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Polls
Which of these Super Bowl commercials was the best?
Poll results
| Response | Percent | |
|---|---|---|
| Budweiser Clydesdales - Streaker | 24% | |
| FedEx - Cavemen | 14% | |
| AmeriQuest - “That killed him” (fly) | 13% | |
| Budweiser - Colt getting help | 11% | |
| Sprint - Crime deterrent | 10% | |
| Budweiser - Rotating wall fridge | 8% | |
| Sprint - Benny Hill ringtone | 3% | |
| MasterCard - MacGyver | 2% | |
| Budweiser - Clean the gutters | 2% | |
| Michelobe Ulra - Late hit | 2% | |
| Burger King - Whopperettes | 1% | |
| Nationwide Insurance - Old Fabio | 1% | |
| Pizza Hut - Jessica Simpson | 1% | |
| Diet Pepsi - Stunt double (Jackie Chan) | 0% | |
| Diet Pepsi - Diddy | 0% | |
| Total | 762 | |
All stories
- One man killed, another seriously wounded in downtown shootings
- February 5, 2006
- A man is dead an another is seriously injured after a shooting in downtown Lawrence early Sunday morning. At around 2:15 a.m., police were called to The Granada, where they found a man suffering from gunshot wounds in the street just south of the theater, and another man who ran inside the theater after he was shot.
- One man killed, another seriously wounded in downtown shootings
- Police asking for help in locating suspect
- 05:10 a.m., February 5, 2006 Updated 10:31 a.m.
- One man was killed and another man was seriously wounded when gunfire erupted overnight outside a downtown Lawrence night club, Lawrence Police announced this morning.
- Pluto mission chief honors discoverer’s 100th birthday
- February 5, 2006
- Alan Stern encounters Kansas astronomer Clyde Tombaugh’s famous discovery of Pluto every day.
- Rice comment reveals policy blind spots
- February 5, 2006
- I still can’t believe she said it. Our highly intelligent secretary of state, Condoleezza Rice, actually said the following about the Hamas victory that jolted U.S. policy in the Middle East: “I’ve asked why nobody saw it coming. It does say something about us not having a good enough pulse.”
- Haiti finds identity in election cards
- February 5, 2006
- Port-au-Prince, Haiti - Marie Therese Simplice awoke at dawn Tuesday and walked five hours through some of this city’s most dangerous neighborhoods to get the card needed to vote in Haiti’s elections next week.
- Death penalty cases moving forward
- Kansas attorney general isn’t waiting for high court decision
- February 5, 2006
- With the legality of Kansas’ death-penalty law in serious question, a handful of capital murder cases are still going forward around the state.
- Snow blowing into Detroit
- February 5, 2006
- With strong wind and four to seven inches of snow forecast, snow-removal crews girded for a winter storm as thousands of fans headed downtown on Super Bowl eve.
- Super focused
- Game not only goal on football holiday
- February 5, 2006
- Avid sports fan Michael Hogg, of Lawrence, doesn’t like to miss many big games.
- Lawrence attorney finds fiction writing suits him just fine
- February 5, 2006
- Most of David Brown’s writings are filled with facts and legalese.
- Iran referred to U.N. over nuclear plan
- February 5, 2006
- The International Atomic Energy Agency reported Iran to the U.N. Security Council on Saturday over fears it wants to produce nuclear arms, raising the stakes in the diplomatic confrontation and prompting Tehran to threaten immediate retaliation.
- Betty Friedan, modern-day feminist pioneer, dies
- February 5, 2006
- Betty Friedan, whose manifesto “The Feminine Mystique” helped shatter the cozy suburban ideal of the post-World War II era and laid the groundwork for the modern feminist movement, died Saturday, her birthday. She was 85.
- Super Bowl’s MVP’s
- February 5, 2006
- 2005-Deion Branch, WR, New England
- Board duties
- An effort to get legislative action to require sex education in Kansas schools is a predictable result of the problems facing the state’s board of education.
