Shaun White got praise at the Winter X games for his fashion sense and his snowboarding. Wearing skintight pants and a black leather jacket, White won his fourth consecutive superpipe title at the games in Aspen, Colorado over the weekend by performing his signature maneuver to fend off Scotty Lago. The two-time gold medalist at [...]

Veteran television and film actor Donald Sutherland was honored with his own star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame this week. Sutherland, 75, got a star on boardwalk located at 7024 Hollywood Boulevard adjacent to the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel next to the star belonging to his son, Keifer Sutherland. “I could get a chair and [...]

“American Idol” stormed into Nashville’s “Country Music Mecca” in the heart of Tennessee on Thursday night featuring auditions for its tenth season, and producers certainly held out on the best performances. Lauren Alaina, a perky 15-year-old from Georgia, grabbed the judge’s attention with an excellent rendition of “Like We Never Loved Before” by Faith Hill. [...]

Rafael Nadal’s effort to win four consecutive Grand Slam tournaments has ended. Nadal, who has struggled with an injury recently, lost Wednesday in the quarterfinal round in the Australian Open to fellow Spanish citizen David Ferrer. Nadal, who looked as if he was getting teary eyed during a changeover when he was trailing Ferrer 3-0 [...]

Christina Aguilera will rock the Cowboys Stadium in Dallas as she sings the National Anthem at Super Bowl XLV. The Grammy Award winning singer will perform the Star Spangled Banner prior to the start of championship game between the Pittsburgh Steelers and Green Bay Packers. On Monday’s the National Football League stopped the rumors, announcing [...]

The Academy Award nominations were announced Tuesday morning in Los Angeles, and the big winner, at least for this preliminary recognition round, is “The King’s Speech,” which took 12 nominations, including consideration for best director and best picture. Meanwhile, “True Grit” took away 10 nominations and “The Social Network” got eight, including an expected nod [...]

Rock musician and reality television star Bret Michaels successfully underwent heart surgery in an Arizona hospital to fix a hole in his heart, according to a spokeswoman for the hospital. Michaels, who is lead singer for the hard rock band Poison, was recuperating after his surgery Monday in the intensive care unit of St. Joseph’s [...]

With a valor effort that put his team in the Super Bowl, Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers appears to have finally established himself from the shadows surrounding his predecessor Brett Favre. The Packers secured a spot in the championship game to take place in Dallas, Texas on February 6 after beating the Chicago Bears [...]

Oprah Winfrey announced on her television talk show Monday that she has a half sister whom she only found out about last year. “In the past 25 years, the Oprah Show has reunited a lot of people. I thought I’d seen it all, but this is the miracle of all miracles,” Winfrey said on the [...]

It has been a rollercoaster of a season for Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger, who endured a four game suspension at the start, is now heading to his third Super Bowl. Asked about it Sunday, Roethlisberger said he was not focused on last March when a 20-year-old college student accused him of sexual assault and [...]

Fitness enthusiasts across generations were praising Jack LaLanne, who died at the age of 96 on Sunday after a lifetime of encouraging people to be physically fit and active at all ages. LaLanne is regarded as the pioneer behind the fitness movement in America. He encouraged people to eat right and exercise daily long before it [...]

Nickelodeon, a children’s cable network, will premier one of its longest running cartoons on FaceBook. SpongeBob SquarePants, airing since 1999, will debut its five-story anthology on FaceBook. The stories will feature Ginnifer Goodwin and Amy Sedaris in that comically probes long-standing underwater myths. SpongeBob SquarePants show storyline depicts the adventures of a naïve sea-sponge and [...]