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Dancing with the Stars: Who's Heading Home?

Posted: 30 Apr 2013 07:10 PM PDT

Andy Dick and Ingo Rademacher were at the bottom of the leader board going into Tuesday's elimination

Soccer Trick Makes for Incredible Alley-Oop

Posted: 30 Apr 2013 07:00 PM PDT

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What happens when you cross-breed soccer and basketball? This amazing alley-oop

It comes from a charity basketball game dunk contest, and features pro dunkers "Pat The Roc" and Gary "G" Smith. That's Mr. Roc with the sweet reverse heel-kick, and Mr. G with the authoritative finish

The highlight's YouTube description says it "might be the greatest alley-oop ever performed." We wouldn't go quite that far, but it is pretty dang cool. So check it out for yourself above, then let us know what you think in the comments





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Why are gay boyfriends so mean?

Posted: 30 Apr 2013 06:32 PM PDT

No matter what kind of relationship you are in, you alway...

When did Tony Gwynn hit his first home run?

Posted: 30 Apr 2013 06:31 PM PDT

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Who is the oldest person in the world in 2013?

Posted: 30 Apr 2013 06:20 PM PDT

Jiroemon Kimura is currently the oldest person alive righ...

Letter: Tobacco Use by Youths

Posted: 30 Apr 2013 06:20 PM PDT

A health educator endorses a New York City plan to raise the legal age for buying tobacco to 21.
    


Letter: Domestic Abuse Aftermath

Posted: 30 Apr 2013 06:20 PM PDT

A psychologist comments on the pop star Rihanna's relationship with the singer Chris Brown.
    


Letters: Working Out the Kinks in the Health Care Act

Posted: 30 Apr 2013 06:20 PM PDT

Writers look to history as they praise the expansion of health coverage.
    


Letters: How to Respond to the Syria Conflict

Posted: 30 Apr 2013 06:20 PM PDT

Readers discuss whether outsiders should intervene.
    


Op-Ed Columnist: Bottoms Up, Lame Duck

Posted: 30 Apr 2013 06:17 PM PDT

The president wants to build a permission structure for Congress when he needs to build a playpen.
    


Op-Ed Columnist: It’s a 401(k) World

Posted: 30 Apr 2013 06:09 PM PDT

In today's hyperconnected world, we all have to learn much more about investing in ourselves in order to succeed.
    


Editorial: President Obama and the Hunger Strike at Guantánamo

Posted: 30 Apr 2013 06:09 PM PDT

Mr. Obama promised, yet again, to close the prison in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. He has failed to keep that promise for five years.
    


Editorial: ‘Ghost Money,’ and Lots of It in Afghanistan

Posted: 30 Apr 2013 06:08 PM PDT

Americans need an accounting of the C.I.A.'s astounding cash payments to President Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan.
    


Editorial: Mayor Giuliani Is Hurting, Not Helping, the Lhota Campaign

Posted: 30 Apr 2013 06:08 PM PDT

Former Mayor Rudolph Giuliani is actually hurting, not helping, the Lhota campaign with all his talk of trampling the Constitution.
    


Opinionator: The Frankfurter Diaries

Posted: 30 Apr 2013 06:03 PM PDT

We have an attachment to the foods of childhood, often against our better judgment.
    


Room for Debate: Is Cursive Dead?

Posted: 30 Apr 2013 05:15 PM PDT

New public school curriculum standards in the U.S. do not require the teaching of script. But should students be taught it anyway?
    

Jason Collins Story Gives 'Sports Illustrated' Record Traffic Day

Posted: 30 Apr 2013 06:30 PM PDT

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We all knew it was coming, and finally it did: A male athlete in a major American pro sport came out as gay while still an active player

Twelve-year NBA veteran Jason Collins became that person on Monday morning, when Sports Illustrated posted an exclusive first-person account beginning, "I'm a 34-year-old NBA center. I'm black. And I'm gay."

The story instantly dominated Monday's news cycle, getting picked up by sports and non-sports outlets far and wide. Kobe Bryant, Bill Clinton and other celebrities tweeted their support to Collins, while general sentiment on Twitter was overwhelmingly positive. Collins himself later took to Twitter to thank people for the "truly inspirational" reaction to his announcement Read more...

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12 Famous Poets and Their Day Jobs

Posted: 30 Apr 2013 06:05 PM PDT

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Artists often need to supplement their incomes with something a little more substantial, and that especially goes for poets. For instance, did you know that Robert Frost ran a dairy farm to earn some extra cash? Or that Maya Angelou sang calypso music in a nightclub?

In this comic, on the last day of National Poetry Month, Grant Snider of Incidental Comics shows us several other poets' day jobs. Which one surprises you the most?

Day Jobs of Poets, Incidental Comics

Snider makes a few clarifications:

  • Wallace Stevens wasn't just any ordinary insurance salesman — he was an executive at an insurance company.

  • Philip Larkin was a librarian at the University of Hull.

  • Emily Dickinson had no known career other than poetry, but "her sister Lavinia was cat-obsessed. So Emily must have been forced to cat-sit occasionally." Read more...

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Will the tv show Glee be on the air in 2013?

Posted: 30 Apr 2013 05:21 PM PDT

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When is the Vampire Diaries TV show being aired?

Posted: 30 Apr 2013 05:20 PM PDT

Supposedly, they're still casting for the Vampire Diaries...