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President Obama Plays Defender for England’s World Cup Team?
President Barack Obama is a huge sports fan and a pretty good basketball player—but he does not play defender for England’s national soccer team. That is the mistake one souvenir company recently made when it put the president’s face on a commemorative mug where England player Chris Smalling’s face should have appeared, the New York…
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Cedars-Sinai to Train Barbers in Los Angeles to Check Black Men for Hypertension
Imagine going to the barbershop to get a tight fade and coming out with a clean bill of health. Thanks to an $8.5 million grant from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute to Cedars-Sinai, that could soon be a reality. Some 20 Los Angeles black barbershop employees will be trained to check patrons for…
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#PrisonBae Jeremy Meeks’ Wife Isn’t Happy With All the Attention
Jeremy Ray Meeks—aka #prisonbae, as he is known on Twitter—was arrested on June 18 along with four other men during a gang sweep. Meeks was sent to California’s San Joaquin County Jail. Last week his mug shot was posted on a police department’s Facebook page. The women of the Internets went nuts. On Friday Meeks…
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Baylor Basketball Star’s Career Cut Short After Medical Diagnosis
Former Baylor star Isaiah Austin was projected to be a late first-round pick in the NBA draft later this week, but a routine physical at a scheduled combine revealed a serious medical condition that has halted his pursuit of a career playing professional basketball. According to ESPN, early test results showed that Austin had an…
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Model Prisoner: Handsome Inmate’s Mug Shot Goes Viral
A Northern California man arrested during a police gang sweep was all the rage on social media Thursday after his mug shot was posted to the Stockton Police Department’s Facebook Page. “How much is his bail?” wrote one woman on the photo’s Facebook comments. “Probation/parole at my house,” wrote another. Jeremy Meeks, 30, was taken…
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NC Teen Arrested for Calling 911 Because Mom Took Her Cellphone
North Carolina police arrested a teen after she called 911 because she was upset that her mother had grounded her and taken away her cellphone. According to ABC 11 News, police arrived at 16-year-old Jasmyne Keyonia Davis’ home a little after midnight Tuesday after the emergency operators received a call from a female who was…
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Justine Sacco, PR Exec Fired for Racist Africa Tweet, Working for Hot or Not
What happens when an Internet relic and an infamous tweeter join forces? Who knows, but it’s bound to be exciting. BuzzFeed is reporting that the once wildly popular site Hot or Not—which showed subscribers photos and allowed viewers to vote on whether the person was hot or not—is relaunching, and you will never guess who has…
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Watch: Samuel L. Jackson Nails Pulp Fiction Speech 20 Years Later
It is arguably the coolest, smoothest and coldest hit man scene ever: Samuel L. Jackson as Jules Winnfield in Pulp Fiction reciting an Ezekiel Bible verse right before he shoots somebody. It is probably the cult scene in the cult classic. But that was 20 years ago, and Jackson, 65, has starred in a gazillion…
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Watch: Pa. Man Punched in Face by Teen Playing ‘Knockout Game’
Six teens approached a Pennsylvania man sitting at a trolley stop. One teen walked up close to the man and without warning punched him in the face while the other teens recorded the assault, leading officials to believe that the attack could be another chapter in the violent “knockout game” saga that peppered the news…
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‘Mr. Padre’ Tony Gwynn Dies of Cancer at Age 54
Tony Gwynn, the Hall of Fame slugger whose career netted a lifetime batting average of .338 and some 3,141 hits over 20 seasons with the San Diego Padres, lost his fight with cancer on Monday, ESPN reports. According to ESPN, Gwynn 54—who won eight National League batting titles and played in both of the Padres’…
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