In one year, the 2014 World Cup kicks off in Brazil. Richard Swanson died last month while trying to walk from Seattle to São Paulo in time for the first match.
The book is better than the movie. Or TV show. And the movie is inevitably better than the video game, right? It's an article of faith: The first thing is the best thing. But it's not so clear that's the case with HBO's "Game of Thrones" and its source material, George R.R. Martin's "A Song of Ice and Fire."
In terms of career management, Cooper has, in the last year, emerged as one of the only youngish leading men outside the Affleck-Clooney-Damon-Ocean's orbit who knows exactly how to maximize his opportunities.
During the 2003 World Series of Poker, an amateur named Moneymaker turned $39 into $2.5 million and the poker boom was born.
LSV is a way to measure exactly how much worth a lead vocalist/entertainer/person who gets people off has for a band he or she is fronting. Don't feel bad if you've never heard of LSV, because I hadn't either. I made it up this weekend.
In interviews he gave while on house arrest, Gunplay presented himself as carefree, bragging about all the free time he had to play "Call of Duty: Black Ops" and have sex. To me, he describes a more stressful scene.
The Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race pushes participants to the brink on an unforgiving trek to the end of the world. And, as one writer who tracked the race by air discovers, that is exactly the point.
That ridiculous $50 million number "The Hollywood Reporter" threw out as Downey's paycheck for The Avengers? Totally true!
For three weeks during the summer of 1998, Kobe Bryant lived in the mansion of hip-hop executive Steve Stoute, who tried to launch his career. Basketball came naturally to Kobe, but what happened to the music?
Unearthing a major disaster to learn the lessons held within.
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