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[Kel Mitchell]

From the LA Times:

Will Tiger Woods ever be the same?

For years he dominated golf in such a way that most players figured they were continually playing for second place. Now after Thursday's development at the Players Championship in Pontre Vedra Beach, Fla., the question becomes even louder: Will the new Tiger Woods ever become the old Tiger Woods again?

Woods, after shooting a six-over-par 42 on the front nine of his opening round, withdrew from the tournament because of a lingering knee injury that has become such an issue since his dramatic win in the 2008 U.S. Open at Torrey Pines that questions of his return to the top can't be brushed aside.

Woods told reporters after he made the decision, "The knee acted up and then the Achilles followed after that and then the calf started cramping up. Everything started getting tight, so it's just a whole chain reaction."

Woods has not won a major championship since the Open at Torrey Pines in 2008 and has not won a tour event since September 2009. He has played in five PGA Tour events this year, but not since finishing tied for fourth at the Masters.

Woods didn't indicate Thursday when he might play again, saying he'd have to confer with his doctors, but this development certainly doesn't bode well for his chances to play at the second major of the year, the U.S. Open at Congressional just outside Washington, D.C., June 16-19. That's a course -- compounded by always-challenging Open conditions -- that will not be kind to any player who hasn't gotten his game in shape beforehand.

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[Kenan Thompson]

Instead of focusing on redeeming himself in his rematch bout against Jean Pascal in Montreal for the WBC and The Ring magazine light heavyweight championship on May 21, legendary boxer Bernard Hopkins chose to talk trash about Donovan McNabb during press...(read more)

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[Georgie Thompson]

Wales rising star George North has his fingers crossed he has done enough to earn a place at the World Cup.

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[NASA]

This site, near Mawrth Vallis is intriguing for several reasons. First of all, there are lots of little knobs and plateaus that may expose layers of sedimentary rock. As on Earth, sedimentary rock on Mars is expected to hold clues to the conditions under which it formed - clues to the past environment and climate. Second, many of the larger, darker plateaus appear fairly round. Typically Mars' surface is pock-marked with round depressions of impact craters. However, these round areas are raised up relative to the surroundings. This may be an example of inverted topography, in which an impact depression may have become filled with material which was, or became, harder than the surrounding terrain, and thus was more resistant to later erosion. Example materials may be solidified molten rock created during the impact event, or sediments that hardened due to alteration by water ponding within the crater. Third, clay minerals, called phyllosilicates, have been detected here by other spacecraft instruments. Clays are exciting because they indicate there was most likely water around here long ago. Determining which layers and knobs contain the clays, and how widespread they are, will help scientists determine how much water existed here and for how long. This site has been deemed so interesting that it is under consideration for a visit by a future landed rover. Written by: Patrick Russell

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[NASA]

The Cassini spacecraft looks toward the dark side of Saturn's largest moon and captures the halo-like ring produced by sunlight scattering through the periphery of Titan's atmosphere. A detached, high-altitude global haze layer encircles Titan. See Titan's Halo to learn more. This view looks toward the trailing hemisphere of Titan (5,150 kilometers, or 3,200 miles across). North on Titan is up. The image was taken with the Cassini spacecraft narrow-angle camera on Nov. 26, 2010 using a spectral filter sensitive to wavelengths of ultraviolet light centered at 338 nanometers. The view was obtained at a distance of approximately 1.9 million kilometers (1.2 million miles) from Titan and at a Sun-Titan-spacecraft, or phase, angle of 154 degrees. Image scale is 12 kilometers (7 miles) per pixel. The Cassini-Huygens mission is a cooperative project of NASA, the European Space Agency and the Italian Space Agency. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, manages the mission for NASA's Science Mission Directorate in Washington. The Cassini orbiter and its two onboard cameras were designed, developed and assembled at JPL. The imaging team is based at the Space Science Institute, Boulder, Colo.

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[PokerNews]

The PokerStars European Poker Tour Grand Final is in the books and Ivan Freitez bested the field to take home the title. Read on for a recap of the action.

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[BluffMagazine]

Your EPT Grand Final Champ (Photo courtesy of PokerStars Blog/Neil Stoddart) When the final table of the PokerStars.com European Poker Tour Grand Final in Madrid began, it was South American Team PokerStars Pro Alex Gomes in the spotlight, as he made his push to take poker’s Triple Crown. SUCKINGHOBBITDICKSBy the time the final table ended, a [...]

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[CardPlayer]

The winner of the PokerStars European Poker Tour Grand Final main event came after much anticipation. The event got down to four before there was a break for the season …

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[Carl Culture]

A new site is now up selling some high end and very cool “Star Trek” artwork – some even on canvas. SUCKINGHOBBITDICKSThere are some lower priced items too. SUCKINGHOBBITDICKSSee it all HERE.



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[Kel Mitchell]

Filed under: News, Media

With at least two new television networks set to launch this year, it looks there will be loads of must-see programming for multicultural audiences. Bounce TV, a channel aimed at African Americans, has announced its entry into niche-network television and now comes Karmaloop TV, an off-shoot of the popular online urban fashion retailer. Earlier this week, Deadline.com reported that Pharrell Williams, the poly-hyphenate musician and entrepreneur, has been named creative director of the new television channel which is set to premiere in the latter part of 2011.
Karmaloop TV, which is partly funded by Insight Venture Partners and has an equity and representation deal with United Talent Agency, is headed by Katie McEnroe, former president of AMC network. Karmaloop entered the online fray with its Web video site KarmaloopTV in 2008. The company's channel is the 18th most viewed on YouTube. The forthcoming Karmaloop TV network, much like its website, will focus on the 18-34 demographic, specifically those who are into the latest technology, and urban culture trends, thus making Williams' appointment to creative director a natural choice.

In a press statement, Karmaloop CEO Greg Selkoe said, "Pharrell is, without a doubt, one of the most influential cultural creative and business minds in America today." Selkoe also said with Williams' position, Karmaloop is in a prime position to "excite cutting-edge youth culture about TV, just as MTV once did in the 1980s."

Williams, who has equity stake in the venture, added to Selkoe's sentiments on KarmaloopTV.com in a video announcement of his new position. "These kids tell us that we've changed their lives," said Williams. "And we want to continue to do it, by bringing programming that's effective...not only changing their mentality, but lifts their mentality. "

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