Yesha Callahan

MoneyMama: Next Time Halle Berry Should Invest in a Test Tube Daddy

 If you want a child, but don't plan on keeping the father, you need to get your legal rights handled right away.

What once looked like a match made in “pretty people” heaven is now turning into accusations, recriminations and hostile hurt feelings as a bitter custody fight brews between actress Halle Berry and her ex-boytoy model Gabriel Aubry.
With shades of Mel Gibson’s he-said, she-said, what-the-tape-recorder-said break from Oksana Grigorieva, the Berry-Aubry smack down has turned into a “she’s crazy” and “he’s a secret racist” hot mess.
Things looked amicable when the two initially broke-up last year, some time after the birth of their daughter, Nahla. But now the two are slugging it out in the press, with Berry leading the charge. She claims she had to drop out of a film production in New York to fight for custody of Nahla and has accused Aubry of once calling her the “N-word.”

 

 

 

 

 

Seth Curry

Seth Curry Saves Duke!

 To all, welcome to Christmas Morning.

I'm taking a sports writing class with Tim Crothers, a former Sports Illustrated writer who now freelances for ESPN and ACCSports (among others), and he dropped this analogy on Monday. For him, Duke-UNC at Cameron in the middle of the season is like Christmas morning. I'm pretty much on board with that, though I might flip it around. He's a Carolina grad, so there's a little less pressure when UNC is on the road, and for me things are a bit more serene when the teams are playing at Carolina. But the point stands: today is a celebration.

The Coaches' Poll finally pulled its head into the open air and ranked UNC (#21), while the AP has them at #20. Duke is #5 in both. Each team has one ACC loss, so this is a battle for tops in the conference. If the Heels win, they'll probably guarantee themselves a shot to win the ACC outright by beating Duke at home in March. If Duke wins, they'll probably guarantee themselves a tie for the regular season title. There's larger NCAA implications, too; if Duke wants a 1-seed, they need to win this game. The ceiling for Carolina is a 2-seed, but a loss tonight probably relegates them to 3, even if they end up winning the conference tourney.
 

 

I'll tell you what I've done. Yesterday, in a co-ed intramural game, I got tossed. Not only that, I got my entire team tossed.

Here was the situation: the refs were all Carolina fans. The players on the other side were all Carolina fans. My own teammates were Carolina fans. We were even AT Carolina. It was in a Carolina gym! I was in hostile territory, and I knew I'd have to represent my colors soon enough.

Sure, Shane, you say, risking your own life to question me, but isn't that always the situation when you play intramurals? You're a UNC student, and you've never had a technical before.

Yes, but it was never Duke-Carolina Eve before. I could feel the animosity. The other team had this guy, a big muscular fellow, who cleared out on his drives by sticking his elbow into the defender's chest. We complained about it for most of the first half, and I asked the ref to keep an eye out. But he gave me a strange look. It was almost as if he knew I was a Cameron Crazie. What he didn't know was worse; he was staring into the cold-blooded eyes of a Moody Blue.

One of the girls on our team got a T for complaining after she fouled him in the first half. The second half came, and I put a move on the guy, beat him to the rim, and got clobbered. No foul. The very next possession, he drove on me, stuck his chicken wing into the ole sternum, and missed a lay-up.

The whistle blew. Blocking foul on yours truly.

"How is that a foul on me?" I yelled. I added an expletive.

The ref, a Carolina fan, T'ed me up. I think I heard him whisper something about Duke under his breath, but I couldn't be sure.

"Good," I said. "Give me another."

He obliged.

"Excellent," I said, then added another expletive for good measure before jogging off the court. As you can see, I am extremely classy. It wasn't too upsetting to be out of the game, though. We were losing by 20 and in a pretty tough spot, and it didn't kill me to give everyone else more playing time.

Then the announcement came. Apparently if a team gets three technicals in a game, they forfeit. So with 18:30 left in the second half, the game came to a sudden end. 

Eliza Kruger

Meet The Super-Rich Hedge Funder Whose 17-Year Old Daughter Hooked Up With Jets QB Mark Sanchez

 This is a story about how being really wealthy seems awesome, but it's also an enormous burden. Instantly, the media considers whatever trivial problem you're having important.

Exhibit A: Eliza Kruger. Her dad is Connecticut hedge funder Konrad "Chip" Kruger.
Exhibit B: Mark Sanchez
Mark Sanchez hooked up with 17-year old Eliza, and now their story is all over the internet, probably entirely thanks to Eliza, who seems to have not-so-craftily planted the story in Deadspin because hooking up with Mark Sanchez is huge for anyone, let alone a 17-year old girl. Making the story even hotter news, Eliza's dad is filthy rich. A google search on him pulls up tons of impressive business and charity ventures.

Superbowl Score by Quarter

Superbowl Score By Quarter: How Close of a Game Was It?

By now, you have to know who won Super Bowl 2011: the Green Bay Packers. The Super Bowl final score was 31-25. But, what was the Superbowl score by quarter? Was the game close? Or did we know that the Packers would win the whole time?
Superbowl first quarter score: Packers 14, Steelers 0
Superbowl second quarter score: Packers 21, Steelers 10
Superbowl third quarter score: Packers 21, Steelers 17
Superbowl final score: Packers 31, Steelers 25
Though the Packers led the entire game, the Steelers put up a good fight and kept Super Bowl 2011 interesting.