I suppose teams who win their Conference title may have to re-think the old taboo about not touching the trophy. Pittsburgh proudly skated around with the Prince of Wales when they won the east, but Detroit wanted no part of the Clarence Campbell trophy because you just didn’t do that. That’s the way it’s been. Something about that not being the prize they’re after, the big one is yet to come. So another superstition flies out the window because it didn’t effect the Penguins one bit. Will teams

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This week, all the talk is about the D&AD Awards, and the winners of this year’s über-prestigous design and advertising contest. Notable this year was how many Black Pencils were awarded in the realm of graphic design, especially when compared to recent years when Graphic Design barely made a blip on the judges table. (in comparison to Advertising, the disparity was made even more apparent.) But the real Cinderella story of this year’s winners is that of Matthew Dent, a twentysomething d

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A Reuters newswire article by Stefano Ambrogi, via MSNBC.com , reports that: An ancient burial pit containing 45 severed skulls, that could be a mass war grave dating back to Roman times, has been found under a road being built for the 2012 British Olympics. Archaeologists, who have only just begun excavating the site, say they do not yet know who the bones might belong to. “We think that these dismembered bodies are likely to be native Iron Age Britons. The question is — how did

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Imagine this… You have just competed in the Olympic Games. You’ve won the gold medal for your country. Millions of fans are going absolutely crazy. You proudly hoist your medal high into the air as the National Anthem begins to play. Many, many years from now, you will be able to tell your grandchildren that you won an Olympic Gold Medal! “In what sport?” they ask. “Tetris,” you reply. It sounds crazy, doesn’t it? Well, not according to Henk Rogers, CEO of Blue Planet Soft

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Filed under: Carrie Prejean Former Miss Cali USA Carrie Prejean is steering clear of the Special Olympics tomorrow — and it’s all because her replacement is gonna be there and Carrie doesn’t want to make things awkward.We just spoke to Carrie’s attorney, who said Miss Cali … Permalink

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