Travel online

If you don't already have air or hotel reservations, you're probably facing some serious sticker shock at the airlines' and hotels' asking prices. To be sure, you've seen promotions for great fall prices, but those deals disappear for both the peak periods. If you want to avoid paying top dollar, I suggest:
-- Go opaque. I've been writing about the big "opaque" travel buying sites - Hotwire and Priceline - for a long time now. Those are the sites Read the rest of this entry »

Three games down, and here's what we know about the locals: They don't time-travel well.
San Jose State ventured into the Central Time Zone two weeks ago and melted in the fourth quarter at Nebraska.
Stanford went to the Central on Saturday and was scoreless in the second half at Texas Christian.
Cal arrived three quarters late for its date at Maryland.
That's three trips across the Rockies and three losses — none of them particularly Read the rest of this entry »