Randorf is the popular host of TSN's CFL studio show as well as TSN's and CTV's figure skating coverage. Randorf recently anchored TSN's coverage of the 2006 Olympic Winter Games in Torino and also calls play-by-play for various national and international hockey events.

Randorf has covered numerous sports and sporting events since joining TSN, including hockey, football, basketball, figure skating, U.S. Open golf, the Super Bowl, IIHF World Hockey Championship (men's and women's), Memorial Cup, Pan Am Games, Canada Games, and TSN's acclaimed coverage of the 2000 Olympic Summer Games in Sydney, 2002 Olympic Winter Games in Salt Lake City and 2004 Olympic Summer Games in Athens. Randorf was also part of TSN's second CFL broadcast crew for two seasons, calling the play-by-play action in 1999 and 2000.

J.D. meets J.D. as Jack Dann writes from down under about the imagined ...

I can remember gazing at the colorful covers before I could read, and as I learned to read, the collection had of course grown. The first SF novel I read was Festus Pragnell's The Green Man of Graypek, an early SF novel; and the reason I read it first was because I had been entranced by the Hannes Bok cover as a child. So the idea of genre novels and stories was in my mind from the get-go, a familiar part of the world of literature that I was exploring.

The first frisson happened when I met George Zebrowski and Pamela Sargent at SUNY Binghamton, which has renamed itself Binghamton University. That was in the late '60s. George had extraordinary ambition and was determined to be a writer ... a science-fiction writer. George and I started collaborating on short stories, which we sold.

Microsoft, the sleeping giant, wakes again

Yahoo's board of directors has decided to reject the offer, a person familiar with the matter said Saturday. The person, who is close to Yahoo management, said the company planned to tell Microsoft in a letter Monday that the deal undervalues the Internet company and fails to offset its risk if regulators were to overturn the merger.

Although Yahoo doesn't want to sell to Microsoft, it has few alternatives. Many analysts expect Microsoft to sweeten its offer, and Yahoo to accept it.

If it wins Yahoo, the Redmond, Wash.-based software giant will have pulled off by far the largest acquisition in its 33-year history to try to keep Google from getting further ahead.

"Microsoft tends to be a reactive company," said Mark Anderson, an entrepreneur and author of an industry newsletter that counts Gates and Microsoft Chief Executive Steve Ballmer among its subscribers.

Holiday Gifts, Expo Survival

During that interview we routinely refer to Playlist's Plays of the Year awards (the year's best digital-music-oriented gear) and also reference Macworld 's Holiday Gear Guide from the December 2007 issue.

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Andy Reid becomes instant Sunderland hero

They applauded when he warmed up, they cheered when he came on and they roared him to the echo when he created the goal that killed off Wigan. Andy Reid is the new star who dazzled at the Stadium of Light.