they say he was drinking

Fan Swipes Ball Out of Favre's hand

Poor Grant Hill

Magic's Hill sidelined with sports hernia - Yahoo! News: "Orlando Magic All-Star forward
Grant Hill will miss three to six weeks of play after being diagnosed with a sports hernia.... A sports hernia can be a tear or rupture in the groin area, whereas a hernia affects the abdominal wall."

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It Just Won't Die

Zero Wing Rhapsody - All your base set to Queen

Larry Bird Inspires Man's Longer Jail Term

Yahoo: A man got a prison term longer than prosecutors and defense attorneys had agreed to — all because of Celtics great Larry Bird.

The lawyers reached a plea agreement Tuesday for a 30-year term for a man accused of shooting with an intent to kill and robbery. But Eric James Torpy wanted his prison term to match Bird's jersey number 33.

"He said if he was going to go down, he was going to go down in Larry Bird's jersey," Oklahoma County District Judge Ray Elliott said Wednesday. "We accommodated his request and he was just as happy as he could be.

"I've never seen anything like this in 26 years in the courthouse. But, I know the DA is happy about it."

Feel My Sting

A small but highly efficient killing machine lurks in the mountains of Japan—the Japanese giant hornet. The voracious predator pumps out a dose of venom with an enzyme so strong it can dissolve human tissue. Just a handful of these hornets can kill 30,000 European honeybees within hours. Watch an attack of giant hornets on a beehive, and learn the surprising secret that Japanese honeybees use in their defense. View video here

Los Bravos update

Fox News: "The Evansville Police Department says popular mexican restaurant chain, Los Bravos, is not responsible for a rash of stolen credit card numbers.
Police Chief Brad Hill is shedding more light on the investigation into those stolen numbers.
He says the company that installed credit card machines at the tudor lane restaurant did not equip it with the proper encrypting software.
That resulted in 59 seperate cases of credit card theft and over $66,000 in fradulant purchases.
Chief Hill says the thefts were the result of system hackers, and *not* the fault of restaurant staff.
Restaurant owner Anna Bravos says the public has supported her through the ordeal.
Police continue their investigation in to the company that installed the credit card processing software."

Izzy

St. Louis Cardinals : News : St. Louis Cardinals News: "Isringhausen entered in the eighth with the Cards trailing, 4-2, and vanquished the Astros easily.

But the joint was still giddy with Lidge facing hitter Nos. 8, 9 and 1. He fanned the first two. But David Eckstein worked a single on a good one-strike pitch, Jim Edmonds drew a walk, and Pujols crashed a two-strike pitch for a no-doubt home run.

Only Isringhausen couldn't fully enjoy the moment.

'I was worried about me going back out there and getting three outs, because if I was to go out there and screw that one up, I wouldn't be able to go home,' Isringhausen said.

He hates Minute Maid Park, and he has numbers to back him. In 13 previous regular- and postseason appearances there, he had given up seven earned runs in 16 1/3 innings, and seen three home runs sail. And allowing any baserunner would have meant he would have faced Astros slugger Lance Berkman, whose three-run homer off Chris Carpenter in the seventh -- the kind of pop to the left-field porch that makes Isringhausen grit his teeth and differentiate Minute Maid from 'a real ballpark' -- had driven the place to bedlam.

'The last thing we need is more dramatics in this place,' he said.

'They were in the same situation in the ninth that we were in the ninth, except they had a two-run lead and we had a one-run lead,' Cardinals manager Tony La Russa said. 'So if one guy gets on, it's Berkman. If two guys get on, it's [Morgan] Ensberg, who's been tough on Izzy. So it was a great 1-2-3.'"

Trust me, Izzy wasn't the only one who couldn't enjoy the lead knowing he had to go back out there.

seriously

Yahoo! News: "Sylvester Stallone is signing on to reprise his role as boxer Rocky Balboa in the sixth installment of the long-running film series, which he wrote and will direct.
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The film, titled 'Rocky Balboa,' will be co-produced and co-financed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Columbia Pictures and Revolution Studios and will be distributed by Columbia Pictures.

Stallone has been trying to make a sixth movie for years and has been reworking a script. The latest version, which sources said is similar to the tone and grit of the first two movies, persuaded the studios to negotiate a deal.

