Conference USA officials said Sunday they were investigating what happened after top-ranked Memphis’ 79-78 victory over UAB in Birmingham, where the Tigers were showered with debris after avoiding an upset.
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Kelly Pavlik proved his superiority and fattened his bank account with a second victory over Jermain Taylor. Now this frugal people’s champion is finally ready to go shopping — for two really ugly belts.
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Microsoft announces second movie partnership; movies such as 1408 and Disturbia available in “spring.”
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LeapFrog is virtually unchallenged in quite a few of its product lines, but that doesn’t seem to be slowing them down any. The company was showing off bunches of new product at Toy Fair 2008, with most of it newly designed to hook up to the computer and help parents keep better track of what their kids are learning with all these “toys.” Products like Tag — a reading pen similar to the FLY pentop — can tell parents what words kids are reading well, and how much time they spend with a book, while the new Leapster2 and Didj handhelds let parents track the curriculum the kids are running through — with the Didj even allowing parents to work in custom vocabulary lists or other subjects into their kid’s game of choice. Unfortunately, the LeapFrog2 suffers from same screen viewability woes of its predecessor, and both handhelds are quite chunky, but we did like the Didj’s screen and software, and that $90 pricetag is quite palatable.
We strap on some galoshes and choose some bait as we finally get hands on with Sega Bass Fishing for the Wii.
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Yeah, you know you want one. While we’re rather skeptical about the “carabiner” aspects of this Guitar Hero Carabiner — forget your keychain, we’ve owned cars smaller than this thing — it certainly manages to bring enough of those Guitar Hero rock star vibes along with to make it worth the $15 (just think of it as your present to yourself for not seeing Jumper this weekend). The sound is decent for this type of handheld, and we had little trouble rocking out with the tactile buttons and cheap ass LCD, but we’d probably prefer the Verizon version of this experience just so we could hear some real songs. Video is after the break.
Gallery: Guitar Hero Carabiner hands-on
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Hey, loogit, there’s an All-Star Game on. And it sounds as though it’s slightly less boring than pointless spectacles past! I don’t know, I’m at work and can’t watch it. But the uniforms? Ugly!
More horses are being sent to Mexico for slaughter since last year’s closure of three U.S. horse-slaughter plants in Illinois and Texas for violating state laws. They face deaths there that are sometimes far more gruesome than they would have been in the United States; some horses have been killed by repeatedly being stabbed. The U.S. Department of Agriculture says more than 45,000 horses went to Mexico for slaughter last year, up from about 11,000 the year before.
A batch of old documents linked to the slaying of President John F. Kennedy has reportedly been unearthed, including a highly suspect transcript of a conversation between assassin Lee Harvey Oswald and Oswald’s killer Jack Ruby, the Dallas Morning News said on Sunday.
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