| Tom Stienstra
Lake managers at Los Vaqueros stocked 5,000 pounds of rainbow trout on Wednesday, perfect for the upcoming Labor Day holiday. This is not your typical stock of dinkers from the Department of Fish and Game. These fish were raised at the Calaveras Trout Farm, purchased by the water district, and average 1 to 3 pounds, with a sprinkling of trophy-size fish. The plants are paid from the $3.75 daily fishing fee that anglers pay at Los Vaqueros. The lake is 96 percent full. Best prospects are during cool mornings when the wind is down. Info: Los Vaqueros Marina, (925) 371-2628; www.ccwater.com -- then click on Los Vaqueros. Posted By: Tom Stienstra (Email) | August 31 2007 at 09:11 AM .
Audi TT, act II: Shockingly delightful
There ought to be a yellow cautionary decal next to the window sticker on the new turbocharged Audi TT Coupe. It should read: "Do not peruse the adjacent sticker for the first time during an electrical storm. The combined jolt from lightning and sticker shock could prove fatal." The base price of this TT model is $34,800. If you tack on all the bells, whistles and woodwinds found on the test car, the check for this automotive answer to dinner at Le Bec-Fin comes to $46,325. That sounds like a lot for a small coupe with a small engine, even if the latter is teamed up with a turbocharger, direct injection, and a slick, six-speed automatic gearbox. By now, you may be wondering why folks are willing to trade a relatively large pile of gold for a relatively small pile of steel.
Ryan Craig is the Sports Web Editor for WRAL.com
At what point does a die-hard fan just become insane? I think I may have found out the answer this past weekend. That’s because I was lucky (read: dumb) enough to take in the Giants vs. Packers game from Section 107, row 33 at Lambeau Field.By now, you’ve heard the gruesome numbers: -4 degrees at kickoff, -24 with the wind chill. It was the third coldest game on record in NFL History, and the closest I’ve ever been to questioning my priorities in life.The journey began with an early Sunday morning flight from Raleigh to Chicago, continued with a four hour drive in my Hertz rental car to Green Bay, WI, and finished at one of the meccas of sports. Lambeau is one of only a handful of sports venues that belongs in the same breath as Wrigley, Fenway and Yankee Stadium. It’s an old-school stadium with aluminum bleachers instead of cushioned seats and names like Bart Starr, Ray Nitschke and Reggie White lining the façade below the scoreboard.
Working hard — on a baby
Thus, a phone call from the doctor means she and her partner must literally rush home from work to have sex. Maureen Barrett, 49, and her husband went through infertility treatment for eight years. They tried artificial insemination and timed intercourse and worked with five different specialists. "It was very depressing. It was difficult to deal with (timing sex) and with work," says Ms. Barrett, a real estate agent with Coldwell Banker in Oak Brook. At the time of her treatments, she was working as a manager in the travel industry and vividly remembers one morning when she needed to be in two places at the same time. "I had to go to work, but it was one of those times when we had to have sex that particular time I had to take my temperature and be in a certain position. There was this terrible feeling of desperation," she says.
Short skirts and fast cars will have to wait, says Jankovic
MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) -A sore and sorry Jelena Jankovic will have to forgo glamour for the time being. "When you have pain in your back, the worst thing is to have heels on and put on a short dress," the third-ranked Jankovic said when asked if she'd take another ride in an Italian sports car before she leaves Melbourne. "Because I can't bend down, I can't do anything." Jankovic twice sought medical treatment in the second set of her 6-3, 6-1 semifinal loss to Maria Sharapova, laying outstretched on a towel while a physiotherapist massaged her lower back. "I felt really some strange pain in my back where I felt like I was so stuck," she said. "I wanted to withdraw, but it was a semifinal." The Serb also regrets her promise to join American Bethanie Mattek in the doubles competition, where they lost in the third round.
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Arranging one simple meeting is an exercise that captures, perfectly, why Magedson is so good at getting results and why he's infuriated the CEOs of several midsize companies to the point that they accuse him, flatly, of extortion. He overthinks every detail. And it would never occur to him to stop pushing before he gets what he wants, even if he's not sure what that is. First there's where to meet. It has to be a public place. A dog park? A restaurant? Even after Magedson decides on lunch at Chompie's, he calls back with instructions about which bank of booths to pick. He's planning to park in the handicapped spot, he says, and from the right booth, he'll be able to keep an eye on his dog. After discussing that issue for 15 minutes, he calls back to clarify: It can't be just any booth near the window.
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