IF the galleries at last week’s British Open learned anything, it was: Don’t mess with Supermex, otherwise known as Lee Trevino.
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Negligent Homicide: The Case of the Sweat Lodge Guru
It was one of the more unusual crime scenes in American history. The slumping, tarpaulin-covered sweat lodge had disgorged dozens of victims onto the red dirt near Sedona, Arizona
Don’t Hold Your Breath
Double dip is not a term that a government keen to extricate itself from the economic-crisis-management business likes to hear. A couple of weeks ago, the Obama Administration was poised to switch to growth mode
Six Planets Will Be Aligning, but the Earth Will Not End
Good thing President Obama released his long-form birth certificate. Now we can all go back to worrying about an even greater threat than the possibility that the President is a Kenyan double agent: the much buzzed-about reports that the world is going to end in 2012
Society: Hipster Subculture Ripe for Parody
Hipsters are the friends who sneer when you cop to liking Coldplay. They’re the people who wear T-shirts silk-screened with quotes from movies you’ve never heard of and the only ones in America who still think Pabst Blue Ribbon is a good beer.
Fighting A Crippler
Imagine what it must be like to stroll down a street and then suddenly lurch like a drunkard. To see double images of a coffee cup, a friend’s face, a newspaper.
With Women So Scarce, What Can Men Do?
Liu Dehai and Hai Hongmei’s matrimonial bed is laid with a thick quilt embroidered with the characters for “double happiness,” words meant to augur good fortune for just-married Chinese couples. This should be a room of joy and hope, but Liu’s mother doesn’t want anyone investigating too closely.
Spencer Pratt ‘barely having sex’ with Heidi Montag
There are many things most people would rather not dwell upon when considering the facts behind the marriage between Heidi Montag and Spencer Pratt, perhaps the most reviled pairing in reality TV. Thank God sex isn’t really a fact in their marriage, according to Pratt
Bayern sunk again by Huszti free kick
Bayern Munich plummeted to ninth in the Bundesliga table as they crashed to a second consecutive league defeat with a 1-0 loss at Hanover on Saturday as Hamburg returned to the top. After being crushed 5-2 at home to Werder Bremen the week before,the reigning champions Bayern slumped again and goalkeeper Michael Rensing was wrong-footed when Szabolcs Huszti fired in a free kick after 23 minutes
Renault refer Nelson Piquet Jr. to police
The Renault Formula One team have commenced legal proceedings against former driver Nelson Piquet Junior over allegations made by the Brazilian that he was asked by the team to deliberately crash his car in last year’s Singapore Grand Prix. It has been claimed that Renault boss, Flavio Briatore, in order to maximize the chances of Fernando Alonso winning the 2008 race, planned the crash of teammate Piquet Jr.