The Lee Wulff Chapter of Trout Unlimited will meet at D’Andreas Banquet & Conference Center on Thursday. Social hour starts at 6 p.m., with dinner at 7, followed by the club program. This month’s speaker is Tom Helgeson, who has been a journalist and editor for 35 years.
BRIDGEVIEW – Real Salt Lake advanced to its first MLS Cup final by beating the Fire, 5-4, on penalty kicks after 120 scoreless minutes in the Eastern Conference final Saturday night.
LAS VEGAS – After winning enough at poker to buy a house and justify playing tournaments in far-off places, Joe Cada bet on gambling instead of college and started playing cards full-time.
LAS VEGAS – A western Maryland logger who plays no-limit Texas Hold ’em for fun is matching wits with a 21-year-old from Michigan who has logged more hands online than most people his age. At stake is a World Series of Poker main event title, and $8.55 million.
BRIDGEVIEW – John Thorrington and Cuauhtemoc Blanco scored as the Fire advanced to the Eastern Conference final with a 2-0 win against the New England Revolution on Saturday night.
LAS VEGAS – Darvin Moon’s preparations for a run at the $8.55 million top prize at the World Series of Poker included an extended hunting trip last month in Wyoming, where he slept in a two-room cabin without electricity and pretty much avoided any contact with the outside world.
EAGAN, Minn. – When Brett Rogers steps into the cage Saturday night at the Sears Centre in Hoffman Estates against Fedor Emelianenko, he will be face to face with the most feared fighter in the world.
FOXBOROUGH, Mass. (AP) – Shalrie Joseph scored in the 75th minute to lift the New England Revolution to a 2-1 victory against the Fire on Sunday in the opening game of their Eastern Conference semifinal series.
HOWEY-IN-THE-HILLS, Fla. – The moment Justine Henin realized her tennis career wasn’t finished came in June, when the Belgian watched Roger Federer finally hoist the French Open trophy, the one Grand Slam title he was missing.
So much of Andre Agassi’s life has been spent in the public eye – the various highs and lows, on and off the court, during his transformation from tennis brat to elder statesman – that it was possible to wonder how much more there was to be said about it all.