- February 5, 2006
- Commenting last week on the current discussion in the Kansas Legislature about standards for teaching sex education in the state, Steve Abrams, president of the Kansas Board of Education, commented, “It sounds like something the state board ought have authority to deal with.”
- Lobby reform ideas worth considering
- February 5, 2006
- The upset victory of Rep. John Boehner of Ohio in the contest for majority leader of the House reflects the nervousness of congressional Republicans about the lobbying scandal that has rocked Washington.
- Seattle (13-3, 2-0) vs. Pittsburgh (11-5, 3-0)
- Ford Field, Detroit ¢ 5:25 p.m. today, ABC
- February 5, 2006
- Seattle (13-3, 2-0) vs. Pittsburgh (11-5, 3-0) Ford Field, Detroit ¢ 5:25 p.m. today, ABC
- Don’t worry: TV’s got you covered
- February 5, 2006
- The folks at Disney are going for complete saturation today. It will air pregame shows on both ABC and ESPN.
- Lawrence Datebook
- February 5, 2006
- Today: Sixth Annual Chocolate Festival for Teens, 11- to 18-year-olds, 2 p.m.-4 p.m., Lawrence Public Library’s Auditorium, 707 Vt., no registration required.
- Horoscopes
- February 5, 2006
- For Sunday, Feb. 5, 2006
- Commercialism cheapens King’s legacy
- February 5, 2006
- I interviewed Coretta Scott King once. It cost $5,000.
- Katrina-hit states plan for elections
- February 5, 2006
- Louisiana officials are preparing to send out nearly 1 million mailers as part of a campaign to tell voters who fled the wrath of Hurricane Katrina how to cast ballots from afar, a problem not as widespread in other Gulf Coast states.
- Super Bowl Trivia Answers
- February 5, 2006
- True.
- Free meal with a message
- Food Not Banks alters its name to match anticapitalist views
- February 5, 2006
- An old group with a new name is doing its part to help feed Lawrence.
- Embassies torched over caricatures
- Enraged Syrians burn European buildings
- February 5, 2006
- Thousands of Syrians enraged by caricatures of Islam’s revered prophet torched the Danish and Norwegian embassies in Damascus on Saturday - the most violent in days of furious protests by Muslims in Asia, Europe and the Middle East.
- Early run buries Haskell
- Fightin’ Indian men fall; Pete helps women rally
- February 5, 2006
- During halftime of Saturday’s men’s basketball game between Haskell Indian Nations University and York College, 12 random members of the crowd were allowed to shoot a half-court shot with the winner receiving 50 dollars. Only two of the twelve participants even hit the backboard.
- Determined Hallman KU’s hero
- Senior’s aggressive drive - and subsequent free throw - lifts Jayhawks
- February 5, 2006
- It took theatrics, but Erica Hallman made sure to get the job done in the final seconds of Saturday’s game against Iowa State in Allen Fieldhouse.
- QB crunch time
- Game likely rests on play of Roethlisberger, Hasselbeck
- February 5, 2006
- Among the many storylines to Super Bowl XL is the smash-mouth Pittsburgh Steelers and their frenetic blitzing against the softer, more cerebral Seattle Seahawks and their West Coast passing game.
- Landlords telling KU to lay down party law
- Students should be penalized at school for rowdiness off campus, some argue
- February 5, 2006
- Lawrence landlord Serina Hearn will say this about Kansas University students: They can do math.
- Super Bowl’s past champions
- February 5, 2006
- 2005-New England (AFC) 24, Philadelphia (NFC) 21
- Inmate killed in riot
- Officials: Fighting was race-related
- February 5, 2006
- A riot at a maximum-security jail Saturday left one inmate dead and more than 100 injured, including 20 hospitalized with serious injuries, authorities said.
- Israeli airstrikes kill three Palestinian militants
- February 5, 2006
- Israeli aircraft fired three missiles at a building used by militants in Gaza City early today, killing three people and wounding five, Palestinian hospital officials said.
