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Michael Wilbon Uses The N-word on National TV

Michael Wilbon, a co-host of EPSN’s Pardon The Interruption, is trending on the internet today for his use of the N-word on national television. Wilbon, who is African American, spoke out against a proposed rule the NFL is considering that would penalize a player 15-yards if they use the N-word on the field.

Las Vegas Hotels: Condo Sales Off To A Good Start This Year

Things are looking up in Las Vegas, where the luxury condo market is continuing to increase in both sales and investors due to an upswing that began in 2013 and has continued to the present. This is a pleasant change for Sin City, which faced a sharp decline in condo sales and investors back in 2009.

Google Analytics Gets New AdWords Reports For Download Campaigns

Google announced today that it has added more integration between AdWords and Google Analytics for Mobile Apps. You can link your accounts and enable auto-tagging, and start getting a new set of reports on day parts, destination URLs, and keyword positions.
The reports cover display and search campaigns. You can find them under the Acquisition menu for Google Analytics App Views.

‘The Swapper’ Coming to PlayStation Platforms in May

Last year indie game studio Facepalm Games released The Swapper for PC. The title is a stylish puzzle game with some interesting/disturbing story elements linked to its core gameplay mechanic of using clones to solve puzzles. The Swapper was highly praised by critics and now console gamers will get a chance to see what the hype was about.
Today Curve Studios announced that The Swapper will be coming to PlayStation 4, PlayStation 3, and PlayStation Vita sometime in late May. Curve is the developer porting the game to PlayStation platforms.

“Little Couple” Star Is Ready For Life To Be Boring

“Little Couple” star Jen Arnold has been through a lot in the past year; after traveling to India with her husband, Bill Klein, she began experiencing heavy bleeding and subsequently found out she had cancer of the uterus brought on by a miscarriage. The trip to India was meant to be a happy time, as they were going to adopt their 2-year old daughter, Zoey, but Arnold was forced to come back to the U.S. to receive treatment.
“It was terrible,” Bill said. “I just wanted it to be me instead of her and for her to be with the kids.”

Steve Elkington Tweets Another Faux Pas

Some people need to realize the internet is not like Las Vegas. What happens on the internet stays on the internet whether you delete it or not.
Apparently professional golfer Steve Elkington didn’t get that memo.
On Tuesday the Australian golfer made remarks about Michael Sam, the Missouri defensive end who recently came out as gay before entering the NFL combine.

American Flags That Aren’t American? Oops.

How many people pride themselves on being “flag-waving” Americans?
Some citizens own flags which they raise and lower proudly in their front yards. Even if individuals don’t consider themselves all that patriotic, it’s still pretty common to buy a flag on July 4th, the nation’s birthday and a popular US holiday.
What many well-meaning flag buyers don’t know is that there is a disturbing truth to the origin of a number of American flags—one that would make the most jingoist American fall over dead from shame and shock.

715 New Exoplanets Discovered by NASA’s Kepler

The last decade has seen a huge increase in the number of known exoplanets (those outside of our own solar system). NASA’s Kepler mission has been responsible for a great deal of these planet discoveries in the last few years and today NASA revealed yet another wave of new planets discovered by the Kepler space observatory.