“Don’t try this at home.” That’s the standard disclaimer aired during all sorts of television shows involving death-defying stunts and crazy science experiments. Shows of all types from Jackass to Man V. Wild to Mythbusters will pause during every episode to let the viewers at home know that professionals and experts have put all kinds […]
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The Ultimate Florida Fan Wants To Change Her Child’s Name
Posted 12/08/2011 7:30 am by Ron HoganJen Wiley is a huge fan of the University of Florida athletics programs, but she’s especially keen on the Florida Gators football program. She’s a Florida graduate, and Florida is intertwined in the biggest events of her life. She takes Florida football seriously, and when her son was born, she knew exactly what to name […]
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Lindsay Lohan’s Playboy Cover Leaked
Posted 12/08/2011 7:00 am by Ron HoganRemember Lindsay Lohan’s much-publicized Playboy photo shoot? The one that had to be shot twice because Mr. Playboy himself, Hugh Hefner, wasn’t pleased with the initial results? Well, the magazine will be hitting newsstands in January and the cover for Lohan’s Playboy issue has already been leaked online. There’s Lindsay’s Playboy cover above, courtesy of […]
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Meet The Three Stooges!
Posted 12/08/2011 6:30 am by Ron HoganOnce upon a time, there was a legendary comedy team. They had honed their act on Vaudeville stages before finding success in Hollywood making short features for Columbia Pictures. The best known incarnation is Larry Fine, Moe Howard, and Curly Howard, AKA the Three Stooges. Their life story is fascinating; this is NOT their life […]
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The Big East Adds Football Firepower, All Sports Filler
Posted 12/07/2011 7:30 am by Ron HoganWhen the defections started, the most vulnerable league was the Big East. Long-time stalwarts Syracuse and Pittsburgh have fled for the ACC, West Virginia left for the Big 12, and TCU backed out of joining to also go to the Big 12. That’s a whole lot of teams you have to replace. Fortunately, the Big […]
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Now You Can Own A Piece Of An NFL Team
Posted 12/07/2011 7:00 am by Ron HoganWhen a company needs to make a little extra money, there’s nothing better for a publicly-traded group to do than to sell stock. This goes double for the Green Bay Packers, one of the most popular teams in the NFL, the reigning Super Bowl champions, and the only publicly-owned franchise in the league. The Packers […]
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Alec Baldwin Kicked Off Of Flight Over Words With Friends
Posted 12/07/2011 6:30 am by Ron HoganAfter American Airlines Flight 4 was delayed at Los Angeles International Airport, the passengers spent the next hour waiting for their plane to take off. When the plane finally left the tarmac, the passengers were told to put their phones away and get ready for flight. One passenger didn’t cooperate, and that passenger was Alec […]
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A Possible New Earth Discovered
Posted 12/06/2011 7:30 am by Ron HoganWhen it comes to the search for life on other planets (or other planets capable of supporting our life), there have been many starts and stops. However, NASA’s Kepler Telescope has been the biggest and best dog in that hunt for Earth-like planets in our solar system, and it appears that Kepler has struck again. […]
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The NHL Approves Dramatic Realignment
Posted 12/06/2011 7:00 am by Ron HoganCampbell and Wales have been long gone, and now the current NHL league structure is also one for the history books. Teams had complaints: there was too much travel for teams in the middle of the country, every team didn’t play every other team, traditional rivalries were threatened, not every big star played in every […]
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“Cabin In The Woods” Trailer Appears
Posted 12/06/2011 6:30 am by Ron HoganYou take a bunch of college kids, stick them in a cabin, and cue the menacing force out to kill them. Be it rednecks, disease, zombies, vampires, or whatever, going to a secluded cabin for a weekend of drinking and smoking and sex is a bad idea in movies, right? Right. However, just because you […]
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The World’s Most Expensive Car Wreck
Posted 12/05/2011 8:00 am by Ron HoganA 20-car convoy of supercars, like Ferraris, Lamborghinis, and Mercedes-Benz, were headed along the main interstate trunk in Honshu towards Hiroshima for a supercar exposition. They never made it to the car show. According to police, the Chugoku Expressway was wet from rain, thus it wasn’t optimum condition for an impromptu car race. The suspected-of-speeding drivers got […]
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Madonna To Perform At Super Bowl XLVI Halftime Show
Posted 12/05/2011 7:30 am by Ron HoganIn recent years, the Super Bowl halftime show has been a cavalcade of has-beens and classic rock acts. Aside from the semi-relevant Black Eyed Peas and Prince on two bad hips, there hasn’t been an interesting Super Bowl halftime act since Justin Timberlake and Janet Jackson bared her breast to the world in the waning moments […]
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Tiger Woods Wins First Golf Tournament In Two Years
Posted 12/05/2011 7:00 am by Ron HoganIt had been 749 days since Tiger Woods last sank a putt to take home a tournament title. That long losing streak is over. The world has been asking, is this the end of Tiger? His crude on-course behavior, his personal issues, his distraction by business matters, and his injuries had taken their toll on […]
