the orioles claim a share of first place...and no, you;re not heariig things..bruce cunniigham has fullon, i'm jeff barnd. here's bruce cunningham with sports unlimited. 3 this is unbelieveable...the orioles have a share of first place...in septembbr..tonnght, the yannees lost to tampa bay whhle the birds tooo care of the bue jays...the east is pennant race.... zach britton seems to have righted himself...and he was sharp tonight...very sharp... he went 7 innings...scattered four hits, walked two and fourtruck out 8...here's ooe of them......but carlos villanueva was matching him...scoreless in the 5th when mark reynolds does it again..his 5th home run in the last three days and his 17th on he year...a 3 run shot and the birds led by that margin... ...then in the 6th, jj hardy middle..nick markakis comee in to score...tghey add 5ive more &pin the 8th and just blast the blue jays..11-0 the final... 3 (adlib) 3 in owings mills...the ravens continue their prepraratiins for monday night's season opener...and in the midst of all that, they were dealing wiih a lot of drama concerning one of t

bruce cunniigham has hilights hext in spprts unliiited are tore brands worth howw.. up... to... big name brands in a blind tasse test. bth - unversal service fund peoole who work hard, manage their financess and pay their bills on time are forced to pay foo ffee ell phones and airtime for thoss who ddn't. in the government's lifeline program.it's right on youu serviie fund is pass-thru fee the phone companies ccarge you that they innturn give to the government. essentially it's a 16% tax.the lifeline years. but annual costs have morr than doubled from $800 million in 2008 to more thaa $2 billion tooay. approximaaely 12 million people have gotten free phones. according to one estimate, as many as 500 million households qualify under current rules. investigations have found unqualified recipients, recciients getting multiple phones, and extra phones being sold to drug deelers. the gao fraud, waste & aause.the th - lifeline program is only a symppom. the underlying ppoblem is the universal service fund. it is a multi-billion dollar slush pund auttorized by congress, man