They say that football games are won not by the quarterback or the running back or the wide receivers, but in the trenches. If you can control the line of scrimmage with your offensive line or defensive line, then you can control the football game. That axiom has found renewed traction in the NFL if [...]
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The Next XBox is Coming May 21
Posted 4/25/2013 5:30 am by Ron HoganWith a new version of the Xbox, code-named Durango, in development, it was only a matter of time before Microsoft went public with the news and expected specs for its offering for the next generation of video games. PlayStation 4 has been announced, and Nintendo’s WiiU is already on the market, so MS couldn’t afford [...]
Read »Barry Sanders Is Madden 25′s Cover Athlete
Posted 4/25/2013 5:00 am by Ron HoganThe cover to the Madden series of video games is both a great honor and a horrible curse. It’s an honor because you become the face of both the NFL and the world’s most popular football video game series (it’s also the only NFL game in town). It’s a curse because of the so-called Madden [...]
Read »Whataburger Joins The Ketchup And Mustard Game
Posted 4/24/2013 6:00 am by Ron HoganTexans will have a new item to add to their shopping lists in the coming weeks. Texas fast food icon Whataburger is partnering with H-E-B to launch a new series of condiments. For the first time ever, you can get a little of the Whataburger experience at home, as Whataburger will be entering the condiments [...]
Read »AP Twitter Feed Hacked With Fake Terrorism
Posted 4/23/2013 6:00 pm by Ron HoganThe news shook the country for a brief moment when the Associated Press announced that the White House had been bombed and the President has been injured in the attack. Fortunately for everyone, that wasn’t the case. Turns out the AP Twitter feed had been hacked. Within minutes, the account was shut down by Twitter, [...]
Read »Reese Witherspoon Lands Disorderly Conduct Charges
Posted 4/22/2013 6:30 am by Ron HoganReese Witherspoon is a very talented actress, but just because someone’s good at pretending to be other stuff, that doesn’t mean they know how to comport themselves in public. By and large, she seems to be on her best behavior; however, on Friday night in Atlanta, Georgia, Reese Witherspoon got a little out of line. [...]
Read »Second Boston Bomber Captured
Posted 4/20/2013 8:00 am by Ron HoganWith his brother Tamerlan dead, it was only a matter of time before police captured the second suspect in the Boston Marathon bombing, 19-year-old Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. However, he got in a second day of terrorizing Boston as police and federal agents combed the shut-down city. Over a million people, told to stay home. Transportation closed [...]
Read »Texas Fertilizer Plant Explosion Injures 179 People
Posted 4/18/2013 6:30 am by Ron HoganA fire last night went out of control at the West Fertilizer Plant in West, Texas. As the fire burned near explosive material, firefighters were helpless to stop the resulting explosion that quite literally rocked the state of Texas. The explosion was so powerful it measured as a 2.1 on the Richter scale, destroyed dozens [...]
Read »Broadcasting Legend Pat Summerall Dies At 82
Posted 4/16/2013 9:30 pm by Ron HoganYou name a sport, Pat Summerall could do play-by-play for it. The Masters? Check. The US Open tennis tournament? Check. The NBA? He was the man for the first season of the NBA on CBS and the 1974 NBA Championships. However, Summerall’s first major job, and his best-known work, was with football. For 40 years, [...]
Read »Take The Sting Out Of Tax Day With Free Stuff
Posted 4/13/2013 8:15 am by Ron HoganApril 15 is Tax Day, and that means if you haven’t filed your taxes yet, you better get on it lest you suffer from penalties. While you’re sending off your check for your $172 million dollar tax bill, you may as well get something good out of your trip through the wringer. Every Tax Day, [...]
Read »Twitter To Launch Music Service
Posted 4/12/2013 6:30 am by Ron HoganSince Twitter jumped into the public consciousness, the world’s most-popular microblogging service has kind of morphed into something far beyond the original intention. The social hub is now the way most people get their breaking news, tweets are used to track infectious diseases, and Twitter celebrities are actually a thing that exists for those who [...]
Read »Grandmother Mistakes $40 Million Lotto Win For $40,000
Posted 4/11/2013 6:30 am by Ron HoganWhen 51-year-old grandmother Maria Carreiro thought she had a winning lottery ticket, the retired factory worker checked and saw that she won $40,000. Thrilled, she went to her daughter for verification. As it turns out, Maria Carreiro misread her lottery ticket and her $40,000 win was actually $40 million dollars. Thrilled at her $40,000 win, [...]
Read »Seat Fight Leads To Man Getting Tased
Posted 4/11/2013 6:00 am by Ron HoganSubways are a pretty efficient way to travel. The trains zip along underground, stopping at various stations and delivering some passengers while picking up others. All in all, it’s a pretty good system assuming nothing goes wrong. On Wednesday, something went wrong on a BART train in San Francisco, California. Zachary McCabe, 30, was stretched [...]
Read »Thieves Arrested Thanks To Footprints In The Snow
Posted 4/11/2013 5:30 am by Ron HoganThere are a lot of criminals in the world, and most of them aren’t very smart. However, there are not-smart criminals, and there are straight-up dumb criminals, and three dudes from Riverton, Wyoming, have officially been declared dumb. While at the home of an acquaintance, the three accused thieves saw some stuff they wanted in [...]
Read »Giant Pope John Paul II Statue Unveiled
Posted 4/10/2013 6:00 am by Ron HoganPope John Paul II is one of the most popular popes in recent memory, and in the wake of his death he’s gotten a great deal of notice and tribute, from being the face of Papal coins to becoming a saint. However, while those honors are cool, there’s nothing like having a gigantic statue of [...]
