Eagles

Generously listed at 5-foot-9, Gonzaga senior Jimmy Kuzma has been among the smallest players on his lacrosse team each year since he first picked up a stick. Still, the midfielder has been among Gonzaga Coach Casey O'Neill's favorites for his gritty, blue-collar play since earning a promotion to the varsity squad as an even more undersized freshman. Dressed for his fourth Washington Catholic Athletic Conference final on Monday night, Kuzma shirked his reputation as the team's unsung hero to...

PHILADELPHIA — Soon after last season ended, the returning members of Madison 's girls' first eight huddled together and made a commitment. They were not going to allow a repeat of their disappointing third-place finish at the Stotesbury Cup, one of the country's largest and most prestigious high school regattas. "We were like, ‘We have to go out 100 percent together, or we're going to lose alone again,' " senior Georgia Radcliffe Ratcliff said. "So all year we just thought about making that family we lacked.

Years after they first called it quits, in 1980, members of the Eagles realized the emotional power of FM ubiquity, that their songs had fused permanently to a blue-jeans American experience. It was, as one of their early hits described, that " peaceful, easy feeling " of an era that has grown increasingly remote and exponentially nostalgic. People "did things to [the music of] the Eagles," frontman Glenn Frey observes in director Alison Ellwood's tender and fascinating "History of the...

The Eastern Michigan Eagles need new bathrooms, and coach Ron English is ready to jump out of a plane to get them. English has pledged to skydive if EMU can raise at least $60,000 through its golf outing June 8 and other donations. Those who donate $5,000 will get to spend a day with English and staff members and skydive with him. That money will go toward retiling the bathrooms in the team's locker room and updating the fixtures and stalls. Yes, it's a long way from Michigan,...

When: Sunday, 1 p.m. TV: WTTG-5. Where: Lincoln Financial Field, Philadelphia.

WHEN: 3 p.m. WHERE: University of Phoenix Stadium, Glendale, Ariz. (65,000). TV: WTTG (Channel 5), WBFF (Channel 45). RECORDS: Eagles (11-6-1, wild card); Cardinals (11-7, NFC West champions).

GLOUCESTER, Va. — A bald eagle nursed back to health after it tested positive for lead poisoning is set to take flight again back to the wild. The Wildlife Center of Virginia is scheduled to release the eagle Friday in Gloucester. The ailing bird was admitted to the Waynesboro center in March. Besides lead poisoning, it was dehydrated and had fluid in its lungs. The eagle has been in the center's outdoor flight pens since April 8. It has demonstrated it's ready to go back to the...

PHILADELPHIA — A woman has sued Philadelphia Eagles running back LeSean McCoy, claiming he or a body guard hit her, threw a drink at her and tossed her off a party bus on the New Jersey Turnpike last December. The woman, identified by the fictitious name Mary Roe in legal papers, filed the suit in the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas on May 10. She's asking for more than $50,000 in damages. She says she was one of about 15 women who joined McCoy and five other...

Humility often colors the words of champions, but in the moments after capturing the Washington Catholic Athletic Conference individual title on Tuesday, Paul VI Catholic junior golfer Patrick McDonald was sincerely trying to wrap his head around what had just transpired. Two years ago, after McDonald decided to trade in his baseball bat for a set of golf clubs, he endured what he called an "awful" freshman season at O'Connell, his nerves wracked by every...

PHILADELPHIA — Donovan McNabb says he will retire with the Philadelphia Eagles this fall. The six-time Pro Bowl quarterback led the Eagles to four NFC championship games and a Super Bowl loss in 11 seasons before he was traded to Washington in 2010. McNabb went 92-49-1 with the Eagles and holds franchise records for completions (2801), passing yards (32,873) and passing touchdowns (216). McNabb announced these plans on ESPN Radio 97.7 FM in Syracuse and later on his NBC Sports...

PHILADELPHIA — The Philadelphia Eagles have signed former Cowboys running back Felix Jones to a one-year contract. A former first-round selection by Dallas in 2008, Jones has rushed for 2,728 yards and 11 touchdowns, averaging 4.8 yards per carry. He has 127 receptions for 1,062 yards and three TDs. Jones had 402 yards rushing and three TDs last year, along with 25 receptions for 262 yards and two scores. The move was announced Tuesday. Wide receiver Marvin McNutt was...

DULUTH, Minn. — Two bald eagles locked together by their talons in a midair battle survived a crash landing onto a runway at a northeastern Minnesota airport. Minnesota Department of Natural Resources conservation officer Randy Hanzal says the adult eagles couldn't separate Sunday before slamming into the tarmac at the Duluth International Airport. Hanzal tried to take the birds to a Duluth wildlife rehabilitation center. He covered them with blankets and jackets on...

HANCOCK, Md. — In the 1950 comedy "Kill the Umpire," Bill "Two Call" Johnson (played by William Bendix) is chased by a vengeance-seeking mob of fans after he made what they believed to be a bad call in a minor league baseball game. Calling balls, strikes and checked swings could be a thing of the past in amateur ball if the Eagle Eye Electronic Home Plate is all that inventor Jerry Spessard claims. He has enough faith in the product to begin construction of a plant in Hancock this June, with production expected to...

CONVERSE COUNTY, Wyo. — The Obama administration has never fined or prosecuted a wind farm for killing eagles and other protected bird species, shielding the industry from liability and helping keep the scope of the deaths secret, an Associated Press investigation has found. More than 573,000 birds are killed by the country's wind farms each year, including 83,000 hunting birds such as hawks, falcons and eagles, according to an estimate published in March in the...