Stuart Appleby

If the 2008 US Open was a start of Stuart Appleby’s fall, then the 2010 Open at Pebble Beach indicated his return to the world of golf.
Stated coach Steve Benn who witnessed Stuart Appleby’s magical shoot of 59 to claim the Greenbrier Classic title by one shoot at West Virginia on Sunday.
Appleby became the first Australian to break 60 on a major tour, and in one fell hop silenced critics who thought that he had past prime by the time at the age of 39.
Coach Ban says that Appleby was the halfway leader at the 2008 US Open at Torrey Pines in California, but a atrocious putting performance in the third round shattered his confidence Which resulted to his downfall.
The 2010 season has not been a cake walk, after strong performances. Appelby has started the year with confidence following the start which he got at home late last year, including a runner-up at the Australian Open.
According to Ban the 5metre putt he sank to make the cut at the US Open in June was a huge turning point.
He'd just come off missing three cuts in a row and nothing was going right for him.
"At the US Open he made the impossible possible proving the odd’s wrong, where he had to convert a 15-footer to make the cut and he knew it and he made it," said Bann.
"If he missed that putt at the US Open, he would have missed four straight cuts and not had that chance to shoot that sub-par round on Sunday and finish 29th.
"Since then he's been a different player.
"He just reminded himself he can play as good as anyone in the world."
Appleby admits the first major slump of his career demanded something very special.
"My career has generally been on a slow and gradual move up since I turned professional," said Appleby, while preparing for this week's World Golf Championships Bridgestone Invitational in Akron, Ohio, where he met wife Ashley 10 years ago.
"Having a quiet period after a number of good years was a testing time for me.
"I just had to refocus. I was getting pushed out of the majors and the (WGC) events and I wanted to get back to that level.
"I'm certainly more appreciative of my win on Sunday than may be other wins."
Appleby's nine US Tour victories ranks second among active Australians, only one behind Steve Elkington
What sets Elkington apart is that he has won a major - the 1995 US PGA Championship.
Appleby wasn't even exempt for next week's PGA Championship until he won on Sunday. One great round changed that. How far it takes him remains to be seen.

Them Crooked Vultures

Them Crooked Vultures is a rock supergroup formed in Los Angeles in 2009 by John Paul Jones, Dave Grohl and Josh Homme. The group also includes guitarist Alain Johannes during live performances. The band began recording in July 2009, and performed their first gig on August 9, 2009 in Chicago, followed by a European debut on August 19.

On October 1 the group embarked on a worldwide tour titled Deserve the Future with dates going into 2010. The band's first single "New Fang" was released in October 2009, followed by the group's self-titled debut album the following month, debuting at number 12 on the Billboard 200.

Them Crooked Vultures was released by Interscope Records in North America, and Sony Music internationally.On the 21st of October radio personality Alan Cross announced the lead single for Them Crooked Vultures debut album to be "New Fang" which premiered on October 26. The single was released on November 2 worldwide as a free download. Icon vs. icon subsequently announced that the album would be released on the 17th of November, 2009.
On November 3, the band gave a free copy of "Mind Eraser (No Chaser)" to fans that had bought tickets to a live performance and offered it on iTunes as a free download. On November 9, Them Crooked Vultures started streaming their full album on their website, and also through a link to their mailing list with the title "Fuck Patience, Let's Dance."

Grohl said in an interview that they are working on a second album that will be "more powerful than the first one". John Paul Jones also stated in an interview while touring in New Zealand that they will be recording a new album, with a likely release date towards the end of 2010. When asked about the futures of Grohl and Homme's bands Jones said that they will get their frontmen back "eventually".
A video was uploaded to the band's official YouTube channel entitled 'Fresh Pots' which NME claimed was filmed during recording for their follow-up album. Grohl clarified after the video's release that it was filmed a year prior, during the self-titled album's recording sessions.

Shark Week

The Discovery Channel's initiative of the Shark Week, which first aired on July 27, 1987, is a week-long series of quality television programs dedicated to sharks. Shark Week is held annually, normally running in July and/or August.
This year it began on 1st of August.
The first three nights of Discovery Channel's Shark Week includes the most-watched outing in three years during the annual Shark fest.
There was a steep rise in the viewership accounting of 24% averaging 2.6million viewers per night from Sunday to Tuesday in comparison to the first few nights of2009.
Sunday's "Ultimate Air Jaws" started the week off strongly with 3.5 million viewers, followed by Monday's considerably less popular "Shark Attack Survival Guide" (1.8 million), and then perking up a bit with "Sharkbite Beach" (2.3 million).
Shark Week 2010, hosted by The Late Show's Craig Ferguson, began on August 1 and will feature six brand-new shark specials.

Chelsea Clinton Wedding Pictures

Chelsea Clinton's wedding was held on Saturday, July 31, 2010. Clinton, daughter of former U.S. President Bill Clinton and U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, married investment banker Marc Mezvinsky. The wedding ceremony took place at the Astor Courts estate in Rhinebeck, New York, which is a 50 acre estate located in upstate New York.

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T.I. and Tiny's wedding: Rapper weds Tameka (Tiny) Cottle in elaborate three-city ceremony

Not to be outdone by recently married celebs Chelsea Clinton, Alicia Keys and James Van Der Beek, rapper T.I. had to do something to make his "I Do's" stand out this weekend - so he said them twice!

One day after the "Live Your Life" hitmaker quietly tied the knot with his longtime girlfriend Tameka (Tiny) Cottle at a Miami Beach courthouse on Friday, the couple exchanged vows again on Saturday, reported UsMagazine.com.

During the intimate Saturday ceremony on Miami's Star Island, T.I. (real name Clifford Harris) reportedly wore a custom-made Prada tuxedo while his BET reality star bride, 35, walked down the aisle in a Valentino gown.

