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Larry King and Ryan Seacrest singing Pokerface

Something very, very wrong is going on in this exchange between Ryan Seacrest and Larry King, taped during Seacrest’s Thursday broadcast.

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Manny Pacquiao called online video posted by Floyd Mayweather Jr. an “uneducated message”

Pacquiao  focuses on Margarito bout rather than Mayweather’s derogatory comments:

Champion Manny Pacquiao called online video posted by Floyd Mayweather Jr.,  an “uneducated message” and choosing to instead focus on his upcoming fight with Antonio Margarito, this coming November.

In the widely circulated video, Mayweather goes on an expletive-filled and sometimes racist rant against Pacquiao a newly elected Congressman from the Philippines who faces Margarito at Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, Texas.

“I just heard about that, but I didn’t see the video,” Pacquiao said Friday. “But it’s an uneducated message.”

“It’s a really cheap low-blow, but again, consider where it came from,” said trainer Freddie Roach. “We tried to fight him. He said no. He doesn’t want to fight.”

Mayweather has Apologized to Pacquiao for his Racially Charged Video Rant

Floyd Mayweather has apologized to Manny Pacquiao for his racially charged video rant against the Filipino Boxer, last Friday.

In the video , Mayweather refers to pacquiao as “ poochiao” “a yellow chump,” and said “Once I stomp the midget, I’ll make that [expletive] make me a sushi roll and cook me some rice.” In addition, he said, “I’m going to cook that [expletive] with cats and dogs. Have some rice with a little barbecue dog.” He also referred to Pacquiao by using a derogatory slang term for a homosexual.

“I do want to apologize for what happened the other night,” Mayweather said. “I want to apologize to everybody. They felt it was a racist comment that came from me. I don’t have a racist bone in my body, you know. I love everybody. Some of my guys are Muslims. Some of my guys are Jews. Puerto Ricans, Dominicans, Mexicans, whites, it doesn’t matter. There is nothing but love in my heart, you know what I’m saying?

“I heard this from a few people. The only thing I want to say is, anybody who was offended by what I said the other day, I apologize as a man. I apologize. Forgive me for saying what I said. I was just having fun. I didn’t really mean it, nothing in a bad way. So let’s stay on this roller coaster ride and keep riding, baby. It’s all love.”

Mayweather also sent condolences to his former promoter, Bob Arum of Top Rank, with whom he has long had a contentious relationship. The body of Arum’s 49-year-old son, John, was discovered in the Cascade Mountains in Washington state Friday. John Arum appeared to have fallen 300 feet in a hiking accident.

John Arum had been missing for several days and it’s not clear in the video whether Mayweather was aware the body had been discovered. However, he offered consoling words to Bob Arum.

“God bless Bob Arum and his whole family, because I heard that Bob Arum’s son had a bad accident,” Mayweather said. “Love to the whole Arum family.”

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Dragon Con 2010

Dragon Con (also Dragon*Con) is a North America multigenre convention, held annually in Atlanta, Georgia. The 30,000-plus-member convention encompasses four hotels in downtown Atlanta near Centennial Olympic Park, and is hosted by a 1500-member volunteer staff. Dragon Con has hosted the 1990 Origins Game Fair and the 1995 North American Science Fiction Convention (NASFiC). It is operated by a private for-profit corporation. Since its inception in 1987, it has raised thousands of dollars each year for local and national charities.

Dragon*Con is the largest multi-media, popular culture convention focusing on science fiction and fantasy, gaming, comics, literature, art, music, and film in the universe!

This year, Dragon*Con will be held Labor Day weekend (September 3–6, 2010) in Atlanta, GA.

(CNN) — Aaron Douglas, better known as “Chief Tyrol” on “Battlestar Galactica,” is a Dragon*Con veteran. Well known for being open with fans and the life of the Dragon*Con party, Douglas made a pit-stop at CNN to answer some of our BSG-fan questions.

CNN: Had you seen the original BSG before taking the role?

Aaron Douglas: Absolutely, I grew up on the original BSG, I grew up on “Star Wars.” The great thing about “Battlestar” was that it was basically “Star Wars” but once a week, as opposed to waiting for three years for the movie to come out. I was a huge “Battlestar” fan.

