Archive for June, 2005

IDG Entertainment Launches Games.net

Trylon Communications Rich Gallagher, 212-725-2295 x12 richg@tryloncommunications.com New Alternative Gaming-Information Site Transforms the Interactive-User Experience with an Intelligent Aggregation of Original, Third-Party, and User-Driven Content and Commentary Recognizing that today’s digital entertainment enthusiasts crave easy online access to the latest gaming news, product reviews, downloads, and cheats, IDG Entertainment debuted its Games.net site today.Given…Press: Business […]

Taking a swing at sports reform, McCain: The senator is a fan who happens to have power to change how the games operate.

WASHINGTON - John McCain - Arizona senator, willful reformer, once and perhaps future presidential candidate and former prisoner of war - has assumed yet another role: America’s unofficial sports minister.In the past year, McCain led a Senate effort to expose U.S. Olympic drug cheats before the 2004 Summer Games, took on boxers’ safety issues, and […]

Guillen : Cheating is OK if it helps team win

White Sox Notebook Ozzie Guillen is among those who believe rules are made to be broken — at least when it comes to baseball.”If you’re doing what you’re not supposed to do and you don’t get caught, keep doing it,” the White Sox manager said.The issue was given renewed relevancy Friday, a day after Sox […]

Donnelly suspended 10 days; Robinson, Scioscia get a game each

Angels reliever Brendan Donnelly was suspended 10 days by major league baseball on Friday for having pine tar on his glove during a game against the Washington Nationals. Angels manager Mike Scioscia and Nationals manager Frank Robinson were suspended for one game apiece and fined. The managers screamed at each other after Robinson had umpires […]

Notes from Friday’s games

PITTSBURGH: Pittsburgh hadn’t played the Red Sox in Boston since the first World Series, in 1903, at the Huntington Ave. Grounds. The teams played in Pittsburgh in 2003, and the Pirates played the Boston Braves at Fenway Park in 1914-15. … Daryle Ward doubled in the first inning to extend Pittsburgh’s streak of extra-base hits. […]

It’s no swindle: The Cheat is back, with debut album in tow

Last summer The Cheat recorded its first full-length album, and roughly one year later the release will finally be unveiled in time to coincide with the band’s renaissance. In the interim between the recording and now, the group’s fans have been left to speculate on what the members of The Cheat refer to as merely […]