The St. Louis Cardinals are expected to introduce Mike Matheny as their new field manager at a Monday news conference. In so doing, they are going from a man with three decades of managing experience, the now-retired Tony La Russa, to someone whose post-career baseball experience consists of a little bit of “spring training instructor”. He’s not the first man to be hired this winter with little …
Four-time Olympic medallist speedskater Kristina Groves will reveal her future plans in the sport at a news conference Wednesday. Groves crashed and suffered a concussion in a World Cup race in November 2010, which put an end to racing for the rest of the season.
The Western Center for Journalism, a Steve Baldwin Exclusive President Obama speaks during a news conference in the East Room of the White House. Much has been written about Obama’s controversial appointments, not only to the federal bench, but to key cabinet positions, as well as to the unaccountable (and probably unconstitutional) “Czar” positions. Much of the criticism has dwelled on the Obama administration’s lack of vetting when filling these rolls—but that’s not the iss
Former pound-for-pound king Floyd Mayweather Jr. is back after a 21-month hiatus from boxing to take on three-time world champion Juan Manuel Marquez in a welterweight clash on Saturday at 6 p.m. at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas on HBO PPV. The final pre-fight news conference was held on Wednesday afternoon. Here is what the fighters and everybody involved had to say: FLOYD MAYWEATHER JR.: “To go down as a legend, you have to face the best in your era and Marquez is one of the best in my er
(Photo Credit: GMA News) Question: I am the national president of Aksyon Mindanao, What is your peace agenda for Mindanao, and what is the difference between you, Estrada and GMA? Noynoy Aquino: Well, can I say what I hope to do if I am given that opportunity. Number one, when I was studying, they said the first step to knowledge is to admit that you do not know and then you seek to know. I have just recently been to Davao and Zamboangga. And I have talked to, shall we say, both sid