CNN: Tell us about when you first auditioned for “Battlestar Galactica” — was it for the part of Capt. Tyrol?

Douglas: No, no I originally auditioned for the part of Apollo (Capt. Lee Adama) which Jamie Bamber got, which is good because Bamber has to go to the gym and I never did. That was good for me. And my callback was for [the role of] Lt. Gaeta, which went to Alessandro, who’s great. He’s a great actor and he can do the tech talk really well. When they got to the end of the casting there was just no one for the Chief, this Tyrol character that they had left, and David Eick [one of the creators of the show] said, “Why don’t we get Aaron to do this?” because David had seen my auditions and quite liked me. So, they offered me this and it grew into what it was.

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Sony Bloggie Touch Camera

The Sony Bloggie Touch is a Full HD pocket camcorder which also captures a clear, crisp still photos at 12.8MP resolution.. Available in 4GB (MHS-TS10) or 8GB (MHS-TS20) models, the Sony Bloggie Touch features a 3.0” touch screen LCD screen that automatically adjusts for vertical or horizontal shooting and viewing, enabling you to shoot video right-handed, left-handed, right-side-up or even upside-down.

Just pull the Bloggie^™ Touch camera out of your pocket and you’re ready to capture Full HD video and 12.8-megapixel still shots at a moment’s notice. You’ll notice the elegant simplicity of a single record button and a large touch screen for showcasing your shots. All the fun is stored on built-in memory, and you can easily upload your movies to your favorite social networking sites like Youtube^™ and Facebook^™1.

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Manny Pacquiao On Margarito

Manny Pacquiao believes in forgiveness. He also isn’t forgetting why Antonio Margarito needs it.

Pacquiao said he just doesn’t believe his next opponent was unaware he was wearing illegal hand wraps before a fight nearly two years ago. Though he agrees Margarito deserves a second chance in boxing, Pacquiao isn’t buying Margarito’s defense and the passionate arguments of Bob Arum, who promotes both fighters.

“Of course, I believe he knew,” Pacquiao said. “He’s the one who wraps his hands. He’s just making some alibi for some reason. What do you think? My belief is you [would] know that.”

During an otherwise genial get-together Tuesday at the Beverly Hills Hotel, boxing’s pound-for-pound champion said he wants somebody watching Margarito’s hands getting wrapped before they meet in Texas, which is hosting the bout partly because Margarito still is banned from the ring in Nevada and California. “My concern is that we have somebody in the dressing room, someone else watching him,” Pacquiao said.

The Philippines’ newly minted congressman will fight for a title in his eighth weight class when he meets Margarito on Nov. 13 in a bout at Cowboys Stadium, which could be filled with more than 70,000 fans. Although the bout is for the vacant WBC 154-pound title, they will meet at a 151-pound catch weight.

One reason was evident when the fighters exchanged handshakes and stood together. Both cracked up when they attempted the usual staredown pose, with Pacquiao laughing as he craned his neck to look up at Margarito, who’s about 5 inches taller.

Pacquiao (51-3-2, 38 KOs) has won 12 straight fights, including a one-sided decision over Joshua Clottey at Cowboys Stadium in March. Although Pacquiao has redefined the importance of weight classes during his near-unprecented rise, the matchup is undeniably dangerous.

Pacquiao’s hand-wrap observers will make sure it isn’t even more perilous to fight Margarito, whose promising career was derailed when trained Javier Capetillo was caught packing his wraps with a substance resembling plaster before Margarito’s loss to Sugar Shane Mosley in Los Angeles in January 2009. “They’re welcome to watch the wraps,” Margarito said through a translator. “I’m going to prepare myself the best I can to give a great fight. I always stay in the gym, learning and training.”

Margarito (38-6, 27 KOs) has a significant size advantage and a remarkable ability to take a punch, but he also has fought just once since his loss to Mosley, winning a tuneup bout in Mexico in May. Margarito has been fairly defiant about his role in the scandal, which led to Capetillo’s banishment from the sport and Margarito’s inability to resume his career in California or Nevada, which generally respects another state’s suspension.

Source: sports.espn.go.com; The Associated Press