A dozen years to the day after Brandy Chastain booted in the winning penalty kick and stripped off her jersey in an iconic moment to celebrate the United States winning the FIFA Women’s World Cup, the US women’s national soccer team pulled off an improbable rally to keep the squad’s Cup hopes alive yesterday. Even […]
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David Beckam and Posh Welcome Daughter, Harper Seven
Posted 7/11/2011 7:30 am by Ron HoganIn spite of their marital troubles and the husband’s infidelities, nothing seems as though it can stop David Beckham and Posh Spice (AKA Victoria Beckham) from churning out children. The couple, who already had three boys, were expecting a fourth child, and now they’ve got her. Everyone, welcome Harper Seven Beckham, who weighed in at […]
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Everything’s Bigger In Texas, Including A 16-Pound Baby Boy
Posted 7/11/2011 7:00 am by Ron HoganJanet Johnson and JaMichael Brown were told to expect a large baby. A few weeks ago, they were told their future son might weigh 12 or 13 pounds at birth, due to his mother’s gestational diabetes. Well, the joke is on the nurses and doctors at Good Shepherd Medical Center in Longview, Texas; Janet Johnson’s […]
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Ghoulish Cemetery Director Fills Mass Graves
Posted 7/10/2011 7:38 am by Stephanie SturgisIt wasn’t a bear digging up corpses or an archaeologist unearthing a gladiator in a Chicago-area cemetery. It was the people entrusted with taking care of the property who were doing the uncalled for digging. It’s one thing to be a thief, but it takes a while other sort of despicable being to desecrate corpses […]
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NASA Launches Final Space Shuttle
Posted 7/09/2011 9:10 am by Stephanie SturgisYesterday marked the end of an era in the United State’s space exploration – the final countdown and liftoff of the space shuttle program. Believe it or not, many civilians, including me, are part of the final shuttle mission thanks to a NASA program called Face In Space. The initiative allowed people to upload their […]
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All My Children, One Life To Live, To Become Web Series
Posted 7/08/2011 7:30 am by Ron HoganThe world is moving away from the hour-long dramatic series known as soap operas. Once a mainstay of daytime television, soaps are crashing out left and right, in spite of several million viewers per episode and legions of devoted fans. Well, perhaps there may be a way to save the soaps. ABC has recently canceled […]
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Josh Hamilton Accidentally Kills Texas Rangers Fan
Posted 7/08/2011 7:00 am by Ron HoganJosh Hamilton just might be the most snake-bit athlete in history. He nearly lost his career to drugs, has suffered some freak injuries during his All Star career, and has struggled with addiction throughout the course of his life to the point that the Texas Rangers celebrated making the World Series last year with ginger ale rather than cracking […]
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Adam Sandler To Play Animated Dracula
Posted 7/08/2011 6:30 am by Stephanie SturgisVampires to the left of me. Vampires to the right of me. Vampires right in front of me. You can’t turn on the television or buy a movie ticket without the bloodsuckers showing up. It’s more than just a trend now. There are all types of vamps out there. The dreamy, swoon-inducing, non-threatening teen version […]
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The World’s First Animated Tattoo
Posted 7/07/2011 8:00 am by Ron HoganWhen it comes to tattoos, people are always pushing the boundaries of what can be done with the art. From unusual tattoo locations to unusual tattoos to digitally-powered tattoos, people are getting very creative as tattoos lose their stigma. There’s only one more place for tattoos to go, and a tattoo artist named K.A.R.L. has […]
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Facebook’s Awesome Addition: Skype Video Chat
Posted 7/07/2011 7:30 am by Ron HoganThe war between Facebook and Google for the hearts and minds of the computing public fundamentally changed when Google launched Google+ (and will change further when Google+ goes public). That’s Google coming into Facebook’s house and rearranging its stuff. To get back some of the thunder stolen by Google, Facebook has been teasing a big […]
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Field of Dreams 2: NFL Lockout With Taylor Lautner