'In many ways, the screenplay really took me back to the original 'Rocky,'' Revolution Studios founder Joe Roth said in a statement. 'As a past champion, Rocky Balboa is once again a regular guy who has to find himself and deal with real life. This film brings Rocky's story full circle.'

In the new installment, Rocky, lonely and retired in Philadelphia, comes out of retirement, intending to fight a few low-profile local fights. He's approached to fight a match with reigning heavyweight champ Mason 'The Line' Dixon, and soon his comeback ignites a media firestorm.

''Rocky Balboa' is about everybody who feels they want to participate in the race of life, rather than be a bystander,' Stallone said in a statement. 'You're never too old to climb a mountain, if that's your desire.'"

This is sweet news!

Duke will be on run - The Boston Globe: "The Duke coach will no longer have to call a halfcourt defense to save the legs of players pressed into 40 minutes of action or spurn chances to push the ball upcourt.

After a year with little help from the bench, the Blue Devils are promising to play the kind of sprint-to-the-finish offense and pressure defense that has been a staple of Krzyzewski's time here."

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Fifth Generation iPod Now Plays Music, Photos & Video

Yahoo! Finance: "Apple today introduced the new iPod, featuring a gorgeous 2.5-inch color screen which can display album artwork and photos, and play stunning video including music videos, video Podcasts, home movies and television shows. The new iPod holds up to 15,000 songs, 25,000 photos or over 150 hours of video and is available in a 30GB model for $299 and a 60GB model for $399, with both models available in stunning white or black designs.

'The new iPod is the best music player ever -- it's 30 percent thinner and has 50 percent more storage than its predecessor -- yet it sells for the same price and plays stunning video on its 2.5-inch color screen,' said Steve Jobs, Apple's CEO. 'Because millions of people around the world will buy this new iPod to play music, it will quickly become the most popular portable video player in history.'"

Apple Introduces Video-Playing IPod

Yahoo! News: "Apple Computer Inc. unveiled Wednesday an iPod capable of playing videos, the latest creation in its ever-evolving and hugely popular line of portable media players."

Nomar

ESPN.com - MLB - Nomar credited with saving two from Boston Harbor: "Former Red Sox shortstop Nomar Garciaparra rescued two women who had fallen into Boston Harbor late last week, his uncle and a witness told the Boston Herald."

Who's up for some scrabble?

NSA Tournament Listings: "INDIANAPOLIS, IN
JANUARY 21, 2006
Saturday 9:30 A.M. 7 rounds
Format: Round Robin
Entry Fee: $40
$50 if received after 1/7. Must pre-register by 1/15. Incl. ticket to Bulls vs Pacers game & 5$ donation to Pacers Foundation.
Location: Conseco Fieldhouse
Address: 125 S. Pennsylvania St.
Contact Name Address Phone E-mail
Jim Bryant 1497 E. County Rd. 800 S. Clayton IN 46118 (317) 539-2339/374-0124 ssj3goku750@juno.com
Accessible to the disabled."

Python Eats Gator, Stomach Ruptures

WPBFNews.com - Family: "A python's eyes were apparently bigger than its stomach.

Scientists in Florida are puzzling over a Burmese python that scarfed down a six-foot alligator before its stomach ruptured.

They found the carcasses in an isolated part of Florida's Everglades National Park. Photos show the gator's hind legs and tail sticking out of the 13-foot snake's ruptured gut.

The Miami Herald reported that scientists can't figure out how the snake got the critter down. The snake's head is also missing.

Experts say the clash is interesting, but it also shows the exotic snakes are competing with gators to top the food chain in the Everglades."

car company?

"Burton Car company is the coolest and biggest Sportscar manufacturer in The Netherlands and with around 2000 m2 Burton Car Company is also one of the biggest 2CV shops of the world. Burton Car Company has the cheapest on-line shop, builds Burtons and 2CV pick-ups, does 2CV tuning with a specialist, is Lomax importer, has a proffessional service shop etc."

West Side Nut Club Fall Festival

Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: "The festival was first held in 1924 and has featured an appearance by Minnie Pearl in 1947."

YourMom!

YourMom! for geeks: "Your Mom is so stupid, she uploads executables in ASCII mode"

son of Nicolas

Yahoo! News: "Oscar-winning actor Nicolas Cage's wife of 14 months gave birth on Monday to the couple's first child together, a son they named Kal-el -- a moniker recognized by comic book fans as the birth name of Superman."