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Everyone want to see Paul Thomas Anderson’s new film, The Master.  The movie, which is supposedly based on the story of Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard and the early days of the controversial movement, is one of the front-runners for the Oscar season already, and the early report of box office attendance gives proof to […]

There’s a new player in the battle for the living room, and shockingly, it’s Nintendo.  In the current generation of console wars, Sony and Microsoft decided to turn their video game systems into expensive home entertainment devices–losing money on every console sold in the process–while Nintendo turned out smaller, less expensive video game players with […]

Since 1922, there has been a cold war about a very hot temperature.  That’s the year that the highest temperature ever recorded was tracked in El Azizia, Libya.  On September 13, 1922, the daytime temperature hit a staggering 136.4 degrees, besting the 1913 summer reading of 134 degrees in Death Valley, California.  Having never been […]

For the last 26 years, Jim Calhoun has been the man in charge of the UConn basketball program, though to merely say Calhoun has been in charge isn’t enough.  Jim Calhoun made UConn basketball a powerhouse.  During his tenure in Storrs, Connecticut, he took the program from an also-ran into a champion, winning 625 games, 7 […]

Actress Kathy Bates, who won an Academy Award in 1991 for Misery, has been a cancer survivor since 2003 when she underwent treatment for ovarian cancer.  Like anyone who can survive cancer, she’s a tough broad, and that comes across when you see her on screen (especially in roles like on About Schmidt.)   Now, […]

Let the continued trek from the Big East continue.  While the conference has a new commissioner and many new members, there’s no doubt that the Big East has been well on its way to being a college football also-ran for years now, and that’s only getting worse as the talent bleed is spreading to other […]

Sometimes, democracy isn’t a good thing.  When the dictators of Egypt and Libya were overthrown by revolutions, it would make you think that the society would become more open and tolerant and whatnot, but instead both societies have regressed from the days of the dictatorships.  Angry rioters protesting a mysterious, unnamed movie attacked the United […]

Jamie Kuntz isn’t like most of the other players on the North Dakota State College of Sciences.  The 18-year-old linebacker was in the press box during the team’s Labor Day game versus Snow College in Pueblo, Colorado, running the video tape as his team would go on to lose 63-17, when he gave a kiss […]

While longtime Memphis wrestling staple and WWE Hall Of Famer Jerry “The King” Lawler is mostly retired these days and holding down a spot in the broadcasting booth alongside Michael Cole, he still finds some time to get in the ring now and then despite being 62 years old.  Tonight was one of those nights, […]

In 1936, Fred Perry won the United States Championships.  That tournament would go on to become the United States Open, but no other British man would win the tournament.  After 76 years and a staggering 287 different Grand Slam tournaments, that winless streak by Britain’s tennis champions has ended.  Two months after narrowly losing Wimbledon […]

Given the way most celebrities get stalked by photographers, it’s a miracle that they’re able to keep anything a secret.  It goes double for something as planning intensive and invitation-filled as a wedding.  Yet, apparently, two of the bigger comic book movie stars out there were able to sneak around, plan a wedding, and then […]

For the last 25 years, the labor squabbles between the government of the city of Chicago and its teachers union have gone on without any real labor stoppage.  That’s going to change.  The Chicago Teachers Union has approved a strike that begins on Monday.  An estimated 26,000 teachers and other union support personnel will not […]

Lots of western states are full of nothingness, and the 41-mile stretch of State Highway 130 between the Austin suburb of Mustang Ridge, Texas and Interstate 10 at Seguin is one of those roads.  Flat and fairly straight, it’s the perfect road for speeding, and rather than fight the speeders, the great state of Texas […]

When it comes to theft, Chen Jianxue dreams big.  When he got a job with the Agricultural Bank of China, China’s largest bank, he saw it as his license to get richer despite already being a wealthy businessman.  From 1995 through 2003, he used his position as assistant branch manager to skim money off the […]