The Box rocks: Alex Box Stadium, home of the LSU Tigers baseball team, is listed among the Top 101 stadium experiences in the United States for 2012 by Stadium Journey magazine. Alex Box Stadium ranked No. 70 on the list this year, and the four-year-old venue is the only college baseball stadium to make the list. Stadium Journey visited 1,225 different stadiums in 2012 in order to formulate its ranking. LSUsports.net has more on the ranking and access to the full list here.
Please read the letter: A failure by Congress to raise the debt limit “in a timely manner” could lead to a downgrade of the nation’s AAA credit rating, Fitch Ratings announced today. Republicans want major government spending cuts in exchange for a debt-limit increase. But Fitch, one of three major credit-rating companies, says the debt ceiling should not be used to force a deficit-reduction plan. The Los Angeles Times has the full story here.
Book ends: Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg today unveiled a new search feature in the company’s first staged event at its Menlo Park, Calif., headquarters since its May initial public offering. Called “graph search,” the new service lets users search their social connections for information about people, interests, photos and places. It’ll help users who, for instance, want to scroll through all the photos their friends have taken in Paris or search for the favorite TV shows of all their friends who happen to be doctors. Get all the details in the full story here.
