If LeBron James really wants to try football, Eric Mangini will find room on his roster. “I think he should come on down,” the Browns coach tells the Cleveland Plain Dealer. “The guy’s a freak athletically.” James may be an NBA star now, but he played wide receiver in high school. He opined on Monday Night Football that, if he dedicated himself to football, “I could be really good.” “I could be a split tight end like Gates or Gonzalez,”... [Read more]
Anne Hathaway has been offered a role in Spider-Man 4. The former Disney star, who earned an Oscar nod for her role in the 2008 film Rachel Getting Married, is the latest actress rumored to be up for the role of vampy villain Black Cat in the hotly-anticipated fourth Spider-Man; Julia Stiles, Rachel McAdams and Romola Garai have all been linked to the project in recent weeks. (Check out Anne Hathaway gallery here!) According to Deadline Hollywood,... [Read more]
Kellogg Co. says there will be a nationwide shortage of its popular Eggo frozen waffles until next summer because of interruptions in production at two of the four plants that make them. The company’s Atlanta plant was shut down for an undisclosed period by a September storm that dumped historic amounts of rain in the area. Meanwhile, several production lines at its largest bakery in Rossville, Tenn., are closed indefinitely for repairs, company... [Read more]
Nicole Richie has been admitted to a Los Angeles hospital and is being treated for pneumonia. Her representative says she’s doing well. Publicist Nicole Perna said Wednesday the 28-year-old actress checked herself into Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. Richie was in a Los Angeles courtroom earlier this week after asking for a restraining order against two celebrity photographers. A judge granted that request. Richie costarred with Paris Hilton on... [Read more]
It’s the final ACC game on the schedule for No. 20 Miami, and the Hurricanes do expect to have sophomore star QB Jacory Harris in their home finale for 2009. Harris, who threw a career-high four picks in last week’s loss at North Carolina, has been wearing a soft cast this week because of pain in a finger on his right (throwing) hand, but he is expected to play Saturday against Duke. Harris said there is some soreness in his hand after... [Read more]
If you go simply by the numbers, then Friday’s game between No. 6 Boise State and Utah State shouldn’t be remotely close, and the Broncos are in fact 23.5-point favorites on WagerWeb.com. But the numbers don’t always tell the whole story, and that might be the case here. First off, it’s the final road game of the season for the Broncos. But more important is that Nevada awaits Boise next week in a game that will not only decide the... [Read more]
Former MySpace pin-up Tila Tequila — who sued former flame Shawne Merriman for $1.5 million and christened... [more]
Actress Sofia Vergara left viewers shocked after making an ill-advised ‘rape joke’ on U.S. television. The... [more]
“Twilight” fans may be obsessed with Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson kissing both on and off the big screen... [more]
Anne Hathaway has been offered a role in Spider-Man 4. The former Disney star, who earned an Oscar nod for her... [more]
Drinking alcohol every day cuts the risk of heart disease in men by more than a third, a major study suggests. The... [more]
Reminiscent of Star Trek phasers and ray guns seen in Sci-fi movies and comic books, Canadian scientists are reporting... [more]
AOL says it plans to cut about a third of its work force once it is spun off from the media conglomerate Time Warner... [more]
A devoted husband strangled his wife while having a nightmare that she was an intruder who had broken into the... [more]
We’ve all read about bonehead criminals getting caught because of social networks, or people’s online lives... [more]
Intel Corp. is paying $1.25 billion to Advanced Micro Devices Inc., its largest rival in the market for computer... [more]
Sources say Project Natal, the innovative controller-free 360 camera, will be released worldwide in November 2010. This... [more]
As many as 600,000 Xbox 360s were banned from the Xbox Live service this week in the latest in a series of crackdowns... [more]
If the Indianapolis Colts don’t lose Sunday in Baltimore, they may get through the regular season unscathed... [more]
This should be a total mismatch right? The Saints are NFL’s highest-scoring team (36.8 points per game),... [more]
This is another one of those NFC matchups that could prove vital as a wild-card tiebreaker down the road, and the... [more]
It’s the first game of the post-Dick Jauron era for the Bills, and interim Buffalo coach Perry Fewell wasted... [more]