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The East Valley Tribune
By Mike Branom

Camaraderie, competition and money makes fantasy football real. The National Football League kicks off its season in less than two weeks, which means this is crunch time for “owners” preparing to select their “teams” of actual flesh-and-blood pro players.

Valley taverns are hosting draft parties, where the bragging and insults fly like the ball in a run-and-shoot offense.

“Edgerrin James, gone,” said Jesse Kessler, manager of Duke’s Sports Bar and Grill in Scottsdale. With that matter-of-fact statement, Kessler performed his duty as commissioner of the bar’s fantasy league, taking a marker to a dry-erase board and scratching out the name of the Arizona Cardinals running back.

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The Daily Telegraph
Australia

PORN star Jenna Jameson has had her breast implants taken out - and will quit making smut to focus on her own clothing line and comic book.

Jameson, 33, went under the knife to have the notorious implants removed earlier this month.

She reportedly went from a D cup to a C.

“When I had implants I felt uncomfortable. I would be shy at the beach. I know it sounds funny, but I’d wear high-necked clothes - unless I was at an adult-film convention. So I thought, ‘Why don’t I be who I am and get my real ones back?’,” she told US magazine Us Weekly.

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The Indianapolis Star
By Christopher Lloyd

After 57 years of showing movies under the stars, the Clermont Deluxe Drive-In Theatre will go dark this weekend.

Sunday will be the last chance to catch a flick — your choice of a double bill of “Underdog” and “Shrek the Third” or “The Simpsons Movie” and “The Bourne Ultimatum” — at the Clermont.

In June, racing entrepreneur Bill Simpson received zoning change approval from the Hendricks County Commissioners to turn the 20-acre theater site into a motor sports business park.

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By Troy Wolverton
Mercury News

You might think that the face of one of the hottest areas in gaming right now is a young male in his 20s who owns the latest supercharged gaming system from Microsoft or Sony - or both.

But you’d be wrong.

Instead, the epitome of the new-era gamer is a woman in her late 30s or early 40s who plays on an average PC.

Yes, the video game industry seems to have been turned on its head.

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The Enquirer
By Sue Kiesewetter

FAIRFIELD - When nature calls, there’s no better place in America to take care of business than Jungle Jim’s International Market.

Known beyond Greater Cincinnati for its exotic foods and playful jungle theme, Fairfield’s most-recognized business has been voted to have the nation’s “best” restroom.

Internet voters chose Jungle Jim’s over four other restrooms nationwide - including one in Flushing, Mich. - to win Cintas Corp.’s 2007 America’s Best Restroom Award in what the sponsor said was one of the most hotly contested races since the program began in 2001.

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The Enquirer
BY SHARON COOLIDGE

Prison term can’t replace collection

A man who lost an irreplaceable collection of magic memorabilia worth more than $1 million when his Indian Hill home was set on fire by a drug addict talked about his loss for the first time Tuesday as the arsonist was sent to prison.

Dr. Randall Wolf, a heart surgeon at University Hospital, said it’s both a personal loss - he and his family no longer feel safe - and a loss to the community, which lost a piece of history. “I think the real shame of it is Cincinnati and really the world lost something we can’t get back,” Wolf said.

Hamilton County Common Pleas Judge Dennis Helmick sentenced Jarrod Frederick, 26, of Clifton on charges of aggravated arson and burglary. He must spend almost two years in prison followed by six months of alcohol and drug treatment at a locked facility.

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Independent Online
iol.co.za

Edinburgh - A dwarf performer at the Edinburgh fringe festival had to be rushed to hospital after his penis got stuck to a vacuum cleaner during an act that went horribly awry.

Daniel Blackner, or “Captain Dan the Demon Dwarf”, was due to perform at the Circus of Horrors at the festival known for its oddball, offbeat performances.

The main part of his act saw him appear on stage with a vacuum cleaner attached to his member through a special attachment.

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The New York Post
By Janon Fisher

Ron Jeremy, Jenna Jameson - get ready to stand and be counted.

The Department of Justice wants to come up with an official list of every porn star in America - and slap stiff penalties on producers who don’t cooperate.

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InfoWorld
By Mike Elgan
Computerworld

Come on, come all for the freakiest iPhone oddities from around the globe

The old carnival freak show is dead and gone (or has at least moved to reality television and daytime talk shows). But in our hearts, we still long to gawk at the strange and the bizarre.

That’s why iPhone culture is so entertaining. The hype around Apple’s first cell phone — sometimes generating enthusiasm bordering on insanity — has produced some of the wackiest, nuttiest, and, yes, freakiest news stories ever witnessed in the history of technology.

So prepare to be amazed, ladies and gentlemen! Step right up and take a front-row seat for Steve Jobs’ unintended sideshow attractions.

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Daily Tech
Wolfgang Hansson Blog

A study has concluded that casual gaming is the most popular online entertainment activity, with streaming video and social networking following behind

There are all sorts of things you can do online and if you have ever wondered what most people do online for entertainment, you are not alone. From reading sites like DailyTech, to watching videos on sites like YouTube or visiting social networking sites like FaceBook, what entertainment activity is most popular online? You might be surprised by the answer.

A study has concluded that the most popular online activity for entertainment is playing casual games. The study doesn’t mention some things people do online for entertainment, like searching for images of Britney Spears’ latest outing whilst going commando, which is sure to absorb significant time online.

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The Washington Post
By Ann Hornaday

Already dubbed the “American Pie” of the MySpace generation, “Superbad” promises to be this summer’s cure for the back-to-school blahs, simultaneously trafficking in the hoariest cliches of the teen sex comedy genre while slyly sending them up.

Not surprisingly, this trick has been pulled off in a movie produced by Judd Apatow, who has proven to be exceptionally adroit at delivering outrageously raunchy comedy with a self-conscious wink.

Indeed, “Superbad” often plays like a prequel to Apatow’s hit comedy “Knocked Up,” in which Seth Rogen portrayed a dumpy pothead who ultimately gets the babe. In “Superbad” — which Rogen co-wrote — Jonah Hill plays a high school senior who resembles the future Rogen, a chubby, foul-mouthed porn addict (named Seth) who is determined to snag a girlfriend for the summer.

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The Mercury News
Associated Press

LOS ANGELES (AP) - Short Internet videos from the creator of the animated TV show “Family Guy” and Raven-Symone, star of the Disney Channel show “That’s So Raven,” will be distributed over Google Inc.’s AdSense network, it was announced Thursday.

Media Rights Capital, the financing company that backed last year’s film “Babel,” is supporting the two projects. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

The programs will appear in a video box that a user would click on to start. The box will be packaged with banner advertising and video ads that will appear either before or after the programming.

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