Thursday, May 28, 2009

Sorry Coop, T.O.'s already ruining your team

Buffalo Bills starting cornerback Terrence McGee hurt his right arm when he tumbled to the turf while defending receiver Terrell Owens during a voluntary minicamp practice on Wednesday.

McGee was hurt about 30 minutes into the 90-minute session and did not return after entering the trainer's room. A team source told ESPN.com's Tim Graham the injury is minor.

During team drills, McGee was shadowing Owens up the sideline when the two went up for a pass. Owens initially caught the ball but had it ripped out by McGee. The two then fell to the ground with Owens partially landing on the cornerback.

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Avoid breaking the law to find out if your wife's new man has broken the law

A crumbling marriage ultimately cost a Goodyear police veteran his badge.

Richard Beck has relinquished his badge in the wake of accusations that he illegally accessed law-enforcement databases to look up information about a man he believed was having an affair with his estranged wife, and later lied about it.

The agreement reached between Beck, 35, and the Arizona Peace Officer Standards and Training Board last week permanently strips him of his ability to work as a police officer in Arizona.

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If you're going to write a book... try not to write explicit things about your students

A British teacher reportedly has been fired for publishing a novel describing sexual encounters with some of her students.

The fictional work "Stop! Don't Read This" focuses on five of Leonora Rustamova's "favorite" students at Calder High School and addresses the 39-year-old's growing struggle to view her students as "kids." She also writes about her tendency to flirt with students and allow them to flirt with and fantasize about her, according to the Daily Telegraph.

In addition, the expletive-filled book featured stories of students drinking, skipping school and possibly using drugs. It also named other faculty members, including the school's headmaster Stephen Ball, the Daily Telegraph reported.

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Wednesday, May 27, 2009

Nerdiness paid off!

(AP) - A Wisconsin man's collection of about 110 comics from the "Golden Age" -- the late 1930s through the 1940s -- has sold at auction for about $623,000.

Dallas-based Heritage Auction Galleries said Tuesday the comics were sold in an auction that ended over the weekend.

Ralph Chicorel's comics had remained in pristine condition over the years. Chicorel, who lives in Menomonee Falls, said that as a kid he treasured his comics so much that he even carefully turned the pages.

Heritage says one comic in the collection, "Marvel Mystery Comics" No. 9, noted for its cover battle between the Human Torch and the Sub-Mariner, sold for about $108,000.

One-handed basketball phenom comes to Manhattan

Kevin Laue knows what would happen if a college basketball team took a chance on him and he didn't pan out. Fans would wonder what the coach was thinking in using a scholarship on a center missing his left hand.

"It's a business," the 6-foot-10 Laue said. "Their jobs are all on the line. It's much safer to take a two-handed guy my size that got beat by me."

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Tuesday, May 26, 2009

Woman craps for 4 and a half hours

Saturday was a record-setting night for a novice craps player at an Atlantic City casino.

Patricia Demauro set a new record for the longest craps roll, hanging on for four hours and 18 minutes at the Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa.

Borgata officials say she beat the previous record by one hour and 12 minutes. They say Stanley Fujitake of Honolulu, set that record nearly 20 years ago in Las Vegas.

"This was only my second time playing craps, so this was very exciting for me to be a part of history," says Demauro, who lives in Denville in northern New Jersey.

Demauro bought into a game for $100 and quickly amassed a cheering crowd. When she finally lost around 12:31 a.m., after 154 rolls of the dice, she was greeted by Borgata with a champagne toast.

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A history of beer cans

Beer has come a long way since breweries first had the idea of developing can packaging nearly 100 years ago. In the early 1900s, breweries had a problem producing a can that would withstand the pasteurization process and allow the beer to still taste good when it reached the consumer. In order to withstand the heat and pressure of the process, the first beer cans were constructed of tin and steel and were much more thick and sturdy than the ones we see today. By 1935, the first commercially produced beer in a can hit the market.

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Bacon-Flavored Vodka!

Call it breakfast in a booze bottle. Bacon-flavored vodka is the all the rage in Seattle and sales are sizzling. At about $30 a bottle it's selling like hotcakes with a side of bacon-flavored vodka.

My first reaction was ewww, says Brittney Levang, who sampled a bacon-bloody Mary at Von's Roast House in downtown Seattle. But then I tried it. It's pretty good.

Seattle-based Black Rock Spirits cooked up the concept of “Bakon Vodka.” It's inspiring bartenders across the city to concoct cocktails that reflect peoples' passion for pork.


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Friday, May 15, 2009

THE GREATEST INVENTION EVER

A miracle new smart-bra that boosts a woman's cleavage when she feels sexy is being tested by lingerie designers.

The magic bra detects changes in body temperature brought on by sexual arousement and squeezes boobs together to create a bigger cleavage.

Then when things cool off again the bra's built-in memory relaxes the fabric and the wearer's bust returns to normal, say its Slovenian inventors.


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Thursday, May 14, 2009

Awww.. Poor Cowboys can't get someone to sponsor their billion dollar stadium

From ESPN:

The new $1.1 billion Dallas Cowboys stadium doesn't have an announced sponsor yet -- but now it has a name.

Team owner Jerry Jones announced Wednesday that the venue in Arlington will be called Cowboys Stadium.

Country star George Strait will headline the opening event at Cowboys Stadium. The June 6 concert will also feature Reba McEntire, Blake Shelton and Julianne Hough from "Dancing With the Stars."

The Cowboys on Aug. 21 will host the Tennessee Titans in their first preseason game at the new venue, which replaces Texas Stadium in Irving.

Crazy Australian Studies Love Pregnant Teens

Disadvantaged teen girls are more likely to turn their lives around if they have a baby, an expert says.

Professor Julie Quinlivan told a conference in Hobart yesterday studies had shown disadvantaged teens who fell pregnant often had better life outcomes than those who did not. Teen mothers were more likely to quit smoking, go back to school and get a job.

She said the girls also saved the economy money because a pregnancy forced them to engage with services and develop a focused plan for a better future.

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Something about having too much time on his hands...

It's always been a mad MAD world for Neil Cuadra.

The 55-year-old Internet entrepreneur has photographed a portrait he made of MAD magazine mascot Alfred E. Neuman's head using junk mail CDs and DVDs and sent it to the magazine, a feat that landed him in the magazine's 500th issue, published in April.

"You just blew our mind. You used junk mail from AOL to create a piece of art that became junk mail to us," the magazine's editors said in a footnote to his letter.

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