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Sports: Cook outduels Peavy as Rockies top Padres

Sports Ticker — 2008-05-09T09:45:00-0700

SAN DIEGO (Ticker) -- Aaron Cook tossed seven strong innings and Matt Holliday homered to lead the Colorado Rockies to a 4-2 win Friday over the San Diego Padres. Cook (6-1) outdueled reigning National League Cy Young winner Jake Peavy, all...

Sports: Padres lose 17th in last 21 games

Sports Ticker — 2008-05-08T04:10:00-0700

ATLANTA (Ticker) - The Atlanta Braves finally figured out how to win a one-run game. Matt Diaz hit a walk-off single and Yunel Escobar scored three times to lead the Braves to a come-from-behind 5-4 victory over the struggling San Diego Padres, ...

Sports: Padres vs Braves

Sports Ticker — 2008-05-08T12:00:00-0700

ATLANTA (Ticker) -- Chipper Jones looks to continue his torrid start and lead the Atlanta Braves to a three-game series sweep of the San Diego Padres on Thursday. Atlanta has won five straight games and improved to a National League-best 13-...

Blogs: Communication in your Relationship: 3 Tips on what NOT to do

Jennine Estes — 2008-05-07T10:39:42-0700

Communication: What Not to do

1. Don't tell your partner how they feel. Avoid telling your partner what you think they are feeling or why they did something

Sports: Braves fifth straight win beats Padres

Sports Ticker — 2008-05-07T12:00:00-0700

ATLANTA (Ticker) -- Greg Norton did exactly what the Atlanta Braves picked him up to do. Norton drove in the game-winning run with a pinch-hit single and Tim Hudson allowed two runs in seven innings to lead the Braves to a 5-2 win over the ...

Sports: Jones, Braves eyeing fifth straight win

Sports Ticker — 2008-05-07T12:00:00-0700

ATLANTA (Ticker) - Chipper Jones and the Atlanta Braves will seek their fifth consecutive victory Wednesday as they host the San Diego Padres in the second of a three-game series. Jones continued his stellar campaign Tuesday, smacking smacked...

Sports: Padres Up Against Braves Who Dominate At Home

Sports Ticker — 2008-05-06T12:00:00-0700

ATLANTA (Ticker) - Little has gone wrong for the Atlanta Braves this season at Turner Field. On the other hand, not much has gone right anywhere recently for the San Diego Padres. The Braves seek their 11th home in their last 13 tries on Tu...

Sports: Jones lifts Braves over Padres

Sports Ticker — 2008-05-06T12:00:00-0700

ATLANTA (Ticker) -- Chipper Jones continues to knock them out of the park and rookie Jair Jurrjens continues to pitch well at Turner Field. Jones smacked a two-run homer and Jurrjens scattered one run over six frames to lead the Atlanta Bra...

Arts: "Funny Bones" -- A Challenge Theatre production at 6th @ Penn

Frankie Moran — 2008-05-06T12:00:00-0700

The challenge: to write a short comedy about death. Now playing at 6th at Penn as the final offering under that name, "Funny Bones," a collection of four new one-act plays by San Diego playwrights, is the wildly varied result. Not always wildly ...

Arts: Romulus Linney's "Holy Ghosts" by the Sullivan Players

George Weinberg-Harter — 2008-05-05T12:00:00-0700

The canonical New Testament, edited and selected out of a welter of texts by the early church fathers during various synods of the fourth century, provides a sometimes contradictory account of Jesus and his teachings. Sensible Christians might discover...