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Army vs. Southern Methodist: Armed Forces Bowl
By FanHouse Staff - AOL NewsThe Army Black Knights (6-6) will face the Southern Methodist Mustangs (7-6) in a battle of downtrodden programs back on the rise in the Armed Forces Bowl. The game will take place at Ford Stadium in Dallas, SMU's home, on Dec. 30 at 12 p.m. ET. It's Army's first bowl game in 14 years, and comes in the second season under coach Rich Ellerson. After three straight 3-9 seasons, Ellerson went 5-7 in 2009. If Army beats SMU, Ellerson will be the first Army coach to accumulate 12 wins in his first two seasons since Tom Cahill did it in 1966 and 1967. Army's coming off a loss to rival Navy on Dec. ...
SMU Death Penalty, Pony Express Profiled On ESPN 30 for 30's 'Pony Excess'
By FanHouse Staff - AOL NewsTo most modern-day college football fans, the sanctions handed down to USC for the Reggie Bush scandal were the most significant in memory. But over 20 years ago, Southern Methodist University didn't just forfeit games or titles, they faced the "death penalty." In 1987, the NCAA voted unanimously to cancel SMU's entire 1987 season, and allowed it to only play seven games -- none at home -- in 1988 as a result of an investigation that discovered in 1985 and 1986 the school had paid 13 players a total of $61,000 from a "slush fund" provided by a booster. The saga will be featured in ESPN's 30 ...
Bush, in Reunion With Cheney, Breaks Ground on Presidential Library in Dallas
By Tom Diemer - Politics DailyJust like old times? Not really. Former President George W. Bush got a hand from Dick Cheney Tuesday as he broke ground in Dallas on the planned George W. Bush Presidential Center, a library and policy institute. But the flat Texas landscape was far-removed from the ongoing political combat in Washington where they once engaged their Democratic foes. Bush told the several thousand who gathered for the ceremony "there is no doubt in my mind" that Cheney was the right pick for his national ticket in 2000 and 2004, the Washington Post said. "He was a a great vice president of the United States, ...
Opinion: 3 Painless Ways to Kill the Debt Dragon
By not in system - AOL News(Nov. 12) -- Gen. George S. Patton once proclaimed that the duty of the American soldier wasn't to die for his country but to get some poor bastard from another country to die for his. We would do well to pay heed to that advice as President Barack Obama's debt commission starts to lay out the pain and sacrifice it says will be needed to cut the nation's crushing debt load. The message of U.S. citizens to federal officials should be "You first." To be sure, Obama's bipartisan deficit hawks, former Republican Sen. Alan Simpson and former Clinton White House chief of staff Erskine Bowles, are ...
Artifacts of Bush Presidency Displayed in New Exhibit
By John O. Membrino - AOL News
(Oct. 22) -- The bullhorn President George W. Bush used to speak to rescue workers three days after the Sept. 11 attacks and the pistol taken from Saddam Hussein when he was captured in Iraq two years later are among the artifacts featured in a new exhibit opening Saturday at a museum in Dallas. The collection at the Meadows Museum at Southern Methodist University amounts to a preview of what will become the Bush presidential library center on the campus. Groundbreaking for the center is scheduled for next month, and the facility is set to open in 2013, The Dallas Morning News reports. Bush's ...
When Will It Blow? Volcano Experts Push for Monitoring
By Sharon Weinberger - AOL News(April 20) -- It blasted a cloud of volcanic ash high into the atmosphere. It effectively shut down European aviation for nearly a week, stranding hundreds of thousands of passengers. It even forced the United States and NATO to reroute flights heading to and from Afghanistan. But scientists hope the eruption last week of Iceland's Mount Eyjafjallajokull may have also done the world a service: namely, spotlighting both the importance of monitoring active volcanoes -- particularly ones that could affect key aviation corridors -- and the ongoing need to fund such efforts. J. Quick Scientists ...
First Peek at George W. Bush's Presidential Library
By David Knowles - AOL News(Nov. 18) -- The world now has its first look at the plans for George W. Bush's soon-to-be-built presidential library. Designed by renowned American architect Robert A.M. Stern, who is the dean of the Yale School of Architecture, the library will reside on the Dallas campus of Southern Methodist University. At SMU on Wednesday, former first lady Laura Bush, Stern and the project's landscape architect, Matthew Urbanski, debuted the plans for what will be known as the George W. Bush Presidential Center. ...
George W. Bush Announces Scholars and Issues for Bush Institute
By David Sessions - Politics DailySpeaking Thursday at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, former president George W. Bush and former first lady Laura Bush announced the creation of the George W. Bush Presidential Center, an archive, museum, and policy center to be built on the SMU campus. In a joint address broadcast on the new center's Web site, the Bushes outlined the institute's policy goals and revealed several of the scholars who have signed on. A museum and archive will contain "hundreds of millions" of images, documents, and e-mails from the Bush presidency, and icons like the bullhorn the former president used to ...
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