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- My favorite Upstate New York Beer – Labatt’s – show’s some love to the Upstate New York Football Team, celebrating 50 years in 2009

- Jackson claims that his role as Nick Fury may not happen (NO WAY!)

- Jackie Chan joins Will Smith’s son in the Karate Kid remake (Mr. Miyagi, perhaps?)

- Playboy looks at the biggest names in sex over the past 55 years (flip to page three for the full list, or read the article. Yeah, sometimes it’s ok to read the articles)

Extra Slice – Video: The 10 lamest cartoons developed from TV shows, including Fonz and the Happy Days Gang (LOVE the dog)

- It’s back! For those few of you who missed American Idol, season eight (really?) kicks off tonight

- “New York Knicks center Eddy Curry was hit with a sexual harassment suit by his former driver… A married father of four, [he allegedly] ‘tried to solicit gay sex’ from David Kuchinsky”

- Last lap: Prison Break is done after this season

- Plan your Tivo accordingly: Bush to make 15 minute speech this Thursday

Extra Slice – Video: The guy from the Internet sensation “Evolution of Dance” returns with “Evolution of Dance 2”

- Kerry Collins (the guy who TOTALLY looks like Gary Cole!) wants to continue to push off the Vince Young years from re-starting (IF they can restart)

- “…the pair argued after Blom complained about getting a Wii game system from Young instead of the remote control airplane he asked for. When Young started to leave, Blom allegedly grabbed her by the hair and she turned around and hit him…”

- In support of Mark McGuire for the Hall

- A reminder that Minka Kelly is hot and therefore you should watch Friday Night Lights which returns to NBC this Friday for season 3!

Extra Slice – Video: Will Smith continues to prove that he’s better than us 

- Yes, but did Brady get down on one knee to propose marriage?

- Ricky makes the hall, but what team will he go in representing? (McGuire misses again)

- I know it’s SOOOO un-manly, but if you haven’t watched How I Met Your Mother, catch up with reruns on Lifetime (no longer “television for women”)

- No way!! Dungry to hang it up 

Extra Slice – Video: For your enjoyment – A “what the fuck?” video

- Shocker (sarcastic): Giants open to having Plax back. Geez, wonder if it has anything to do with not scoring on TD in their only playoff game this year

- NBC makes a deal to squeeze out three more episodes of ER before it’s lost forever

- Scared they don’t have a long-term plan a la Marvel, Warner Brothers puts all their Superhero movies on hold

- Grey’s Anatomy, coming to a video game console soon (Who the fuck is going to buy this?)

Extra Slice- Video: NPH recalls a precious moment in his life

- Sunday night on Fox… 24 returns for a two night event (you’re hearing this in your head with that booming announcer voice, right?)

- So Polaroid is taking the instant printer to the next step: The digital instant camera with internal printer 

- While not official yet, it looks like Smallville will be back for a ninth (!) season

- Burger King has released an application on Facebook that give you a coupon for a free Whopper whenever you cull 10 friends from your list. “Each time a friend is excommunicated, the application sends a notification to the banished party via Facebook’s news feed explaining that the user’s love for the unlucky soul is less than his or her zeal for the Whopper.” Nice.

Extra Slice – Video: Jon Stewart began his tenure at The Daily Show 10 years ago this Sunday (Jan 11)

- How I Met Your Mother fans can relax: Looks like our show isn’t going getting canceled anytime soon 

- Coming soon: Broadcast TV on your cell phones (at least for those of us in the 22 cities covered… sorry Saco)

- Miss those old Polaroid photos? Now you can transfer your new photos into old ones! 

- Yes. Yes, I do want to party with Jay Glazer and Michael Strahan (PS – The lady in the middle of the “sandwhich” is none other than Eddie Murphy’s ex-wife!)

Extra Slice – Video: In honor of the news that Tori is going to return to her ol’ 90210 stomping grounds, allow me to be the first to say: “DONNA MARTIN GRADUATES!”

- One man’s trash is another man’s treasure: Mangini joins the Dogpound

- Baltimore is serving up a little Steve McNair controversy down in Nashville this week. Will McNair show some Purple\Black support and stick with the team that made him famous?

- Trump announces his new Apprentice’s including Clint Black, Brian McKnight, Tom Green Herschel Walker, T-Boz, Joan and Melissa Rivers, Dennis Rodman and Andrew Dice Clay

- Ken Burns is updating his documentary Baseball with The Tenth Inning, covering the 16 years of baseball since the original 1994 series

Extra Slice – Video: with less than two weeks to go, Letterman recounts 10 reasons why we’ll “miss” Bush

- Remain calm: Phish is about to announce a full tour schedule (breath, Mike, breath)

- Remember when Thomas Haden Church made a comeback with Sideways and then, like a week later, signed on to be the next villain in Spidey 3? Well, apparently Mickey Rourke is trying to do the same thing with Iron 2

- Speaking of Spidey, Obama stops by for a fist bump in the next issue (PS – Is it me or did the Marvel artists do a crappy job on Obama? Where are the trademark ears?)

-  From Brock: If this doesn’t get you ready for the playoffs this weekend, nothing will (Ed Note: I believe he’s mainly talking to the male readers…)

Extra Slice – Commentary: Today’s commentary comes courtesy of my buddy Brock (photo below, pictured on a more serious day): “So I just actually started looking through the photos of the link I just sent you [above, bullet 4] and yes, this is why the terrorists hate us. And really, I can’t blame them. I’d hate someone to if I knew that they lived in a country where women like that lived and breathed and worshiped football every weekend and I was stuck looking at eyes through sheets as I roamed from cave to cave taking orders from the long lost member of ZZ Top. God Bless America and God Bless football.”

- Obama to nominate the highest profile surgeon general of all-time, Dr. Sanjay Gupta

- A look at the Yankees in 2009 – will they be great or subpar? (thanks Laurie for the link)

- Gas prices might spike again? Ugh – someone remind me why I have a car

- The litigious Larry Flynt goes after his own flesh and blood

Extra Slice – Video: Ah, the Japanese… Always the leaders in technology (thanks Adam E for the link)