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VANCOUVER, British Columbia – Steve Nash has replaced his mop-top with a buzz cut. The two-time NBA most valuable player showed up at a basketball camp Wednesday with his trademark unruly hairdo gone.
‘‘I just cut it,’’ the Suns star said with a shrug. ‘‘I don’t really have a rhyme or reason. I felt like taking it off.’’ Nash is almost as famous for his long, wild hair as he is for his pinpoint passes and sharp shooting.

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By A. O. SCOTT
Published: July 21, 2006

The 1990’s, you may recall, were a golden age of cheaply made movies about white guys in their 20’s sitting around doing nothing. This is not a genre that has spawned very many sequels. The white guys who made those movies either faded away, went on to bigger things or kept making variations on the same picture again and again.

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PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) – Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD.N), the No. 2 supplier of computer processors, is close to a deal to buy graphics chip maker ATI Technologies Inc. (ATYT.O) (ATY.TO) for $5.5 billion, a source familiar with the situation said on Friday.

Such a deal would shake up the processor industry, which is witnessing a tooth-and-nail fight for market share between AMD and larger rival Intel Corp. (INTC.O). AMD would gain one of two major graphics chips makers, the other being Nvidia Corp.

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BURBANK, Calif. (July 20, 2006) — Access Hollywood breaks the news that Colin Farrell was surprisingly confronted on stage as he appeared on NBC’s “The Tonight Show with Jay Leno” by a woman who sued him for harassment.

UPDATE: City News Service reported Friday that Colin Farrell has now allegedly obtained a temporary restraining order against the woman.

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A Charlotte-Mecklenburg police officer shot and killed a cell phone tower worker early Thursday morning while the man was making a routine upgrade to the network.

Police said Anthony Wayne Furr was carrying a gun at the time and refused to follow the officer’s commands to put the gun down.

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By Patrick Storck

It’s been more than a decade since writer/director Kevin Smith introduced his characters Dante and Randal. On the eve of the cult heroes’ return to service industry hell, Smith participated in a brief roundtable discussion in Washington, D.C., about the long-awaited sequel, Clerks II.

During the discussion, Smith admitted to being somewhat hesitant to revisit such beloved characters, afraid to ruin what he had established. Before starting production on the sequel, Smith watched the original and his fears subsided as he saw that the themes and characters remained consistent. He was surprised to find that his cast still held reservations, most specifically Jeff Anderson (Randal), who nearly drove past the exit for the set on the second day of shooting, afraid the film was a bad idea. A day later, Smith showed the cast and crew some cut scenes of what they’d been shooting, and everyone, including Anderson, was on board.

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By PAUL NEWBERRY
AP National Writer

HOYLAKE, England (AP) — Tiger Woods shot a 7-under par 65 on Friday to take the lead at the British Open with a two-day total of 12-under 132. Ernie Els was a shot behind at 133 and Chris DeMarco three back at 135.

Retief Goosen is four behind, with a trio – Miguel Angel Jimenez, Adam Scott and Mikko Ilonen – all at five back.

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By DOUG FERGUSON
AP Golf Writer

HOYLAKE, England (AP) — A little rain took the fire and fear out of Royal Liverpool. Still intact was the strange nature of the British Open, such as the peculiar path Tiger Woods took toward the top of the leaderboard Thursday.

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By DAVID KRAVETS and PAUL ELIAS
Associated Press Writers

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — They aren’t through with Barry Bonds, not yet. The federal grand jury considering possible perjury and tax-evasion charges against the star slugger expired Thursday without an indictment. Hours later, Bonds’ personal trainer, Greg Anderson, walked out of a prison where he spent two weeks for refusing to testify against his childhood friend.

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(CBS) Pamela Anderson is getting married again to her former fiancé, Kid Rock.

In a note on her Web site posted Tuesday, Anderson did not specifically name Rock, but wrote “Yes. I’m finally getting remarried … it’s been a whirlwind … spontaneous but well thought through.”

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It’s hard to know how to feel about Microsoft’s purchase, announced today, of Sysinternals, one of the best sites around for free Windows utilities, and Winternals, its sister site that produces paid enterprise recovery, security and defragging tools.

While Sysinternals tools — such as Process Explorer, Regmon and DiskMon — are wonderfully useful, you have to feel that this deal is more about Redmond acquiring two more big brains: the sites’ co-founders, Mark Russinovich and Bryce Cogswell. Russinovich will be one of Microsoft’s technology fellows and Cogswell a software architect.

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By IRWAN FIRDAUS
Associated Press Writer
PANGANDARAN, Indonesia (AP) — A tsunami crashed into beach resorts and fishing villages on Java island Monday, killing at least 226 people and leaving scores missing after bulletins failed to reach the region because no warning system was in place.

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By RICK GANO
AP Sports Writer

CHICAGO (AP) — Cliff Floyd and Carlos Beltran hit grand slams, and David Wright added a two-run shot in a team-record 11-run sixth inning as the New York Mets beat the Chicago Cubs 13-7 Sunday night.

New York sent 16 batters to the plate in the sixth and benefited from two errors on second baseman Todd Walker that led to eight of the 11 runs being unearned. The half-inning, on a muggy 95-degree night at Wrigley Field, took 41 minutes to play and saw the Cubs make 70 pitches.

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