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This just isn’t Joe Paterno’s month.  First, his longtime assistant Jerry Sandusky gets accused of multiple counts of sexual assault and child sexual abuse by a group of boys, some of whom were affiliated with a charity for at-risk children.  Then, Paterno loses his job in the middle of the season, sparking riots among Penn […]

Birthdays are always a time of reflection, a chance to look back at what you did well and what you didn’t quite successfully pull off. Life Magazine is celebrating its 75th birthday. In its heyday, the magazine was a fixture in so many American homes. In the decades before the internet and cable and satellite […]

Penn State football now has a new friend and unlikely ally in the Syracuse basketball program.  Not long after the Larry Sandusky case shocked the world with its allegations of blatant sexual abuse being covered up by Penn State University, Syracuse now has a similar sexual scandal.  A former ball boy for Syracuse, Bobby Davis, […]

On November 29, 1981, actress Natalie Wood went out yachting with husband Robert Wagner and friend Christopher Walken off the coast of Santa Catalina Island.  It was Thanksgiving weekend and Wood had been drinking before deciding to go for a swim.  She never returned from that swim.  Now, 30 years after her death, the LAPD […]

As someone who watches a lot of sports news coverage, I get a lot of Tim Tebow talk.  Merrill Hoge, NFL analyst and former professional football player, has been the biggest anti-Tim Tebow cheerleader of them all.  Even Steve Young, himself a quarterback who was as good with his feet as he was with his […]

In a move that’s sure to please Golden Globes producer Dick Clark Productions and broadcaster NBC, controversial host Ricky Gervais is going to be coming back for the third time.  That’s right kids, Ricky Gervais is going to be hosting the Golden Globes yet again, turning the Hollywood Foreign Press Association’s awards ceremony into something […]

One of the most iconic images of the Christmas season is that of the Salvation Army bell-ringer.  They stand outside stores and on street corners, ringing a jingly bell and standing beside a big red kettle.  Nothing says Christmas quite like being able to drop a few quarters into that bucket, and when I don’t […]

Have you been seeing some unusual new images in your Facebook news feed lately?  Have your friends been sharing images of porn, violence, and animal abuse that are decidedly against Facebook’s Terms of Service?  Well, odds are they’ve fallen victim to the latest attack against Facebook.  Facebook is under a spam attack, and users are […]

When it comes to the legendary temper of hall-of-fame coach Bob Knight, few men know his temper as well as Duke Blue Devils coach Mike Krzyzewski.  Krzyzewski cut his teeth playing for Bob Knight at Army from 1966-69, and it was on Knight’s recommendation that Krzyzewski got the Duke head coaching job way back in 1980.  The […]

Before Google+ positioned itself as the mass-market Facebook alternative, there was an early anti-Facebook.  One of the first social networks to splinter away from Facebook, citing privacy concerns, was Diaspora.  Founded a year ago amid massive Facebook backlash regarding several privacy failures and data leaks, Diaspora was supposed to be the private person’s Facebook, though […]

  After two days in captivity, Major League Baseball catcher Wilson Ramos was rescued from his kidnappers on Friday night in a mountainous region of Venezuela. Ramos, who had an outstanding rookie season as a catcher for the Washington Nationals, was kidnapped from his home 90 miles outside of Caracas on Wednesday night. While the […]

It’s another case of that saying, “I don’t know much about art, but I know what I like.” What to me looks like a bad snapshot from a boring vacation turns out to be worth a record $4.3 million, at least according to the person who shelled out that much dough to win an auction […]

What’s the second-best thing to hacking an ATM to spit out cash?  Why, hacking into an online database full of delicious credit cards and billing information, of course?  Apparently, Steam, a video-game streaming and downloading website run by Valve is a nice target to shoot for.  An estimated 35 million Steam accounts have been compromised […]

Today is Veterans Day here in the United States. It’s a day we take to honor those who have before and are now serving our country. No matter the branch of the military, these men and women put our nation before their lives. Obviously we should give them the utmost respect every day of the […]