Posted 7/07/2011 7:00 am by Stephanie SturgisAnd another day passes without a collective bargaining agreement between the NFL owners and the players. So with the lockout continuing, the players, like Cleveland Browns wide receiver Carlton Mitchell above, continue to look for things to do to fill the time they would normally be lifting giant truck tires or going over defensive and […]
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Facebook Saves Teenager From Fire
Posted 7/06/2011 8:00 am by Ron HoganLike most kids her age, Hunter Matthews is completely connected. From her mobile phone to her Facebook account, she’s always hooked into technology whenever and wherever she might be. Far from being a detriment to the enjoyment of her life, that connectivity to Facebook actually saved the 17-year-old’s life. Hunter Matthews was saved from an […]
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Al Yankovic Writes Lyrics For Conan’s Theme Song
Posted 7/06/2011 7:30 am by Stephanie SturgisLike peanut butter and chocolate, some things just go together. In that vein, two comedians each with iconic hair and razor-sharp wits came together last week. After his blow-up with Jay Leno and his time posting ads on Craigslist, Conan O’Brien is doing things his way on his talk show on TBS. Since the debut […]
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Stink Bugs Spoiling Wine, Ruining Paul Giamatti’s Day
Posted 7/06/2011 7:00 am by Ron HoganThe brown marmorated stink bug is a growing problems. Since the Asian insect came to the United States in the late 1990’s, the bugs have spread like wildfire. Now, those bugs are hitting us where it hurts: the booze! Asian brown marmorated stink bugs are attacking wineries across the US. All it takes are 10 […]
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Jaws Wins Another Hot Dog Eating Contest
Posted 7/05/2011 8:00 am by Ron HoganJoey Chestnutt, aka Jaws, is shaping up to be something of a dominant force in the world of competitive eating, and yesterday’s Nathan’s Famous International Hot Dog Eating Contest at Coney Island in New York City, New York. Joey Chestnutt downed 62 hot dogs in 10 minutes to claim the mustard yellow championship belt and the $25,000 […]
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Americans Love Fireworks and Baseball
Posted 7/04/2011 12:05 pm by Stephanie SturgisHappy Fourth everyone! It’s a time to celebrate the birth of our nation. Nothing says Happy Fourth like fireworks and attending a baseball game whether it’s at the major or minor league level. Fireworks are an even bigger draw for fans than bringing together baseball and Star Wars Fireworks combined with of love of athletic […]
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Battle of Gettysburg 50th Reunion
Posted 7/03/2011 8:28 am by Stephanie SturgisThe Fourth of July holiday is a time when we Americans celebrate the birth of our nation, but 98 years ago more than 50,000 veterans of the Civil War spent that time together to celebrate and reminisce about the Battle of Gettysburg. In 1913 it was the 50th anniversary of the pivotal three-day collision […]
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Stephen Colbert Starts Super PAC; Becomes Political Power
Posted 7/01/2011 7:30 am by Ron HoganStephen Colbert has undergone a meteoric rise in the world of television, going from little-known comedian to host of his own nightly television news program, The Colbert Report on Comedy Central. Since then, Colbert’s fake conservative commentator shtick has struck a cord with his audience, so much so that Colbert has stopped being a TV host and […]
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Happy Canada Day!
Posted 7/01/2011 7:00 am by Ron HoganToday is an important day north of the border. No, it’s not the first day of the NHL season or a celebration of poutine, it’s Canada’s birthday! Canada Day is July 1, and it is a celebration of the day Canada became an actual country, rather than a loose collection of provinces bound together by […]
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The National Basketball Association’s Labor Strife Begins
Posted 7/01/2011 6:30 am by Ron HoganWell, that was fun while it lasted. Shortly after Kyrie Irving became the top pick in the NBA draft and the Dallas Mavericks won the NBA title, the National Basketball Association has decided to throw a huge bucket of water on what was the most successful NBA season since the 1998-99 strike-shortened season by taking […]
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