Only the third pitch was an option Saturday at Comerica Park. Rain and snow blew across Metro Detroit and finally ended the Tigers’ hopes of playing a game against the Twins.
The game, which was scheduled for 1:05 p.m., was called just before noon. It has been rescheduled for Monday at 1:05 p.m., although the weekend’s winter hangover threatens today’s 1:05 game against the Twins and could ruin Monday’s plans.
Monday was to have been a travel day for the Tigers ahead of their three-game series at Cleveland. Now, manager Alan Trammell hopes a rare late-April cold blast subsides enough to give the Tigers a shot at saving two of the three games against the Twins.
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Wests Tigers, a 150/1 outsider in June, beat the North Queensland Cowboys 30-16 today to win Australia's National Rugby League grand final.
The Tigers scored five tries to the Cowboys' three before 82,453 fans at Sydney's Telstra Stadium. They won their first title since being formed as an amalgamation of two founding league members in 2000.
``Words can't describe the way I'm feeling at the moment,'' Tigers captain Scott Prince told reporters. ``I'm so proud of the boys. They've put in the effort for the last 30 weeks.''
The Tigers began the season ranked 80/1 outsiders by Australian bookmakers,
The disappearance of tigers from Sariska and Ranthambore has not only been an ecological disaster, but has also adversely hit the tourism sector.
Besides forts and palaces, the big cats have been the big attraction for tourists to Rajasthan for decades.
But with tigers virtually vanishing from Sariska and 18 reportedly missing from Ranthambore, bookings for wildlife tourism are taking a serious hit.
Domestic tourists
"They have flatly told us that don't even ask us for Wildlife bookings. If you want cultural tours to be promoted, we can work that out for you but wildlife, you forget at the moment.
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Richmond overturned its interstate hoodoo at the Gabba last night with a thrilling four-point win over the Brisbane Lions.
The 12.15 (87) to 12.11 (83) victory was Richmond's fourth in a row, but its first at the Gabba since 2000. In contrast, the Lions have now lost the past four at their once formidable home ground.
But Richmond may pay a price for the courageous win, with defender Joel Bowden nursing a suspected cheekbone fracture after an accidental clash with a player who knows all about head injuries, teammate Chris Hyde. Bowden clashed with the helmeted head of Hyde midway through the
Thousands of people could lose their travel cover after the Financial Services Authority (FSA) took action against Whiteley Insurance Consultants.
The West Yorkshire-based firm was placed into provisional liquidation by the High Court at the FSA's behest.
The FSA told the court that Whiteley - a brokerage - was selling travel insurance which was not underwritten by an insurer, invalidating the policies.
The liquidators have set up a hotline, 08705 234803, for policyholders.
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The Egyptian government plans to attract an extra 1 million tourists a year to Egypt every year for the next decade, more than doubling the current total to 18 million by 2015, President Hosni Mubarak said Sunday.
he government's 10-year plan will require building 15,000 extra hotel rooms a year, bringing the total to 300,000, he said in a speech in the south Egyptian town of Luxor, the center for visits to many of Egypt's pharaonic sites.
To achieve this target, the private sector will have to invest at least $1.4 billion a year in the tourism sector, he added.
Mubarak said the
