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By Duke Keith, dkeith@klaq.com The picture continues to clear for the UTEP Miners. After suffering their first set-back in Conference USA play in that 100-97 triple-overtime thriller at UAB, the Miners have spelled it out for the rest of the conference. Regular season and post-season, the road to any post-season dancing is running through the defending C-USA champs again in 2011.

"And for my next trick, I will hold back the tears that want to roll down my cheeks." A magician in Bolivia went on TV and screwed up a trick BIG TIME. He lined up three paper cups, and one of them had a spike under it. He was SUPPOSED to flatten the other two cups with his hand.

In what may well be his LAST job as a presenter of a major awards show, English comic actor Ricky Gervais didn't miss many, if ANY, chances to roast Hollywood unmercifully, beginning with his opening monologue where he went after Charlie Sheen, Tom Cruise, John Travolta, Angelina Jolie, Johnny Depp, the whole of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, Hugh Hefner and whatshername (his fiance) and

Video from the Smoking Gun of one of the all-time thongiest, weave-grabbin'est, booty-showin'est chick fights ever. It took place in front of a convenience store in Ocala, FL. A strong warning: neither the language nor the video is safe for work!

You can take the boy out of the boonies, but he still has family there. Brett Favre's sister, Brandi, was busted with a few others for manufacturing meth in a bathtub at a condo near Brett's stomping grounds in southern Mississippi.

Sometimes, a picture is made a thousand times more awesome by some random thing that was accidentally captured in the background.  This is one of those cases. Swedish model Victoria Silvstedt was being photographed on the beach in a bikini recently, and she just happened to be walking by a woman who, let's just say, offered a bit of...contrast...

Remember Mary Bono?  She's been in Congress ever since her husband, the legendary Sonny Bono, skied into a tree and died in 1998. Well, RadarOnline.com just posted pictures of Mary having her tatas tongued by a campaign donor named Edra Blixseth four years ago.

Tucson killer Jared Loughner was a loner whose motivations are still unkown. The police and the FBI have been trying to figure out Loughner's motivations for the shooting. On his MySpace, he posted several rants about literacy rates. He also ranted on YouTube about inventing a new American currency. Here's his final video, posted on Dec. 15. Kreeeee-peeee!

Meet WTF Kitty, which may or may not take the place of the Dramatic Chipmunk. A sweet, innocent little kitten is frolicking in the grass when suddenly it freezes and gives us an expression that could only be read: "WTF!" Naturally, somebody else has added the Dramatic Chipmunk music (originally from "Young Frankenstein"), and voila...

Paula Abdul's new show is called "Live to Dance", but in the U.K., there's a show called "Got to Dance".  And last month, a 34-year-old female contestant who goes by the stage name "Happiness" turned in the dance of the year...in a bad way ...

By Duke Keith, dkeith@klaq.com Per the headline -- not to mention the stat line -- it's a little deceptive to lead a story about UTEP's 69-59 defensive win over Tulsa with this video. But what the heck, it's too good to hold back...

There was no sun at the Sun Bowl. But there was a moon... Thanks to Bob Theriot, who says, "This is what happens when people drinking since 8:00 in the a.m. tailgate and challenge each other to a foot race..."