Read »Louisville Beats Michigan 82-76 To Win NCAA Championship
Posted 4/09/2013 6:30 am by Ron HoganLast night was a historic night for Louisville basketball coach Rick Pitino. On the same day that Coach Pitino was enshrined in the Basketball Hall of Fame, he brings home an additional career milestone. Coach Pitino’s Louisville Cardinals bested the Michigan Wolverines 82-76 to win the 2013 NCAA Tournament at the Georgia Dome in Atlanta [...]
Read »Margaret Thatcher Dead At 87
Posted 4/08/2013 9:30 pm by Ron HoganBoth in terms of her years at the top of British politics, her political beliefs, and her controversial stature among her people, Margaret Thatcher is the British version of Ronald Reagan. Equal parts lionized and demonized by all sides of British politics, it seems that no one lacks an opinion on the so-called Iron Lady. [...]
Read »Jenna Jameson Charged With Battery
Posted 4/08/2013 5:30 am by Ron HoganSaturday Night is indeed all right for fighting, as former porn star, stripper, and adult model Jenna Jameson found out. The 38-year-old mother of twins, at one point one of the world’s most famous adult film stars who crossed over to mainstream success via roles on Family Guy, Howard Stern’s autobiographical movie Private Parts, and [...]
Read »Kids Forced To Throw School Lunches Away
Posted 4/05/2013 6:30 am by Ron HoganFor some kids, as sad as it is to consider, school lunch is the only food they get. For other kids, school lunches are easily tossed away, no matter how healthy they might be, in favor of vending machine sugar snacks. For some students at Coehlo Middle School, the school lunches were taken from them. [...]
Read »Beard PAC To Raise Money For Face-Fuzz Candidates
Posted 4/05/2013 6:00 am by Ron HoganWhen it comes to facial hair, beards are back in a big way, but there’s one field where beards are not appreciated. That field, ladies and gentlemen, is politics. Political candidates with beards are simply a thing that doesn’t happen these days, which is unfortunate as one of America’s best presidents had a beard. However, [...]
Read »Target Pulls “Manatee Gray” Plus-Sized Dress
Posted 4/05/2013 5:30 am by Ron HoganWhen it comes to matters of weight, people are very sensitive. In particular, when it comes to clothing, you have to be careful about what you have and what you name specific clothing items. Target has found this out the hard way as the retailer has landed in hot water over its color names. Target [...]
Read »Roger Ebert Dead At 70
Posted 4/04/2013 8:00 pm by Ron HoganRoger Ebert has had a hard time in recent years. The renowned film critic has struggled with his health, and even after losing his jaw and voice to cancer, his written output only increased. Indeed, post-cancer Ebert was incredibly prolific with his writing, pumping out an autobiography, conducting a heart-wrenching profile for Esquire, and even [...]
Read »Jimmy Fallon Takes Over The Tonight Show In 2014
Posted 4/04/2013 6:30 am by Ron HoganOnce again, there’s going to be a transition. Once again, Jay Leno will be leaving his dream job for a younger, newer replacement from the 12:35 hour. However, this time it seems like Jay Leno is going along with the plan to kick him out of his 22-year reign as the king of late night [...]
Read »“Finding Dory” Coming In 2015
Posted 4/02/2013 11:00 pm by Ron HoganWhen it came out in 2003, Finding Nemo was an immediate hit for Pixar. The film won an Academy Award, grossed nearly $922 million dollars around the world, and made an additional small fortune in marketing tie-ins, like toys and games and clothing and all the stuff that makes a company potential Disney purchase fodder. [...]
Read »Box Full Of Eyeballs Left At The Gas Station
Posted 3/29/2013 6:00 am by Ron HoganThey say the eyes are the window to the soul. If so, two men have left a big pile of windows at a Conoco gas station near Kansas City, Missouri. On Wednesday night, while stopped at the station, two men discarded a medical cooler with a bloody bag inside near the trash can between the [...]
Read »New York City Adds Girls’ Wrestling
Posted 3/28/2013 6:00 am by Ron HoganAmateur wrestling is a traditional sport that’s fallen on hard times. The lifeblood of the sport, its spot in the Olympics, is threatened and if wrestling does disappear in 2020, it may disappear entirely. However, wrestling is growing at one particular level for the first time in ages. Wrestling may be disappearing in boy high [...]
Read »Oscars Pushed Back To March Next Year
Posted 3/26/2013 6:30 am by Ron HoganIf you’re already looking forward to the 86th annual Academy Awards, then you’ll have to wait a little longer than usual, even if you’re the unannounced next celebrity host. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the group behind the Oscars, has had to move their awards ceremony back a month to avoid an [...]
Read »Harvard Wins First-Ever NCAA Tournament Game
Posted 3/22/2013 6:30 am by Ron HoganHarvard may not be the world’s top university anymore, but the school is becoming a basketball powerhouse. Well, kind of. Last year, the Crimson lost to the Vanderbilt Commodores in their first NCAA Tournament appearance since 1946, but that simply served to get the nerves out of the Harvard student-athletes. Back in the NCAA Tournament [...]
Read »Mississippi Passes Anti-Bloomberg Soda Law
Posted 3/21/2013 6:15 am by Ron HoganOne of the most controversial laws in decades has been New York City’s ban on large sodas. The law has come as part of a renewed interest in calorie-counting and public health, particularly in Gotham, but it’s not a popular law everywhere. Some places still believe in personal choice, like the state of Mississippi. Mississippi [...]
Read »South Korea Banks, TV Networks Face Cyberattack
Posted 3/20/2013 6:45 am by Ron HoganThroughout Seoul, lines were forming at dead ATM machines. Seoul is a city where no one uses cash, and when the online infrastructure is down, delayed, or damaged, the entire city grinds to a halt; South Korea even makes movies on iPhones, so you know they depend on their WiFi. Yesterday was a rough day [...]
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