With the acquisition of Jamal Magloire the Miluakee Bucks is now a force to be recon with in the east. This trade has shifted the balance of power in the east. You see, the Bucks were not supposed to make it to the playoffs this season. Now it seems that they have a formidable front court that can go up against any front line in the league.

Australia`s captain, Mark Viduka, announced that he might be retiring form international soccer ? for the sake of his children.

In what was supposed to be his swung song, Sam Chassell who was thrown into a bad situation is now making the most of it. Cassel always felt he was underpaid, which is why he was traded so many times over the course of his career. His latest team, the Minnesota Timber wolves was flat out disgusted with his attitude last season, after he was refused a contract extension, leading them to trade him to the Clippers.

With the holiday season only a couple of months away, the game console industry is heating up again. Two chain stores have begun accepting pre-orders for Sony`s PlayStation 3

?The greatest American director in the tradition of John Ford?. This is how Elliot Gould, M.A.S.H. star described the show?s director, Michael Altman who died in a Los Angeles hospital.

Here are three tips on what to do before you take the big plunge into home ownership this spring. First off, pay off your other debts first. Second, use the Internet to check out potential houses and neighborhoods. Finally, determine how much you can afford when it comes to buying a home and applying for a mortgage.

An overhaul of Blogger, with some new security features, was launched in beta version by Google. The search engines giant, which acquired the blogging service about three years ago, is limiting the number of current subscribers that can switch over to the upgrade.

More than a thousand tickets to the famous Barbra Streisand`s upcoming national concert tour was sold on the internet to people who used stolen credit card information.

The United States Basketball team opened strong and showed great skills and ability during their debut appearance. The U.S team won all four quarters against Puerto Rico.

Have you noticed how much energy the enterainment world has spent in the past 9 months defending Scientology. It seems that ever since Tom Cruise decided that depression is not an actual problem, every facet of the entertaiment industry has been poking fun at the religion. Yet it seems that Scientologists world wide are fighting back in an overly overt way.

Beginning next week, gay and lesbian United Kingdom residents will have the ability to walk down the aisle. The UK has changed outdated laws and are now allowing Civil Partnerships to take place between couples, who have till now, had no rights. The government estimates that approximately 11,000-22,000 couples will apply for civil partnership between next week and 2010.

The right-wing British historian David Irving was sentenced to three years in prison this week after admitting to an Austrian court that he denied the Holocaust. Before the verdict, Irving conceded he had erred in contending there were no gas chambers at the Auschwitz concentration camp. He intends to appeal.

Ford Motor Co.`s second-quarter 2006 losses have reportedly ballooned to $254 million, almost double from what the American car maker previously estimated and reported it was aiming to see. The losses for Ford might not come as a shock to some, who noted that in July 2006 for the first time, Ford sold fewer vehicles in the United States than Toyota.

Jennifer Aniston may be over Brad Pitt, but what she isn`t over is her new tall man. Jennifer may not seem short to us normal girls, as she is 5-foot-5, but compared to her co-star and boyfriend Vince Vaughn the entertainment star is truly miniscule. So

With the arrival of Carlos Arroyo, the point guard position is getting to be a little bit over crowded for the Magic. Other than Arroyo, they also have Jameer Nelson and of course Steve Francis. Does this signal that the Magic already have a deal in place for Francis?