Kendall Rodriguez/for New York Daily News Alex Rodriguez takes another big hit in his battle with baseball as arbitrator gives Yankee slugger 162-game ban, plus the postseason. He’s out. Alex Rodriguez, once Major League Baseball’s biggest star, was slammed Saturday with an historic drug suspension that encompasses all of the 2014 season, including the postseason, and will cost the Yankee ...
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Riffing on the Rift: Oculus Rift gets big Crystal Cove hardware upgrade at CES 2014
Out of all the weird, wacky devices and gizmos that have been releasing lately thanks to Kickstarter — Android gaming consoles, omnidirectional treadmills, 3D printing pens — only one really seems to be onto something big: the Oculus Rift. An affordable virtual reality headset, the Rift actually works as promised — something many other Kickstarter projects fail to do. Now, ...
Read More »Chinese worker gets ‘pinchers’ after factory accident
HAP/Quirky China News/REX USA Wang Jin’s hands were nearly destroyed beyond repair after a factory accident. A Chinese man whose hands were ripped from the rest of his body in a ghastly accident got four of his fingers reattached in the form of pinchers. Wang Jin, 18, was rushed to Xiang Ya Hospital in Changsha, Hunan Province on Dec. 11 ...
Read More »Charlie Sheen gets married … to a porn star
Clasos.com.mx/Splash News Charlie Sheen and Brett Rossi (seen on vacation in Los Cabos, Mexico) have apparently tied the knot. Charlie Sheen has married a porn star. Apparently. The “Anger Management” actor took to Twitter on Sunday to reveal he’d tied the knot with X-rated girlfriend Brett Rossi while on vacation in Iceland. “This is the house ware M Gorbachev R ...
Read More »‘Elephant Man’ gets Christmas surgery
CHINA STRINGER NETWORK/REUTERS A Chinese patient, known as ‘Elephant Man’ because of the horrific tumors that deform his face, underwent surgery on Wednesday. Here, Huang Chuncai before the operation. On Christmas day, a Chinese patient known as “Elephant Man” underwent another surgery to remove some of the unsightly layers of tumors that have deformed his face for decades. Doctors removed ...
Read More »Brooklyn couple gets a swoonworthy ‘Secret Wedding’
Vince Eaton and Sara Valencia at their wedding at Hallockville Museum Farm, on TLC’s “Secret Wedding,” airing Dec. 27. Here comes the bride — and she looks stunned. Brooklyn bride Sara Valencia got the surprise of her life on her wedding day thanks to her husband and a little help from TV host Cat Deeley. Vince Eaton, 29, tricked his ...
Read More »Jazz icon Miles Davis gets block named in his honor
Don Hunstein/AP Musician Miles Davis is shown during recording session in 1959 for ‘Kind of Blue.’ The block that was the longtime home to a jazz legend was finall renamed in his honor on Wednesday. Officials renamed a stretch of W. 77th St. “Miles Davis Way” Wednesday, resolving a lengthy battle for the jazz impresario’s neighbor, Shirley Zafirau, who fought ...
Read More »Bob Dylan’s ‘Like A Rolling Stone’ gets interactive video
Chris Pizzello/AP The first official video for Bob Dylan’s video ‘Like a Rolling STone’ features an interactive television screen with all the characters lip-synching the lyrics. Nineteen-sixty-five, meet 2013. Bob Dylan‘s classic “Like a Rolling Stone” got a cutting-edge treatment for its first official music video. The interactive video, designed by digital company Interlude, mimics the experience of surfing television. ...
Read More »Toddler gets caught in gate, dangles from 4 stories
Dramatic footage shows the moment a Chinese toddler was rescued by firefighters after she became stuck in a protective window grate four stories up. The 3-year-old’s head was trapped between two iron bars and her tiny body dangled in the air after she fell through an anti-theft grate at an apartment building in Yunnan Province, in southeast China, on Monday, ...
Read More »Baldwin cries, gets heckled during testimony against accused stalker
Anthony DelMundo/New York Daily News Alec Baldwin says no sexual relationship ever took place between him and the accused. Tough-guy actor Alec Baldwin got all teary Tuesday after he got an earful from his accused stalker during their courtroom face-off. The “30 Rock” star was actually heckled by Genevieve Sabourin when he took the stand and denied they were ever ...
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