CHICAGO — Ron Santo, one of the greatest players in Chicago Cubs history and a longtime WGN radio announcer whose devotion to the perennial losers was made obvious night after night by his excited shouts or dejected laments, has died. He was 70.
BEIJING — A Chinese passenger train hit a record speed of 302 miles per hour Friday during a test run of a yet-to-be opened link between Beijing and Shanghai, state media said. The Xinhua News Agency said it was the fastest speed recorded by an unmodified conventional commercial train. Other types of trains in other countries have traveled faster. A Japanese magnetically levitated train sped to 361 mph in 2003.
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — It’s a strange sheaf of documents for Florida’s governor to have. The thick notebook describes how Jim Morrison discussed sex with a lamb he held on stage, ordered fans to “love your neighbor ’til it hurts” and later, at trial, defended his boozy singing to a prosecutor.
An invitation to a black-tie dinner has arrived for Steve Spurrier, and you can bet he’s not going to show up wearing overalls and a straw hat while chewing on a toothpick and spitting tobacco. This occasion is too important.
As much as some fantasy owners wanted to avoid Frank Gore at their drafts, the San Francisco 49ers running back was hard to resist if he was available late in the first round or early in the second.
