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University Of Maryland: Ugliest. Uniforms. Ever.

Posted 9/06/2011 7:00 am by

For last night’s game versus the scandal-ridden Miami Hurricanes, the University of Maryland Terrapins had a whole lot of new wrinkles.  They have a new head coach, Randy Edsall.  They have a new offensive system, an up-tempo no-huddle look.  More importantly, they had brand-new uniforms provided to them by Under Armour for their nationally-televised game […]

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Happy Labor Day From PopFi!

Posted 9/05/2011 8:30 am by

It’s a reward for a year’s worth of hard work.   Throughout the United States, as the sun goes up, people all over will be lighting up grills, cooking things over open flame, and heading out to their nearest park, body of water, or just their backyard to celebrate everyone’s favorite bribe, Labor Day!  So, […]

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Peyton Manning: Out For The Season?

Posted 9/05/2011 8:00 am by

Peyton Manning has not missed a start in his NFL career.  The number of times he’s sat on the bench while his team has played in the NFL can probably be counted on one hand.  Peyton Manning is to the Indianapolis Colts what no other quarterback has ever been to his team.  Manning functions as […]

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Google’s International Tribute To Freddie Mercury

Posted 9/05/2011 7:00 am by

While we here in America celebrate Labor Day, people around the world are celebrating something different.  Well, Googlers around the world are celebrating something different.  Rather than bend to the American holiday, Google has decided to celebrate something different internationally while its Google Doodlers here in the United States are enjoying a long weekend.  Simply […]

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Marilyn Manson And Shia LaBeouf: Born Villain

Posted 9/02/2011 8:00 am by

Before Lady Gaga was wearing meat and murdering Santa, there was a shock rocker wearing an androgynous body suit, hissing into a microphone, and delighting teenagers while horrifying adults.  Marilyn Manson is back, ladies and gentlemen, and he’s got a friend with him.  That friend, weirdly enough, is the star of the Transformers films.  The […]

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Starz And Netflix Are Breaking Up

Posted 9/02/2011 7:30 am by

It was a perfect pairing.  Netflix got the bump of having all kinds of great stuff, and Starz got to specially brand a section of Netflix, and go from an also-ran to a big-time cable player.  Now, it looks like the marriage may be over.  Starz and Netflix appear to be heading for a break-up, […]

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French Perfume Smells Like Semen, Cigarettes, And Carrots

Posted 9/02/2011 7:00 am by

Normally, people put on perfume to not smell funky, but one chic Paris parfumerie in the Marais district has decided to turn the very concept of perfume on its ear by making some, ahem, interesting choices for its scent bouquets.  We’re talking blood, semen, saliva, sweat, hot tar, carrots, and even crotch smell.  The perfume maker […]

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Domino’s Pizza To Expand To The Moon

Posted 9/02/2011 6:30 am by

In 2001, Pizza Hut was the first pizza chain to make a delivery into space, bringing a pizza to the International Space Station.  Since then, Domino’s has been playing catch-up.  In between completely revamping their recipe and working on a breakfast pizza, they’ve been making plans.  Domino’s Pizza Japan is planning on building a franchise […]

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Logger Cuts Off His Own Toes After Trailer Falls On Foot

Posted 9/01/2011 8:30 am by

Jon Hutt is a tough guy.  He’s a crane operator by day, and for fun, he’s an amateur logger who has worked as a miner, worked at a saw mill, and grew up on a ranch as a child.  Needless to say, the 61-year-old man from Denver is tougher than a $4 steak and not […]

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Apple Employee Loses iPhone 5 Prototype At A Bar

Posted 9/01/2011 7:30 am by

If the title of this story sounds familiar, that’s because it is.  Months before the iPhone 4 was scheduled to come out, a 28-year-old Apple engineer named Robert Gray Powell lost the iPhone 4 prototype at a bar.  It was found by a pair of men, who promptly sold it to Gizmodo and kicked off […]

