Archive for February, 2010

Steve Holcomb, riding his 4-man bobsled “night train”, was awarded a Gold Medal in the Olympics for the USA. It’s the first gold in 4-man bobsled in nearly 60 years..

Carly Simon has revealed a clue to the identity of the subject of her “You’re So Vain” song from 1972. According to UK paper “The Sun”, that person is David Geffen, music producer to Simon back in the 70’s. Simon left a clue on a song, that if played backwards reveals the name “David”. The Sun reports that Simon was very uncomfortable with Geffen records at the time, which later became part of Elektra/Asylum records.

Simon is no doubt enjoying the attention she is receiving almost 40 years after the original song was recorded.

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Tiger cut by another advertiser.  Gatorade decided to end it’s relationship with Tiger Woods after his recent marital problems.  This adds a third one to the list.  He was previously cut by AT&T and Accenture………Huge earthquake hits Chile.  An 8.8 earthquake occurred off the coast of Chile……

Paris Hilton was recently featured in a beer ad on Brazilian television.  The ad showed Paris in a short black dress rubbing herslef with a can of beer.  Someone in the Brazilian Govertment complained about the ad saying “it was demeaning to women”.  But many viewers disagreed saying the love the ad.  There was no word on whether the ad might be pulled.

London — A large diamond (507 carats), sold today for $35 million breaking the record for the most expensive single diamond in the world. The diamond was sold by Petra Diamonds, a firm listed on the London exchange.  It was found last year in a mine in South Africa.

Paterson, Governor of NY, will not seek another term in office and will remove his name from consideration…..Vonn will race in slalom event despite broken finder………..NIKE says they will continue to support Tiger Woods.  Woods is one of the top athletes in their Golf division which has annual sales of $650 million. Nike said: “We’re very comfortable with where he’s at, how he’s dealing with it and we’re looking forward to his return.”

Lidsey Vonn crashed making her first run on the Giant Slalom.  Ironically, teammate Julia Mancuso was also on the track at the same time, and was flagged down half way through.  Mancuso was taken back to the top again and raced one more time, but by then the hill was chopped from other racers and Mancuso could only manage an 18th place finish.  A second run is still planned so Julia has another chance to better her place…

Former Vice-President Cheney is back in the hospital after experiencing chest pains.