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In 2005, the family of Tampa Bay Buccaneer owner Malcolm Glazer pooled their collective millions and bought control of the Manchester United soccer club in a leveraged buyout worth a staggering $1.47 billion dollars.  That’s a whole lot of money, and since then Man U has had to increase spending to keep up with the […]

One of the biggest problems with the NBC coverage of the Olympics has been NBC itself.  From odd camera transitions to poor announcers, NBC has been a disaster area when it comes to how they have handled the Olympics telecast for the London games.  One of the biggest critics of NBC’s flaw-riddled coverage has been […]

On June 30, Superman: Ultimate Flight opened at the Six Flags Discovery Kingdom in Vallejo, California, to anxious crowds and much fanfare.  It’s not every day a new roller coaster opens, after all, and coaster fans were lining up to go for a ride.  On yesterday, the fans who were lucky enough to take the […]

There’s absolutely nothing safe about violating the sanctity of the airspace of a repressive former Soviet dictatorship, yet that’s just what happened.  A daring force of hundreds parachuted into Ivayanets, a town just outside of Minsk.  Floating down on black wings, the hundreds weren’t armed or dangerous, just cuddly and fun.  Hundreds of teddy bears […]

For a long time now, Google has been frustrated with the speed of internet service provided by the average ISP, so the company decided to do something about it.  Google decided to create Google Fiber, a very-high-speed internet service provider, which sparked a publicity war to decide who got the service.  After a campaign filled […]

Twitter can be a very useful tool.  There are a lot of entertaining, informative Twitter feeds out there, but when Twitter goes wrong, it can go very wrong.  People solve grudges on Twitter and spread a lot of misinformation, and nobody knows that mistake quite like a former member of the Greek Olympic team.  Triple-jumper […]

From 1973 until 1994, Sherman Hemsley did not miss a season of television as a regular cast member of a program.  Starting with the iconic George Jefferson character, first on All In The Family and then on spin-off The Jeffersons, through to Amen, and then as one of the principal voices on Dinosaurs, Hemlsey was […]

The formerly spotless Penn State University football program is now a disgrace.  Long-time coach Joe Paterno was fired and has been erased from the history books.  His longtime assistant coach Jerry Sandusky is in jail for child molestation.  As for the Penn State Nittany Lions football program, the NCAA has basically killed that program with […]

Four hours before the starting time of the game between the New York Yankees and Seattle Mariners , Ichiro was a Seattle Mariner.  By the time the game kicked off at Safeco Field, Ichiro Suzuki had been traded to the Yankees in exchange for a pair of pitching prospects.  New York sends over two 25-year-old […]

Tony Robbins is the world’s foremost motivational speaker.  When you think of motivational speaking, you think of Robbins and his giant teeth.  At the motivational event “Unleash the Power Within,” one of the big stunts was a firewalking pit, in which people walk with bare feet across hot coals in a long pit.  As it […]

With a four-shot lead over Ernie Els and four holes to go, Adam Scott had the 2012 British Open championship practically within his grasp.  All he had to do was not blow it.  With Els headed to the putting green at the Royal Lytham & St. Annes golf course, having birdied his last hole, he was […]

When it comes to politics, increasing actors and other wealthy people are putting their money where their mouth is.  It’s not just Stephen Colbert starting a mock super PAC, either; now Cecil B. DeMille award-winner Morgan Freeman is getting in on the political action.  Morgan Freeman has donated a staggering one million dollars to a […]

The legal brawling between Samsung and Apple is getting messier and messier by the day.  Samsung fights with Apple over the iPhone design; Apple gets the Galaxy Tab banned.  Both parties take their cases to courts around the world, and–at least in the UK–things have gone a bit badly for Apple.  Apple is being forced […]

In the cold waters of the North Atlantic in February 1941, the SS Gairsoppa was hit by German torpedoes and sunk 300 miles southwest of Galway, Ireland.  Only 1 of the 85 crew members on board survived the attack, but the British government never forgot where the ship went down.  Decades passed with the ship’s […]