Open euchre and other card games will be played at 1 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 5, at Bridges Senior Center, 221 W. Etna Road, Ottawa. Call 815-431-4084 for more information. Additional upcoming senior activities will include:

Purchase a Singapore Airlines Holidays package by VISA card for travel between 14-26 August 2010. Passengers are eligible to receive a Youth Olympic Games 2010 ticket and a Visa Prepaid Card of a day’

The world of 3-D video games, any gamer will tell you, is almost as old as video games in color: Nintendo titles in the late 1980s like Rad Racer and 3-D WorldRunner each had 3-D modes that used red-and-blue passive eyeglasses to produce images that jumped off the screen just like 1950s-era movie monsters.

The Camdenton 8's youth baseball team won the bronze medal in Columbia at the Show-Me State Games, just their fourth week together as a team. Team scored 48 runs in four games during the event.

Through the first 102 games of the 2010 season, the Mets have gone through just about everything. They've had their surprises in R.A. Dickey and to a certain extent Angel Pagan. They've gotten a huge lift from rookie first baseman Ike Davis and rookie left-hander Jon Niese. During the season, the Mets have had two separate eight-game winning streaks to keep them afloat when it seemed things were ...

BOSTON - Sure, it was thrilling. Gallant, even. But it was still a defeat the Boston Red Sox could not afford. David Ortiz' grand slam in the ninth turned a sleepy affair into a spinetingler, but could not avert a 6-5 loss to the Detroit Tigers at Fenway Park.

The Beast requires constant feeding, and that is why Roy Oswalt is a Phillie today. Another organization sitting 2 1/2 games out of the wild card and 3 1/2 games out of first place could have passed on the expense, in dollars and prospects, that it took to add a pitcher about to turn 33 years old. But Philadelphia proved it is one of the three organizations in baseball that must feed The Beast ...

John Danks carefully worked his way through the stack of envelopes, pulling his baseball card out over and over again, scribbling his name and meticulously preparing the memento for the return trip. After the emerging left-hander made it though the pile, he handed the mound of mail to a White Sox clubhouse attendant, still not completely comfortable with the whole process.