulati, president of the United States Soccer Federation, announced a provisional agreement to keep Division 2 soccer going in 2010. Wellman spoke to us from Fort Lauderdale, Fla., where the North American Soccer League is holding its […]
