Revs Notebook: Nicol’s bunch overwhelmed in USOC flop
A rough start led to New England’s quick demise in a 5-0 defeat in a Lamar Hunt US Open Cup play-in match at Sporting Kansas City on Wednesday night.
Read more on Major League Soccer

Retail Notebook: Kinstonian moving to old Abbott’s location
A Kinston buffet is relocating about four miles west to a roomier building familiar to local buffet enthusiasts. The Kinstonian Family Restaurant is moving from it’s location in the Econo Lodge hotel, intersection of U.S. 70 and Queen Street, to…
Read more on Kinston Free Press

TV-Radio notebook: Probing into ESPN’s inner workings
As we delve into the Festivus miracle that is Those Guys Have All the Fun: Inside the World of ESPN, the new book by James Andrew Miller and Tom Shales, we pause to offer homage to Charley Steiner, the former longtime ESPN anchor who was in town this week in his current role as the Dodgers’ radio announcer.
Read more on Houston Chronicle

Outdoors notebook
Lake Levels: R=rising, F=falling, S=steady, V=variable.
Read more on The Leaf Chronicle

Reporters’ notebook
Congrats to San Carlos Assistant City Manager Brian Moura who received the 2011 Outstanding Public Service Award from San Francisco State University’s Graduate Public Administration Program.
Read more on San Mateo Daily Journal

Religion notebook: Rapture postponed, Shane Claiborne comes to Portland and a priest ponders the sex abuse study
Harold Camping revises his Rapture prediction, “ordinary radical” Shane Claiborne visits Portland and the John Jay study on Catholic clergy sex abuse fuels ongoing argument.
Read more on The Oregonian

Best of Bruins will win it
The reporter’s notebook tells the grim story of Wednesday night for the Bruins, the good and the bad of the…
Read more on Boston Herald