Things got rough between the Suns and Rockets on Thursday.
With just a few seconds left in the third quarter, Houston guard Rafer Alston shoved Phoenix forward Matt Barnes. Alston said he pushed Barnes in retaliation, but his actions caused an even bigger fight.
Yao Ming hit the floor with no ill effects, and Steve Nash was lucky not to get hurt when he went flying into the scrimmage.
In the end, the Rockets beat the Suns 94 to 82.
The Suns played good enough defense, but just missed too many easy shots to …

Mitch Mitchell, the last surviving member of legendary 1960s band The Jimi Hendrix Experience, passed away early this morning. He was 62.
He was found in a hotel room in Oregon, officials said. A statement on the official Jimi Hendrix website run by the late guitarist’s estate said Mitchell died from natural causes.
Mitchell played with the sort of infectious enthusiasm that makes you want to learn drums… yet Mitch was the most underrated drummer in rock history.
Mitch, along with bass player Noel Redding became the other two thirds of the “Experience” …

Microsoft announced Thursday it has overhauled its Live.com search site to include some of the social networking features made famous by companies like Facebook.
Windows Live users will be able to let people they’ve designated as “friends” see activities they are doing in other Web applications through Windows Live Hotmail, Windows Live Messenger and other Live applications and services, said Chris Jones, corporate vice president of Windows Live at Microsoft.

Consumers today are creating online content and sharing it in many places across the Web. To help make it simple for the …

Everyone in politics is having an affair!

The National Enquirer has published the above photo as proof that Cindy McCain, wife of failed US Presidential candidate John McCain is having a secret love affair.
“I couldn’t believe I was watching Cindy McCain passionately kissing and hugging another man!” says a witness.
The wealthy blonde heiress and her secret pal have been spotted together around her hometown of Phoenix, Arizona over the past several years, The Enquirer writes.
The spy photos were snapped when Cindy and her companion attended the Tempe Music Festival says the …

A woman was killed at a Ku Klux Klan ritual in the swamps of Louisiana, officials told local media.
At some point on Sunday evening, the woman decided she wanted to leave and got into a quarrel with group leader Raymond “Chuck” Foster, 44 who pulled out a .40 caliber handgun and shot her.
Investigators found weapons, several flags and six Klan robes at the campsite, St. Tammany Parish Sheriff Jack Strain said in a news release.
Strain said the woman, whose identity was not released, was recruited over the Internet to participate …

Just last week, Joe Jonas dumped Taylor Swift over a 25-second phone call. Now he is rumored to be dating Camilla Belle, who appeared in the Jonas Brothers video “Lovebug.”

Entertainment Weekly has revealed the first photo of the Enterprise from director J.J. Abrams’ Star Trek, opening in theaters on May 2009.
You see not only Abrams’ vision of the ship but his effort to evoke that sequence from the first film that so captured his imagination.

Google developed a flu tracker called Google Flu trends. It was developed with the help of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and is based on the number of search queries made about influenza. Google said it noticed that there was a relationship between the frequency of search queries and the number of people who are experiencing flu-like symptoms each week.

San Francisco Giants right-hander Tim Lincecum won the 2008 Cy Young Award after the pitcher ranked second in the National League in victories and earned run average.
The slender kid with the spinning windup joined Mike McCormick (1967) as the only San Francisco Giants pitchers to win a Cy Young.

“I have always taken pride in trying to strike people out,” Lincecum said on a conference call with reporters. “It’s one of those things that get me fired up.”
Arizona’s Brandon Webb, the 2006 winner of this award, finished …

For years, Jennifer Aniston has preserved a notable silence about the woman who stole her husband.

Now she has decided to share with the world her total hatred for Angelina Jolie.

Aniston reveals in the December issue of Vogue that she ain’t too happy with some of Jolie’s public remarks about her love affair with Brad Pitt.
The former Friends star said: “What Angelina did was very uncool.”
Angelina recently admitted that she and Brad “fell in love” while making the movie Mr and Mrs Smith together.

Aniston also opens about her own romantic life, …