Drew Weisholtz

Presumptive Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney has named Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin his running mate.

Michael Phelps has managed to swim into history.

George Jefferson is moving on up to a deluxe apartment in the sky. Sherman Hemsley, the actor who portrayed the combative, but lovable George Jefferson on the sitcom ‘The Jeffersons,’ has died.

TMZ reports former All-Pro linebacker Junior Seau has died.

Pat Summitt, one of the pioneers of women’s basketball, is retiring as head coach of the University of Tennessee women’s program.

Research indicates that working more than the traditional 40 hours a week can actually have a detrimental effect on people, making them unproductive while on the clock. Well, duh! After all that time working, your eyes are bound to start glazing over and mistaking those oh-so-important TPS reports for used coffee filters.

So, the four-day marathon known as the opening weekend of the NCAA tournament is now in our rearview mirror. If your bracket busted like a cheap watch, you may not care too much about the rest of March Madness, so here are some ways to pass the time until a national championship is crowned:

Get ready for some madness — March Madness. The field for the NCAA Division 1 men’s basketball tournament has been set, so it’s time to join the millions of other Americans and fill out your bracket.

The Academy Awards are slated for Sunday evening. While you can catch the live broadcast on ABC at 7 p.m. ET, there’s no reason you can’t get into the spirit of Hollywood’s biggest night now. Here’s a look at this year’s nominees in the major categories. Let your voice be heard and tell us who you think will win!

Whether it be the commercials, the halftime show or, you know, the game itself, the Super Bowl gets everyone fired up — so much so that the Super Bowl party has become an American institution. Not much can dampen the enthusiasm we have for the biggest game in the sports world. But here are a few things you don’t want to hear at any Super Bowl bash.

While the New York Giants and the New England Patriots prepare to tangle in the Super Bowl, the rest of America continues to prepare for one of this country’s annual rites: the Super Bowl party. No matter the bash, no matter how big or small, you can be sure it will be populated by the same group of fans. Here’s a look at the types of people who show up at Super Bowl parties:

Newt Gingrich says he wants to put a base on the moon by 2020, adding he hopes enough people will move there so they can petition to make it a state. If it is part of the US of A, does that mean we’d have to travel 65 miles per hour to get there if we went on a road trip? Because that would take roughly 2,000 years and, quite frankly, who has that kind of time?