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Pepsi Won't Field Super Bowl Ads

Harry Kimball — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 10:21:00 CST

Pepsi will end its 23-year advertising presence on the Super Bowl telecast to focus on a cross-platform marketing push with a strong digital component. The company was quick to spin the retreat, which will leave the broadcast wide open to archrival Coca-Cola. “The Super Bowl broadcast can be an amazing...

Iraqi Prisoners Taunt Wis. Soldiers Over Favre Defection

Will McCahill — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:30:47 CST

An allegiance to the Green Bay Packers has come back to haunt Wisconsin National Guardsmen on duty at a prison camp in Iraq, with detainees using quarterback Brett Favre’s defection to the rival Vikings to taunt the soldiers. A Packers-themed paint job sparked curiosity, one officer tells WTMJ-AM , “they soon...

Google CEO Leaves Apple Board

Kevin Spak — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 10:07:00 CDT

Google CEO Eric Schmidt has left Apple’s board of directors because the once-friendly companies are on a collision course, Apple announced today. “As Google enters more of Apple’s core business, with Android and now Chrome OS, Eric’s effectiveness as an Apple Board member will be significantly diminished,” read the statement....

Bob Dylan: The Rolling Stones Are So Over

Amelia Atlas — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 01:04:57 CDT

Bob Dylan has stoked the flames of an old rivalry with the Rolling Stones, says the Independent . "They are pretty much finished, aren't they?" the songster observed in a recent MTV interview. Dylan noted that without bassist Bill Wyman, his former duet partners “are a funk band. They'll be the...

Pakistan Admits Mumbai Gunman Is Citizen

Ambreen Ali — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 15:04:01 CST

The Pakistani government finally admitted today that the lone surviving gunman from November’s Mumbai attacks is its citizen, the BBC reports. It’s the first time India’s rival conceded a connection to the terrorist siege, despite weeks of heavy US pressure to comply. The foot-dragging was partly to appease Pakistanis, who...

The Culture Wars, College Football Style

Will McCahill — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 17:00:01 CST

The cultural disconnect between conservative college football programs and America’s liberalizing culture in the late 1960s and early ‘70s is the theme of War as They Knew It , a book by Detroit Free Press columnist Michael Rosenberg. The survey of the Michigan-Ohio State rivalry (which continues tomorrow) through the prism...

Classic Harvard-Yale Tie Gets Documentary Gloss

Will McCahill — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 14:39:01 CST

The 40th anniversary of a classic game in the football rivalry between Harvard and Yale has inspired a documentary, Mark Feeney writes in the Boston Globe . The contest is as notable for “its time-capsule aspect” and rising-star participants (future Oscar winner Tommy Lee Jones) as for the underdog Crimson's miraculous...

Jennifer Calls Out Angelina for 'Uncool' Move

Ambreen Ali — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 15:16:01 CST

Condemning Angelina Jolie’s actions as “very uncool,” Jennifer Aniston broke her years-long silence on the woman who stole husband Brad Pitt. The Vogue interview accompanies sultry photos of toned, tanned, swimsuited Aniston. She's “never been so honest or brave,” an insider tells the Daily Mail , saying Aniston's words show she's...

Sox Fans Drove Joba to Drive Drunk: Report

Kevin Spak — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 12:58:18 CDT

Joba Chamberlain nearly got into a fistfight with a Red Sox fan before his alleged DUI, the New York Post reports. Chamberlain began the ill-fated night by pounding a couple Grey Goose drinks at a friend’s bar, before hitting a strip club. There he encountered a heckler. “Too bad you...