| Courtney's Boy Blog
Courtney Love has spread a little of her own recently. Specifically within the younger men department. Courtney being Courtney, she's not mincing her words. In a rambling yet highly entertaining MySpace blog, the 43-year-old rock star spilled all on her wandering eye, and the fellas it tends to attract. First in the lusty firing line is 29-year-old acting talent Josh Hartnett. "Josh Hartnett is really kinda cute in real life - way more than I ever thought when I saw him out before and very, very nice," Court wrote. Next up is Scot screen boy James McAvoy, aged a tender 28 years. "Who the f*** wouldn't swoon over that kid! Wow!" Courtney enthused in an extract that's bound to have James blushing.
Here from beginning to the end
It was 1935 and Birmingham and the country were in the thralls of the Great Depression. During that economically challenging time then-Birmingham Post Editor Jimmy Mills knew the newspaper had to do more than deliver printed words and bold headlines to the public. Many families, after all, couldn't afford to put food on the table, much less buy a newspaper. So Mills started the Goodfellows program which bought candy and fruit for needy youths. It evolved into a program that delivered fruit and toys to needy Birmingham-area around Christmas each year. It would be the Post's, later to become the Post-Herald's, first foray into community service, but not its last. Since then, the Post-Herald has sponsored various community service projects from the State Spelling Bee to the All-State Academic Team to the Kudzu Run and Car Show to the Distinguished Teachers Awards to the Scholar-Athlete Awards.
Peter Crouch lifts the gloom at Liverpool
Haul down those distress pennants a notch. Relief was everywhere at Anfield. A finely taken header by Peter Crouch and a spring-heeled break from Fernando Torres brought Liverpool a win to chase the gloom away, at least for the time being. Liverpool homepage | Sunderland homepageIn pics: Premier League actionFootball fans' forumThey were always in charge against a Sunderland team who, on this evidence, seem unlikely to go down. Their players are not of the highest Premiership class, but they have the appetite for a fight. .
Clips of murdered teenager on YouTube
Fighterrr8 includes a voiceover saying "happy slap TV", and shows Mr Alizada running up to a boy playing football in the park and hitting him in the head. In a clip that features the group of youths calling themselves IVS riding on the top of a bus, Mr Alizada - aka Fighterrr - is mentioned by name and makes a gun gesture at the camera with his hand. Other clips of the IVS gang show them involved in fights with other groups of youths. The initals IVS apparently stand for Invincible Soldiers. One of the brawls takes place at a bus stop in which most of the people involved are wearing school uniform and another happens in a park. Mr Alizada, who came to the area from Afghanistan, was a pupil at Abbey Wood School, Eynsham Drive, Abbey Wood, until July 2006.
Loyola boys' soccer team advances in shootout
Loyola of Los Angeles' goalkeeper John Bunkall stopped two penalty kicks and led the host Cubs to a 4-1 shootout win Wednesday against Long Beach Wilson in Southern Section Div. I wild-card action. Bunkall stopped Wilson's second and third attempts, and his teammates did the rest as the Cubs defeated the Bruins after the teams fought through four 10-minute overtime periods with the score tied at 1-1. "I just reacted and I went with my gut decision," Bunkall said. "Thank goodness our guys scored, if they didn't score it wouldn't have meant anything. It was an exciting game and hopefully we'll come out strong against Santa Margarita." The Cubs (16-5-7) travel to top-seed Santa Margarita (16-3-4) Friday for a rematch of last year's Div. I final, which ended in a 1-1 tie. "We played Wilson last year when they were the No.
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