Category: Headlines

• Somebody at ESPN thinks B.J. Surhoff should be in the Hall of Fame

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  Somebody at ESPN thinks B.J. Surhoff should be in the Hall of Fame You can’t make this stuff up.  Well, you can, but people will mock you as a writer of horrendous fiction.

• Song Girl Monday: 1-10-2011

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  Here is another late Song Girl Monday. How about a shout to the Ducks for laying a giant egg. Quack! Happy Song Girl Monday!

• It’s Official: The Verizon iPhone 4 Is Coming On February 10th

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  It’s Official: The Verizon iPhone 4 Is Coming On February 10th And unlike AT&T’s, it’ll work as a mobile wifi hotspot.

• 2011 Off-Centered Film Fest, presented by Alamo Drafthouse & Dogfish Head Brewery

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  2011 Off-Centered Film Fest, presented by Alamo Drafthouse & Dogfish Head Brewery April 15 & 16 here in Austin. 
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  If you assume that human beings are fundamentally logical creatures, this can seem like an impossible question to answer. But when it comes to decisions around emotionally charged topics, logic often takes a back seat to what are called cognitive biases — essentially a set of unconscious mechanisms that convince us that it is our…
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  So much of what the U.S. Government has done over the last decade has been devoted to creating and strengthening this climate of fear. Attacking Iraq under the terrorizing banner of “shock and awe”; disappearing people to secret prisons; abducting them and shipping them to what Newsweek’s Jonathan Alter (when advocating this) euphemistically called “our…
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  Hats off to Auburn, whose defense turned in the performance of the year, reducing one of the most potent offensive machines in recent memory to an electric car that looked like somebody forgot to plug it in.
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  Nearly half of the four-square-mile town’s residents are employed by adjacent Mammoth Mountain’s skiing and related operations, which rank among the nation’s most-visited ski areas. Every Friday night in winter, thousands of vehicles stream across the Mojave Desert from Southern California, bringing an estimated 1.5 million skiers to the region during the season. L.A. Times: Mammoth…

• Sources: New Jersey Nets’ blockbuster trade for Carmelo Anthony of Denver Nuggets taking shape

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  Sources: New Jersey Nets’ blockbuster trade for Carmelo Anthony of Denver Nuggets taking shape The rumors have it going down like this: NETS GET: Carmelo Anthony Chauncey Billups Rip Hamilton Immediate relevance NUGGETS GET: Derrick Favors Devin Harris Anthony Morrow Quinton Ross Ben Uzoh Stephen Graham PISTONS GET: Johan Petro Troy Murphy Millions in salary…
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• A Big Wild Card Weekend for NFL Trojans

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  Pete Carroll, Mike Williams, Mark Sanchez and Clay Matthews were the big winners over wild card weekend.
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  When considering the prospect of alien life, humankind should prepare for the worst, according to a new study: Either we’re alone, or any aliens out there are acquisitive and resource-hungry, just like us. These two unpalatable options are pretty much the only possibilities, according to the new study. That’s because evolution is predictable, and alien…