Among the reported guests at the star-studded nuptials were TLC's Rozanda (Chilli) Thomas, "Real Housewives of Atlanta" star Kandi Burruss, Cottle's BET co-star Antonia (Toya) Carter, T.I.'s protege Young Dro and rapper Yung LA.

After exchanging vows for the second time on Saturday, the newlyweds reportedly returned to their hometown of Atlanta for a reception. According to Us, the couple ended their wedding weekend with a Las Vegas bash on Sunday.

T.I. and Cottle dated on and off since 2001 and have two children together (T.I. also has three kids from a previous relationship).

"We're living, we're happy, we're in love," Cottle told Vibe.com in March. "I mean, it's no doubt in my mind that he doesn't love every piece of me and vice versa, so we're just doing what's comfortable and what works for us."

The couple - who honeymooned last month in Europe - are slated to return to Atlanta early this week.

Elliott Sadler

Elliott Sadler experienced the highest of highs, and the lowest of lows at Pocono International Raceway this past weekend. Sadler won the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series race on Saturday, driving the GT Vodka Chevrolet Silverado for Kevin and Delaina Harvick. It was a long awaited win for Sadler, who has seen little success in recent years. Like Dale Earnhardt, Jr., Sadler needed a confidence boost, and he got one the same way that Earnhardt did- by stepping down to a lesser series, winning the Nationwide Series race at Daytona last month.

Unfortunately, and also reminiscent of Earnhardt, Sadler's victory on Saturday did not translate to success on Sunday. The first win of the season for Greg Biffle, Roush Racing, and Ford was overshadowed by an incredibly violent crash caused when Elliot Sadler spun trying to avoid Kurt Busch's Penske Miller Lite Dodge. Jimmie Johnson tapped Busch, sending him spinning into the infield. TV viewers saw Busch's crash, the impact hard enough to knock the whole wheel assembly off of the left front.

The cameras missed most of Sadler's wreck, however. All that was captured on video was the impact of Sadler's car with the guardrail, a vivid image of Sadler's body being thrown violently against the seat belt and harnesses. When the crash was ended, the TV cameras focused on a smoking lump on the track apron that turned out to be the engine from Sadler's Richard Petty Motorsports Ford Fusion.

Veteran race fans flashed back to Don MacTavish's fatal crash at Daytona in the '60's, when the engine separated from the car after hard wall impact during a tire test. NASCAR has now confirmed what many observers had speculated- that Sadler's crash was the hardest impact recorded since black box recording devices were installed in cars to record G-forces in accidents. NASCAR seldom discloses these exact numbers, but the highest figure released prior to this week was the incredible 80 G's incurred when Kyle Petty hit the wall at Bristol in 2003.

Elliot Sadler's crash points out two important facts about NASCAR. First, races are run one at a time, and what you did yesterday or the day before means nothing in today's race. Secondly, while the Nextel Cup race car of today has many critics, no one can seriously question whether it is safer than cars of the past. The fact that Elliott Sadler lives to race again is evidence enough.

Love and Basketball

Haven’t we seen this before? A young girl named Monica Wright has to work hard to prove herself on the basketball court. She overcomes a series of obstacles and finally sets foot on the hardwood, having achieved her goal of playing professional basketball.

Most WNBA fans will recognize this as the plot of the 2000 Gina Prince-Blythewood film, “Love and Basketball.” Fast forward a decade. The sequel to “Love and Basketball” began at the 2010 WNBA draft, when the Minnesota Lynx, with the second overall pick, selected, (guess who?) Virginia guard Monica Wright, considered by many to be the hardest working point guard in the draft.

“I was in New York. If you do get invited, you are probably going to go first-round,” Wright said about her Draft Day experience. “I wasn’t sure where I’d go because drafts in the past have been unpredictable. You can’t really guess. I was grateful just to be there, I wasn’t really thinking about where I was going.”

When the Lynx drafted her, she joined the ranks of a team that has two other players with Virginia connections, forward Hamchétou Maïga-Ba (Old Dominion ’02) and center Quanitra Hollingsworth (Virginia Commonwealth ’09).

“Q [Hollingsworth] is actually close to my age and we have a lot of things in common,” Wright said about the Virginia connections. “It’s good to know that someone knows what I’m talking about when I talk of home. We listen to the same type of artists and discuss other basketball players we know from Virginia and she’s someone who knows the area. It’s good to have that in common.”

Her biggest role model is her father, Garry Wright, who served in the U.S. Air Force while she was growing up.

“My Dad was always my best friend my whole life. Usually girls have best friends, like BFFs, but that was my Dad for me,” she said. “I was a military child so I didn’t always get a chance to have a lot of relationships with people. He taught me a lot about sacrifice, giving and selflessness. I’m the exact type of person that he is.”

Regarding the transition from college ball to the professional level, Wright said, “It wasn’t that bad. There is a lot more to learn and a lot of different things you have to maintain, like the different lingo. I’m a pretty intense player already. The speed of play is a little bit quicker, but it didn’t impact me that much. There are just so many different terms, different actions and a lot of new plays to learn. The biggest difference is that you are on your own after practice. It’s like going to work every day.”

Wright started playing soccer and track when she was young, and took basketball seriously when she knew she could get a college scholarship out of it. While playing for Forest Park (Va.) High School, she earned the McDonald’s, USA Today, WBCA and Street & Smith’s All-American status. She was the second-highest ranked guard and 11th overall player in the nation, and took home the Gatorade Virginia Player of the Year honors.

At the University of Virginia, she received numerous ACC and All-America honors, including the Women’s Basketball Coaches Association Defensive Player of the Year title.