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07 Oct 2009 09:24

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07 Oct 2009 08:52

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Sports: Can’t touch this: M.C. Hammer helps a 49ers holdout

  • Ring the bell, school’s in sucka. San Francisco 49ers possible rookie Michael Crabtree still hasn’t signed, and we’re already in October. But he may have a killer negotiator, one who went bankrupt only to come back like a “Behind the Music” success story. M.C. Hammer, a friend of Crabtree’s agent, was (bizarrely) helping out. If we were the 49ers, we’d double our offer for Crabtree. source

06 Oct 2009 21:40

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06 Oct 2009 20:36

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Sports: Brett Favre proves his football AND TV-ratings-grabbing skills

  • turning forty Lordy Lordy, Brett Favre’s age; despite that, he easily led the Minnesota Vikings over his former team, the Green Bay Packers, last night; bravo, bro
  • 21.8 million people watched the game on ESPN last night – the largest audience in cable TV history; makes all the preseason hemming and hawing worth it, right? source

01 Oct 2009 00:54

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Sports: Chicago’s willing to spend a lot of money on the Olympics

  • $3.8 billion for the chance to host an aging Michael Phelps source

30 Sep 2009 19:50

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30 Sep 2009 08:44

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Sports: All those hits NFL players take are not good for their psyche

  • 19x higher rate of dementia for former NFL players source
 

29 Sep 2009 22:11

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Sports: Alchemy wasn’t involved: A bunch of Wizards get hypnotized

  • It’s like the commercial, what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas. What happens in hypnotism stays in hypnotism.
  • Washington Wizards star Mike Miller • Describing the bizarre sight of a hypnotist at their training camp. New coach Flip Saunders brought in John-Ivan Palmer, described as “the World’s Fastest and Funniest Hypnotist,” for the team’s training camp. He’s apparently worked with Saunders before. You are now getting sleepy … • source

29 Sep 2009 11:16

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28 Sep 2009 09:48

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