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Is this the best way to share your feelings? Yes. Yes, it is.
Philadelphia Eagles guard Evan Mathis responds to the recent IRS scandal by urinating (or fake urinating) on an IRS sign. This is how you change the world, people.
FINALLY: Condoleezza Rice shows off her green jacket ahead of the Masters.
The home of the Masters, under increasing criticism the last decade because of its all-male membership, invited the former secretary of state and South Carolina financier Darla Moore to become the first women in green jackets last August when the club opens for a new season in October.
A debate about membership intensified in 2002 when Martha Burk of the National Council of Women’s Organizations urged the club to include women among its members.
Former club chairman Hootie Johnson stood his ground, even at the cost of losing Masters television sponsors for two years, when he famously said Augusta National might one day have a woman in a green jacket, “but not at the point of a bayonet.” (Photo: Ron Williams/The Associated Press)
DOUBLE DUTY: U.S. President Barack Obama welcomed BOTH the Los Angeles Kings and L.A. Galaxy to celebrate their respective 2012 championship wins at the White House on Tuesday.
Dustin Penner was very excited about it.
(Photo: Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Images)
Bill Clinton surprised the Louisville Cardinals in their locker room after Thursday night’s game. Best. Surprise. Ever.
“I mean, I think the president got swag, he got that swag to him,” Louisville’s Chane Behanan told CBS. “I don’t want to say what type of swag he got, but he got swag.
(Photo: Chane Behanan/Instagram)
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A U.N aid agency canceled the Gaza marathon on Tuesday after the Palestinian territory’s militant Hamas rulers banned women from participating in the annual sporting event.
UNWRA, which assists Palestinian refugees and also sponsors and organizes the event, announced that plans for the race next month have been scrapped because of the Hamas demand that women be barred.
“We regret this decision to cancel the marathon but we don’t want men and women running together,” Abdessalam Siyyam, a Hamas government official, told Agence France-Presse.
“We did not tell Unrwa to cancel the marathon and we haven’t prevented it, but we laid down some conditions: We don’t want women and men mixing in the same place.” (Photo: Mohammed Abed/AFP/Getty Images)
The first American to meet North Korea’s new leader says Kim Jong Un doesn’t want war with the United States. He just wants President Barack Obama to call him.
Ex-NBA star Dennis Rodman says Obama and Kim share a love of basketball, so “let’s start there.”
Rodman is just back from a visit to North Korea with the Harlem Globetrotters basketball team and spent two days with Kim.
The State Department on Friday distanced itself from Rodman’s visit. (Photo: Lorenzo Bevilacqua/ABC Television/The Associated Press)
Dennis Rodman is apparently living it up in North Korea filming a new HBO series. Here he is with Kim Jong Un, enjoying the Harlem Globetrotters playing an exhibition basketball game.
The unlikely encounter makes Rodman the most high-profile American to meet Kim since the young North Korean leader took power in December 2011, and takes place against a backdrop of tension between Washington and Pyongyang. North Korea conducted an underground nuclear test just two weeks ago, making clear the provocative act was a warning to the United States to drop what it considers a “hostile” policy toward the North.
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Dennis Rodman is in North Korea. Dennis. Rodman. Is. In. North. Korea.
Former NBA star Dennis Rodman brought his basketball skills Tuesday and flamboyant style — tattoos, nose studs and all — to a country with possibly the world’s strictest dress code: North Korea.
Landing in Pyongyang with VICE television, the American athlete and showman known as “The Worm” became an unlikely ambassador for sports diplomacy at a time of heightened tensions between the U.S. and North Korea.
Rodman and VICE said the Americans hope to engage in a little “basketball diplomacy” by running a basketball camp for children and playing with North Korea’s top basketball stars — and, they hope, drawing leader Kim Jong Un to a game. Kim is said to be a huge basketball fan.
“Is sending the Harlem Globetrotters and Dennis Rodman to the DPRK strange? In a word, yes,” said Shane Smith, the VICE founder who is host of the upcoming series, referring to North Korea by the initials of its formal name, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. “But finding common ground on the basketball court is a beautiful thing. (Photo: Kim Kwang Hyon/The Associated Press)
The offices of the Beitar Jerusalem soccer team were set on fire early Friday in an apparent arson attack, police said, a day after four of the club’s fans were charged with anti-Muslim chanting at a recent game. Tensions have been bubbling ever since the team announced last month it would sign on two Muslim Chechen players — Zaur Sadayev and Gabriel Kadiev — in a break from the team’s unofficial tradition of not signing Arabs or Muslims. (Bernat Armangue/The Associated Press)
OOPS. Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice hit a spectator while playing at Pebble Beach on Thursday.
“Somebody asked me, ’How did it compare to diplomacy?”’ Rice said while walking off the 18th green. “And I said, ’Well, I know how to do diplomacy, I’m not so sure about the golf course.” (Photo: Scott Halleran/Getty Images)
