I gave in and set up a Twitter account sometime last year. I never post any updates myself, but I do follow a handful of friends as well as a bunch of pro athletes and Hollywood celebrities. Some of the stuff I read on Twitter is useful or interesting, but by and large the [...]
I don’t follow the NBA very much (ok, maybe “at all” would be a better description), but I at least know who LeBron James is. And I know that his switching jersey numbers is probably a big deal to fans. James, who usually wears No. 23 in honor of his hero Michael Jordan, filed [...]
Granted, I don’t understand the game, but I have a feeling that even if I did, I wouldn’t be caught dead in this headgear!!!
(AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)
Can you guess what the worst fries in America are? I’m not talking about taste here; this is strictly a calorie/fat thing. Well, according to the author of the wildly popular Eat This, Not That series of non-diet diet books, the Texas Cheese Fries w/Jalepeno Ranch from Chili’s wins this title. One order contains [...]
There was another shooting at Northern Illinois University in DeKalb last week, but unlike the massacre of a couple years ago, this one was an isolated incident. The gunman has been identified as Zach Isaacman, who claims to be a junior at NIU. He allegedly had followed a woman to her dorm at 3 [...]
I just read about a woman named Michelle Bisutti who finished medical school in 2003 with about $250,000 in student loans. After deferring payments (and probably flat-out missing some along the way), various fees and penalties along with interest charges have caused the loan to balloon to $555,000. The article then goes on to talk [...]
Have you heard about the problems U.S. goaltender Ryan Miller has been having with the helmet he’s using for the Olympics? It’s the one pictured to the left here, and apparently the IOC has rules prohibiting “advertising slogans”, so they take issue with the “Miller Time” phrase painted on the back. The IOC didn’t [...]
No offense, but how idiotic does someone have to be in order to get injured by a stupid video game system like the Nintendo Wii??? I just read an article that says injuries from playing Wii are on the rise, according to the New England Journal of Medicine. At first I thought the article [...]