Barcelona, Spain – Barcelona, Spain (SportsNetwork.com) – Lewis Hamilton claimed his fourth pole of the season by topping his Mercedes teammate Nico Rosberg in Saturday’s qualifying for the Spanish Grand Prix. Hamilton, the 2008 Formula One world champion, made a lap around Barcelona’s Circuit de Catalunya in 1 minute, 25.232 …

Pittsburgh, PA (SportsNetwork.com) – Miami Marlins reliever Kevin Gregg will have season-ending surgery to remove bone chips from his right elbow. Gregg, 36, appeared in just 12 games for the Marlins this season, allowing 10 runs in nine innings of work out of the bullpen. The 12-year veteran has compiled …

Cincinnati, OH (SportsNetwork.com) – Pittsburgh Pirates left-hander Francisco Liriano will make his first major league start in a month when the team wraps up its first half Sunday in Cincinnati. Liriano, sidelined since June 10 with a strained left oblique, was activated from the 15-day disabled list to pitch Sunday’s …

CHARLOTTE, N.C. – Winning, we’ve been told since the beginning of the year, is all that matters now in NASCAR. A win should earn a driver a coveted berth in the Chase for the Sprint Cup championship. Multiple victories would give a driver valuable bonus points to be used when …

WASHINGTON – Marty Dowd has been the men’s tennis coach at Catholic University for more than a half-century, and he’s finally going to the NCAA tournament. He’ll arrive with his sense of humor firmly intact. “My priorities have changed greatly,” Dowd said. “Fifty-three years ago, winning tennis matches is what …

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Fifty years ago, no one could have conceived of an invention as revolutionary as the Internet, let alone the iPad. But neither would anyone then have guessed that educational progress would remain stagnant for the next half century. Since the 1960’s, academic achievement has remained relatively flat. In fact, American …

Mocking Jesus of Nazareth is nothing new. Whether it is today’s Lady Gaga or a “Hunky Jesus” contest in San Francisco, Jesus has been the subject of ridicule by those who do not know Him. Even on the day we call Good Friday, the day he hung on a cross …

There has been no recovery in the job market during the Obama recovery. Despite all the cheerleading by the Obama administration and the media, job creation has been horribly sluggish. The jobs created recently are noteworthy only in comparison to the lack of jobs created during the rest of the …

Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito’s choice to skip this year’s State of the Union Address after President Obama rebuked a Supreme Court decision in his 2010 address might have made Thomas Jefferson grin and say: “I told you so.” Today’s media-driven, theatrical State of the Union address is a far …