| Jimmy happy to pass 'tough test'
It was a very, very tough test for us but we didn't help ourselves. "We were slack with our passing, we weren't making angles and for some strange reason we looked sluggish. But that's all credit to Hamilton, they closed us down quickly. "At half-time we were lucky to be still 0-0. If we had gone behind, it was very difficult, but it would have been even more difficult." Reid felt the defeat had been "cruel" but admitted they had enough chances to win the game. He said: "We made numerous chances, but if you don't take your chances you are punished and we were punished by Aberdeen. "We had a one-on-one chance at the end with James Grady running through, normally James would have put that away. "I'm majorly disappointed, I thought we could have won the game, never mind getting a draw.
Double delight for Totti keeps Roma in title hunt
Returning Roma talisman Francesco Totti scored a brace to earn the capital-based club a 2-0 win over Sampdoria at the Stadio Olimpico Saturday and keep his side in the Serie A title chase. Second place Roma closed the gap on leader Inter Milan to just four points. Totti was making his second injury comeback of the season having missed last week's disappointing 0-0 draw at Torino and he proved he was back to his best with a crucial double, the first a cute finish from the penalty spot. "I wanted to finish 2007 in a big way. I'm happy and I want to thank my teammates who let me take the penalty and set me up at the end," he told Sky Sport. "It was difficult spending two months on the sidelines because I was playing really well before that," added Totti. "The championship? It's a marathon; we won't make the same mistakes as last year when we finished 20 points back (from Inter).
Cup & Premier Lge as it happened
GOAL Aston Villa 1-1 Blackburn Ashley Young curls in a peach of a free-kick to bring the hosts level. 1632: GOAL Watford 1-3 Wolverhampton Well, maybe there is hope for the Hornets yet. John-Joe O'Toole nets with 20 minutes remaining to give them a glimmer. 1631: GOAL Southampton 1-0 Bury Bury, who stunned Norwich in the previous round, have work to do to repeat that feat. Andrew Surman puts the Championship team in front. 1627: GOAL Watford 0-3 Wolves Jay Bothroyd's second of the match seemingly makes it game, set and match to the visitors. Watford can now focus on their promotion bid. 1627: GOAL Aston Villa 0-1 Blackburn Just when Villa are building some momentum, they are caught on the break. David Dunn's shot is parried and Roque Santa Cruz follows up to score.
ESCAPE ROADS 1970 Jaguar E-Type Coupe: Picturing the Future
It's said that the images most powerful to us come from our childhood. When a young Dick Popham of Ellicott City, Maryland, saw his neighbor's Jaguar XK120 in the early 1950s, something clicked, literally. The next time it came by, the young boy ran out of the house with his Brownie Hawkeye camera in hand, flagged down his neighbor and took a picture of the Jag. Today, that black-and-white photo rides in the glovebox of Popham's E-type coupe. .
Is Anyone Telling The Truth?
So Heikki Kovalainen reckons he can beat Lewis Hamilton? And Ron says there'll be equal treatment at McLaren? Do PF1ers believe either statement... Got something to say? letters@planet-f1.com It Takes More Than Titles To Be Great
Let's see. Lewis Hamilton is a great driver based on his wins and overall performance in his first season. Kimi Raikkonen won the Drivers' Championship after what, seven years? Michael Schumacher has won the Drivers' Championship seven times. So, if all that counts is Championships, Mssr. Hamilton hasn't won anything. Remember Sterling Moss? Arguably the greatest driver never to win the championship. Moss was a great driver in all categories of racing. Recall one of the few times he hopped in a Ferrari.
Editor's Mailbag
They are making a big deal out of exempting the veterans clubs. I believe those are private clubs — members only and their guests. They are not public places and therefore would be exempt anyway.)This legislative committee doesn’t care about your health or your pocketbook. It only cares about taxes. Let’s put the truth out where it can be seen.Either make it a total, statewide ban on all tobacco, including sales, proving that our health is all important or leave well enough alone and let the individual decide. Leave your financial advisers at home.I dare you.P.S. They say that "... four out of five Iowans support the smoking ban ..." Have they heard from you?Protect the monumentBy MICHAEL SERVANTEZ, Mason CityI was driving by Central Park and I noticed what looked like lots of bird droppings on the black marble Veterans Monument stones.It looks terrible on the marble with all the veterans’ names on them.What can be done to prevent this from happening? I was wondering if a top can be placed over the memorial.Maybe the Park Board can look into this to rectify this problem.
Biggest backers of Unit 5 referendums are district employees
The teachers' union, the first to give, donated $10,000 — the largest to date. Superintendent Gary Niehaus personally donated $2,000.As of Monday, donations totaled about $23,065, according to the committee treasurer David Rutledge of Bloomington. In all 22 individuals, six businesses, four parent-teachers organizations, and the Unit 5 Education Association have given to the cause, said committee co-chairman Carl Teichman.Expenses to date total almost $20,000 and include radio and newspaper advertisements, yards signs, mailings and campaign buttons, he said, adding he expects final donations to total more than $30,000.On Feb. 5, district voters will be asked to approve a $96.7 million building project to build two new elementary schools, add onto another, construct a new middle school, renovate eight existing schools and upgrade security and technology at all schools.
Transfer deadline day: 9am-1.30pm
1.30pm: Algerian international defender, Abderaouf Zarabi has just signed for Hibs from French side Gueugnon, according to Euan Barker and top sources Mr SSN Ticker. Benjani has just yelped in fear after Daruis Vassell offered to help him with his finishing. 1.27pm: Newcastle are on the verge of meltdo... signing Atalanta's teenage striker Fabio Zamblera. "Scarlett Johansson has been seen discussing terms with Ronnie Moore about a possible move to Prenton Park," drools Robert Brown. "Personally, I can't see it happening now that they've got Jennison Myrie-Williams until the end of the season, but you can't afford to take that risk, so best get the picture up now, eh?" Nope, Johansson is a Rochdale fan, it's the only club up that way she'd sign for. .
Mount St. Helens cools off
We're calling it a pause," said Willie Scott, a volcanologist at the USGS Cascades Volcano Observatory in Vancouver, Wash. "We really don't know if it's going to start up again." The volcano that unleashed a cataclysm on May 18, 1980, proved it has new tricks up its sleeve with the recent bout of prolonged, but relatively subdued, activity. "It's made liars out of all of us," USGS seismologist Seth Moran said. "Nobody expected it to go on this long." The first sign Mount St. Helens was waking up after 18 years of dormancy came with a spurt of small, shallow earthquakes in late September 2004. A week later, an outburst of ash and steam rent the crater floor and sent a plume towering into the sky. After several similar throat-clearings, the volcano started pumping out stiff, sluggish lava -- and didn't stop until this month.
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