QATAR WINS WORLDCUP BID

What and where the hell is Qatar?

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PAUL THE OCTO-PSYCHIC DIES

 Paul the Octopus, the tentacled tipster who fascinated football fans by correctly predicting results at this year’s World Cup, died Tuesday.

Paul had reached octopus old age of 2 1/2 years and died in his tank on Tuesday morning in an aquarium in the western German city of Oberhausen, spokeswoman Ariane Vieregge said.
Paul seemed to be in good shape when he was checked late Monday, but he did not make it through the night. He died of natural causes, Vieregge added.
After rising to global prominence during the World Cup in South Africa in June and July, Paul retired from the predictions business after the final between Spain and the Netherlands—the result of which he also forecast correctly—and returned to his prime role of making children happy.
He would probably make a lot of people happy being fried and served on a dish, but hoew do you prepare octopus?


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PUNKED BY DAVID BECKHAM

David Beckham comfronts a fan. say it to my face fool, I would have cause if he hits you that a moneymaking lawsuit.

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THIS IS WHY YOU WAIT UNTIL YOU HEAR THE WHISTLE

Soccer player lets ball go the net because he didn't follow up on the play idiot.


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GERMAN SPORTSCASTER GETS KNOCKED IN THE HEAD BY SOCCER BALL

This was a million to one shot. Classic

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SOCCER STAR UNDER ARREST FOR MURDER

One of Brazil's soccer superstars is under arrest for masterminding the murder of his former mistress -- a model and porn actress -- whose dismembered body was fed to dogs.

Bruno Souza, 25, and six other people, including his wife Dayane, are being held in the grisly case.
Bruno Souza and wife Dayane, with their tot, were under arrest yesterday. Bruno allegedly tortured and killed Eliza Samudio -- who tried to prove he fathered her baby

Souza, the goalkeeper for Brazil's championship Flamengo team, met the beautiful victim, Eliza Samudio, at a teammate's party last year and got her pregnant the first night they spent together, police said.
But he became enraged when she insisted on keeping the baby. Samudio filed a complaint in October, saying Souza beat her and tried to force her to swallow an abortion-inducing drug.
After their child, now 4 months old, was born and Samudio tried to prove Souza was the father, he hired a former police detective, Luiz Aparecido Santos, to kidnap, beat and murder her, investigators said.
Is it really that serious? Hey just take the DNA test or just pay the money.

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SHAKIRA SINGING WAKA WAKA FOR THE WORLSD CUP FINALE

Check out Shakira's performance of her hit song WAKA WAKA for the World Cup finale. .

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WEEKEND WRAP UP: DESPICABLE ME HITS NUMBER 1, CARMELO ANTHONY GETS MARRIED, BARE FOOT BANDIT CAUGHT, SPAIN WINS WORLSD CUP

Despicable me hits number 1 at the box office making $60,000,000. I really need to start making computer animated movies. Here are the rest


Weekend Box Office Estimates (U.S.)


Jul 9 - 11 weekend


1 - Despicable Me Universal Pictures $60,117,000 TOTAL: $60,117,000


2 1 The Twilight Saga: Eclipse Summit Entertainment, LLC $33,400,000 TOTAL $237,000,000


3 - Predators 20th Century Fox $25,300,000 TOTAL $25,300,000


4 3 Toy Story 3 Walt Disney Studios Distribution $22,000,000 TOTAL $340,200,000


5 2 The Last Airbender Paramount Pictures $17,150,000 TOTAL $100,227,000


6 4 Grown Ups Sony Pictures Releasing $16,400,000 TOTAL $111,315,000


7 5 Knight and Day 20th Century Fox Distribution $7,850,000 TOTAL $61,939,000


8 6 The Karate Kid Sony Pictures Releasing $5,700,000 TOTAL $164,600,000


9 7 The A-Team 20th Century Fox Distribution $1,800,000 TOTAL $73,971,000


10 11 Cyrus Fox Searchlight Pictures $1,375,000 TOTAL $3,521,000

OCTOPUS PICKS WORLD CUP WINNER

Octopus has the power to pick World cuip winner. The World cup Sunday is between Spain and Holland. Let's see if the octopus is correct.

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IF THE NETHERLANDS WIN A LOT OF PEOPLE WILL BE ORALLY SATISFIED

A Dutch fan has offered incentive that blows all others out of the water (pun seriously not intended). Bobbi Eden, one of the Netherlands' leading pornstars, has promised oral sex to all of her Twitter followers if the Netherlands wins—and she has a lot of followers!

Apparently when she made the offer she had about 5000 followers and that number has, to absolutely nobody's surprise, exploded to more than 30, 000 (likely to have gone up even more since this was written).
Needless to say I will be going with the Netherland team.

