Ashley Bates

Newcastle United manager Chris Hughton is desperate to sign Leeds striker Jermaine Beckford and on Monday night the club's hierarchy saw exactly why as the Championship pacesetters' promotion campaign stalled. Read More

Depite a sub-.500 record against strong competition, St. James has a solid girls team, one that went to the Class 3A quarterfinals last season and boasts one of the state's top players in Brandi Jenkins. Read More

Once filled solely with the conquests of upper-crust white men, the lives chronicled in obituary pages have become more democratized, even as family and friends are building interactive online memorials and multimedia content is bringing the dead back to life, according to a newly released report. Read More

In two seasons, the Seawolves volleyball team has gone from cellar-dwellers to conference champions. Read More

Sophomore Jackie Matthisen had a match-high 19 kills and made three consecutive huge plays in the final three points of the match Thursday to lift the Alaska Anchorage volleyball team to its first-ever NCAA Tournament victory, 29-27, 28-26, 21-25, 16-25, 15-12, over 14th-ranked Hawaii Hilo at Coyote Gymnasium. Read More