FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE / SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

NHL & NHLPA REACH AGREEMENT ON EXTENDING DEADLINE FOR DECISION ON KOVALCHUK CONTRACT

TORONTO - NEW YORK (Sept. 1, 2010) - The National Hockey League and
the National Hockey League Players’ Association today mutually agreed to
extend the deadline by which the League must reach a decision on the
contract between the New Jersey Devils and Ilya Kovalchuk until 5:00 p.m.
ET Friday, Sept. 3.

Brazil. 2014. Disaster. →

And this is before we start talking safety issues. If you thought South Africa was bad…

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I don’t want to give you a wrong number, but — did you say 7,000? Multiply by ten. It was somewhere around 80,000 [gallons]. We were using very dense blood and we had to put that in the water. The amount of blood we had to pour in the lake was around that number.

It may be the most blood ever used, and it is violent and graphic somehow, but it’s never, I hope, disgusting or over-the-top. I didn’t make this movie to use that much blood. Because 20,000 kids getting attacked at spring break is a lot of blood in the water. I just respect the medical rules: one gallon equals one person.
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— Vulture with a vitally important Q&A.

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12 assists on 33 baskets? Not good for Team USA (although better than their shooting percentage).

It's so true. Painfully so.

But Trader Joe’s is no ordinary grocery chain. It’s an offbeat, fun discovery zone that elevates food shopping from a chore to a cultural experience. It stocks its shelves with a winning combination of low-cost, yuppie-friendly staples (cage-free eggs and organic blue agave sweetener) and exotic, affordable luxuries — Belgian butter waffle cookies or Thai lime-and-chili cashews — that you simply can’t find anyplace else.

and it looks like we might have a photo finish to the top of the crazy pantheon….

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There's something very Harry Potter about this

Perhaps Woods would have been able to withstand this horrible year if there were an actual person behind all the ads. But there isn’t. Athletes like Woods and LeBron James were raised to cultivate a brand identity, and when you’re raised that way, your brand identity becomes your actual identity. There’s no separating the two. Woods spent his entire life cultivating his image, and when that image was destroyed, he was destroyed. There was no actual person to fall back on. No separation of church and state.

When Tiger Woods had the image of being an indestructible force of nature, he was precisely that. He needed that reputation. It fed him. And now that it’s gone, he has nowhere else to draw strength from. Tiger Woods built his perfection upon the illusion of it. And that’s why, as far as major championships are concerned, Tiger Woods’s career is now over.