John J Spall

C.J. Wilson isn’t a lock to fail next season, but he’s definitely not dependable enough to commit a $16 million annual salary to. And Albert Pujols for eight years? Risky. Too many sizeable free agent contracts are busts. John Lackey, Alfonso Soriano, Barry Zito, and AJ Burnett are just a few examples. Unless a player is young, durable, and consistently fantastic, dedicating even 1/8 of your payroll to a single body is completely senseless. Mark Teixeira, CC Sabathia (his current enormous contract, not the one he is about to sign), Adrian Gonzalez, and Matt Holliday are all looking like good investments.

They may have been the most intense 18 seconds in the whole of American history. From the moment that flight controllers declared John Glenn’s capsule “GO” for flight, to the instant of lift-off, the hopes of an entire nation rode on the shoulders of two men: John Glenn and T. J. O’Malley...

The role was previously played by J.K. Simmons in the Sam Raimi trilogy and according to a report from What is Playing, Webb has a shortlist of actors ready to take his place.

The three very ... different music artists are nominees this year. Also on the new ballot are the Beastie Boys, Chic, Donovan, Dr. John, the J. Geils Band, LL Cool J, Darlene Love, Laura Nyro, Donna Summer, Joe Tex, Tom Waits and Chuck Willis.

Sen. John McCain took no chances in his primary fight with former Rep. J.D. Hayworth, a talk radio host mounting a challenge from the right against the 2008 Republican presidential candidate.

After John Kennedy was shot in downtown Dallas on November 22, 1963, Johnny Calvin Brewer was listening to the radio while working behind the cash register at Hardy's Shoe Store on West Jefferson Avenue in Oak Cliff. At around 1:15 p.m., the radio broadcaster announced that another gunshot had been fired, this time at Officer J.D.Tippit, who had stopped a man who fit the assassin's description on West 10th Street, not far from Hardy's

Directed by John Stockwell. (1:34) PG-13 ... but an accident leaves her wheelchair-bound. With E.J. Bonilla and Leah Pipes. Written by Marty Madden. Directed by Susan Seidelman. (1:40) PG-13. "Pray for Japan" - This documentary about the ...

and especially Martin Ritt's adaptation of John le Carre's The Spy Who Came in from the Cold. (Blick says he also envisaged the quintessential British artist J.M.W. Turner painting a crime scene, "but with a big drop of blood".) The Shadow Line started ...