Omaha

Omaha Vipers (2-3) at Blast (3-0) When: 7:35 p.m. Saturday Where: 1 s t Mariner Arena Video: B2TV.com Outlook: The Blast survived a scare last weekend, rallying in the fourth quarter for a 13-12 win over the Missouri Comets to remain undefeated in the Major Indoor Soccer League. Forward Adauto Neto scored two goals in his season debut, including the game-winner early in the fourth quarter to help the Blast come back from a 10-4 deficit.

It's a beautiful idea: Constellation Energy shareholders reject the emergency merger with Warren Buffett's MidAmerican Energy Holdings, retake control of their company and watch the stock head back upward. Baltimore gets to keep a Fortune 500 corporate headquarters. And Constellation shareholders beat the planet's greatest investor at his own game. It's not anything that big shareholders are counting on. For now, Buffett's deal is the only thing keeping Constellation stock from plunging even further than it has. But it's not impossible.

ROCHESTER, N.Y. -- There is a book on Russ Morman. Before the Triple-A Classic is over, it will become required reading for the Rochester Red Wings pitchers.The Omaha first baseman sparked a ninth-inning rally last night with his fourth run batted in as the Royals rallied to defeat the Red Wings, 7-4, to even the Classic at a game apiece."We haven't made our pitches against him," Red Wings manager Greg Biagini said. "We've left pitches up over the plate. We haven't put them where we wanted to. He's a veteran player.

Even the man known as the world's greatest investor can't dodge the tough questions. And these days, some of them are coming from shareholders of Berkshire Hathaway Inc. Thousands of shareholders descended on Omaha, Neb., April 29 to listen to company Chairman Warren Buffett talk about investing, and explain why Berkshire had such a bad year - its worst performance in 35 years. While most investors still support Buffett, he was roughed up by a shareholder who wondered if the guru of investing had lost touch with current trends.

The Blast cemented its hold on first place in the Major Indoor Soccer League on Friday night with a hard-earned 14-10 victory over the Omaha Vipers at 1st Mariner Arena . It was the sixth consecutive win for the Blast (12-3), which can go a long way toward clinching the regular-season title Sunday by beating second-place Milwaukee. Baltimore leads the Wave, which plays the Chicago Riot on Saturday night, by a game. Omaha (7-10) didn't make it easy. It wasn't until veteran Pat Morris scored his second goal with less than four minutes remaining in regulation that the outcome was all but assured.

She's still the giggler who charmed as the sweetheart of the 1988 Seoul Games. But now, what has the 40-year-old Janet Evans laughing is her age -- or rather, that of her competition. "There was a 16-year-old," the three-time gold medalist said, her eyes widening at the youth of a swimmer two lanes over from her. She's "closer in age to Syd," she said, referring to her 5-year-old daughter. Evans, attempting an unlikely comeback after about 15 years away from competition, is not the only swimmer watching time pass before her eyes at the qualifying trials for the team that will go to the London Games.

Self-censorship, a negative cerebral habit that can damage the psyche, has been practiced by the human race since the beginning of time. Carried from one generation to another, these subconscious doubts that fill us with misgivings are the body leaks of the mind.Who are we? What are we? Why are we? Why do we do the things we do? These are the questions posed in the Omaha Magic Theatre's new avant-garde, experimental work, "Body Leaks," on stage tonight through Sunday at Towson State University.

ROCHESTER, N.Y. -- All season, there have been other players ready to provide the big hit when the Rochester Red Wings' big hitters had an off-night.Chris Hoiles had an off-night against the Columbus Clippers in the Governors' Cup playoffs and didn't want to repeat it.He hit a three-run home run in the first inning last night and set up the fourth run with a single in the second, as the Red Wings defeated the American Association champion Omaha Royals, 4-3,...

Charles H. "Harry" Heinlein, a young Army machine-gunner who survived the D-Day landing on Omaha Beach on June 6, 1944, and returned 60 years later, died Saturday of pneumonia at Stella Maris Hospice. The longtime Violetville resident was 90. Mr. Heinlein was a 22-year-old private from Baltimore attached to the famed 29th Division when he landed on Omaha Beach at 7:40 a.m. June 6, 1944, as part of what Supreme Allied Commander Dwight D. Eisenhower called the "Great Crusade" that would eventually liberate Europe's millions from the domination of Adolf Hitler.