| There will be blood: Festival slasher stage show takes on messy new ...
Last April, Rob Matsushita and Morey Burnard drew two phrases out of a hat for Mercury Players Theatre 's 24-hour play festival, where Madison-area playwrights write a show based on those brief snippets. Matsushita and Burnard randomly picked "Thug Passion #2 " and "Discordia 's Sunshine Death, " both names of mixed drinks. That short stage play, written in 12 hours, became a 45-minute feature film with 11 original songs. The result, "Massacre (The Musical)," will make its premiere tonight at the High Noon Saloon. The Madison film also has been submitted to the Wisconsin Film Festival in hopes of a spring screening. "Massacre " tells the story of Discordia Doren (Kelly Kiopes), a good Catholic schoolgirl driven to dispatch her less-than-moral friends in gruesome ways during a getaway trip to a friend 's cabin.
Jones pleads guilty
And in August 2006, one of her urine samples tested positive for EPO, but she was cleared when a backup sample tested negative. She had vehemently denied all doping allegations, even issuing this emphatic declaration in 2004: "I have never, ever used performance-enhancing drugs." She also sued Conte after he repeatedly accused Jones of using performance-enhancing drugs and said he watched her inject herself. A September 3, 2003, search warrant at BALCO uncovered ledgers, purchases, doping calendars, and various blood-test results connected to Jones and Graham, said Matt Parrella, a federal prosecutor in Northern California. "The fact that she was using the performance-enhancing drugs is not a surprise. People suspected strongly or knew, but couldn't prove the use," said Dick Pound, chairman of the World Anti-Doping Agency.
LSU Humbles Ohio State, Wins BCS Title Game
No. 2 LSU 38, No. 1 Ohio State 24
No. 2 LSU danced, dodged and darted its way into the end zone Monday night, turning the BCS national championship game into a horrible replay for No. 1 Ohio State. It was over early, with Matt Flynn throwing four touchdown passes in a 38-24 win. Playing at their home-away-from-home in the Big Easy, LSU (12-2) became the first two-loss team to play for the title. Shouts of "SEC! SEC!" bounced around the Superdome as the Tigers won their second BCS crown in five seasons. They are the first school to win a second title since BCS rankings began with the 1998 season. And in a season of surprises, this was hardly an upset: Ohio State once again fell apart in college football's biggest game. A year after the Buckeyes were routed by Tim Tebow and Florida 41-14 in the Arizona desert, they barely did better.
Tigers' Inge will accept a new role
He said he still holds out hope that he could be traded, but he also said that his strong preference would be to remain with the Tigers -- assuming he could play every day. Even as a catcher, the position he played before Ivan Rodriguez signed with the Tigers in 2004. The job isn't open now, with Rodriguez set to catch in 2008. But Rodriguez's contract runs out after this year, which makes Inge's new willingness to catch especially interesting. Inge repeatedly has said that he doesn't really like catching, but he said Monday that he will accept it now if it means more playing time. He also said that given the choice, he'd rather catch (or play any other position) every day for the Tigers than play third base every day somewhere else. "First and foremost, I hope everyone out there knows I don't want to go anywhere,'' Inge said.
White shining at NIACC
MASON CITY — Four-time Illinois high school state champion Albert White needed help.White, a highly-decorated prep recruit, found the perfect solution to his problem in NIACC’s resurrected wrestling program.The St. Rita High School graduate had signed with the University of Illinois after completing a 200-4 record as a prep.But grade issues left White searching for a school that would allow him to continue his mat career and get himself academically ready for Div. I wrestling."Basically, NIACC was a new program and I needed to make good grades," said White, who is ranked fourth in the NJCAA at 149 pounds. "When I first started looking at colleges, I wanted to go Division I. I tried that first, but couldn’t do it so I had to look at my other options."That’s where Trojan coach Richard Fergola stepped in.Fergola, a former junior college wrestler himself who went on to compete at Emporia State University, was in the process of putting together the No.
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