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...Faith Hill says she screamed "What?!" when Carrie Underwood beat her out for Country Music Awards female vocalist because...
...Black Bears were paced by freshman Junior Bernal, who scored 18 points on 6-of-9 shooting in his collegiate debut. Three-point threat Kevin Reed, a senior guard who scored 14 second-half points to help Maine beat Harvard in the last game the teams played in 2004, was held to 12 points on 5-of-15 shooting...
...important priority for the team.”The Black Bears were picked to finish second in the increasingly competitive America East conference, which has received a good amount of buzz over the last several years thanks to the performance of its teams in the NCAA tournament. Vermont beat heavily favored Syracuse in 2005, and this past spring No. 16 seed Albany nearly pulled off the greatest upset in tournament history, leading for much of the game before falling to the UConn juggernaut. Harvard plays both Vermont and Albany later in the season. Maine will prove to be an early...
...Ford beat Corker soundly in urban precincts (63 to 37 points in Memphis, 60-39 in Nashville) but Corker swept virtually every rural county. The addition of a ban on gay marriage to the ballot, which passed overwhelmingly by 80%, in the end helped Corker, despite Ford's continued campaigning to the center, at one stop promising to be a "Jesus-loving, gun-supporting" Senator...
...other parts of the country, of course, Democrats like former football star Heath Shuler in North Carolina did win tight races after working hard to establish credentials as conservative as those of the Republican incumbents they beat. But Chuck Todd, editor of The Hotline - the National Journal's daily briefing on politics - pointed out that even conservative Democrats like pro-life and anti-gun control Bob Casey, who defeated Sen. Rick Santorum in Pennsylvania, campaigned loudest on traditional Democratic themes like economic insecurity, the minimum wages and the expansion of health care...