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This past Sunday, when Ronda Rousey climbed into the World Wrestling Entertainment ring, it was presented as a spur of the moment incident after an in-ring verbal battle between actor/wrestler Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson and the evil Authority, consisting of Paul "HHH" Levesque and Stephanie McMahon. Of course, in wrestling, only two things are real -- the money and the chronic pain. The spur of the moment actually dated back about seven months, when Rousey and the rest of the Four Horsewomen -- UFC fighters Shayna Baszler and Jessamyn Duke, and new Invicta signee Marina Shafir -- were guests at the WWE SummerSlam show at the Staples Center in Los Angeles. The ball really started rolling with Baszler, a longtime fan who lists Billy Robinson (a pro wrestling legend of the '60s and '70s) and sometimes pro wrestler Josh Barnett as her coaches. This led to the four of them taking on the name and doing poses like The Four Horsemen of pro wrestling, whose heyday

The San Diego Padres have acquired relief pitcher Craig Kimbrel and outfielder Melvin Upton Jr. (previously B.J. Upton) from the Atlanta Braves in exchange for outfielder Carlos Quentin, outfielder Cameron Maybin, pitcher Matt Wisler, outfielder Jordan Paroubeck and the 2015 competitive balance pick No. 41, the teams announced Sunday.   Fox Sports' Ken Rosenthal first reported the terms of the trade. The trade, which comes on the eve of Opening Day 2015, reunites Upton with his brother Justin Upton, who was dealt  from Atlanta to San Diego in December.  Kimbrel, 26, has made four consecutive All-Star games. He finished last season with 47 saves, his fourth straight year with at least 40 saves.  Upton played for the Braves each of the last two seasons after spending the first eight years of his career with the Rays. Upton batted .208 last season, the second-lowest average of his career.  The Padres have been busy this off-season. Besides acquiring Kimbrel and

 Fall River, Massachusetts, jury in 1893 couldn’t determine whether or not Lizzie Borden killed her parents, and neither has anyone since. But according to the 2014 Lifetime Original Movie, Lizzie Borden Took an Ax , starring Christina Ricci in the titular role, she definitely whacked them. And starting Sunday night, with the premiere of the network’s spinoff miniseries  The Lizzie Borden Chronicles , she’ll be offing everyone else in town too.  Meet the modern, TV-drama Lizzie: smoking hot, witty, jaunty in a feathered hat, and nonplussed by the gushy sound of any number of pointy objects piercing flesh. It’s stylistically gory with a dash of camp, packed with ostentatious period costumes, and set to screaming guitars. The eight-episode series is historical in the way  Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter  was. As  Arturo Interian , vice president of original movies at Lifetime, says, “Lizzie’s body count gets pretty high.” And if fans (4.4 million watched the 2014 movie,

Spoiler Alert: Do not read on if you haven’t seen “ Mad Men ” season 7, episode 8, titled “Severance.” With its final season premiere, “Mad Men” serves up an ultra-rich slice of layer cake that reminds us how much we’re going to miss this show when it’s all over seven weeks from now. “Severance,” written by series creator/exec producer Matthew Weiner and directed by exec producer Scott Hornbacher, is densely packed with detail, call backs to earlier points on the “Mad Men” timeline and emotional moments in the lives of the core characters that only a cast this good could pull off. In sum, the storyline shows Don Draper and other core characters grappling with what today would be called “work-life balance issues.” Peggy, Joan and Ken in particular are wrestling with the question of how their lives are defined by their jobs. Don Draper seems to be more preoccupied by the existential question asked in musical form by Peggy Lee at the start of the episode: “Is that

Tag:  #HappyEaster Easter Eve was celebrated properly at Karsel Restaurant in Bogaz harbour, with a market, raffles and lots of activities. As you can see in the pictures below the event was attended by everything from Easter chicks to Winnie the Pooh! Even “Lady and Lad in Red” were there to remind people how important it is to donate blood. As always North Cyprus offered beautiful Easter weather, and there were lots of people gathered in the harbour to enjoy the sunshine. Happy Easter!

Tag: #LeonoraCarrington Celebratory Google doodles have been cute, clever and delightful since they first appeared, but there have been few as obscurely intriguing as today’s, that shows a night-time boat in the shape of a crocodile steered by and carrying more of the creatures. Clicking on the image will inform you that it is intended as a celebration of the 98th birthday of the Surrealist artist Leonora Carrington, who was born in Lancashire on 6 April 1917, though she lived for much of her life in Mexico, dying there in May 2011, aged 94. She was a last surviving link to the Surrealist movement that first developed in Europe in between the wars, offering a defiantly feminist alternative to the likes of Andre Breton and Max Ernst, and bringing in elements of magical realism. As well as painting and sculpting, Carrington also wrote a number of books, including Down Below , which dealt with her psychotic experiences following a hospitalisation and treatment