Tracy O'Neill (College OTR)

Tracy O'Neill

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A Letter to Oscar Contenders: Success Tips for the Acceptance Speech

A Letter to Oscar Contenders: Success Tips for the Acceptance Speech

 Dear Oscar Award Contender,

 

You’ve been nominated. Good for you! You probably have a lot of money, shiny hair, a personal assistant, a BlackBerry for your personal assistant, a stylist, a personal assistant for your stylist, and a fast car. But what you don’t have is an Academy Award! Now, of course being the narcissist that you are you proba...

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Brett Favre Retires From NFL Again, America Cries

Brett Favre Retires From NFL Again, America Cries

Brett Favre is retiring— again. This time, though, it may be for real. And this is news that really kind of pulls on the heartstrings, since I’m pretty sure that Favre is every American man’s man crush, as well as the most likeable QB to grace to league pretty much ever. I mean, a guy that will let Ben Stiller co-opt his girl so graciously for t...

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Obama Campaign Manager David Plouffe: Beer Pong Extraordinaire

Obama Campaign Manager David Plouffe: Beer Pong Extraordinaire

David Plouffe became the closest a campaign manager has ever come to a rockstar when he gobbled up the elusive youth vote for the long shot presidential candidate with his engineering of five simple catch words: change we can believe in. We haven’t been able to stop gaping in wonderment over his immensely effective grassroots campaigning and use...

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The Best Super Bowl XLIII Commercials

The Best Super Bowl XLIII Commercials

I hear a lot of people say that the best part of the Super Bowl has nothing to do with football and everything to do with the commercials. This statement generally seems pretentious, stupid, or both, but there’s something to it: companies really do pull out the stops for the Super Bowl. So in celebration of everything that America is (commercia...

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The Best Super Bowl Halftime Performances: Janet Jackson to Ella Fitzgerald

The Best Super Bowl Halftime Performances: Janet Jackson to Ella Fitzgerald

Super Bowl halftime shows have been rocking the socks off of begrudging viewers since their introduction to the biggest night in football in 1967. Okay, so maybe the University of Arizona and Grambling State University marching bands didn’t exactly get anyone’s salivary glands active, but there have been several halftime shows that threatened to...

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The Six Craziest Cartoons Most Likely Created on Drugs

The Six Craziest Cartoons Most Likely Created on Drugs

There are a lot of twisted cartoons out there, which could only have been conceived of while under the influence of illegal substances. Obviously, I’m not talking about garden variety animated shows like Doug.

 

 

Vanilla!

 

A teenage kid with a sweater vest, a dog, and a best friend (okay, so his best friend is a blue guy with parachute pants ...

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Two Teams, One Crystal Football: the BCS Title Championship

Two Teams, One Crystal Football: the BCS Title Championship

Tonight Florida and Oklahoma will meet for the BCS title game, the much awaited national championship of college football so important to college football fans that tickets are currently being sold for $870.

 

 

 

 

I guess that’s probably how they pay for the $30,000 crystal football trophy, an aesthetic travesty which seems distastefully deca...

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The Lush Life: Brit's Pub in Minneapolis

The Lush Life: Brit's Pub in Minneapolis

The Lush Life is a new CollegeOTR feature bringing you the best in nightlife and boozing so you can party like a rock star.

 

Brit’s Pub
1110 Nicollet Ave
Minneapolis, MN 55403

 

Tagline: “Serving scholars and scoundrels since 1990.”

 

Brit’s Pub has become a Minneapolis favorite with virtuosic appeal. From patio seating to rooftop bowling at ...

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What the Kids Are Listening To: Jaydiohead

What the Kids Are Listening To: Jaydiohead

Whoever the person is who decided to put pretzels and chocolate together to make chocolate-covered pretzels is a genius. Likewise, the NYC-based producer Minty Fresh Beats is a genius for his Jay-Z/Radiohead mashup, aptly titled Jaydiohead.

 

 

A few years ago when The Grey Album came out, everyone and their mother was running around name-dropp...

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Kathy Griffin Says "Dick" and "Screw You" Live on CNN, No One Shocked But Anderson Cooper

Kathy Griffin Says "Dick" and "Screw You" Live on CNN, No One Shocked But Anderson Cooper

CNN is pulling a "no comment" on their New Year's Eve special after Kathy Griffin responded to a heckler by screaming on live television, "Screw you. Why don't you get a job, buddy? You know what? I don't go to your job and knock the dick out of your mouth." How considerate, Kathy! Way to let people turn tricks unhassled!


After Y2Kathy dropped...

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