Arts, Briefly: Spartans Victorious Over Rambo
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âMeet the Spartans,â a parody starring Sean Maguire and Carmen Electra in yet another retelling of the historic battle against the Persians, barely outslugged Sylvester Stallone in âRamboâ to seize control of the No. 1 ranking at the weekend box office. In their debuts âMeet the Spartans,â distributed by Fox, pulled in an estimated $18.7 million, while âRamboâ (Lionsgate) came away with $18.1 million, the tracking company Media by Numbers reported. The romantic comedy â27 Dressesâ (Fox), with $13.6 million, fell to third place from second last week. The monster movie âCloverfieldâ (Paramount), on a gross of $12.7 million, plunged to fourth place from No. 1 a week ago. Fifth place went to the newcomer âUntraceableâ (Sony), the horror thriller starring Diane Lane as an F.B.I. cyberwizard. It grossed $11.2 million.
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Action star Sylvester Stallone did not want to use Afghanistan or Iraq as a backdrop for the latest in the Rambo series.
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So what will Boston College's football team do for an encore? After posting back-to-back home victories in double overtime against Clemson (34-33 ) and Brigham Young (30-23 ), how do the 20th-ranked Eagles expect to top that tonight at North Carolina State?
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With Rice and San Jose State having made a mockery of the concept of defense, the Spartans picked a most opportune time for a defensive stand.
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ANN ARBOR , Mich. -- Braylon Edwards caught eight passes for 130 yards and two touchdowns, including the winner in the third quarter of No. 17 Michigan's 24-21 victory over San Diego State yesterday.
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Faced with the possibility of not going to a bowl game, Michigan State pulled out all the stops against Wisconsin. The Spartans came up with two heroic goal-line stands against one of the best offensive lines in the Big Ten.
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HAVEN, Wis. - It was a victory only the victor could love...
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SWAMPSCOTT -- The Lynn Classical Rams used the ground, and the Swampscott Big Blue used the air. But in the end, it was a sensational 81-yard kickoff return by Nate Guy late in the fourth quarter that provided Classical with a 34-27 come-from-behind victory yesterday.
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OXFORD regained the MMC Trophy with a narrow victory over Cambridge in the 123rd Varsity Match at Twickenham yesterday. Replacement winger Ross Lavery scored the decisive try just two minutes from time as
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Romney tries to motivate high schoolers amid final day on Michigan stump ... Huckabee tells Mich. supporters he understands struggles of working-class people ... McCain says he would retool job training programs as president ... Racially tinged disputes heat up between Clinton and Obama
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Rambo is coming to get theater  audiences this week with Sylvester Stallone back on the big  screen as the touch-as-nails Vietnam veteran.
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Tycho:  I purchased twenty fluid ounces of Halo 3 "Limited Edition Mountain Dew Game Fuel" in the hopes that it would taste so horrible that we'd get a strip out of it. Â Before I read the ingredients in preparation for this post, I often found myself desirous of this strange liquid - a liquid the precise color of tubercular sputum.  I would trip over to Seven Eleven to obtain it, tipping a small portion onto the concrete for the Spartans we lost at Reach.  Once I discovered that the soda contained a compound called "Brominated Vegetable Oil," my ardor was diminished for some reason.  The flavor of the beverage is not unpleasant, especially if you like bromide.  The almost oppressive campaign that surrounds the product is, perhaps, more bitter.   It's one slice (or, perhaps, sip) of a ten hojillion dollar marketing campaign designed to project one of gaming's biggest brands to people who already know about it.  There is no way to escape the Goddamn thing.  Over ninety percent of the surveyed crustaceans were "aware of the launch" and held a "strong desire to purchase," even though their massive claws and aquatic habitat make using the product impossible.  Lemurs are less bullish, but then lemurs are a notoriously tough demo.    It took a third night of playing the Call of Duty 4 Beta for everything to sink in, but it's pretty much official: they know what the fuck they're doing.  A shooter can't merely be great to come out this holiday, and even amazing might be insufficient.  To go against the previously described fucking unstoppable media phalanx - to say nothing of Halo 3 itself, whose multiplayer offering is so broad on every axis that it must be called round - you need to drop something that be off the cheazy.       There are shooters that play with progression to varying degrees.  Battlefield 2142 does, but the infantry experience is one part of a whole.  Rainbow Six: Vegas does, but its reward scheme is largely cosmetic in nature, and takes place outside of the game proper - between rounds, in austere menus.  CoD4's leveling has the sharp inhalation of a WoW ding.  It takes place right there at the moment you earn the XP from a kill, with an onscreen celebration of the fact.  The reward structure earns you new playmodes, new weapons,  new slottable abilities, the right to build custom classes, the right to wear a clan tag.  You don't need to wait long to earn them, the schedule is not cruel, but you need to put in your dues.  It's not an onerous process:  in order to level up, you must simply play Call of Duty 4.  Trust me when I say this is something you will want to do.    I feel as though my knowledge of the game should be richer, so let me crack a few more levels and get back to you.  Hopefully a beta code will have dripped out to you by then, and you will know what I mean with visceral certainty.    Oh, and also: Â if you want to tumble down some fissure in the earth and wake up in the Japanese Madness Caverns, take a look at this video for Puzzle de Harvest Moon.  I watched it hours ago, and I am still haunted.
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Mykeema Ford scored 23 points, several in the decisive final moments, as Stony Brook rallied past Boston University, 83-77, yesterday at Case Gym.
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Athens was better than Olympus had ever been for US rowing octophiles. The men's eight won gold for the first time in 40 years and the women's took silver, their best showing at a non-boycotted Games. But the way the US Olympic Committee saw it, it was just two medals across 14 rowing events, as many as the Belarussians collected.
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The epic spoof "Meet the Spartans" narrowly conquered "Rambo" to nab the top spot in the weekend box office, according to studio estimates Sunday.
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ATHENS As Mariel Zagunis yelled in triumph, her teammates charged, intent on hurling her into the air. What made their eagerness to celebrate a historic victory in this way all the more impressive was that Zagunis was still wildly waving a sword.
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The Blue Devilsâ 81-74 victory over Michigan State perfectly depicted the cast of characters on the Duke squad. Specifically, the role each upperclassman performed in this early-season test