Sandip Soparrkar became the first Indian to be certified by the ‘Ballroom Dance Teachers Training School’ in Bonn.  And now he is romantically linked to Britney Spears.

According to the Times of India, the word doing the e-rounds is that the two met at Madonna’s party and hit it off immediately, after which she asked him to do her next music video too. And that she’s coming to India to spend time with him, and not to rehearse for the video as is believed.”

The two met at a Madonna party where they hit it off and she asked him to choreograph her video for “Womanizer.”

I don’t believe it.  Chalk it up as a false rumour.

Ex-New England Patriots Player, Danny Villa, and current Walpole High School Football Coach has apparently fled after a Massachusetts Court, on Friday, “issued a warrant for Villa’s arrest on for three counts of rape of a child over 14 and three counts of enticing a minor,” according to the Associated Press.

He resigned shortly after the School Superintendent confronted him about allegations from a parent.

Police have a warrant out for his arrest.

This couldn’t have been what the small high school expected when it hired the ex-Patriots football player to coach its football team!

(above: Dave Chapelle as Ku Klux Klan member courtesy of Comedy Central)

Former Texas Longhorns Tackle, Buck Burnette, may still be reeling after a comment he made shortly after African American President-Elect, Barack Obama, made history on a Tuesday night in early November.

“all the hunters gather up, we have a &%#@er in the white house”

Burnette alleges that the comment that appeared in his Facebook newsfeed, seen by all his friends and acquaintances, was a message sent to him by a buddy that he merely re-posted online.  He said this in the middle of an apology.

I don’t know about you but anytime I make an apology where I am justifying the action at the same time is typically not something I am sorry for.

Texas rightfully booted the little whippersnapper immediately.  This was two months ago.  No clue how the rest of the young man’s semester went but he is likely to feel the sting of his dire mistake again on the night of January 5th when the Texas Longhorns play The Ohio State Buckeyes in the Tostitos Fiesta Bowl…without him.

This was a quick 2-3 day experiment that I ran this past summer.  I blogged about random Google Hot Trend topics with no authority whatsoever and little care about what I was actually writing.  I tried to target some of the more random stuff or capitalize on misspelled words like I did with the ‘Fedder’ tennis article.  Just to see if I could actually rank in Google for any of these terms.  I was quite surprised that it actually worked to some extent and I was even the lead authority on the ending sequence in the Will Smith movie for a few days or a week.  But I was amazed to see how many clicks from search that I would get even if I wasn’t the top result or not even on the front page.

I wrote 12 articles and got over 6000 hits.  Just goes to show how big the internet is and that there is still some market share for popular subjects.

ts eliot

Is there any rhyme or reason to Google Hot Trends? This is the hottest search term on the internet at this moment.  What would, out of the blue, cause this random phrase to go to #1 on the google HotTrends chart? I can’t make sense of it but maybe someone out there can for me?

I don’t read (I grow up with all these electronic toys and as a result, have lost any ability to focus on one thing such as a book).  But this is in the opening lines of one of T.S. Eliot’s poems.  To read the full poem, The Waste Land, in all its glory, click over to Bartleby.

This post DOES NOT give away the ending of the movie but does link to them below (for inquiring minds)!!!

Hancock with Will Smith drew in $100 million this weekend at the box office.  Pretty big draw but did that figure meet expectations? I haven’t seen it and don’t plan to. Critics aren’t “slamming” but 2 in 3 say don’t bother and that’s enough for me to put my $9 toward something else like Wall-E.

One thing is for certain…the Hancock searches are hot right now.  Specifically, people want to know about the ending to the movie.  Basically there’s an alternate ending to the movie if you stick around for the credits. A lot of people scream out of the theater as the credits roll so they missed it.  If you want to know what it is, click here: http://moviestinger.com/extra-scene-during-credits-of-hancock/

There was a twist in Hancock as well part way through the film: http://www.alwayswatching.org/features/truth-about-hancock

As for the original ending, one author said this:

<blockquote>[...] that ultimately leads to one awful ending where you will sit and wonder whether or not you should laugh or cry or maybe demand that the theater give you free candy. – NoPasaNada @ Mamapop.com</blockquote>

Hah!  I think I’ll see WALL-E.  And I cannot WAIT for Batman!!

Pictured above is Kerri Walsh, a heluva womens volleyball player.  Her and teammate Misty May-Treanor won their 15th straight volleyball tournament today in Boulder.  According to USA Today, the Olympic qualifiers won the AVP Crocs Slam Boulder.

May-Treanor’s next tournament title will be the 100th of her career. It may also be record-breaking if she’s playing with Walsh.

Raphael Nadal,Roger Fedder,Ralph Nadal

Hah! People are funny. I just took a quick look at Google Hot Trends.  In searching for news on today’s huge Wimbledon match between the #1 and #2 tennis players in the world, Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal, people have entered in the names as I have erroneously in the headline…so the headline is a tribute to them.

Anyway, there was an epic battle today between the two tennis rock stars.  Nadal upset Federer on his own favorite surface in five marathon sets with the last one going to a 9-7 tiebreaker game.  Federer (or Roger Fedder!) was going for his SIXTH STRAIGHT WIMBLEDON TITLE, PEOPLE!  He would’ve been the first in over a century to do so.

It was the longest Wimbledon match in history with all the rain delays.

ESPN has more.  ESPN is also replaying the match on ESPN Classic tomorrow at 7pm EST.  Raphael Nadal wants you to watch!

Andrea Jaeger admitted to having lost the 1983 Wimbledon final on purpose, according to a report by the Daily Mail.  She was playing Martina Navratilova, who won nine Wimbledon singles titles in her career, and lost 6-0, 6-3.

All we can say is that Martina can’t be happy about the revelation but she probably doesn’t care.  She won eight other titles at Wimbledon so her track record is well documented.

Jaeger became a nun in 2006.  Looks like the sister was looking to get some attention or upstage the current final going on with the Williams Sisters?

Click here for the Daily Mail report.

To catch the action going on with the current Wimbledon Womens Final (Venus won) click here to go to the official Wimbledon website.

After finishing seventh in the 1500m quarterfinal with a time of 4:18.39 on Thursday night, Jordan Hasay finished tenth in the semifinal tonight in Eugene, OR.  Although the 16 year-old track sensation from San Luis Obispo, CA, finished with a time of 4:14.50, it was good enough to beat the high-school record for the 1500m set by Christine Babcock earlier this year.  See full results at USATF.

The San Francisco Chronicle had rumored that Hasay would forego the race tonight to travel to Poland for the World Junior Championships.  She may fare better there but she is holding her own in the 2008 Olympic Trials thus far to say the least.

I don’t think she is leaving before the final which will take place at 4:05pm on Sunday.  NBC’s coverage on Sunday is brief, however, and it is doubtful that it will be televised.

Sanluisobispo.com has more on tonight’s race.