| Paging the breakout
NEW YORK -- Some stars spend Sundays lounging by the pool. For Jack McBrayer, who plays naive page Kenneth Parcell on the NBC sitcom "30 Rock," Sunday means grabbing a bottle of Tide and heading to the laundry room. And maybe later a shopping trip to Best Buy. McBrayer has clearly not gone Hollywood. After all, it wasn't long ago that he was subsiding on dinners of Fig Newtons or spinach eaten right out of the can. "Tina Fey called me a hobo," he jokes about his early struggling-actor days in New York. The Georgia native became friends with Fey, the star of "30 Rock," and her husband, Jeff Richmond, while doing improv with Second City in Chicago. It was Richmond, now a producer on "30 Rock," who convinced McBrayer to move to the Big Apple for a play he was mounting.
Statham, Bearcats aim for return to nationals
After a solid finish to the 2006-07 season, coach Harry Statham hopes the McKendree University men's basketball team will be even better in 2007-08.The Bearcats were 23-12 last season and 8-4 (third place) in the American Midwest Conference. Statham's squad reached the second round of the NAIA national tournament in Kansas City.McKendree opened this season with a pair of home games, beating Trinity International University 74-57 on Thursday and third-ranked Crichton College 96-86 on Saturday. The Greyhounds play host to Lindenwood University at 7 p.m. Wednesday."We won the first round (at nationals) against Mountain State (W. Va.) and we lost the second round to Faulkner (Ala.)," said Statham, who entered his 42nd season at McKendree with a career mark of 938-368."We got back to Kansas City (for the first time in a couple years and we had some big wins at the end of the year, so we finished up strong.
High hopes are no hassle for Hutton
LIKE Scotland's own Euro 2008 campaign, Alan Hutton has exceeded all expectations. Unquoted before a ball was kicked, the young defender now finds himself an indispensable member of Alex McLeish's international squad. And, just as McLeish's players have silenced those who had written off their chances of playing in next summer's finals, so, too, has Hutton hushed those critics who questioned whether he was good enough for Rangers, never mind the national team. .
High school soldiers learn the drill early
Jaymie Goss, a hot pink backpack at her feet, explains the U.S. Army uniform she's wearing and the rifle she's learned to use. Though she's a high school senior, she's a soldier. Across the table, a couple of classmates chat about tanning beds and buying a bathing suit, with one saying she goes to Lane Bryant for a good fit. Goss, who turned 18 in late September, doesn't hear them. After enlisting in the U.S. Army Reserves last year and completing basic combat training, she's changed. "I've learned a lot about myself," the Tigard teen said. As the war in Iraq wears on, some school districts are finding more and more students and their parents telling their high schools not to provide personal contact information to military recruiters.
North Naples carjacking
Collier County sheriff's deputies are searching for a carjacker who claimed to have a gun when he forced a man out of his vehicle in the library parking lot on Orange Blossom Drive in North Naples. The carjacking happened around 11 a.m. on Thursday at the Collier County library at 2385 Orange Blossom Drive. The victim was not hurt. The carjacker is a white man in his 20s. He stands 5 feet 11 inches tall, weighs around 175 pounds. He has a short black crew cut. He wore a white T-shirt. The carjacker told the man that he had a gun and ordered into him into the back seat of the tan or gold 2008 Lexus 350 sports utility vehicle. The man got out of his vehicle and refused to get in the back. That's when the carjacker jumped inside the vehicle and drove off. No gun was displayed. The vehicle was last seen heading westbound on Orange Blossom Drive, toward Goodlette-Frank Road.
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