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The Strike Zone
May 16, 2011
Tracking the week's news both inside and outside the confines of cool
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May 16, 2011

The Strike Zone

Tracking the week's news both inside and outside the confines of cool

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Multitasker of the Year: Obama held his first capture-Bin Laden meeting one day before sharing his NCAA picks (which were pretty solid, mind you).

Allegedly psychic sports fan animals, the latest being Magdalena, the two-headed, five-legged Slovakian tortoise who's predicting the World Ice Hockey Championships.

This anti--Jim Tressel billboard, which went up 30 miles outside of Ann Arbor.

Red Sox fans' touching a cappella serenade of Kevin Youkilis, to Biz Markie's Just a Friend, after a 2½-hour rain delay.

The dogged determination of the Cincinnati marathon runner who lost his shorts but just kept on running—until police tasered him to a halt.

Ron Artest waited a whopping eight days after receiving the NBA's citizenship award before he decapitated a Mavs player.

LeBron stopped doing his pregame chalk toss—which leaves the door open for someone younger to come in and act like he, too, invented it.

The artist who inked Mike Tyson's face tat is suing the producers of The Hangover Part II for using his design. Or, in saner terms, someone is actually taking credit for that thing on Tyson's face.

How hip is the UFL? The NFL alternative conducted its entire 10-round draft via Twitter.

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