Category: Headlines
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The WNBA’s Phoenix Mercury announces a (non-soccer) US sports first – selling ad space on their jerseys to identity-protection company LifeLock, a move that some are predicting is a precursor to the NBA doing the same by (or before) 2012. (via)
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Julian Dibbell with some interesting thoughts on Twitter What’s more fascinating – Twitter’s rapid growth, or the extent to which people are still trying to figure out what it means?
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David Carradine Found Dead
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Report: Jameer Nelson Out for Game 1
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The Fader gives us a gem this morning: a guided tour of David Byrne’s New York office. This is the first of three videos – click here for parts II and III. (via) (Source: https://blip.tv/)
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Meme of the Day: Conan’s new Tonight Show set appears to be heavily influenced by Mario Bros. (via)
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Senosiain Arquitectos’ Nautilus house in Mexico City is where it’s at. (via)
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Kansas has two players who would have been NBA lottery picks, Cole Aldrich and Sherron Collins, and they are returning to school. Good for them. Our guys get an offer from Islamabad and they’re gone. USC basketball head coach Tim Floyd, commenting to the L.A. Times about the recent Trojan exodus (via)
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These vintage (reprint) college football posters, each a reprint of a classic cover of the Pigskin Review (the program they used to sell at games), make modern football programs look like trash. Here’s a thought: every school with a major college football program undoubtedly also has a solid arts school. Why not let some of…
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In the annals of all-time great talk show interviews, you have Madonna’s Late Show meltdown, the antics of Andy Kaufman on Late Night. But none of them can quite touch John Lydon’s 1980 interview on the Tom Snyder Show. (via) (Source: https://www.youtube.com/)
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USC alum and TrojanWire favorite Will Ferrell has a new sunscreen line for charity. 100% of the proceeds of all Will Ferrell sunscreen products will go to the Cancer for College charity. Cancer for College awards scholarships to current and former cancer patients who are currently attending either a four year accredited university, junior college…
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Upon the fields of friendly strife are sown the seeds that upon other fields on other days will bear the fruits of victory. Gen. Douglas MacArthur (via)
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