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Blu Cigarettes – World’s Best Electronic Cigarettes

Blu Cigarettes are fast becoming the world’s most popular and best electronic cigarettes.  With smoking bans sweeping across the country like wild fire smokers are in need of a smoke-less cigarette product they can utilize anywhere!  That’s where Blu Cigs come in! Blu Cigarettes are electronic cigarettes you can smoke anywhere!  That’s right on planes, [...]

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Michael Phelps admits he made a bad decision in smoking pot.

Olympic great Michael Phelps acknowledged “regrettable” behavior and “bad judgment” after a photo in a British newspaper Sunday showed him inhaling from a marijuana pipe. In a statement to the Associated Press, the swimmer who won a record eight gold medals at the Beijing Games did not dispute the authenticity of the exclusive picture published [...]

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Pacquiao pounds De La Hoya into probable retirement with KO.

The end for Oscar De La Hoya on this night came as he sat in the corner after the eighth round, his left eye swollen shut and his face bruised by punches Manny Pacquiao seemed able to land almost at will. The decision to call it a night was easy. The decision to call it [...]

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O.J. Simpson sentenced to 33 years for sports memorabilia debacle.

A weary and beaten-looking O.J. Simpson was put away Friday for at least nine years — and perhaps the rest of his life — for an armed robbery in a hotel room, bringing a measure of satisfaction to those who believed the football star got away with murder more than a decade ago. The 61-year-old [...]

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Peter Eastgate, Denmark, wins 2008 World Series of Poker main event..

A 22-year-old Danish poker professional won the World Series of Poker early Tuesday, turning a wheel straight on the last hand to become the youngest champion in the history of the no-limit Texas Hold ‘em main event. Peter Eastgate hit an ace-to-five straight on the turn and instantly called an all-in bet from Ivan Demidov [...]

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O.J. Simpson’s lawyer seek new robbery trial in Las Vegas.

O.J. Simpson’s lawyers cited judicial errors and insufficient evidence Friday in seeking a new trial for the former football star, who was convicted of kidnapping and robbing two sports memorabilia dealers at gunpoint in a casino hotel room. “Simpson should be granted a new trial,” attorney Gabriel Grasso wrote in a motion faulting Clark County [...]

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Formula One drops Canadian Grand Prix race for 2009 schedule.

The Canadian Grand Prix was dropped from the 2009 calendar on Tuesday, leaving North America without a Formula One race for the first time in 43 years. Governing body FIA ratified its calendar for the coming season and omitted the Canadian GP, which was first held in 1967. It’s the first time since 1987 that [...]

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Detroit sweeps San Antonio for 3rd WNBA title in six years.

Katie Smith missed almost the entire second quarter because of foul trouble. Cheryl Ford has been out since the summer with a knee injury. And the Detroit Shock had to play in a college gym half the size of their regular home court. In the end, none of it mattered. The Shock overcame all of [...]

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O.J. Simpson found guilty on all 12 counts in Las Vegas debacle.

Thirteen years to the day after being acquitted of killing his wife and her friend in Los Angeles, O.J. Simpson was found guilty of robbing two sports-memorabilia dealers at gunpoint in a Las Vegas hotel room. The 61-year-old former football star was convicted of all 12 counts late Friday after jurors deliberated for more than [...]

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Actor, champ car owner, Paul Newman dies at the age of 83.

Paul Newman wanted to be a great athlete — he just never found a sport in which he could excel. Then, while filming the movie Winning in 1969 at age 43, he discovered auto racing. “I was never a very graceful person. The only time I ever really feel coordinated is when I dance with [...]

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