MILWAUKEE — For the past two seasons, Trevor Hoffman has organized and led all clubhouse celebrations when one of his Milwaukee Brewers teammates reached any particular accomplishment. On Tuesday night, it was his turn. Hoffman added another milestone to his illustrious career, earning his 600th save by closing out the Brewers’ 4-2 victory over the St. Louis Cardinals.
The Heisman Trophy Trust is expected to strip former USC running back Reggie Bush of his 2005 Heisman Trophy and leave the award vacant, Yahoo Sports reported. Two sources close to the trust said the organization is completing its investigation and will agree with the NCAA’s finding that Bush accepted improper benefits while at USC and was [...]
Darrelle Revis was walking toward his teammates on the practice field when a strange feeling came over him. “I had butterflies,” the New York Jets’ cornerback said with a grin Monday.
A new rogue has started making its appearance from compromised websites: Rogue:MSIL/Zeven. We received a sample (70be8ca73142922fd78acf2aafa9f141a977f15a) and a URL and began our investigation. Let us say from the beginning that the guys behind this rogue like to copy big-time.
LONDON (Reuters) – God did not create the universe and the “Big Bang” was an inevitable consequence of the laws of physics, the eminent British theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking argues in a new book. In “The Grand Design,” co-authored with U.S. physicist Leonard Mlodinow, Hawking says a new series of theories made a creator of the [...]
Rapper Young Buck may be in bankruptcy, but that doesn’t mean he’ll give up his bling, or his beef with 50 Cent, without a fight.
A few weeks after the Nashville rapper (real name: David Darnell Brown) filed for Chapter 13 bankruptcy protection and saw his assets seized by the Internal Revenue Service,
One of the most contentious issues in the vast literature about alcohol consumption has been the consistent finding that those who don’t drink tend to die sooner than those who do. The standard Alcoholics Anonymous explanation for this finding is that many of those who show up as abstainers in such research are actually former hard-core drunks who had already incurred health problems associated with drinking.
PITTSBURGH (AP)—The long, flowing black hair that tumbles out of NFL star Troy Polamalu’s(notes) helmet and down his back has been insured for $1 million by Head and Shoulders, the shampoo brand that is endorsed by the Pittsburgh Steelers player.
The insurance was obtained through Lloyd’s of London, which did not reveal what must be done to Polamalu’s hair for anyone to collect on the policy.
MURFREESBORO, Tenn. – A suspicious fire that damaged construction equipment at the site of a future mosque in Tennessee has some local Muslims worried that their project has been dragged into the national debate surrounding Manhattan’s ground zero.
Authorities told leaders of the Islamic Center of Murfreesboro that four pieces of heavy construction equipment on the site were doused with an accelerant and one set ablaze early Saturday morning.
Don’t take Sony’s silence on a recent USB hack that bypasses the PlayStation 3′s copy protection mechanics as soundless sanction. The company’s actively working to block sales of the device, and already has a temporary injunction from Australia’s Federal Court against sales of the device in the land down under.
The hack, dubbed PS Jailbreak, allows users to play illegally distributed but also legitimate ‘homebrew’ games on a retail PS3
SAN FRANCISCO – As the world’s biggest maker of computer chips, Intel Corp. can’t afford to ignore its huge blind spot in mobile phones.
Eighty percent of today’s personal computers use Intel processors. But Intel is absent in smart phones, which are threatening PCs as gateways to the Internet.
Xbox Live Gold subscribers might want to renew before November 1, when the price of a yearly subscription to the service jumps $10 in North America.
According to a post on Major Nelson’s blog, after eight years’ of Xbox Live at the $50 a year price point, the service is finally seeing a price hike.
If you’re an iTunes user, when you get a new machine you probably want to transfer all of your content to it. Here we show you a few different ways to everything from one computer to another.
If you get a new computer and have a bunch of multimedia and apps (purchased or not)installed on it, you’ll most likely want to transfer it all to another machine. There are a few different ways this can be done, and here we’ll show you some of the easiest.
In a promotional appearance on BET’s 106 and Park yesterday, Chris Brown tried to clear the air about his controversial Michael Jackson tributeat June’s BET Awards. “A lot of people don’t know, I was going to see Michael Jackson the day he died,” Brown said, according to Billboard.
When Lil Wayne is released from Rikers Island on November 5th, his new album, The Carter IV, will be released to stores, according to Young Money rapper Mack Maine.The album will follow the 10-track I Am Not A Human Being EP that Young Money plans to drop on September 27th, Weezy’s birthday.
BENGHAZI, Libya – In the outskirts of this city, Libya’s second largest, row after row of sand-colored concrete apartment blocks and villas are sprouting from the desert. Hundreds of kilometers away, construction cranes dot the Mediterranean skyline of the capital, Tripoli.
The multibillion dollar construction frenzy taking place is the latest and most visible sign of Libya’s drive for growth.
LAS VEGAS – Smoke wafting from a Cadillac Escalade on the Las Vegas Strip ignited Paris Hilton’s latest legal troubles late Friday, when a motorcycle officer who suspected the smell was marijuana stopped the vehicle and police say a bag of cocaine fell out of the 29-year-old socialite’s purse.
ATLANTA – NFL owners are eager to increase the regular season from 16 to 18 games.
The players aren’t so sure.
During a five-hour meeting at a posh hotel in downtown Atlanta, the push to add two more games to the regular season picked up steam Wednesday — at least among those who sign the checks.
