It was student night at NYSEG stadium on Tuesday as 1,200 Binghamton University undergrads filled NYSEG stadium to watch the Binghamton Mets host the New York Yankee-affiliate Trenton thunder. As a nod to the students, Student Association president Matt Landau threw out the ceremonial first pitch of the game (though, with poor aim.)

In a contest shortened to only six and a half innings by rain, the Mets defeated the Thunder, the double A affiliate of the New York Yankees, by a score of 8-5. The Mets’ offense stayed largely dormant until the bottom of the 4th, when Trenton starter Eric Hacker was lit up for 7 runs, in an inning which included two errors and two walks issued by the Thunder. Hacker also delayed the inning for over a quarter of an hour with complaints to the umpires and ground staff about the quality of the pitching mound.

The Binghamton Mets game against the Trenton Thunder on April the 20th, 2009 has been postponed due to inclement weather. The game will be played in a double header on May 16th, 2009 at 5:05 PM.

For more information on the Binghamton Mets you can visit their website located at http://www.bmets.com/ .

John Lukacs has been one of America's best historians since he fled to the United States from Hungary in 1945, and has been one of the most prolific writers in the field of American history. While his books cover a wide range of subjects and topics, from the Cold War to Churchill's speeches in Parliament to much more, his most touching and moving book, until now, was Confessions of an Original Sinner, an autobiographical discussion of his historical convictions and beliefs. Now Lukacs has written a follow up to that book, Last Rites, which examines his historical mindset, the mindsets of the world around him, his life, his old age (Lukacs is an octogenarian,) and much more.

The Binghamton Mets won a close game today 4-2 against the Boston Red Sox affiliate Portland Sea Dogs on the strength of well-timed run production and a good deal of fine pitching at NYSEG Stadium. Portland starter Junichi Tazawa, though a highly-touted prospect in the Red Sox organization, looked shaky in the early innings, working out of trouble capably enough to allow only two earned runs in his four and a third innings of work. Binghamton's Ryan Coultas, on the other hand, pitched almost impeccably, throwing a no-hitter into the fifth inning, before allowing two runs on a pair of singles and being pulled for Adam Bostick, first in a series of Binghamton relievers who would keep Portland scoreless for the rest of the game.

Binghamton's two most dramatic runs came on solo home runs off the bats of first baseman Lucas Duda, in the sixth, and, two innings later, by third baseman Shawn Bowman, who also impressed defensively with a memorable diving stop of a line drive in the sixth. Catcher Josh Thole, going 0-4, broke his six-game hitting streak, but nonetheless contributed by driving in second baseman Matt Bouchard on a sacrifice fly to center field in the fifth inning.

Every so often a book comes out that, at first glance, just screams to be read. The Plot to Kill God by Paul Froese is one of those books, not only for its arresting title but because of its subject; the Soviet Union's attempt to remove religion from its society. The problem is the book doesn't hold up to its promise. The book dithers between settling down as either a history or a sociological study of the issue, chooses neither and proceeds to try and sit in the no mans land in between, sucking out almost any useful value it could have had. While the book does maintain some use, it's sorely lacking in every field and simply not worth the read, to say nothing of buying it.

Every now and again, a book comes along that uncovers hidden lines of communication, that explores the strange synchronicities that are practically the definition of that bit of wisdom that reminds us that truth is stranger than fiction. The uncrowned king of such secret history no doubt remains Greil Marcus, whose Lipstick Traces is a tour of the bizarre web that runs from late medieval heresies to the bleeding edges of punk rock. The new book Apocalypse Jukebox written by David Janssen and Edward Whitelock follows along similar lines, beginning with the edges of the religious imagination and diving into the heart of popular music to uncover meanings that we've all been singing about for years without knowing.

The cast of characters ranges from the usual suspects, like Bob Dylan and Leonard Cohen, to musicians not normally considered part of the apocalyptic tradition, including Sleater-Kinney, Devo and Green Day. In American Idiot, for instance, Janssen and Whitelock find an apocalypse of drowning in the ordinary, of a culture closer to Huxley's Brave New World than the Who's teenage wasteland.

News Director Robert Glass interviews author Remy Stern on his book But Wait... There's More, a history of the infomercial business. Along the way they discuss the origin of Infomercials, infomercial scams, Kevin Trudeau, the Home Shopping Network, and much more.

For more information on But Wait... There's More you can read the WHRW News review of the book here or you can visit the publisher's website for more information.

At approximately 10:30 this morning a shooting spree occurred at the American Civic Association building in Binghamton, New York where immigrants are educated on the citizenship process. There are 14 confirmed dead, including the gunman, identified as 41-year-old Jiverly Wong.

Wong entered the building at approximately 10:30 AM Friday morning, with two handguns, a 9 millimeter with extended clip and a .45 caliber, and a satchel of ammunition and what appeared to be survival gear. He had previously blocked the back door of the ACA building with a borrowed car. Upon entering the building, Wong fired upon the two receptionists, killing one and severely wounding the other. According to Zikuski, “Shooter just came in and shot her” and that the gunman was “no stranger to the Civil Association.” The wounded receptionist managed to crawl under a desk where she proceeded to call the authorities, according to Police Chief Joseph Zikuski. Police arrived within two minutes of the call, with Zikuski arriving just a minute afterwards.