- Suspect in gay bar attack captured
- Officer, woman killed in gun battle
- February 5, 2006
- A teenager suspected of a hatchet-and-gun attack in a Massachusetts gay bar shot and killed a small-town police officer and the teen’s passenger before he was critically wounded in a gun battle with police Saturday, authorities said.
- Books bestsellers
- February 5, 2006
- 1. “The Da Vinci Code,” by Dan Brown (Doubleday, $24.95). A murder at the Louvre leads to a trail of clues found in the work of Leonardo and to the discovery of a secret society.
- Where’s the science?
- February 5, 2006
- To the editor:
- City swimmers take solace in consolation wins
- February 5, 2006
- Heading into Saturday at the Sunflower League boys swimming and diving championships, Lawrence High and Free State weren’t contending for high finishes.
- Toxin in teacher’s drink spurs two charges against student
- February 5, 2006
- A high school student from suburban Kansas City faces two felony counts after a toxin was placed in a science teacher’s drink.
- KU baseball squad splits with Hawaii-Hilo
- February 5, 2006
- The Kansas University baseball team couldn’t overcome a six-run deficit Saturday, falling to Hawaii-Hilo, 8-6, to close the teams’ season-opening five-game series.
- Rumsfeld pushes for unity in terror war
- February 5, 2006
- Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld pushed Saturday for unity in the fight against terrorism, telling a meeting of the world’s top security officials that “a war has been declared on all of our nations and on our people.”
- Two days of fighting leave 41 people dead
- February 5, 2006
- Militants attacked government offices and a police convoy Saturday, continuing a series of assaults that has left at least 41 people dead in the region over two days, government officials said.
- Alaska Airlines sued in plane mishap
- February 5, 2006
- Six Alaska Airlines passengers have sued the airline and the company that handles its Seattle-Tacoma International Airport ground operations, claiming they suffered “severe physical and emotional injuries” when a hole ripped open in the plane’s side wall on a Dec. 26 flight.
- Wittig’s mansion protected from forfeiture, say attorneys
- February 5, 2006
- David Wittig’s home is protected from forfeiture by the Kansas Homestead provision and should not be seized by the federal government, attorneys for the former Westar Energy president’s wife said in court filings.
- Series of tragic errors by crew doomed ferry
- February 5, 2006
- The series of tragic errors that apparently claimed more than 1,000 lives on an Egyptian ferry escalated when the crew decided to push across the Red Sea despite the fire burning in the aging vessel’s parking bay, survivors said Saturday.
- Volunteer firefighters OK after accident
- February 5, 2006
- The husband-and-wife De Soto volunteer firefighters injured in Friday night’s fire truck crash have made it out of the hospital.
- Don’t worry about using flu shots in toddlers
- February 5, 2006
- U.S. infectious disease experts last week dismissed suggestions that there is insufficient evidence for recommending routine flu shots for healthy children between 6 and 23 months old.
- Children’s headaches, sleep woes connected
- February 5, 2006
- If your child is dogged by headaches, he or she might also have another problem - frequent sleep disturbances.
- Applications accepted for road dust reduction
- February 5, 2006
- Applications are being taken from Douglas County residents wanting dust palliative treatments for public roads they live adjacent to.
- Death toll rises to 74 in stadium stampede
- February 5, 2006
- Thousands of people lined up outside a stadium near Manila to watch a TV game show surged toward the gates Saturday in the mistaken belief they were open, and at least 74 people were trampled to death, officials said. About 500 people were injured.
- U.S. military to shut down last MASH unit
- February 5, 2006
- The U.S. military is shutting down its last MASH, the mobile hospital made famous by the TV show about martini-sipping, wisecracking Army doctors.
- On the record
- February 5, 2006
- Law enforcement report
- Dire warnings
- February 5, 2006
- To the editor:
- U.S. professor supports Holocaust statements
- February 5, 2006
- A Northwestern University professor known for denying the Holocaust happened has publicly sided with Iran’s hard-line president, who has been on a campaign against Israel.
