Portland center player Greg Oden receives a knee injury and is likely to miss the whole season. According to the details, during the match between Trail Blazer against Houston Rockets Oden was grounded after having a collision with Aaron Brooks

The more morbid football fans amongst us use the build-up to the World Cup draw as an excuse to speculate over which teams will comprise the so-called Group of Death. On Friday in Cape Town, that argument was easily settled by a Group G containing five-time champions Brazil, Cristiano Ronaldo’s Portugal and Ivory Coast, Africa’s [...]

Adidas has turned up the dial to 11 with its new match ball for the 2010 World Cup — the Jabulani, which means to celebrate in the Bantu language isiZulu. The newly designed orb, with some new technology, was unveiled Friday before the tournament’s draw in Cape Town, South Africa. There are 11 different colors [...]

Wondering why “April Ryan,” “Miley Cyrus Tattoo,” “Becky Griggs,” and “Julia Corker” are surging in Google Trends? We can shed some light on the mystery. Google Trends provides the hottest keywords of the hour. Though the results change frequently, the list offers a snapshot of what’s hot in the world of entertainment news. Here’s what’s [...]

Tiger Woods Scandal Pictures: Tiger Woods has been at the center of an alleged infidelity scandal ever since a single-car accident outside his home last Friday. The accident came two days after the National Enquirer published a story claiming that Woods was having an affair with a New York nightclub manager named Rachel Uchitel. Uchitel [...]

School Of Seven Bells are a band you must hear. Despite hailing from Brooklyn, the bands sound could easily be linked up with a series of minimalist electronica act gracing Northern Europe at the moment. A listen to their 2008 debut ‘Alpinisms’ evokes the glacial scenery of British duo Goldfrapp, the detached danceability of New [...]

Happy New Year! There’s probably some phrase for that in Hebrew, which we don’t actually know. Bear with us, we’re in Texas. Okay, we know we’re a little early, but come sundown, you’re not supposed to be using the computer, right? We think that’s how it works. And that’s why we’re wishing you a Happy [...]

Tiger Woods Christmas Card is a photoshopped picture below. Someone made fun of the Woods situation and used image editoring to create a fake Christmas Card greeting picture of Tiger Woods and Elin Woods. Spirit airlines and George Clooney have also referred to the Woods car accident bust up

The Boston Christmas Festival’s annual Gingerbread House Competition inspired the city’s pastry chefs to outdo themselves in 2008. Here are the winning entries.

84 Charing Cross Road is a 1970 book by Helene Hanff, later made into a stage play, television play and film, about the twenty-year correspondence between her and Frank Doel, chief buyer of Marks & Co, antiquarian booksellers located at the eponymous address in London, England. Hanff, in search of obscure classics and British literature titles she had been unable to find in New York City, noticed an ad in the Saturday Review of Literature and first contacted the shop in 1949, and it fell to Doel to fulfill her requests. In time, a long-distance friendship evolved, not only between the two, but between Hanff and other staff members as well, with an exchange of Christmas packages, birthday gifts, and food parcels to compensate for post-World War II food shortages in England