The MTV Video Music Awards headlined Lady GaGa and audiences were ready for some over-the-top, shocking performances from the Lady. What wasn’t expected, was the show stealer Miley Cyrus to overshadow GaGa. The former Disney Princess Cyrus fit “nicely
Update: NBA basketball player Lamar Odom has reportedly gone missing for 72 hours and friends and family feel that he may be hiding out while fueling his addiction to crack cocaine that may cost him his marriage and career: Sources connected
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AUBURN – Washington State fans who travel with the team will have to determine who has the best tailgaters in the country. The Cougars travel to Auburn next Saturday for a 4 pm ET game on ESPNU, then travel to
Yahoo has reversed its steady two-year decline in unique page views, besting Google’s traffic for the first time since 2011. Yahoo came out on top of Google for July according to comScore, a service that tracks unique visitors to U.S.
Former NBA MVP Allen Iverson is reportedly set to announce a final retirement from basketball in the coming days. The extremely athletic point guard out of Georgetown who had an infamous distaste for practice last played professional basketball in 2011 in
Yesterday, Ace spent some time mocking Frederic Rich, a novelist who wants us all to be very afraid that a Christian theocracy could spring up here in the United States. In the book, this happens after President Sarah Palin declares
Massachusetts police have located the gun used in an unsolved 2012 double murder that may be linked to former Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez, who is already facing first-degree murder charges in the killing of Odin Lloyd. According to CBS
Disgraced Milwaukee Brewers slugger Ryan Braun, who has been suspended for the remainder of the season for violating Major League Baseball’s drug policy, reportedly tried to claim the person who collected his urine, which had tested positive for a banned
Yahoo: Nike halted production on a line of sportswear on Wednesday after an outcry that the designs were culturally insensitive. The women’s running tights, bodysuit, and sports bra in the Nike Pro Tattoo Tech line were decorated with a pattern
Lebron James reportedly got a police escort to attend a Jay Z and Justin Timberlake concert on Friday night in Miami. From the Associated Press: The Miami Heat star posted a video of him saying he was following ”a police
Zach Hodskins is a high school guard from Georgia with only one hand, but he has been given an offer to walk-on Florida’s college basketball team with a chance at receiving a scholarship down the line. Florida coach Billy Donovan
Earlier this week I spoke with my friend Constance Hunter, Chief Economist for Alternative Investments at KPMG in New York. Hunter is upbeat on the US economy with an estimate of 2.75% growth in 2013. The modest growth number is
Associates of Alex Rodriguez reportedly leaked information about Milwaukee Brewers superstar Ryan Braun after a Miami New Times article implicated Rodriguez in a performance-enhancing drugs scandal in January. Rodriguez’s team reportedly purchased unredacted documents about Braun and subsequently leaked the
More than half of all homes sold last year and so far this year have been “all-cash” purchases. The Wall Street Journal reports that an analysis by economists at Goldman Sachs estimates that though 20% homes sold before the housing crash
The day’s top picks in social media and technology for 8/15: “to catch a cheater”: researcher posed as 40 fake people in honeytrap experiment to study infidelity online; sources say Snowden downloaded NSA docs while working at Dell; How to
According to economist Howard Davidowitz, the American economy’s dismal state is obvious from the declining profits of Walmart. Walmart, a bellweather for consumption, reported earnings of $1.24 a share, as opposed to $1.25 per share. That may sound like a
Jobs, the new movie about Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, has received middling reviews from the critics, yet it’s still a worthy and important film. Why is that? Because the events depicted in the movie–events that make Jobs look technologically brilliant
Egypt’s Coptic Christian minority has become a favorite target for Muslim Brotherhood supporters and other radical Islamists across the country in the wake of the military’s decision to clear supporters of ousted President Mohamed Morsi from their Cairo sit-ins this morning. No
In response to Then Why Isn’t There a National Center-Right Newspaper?: Interesting question. I was looking at this from the ground up and from that perspective I think it’s inevitable that most of these papers die off unless they differentiate
The City of Chicago is still racking up distressing numbers of shootings even as crime otherwise in the Windy City has gone down. On August 12, for instance, six people were shot in the space of only one hour. On
New York Times reporter Peter Baker tweeted some news yesterday that signals the shift in influence from old media organizations to new media entities: WH briefing room chgs: Real Clear Politics, Yahoo News to get seats. Sharing seats: MediaNews, Daily
The day’s top picks in social media and technology from 8/7: The Many Faces of Reddit, social media blamed for another cyberbullying suicide, school tries social media contract, social media helps find stolen puppy, impact of Manning leaks, The Jester
Our first official look at a documentary detailing the rise of Occupy Wall Street offers few surprises–beyond the fact that it exists at all. OWS hit the country roughly two years ago. Today, good luck finding any Occupy tents in
With union membership dwindling nationally, labor groups have resorted to launching membership “raids” designed to poach members from rival unions. Just 11.3 percent of U.S. workers now belong to a union, the lowest level in almost a century. The bleak
Last week, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) said it has been a long time since has been “scared,” directly taking on his conservative critics that have implied he was afraid to challenge the mainstream media he once said was his “base”
