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Nevada casinos and online gambling sites will take in tens of millions of dollars in Super Bowl bets this year. A good percentage of that take will come from ''prop bets.'' Many of these have to do with football—the number of touchdown passes Peyton Manning will throw, for instance. Others are a bit divorced from the on-field action: the number of ...

It's no big secret that Hollywood churns out sequels and remakes. Looking over a list of the potential blockbusters of summer 2010—Iron Man 2 and Shrek Forever After among them—gives one the feeling, however, that moviedom has finally, pitifully, totally run out of ideas. Below I've compiled a list of 11 sequels and adaptations scheduled to ...

In Sweden, Christmas is a time for the whole family to gather around the television and watch a duck. Here in America, the Christmas fare is covered with fur. On a recent Sunday evening, pooch-loving tube watchers had to choose between simultaneously airing made-for-TV canine holiday films. In CBS' A Dog Named Christmas, based on the novel of the ...

Friday's draw for the 2010 World Cup in South Africa was half infomercial, half key party. First came the propaganda: a succession of performances centered on the message that South Africans are jovial types who wouldn't dare screw up soccer's grandest event. A video depicting elephants, lions, and ostriches kicking a soccer ball around the ...

Tiger Woods is being called a sext-happy philanderer by the National Enquirer, is getting hounded by the Florida Highway Patrol, and is facing the possibility that his wife could go to jail for domestic abuse. On the plus side, Woods made the cover of the upcoming issue of Golf Digest. The cover line: ''10 Tips Obama Can Take From Tiger.'' The ...

As connoisseurs of beefcake surely know, People has revealed its choice for 2009's Sexiest Man Alive. Johnny Depp, senior editor Kate Coyne explained on CBS' Early Show, has reached an ''iconic status in terms of sexiness.'' ''He was sexy ten years ago, he'll be sexy ten years from now,'' she continued. ''He appeals to multiple generations of ...

Could James Cameron's Avatar kill 20th Century Fox? According to today's New York Times, probably not. Michael Cieply reports that Fox has brought in outside investors to minimize the company's risk in the event that the $500 million Blue Man Group-in-outer space flick turns out to be a Heaven's Gate-style megaflop. Along with this smart financial ...

As of December 1996, Tiger Woods had yet to win a major tournament. The amateur golf legend had just turned pro a few months earlier, instantly snagging megabucks from Nike and winning a pair of low-wattage tournaments before the year was out. In those days, it was still unclear whether Woods would live up to the hype. Would the phenom burn ...

Troy, while I agree with you that Letterman ultimately won over the Late Show's studio audience, the dominant emotion in the crowd (and on my couch) was confusion. The strangest thing about Dave's confession was that in his repetition of the phrase ''creepy things,'' he left it entirely unclear whether he actually believed that he had done any ...

In my review of Zombieland, I alluded to the movie's fantastically enjoyable, out-of-nowhere cameo appearance. Not wanting to ruin the surprise for people planning to see the movie, I left out the juicy details. But considering that the secret is all over the Web, it seems a shame to leave the beans unspilled. Herewith, a Zombieland ...