Steve Spurrier has seen enough his first two years at South Carolina - and in this year's offseason workouts - to give him hope the Gamecocks could be ready to compete for the Southeastern Conference title...

Observations on political, economic, social and military scenarios that appear unwinnable. In one of the Star Trek films, Captain Kirk beat the 'Kobayashi Maru' training scenario by thinking laterally: reprogramming the simulation...

You need to be a vip to comment on a music news story. Existing users or for free. Top artists in the news What's this? This is a tag cloud featuring the 25 artists with the most tagged music news stories in the last month...

It doesn't take a second for David Kells to recall the first concert he ever saw: Aerosmith with Joan Jett and the Blackhearts, Starwood Amphitheater, 1990...

Bondage for Beginners: Part Two, Basic Guidelines (I forgot to include the link to Remember, I'm not an expert, just an enthusiast, and this is my take on Bondage, not the end-all, be-all. Bondage can become part of your life for a lot of reasons...

"Cold Mountain" (2003) This is an earnest effort to recapture Charles Frazier's novel about a soldier's attempt to return home to North Carolina after his friends are killed in the disastrous battle of Petersburg....

The Sounds of the Sounds of Science , intended as a soundtrack to a series of showings of French director Jean Painlev s oceanographic films...