Tigers Beat Bama; Extend Iron Bowl Rule

Nick Saban couldn't figure out how to beat Auburn, either. Brandon Cox scored on a 1-yard sneak with 3:58 left and the 25th-ranked Tigers played stingy defense in a 17-10 win over Alabama that extended Auburn's winning streak in the bitter rivalry to a school-record six games.

Alabama (6-6, 4-4) hired Saban to coach the Crimson Tide after last season, giving him $4 million a year, in part to come up with a way to beat the Tigers. Not only was he unable to do that, but the Tide is no lock to even reach the postseason.

Alabama lost its final four games and is one of 10 SEC teams vying for a bowl spot. The Tide was stung badly a week earlier by a stunning loss to …

Strange bedfellows mesh

'NIXON'S NIXON'

Highly Recommended

When: Through Oct. 19

Where: Writers' Theatre at Books on Vernon, 664 Vernon, Glencoe

Tickets: $60-$75

Phone: (847) 242-6000

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Talk about powerhouse political marriages (and I don't mean the Clintons). As Exhibit A, see the pairing of Richard Nixon, one of the more notorious and complicated figures in American presidential history, and Henry Kissinger, the German-Jewish refugee who Nixon liked to say he "plucked" from the halls of Harvard to serve as his national security adviser and secretary of state.

Though in many ways these men could not have been more different, something about …

ILLUSTRATING FIRST THURSDAY

Sometimes a man's accomplishments are visible to a wide audience, but the man behind them isn't. And the people who work at his favorite coffeehouse or donut shop may know the man but be unfamiliar with his achievements. On First Thursday, both the man and his work will be present when La Vie En Rose hosts local artist John Colllas for the release of John Collias: Round About the Boise Valley: An artist's journey through Idaho history.

Written and designed by his grandson, former BW editor Nick Collias, the book is a look through the years of the 92-year-old elder Collias' artistry. It covers his time at Gowen Field as a soldier during WWII, his studies at Chicago's famed American …

Greenpeace members arrested in Japan for theft of whale meat

Japanese police arrested two Greenpeace activists on Friday on suspicion of stealing about 50 pounds (23 kilograms) of whale meat that the environmentalists said had been illegally siphoned by whalers from government-backed hunts.

Greenpeace members Junichi Sato, 31, and Toru Suzuki, 41, allegedly stole a container with the meat from a postal company warehouse in Aomori, northern Japan, in April, police said in a statement.

The Japanese government kills about 1,000 whales a year under a whaling program allowed under international rules, and sells the meat as food. Greenpeace and other whaling opponents say the program is a cover for commercial hunting, …

4 hurt in explosion in Univ. of Missouri building

Three of four people injured in a hydrogen gas explosion inside a University of Missouri biochemistry lab have been released from the hospital.

The university says the fourth person remained hospitalized in good condition Monday night.

The blast happened after 2 p.m. on the third floor of Schweitzer Hall on the …

Paul Theroux Shows Why Bible Is More Than Food for Thought

NEW YORK Paul Theroux, whom we last met kayaking alone among theisles of Oceania, has come home to Boston for his latest novel.

The results are thoroughly exotic.

What else could we expect from an author whose fiction hasexposed a writer's secret life and sexual exploits in Africa, whoseessays have decried the fatwa against Salman Rushdie, whose travelbooks have floated him down the Yangtze River and in Argentina'sdesolate Patagonia?

His new work, Millroy the Magician (Random House, $24), is acharming story about a fairground magician and his 14-year-oldrunaway assistant and how they start a religion.

It's also a critical and revealing look at …

Tigers fire pitching coach Knapp, promote Jones

DETROIT (AP) — The Detroit Tigers have fired pitching coach Rick Knapp.

The relatively surprising move was made after Detroit beat the San Francisco Giants 6-3 Sunday.

Bullpen coach Jeff Jones was promoted to replace Knapp, who was in his third season with the Tigers. Mike Rojas becomes the team's bullpen coach after working as its director of player development.

Tigers …