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Star receiver Marquess Wilson says he has quit the Washington State football team, and blamed the coaching staff for what he called abuse of players. Wilson was suspended this week for an unspecified violation of team rules. He said in a press release Saturday that he has left the program because of the actions of first-year coach Mike Leach and his staff. Team spokesman Bill Stevens could not confirm that Wilson, the team's career receptions leader, has left. Stevens...

It's easy to explain why the boys from British-irish boyband One Direction are so successful. They're a bunch of five good looking lads, as they say, who can actually sing. They have nice, snap-happy and annoyingly hummable songs. And they are backed by that well-oiled, hit-churning machinery lorded over by music mogul Simon Cowell. It's also safe to say it helps that Justin Bieber's trying to be all adult now, cavorting in pools with the likes of Nicki Minaj, and has left the playground wide open for the lucrative and increasingly influential tween market. But it's interesting that One Direction – recognised early this year by the Guinness World Records as the first British band to debut at...

Following a triumphant return last month which saw queues of people lining a rain battered Oxford Street; Converse Gigs @ 100 Club are thrilled to announce Wild Belle will headline the next show on Thursday 15th November with stellar support from The 1975, Dan Croll and Matthew...

After four decades in the spotlight, singer-songwriter-activist and double musical Hall of Famer Jackson Browne doesn’t much like to give interviews any more. Nor does he see much need to. Browne, 64, figures that his lyrics, his well-known liberal Democratic politics and his support of the environment, education and human rights already speak volumes for him. As he quipped in connection with his sold-out Wichita concert Sunday night at the Orpheum Theatre: “I like to save my voice for the music.” And the music, from his 1972 self-titled debut album to anthems like “Doctor My Eyes,” “Running on Empty” and “Somebody’s Baby” to a concert tribute to the centennial of folk...

This year’s Turkey Trot offers a fascinating lesson in, of all things, economics. The 117th annual running event - the longest continuous annual road race in the country - raised its entry fee this year for the first time in quite a while. Yet the organizers could have raised it even higher, and not received many words of complaint. That’s how popular the Trot has become, particularly in recent years. Let’s start with the basic information about the race. The Turkey Trot will feature 14,000 runners on Thanksgiving morning. That’s another all-time high for the event, which goes from North Buffalo to the Convention Center. In fact, registration will be...

Mexico City -- In the golden age of mariachi, thousands of music lovers would crowd into theaters and fancy restaurants or fill the Plaza Garibaldi in the heart of the capital just to hear their favorite tunes played on guitar and violin. On a recent evening in the same plaza, that golden age was a distant memory. Roving bands of musicians chased down cars on one of the city's busiest avenues, leaning into windows to bargain over the price of a song. Black-clad musicians in cowboy boots then assembled ragtag groups that played out of tune while singers hoarsely belted out mournful ballads about love and heartbreak. The aching music may remain one of Mexico's top cultural exports, by which...

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Tweet London, Nov. 11 (ANI): Neurologists have begun to unravel the mystery of why love can make us giddy, irrational and even ridiculous, after mapping the chemical changes in the brain and discovering the parts that activate - and more importantly, the parts that shut down - during the blossoming days of courtship. Researchers hope that the discovery may also one day reveal why a few loved up people might overstep the mark when dealing with the object of their affections. The...