By Elizabeth Kwiatkowski, 02/06/2012 The Voice coach Blake Shelton says he expects a country singer will make it all the way to the end during the show's second season. ADVERTISEMENT "I'm most excited about this Season 2 of The Voice because they're some country singers this year that are really good. We had a few last year but we didn't end up with a country singer in the final four," Shelton told People."I know anything can happen, but I really believe in my heart that one of...
By Michael David Smith - Lead Blogger Fabricio Werdum turned in a very impressive performance to beat Roy Nelson by unanimous decision at UFC 143. Werdum's striking was outstanding, and his knees were lethal. Follow , and Like MMA Fighting on Facebook. Feb 5, 2012 - Fabricio Werdum dominated Roy "Big Country" Nelson for 15 minutes in a heavyweight battle at UFC 143 on Saturday night in Las Vegas. Although Nelson was game, Werdum was simply too much for him. Werdum was favored, but the...
Read More: Josh Hamilton (LF - TEX), Texas Rangers Press conferences that follow some sort of breaking controversy are rarely interesting. They're usually a promotional vehicle for a carefully prepared statement written by people who get paid a lot of money to write carefully prepared statements. That's the template, usually. Josh Hamilton sat in front of a lot of cameras and just talked. I suppose it wasn't that risky -- it's not like Hamilton was going to start swearing and threatening...
"Chicago" Joe Angio and his wife Anna did everything by the book to secure their slice of the American Dream. They earned college degrees, started a small business, bought a house and pair of cars, paid their taxes and credit-card bills on time. But when the economy tanked, so did the dream. Between two jobs they could barely pay their mortgage, reaching a point where they had to choose which creditor to shortchange at the end of the month in order to keep the lights on. With foreclosure no...
Singer Leslie Carter, the 25-year-old sister of recording artists Nick and Aaron Carter, has died in upstate New York, her family said. "Access Hollywood" confirmed her Tuesday death but said no details regarding the cause were immediately available. Best known as a cast member with her siblings in the reality series "House of Carters" and leader of the band The Other Half, Leslie Carter also recorded the song "Like Wow!" for the 2001 "Shrek" movie soundtrack. She was married and the mother of...
Enlarge Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images Don Cornelius, circa 1973, Los Angeles. Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images Don Cornelius, circa 1973, Los Angeles. The significance of Don Cornelius to American culture — and to the American culture business — is told nowhere more eloquently than in one brief exchange between Cornelius and singer James Brown, a story that Cornelius himself recalls in VH-1's excellent 2010 documentary Soul Train: The Hippest Trip in America. It was the Godfather...
By Elizabeth Kwiatkowski, 01/31/2012 Ben Flajnik has admitted he didn't take into consideration how his other bachelorettes would feel about his decision to skinny-dip with Courtney Robertson during Monday night's episode of The Bachelor. "I will admit that at the time I wasn't thinking of the other women and how it would make them feel, and I'm sorry for that, but I can't blame Courtney for going out of her way to spend more time with me -- that's why we are all here," The Bachelor star...
Blake Griffin is known for dunking basketballs. He may never have done so as well as he did against Kendrick Perkins on Monday night. Video and more after the jump. Griffin receives the perfect bounce pass from Chris Paul and proceeds to jump about four feet in the air and slam the ball home thunderously at full extension. If that slow-motion video via CBS Sports' Eye on Basketball isn't convincing enough for you, watch it in real-time: And, of course, the GIF from Mocksession: That's a...
video Congressman Allen West spoke at a Florida GOP dinner last night, and had some fighting words for Democrats who are trying to mark Florida in the win column this November. He declared it a “battlefield” for citizens to stand on and tell the Democrats that their message is not going to resonate with the citizens of Florida. West called out not just President Obama, but Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, and fellow Floridian Debbie Wasserman-Schultz. “Take your message of equality of...
