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• Teenager Struck By Lightning While Playing Mortal Kombat

  Published: July 28, 2007, 1:22 am

  Tags: Gamer Life, 18 Year Old, Apparently, Bedroom Wall, Controller, Gamer, Gamers, Gizmodo, Guess, Hospitalized, Internet Story, Ipods, Joystick, Lesson To Be Learned, Mortal Kombat, Mother Nature, Rundown, Sao Paulo, Storms, Struck By Lightning

  sue. Anyway, the basic rundown is that an 18 year old gamer in Brazil was struck by lightning while he had one controller in his mouth and another in his hand playing Mortal Kombat. If there is any lesson to be learned here, it’s that you should not have a controller in your mouth next to an open window when lightning is striking

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• THE RUNDOWN: REMEMBERING "THE ED REED GAME"

  Published: November 7, 2007, 11:29 am

  Tags: Nfl, Ed Reed, The Rundown, Gambling, Davey, Browns, Videos, Ravens

  Davey, Blown CoverageThe Rundown is my weekly "gambling" column that runs every Wednesday afternoon. It's based on and inspired by the time I spent working at sports books.If you wager on sports, you must be familiar with losing and you're probably also familiar with those heart shattering/mind raping losses. You know, the ones where you

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• THE RUNDOWN: THE MEMORABLE STEREOTYPES

  Published: November 14, 2007, 11:09 am

  Tags: Nfl, The Rundown, Gambling, Davey, Ncaa, Nba, Mlb

  guy that wants the complete "rundown" of games. I guess I called this column "The Rundown" because this was the client that I hated the most. He's the guy that calls Friday night and asks the spread, the total and the moneyline on every college and pro football game that's on the schedule that weekend. If the baseball season is still kicking it,

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• THE RUNDOWN: OFFICE POOLS SUCK

  Published: November 21, 2007, 9:05 am

  Tags: Nfl, The Rundown, Gambling, Davey

  Davey, Blown CoverageThe Rundown is a weekly "gambling" column based on and inspired by the time I spent working at sports books.Take a person that has above average football knowledge and take someone who doesn't know the difference between Carson Palmer and Carson Daly. Now, have these people make head-to-head NFL picks and I assure you that

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• THE RUNDOWN: HE SURELY DID NOT MAKE THE LEAGUE PLAY-OFFS

  Published: December 5, 2007, 10:06 am

  Tags: Nfl, Peter King, The Rundown, Davey, Fantasy Sports, Making Fun Of Dumb People, Fantasy Football

  Davey, Blown CoverageThe Rundown is a weekly "gambling" column based on and inspired by the time I spent working at sports books.With some fantasy football leagues already going to their play-offs next week (depending on the league size), I thought I'd drop the "gambling" angle for just 1 week and instead mock Peter King's fantasy football team

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• Get Paid to Blog for a Year!

  Published: December 5, 2007, 4:47 pm

  Tags: Blogging, Get Paid, Manodogs, Rundown

  I stopped by to give you The Rundown on a new contest I just learned about that will actually pay you to blog for a year. And when I say "pay," I mean BIG TIME pay! This is not another sponsored program or anything like that - it's a contest where the winner gets paid an annual salary for one year to blog as

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• THE RUNDOWN: I DON'T LIKE SHAQ VERY MUCH

  Published: December 19, 2007, 10:05 am

  Tags: Magic, The Rundown, Gambling, Davey, Nba, Mavericks, Lakers, Videos, Trail Blazers, Shaq, Heat

  Davey, Blown CoverageThe Rundown is a weekly "gambling" column based on and inspired by the time I spent working at sports books.As I was reading Simmons' annual "NBA Trade Value" column today, two things made me pretty giddy. First, he ranked Dwight Howard no. 2 in trade value right now. In other words, as of right now, the only other guy with

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• 100 Funniest Movies - Coming in at #90

  Published: June 25, 2008, 9:42 pm

  Tags: Movies, Bette Midler, Brad Pitt, Danny Devito, Drowning Mona, Edward Norton, Fight Club, Kathleen Turner, Krippendorf S Tribe, Michael Douglas, Michael Keaton, Night Shift, Robert Duvall, Secondhand Lions, The Princess Bride, The Rundown, The Sandlot, The War Of The Roses

  90. Night Shift - Odd couple Bill Blazejowski (Michael Keaton) and Chuck Lumley (Henry Winkler) work the night shift at New York City's morgue. It's a dead end job (of corpse, haha) until Keaton convinces his repressed and reluctant co worker to start a call girl service. This was Keaton's first movie role and under [...]

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• Katie Holmes' Hands Discolored from Scientology Purification Rundown (Purif)

  Published: July 21, 2008, 11:08 am

  Tags: Katie Holmes, Katie Holmes Hands, Katie Holmes Hands Discolored, Katie Holmes Purple Hands, Purif, Scientology Purification Rundown, Scientology Ritual

  Purification Rundown. (photo credit: Fame Pictures via AOL) Katie Holmes’ hands were the topic of much discussion last week when the actress diligently tried to keep them under wraps while filming ABC’s Eli Stone, conspicuously wearing gloves and long sleeve shirts -odd behavior in the middle of July in Los Angeles.

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• Hands off Katie Holmes' Hands

  Published: July 24, 2008, 3:00 pm

  Tags: Celebrities, Katie Holmes, Purification Rundown, Purple Hands, Scientology, Tom Cruise

  Yes, I know that it looked like Katie Holmes' hands had been involved in some sort of horrible henna accident. And, yes, I know that rumors are swirling that the purple color was a result of Scientology's Purification Rundown, a...

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