Game of Thrones is back

Spoiler alert: this talks about plot points of season 3 episode 1 Spirits soared higher than those ever-growing dragons as Game of Thrones finally returned to our screens – and just a matter of hours behind US audiences. So what did we learn And was the episode all it was cracked up to be There is, as ever in the land of Westeros, much to discuss (Spoiler alert: for those that haven’t watched the episode yet, firstly, what are you waiting for, secondly, come back tomorrow for a full-length recap, and thirdly, what are you waiting for) Power hungry Daenerys escaped Qarth – notably by sea in her new boat – but couldn’t quite get out of the reach of the pesky warlocks

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The Game’s Alleged Victim Says: He SUCKER PUNCHED Me At Lil Wayne’s Party

  The Game fights dirty — at least according to rapper 2Eleven, who says Game sucker punched him at Lil Wayne’s birthday party last week … and that’s why Game got his ass kicked out.   2Eleven Had No Idea The Game Wanted To Fight With Him 2Eleven tells us, he had no idea Game even wanted to […]

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Game, Sex and Match: The Perils of Female Sports Advertising

How you feel about Kim Clijsters doing a split in a frilly orange skirt probably depends on your reaction to a well-oiled Caroline Wozniacki serving a tennis ball into a wind machine. Then again, these provocative scenarios, which form part of the Women’s Tennis Association’s new “Strong is Beautiful” advertising campaign, seem tame compared to the spot starring Belarusian tennis ace Victoria Azarenka.

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South Korea Gaming Curfew to Battle Video-Game Addiction

Ever since Yoon Hyuk-joo, a 16-year-old in Seoul, started playing the popular computer game StarCraft eight years ago, studying has taken the backseat. For six hours every day in dim, smoky Internet cafs known in the South Korean capital as “PC Bangs,” Yoon leads a squad of soldiers in Battlefield Online and then maims the undead in Counter-Strike: Zombies

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NHL Playoffs: Can Canada Regain the Stanley Cup?

Anaheim, Dallas, Raleigh, Tampa: To the 34 million citizens of Canada, the country that invented the game of hockey, the Stanley Cup belongs in these cities about as much as tropical beaches belong in Saskatoon. Yet, in the almost two decades since the last time a Canadian team won the Cup — Montreal defeated Wayne Gretzky and the Los Angeles Kings in the 1993 Finals — these southern and western American cities have all hoisted the Cup in triumph.

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