| Lady Lobos entrenched in razor-thin playoff race
The Little Elm softball team can't catch a break.The Lady Lobos entered the 2007-08 campaign with plenty of questions. Courtesy of the best season in program history, most have been answered. But one important query still remains: What does it take to pull away from the pack?Riding a four-game win streak, the team is still entrenched in a skin-tight battle for the third and final playoff spot in District 9-4A. Head coach David Garza expected to wake up Wednesday to find his team with some breathing room in the standings. Not so after a whacky turn of events Tuesday that saw Frisco upend cross-town rival Centennial and McKinney Boyd pull the year's biggest upset by handing McKinney North its first district loss."Things thickened up quite a bit," Garza said.North will lock up the district title Friday with a win over Lake Dallas, leaving Little Elm, Centennial, Boyd and Frisco to fight for the final two postseason berths.
American Cancer Society Report Details Cancer Prevention Efforts
An annual report from the American Cancer Society highlights that long-term favorable trends have stalled for several factors that have been responsible for declining cancer death rates in the U.S. The report, Cancer Prevention & Early Detection Facts and Figures 2008 (CPED), points out that drops in smoking appear to have leveled off and that mammography rates have been stable or slightly declining since 2000 after increasing for more than a decade. .
Briefs: Pair of sandals looks beautiful to some, ugly to others
They're so weird, so bizarre, so utterly ugly that they qualify as spring's must-have pair of shoes. They are Prada's flower-heeled Mary Jane sandals from the Milan, Italy-based fashion company's spring '08 runway collection. The leather sandal, with its seductive tone-on-tone piping, the sculptural rise of its 3 1/2-inch heel and its lemony-sweet "What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?" bow tie, is certainly an acquired taste. And with the $750 price tag, not many people will be able to breathe in its rarefied scent, much less slip a pair onto their well-manicured tootsies. But the straight-from-the-catwalk shoe, with its oblique references to abstract expressionism and the Spanish modernist architect Antoni Gaudi, has elicited vigorous love-it-or-hate-it debate on Internet blog sites.
Health Calendar: 04/03/2008
The Health calendar is published weekly. Information to be included can be mailed to the Record-Eagle, P.O. Box 632, Traverse City, MI 49685; faxed to 946-8632; e-mailed to gmurray@record-eagle.com or delivered to: 120 W. Front St. Traverse City. MICHIGAN COMMUNITY BLOOD CENTER Acme, 3-7 p.m. April 10, Holiday Shopper, US-31 S. & Bunker Hill Road, bus. Fife Lake, 10 a.m.-3 p.m. April 9, Forest Area School, 7741 Shippy Road. Frankfort, 1:30-6:30 p.m. April 3, Paul Oliver Memorial Hospital, 224 Park Ave. Kalkaska, 2-6 p.m. April 10, Kalkaska Memorial Health Center, 419 S. Coral. Lake Ann, 2-7 p.m. April 7, Lake Ann United Methodist Education Center, First St. Manistee, 12:30-4:30 p.m. April 3 & April 10, West Shore Outreach Lab, 332 First St.
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