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Texas A&M Is Heading To The SEC (Probably)

Posted 9/01/2011 6:30 am by

When it comes to conference realignment, it seems as though the college football universe is coalescing.  Rather than have multiple major conferences, it seems as though we’re moving to a world in which there are superconferences, and it appears that Texas A&M will be kicking off the next round of realignments, as Texas A&M has […]

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World’s Heaviest Mother Starts A Diet

Posted 9/01/2011 6:00 am by

Donna Simpson had a simple dream.  She is already the Guinness World Record holder for “World’s Heaviest Mother,” but that wasn’t enough.  The 600+ pound Simpson wanted to take two records.  She wanted to top 1000 pounds, and she wanted to supplant Carol Yeger’s record 1200 pounds and become the world’s fattest woman.  Then, her […]

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Woman Tries To Get Pot Back From Police

Posted 8/31/2011 8:30 am by

Note to all would-be pot users out there:  if you lose your bag, don’t go get it from the police station if you’re carrying around marijuana.  Learn from Patricia Wright’s mistake.  When Patricia Wright left her bag full of weed on the ferry in Picton, New Zealand, she did the only reasonable thing, she went […]

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Anonymous Buyer Wants Kardashian Sex Tape To Disappear

Posted 8/31/2011 8:00 am by

Kim Kardashian is now a household name, and she’s got one person to thank for it.  Ray J., her ex-boyfriend and the co-star of Kim Kardashian’s fame-making sex tape.  Without that sex tape, she’s just another Armenian girl with big eyebrows.  However, the very thing that made Kim K a superstar may soon be disappearing. […]

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The Punishments Begin: 8 Miami Players Suspended

Posted 8/31/2011 7:30 am by

When Little Luke, AKA Nevin Shapiro, started turning over information to the NCAA regarding Miami University’s dozens of serious NCAA violations, it looked very bad for the various sports programs at The U.  Indeed, it may still be bad, but the first wave of punishments has rolled in and it’s not as bad as it […]

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HP TouchPad Gets One Last Encore

Posted 8/31/2011 7:00 am by

HP’s stated goal for the TouchPad was a simple one.  Hewlitt-Packard knew they would not be able to topple Apple from its perch as the king of the tablet computer market, so HP just wanted one thing:  to be second behind the iPad.  Amazingly, HP has now taken that second place at the market, thanks […]

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Facebook Paying Out Security Bounty For Bug Killers

Posted 8/31/2011 6:30 am by

Do you have some skill at coding for websites, or do you know something about security?  Well, Facebook wants you.  However, Facebook isn’t hiring security experts for some new initiative; that’d be too simple.  Facebook is turning hackers into bounty hunters by having them look for security flaws in its code, and paying out handsomely […]

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Man Stabs Himself In The Eye With Pruning Shears

Posted 8/30/2011 8:30 am by

When 86-year-old Leroy Luetscher went out to do some gardening, he had no idea what fate would befall him.  The man from Green Valley, Arizona, ambled on out to the garden with his pruning shears, and got to business.  Unfortunately, he dropped the shears.  As Luetscher bent over to pick up his pruning equipment, he […]

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Canadian Family Hunted By Moose

Posted 8/30/2011 8:00 am by

When Yvonne Studley, age 49, was hit by a moose in British Columbia, Canada, she was very badly injured.  The moose she hit came through her windshield, landing on her.  The crushing impact caused Studley to break her wrist, arm, and hand; fractured five of her ribs; and caused bleeding in her brain which put Studley […]

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New York Town Washed Away By Irene

Posted 8/30/2011 7:30 am by

  What’s left of Prattsville, New York. Hurricane Irene’s impact on the Eastern Seaboard was bad, but not as bad as expected for most people.  New York City was mostly spared the wrath, even if the hurricane did bring out the crazies.  However, not everyone was so lucky.  For example, there’s the small town of […]

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Dancing With The Stars Season 13 Cast Revealed

