While it´s debatable whether area residents can expect an especially rough allergy season because of all the rain and the resulting healthy crop of ragweed, the fact that people can expect to experience the seasonal malady soon is indisputable. There have been some predictions that this season would be bad, said Dr. Sandra A. McMahan, an allergist with Scott and White, but the information wasn´t based on any science.

THE WASHINGTON POST WASHINGTON - A Senate electoral playing field that was already wide open for 2008 has become considerably more perilous for Republicans with the retirement of Sen. John Warner, R-Va., and the resignation of scandal-scarred Sen. Larry Craig, R-Idaho.

THE WASHINGTON POST In 28 years of raising chickens, Virgil Shockley has had his share of worries, from bird disease to pollution. But nothing prepared him for the latest concern sweeping the poultry industry: local farms could be deemed terrorist targets by the U.S. government.

Temple Wildcat fans thanked the occasional breeze that swept across their sweaty brows - the sun had yet to set in the western sky on Saturday night. The fiery sphere continued to bake Wildcat devotees in their aluminum seats as they cheered their team.

WACO - Perhaps senior nose guard Cedric Mosley said it best about the Temple Wildcats: “This lets everyone know we´re back and we´re ready.” From the Wing-T offense to the presence of coaches Bob McQueen and Mike McMurtry to the close, comeback victory that required clutch play on both sides, the 2007 Wildcats might as well have been the 1977 Wildcats on Saturday night at Waco ISD Stadium.

ANN ARBOR, Mich. - Chances are, most of the 110,000 fans at the Big House on Saturday had no idea exactly where Appalachian State is located. By the time they saw a blocked field goal in the final seconds, those in attendance knew this much for certain: They had watched the little Mountaineers pull off one of the greatest upsets in college football history.

FORT WORTH - Even without standout defensive end Tommy Blake on the field Saturday, Texas Christian´s dominating defense pitched a season-opening shutout. The No. 22 Horned Frogs gave up some yards before halftime, but not any points all day in a 27-0 victory over Baylor - the first of three former Southwest Conference rivals TCU plays in the opening month of the season.

BOSTON - The call-up came up with all zeros. Clay Buchholz threw a no-hitter in his second major league start, just hours after the Boston Red Sox promoted him from the minors Satur-day night.