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The NBA has ended its investigation into recent allegation made by Houston Rockets head coach Jeff Van Gundy. Commissioner David Stern fined Van Gundy $100,000 and threatened to ban him from the league for comments he made about NBA officials. Van Gundy has since clarified that the “official” he claimed was the source of the [...]

Paul Pierce tried to end the season for Boston tonight. Lucky for him, he failed. The Indiana Pacers were handed a golden opportunity to clinch the series after second year player Kendrick Persons missed two free throws. They failed. The game went into overtime and the Celtics pulled out the victory [...]

Can anyone explain to me why last night’s cable news docket was filled with speculation about how jilted Georgia groom John Mason could possibly still want to marry Jennifer Wilbanks, the woman who faked her own kidnapping to run off for a Las Vegas sojourn? Mason put the engagement ring that Wilbanks left behind [...]

The recent life and times of Houston Rockets’ coach Jeff Van Gundy have been a wild ride. His team won the first two games of its best-of-seven playoff series at Dallas, but has since turned in a three-loss tankjob — two of those losses at home — to reach the brink of elimination. [...]

Michael Jackson’s ex-wife, Debbie Rowe, the mother of two of the King of Pop’s children, is expected to take the witness stand this week in Jackson’s child molestation trial. A judge ruled on yesterday that Rowe may take the stand against Jackson. She is expected to testify that she was part of a [...]

Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-TN) is not interested in a Democratic proposal to allow select judges an up or down vote in exchange for pulling other judges out of consideration. Illinois Democrat Dick Durbin said yesterday that a compromise could probably be reached if the Republicans were willing to drop the most objectionable [...]

Forgent Networks has initiated a suit against Microsoft for allegedly infringing on its compression patent known as “The ‘672 Patent“. Microsoft had originally filed a complaint seeking a declaratory judgment “noninfringement, invalidity and unenforceability of the ‘672 Patent.” Forget’s complaint stems from Microsoft’s use of the compression technology in the popular JPEG image [...]

John Bolton’s nomination to become the American ambassador to the United Nations is becoming the latest roller coaster ride in a string of contested confirmations. A Senate committee vote on Bolton’s nomination has already been postponed until May 12th, leading Senator Arlen Specter (R-PA) to call the race “too close to call.” Whether or not [...]

Joseph Ratzinger of Germany, recently named Pope Benedict XVI by the papal conclave, thought of ascending to the papacy as a “guillotine”. He said he prayed, asking God that he not be elected the 265th supreme pontiff, but “evidently this time He didn’t listen to me.” ABC News reports: For the first time since [...]

When Dan Rather rode off into the sunset at CBS News, it was said that he’d still do a few stories every now and then. Last night was an all-star performance, as Rather sat down for some tips from some of America’s top poker players. (See the video here.) Dan Rather was [...]