Posted 8/30/2011 7:00 am by

Another year, another new cast for Dancing With The Stars.  The show seems to have nailed the mix of sports personalities, reality TV veterans, washed-up musicians, political figures, and struggling actors necessary to attract huge audiences, judging by last year’s successes, and Season 13 isn’t going to be any different.  The New York Post has […]

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Ex-NBA Player Wanted For Murder

Posted 8/29/2011 8:30 am by

It just goes to show you that just because you’ve got money, that doesn’t mean you’re smart.  That goes double for former athletes.  After all, see the sad case of former LA Laker and Washington Wizard Javaris Crittenton.  He’s on the run from the FBI as we speak, and why is that?  Former first-round pick […]

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Beyonce’s Pregnancy, Lady Gaga’s Alter-Ego Dominate VMAs

Posted 8/29/2011 8:00 am by

Last night’s MTV Video Music Awards was a night to celebrate lives, both new and departed.  While the VMAs were ostensibly a tribute to the late Amy Winehouse, with artists covering her songs and paying tribute to her, there was also a celebration of life (and the requisite Lady Gaga craziness).  The biggest announcement of […]

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Reporter Covered In Raw Sewage While Covering Hurricane

Posted 8/29/2011 7:00 am by

One of the hazards of being a reporter is field reporting.  Whenever there’s a major event, like Hurricane Irene, you’re out there in the middle of the action, putting your health and safety at risk.  When Tucker Barnes of WTTG was sent to Ocean City, Maryland, to cover the passing hurricane, he figured he was […]

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Erotic Dancing Forces Airplane To Make Emergency Landing

Posted 8/29/2011 6:30 am by

When Russians get drunk, crazy things happen.  Fortunately, they’re occasionally of the funny variety, not of the ‘woman gets stabbed in the back and doesn’t feel it‘ variety.  For example, a bunch of Moscow residents loaded into a 7 AM flight from Domodedovo Airport to London, England, only to discover that their in-flight entertainment was […]

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The Rum Diary Trailer Released, Looks Awesome

Posted 8/27/2011 2:00 pm by

Long-time Hunter Thompson fan, friend, and professional pirate Johnny Depp has been obsessed for years with bringing Thompson’s work to the big screen.  After befriending the crazed author while filming Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Depp picked up The Rum Diary and immediately started working to bring it to the screen.  For a decade, the […]

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Doctors Flee Fire During Surgery, Leave Patient To Suffocate

Posted 8/26/2011 8:00 am by

I hate the idea of surgery, only because I hate the idea of being put under and left to the mercy of a group of doctors and nurses that I don’t know.  For a 49-year-old Chinese man, being put into the hospital was the biggest, and last, mistake of his life.  When a fire broke […]

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The Planet Made Of Diamonds

Posted 8/26/2011 7:30 am by

Once upon a time, there was a bad sci-fi movie called Fatal Conflict in which Kari Wuhrer and some other B-movie actors stopped a mad man’s plot to destroy the Earth.  Among the more interesting aspects of the film is the fact that gold is worthless due to a mountain of gold discovered in Antarctica.  (I […]

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Australian Military Hires Translators To Read Missile Instructions

Posted 8/26/2011 7:00 am by

Sometimes, when you buy a new toy, you’re going to have a little trouble making heads or tails of the instructions.  They’re never written in plain English; most of the time, you’re lucky if they’re in Engrish.  The Australian government has recently bought some new weapons systems from the militaries of France and Italy, which is good. […]

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New York Yankees Hit Three Grand Slams In A Game

Posted 8/26/2011 6:30 am by

It started out with Yankees MVP candidate and second baseman Robinson Cano.  In the first inning with the bases loaded, Cano smoked a grand slam home run.  He wasn’t the only one.  Cano’s first-inning homer was followed by Russell Martin’s grand slam in the sixth inning.  By the time Curtis Granderson had hit a grand […]

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