- Wakarusa Valley pupils honored in contest
- February 5, 2006
- Three sixth-grade girls at Wakarusa Valley School swept the top prizes in an essay contest about female athletes sponsored by the Kansas University athletics department.
- $10,000 reward offered in church fires case
- February 5, 2006
- Rewards totaling $10,000 were offered Saturday in the investigation of the fires that damaged or destroyed five rural churches along winding country roads south of Birmingham.
- Cell phone shipments reach record high
- February 5, 2006
- Worldwide shipments of mobile phones reached a record 242 million units in the fourth quarter, surpassing the previous peak of 200 million units during the 2004 holiday quarter, according to research firm iSuppli Corp.
- Airman lost during WWII identified
- February 5, 2006
- Remains found in California last fall are those of an airman from Minnesota whose plane went missing during World War II, relatives said Saturday.
- Woods shares Dubai lead
- February 5, 2006
- Tiger Woods moved into position for his second straight victory, birdieing the 18th hole for a 5-under 67 and a share of the third-round lead Saturday in the Dubai Desert Classic. Anders Hansen had a 69 to match Woods at 16-under 200.
- Endangered dollars
- February 5, 2006
- To the editor:
- Valid viewpoints
- February 5, 2006
- To the editor:
- Holmes leads FBR Open
- February 5, 2006
- Tour rookie J.B. Holmes shot a 6-under 65 to take a one-shot lead in the FBR Open, while a raucous record crowd of 168,337 partied around him. The 23-year-old Kentuckian was at 16-under 197 through 54 holes. Second-round leader J.J. Henry (70) and Ryan Palmer (64) were one back at 15 under.
- Medical marijuana speaker appears today
- February 5, 2006
- One of the top advocates for medical marijuana laws will be speaking in Lawrence today.
- Feminist to discuss work in Nicaragua
- February 5, 2006
- An advocate considered by some to be a revolutionary feminist and historian will visit Lawrence next week.
- Traffic-calming plan on Monday’s agenda
- February 5, 2006
- Lawrence Traffic Safety commissioners at their next meeting will consider a request for traffic-calming devices on 13th Street between Connecticut Street and Haskell Avenue.
- Poet’s Showcase
- February 5, 2006
- Goodbye Noel: By Beverly Boyd
- Chanute resident arrested at sorority
- February 5, 2006
- Lawrence police arrested a 49-year-old Chanute man for allegedly masturbating Saturday evening while inside his vehicle at the parking lot of a Kansas University sorority.
- Old Home Town
- February 5, 2006
- 100 years ago in 1906
- U.S. skeleton coach fired
- February 5, 2006
- U.S. skeleton coach Tim Nardiello was fired by the sport’s national federation for ignoring orders to stay away from the team during its final Olympic preparations. Nardiello, who was denied a credential to coach at the Turin Games, is in St. Moritz, Switzerland, where the four sliders representing the United States are training.
- Rider pleads not guilty
- February 5, 2006
- Former NBA player Isaiah Rider pleaded not guilty to felony charges that he forced an ex-girlfriend into his car last month. Rider was arrested last week and freed on $2 million bail. The 34-year-old the former NBA slam-dunk champion appeared in court to face charges of kidnap and false imprisonment.
- Hingis reaches final
- February 5, 2006
- Martina Hingis defeated top-seeded Maria Sharapova, 6-3, 6-1, Saturday to advance to the final of the Pan Pacific Open. Hingis will face second-seeded Elena Dementieva of Russia in today’s final. Dementieva beat compatriot and fourth-seeded Anastasia Myskina, 6-4, 3-6, 6-4.
- Law should allow ex-wife to have life insurance on former husband
- February 5, 2006
- Q: After a bitter legal battle, I was finally granted a divorce.