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An All-SEC National Title Game And The Complete 2011-12 Bowl Schedule
Posted 12/05/2011 6:30 am by Ron HoganWhen asked about the possibility of a rematch between top-ranked SEC champion LSU and one-loss SEC conference mate Alabama, BCS executive director Bill Hancock said, “Absolutely, if they’re 1 and 2, and they are in all the polls released today.” Oklahoma State may have destroyed Oklahoma to win the Big 12 championship, but it wasn’t […]
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TV Anchor Breaks News That Santa Doesn’t Exist
Posted 12/03/2011 7:45 am by Stephanie SturgisThere’s a new Grinch in town ruining Christmas for all the good little boys and girls, and it’s not Jim Carrey in green make-up. It’s Chicago news anchor Robin Robinson. At the end of a fluff news piece about Santa at the mall helping parents by not promising the moon to children during these tough […]
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Dog Shoots Hunter In Buttocks
Posted 12/03/2011 7:02 am by Stephanie SturgisOh, the betrayal of a friend, it can sting the soul mightily. When man’s best friend turns on him, the pain inflicted is more than just emotional. That was the case for a duck hunter in Bear River Bird Refuge north of Salt Lake City who was accidentally shot by a dog. Little did he […]
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Two New Elements To Be Added To The Periodic Table
Posted 12/02/2011 7:30 am by Ron HoganEarlier in the year, there were a great deal of new elements discovered by a team of Russian physicists and American chemists. Of those elements, 113, 115, 117, and 118 are still needing names; elements 114 and 116 are going to be called Flerovium and Livermorium, according to the teams that discovered them. It’s up to […]
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Chrome Now More Popular Than Firefox
Posted 12/02/2011 7:00 am by Ron HoganFor many years, the rumored future king of web browsers was Mozilla Firefox, which was the first real challenger for Internet Explorer since Netscape went under. Well, Microsoft’s Internet Explorer browser is still the global kingpin in total market share, with 40.63 percent of total market share, but the real interesting thing is in the […]
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YouTube Gets A New Look And New Channels
Posted 12/02/2011 6:30 am by Ron HoganYouTube has long been more popular than broadcast television, but YouTube has never exactly been very well organized. It’s a mish-mash of videos and descriptions, with no real logical organization. Well, that’s ending. Taking a cue from Google’s other websites, YouTube is getting a much-needed redesign to place more emphasis on channels and trending videos. […]
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San Francisco McDonald’s Bypass Happy Meal Toy Ban
Posted 12/01/2011 9:00 am by Ron HoganSan Francisco, in its never-ending quest to be the most nanny city in the nanny state, has decided that parents aren’t doing a good enough job raising their children, so they enacted a law. If you sell a meal with X amount of calories, it cannot be marketed to children with toys. It was basically […]
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Action Comics No. 1 Sells For $2.16 Million
Posted 12/01/2011 8:30 am by Ron HoganAction Comics Number 1, the proto-DC comic which contains the very first appearance of Superman, is one of the most valuable comic books in the world. Only about 100 or so of the comics are believed to exist period, so when it goes up for sale it brings in a million dollars in good condition. […]
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Strippers Pose As Paralegals At Miami Prison
Posted 12/01/2011 8:00 am by Stephanie SturgisLawyers don’t get a lot of respect from most people. They’re about as popular as politicians and used car salesmen. Defense lawyers are even less appreciated since they represent the criminal element. These professionals may now get even more heat for their affiliation with “paralegals” visiting imprisoned drug dealers in Miami. It turns out these […]
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“Secret Santa” Donates Dozens Of $100 Bills To Random Folks
Posted 12/01/2011 7:30 am by Ron HoganIt’s a holiday tradition stretching back for years. A man, known only as Secret Santa, travels from city to city and spreads a little holiday cheer. Secret Santa was recently spotted in Reading, Pennsylvania, giving out $100 bills at a diner, a bus station, laundromat, a Salvation Army depot, and a Goodwill store. That’s right, […]
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First Look: Daniel Day-Lewis As Abraham Lincoln
Posted 12/01/2011 7:00 am by Ron HoganOne of the biggest problems with doing a biography of any historical character is the fact that you have to separate fiction from fact, and in a lot of cases, the past can be a little bit blurry. Well, if anyone can separate fact from fiction, or at least make the fiction as interesting as […]
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The 2012 Grammy Nominations Are In!
Posted 12/01/2011 6:30 am by Ron HoganIt was a banner year for rapper Kanye West, who found both critical and commercial success after a year-long hiatus from performing in the wake of the MTV Awards disaster when he interrupted Taylor Swift. He’s back and bigger than ever. Kanye West leads the way when it comes to 2012 Grammy nominations, but the […]
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