Archive for November 3rd, 2006

LeBron, Cavs stop Duncan, Spurs in big early matchup

Friday, November 3rd, 2006

Visit ESPN.com for the complete story.

Butch Davis jumps to top of list for North Carolina job

Friday, November 3rd, 2006

Former Miami coach Butch Davis is a leading candidate for the head coaching job at North Carolina.

Toke Visits CASINO ROYALE!!

Friday, November 3rd, 2006

Merrick here…


Yeah…here we go.

Here come the reviews.

I won’t bore you with an endless preamble framing or contextualizing a film that…at this point…needs neither framing or contextualizing.

Here’s the review – probably one of many we’re likely to receive for this film. It’s by Toke, and we appreciate him taking the time to send it in. The short & sweet: “good but not great.”


Kobe in lineup for Lakers’ game against SuperSonics

Friday, November 3rd, 2006

Kobe Bryant was in the Lakers’ lineup for Friday night’s game against Seattle, set to make his season debut after recovering from knee surgery over the summer.

Briefs: Colts S Sanders likely out vs. Pats

Friday, November 3rd, 2006

Friday’s NFL news briefs: The Indianapolis Colts might have to stop New England’s strong running game without Bob Sanders.

GeForce 8800GTX Benchmarked

Friday, November 3rd, 2006

An anonymous reader writes “The card does not launch for another week, but DailyTech already has benchmarks of the new GeForce 8800GTX on it’s website. The new card is the flagship GPU to replace GeForce 7900, and according to the benchmarks has no problem embarrassing the Radeon X1950 XTX either. According to the article, ‘The GeForce 8800GTX used for testing is equipped with 768MB of GDDR3 video memory on a 384-bit memory bus as previously reported. Core and memory clocks are set at 575 MHz and 900 MHz respectively.’”

The Great Kinto Looks Upon THE NATIVITY STORY!!

Friday, November 3rd, 2006

Merrick here…


Seems the height of irony to have this nicely done review of a highly reverent film sharing the AICN front page with Capone’s review of a documentary about priests molesting children. But, I suppose we can deem this “equal time” and move one.

In case you haven’t heard about this project, it’s from Catherine Hardwicke, a production designer (TOMBSTONE, 2 DAYS IN THE VALLEY, THREE KINGS and VANILLA SKY) turned director (LORDS OF DOGTOWN), and is written by Mike Rich (FINDING FORRESTER). You can check out the trailer at the film’s nice website, HERE.

Record breakers keeping up with the Joneses

Friday, November 3rd, 2006

More than 1,000 people called Jones have gathered under one roof to break the world record for the biggest get-together of people with the same name.

Letters to God taken off eBay after religious protests

Friday, November 3rd, 2006

A United States man who found 300 letters to God floating in the Atlantic Ocean says he will donate them to a church instead of selling them on eBay, following protests from religious people.

The Clip Show: Tom Cruise’s Shiny New Toy

Friday, November 3rd, 2006

· “F You, Redstone!”: Cruise and Wagner get the keys to the United Artist kingdom. Our suggestion for its branded monolith. The media weighs in. And God created Paula. “Make the hurt go away,…

Neil Patrick Harris Proudly Dons His ‘Team Gay’ Uniform

Friday, November 3rd, 2006

With our minds already wrapped around the sweet, salty release of half-price Cadillac margaritas, we very nearly let this little tidbit get by us: Like the fat girl in high school you could always…

Friday, November 3rd, 2006

Torch senior columnist Bruce Mitchell and Torch editor Wade Keller discuss this week in wrestling including the prospects of TNA Impact competing with WWE Raw on Monday nights, thoughts in this week’s Impact and Vince Russo’s booking so far, this week’s Raw and ECW, and more…