#Mega Millions

Above image credit: "Kansas City Week in Review" host Nick Haines. (John McGrath | Flatland) Some say the statute of limitations to wish someone a "Happy New Year" ended yesterday. So to avoid any form of social punishment, I'm not going to offer you that salutation. Let me instead greet you with a hearty welcome to the first Nick's Picks of…

It showed up like clockwork last week in my email. Remember email? About 240 of us voters for the Eclipse Awards received our annual packets of digital information, complete with the usual advice to tamp an eagerness we may have to cast an early ballot. "It is strongly encouraged," the instructions said, "that you consider waiting to vote until…

COLUMBUS - It has been 12 years since Ohio State has returned a kickoff for a touchdown and eight years since it has scored on a punt return. Measured another way, it has been 4319 days since OSU has scored on a kickoff and 2863 days since it did that on a punt return. At a school where Ted Ginn Jr. scored touchdowns on six punt returns and two…

It's the day of the $1.02 billion Mega Millions lottery, only the third time in 20 years that the jackpot for the multistate game has surpassed the billion-dollar mark. And John Gilliland, public information officer for the Arizona Lottery, is feeling the excitement-even working from home, stuck waiting on the exterminators. "We love these days,"…