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I normally try to keep the news on OBC light-hearted and fun, and have often ignored big(ish) news stories on the basis that they were a huge bummer and I didn't feel like casting a shadow over the whole day. However, a news story has erupted this morning that would just be wrong not to …

The second NFL tragedy in two weeks... yikes. Cowboys DT Josh Brent is facing charges of intoxication manslaughter after drunkenly crashing his car and killing his passenger, practice team member Jerry Brown Jr. [DeadSpin] Manny Pacquiao was knocked out for the first time since 1991 by a brutal sixth-round punch from Juan Manuel Marquez. It …

Kansas City Chiefs linebacker Jovan Belcher shocked the nation by shooting and killing his girlfriend, then going to the stadium and shooting himself in front of his coaches and other team personnel. [Kansas City Star] Some people won shit-ton of money in the Powerball lottery. I don't care. I DO think it's funny that some …

Wal-Mart workers staged a walkout on Black Friday. Seriously: GOOD LUCK, GUYS. [ Common Dreams] When Oprah says that something isn't profitable, you believe her. [DailyMail] Two Colts cheerleaders shaved their heads in honor of their team's leukemia-stricken coach. And still looked gorgeous. [BuzzFeed] The Classy Chris Brown Files, #43,998 [Dlisted] Lindsay Lohan's comeback movie, …

This is probably as relevant to BCU as a poop stain is to a Miss America Pageant (good comparison or BEST comparison?), but I just had to share the mind-blowingly disappointing news that George Lucas has officially sold Lucasfilm to Disney for a CRAZY-BALLS price of $4.05 BILLION. And now the production of Star Wars, …

If your company's "manager incentive" program involved watching porn and attending prostitute parties, you might think you had died and gone to heaven. Not so much for one Brazilian employee of beverage company Ambev - the Latin American unit of Anheuser-Busch InBev, the world's largest beer brewer. According to the Huffington Post, the Brazilian man …

Reason #19,041 not to get married: you might find condom wrappers in your husband's car, and then you guys might get in a fight over it, and then he might HEADBUTT YOU. According to TheSuperficial, that's exactly what happened to football star Chad "ochocinco" Johnson this weekend when he allegedly headbutted his wife of six …