Literature professors ramble on about how George Orwell’s classic dystopian novel 1984 shadowed the global culture of technology and human capability (or enslaved inability). Joe Six-Pack from any street, USA will give you a detailed rundown of the NFL on Sundays like he’s a professor of ... Read more...
A drama based on the life of college football hero Ernie Davis, the first African-American to win the Heisman Trophy. Director: Gary Fleder Writers: Charles Leavitt, Robert Gallagher (book) Stars: Rob Brown, Dennis Quaid and Clancy Brown Read more...
Normally when you hear a story about an athlete from the old days having lots of medical work done, it's a boxer or football player. But this surgery saga is about an NBA legend. "Earl The Pearl" Monroe, who starred in the backcourt with Walt "Clyde" Frazier on the New York Knicks, is undergo... Read more...
Sadly, the grim reports that dominated the college football news cycle beginning Saturday evening were a precursor to the inevitable but still numbing reality: a coaching legend has passed. A family spokesperson confirmed to the Associated Press that Joseph Vincent Paterno has died at a Stat... Read more...
Maybe blacking out their Web sites would be over-kill, but the Internet giants could use other joint tactics to kill Stop Online Piracy Act off. With the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), Congress, at the request of big media, is still considering trying to censor the global Internet in the name o... Read more...
The Chicago Bears cut Sam Hurdon Friday, two days after the receiver was arrested on federal drug-dealing charges. Hurd was arrested on Wednesday night at Morton's The Steakhouse in Rosemont, Ill., and the criminal complaint against him describes the receiver as regularly dealing large amoun... Read more...
This stand up special is rooted in Patrice's unique views on topics we might have heard covered by other comics but not like this. Patrice not only makes every topic his own, he takes you places you may not have wanted to go making you laugh along the way. He covers race, sexual harassment, ... Read more...
Christopher Bonanos has written an excellent essay for the New York Timesabout another man who blended art and science to produce extraordinary products: Edwin Land of Polaroid. Steve Jobs idolized Edwin Land, and it's clear he learned a lot from him. Like Jobs, Land dropped out of college. Like... Read more...
It’s Bad For Ya, Carlin’s Emmy nominated 14th and final HBO special from March of 2008 features Carlin’s noted irreverent and unapologetic observations on topics ranging from death, religion, bureaucracy, patriotism, overprotected children and big business to the pungent examinations of mo... Read more...