Georgia Tech is No. 1 among one-loss teams
NBC Sports
Odds of reaching a BCS bowl: 25-to-1. Two requirements: win out and hope Boise State stumbles. Insert your own slim-and-none joke here. Curtis' prediction: 10-3, with losses to TCU and Oregon State in Las Vegas Bowl Next game: Saturday vs. ...
Ricky Gervais' tipsy host joke
Boston Globe
Ricky Gervais has joked he will host the Golden Globe Awards "drunk". The British comic star - who will be the first person to front the ceremony solo since 1995 - insists he isn't going to stress about his preparations for the ceremony whi...
Wire Tap: Smith no longer a joke
CNN Sports Illustrated
Alex Smith was the punch line to a number of fantasy jokes this offseason. Now the former No. 1 overall NFL Draft choice is a legitimate waiver wire consideration thanks to his near-perfect performance in the second half of last week's loss...
Live blog: Fiat talks 5-year plan
Detroit Free Press
Attributing the joke to Al Gore, he said he feels like Zsa Zsa Gabor's fifth husband. "I know what I'm supposed to do. I just don't know if I can make it interesting." Marchionne arrives 11:04 a.m. | The show is about to start. Sergio and c...
New weekly comedy night
Hindustan Times
As a sample joke, he says: “I’ve been following the Australian Indian cricket series and it annoys me when they cut to the ads in the middle of a match. I mean, half the cricketers feature in the ads anyway, why don’t they just get them to ...
Raps ranked #24 a joke
CBS Sports
Sure one game proves nothing but anyone who watched tonights game has to admit a certain writer's power rankings placing this team at #24 shows a total lack of understanding of basketball. This is an athletic team with some talent. Are they...
CHRISTOPHER HART: Can't take a joke about a chocolate Hobnob? Have ...
Daily Mail
Once again, the BBC has provided us all with a good laugh. Unfortunately, once again it's done this not by putting out some fresh, brilliant, gilt-edged new sitcom, but by the Corporation's management being really, really silly. The rumpus ...
Exclusive: 'Real Housewives' Giudice and Laurita check into 'Mercy'
Entertainment Weekly Online
And the award for wackiest cross-promotional stunt of the season goes to… The upcoming crossover between NBC medical drama Mercy and Bravo’s Real Housewives of New Jersey . No joke! Sources confirm to me exclusively that Real Housewives sta...
Can Stephen Colbert Save the U.S. Speedskating Team?
YAHOO!
We're not viewing this as a joke at all," says Crowley. Colbert really is throwing U.S. Speedskating a lifeline. The Dutch bank had been the American team's most generous benefactor (speedskating is huge in the Netherlands) but a run on the...
Executive pay crackdown is a joke
CNN Money
NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- What do you know? The suits at troubled finance firm GMAC must like working for less money. How else to explain that GMAC is reportedly trying to get a third helping of government rescue funds? GMAC is one of the ...
Women students take lead roles at Ga. Tech
Atlanta Journal Constitution
You don’t hear that joke today. Men still outnumber women more than two-to-one, but, as of last year, women led 42 percent of student groups. This year, the presidents of the undergraduate and graduate student government associations are wo...
WA teen arrested in death threat he says was joke
Seattle Times
A 16-year-old boy who police say walked into a classroom with his hands extended as if clasping a pistol and told a teacher he had been hired to kill her soon found himself in handcuffs and his school in lockdown. Spokane County sheriff's s...
Colleague 'didn't kill in temper'
BBC UK News
Mr Reszpondek admitted buying her a vibrator but said that was a joke on her birthday. Shallow grave Earlier he was asked about his visit in the dark to the shallow grave in a field in Erddig, Wrexham, in March, where he dug a trench exposi...
I Salute the President — of USC
NewsMax.com
But the joke was that you could get only so high in academic ratings (as opposed to, say, sports rankings) with USC at the beginning of your name. The college was not so well-regarded, and universities are judged by their undergraduate prog...
Some Refugees Say Offensive A Joke
Post Chronicle
Some Pakistanis escaping the military's offensive in South Waziristan say they think the campaign is only a "drama" to please the United States. Public support for the offensive remains in question because people are afraid of the Taliban, ...