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WEEKEND WRAP UP: KNIGHT AND DAY SHOULD HAVE STAYED AWAY, BET AWARDS AIRED SUNDAY, REFEREE WARM UP, UNITED STATES IS OUT THE WORLD CUP

Toy Story 3 did it again at the box office making $59,000,000 over the weekend. Tom Cruise had a disappointing weekend only making $20,000,000 at the box office. It was the worst result for a Cruise action flick in 20 years. People say it still is the couch incident but to me if you have a good story, that will bring in the audience no matter who is starring in the film. Point, The Hangover. But here are the rest of the totals.

Weekend Box Office Estimates (U.S.)

Jun 25 - 27 weekend


1 1 Toy Story 3 Walt Disney Studios Distribution $59,000,000 TOTAL: $226,552,000
2 - Grown Ups Sony Pictures Releasing $41,000,000 TOTAL: $41,000,000
3 - Knight and Day 20th Century Fox Distribution $20,500,000 TOTAL: $20,500,000
4 2 The Karate Kid Sony Pictures Releasing $15,400,000 TOTAL: $135,641,000
5 3 The A-Team 20th Century Fox Distribution $6,000,000 TOTAL: $62,843,000
6 4 Get Him to the Greek Universal Pictures $3,010,000 TOTAL:  $54,486,000
7 5 Shrek Forever After Paramount Pictures $2,875,000 TOTAL: $229,313,000
8 6 Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time Walt Disney Studios Distribution $2,801,000 TOTAL: $86,177,000
9 8 Killers Lionsgate $2,000,000 TOTAL: $44,000,000
10 7 Jonah Hex Warner Bros. Pictures, Warner Bros. Pictures Distribution $1,600,000 TOTAL: $9,144,000


The rest of the post after the jump.

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USA WINS 1-0 OVER ALGERIA

for all you World Cup soccer fans out there, Donovan's goal saw the Americans seal a 1-0 win over Algeria and leap frog both Slovenia and England and clinch top spot in Group C. Go USA

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USA GETS ROBBED BY REFEREE IN WORLD CUP

Koman Coulibaly, from Mali, is under fire for his controversial call on what appeared to be a potential game-winning goal by USA substitute Maurice Edu in the 86th minute. Coulibaly whistled a foul on the play, to the dismay of Team USA and coach Bob Bradley.

"I still don't know why the goal was disallowed. Nobody knows at this moment," said Bradley after the match. We got robbed straight up.

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WHAT THE HELL IS THAT BUZZING NOISE DURING THE WORLD CUP?

If you are watching the World Cup soccer match, then you have heard that loud buzzing noise in the background of all the games. What is it? It's a vuvuzela and even though it annoys most of us in America watching the game, when I spoke to a die hard soccer fan, she explained that it's part of the culture and part of World Cup and quite frankly we need to just get used to it.

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TRAGEDY HAS HIT THE WORLD CUP

Former South African President Nelson Mandela said he won't be able to attend the World Cup's opening match Friday due to the death of his great-granddaughter, casting a cloud over the event.

Mr. Mandela's 13-year-old great-granddaughter, Zenani Mandela, was killed in a car accident shortly after midnight on the way home from a concert to mark the start of the global sporting event in Soweto. Her driver was arrested on drunk-driving charges and could face culpable homicide charges.
The 91-year old former president rarely makes public appearances anymore but was scheduled to attend the first match of the first World Cup to be hosted on the African continent. The opening game will take place Friday afternoon between South Africa and Mexico.
"It is sad for the entire nation and the world," President Jacob Zuma's government spokesman Vincent Magwenya said. "It is an important day in our history and the culmination of the enormous contribution Nelson Mandela made to South Africa."
Mr. Mandela has been credited with bringing the World Cup to South Africa and is to many the symbol of post-apartheid South Africa. When Joseph S. Blatter, president of soccer's governing body FIFA, announced in 2004 thatSouth Africa had been selected to host World Cup he described the former president as an "architect" of the coming tournament.
FIFA said that Mr. Blatter has written to Mr. Mandela to convey the condolences of "the entire football family."
In comments made earlier in the week, Mr. Mandela underscored the significance of sports, calling the World Cup more than a game.
"It symbolizes the power of football to bring people together from all over the world, regardless of language, the color of one's skin, political or religious persuasion," he said.
Sad cloud over a great sporting event.

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WORLD CUP HAS OFFICIALLY STARTED

World Cup soccer match the world official Superbowl has started and the whole world is tuning in, except for the United States that is. I mean we watch World Cup but here it still doesn't compare to the NFLSuperbowl.

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