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I love a good commercial. 
Today I saw the Geico commercial featuring Andres Cantor! Cantor is commentating on a chess game.
“Can futbol announcer Andres Cantor make any sport exciting?”
“Un partido intenso hoy!”
“Que tension! Viene! Viene! Viene!”
“Goooooooooooooooooooool!”
Check it out on YouTube. Here’s the link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2fXsfAeqimY
It’s garnered 215,918 hits.
The Honest Abe is hilarious too! It has 86,933 hits.
The Drill Sergeant (242,212 hits), played by [...]

YO. Sorry I haven’t posted anything for a while, but I’m back in it.  
I just heard yesterday the popular annual event running with the bulls in Spain is getting gored.
This worldwide recession is hitting close to home now in several small Spanish communities. Pamplona is hosting the event this week, but amid controversy over whether to shut down [...]

Sorry, no photos due to technical problems. I’ll add a photo gallery of the entire evening soon.
The worst thing that could have happened to Manuel Quezada did happen Thursday at the Tachi Palace when the 18-bout win streak he carried for nearly five years ended. Quezada failed to defend his WBC CABOFE Heavyweight title against Jason Gavern [...]

Manuel Quezada has 18-straight victories to his name. He’s hoping to further that record tonight when he meets Jason Gavern (18-7-3, with 8 KOs) of Kissimmee, Florida at the Tachi Palace Hotel and Casino in Lemoore. Up for grabs is Quezada’s (29-4-1, with 18 KOs) WBC Caribbean Boxing Federation (CABOFE) title.
Quezada is the co-main event to the 2008 Olympian Shawn Estrada (6-0, 6 [...]

Toluca’s Diablos Rojos will have all the advantage today when Columbus Crew from the MLS visits for the second of two quarterfinal matches in the CONCACAF Champions League.
The Crew is in a global tie of 2-2 after the March 9th match played at Crew Stadium (Columbus). Los Diablos Rojos let a 2-0 lead slip away, along [...]

Fresno – The entire southbound lanes along Freeway 99 south of Fresno were cleared in honor of the casket that carried Reedley Police Officer Javier Bejar, 28.

About 3,500 visitors, many from law enforcement, from throughout the state paid their respects in a public service at the Fresno Exhibit Hall today. They heard relatives of Bejar speak, then piled into vehicles [...]