Floyd Mayweather Jr. has been released from a Las Vegas jail following his arrest on a misdemeanor warrant, The Associated Press reports.
Mayweather was arrested late Thursday at a Las Vegas-area casino on a battery charge alleging that the boxer poked a security guard in the face last month during an...
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Most All-Star games are dullsville — did anyone watch last night's Pro Bowl? — but the NBA does its best to keep interesting. The annual NBA All-Star Celebrity Game is often an amusing spectacle leading up to the big game. This year's eclectic collection of singers, actors and WNBA players should keep that tradition going. Ne-Yo? Taylor Hicks? Ando from Heroes?Alyssa Milano and Gabrielle Union will coach the two teams. Access Hollywood co-anchor Tony Potts, who was MVP of last year's game, will be on the floor for Milano's squad.Here are the two teams, which will face off Friday (Feb. 15, 7 pm/ET, ESPN) at the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center in New Orleans:New Orleans Team: Ne-Yo (Grammy-winning singer) Zach Gilford (Friday Night Lights) Taylor Hicks (2006 American Idol winner) Seth Gilliam (The Wire) James Lafferty (One Tree Hill) Master P (rapper and Dancing With the Stars alum) Ruth Riley (WNBA All-Star, San Antonio S...
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I don’t know about you, but I got my wish Tuesday night. Boiled down to three words: Anyone. But. Marie. Seriously folks, if Dancing with the Stars’ trophy had gone to Marie Osmond the underdog — or rather, underdoll, as I like to think of her after Monday’s bizarre freestyle nondance that would have been better suited for the Island of Misfit Toys — I might even have joined the legions of disgruntled fans who tend to declare "I’m never watching again" after each cycle when their favorite doesn’t win.And then, of course, they return the following season, because once hooked on this deliriously entertaining reality contest, few can resist the spectacle of watching B-list celebs put on their dancing shoes with varying degrees of nerve, style and success. New stars tend to emerge from this process, and few have blazed with such effortless charm than the eventual winner, Helio Castroneves, whom I’d bet very few outside of my Indy-500-obsessed fami...
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This show has done what no boxer has been able to do: knock out Floyd Mayweather Jr. (But all the fancy footwork he's learned will probably come in handy for his December 8 bout with Ricky Hatton!) As for the judges carping about all the lifting last week, the only thing it really seemed to raise was the audience's blood pressure. And it isn't likely to fall anytime soon, as this week’s sizzling Latin program calls for the eight remaining couples to perform a samba or a rumba. Arriba! — Joe Friedrich
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Are the men going to take another blow tonight with the dismissal of Floyd Mayweather or Mark Cuban? Or will a woman go? Nah! I think our money is safe on Floyd or Mark.What are your thoughts? Who will be the bottom three tonight? I don't know who could find themselves down there since everyone else is so good. We'll see. Check back here after the show for the recap.
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