The holiday shopping season got off to a strong start on Black Friday, with retail sales up 7 percent over last year, according to the most recent survey. Now stores just have to keep buyers coming back without the promise of door-buster savings.

Buyers spent $11.4 billion at retail stores and malls, up nearly $1 billion from last year, according to a Saturday report from ShopperTrak. It was the…

Former UCLA coach Red Sanders once said: “The USC-UCLA game is not a matter of life and death; it’s more important than that.”

It is in that spirit that USC and UCLA will take the field at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum tonight.

College football rivalry games are something special – longstanding traditions based on a deep, innate competitiveness, if not pure hatred.…

Today NASA launched the space rover Curiosity on the Atlas 5 rocket heading to a mission on Mars. The rover is expected to reach the red planet in eight months, and its mission is to study the surface of the planet to determine if it is capable of sustaining life.

According to msnbc.com, the Mars Science…

Urban Meyer OSU Announcement Expected Soon

Urban Meyer will be the next head coach at Ohio State University. Multiple sources have reported that the deal is done and that Meyer and OSU could make the official announcement as soon as Sunday.

The two-time national championship coach has denied that an agreement has been made for him to replace current OSU head coach Luke Fickell. But various sources are reporting that the deal is done. Meyer and OSU…

Bowl scenarios: It's anywhere from Sugar Bowl to Chick-fil-A for Dogs

Cyber Monday, the considerably known and well advertised daylight of the twelvemonth when shopping online is the easiest and cheapest manner to renew the household brings a multitude of deals to the regular shopper from considerably known firms from Adidas to Nokia or Dell and it is this diversity which makes it an altogether in one online megastore.

First of all, Cyber Monday has been along for…

Let the J.R. Martinez victory tour begin.

Dancing With the Stars champion J.R. Martinez received an invitation from U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta to visit the Pentagon and meet Panetta in person.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Panetta's…

The parental behavior modification tool known as The Elf on the Shelf is now an animated "special" which aired last night on CBS. I didn't watch but Hank Stuever, who …

About halfway through the new Muppet movie, a TV executive in a nice suit explains to the Muppets that they're not famous any more. They've literally fallen off the cultural map. (This scene is in the trailers, so I'm not really giving away a spoiler.) And it's sort of true: the Muppet cultural moment was over a long time ago, long before 1999's …

Bravo's Millionaire Matchmaker, Patti Stanger, knows a thing or two about meeting men with money. She recently revealed her picks for the top three cities that are perfect for meeting your own millionaire. Patti Stanger looked amazing when

Is Patti Stanger Good For The Jews? Patti, Patti, Patti… Oy vey ismir. You are to dating and relationships what Sarah Silverman is to comedy. By nature of your…

Sitting on a mound of leftover turkey? No worries! Bake up a tasty turkey pot pie that's bound to satisfy the whole family. When it comes to pot-pie filling, once you have your roux, you can use the leftover turkey or even experiment with using the leftover side dishes too. I kept my pot pie really simple with onions, celery, and leftover roasted sweet potatoes but I can only imagine that if your family's stocked up…

It’s a rainy night as Beyonce enters her film-noir-style “Dance For You” video. Outside, a siren wails like a tired baby. And like any femme fatale in those old flicks, Beyonce’s nothing but trouble from the minute she walks through the door (and immediately starts to remove items of clothing). Over a boudoir-inspired beat by The-Dream, Beyonce proceeds to work her way toward her intended target — or is it victim? — a private eye sporting a…

Here's some contrarian guidance: For excellent deals on Cyber Monday, flip off the pc and go bargain-hunting in actual planet shops.



As merchants up the deal ante this calendar year with doorbuster-design on the web sales launched times or even weeks prior to Black Friday, Cyber Monday, even now the biggest day for "thumb buying," is dropping its singular bargain edge.…

GREEN BAY, Wis. — In any other place, they would be called souvenirs, documents suitable for framing, or even a sham. But here in the heart of Packers country, they are stock certificates that confer to the owner a microscopically thin and perhaps meaningless slice of the hometown team.

The Green Bay Packers are the only publicly owned team in the N.F.L., the rarest of rarities in a sport dominated by billionaires and the nation’s largest…

You already know that the day after Thanksgiving, Black Friday, is the time for door-busting deals in the US. What you may not know is that the week before Black Friday is the time for retailers to “accidentally” leak many of those deals in…

Jerry Sandusky says he is not a pedophile. He says he is not sexually attracted to young boys.

"I enjoy young people, I love to be around them, but, no, I'm not sexually attracted to young boys," the former Penn State defensive coordinator told Bob Costas in a telephone interview on NBC's "Rock Center" on Monday…

HOUSTON -- Houston quarterback Matt Schaub is out indefinitely with a "significant" right foot injury and will miss at least the Texans' next game in two weeks.

Coach Gary Kubiak said Monday that Schaub was injured on a quarterback sneak coming out of the end zone late in the second quarter of Houston's 37-9 victory over Tampa Bay on Sunday. Schaub stayed in the game, but threw only three passes in the second half.

Kubiak said the team was…

On Monday, the official trailer for Lionsgate's rendition of the first novel in Suzanne Collins' popular Hunger Games trilogy was released. And, while fans will have to wait for more insight into the book's love…

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