Raptors need to use Valanciunas a lot more on offence

Edit Toronto Sun 06 May 2016
A few seasons ago, with the Raptors starting the regular season terribly. Kyle Lowry said the team wasn't yet buried, but had dug a hole four-feet deep that it would have to crawl out of ... He might have had four plays run for him ... In the extra frame, Valanciunas only scored two points — a nice pick-and-pop with Lowry — but Whiteside and the Miami offence went AWOL and Valanciunas was a team-best +9 in the decisive quarter ... ....

Picture of the Day: EastEnders' Ronnie Mitchell quizzes Glenda over Roxy

Edit Digital Spy 05 May 2016
Fans were shocked last night as Roxy made a dramatic return to Albert Square after being beaten up, but she later went AWOL by discharging herself from hospital ... ....

Gears of War 4 trailers, beta access, story, release date and everything you need to know

Edit Digital Spy 05 May 2016
That's the same studio that brought you Gears of War ... But, he's only gone AWOL, hasn't he? It's all got something to do with a classified incident that you'll learn about over the course of the game. Marcus's son is joined by a pair of pals too ... He was also involved in this classified incident that's forced the pair to go AWOL and seek refuge among the Outsiders in the wilds of Sera....

Stone soldiers need rifles back

Edit Toronto Sun 05 May 2016
Two marble riflemen guarding Toronto’s oldest war memorial are missing something rather important — their rifles. Please, look around the house ... Also AWOL is the trident once raised aloft by heroic Britannia atop the four-storey statue, the VolunteersMonument, just west of Queen’s Park. So, two rifles, two hands and a trident. That’s a lot of missing pieces for such a momentous monument ... Yes No Not sure....

Raptors plan to keep closer eye on Heat's Dragic

Edit Toronto Sun 05 May 2016
All of the focus during and after Game 1 of the Raptors-Heat second-round match-up has centred around Kyle Lowry’s AWOL jump shot. There’s no doubt it’s the main story, but something else has fallen through the cracks — Lowry, and his teammates, have to get much better at the other end of the floor as well ... The Heat shot 44.9% from the field, including a blistering 8-for-11 from beyond the three-point line ... OOPS....

'Captain America: Civil War' review: Huge melee anchors smart, but samey Avengers mishmash

Edit Syracuse 05 May 2016
The fact that "Captain America ... heart, tension, comedy, big ideas ... FILM REVIEW ... A rift grows among the Avengers, forcing Black Widow (Scarlett Johansson), Falcon (Anthony Mackie), Hawkeye (Jeremy Renner) and the rest – save for Thor and Hulk, who are AWOL – to take sides, and recruit newbies such as Black Panther (Chadwick Boseman), a charismatic figure who plays a significant role here, and comic-relief drop-ins Spider-Man and Ant-Man....

'Dude, how are you not making these shots?'

Edit CBC 04 May 2016
Toronto's Kyle Lowry was the first to admit Wednesday that the version of himself that earned NBA all-star honours has gone AWOL ... ....

CAF Confederation Cup: Tom Strand to travel with club, Medeama SC confirm

Edit Modern Ghana 04 May 2016
By Allsports.com.gh ... News were rife that the Swedish tactician has been left out ahead of Medeama's trip to South Africa after going AWOL -missing the club's two Premier League games ... ....

Man who killed New Year’s reveler 25 years ago gets maximum sentence

Edit New York Post 04 May 2016
An Alabama man who murdered a New Year’s reveler and then went AWOL for 16 years was hit with the maximum sentence by a Brooklyn judge Wednesday, after the con whined for a final time that he wasn’t the real killer ... But Lloyd maintained his innocence to the court, saying there were “misidentification issues.”. “Everything’s already been said,” the irritated-looking 55-year-old griped....

Creed's Scott Stapp Joins New Band (And It's Not Stone Temple Pilots)

Edit Billboard 04 May 2016
Back in February, Stone Temple Pilots announced they were taking open auditions to find their next singer, and recently, rumors swirled that their choice was none other than Scott Stapp ...   ... The frontman was diagnosed as bipolar and manic depressive following a string of alarming, highly publicized events in 2014, which saw him go AWOL from his family and post social media messages alleging government conspiracies....

Documents: Special Forces soldier in barricade at National Guard armory had gone AWOL

Edit Stars and Stripes 04 May 2016
A Special Forces soldier arrested at a National Guard facility in Baltimore County on Monday had been absent without leave from his unit since September, according to court documents. Charles J. Muchanic, 43, of Virginia allegedly tripped an alarm at the Gunpowder Military Reservation about 11 a.m ... Going AWOL from the National Guard, which drills only part of the time, is not quite the same as wandering off from the active-duty Army ... ....

Heat shakes off all the bad to score a big Game 1 win over Toronto in OT

Edit The Miami Herald 04 May 2016
You don’t often get a second chance to make a first impression on the series, so naturally the Heat should feel fortunate now, fortunate that it was able to fall flat on its face, and just have a scratch to show for it ... Lowry looked far more lost. An All-Star two times running, his shot’s been AWOL against Miami this season (just 34 percent in the four prior games) and even worse (31.6 percent) in the seven-game series against Indiana....

Spain: A non-governmental organisation?

Edit Al Jazeera 04 May 2016
During a visit to Barcelona in December just after Spain’s general elections, I walked past a signboard outside a restaurant displaying the following quip in Spanish ... Austerity regime ... READ MORE ... Generational break ... READ MORE ... The phenomenon of an AWOL government might in and of itself be amusing, except for the high price tag of the repeat election operation, put at nearly 190 million euros by the Politico website in an April posting ... ....
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