Cadel Evans seized the Tour de France yellow jersey in the next to last stage Saturday, all but giving Australia its first victory in cycling’s showpiece event and capping one of the most dramatic races in years. Evans, a two-time runner-up in the Tour de France, took the overall lead by overcoming a 57-second deficit [...]
A 21-year-old auburn-haired California girl won the Miss USA crown on Sunday night and will represent the nation in this year’s Miss Universe pageant in September in Brazil. Alyssa Campanella, an brown-haired beauty from California, topped fifty other women to win the coveted honor of Miss USA 2011 last night in Las Vegas. In [...]
The NASCAR on FOX crew recaps the Samsung Mobile 500 in Texas. Matt Kenseth took home the checkered flag. Matt Kenseth knows how to put an end to a winless streak. Matt Kenseth , who hadn’t been to Victory Lane in a Sprint Cup race in more than two years, put on a show under [...]
Apple’s iPad 2 will launch officially tomorrow, but the reviews are up a day early. The iPad 2 is clearly an evolutionary upgrade to the original design, having slimmed down from 13.4mm to 8.8mm, and dropped a few ounces from 1.5 pounds to 1.3 pounds. As expected, the iPad 2 now features a dual-core A5 [...]
Steve Jobs boasts that most of the new 2011 tablets are no match for the original Apple iPad, he has a point. Currently, only the Motorola Xoom (Verizon Wireless) ($599-$799, 3.5 stars) shows enough promise to compete with Apple’s tablet. RIM’s BlackBerry PlayBook, HP’s TouchPad, and Samsung’s Honeycomb Galaxy Tab could also be contenders, but [...]