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San 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 […]

It’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, […]

It 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 […]

Well, that’s not exactly true.  Yes, the Jacksonville Jaguars are currently involved in a franchise re-invigoration plan, but you can’t really fire an owner.  Owners can only sell.  The Jacksonville Jaguars have fired Jack Del Rio on the same day that Wayne Weaver sold the team.  The team is now the property of Shahid Khan, a businessman […]

Every year, PNC Wealth Management compiles something they call the Christmas Price Index.  What they do is take the old Christmas carol “The 12 Days of Christmas” and figure how much it would cost in real-world dollars to create that crazy scene in modern times.  As that price goes up, so goes the price of […]

Urban Meyer was on top of the world while at the University of Florida, competing for national titles and SEC championships in one of the United States’ most storied football programs.  However, there was a lot of pressure, and Meyer had a lot of health problems.  Those health problems forced Meyer to exit Florida in […]

Syracuse, seeming to learn from Penn State’s mistakes, has been very proactive about the sexual abuse allegations against longtime assistant coach Bernie Fine.  When the accusations broke, they suspended Fine immediately.  Now that a third accuser has some forward with a story, Syracuse has fired Bernie Fine effective immediately.  The third accuser is 23-year-old Zach […]

Over the last 20 years, Apple has become the largest consumer electronics company in the world.  They’re in the running for the world’s most valuable company thanks to their massively popular tablet, the Apple iPad.  Apple has sold millions of iPads over the tablet’s lifespan, and that’s been the key to their incredible financial success. […]

When it comes to the MVP race, the intrigue was all in the AL side, where Justin Verlander became the first pitcher in a two decades to take home the MVP.  In the National League, the Baseball Writers Association of America went with a more traditional choice for MVP.  The winner is position player and […]

One of the trends of modern sales is to kick off earlier and stretch the sale out longer.  Even Black Friday, the key shopping event of the Christmas season, is becoming its own event, with earlier starts and longer duration than ever before.  These days, Black Friday is becoming Black Thanksgiving as stores kick off […]

Ten months ago, the NHL lost one of its marquee players when superstar and Stanley Cup champion Sidney Crosby went down to a concussion.  Crosby, the face of the NHL’s Pittsburgh Penguins and one of the best hockey players of his generation, suffered a massive concussion that left him off the ice for nearly an […]

When it comes to movie franchises, this has been kind of a down year.  Only two movies have debuted with over $100 million dollars in their opening weekend at the box office, and both of them are part of massively popular franchises.  One of those, of course, was Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part […]

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 […]

There are tweaks, there are changes, and then there are full-blown re-dos.  Baseball’s latest series of changes covers pretty much all those categories, and said changes will affect every team in baseball to some extent.  No team will be affected more than the Houston Astros.  In 2013, the Houston Astros will move from the National […]

All good things must come to an end.  From the perfect marriage of hipster equals to the perfect example of a cougar relationship, it seems like there’s nothing harder than a celebrity marriage.  Six years ago, Ashton Kutcher married Demi Moore in a noteworthy ceremony that people paid attention to due to the 13-year age […]