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Buzzfeed’s Matt Stopera posts some Facebook updates from people who, for some reason, could not tell Oprah Winfrey and Whitney Houston apart. This one is may favorite: I’m really not sure what to say.
Whitney Houston, once one of the biggest stars in American popular culture, has died.
Tony Manfred at Business Insider reports on some statistics from the NCAA on the likelihood that a college athlete will become a professional athlete: Even if your kid is good at sports in high school, gets a scholarship, and excels in college, there’s almost no way they are going to go pro. Scott Soshnick of [...]
For the third year in a row, the Super Bowl was the most-watched television program in history: NEW YORK—For the third consecutive year, the Super Bowl set a record as the most-watched television show in U.S. history. The Nielsen Co. said Monday that an estimated 111.3 million people watched the New York Giants beat the [...]
Was Clint Eastwood’s Chrysler ad a political message, or just a well done commercial?
The NFL and NBC probably thought that hiring a headliner for the halftime show who was born before the Super Bowl even existed would keep the controversy to a minimum, but they were wrong: The NFL and a major television network are apologizing for another Super Bowl halftime show. There was no wardrobe malfunction, nothing [...]
As long as I can remember, George Will’s response to any question about the Super Bowl on ABC’s This Week has been some variation on pointing out that baseball season is just around the corner. Given that Will has written several books on the game, and has been a regular presence at Nationals games since [...]
This week we learned that even breast cancer can become politicized. Is there anything that can’t at this point?
One wonders why any Republican politician would want to be associated with this image.
Virtually everything Stephen Colbert is doing was legal before Citizens United.
Soul Train’s Don Cornelius has been shot to death. He was 75. CNN (“Coroner: ‘Soul Train’ founder dead of gunshot wound“): Don Cornelius, the founder of “Soul Train,” has been found dead in Los Angeles, Lt. Larry Dietz of the Los Angeles County Coroner’s Office said Wednesday. He died of a gunshot wound at a [...]
After a depressing and sad end to a storied career, Penn State’s legendary JoePa has passed away.
College football coaching salaries jumped 35 percent last year and 55 percent in the last six.
The Orange Ya Glad I Didn’t Say Banana Edition OTB Caption ContestTM is now over.
Tim Tebow has been at the center of a culture war battle, but he seems to have a more balanced view of the whole thing.
Republican candidates have reached out to Tim Tebow for an endorsement. Desperation?
There’s no perfect system for choosing a champion but we can do better than this.
Via TPMMuckraker: Ted Haggard Swaps Wives With Gary Busey On Celebrity Wife Swap. Former New Life Church pastor and self-described “bisexual” Ted Haggard swapped wives with actor and self-described “church” Gary Busey for the ABC reality show Celebrity Wife Swap. And the most shocking part? That Wife Swap is still on TV.
