CHICAGO — The Green Bay Packers are headed to town for the NFC championship game and Chicago Bears fans are starting to become, well, a bit unbearable. Turn on Chicago radio and you’ll hear no shortage of jokes about Packers fans, many have something to do with low intelligence. There’s been plenty of laughs over a Green Bay newspaper headline that read “On To Chicaco.” Many more center on the dietary habits like this one: What do you call a 400-pound Packer fan? Anorexic.
TUCSON, Ariz. — Rep. Gabrielle Giffords was able to stand up with assistance, the latest milestone in the Arizona congresswoman’s recovery as her family prepares to move her to Houston for extensive mental and physical rehabilitation from a bullet wound to the brain.
WASHINGTON — Fifty years ago Thursday, President John F. Kennedy told the world that “the torch had been passed to a new generation of Americans” whom he challenged to “ask not what your country can do for you – ask what you can do for your country.” Caroline Kennedy will gather members of her father’s administration, civil rights activists, astronaut Buzz Aldrin and even members of the first class of the Peace Corps – which JFK established – to mark the 35th president’s legacy at the Capitol.
Promising to usher in a new era in 3-D entertainment, Nintendo says its glasses-free handheld 3DS will go on sale March 27 in the U.S. for $250. That’s the same price that the revolutionary Wii console cost when it went on sale in 2006.
BALTIMORE — A fascinating tradition that ran for about 60 years and was never fully explained appears to have ended. An unknown person who left three roses and a half-empty bottle of cognac at Edgar Allan Poe’s grave on the anniversary of the writer’s birth failed to appear Wednesday, the second straight year he’s disappointed those who stake out the downtown Baltimore Westminster Hall and Burying Ground.
“American Idol” returned Wednesday with a makeover for its 10th season on Fox. Simon Cowell, everyone’s favorite villain, is gone as a judge. So are Kara DioGuardi and Ellen DeGeneres, replaced with the star power of Jennifer Lopez and Aerosmith’s Steven Tyler. Original judge Randy Jackson remains. The first two-hour episode accentuated the positive, an indication that producers are setting a different tone.
SAN DIEGO — D.J. Gay scored 20 points, and former Green Valley High School standout Billy White had 10 of his 12 during a decisive 13-3 run as No. 6 San Diego State beat Air Force 68-55 on Wednesday night to extend the country’s longest active winning streak to a school-record 20 games.
Let’s review: They played a Mountain West Conference basketball game at the Thomas & Mack Center on Wednesday night supposedly featuring one of the league’s top four teams and another hoping to prove itself worthy of being mentioned among such a group.
Brandon Wright wanted to play running back in college for an established program in a vibrant city.
Not many athletes go through their high school careers as a varsity starter all four years.
