The Cincinnati Reds plan to start 22-year-old rookie right-hander Daryl Thompson in the second game of their series with the New York Yankees.

It’s the most basic rule of investing: Buy low, sell high. Former Wachovia Corp. chief executive Ken Thompson couldn’t escape his disastrous decision to buy Golden West Financial Corp. for roughly $25 billion at the height of the nation’s housing boom. He was pushed out Monday, the same day crosstown rival Ken Lewis was busy defending his deal at Bank of America Corp. to buy Countrywide Financial Corp.

Green Bay Packers general manager Ted Thompson won’t pass up a worthwhile passer in this weekend’s NFL draft.

After a failed run for president, Fred Thompson is getting back to pretending to be commander in chief.

Green Bay Packers quarterback Brett Favre has decided to retire from the NFL after 17 seasons. “He has had one of the greatest careers in the history of the National Football League, and he is able to walk away from the game on his own terms _ not many players are able to do that,” Packers general manager Ted Thompson said Tuesday.

Republican Fred Thompson, the actor-politician who attracted more attention as a potential presidential candidate than as a real one, quit the race for the White House on Tuesday after a string of poor finishes in early primary and caucus states.

With his Republican rivals jockeying for victory in New Hampshire, presidential hopeful Fred Thompson sought Tuesday to boost his support in this early voting state considered critical to his campaign.

Fred Thompson said Saturday he’s not consumed with winning the White House and that a president with too much fire in the belly is not necessarily a good thing in a dangerous world.

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Republican presidential candidate Fred Thompson on Wednesday teased Democratic candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton, saying “there is no woman on the horizon that ought to be president next year.”