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“Fake” Twitterers

October 14, 2009 – 2:00 pm

WSJ posted an article today about a new concern that is popping up on twitter. Imposters!
Brendan Wilhide, who owns a sports twitter info site, has been exposing fakes for months. Some of the fake twitter accounts included Carmelo Anthony of the Denver Nuggets, Ms. Sacramone who won silver in the 2008 Beijing Olympics, and [...]

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Zilker Park survives ACL!

October 7, 2009 – 2:14 pm

If you were at ACL the Friday you saw Zilker Park like you’ve never seen it before. That’s because ACL organizer C3 Presents spent nearly $2.5 million in improvements to the park, which included that amazing, no shoes needed grass.
Then on Saturday it poured, making Zilker Park a mud pit. Like a true festival, the [...]

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UT:UL Monroe Tailgate

September 9, 2009 – 3:23 pm

The UT football season has begun and TicketCity is throwing the biggest and most lavish tailgates UT has ever seen.
Watch the game in HD as well as other college games all day. Get free Iron Cactus food. Get free beer, and get other promotional goodies.
Come and join us at MKL and SanJac!!
Next home game: UT [...]

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Super Bowl XLIV

August 31, 2009 – 1:10 pm

The NFL has awarded the 2010 Super Bowl (XLIV) to Miami. The championship game will be held on February 7, 2010 at Dolphin Stadium (Capacity: 75,540).
In other news, CBS has sold 65% of the available commercial (tv) spots for next year’s Super Bowl. As of now, prices are approximately $2.7 million to $2.8 million per [...]

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UT Football Schedule

August 17, 2009 – 3:43 pm

DATE
OPPONENT
TIME (ET)
Home/Away

Sat, Sep 5th
UL-Monroe
7:00 PM
Home

Sat, Sep 12th
at Wyoming
3:30 PM
Away

Sat, Sep 19th
Texas_Tech
8:00 PM
Home

Sat, Sep 26th
Texas-El_Paso
3:30 PM
Home

Sat, Oct 10th
Colorado
TBA
Home

Sat, Oct 17th
Oklahoma
12:00 PM
Away (Cowboys Stadium)

Sat, Oct 24th
at Missouri
TBA
Away

Sat, Oct 31st
at Oklahoma_State
TBA
Away

Sat, Nov 7th
U-C-F
TBA
Home

Sat, Nov [...]

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Jackson Movie

August 12, 2009 – 1:59 pm

As if there isn’t enough coverage on Michael Jackson, another breaking news update has emerged.
Allegedly Michael Jackson’s filmed rehearsals and behind-the-scenes footage from his proposed O2 Arena tour are going to be complied into a film titled “This Is It”, which while be in theaters around the world in October. Sony Pictures will release the film, [...]

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Cactus Peach

July 27, 2009 – 1:30 pm

Local band, Cactus Peach is playing at Headhunters [21+] (Red River & 8th St.) on Friday, July 31st @ 9:45.
Check them out on Myspace!

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Tour de France

July 22, 2009 – 3:10 pm

When Borat hit the movie screen from his “home town” Kazakhstan many people had never heard of it. Even though it’s the ninth largest county in the world, next to Russia and the Caspian Sea, it was quite foreign to the US media.
That’s all changed this year though because of Alberto Contador, from the [...]

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Bing!

July 15, 2009 – 3:38 pm

So we have all been seeing those Bing “decision engine” commercials [Microsoft’s renamed/re-branded search engine] and now that its been live for a month…how did Microsoft’s reportedly $90 million campaign do? Was the “search overload” enough for people to leave Google?
Not quite, but it was enough for people to leave Yahoo. Microsoft’s slim gain was [...]

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