Coakley’s advantages were too much to overcome

Attorney General Martha Coakley may have run a less-than-scintillating campaign, but she started this sprint of a special Senate primary race with too many advantages for a trio of male Democratic opponents to overcome in a short period of time. The only candidate to have run statewide before, she started with astronomically high favorability...

SARAH CHALKE DONS HER ELF HAT FOR “DISNEY’S PREP & LANDING”

Disney’s Prep & Landing is the untold story about an elite group of elves who are an advance team for Santa prior to the big flight around the world each Christmas.  The elves enter the house early and insure the home is ready for the big guy’s arrival. It’s a new take on the Christmas theme headed up by John Lasseter (Toy Story),...

Jimmy V Classic: Pitt in search of offense

NEW YORK -- There's a good chance Jermaine Dixon will make his season debut in the late game of the Jimmy V Classic against Indiana (ESPN, 9:30 p.m. ET) at Madison Square Garden. Dixon, the only returning starter from last season's Elite Eight Panthers, broke his foot in the offseason and has been steadily improving in practice. The...

Danny Cahill is the ‘Biggest Loser’ Winner, Rudy Pauls Comes Close and Amanda Arlauskas Is Third

With a total weight loss of 239 lbs, Oklahoma land surveyor/musician Danny Cahill is the newest winner of The Biggest Loser! The Biggest Loser winner was revealed during the show's eighth season finale on Tuesday night. As usual, the finale brought back all of the season's slimmed-down contestants for one last weigh in. But first, Allison...

Oklahoma: ‘Stake Our Claim’

You’ve no doubt already seen the half-dozen or so pictures of Oklahoma’s new Nike Pro Combat uniforms that the team will sport this Saturday at Texas Tech. To help promote the new gear, Nike created some odd “anti-Texas” video and the accompanying “Stake Our Claim” t-shirt. The shirt, which features the State of Texas with an OU flag planted...

US Air Force confirms 'Beast of Kandahar' drone

WASHINGTON - The US Air Force on Tuesday confirmed for the first time that it is flying a stealth unmanned aircraft known as the "Beast of Kandahar," a drone spotted in photos and shrouded in secrecy. The RQ-170 Sentinel is being developed by Lockheed Martin and is designed "to provide reconnaissance and surveillance support to forward deployed...