Jim Tressel will no longer be coaching the football team of Ohio State. Tressel, who helped Ohio State to win their first ever national title in the last 34 years; has resigned from the post of coach due to the recent infamous tattoo-parlor scandal and stated that he is leaving the post for the betterment of Ohio State. However, he also stated that he will continue to love the Buckeyes.
Tressel, however, will still have to face the disciplinary committee of NCAA as he has been charged for lying to the …

The recent NATO air-strike in Afghanistan killing 14 Afghan civilians has been condemned by Hamid Karzai, the president of the country. Karzai also stated that his Government will no longer allow the NATO forces to kill innocent people and if such things continue happen, they will have no other option but to take appropriate measures. However, he did not clearly mention the measures that his Government intends to take.
Incidentally, the NATO officials also apologized to Afghanistan civilians for that attack and they described it to be done mistakenly. They stated …

Gil-Scott Heron, often referred as the godfather of rap singing, is no more! At an age of 62, the famous singer breathed his last and that surely ended a fascinating life. In the 70s, he was a hero for the many of the black people in US and he won hearts of them with his songs. Particularly, the lyrics that he used were piercing political and social prose.
In the post-civil rights era, when numerous black leaders were being killed or abducted; the rage among black people was increasing due to …

Novak Djokovic is surely on a roll. The Serbian world number 2 has now won his 41st straight match in this 2011 season after getting past crowd favorite 13th seed Richard Gasquet. Djokovic won the match in straight sets: 6-4, 6-4, 6-2. After the match, visibly elated Djokovic addressed the crowd in French, ripped off the white baseball cap from his head and cheered towards his family members and coach sitting on the audience seats.
Djokovic is now only 1 win away from touching John McEnroe’s 42-0 record made way back …

It seems that Cannes glory is doing wonders for movies in the US box office. “The Tree of Life” which received the Palme d’Or at this year’s Cannes film festival, saw a whopping $352,000 being collected on its opening weekend. The collected amount may not be anywhere near, what the big movies in Hollywood make in a weekend, but, in this case, the results were astonishing, because “The Tree of Life” was released only in 4 theaters. The per screen average of the movie is $88,000, a record among the …

After publishing a blog post where black women were stated to be less physically attractive than the other, Psychology Today faced huge mass outrage. The popular magazine published an article written by Satoshi Kanazawa, the evolutionary psychologist where it was stated that black women objectively are less attractive, but subjectively, they consider themselves to be more attractive. The blog post was written based on data of another study.
After the blog was published, as expected, it was met with huge criticism. Kanazawa, the writer of the post is already under investigation …

He may be a super hero of Indian, particularly South Indian film industry, but at reality, he is a normal man, irrespective of whatever stances he may do in his films, that’s what his wife, Latha Rajinikanth said a few days ago. The numerous fans of Rajinikanth may love to believe otherwise, but the truth stays that the South Indian superstar is ill. He is indeed recovering from his respiratory infection and kidney ailment, but the actor has been advised to take some rest by the doctors.
As a result, Rajinikanth, …

Two prominent attorneys have been appointed by Lance Armstrong, the 7 time Tour de France champion to deal with the case where Armstrong has been accused of having drugs while participating in Tour de France. Elliot Peters and John Keker, two San Francisco based lawyers were previously involved in the Major League Baseball Players Association case in 2009. The case was won by the attorney duo for Players Association.
The decision of representing Armstrong was announced by the attorney duo themselves. Incidentally, Armstrong had never failed in a drug test but …

Always regarded as one of the last of the original surrealists, Leonora Carrington is no more. The British-born writer, painter and sculptor was 94 years of age and the news was announced by National Arts Council of Mexico. Carrington was recently hospitalized due to some health problems that she was facing recently due to her old age as confirmed by the Council.
Carrington’s dreamlike, haunting works were a must collectible for the art lovers over the world and she mostly focused on certain strange ritual like scenes comprising of different animals …

For four years in a row now, American Idol has got a male winner. Scotty McCreery, the fan-favorite from the very beginning, has won the competition after getting 122 million more votes than his competitor, Lauren Alaina. McCreery, the 17 year old singer of Garner, N.C, after the announcement, thanked God and all of his fans. He also made a special mention of the judges. As the winner, McCreery will now get a contract for recording his songs.
Alaina, the 16 year old singer from Rossville, Ga. stated that she is …