- Hunter deadline extended
- February 5, 2006
- New Orleans and Philadelphia have agreed to extend until Monday the deadline to complete a physical on center Steven Hunter, who was part of a trade from the 76ers to the Hornets earlier this week.
- Old Home Town
- February 5, 2006
- 40 years ago in 1966
- Gray of February sparks contemplation
- February 5, 2006
- February, despised by many, is my favorite month. The world is gray, suiting my age and mood. Gray reminds us that we live in a web of ambiguities and that we’re fools to think in black and white.
- Teen-ager holds ANZ lead
- February 5, 2006
- Amy Yang, a local 16-year-old high school student, held on to a one-stroke lead at the ANZ Australian Ladies Masters after a 2-under-par 70 Saturday.
- Civil war warnings follow discovery of Sunni victims
- February 5, 2006
- Sunni politicians warned of civil war Saturday after the bullet-riddled bodies of 14 Sunni Arab men were found in Baghdad - apparently the latest victims of sectarian death squads.
- Patrol seeks fuel deals
- February 5, 2006
- The Journal-World found gas prices as low as $2.21 at several locations. If you find a lower price, call Pump Patrol at 832-7154.
- Green’s return will be ‘weird’
- Former Kansas aide now on Sampson’s OU bench
- February 5, 2006
- Jerry Green, who spent four successful seasons sitting next to best buddy Roy Williams on Kansas University’s basketball bench in tradition-rich Allen Fieldhouse, today will experience the other side.
- Fixed-rate mortgages best bet
- February 5, 2006
- The fact that the Federal Reserve’s Open Market Committee raised short-term rates another quarter of a percentage point Tuesday isn’t, by itself, such a big deal.
- Doctors link drug to liver disease
- February 5, 2006
- A new antibiotic used to treat respiratory infections has been linked to severe liver disease that killed one Charlotte-area patient and caused another to need a liver transplant last year.
- Aikman among six elected to Hall
- Irvin, Thomas fall short in voting for pro football shrine
- February 5, 2006
- Troy Aikman made it into the Pro Football Hall of Fame’s biggest class in years. The guy he threw to - Michael Irvin - will have to wait once again.
- Shop edges out KU
- Colleges work to protect images, funds
- February 5, 2006
- Larry Sinks knows that his “Kansas Drinking Team,” “Hawks Basketball” and “Kansas Swim Team” T-shirts remind customers of the big school atop Mount Oread.
- Uncle Sam wants you to not marry a jerk
- Military divorce rates spur partnership program
- February 5, 2006
- They are the Pentagon’s new “rules of engagement” - the diamond ring kind.
- UConn claims ninth straight victory
- February 5, 2006
- Rudy Gay scored 19 points, and No. 1 Connecticut beat No. 22 Indiana, 86-80, Saturday - the Huskies’ ninth straight victory.
- OSU hands K-State another tough loss
- February 5, 2006
- Eddie Sutton loves to salt away victories like these, like saving money for a rainy day.
- Keegan: KU fate decided in paint
- February 5, 2006
- Kansas University’s most productive, most consistent, most entertaining three players start on the perimeter.
- Super Bowl individual records
- February 5, 2006
- INDIVIDUAL SCORING: Most Points, Lifetime - 48, Jerry Rice, San Fran.-Oakland, 4 games.
- Jayhawks ready to bruise it up
- February 5, 2006
- Super Bowl Sunday isn’t all about football. Not in hoops-crazed Kansas, anyhow.
- Super Bowl Trivia
- February 5, 2006
- True or False. No coach ever has led two different teams to victory in the Super Bowl. (5 points).
- ‘A hungry heart’
- At 93, William Allen White Award-winner Gordon Parks still eager to tell stories
- February 5, 2006
- When Gordon Parks was growing up in Fort Scott, his mother told him never to give up. That advice sustained him through his mother’s death, leaving home, being homeless, and to an amazing life and career.
- People in the news
- February 5, 2006
- ‘Grandpa’ Al Lewis from ‘Munsters’ dies at 82
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