California | Local | Roy Rivenburg | September 11, 2006
After going mascot-free for 30 years, Coastline Community College has finally joined the world of Fighting Artichokes, Anteaters, Battling Bishops, Banana Slugs and assorted other creatures and vegetables.
National | P.J. Huffstutter | September 3, 2006
As this college town prepared for the University of Illinois football season's opener Saturday, the giddy chatter about the team's new coach and the hottest tailgate parties was overshadowed by a sense of mourning.
Sports | David Wharton | January 1, 2006
Drums are a problem. Traveler, the white horse who gallops aside the field after every USC touchdown, doesn't mind cheering crowds. He doesn't mind fans reaching to touch him or the blimp buzzing low overhead.
Sports | Bill Plaschke | January 1, 2006
"Hey, sweetie, you have a visitor! He's come a long way to see you, baby! Say hello to the nice man!" The 1,725-pound beast paws the smelly earth, lowers his long and winding horns, and takes a clomp in my direction.
National | Scott Gold | December 25, 2005
The cold world of commerce had done in Mr. Bingle. The beloved holiday mascot -- a portly papier-mache snowman with holly leaves for wings and an ice cream cone hat -- had long graced the entrance to the New Orleans department store.
Business | September 27, 2005
The genteel butler that has been Ask Jeeves Inc.'s face for nearly a decade is getting ousted in a corporate takeover. Jeeves, the slightly chubby and balding English butler, isn't the kind of image e-commerce conglomerate IAC/InterActiveCorp wants to represent the Ask Jeeves search engine, Chairman Barry Diller says.
Entertainment | Scott Collins | July 23, 2005
The frog is dead -- killed by the bosses at the WB Network. Michigan J. Frog, the dancing cartoon amphibian brought to life half a century ago by legendary animator Chuck Jones, has been booted as the corporate mascot at the WB, which is struggling to shed its teeny-bopper image.
