* USA Today: Quest for a Title

In a 1996 USA Today article, Washington State zoologist John Crane said, " There is no such thing as Bigfoot.

On June 1, 2006, USA Today reported that Rockies management, including manager Clint Hurdle, had instituted an explicitly Christian code of conduct for the team's players, banning men's magazines ( such as Maxim and Playboy ) and sexually explicit music from the team's clubhouse.

Soon after the USA Today article appeared, The Denver Post published an article featuring many Rockies players contesting the claims made in the USA Today article.

:" article in USA Today was just bad.

In response to his comment, several major newspapers endorsed ending the ban, including USA Today, the Los Angeles Times, and the Detroit Free Press.

Soon the hobby spread to other sports as well and by 1988, USA Today estimated that five hundred thousand people were playing.

Okrent, based on discussions with colleagues at USA Today, credits Rotisserie league baseball with much of USA Today's early success, since the paper provided much more detailed box scores than most competitors and eventually even created a special paper, Baseball Weekly, that almost exclusively contained statistics and box scores.

Patton published his first book (' Patton's 1989 Fantasy Baseball League Price Guide ") in 1989 and his dollar values were included in USA Today Baseball Weekly's fantasy annual throughout the 1990s.

In 1993, USA Today included a weekly columnist on fantasy baseball, John Hunt, and he became perhaps the most visible writer in the industry before the rise of the Internet.

Garth's first weekend on shows in Vegas received positive reviews and was called the " antithesis of Vegas glitz and of the country singer's arena and stadium extravaganzas " by USA Today.

A July 2006 USA Today / Gallup poll found that 83 % of the 1, 005 Americans polled blamed Hezbollah, at least in part, for the 2006 Lebanon War, compared to 66 % who blamed Israel to some degree.

* USA Today article on dilemma the rich face when leaving wealth to children

Claudia Puig of USA Today reported that the chemistry between Dunst and Bettany was potent, with Dunst doing a fine job as a sassy and self-assured player.

Steve Jones, writing in USA Today, gave the re-mastered edition of " Forever Changes " four stars out of four in a 2001 review.

Seven titles in the adult series have reached # 1 on the bestseller lists for the New York Times, USA Today, and Publishers Weekly.

* 1924 – Al Neuharth, American businessman, author, and columnist, founder of USA Today

" In 2010 National Public Radio reported that young members of the Unification Church " bristle at the term ' Moonie '", while USA Today reported that " the folks who follow Rev.

* Rural site part of USA's oldest sat-tracking system from USA Today

Claudia Puig of USA Today commented that while Cruz " does a steamy song and dance ," her " acting is strangely caricatured.

( USA Today, Associated Press Anick Jesdanun ).

In 1968, a theme park called Dogpatch USA opened at Marble Falls, Arkansas, based on Capp's work and with his support.

This can be voluntary or ( if mental health legislation allows and varying state-to-state regulations in the USA ) involuntary ( called civil or involuntary commitment ).

( In the USA this is called the discount rate ).

( In the USA this is called the federal funds rate ).

These " discotheques " were also patronized by anti-Vichy youth called ' zazou ' who much like the kids in the USA during the 1940s were wearing zoot suits.

Subsequent talks, called SALT II, were held from 1972 to 1979 and actually reduced the number of nuclear warheads held by the USA and USSR.

Voight plays the CEO of a fictitious Arms industry called Starkwood, which has loose resemblances to Blackwater USA and ThyssenKrupp.

Their 2011 international karaoke competition has attracted ABC producers to help host America's karaoke competition in Las Vegas Nevada called Karaoke Battle USA.

Al also called national NBA games on the USA Network during its brief tenure in the early 1980s.

** USA Networks ( also including what is now called Syfy ) – Paramount owned a stake starting in 1982, 50 % owner ( with Universal Studios ) from 1987 until 1997, when Paramount / Viacom sold their stake to Universal ( now part of NBCUniversal )

The term " latex " in the context of paint in the USA simply means an aqueous dispersion ; latex rubber ( the sap of the rubber tree that has historically been called latex ) is not an ingredient.

The hobby is sometimes called " fusilately " in the UK and a collector is known as a " fusilatelist "; In the USA it is called " telegery ".

A new denomination was formed by some members of the PC ( USA ) in 2012, called The Evangelical Covenant Order of Presbyterians, or ECO.

As a result, some serious players, particularly in the USA, still preferred to play online using the original Quake engine ( commonly called NetQuake ) rather than QuakeWorld.

A shuttlecock ( called bird or birdie in the USA ) is a high-drag projectile used in the sport of badminton.

During halftime, USA Network aired a special edition of WWF Sunday Night Heat called Halftime Heat featuring a match between The Rock and Mankind for the WWF Championship in an Empty Arena Match that took place in Arizona and had been taped five days before.

In 1933, the United States Table Tennis Association, now called USA Table Tennis, was formed.

In 1904, as a result of experiments conducted on Edison effect bulbs imported from the USA, he developed a device he called an " oscillation valve " ( because it passes current in only one direction ).

On February 9, 1895, in Holyoke, Massachusetts ( USA ), William G. Morgan, a YMCA physical education director, created a new game called Mintonette as a pastime to be played preferably indoors and by any number of players.

Some schools in the UK and USA divide the academic year into three roughly equal-length terms ( called " trimesters " or " quarters " in the USA ), roughly coinciding with autumn, winter, and spring.

In the southern USA, outdoor gatherings are not typically called " barbecues " unless barbecue itself will actually be on the menu, instead generally favoring the word " cookouts ".

In August 1999 the U. S. affiliate of Amnesty International issued a report " Race, Rights & Brutality: Portraits of Abuse in the USA ," prompted by high-profile excessive-force cases involving local and state police in Chicago, New York and other cities, that called on federal officials to better document excessive-force cases and to ensure that the officers responsible are prosecuted.