Open euchre and other card games will be played at 1 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 5, at Bridges Senior Center, 221 W. Etna Road, Ottawa. Call 815-431-4084 for more information. Additional upcoming senior activities will include:

The world of 3-D video games, any gamer will tell you, is almost as old as video games in color: Nintendo titles in the late 1980s like Rad Racer and 3-D WorldRunner each had 3-D modes that used red-and-blue passive eyeglasses to produce images that jumped off the screen just like 1950s-era movie monsters.

Through the first 102 games of the 2010 season, the Mets have gone through just about everything. They've had their surprises in R.A. Dickey and to a certain extent Angel Pagan. They've gotten a huge lift from rookie first baseman Ike Davis and rookie left-hander Jon Niese. During the season, the Mets have had two separate eight-game winning streaks to keep them afloat when it seemed things were ...

The Beast requires constant feeding, and that is why Roy Oswalt is a Phillie today. Another organization sitting 2 1/2 games out of the wild card and 3 1/2 games out of first place could have passed on the expense, in dollars and prospects, that it took to add a pitcher about to turn 33 years old. But Philadelphia proved it is one of the three organizations in baseball that must feed The Beast ...

John Danks carefully worked his way through the stack of envelopes, pulling his baseball card out over and over again, scribbling his name and meticulously preparing the memento for the return trip. After the emerging left-hander made it though the pile, he handed the mound of mail to a White Sox clubhouse attendant, still not completely comfortable with the whole process.

Tickets to the Singapore 2010 Youth Olympic Games Opening Ceremony will be available Monday at 9 a.m. Singapore time. The Opening Ceremony will be held

Another country deems the DS storage devices illegal to sell. The popular R4 cards, which are widely used to play retail DS games illegitimately, are now illegal to be imported, sold, or advertised all throughout the UK, according to a recent ruling by a British high court judge. The official decision is that the card is illegal because it thwarts Nintendo's security to play content. R4 and ...

With only one full day remaining before the non-waiver trade deadline, and 60 games left to be played on their schedule, the Los Angeles Dodgers find themselves trailing the division leading San Diego Padres by a full seven games, and are seeing their chances of returning to the playoffs gradually disappear. Even the line for the lone wild card spot is becoming quite crowded, and yet the Dodgers ...