Expert: In ACC battle, it's all about No. 1

Remember those final 2.6 seconds Wednesday night in Winston-Salem, N.C. Remember James Johnson slipping inside three Duke defenders and hitting the layup that gave Wake Forest a 70-68 victory in this, the latest version of Armageddon in the Atlantic Coast Conference.

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A badger in Germany got so drunk on over-ripe cherries it staggered into the middle of a road and refused to budge, police said.

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Abandoned in the snow, this five-day-old badger cub was on the brink of death. Luckily, like most babies, she could raise enough of a racket to wake the neighbours.

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A couple of howling badgers in Germany found their love-making rudely interrupted by cops called out by alarmed residents who feared someone was being murdered.

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The UK government will not embark on a badger cull to tackle TB in cattle, it was reported today by the BBC.

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A church has been celebrating a victory after winning the right to evict grave-digging badgers from its grounds. The creatures have being wrecking graves at St Lawrence Church in Cheltenham for weeks, by tunnelling under headstones and leaving gaping holes.

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Rev. Gregory F. Lucey, S.J. has announced to the Spring Hill College Board of Trustees that he will retire as president of the college on June 1, 2009. Fr. Lucey became the college's 37th president on June 1, 1997. This year marks his 12th year as president.

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BADGERS have wrecked seven graves in a churchyard – even digging up a beloved husband. A dozen of them caused havoc after tunnelling under a wall to extend their sett from a neighbouring field.

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Old news but it bears repeating: UK military spokesman Major Mike Shearer said: "We can categorically state that we have not released man-eating badgers into the area."

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I actually had an encounter with one of these not-so-little bastards at the Kalahari Gemsbok a few years ago: they are without question the most violent, toughest, fearless animals I have ever seen.

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Kilt wearers could face prosecution if they do not have a licence for their sporran under new legislation which has been introduced in Scotland.

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Kilt wearers could face prosecution if they do not have a licence for their sporran under new legislation which has been introduced in Scotland. The laws are designed to protect endangered species like badgers and otters, whose fur used to be favoured by sporran makers.

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Culling badgers is unlikely to be a cost-effective way of controlling cattle tuberculosis, scientists advising the government have concluded. Farmers say the spread of cattle TB by badgers is destroying the industry and that culling would control it.

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How did the moon make the man play his guitar? Very, very occasionally there is a point where idle knowledge becomes good research. It is time for some more up-to-date fables, I think, of the kind that Aesop might have told if he were living today...

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A new report claims the "virtual extermination" of badgers in the Republic of Ireland has failed to stop the spread of bovine TB. Although so many badgers have been killed that they are extinct in many areas, the level of TB in cattle is twice as high as in Britain, it says.

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Residents in the Gleadless area of Sheffield are "at their wits' end" after seven years of relentless badger harrassment during which the animals have trashed gardens, felled trees, and held wild late-night orgies, the Evening Standard reports.

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This should be a very interesting match-up. Both teams can score from a variety of positions and they both have the ability to play suffocating defense. Wisconsin is led by Alando Tucker, averaging 19.9 points per game.

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Spring is coming and with it a furore over culling Britain's badgers which is intended to reduce the risk of tuberculosis in cows but raises the hackles of animal rights groups.

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