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As a kid, I was very lucky.  I live in Louisville, which means I live within driving distance of two of the best shortstops of the 80’s and 90’s.  To my west is St. Louis (the 2011 World Series Champion) and Hall of Famer Ozzie Smith.  To my right is Cincinnati (home of human cannon […]

Nick Saban is quite a college football coach.  He won his first national championship as the head coach of LSU in 2003, and he followed that up with a second national championship in 2010.  His Alabama Crimson Tide had a strong season this year, but in an epic clash between the number one and number […]

Whenever you head to the airport, the adventures don’t stop when you step on the plane.  These days, you never know how your flight experience is going to be.  It could be flawless, as my recent trip was, or it could be terrible.  After all, you’ve got the chance of pilot error, and there are […]

It cost the couple $1.3 million dollars to shut down an entire wing of a Brooklyn, New York hospital, yet the results are probably worth it.  Jay-Z, AKA Shawn Carter, and wife Beyonce Knowles are the proud parents of a new baby girl.  The latest celebrity baby megastar is named Blue Ivy Carter.  That’s right, […]

Traveling light is definitely an issue for whoever packed a suitcase with 44 pounds of gold ingots and then left it on a train in Paris. The pot-o-gold suitcase was abandoned, and the person who left it behind has yet to claim the stash worth $1 million dollars. The gold was not in the form […]

When it comes to brain functioning, what’s known as a senior moment actually starts well before retirement age.  According to new research into brain functioning conducted at University College London, declines in memory and brain functioning start at age 45.  That’s significantly earlier than previously thought, which researchers had before believed started in the mid-60s. […]

Tokyo’s famed Tsukiji Fish Market is one of the world’s busiest and most important fish auction houses.  It seems that every year or so, someone buys a bluefin tuna for a record price.  They’re kicking off the record prices early this year.  A bluefin tuna has been sold for a staggering $735,000, which is yet […]

Please bow before the all-mighty modem!  Recite the mantra “sharing is caring!” 20 times!  A 20-year-old philosophy student in Sweden has made file sharing an official state religion in his country, and his 3000-member church is growing strongly.  Isak Gerson founded the founded the Missionary Church of Kopimism in 2010, and filed a request with […]

Of all the bowl games in the run-up to the college football national championship, the one nobody was really paying attention to was the Orange Bowl.  Technically, it’s a BCS bowl game pitting the champion of the ACC versus the champion of the Big East, but that’s why nobody was really paying attention.  As it […]

In the wake of September 11, border security in the United States was tightened (at least on the Canadian side) and rules were changed.  No longer could Canadians cross the border freely without a passport; they now had to have a passport to get back and forth to the US.  Montreal man Martin Reisch, having […]

The iconic Star Wars character Darth Vader was such a large force it took three men to play him. James Earl Jones utilized his powerful voice to characterize the man behind the mask, while actor David Prowse was usually the performer wearing the dark headgear and flowing cape. That is except when Vader wielded his […]

Art, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder. Whether it’s created from office supplies or the first art carved into a cave wall in the Western Hemisphere, it is a very subjective medium. Like the public art display in New Orleans that asked passersby to tell us what they wanted to do before […]

What’s in a name?  For NBCUniversal parent company Comcast, everything is in a name.  Among the many assets purchased by the company when they bought the NBC Universal group of networks was a little-watched sports network called Versus.  Versus began its life as the Outdoor Life Network, then changed when bought by NBC; now, Versus […]

Getting divorced from Katy Perry might be the best financial move Russell Brand ever makes.  Brand, the actor and comedian who is worth an estimated $15 million, hitched his wagon to Perry a short time after the two met at the 2009 MTV Movie Awards.  Since then, the couple’s romance has been tabloid fodder all […]

In a shocking crime, one of America’s most popular national parks has become a crime scene.  At beautiful Mt. Rainier National Park, 34-year-old park ranger and mother of two Margaret Anderson was shot and killed.  The gunman is an alleged Iraq War veteran and survivalist named Benjamin Colton Barnes, 24, who disappeared into the woods […]