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Tiger Woods and new girlfriend party at poker charity bash

Tiger Woods and Lindsay Vonn were seen having a good time at the annual Tiger's Poker Night in Las Vegas on Friday. Before the bash at Moorea Beach Club Beachside Casino at Mandalay Bay began, a hotel employee spotted Woods entering the casino with a group of women, including Vonn, 28, Us magazine reported. The employee said that Woods looked like a hot mess, asserting that his hair was all ...
Did The Oprah Winfrey Show make O.J. Simpson snap

O.J. Simpson has recently revealed that he had been drinking for the whole day on Sept. 13, 2007, before he robbed two sports memorabilia dealers in a Las Vegas hotel. But sources close to the case think that it might be that watching "The Oprah Winfrey Show" that afternoon made Simpson impulsive, the New York Post reported. The family of Ronald Goldman, who was murdered along with Simpson's ...
Lion Fight Promotions hopes fans of fights get kicks watching Muay Thai

Lion Fight CEO Scott Kent, left; Yodsanklai Fairtex, center; and Vice President Christine Toledo are pictured after the Lion Fight 8 main event Jan. 25. Lion Fight was the first Muay Thai promotion to bring Fairtex to the U.S. He is the biggest star in the sport and a legend in ...
INTEL Google Glass ban Canvas Pop expansion and a slip of the tongue

Caesars won't have any of that. And we'd bet most other casinos won't, either. The New York Times reported recently that a Caesars Entertainment Corp. spokesman said, "We will not allow people to wear Glass while gambling or attending our shows." No, the spokesman wasn't referring to all glass, he was referring to Google's wearable computer that happens to be ...
Penn gracious after Apprentice defeat

"All-Star Celebrity Apprentice" contestant Penn Jillette, left, is shown with billionaire Donald Trump and Opportunity Village Associate Executive Director Linda Smith on Sunday night in New ...

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Spellbound [DVD]

Despite getting good reviews and several Oscar nominations when it was first released in 1945, in the long run, Alfred Hitchcock's Spellbound, the second of four films he would make with powerful independent producer David O. Selznick, has gotten a pretty bad rap. Consider that, in the lengthy, book-length interviews Franois Truffaut conducted with Hitchcock, the section on Spellbound ...

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Billboard awards mostly about show not prizes

Taylor Swift poses backstage with an armload of awards at the Billboard Music Awards on Sunday at the MGM Grand Garden. She won eight awards, including top artist and album of the ...
Focus and common sense required as Legislature nears end

Depressed by the lack of accomplishments so far as Nevada legislators seem to focus on social issues instead of serious financial issues? Last Friday was the day bills had to pass out of the second house committees, next Friday is the deadline to pass out of the second house, with the exception of budget bills. With four leaders who have never gone through the torture of closing a legislative ...
Reid opposes gay bias in workplace

Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nev., says it's possible he might call for a Senate vote this year on a bill prohibiting workplace discrimination against individuals based on their sexual ...
Audit raises questions about taxicab medallion regulation

Taxis wait to pick up passengers March 1 at McCarran International Airport. A Legislative Counsel Bureau audit report published in April recommended an overhaul for how medallions, the operating permits for Nevada taxicabs, are ...
Jury Begins Deliberation In Las Vegas Casino Case

Jurors have begun deliberations in a breach of contract case against casino giant Las Vegas Sands after hearing conflicting stories from lawyers about the role a Hong Kong businessman played in helping the company enter the lucrative Chinese gambling enclave of Macau. Sands attorney Richard Sauber said in his closing argument that the company knew about opportunities in Macau in the early 2000s ...

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Did 'The Oprah Winfrey Show' make O.J. Simpson snap?

O.J. Simpson has recently revealed that he had been drinking for the whole day on Sept. 13, 2007, before he robbed two sports memorabilia dealers in a Las Vegas hotel.

But sources close to the case think that it might be that watching "The Oprah Winfrey Show" that afternoon made Simpson impulsive, the New York Post reported.

The family of Ronald Goldman, who was murdered along with Simpson's ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson, were on "Oprah" to discuss the controversial book "If I Did It: Confessions of the Killer," just before Simpson entered the Palace Station Hotel to rob the dealers.

The book is a repackaged version of a 'fictitious' book Simpson had written titled simply, "If I Did It," based on the murders of which he was acquitted in 1995.

That project was scrapped, and the rights were handed over to the Goldman family after Simpson was ordered to pay 33 million dollars to the victims' families in a wrongful death civil suit.

The Goldmans appeared on "Oprah" the same day, the new version of book which included comments from the Goldmans was launched.

Kim Goldman, Ronald's sister, said on 'Oprah,' that it was sending him a message.

She had further said that he had spent hours putting together this 'confession' about how he killed Ron and Nicoleand he worked hard, thinking he was going to make millions off of it, but they snatched it from him. ...