In the parlance of Las Vegas wise guys, Brandon Lang is on a roll. Lang, one of the top sports handicappers in the world and the subject of the Al Pacino film "Two for the Money" is now the co-author of a new book, "Beating the Odds: The Rise, Fall and Resurrection of a Sports Handicapper." A gifted athlete and longtime sports lover, Lang was on his way to playing college basketball when he ...

The recent, sudden death of two professional wrestlers couldn't have come at a more difficult time for the WWE. Edward Fatu, better known in the professional wrestling universe as Umaga, died suddenly of a heart attack on Dec. 5 at the age of 36. The cousin of Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, Fatu had previously been suspended and released for prescription drug abuse as part of the WWE's Wellness ...

A band of traveling vixens are wowing fanboys across the sci-fi convention circuit by bringing some classic genre caricatures to life with a little extra sex appeal -- just to sizzle it a little. Convention Vixens (ConVixens) is a troupe of young women who share two traits some cynical folk believe rarely go together -- good looks and a love of genre fiction. These professional cosplayers ...

A flu pandemic sweeps through your town. As the body count mounts from the deadly virus, panic grips the population. Families ransack grocery and drug stores, stockpiling food and supplies -- emptying the shelves. Now, you, your family and friends need to get in and out of a store-turned-war-zone with enough groceries to survive until the medical emergency passes. What do you do? ...