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  • Ryan Jimmo ties UFC fastest knockout record in debut at UFC 149

    After a decorated career with the Canadian promotion MFC, Ryan Jimmo made a memorable UFC debut. He knocked out Anthony Perosh in seven seconds at UFC 149 in Calgary on Saturday.

    Light heavyweight Jimmo took two steps in at Perosh before unloading a massive right hand that knocked Perosh right against the fence. He followed up with a strike on the ground, but it wasn't needed. Referee Josh Rosenthal stopped the fight, and Jimmo's win streak was extended to 17.

    "I'm very happy, Joe. I'm very happy," Jimmo said to commentator Joe Rogan. "He's a big strong guy, so I went at him."

    UFC president Dana White was pleased with Jimmo's debut.

    "WOW!!! Ryan Jimmo just tied the fastest KO in UFC history!" White tweeted.

    Jimmo is now 17-1 and 1-0 in the UFC. Before fighting with the UFC, Jimmo showed why a fighter shouldn't give up after one loss. He was knocked out in his first fight, but has won 17 bouts since then. Though he was impressive in Canada, Jimmo was only known in the U.S. to the most fervent of fight fans, but now he will be known for a seven-second debut.

    Perosh was on a three-fight win streak before ending up on the wrong end of an MMA record. He is now 13-7, and 3-2 in his most recent streak in the UFC.

    The Who 1979 Tickets: Providence Ticketholders Get Reprieve 33 Years Later

    Fans still holding tickets for a canceled 1979 show in Rhode Island by British rock band The Who can finally use them.

    The Who's 1979 concert in Providence was canceled by then-Mayor Buddy Cianci, who cited safety concerns after a stampede before a show in Cincinnati, Ohio, killed 11 people. The band hasn't been to Providence since.

    The Who this week announced it will end its latest tour in Providence on Feb. 26 at the same venue where its show was canceled 33 years ago, now called the Dunkin Donuts Center.

    General Manager Lawrence Lepore said on Thursday the venue will honor tickets from the canceled 1979 show. Lepore said many ticketholders got refunds for the canceled show in 1979, but others may have held on to their tickets as memorabilia.

    "Somewhere, someplace, someone's got it stashed," he said. "The question is, are they willing to give that up? If they are, we're willing to take it."

    He first made the offer on WPRO-AM, which then asked listeners to call if they still had a 1979 ticket. No one did.

    The highest price ticket at the 1979 show was $14, Lepore said. Tickets for February's show range from $57.50 to $127.50.

    Lepore said 1979 ticketholders can call his office to make the exchange. Any 1979 tickets redeemed will be donated to help raise money for the Special Olympics of Rhode Island.

    6-year-old girl confirmed to have been killed in Colorado theater shootings

    As victims and relatives began to return Saturday to the theater where a gunman killed 12 people in Aurora, Colo., a 6-year-old girl was confirmed to have been among the victims.
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    Veronica Moser, 6, died in the shooting rampage Friday morning, her great-aunt, Annie Dalton, told NBC News.

    Fifty-eight other people were injured in the shootings. Twenty-eight remained in area hospitals Saturday afternoon, seven of them in critical condition. James Eagan Holmes, 24, a graduate student at the University of Colorado-Denver, was arrested outside the theater, clad in black body armor and armed with three weapons.

    Veronica's mother, Ashley Moser, 25, was shot in the throat and the abdomen. She remains paralyzed in critical condition and hasn't been told of her daughter's death, Dalton said.

    "This is just a nightmare right now," Dalton said. "It's a nightmare.

    "Eveything's surreal. It's just surreal."

    People who attended the midnight screening of "Batman: The Dark Knight Rises" were allowed to return to the theater Saturday to retrieve their automobiles, which were left behind during the evacuation and subsequent investigation. Some of them left flowers and flags as tributes.

    Victims of Colo. shooting include sailor, aspiring sportscaster

    Military authorities identified two victims Saturday, confirming that Petty Officer Third Class John Larimer, 27, Air Force reservist Jesse Childress, 29, assigned to the 310th Force Support Squadron at Buckley Air Force Base in Aurora, died from their injuries sustained in the shootings.

    The Arapahoe County Coroner's Office confirmed the identities of 11 fatalaties and tentatively confirmed the 12th who died in the shooting rampage and its aftermath.

    In Colorado and across the country, friends and family members of missing moviegoers anxiously awaited word on their loved ones, hoping for good news but fearing the worst.

    The final bodies were removed from the theater a little after 5 p.m. Friday (7 p.m. ET), Aurora police chief Dan Oates said. He said police met with about 70 family members and friends to give an accounting of bodies that had been identified.

    Police said families of the dead were being notified Friday night.

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    Survivors said gunman was calm and purposeful as he opened fire from the front of the theater about 12:39 a.m. (2:39 a.m. ET).

    "He shot once, and it just lit up the theater," said Pierce O'Farrill, who was attending the film with a friend. O'Farrill was wounded in the shoulder and the leg, and friend was also shot. Both are expected to survive.

    After barely escaping a mall shooting last month, aspiring sports reporter Jessica Ghawi did not survive the theater shooting. Her brother spoke to reporters about her remarkable spirit. NBC's Kristen Dahlgren reports.

    "He cocked and shot again," O'Farrill said. "At that moment, I grabbed my buddy, and we just hit the deck you know. I said, 'Get down! We have to get down!' And so I just buried my head down just in the aisle and just started to pray."

    'Just too close to home': Aurora residents mourn shooting victims

    Twelve candles, a birthday card and flowers placed in popcorn boxes.

    Mourners created a makeshift memorial Saturday across the street from a movie theater where 12 people were killed and dozens injured in an attack, with some shedding tears and sharing embraces as they grappled to understand the deadly assault on their community.

    A birthday card with a photo of victim Alex Sullivan stood amid the stuffed animals and balloons. “Gone not forgotten,” read one poster. A group held hands in a circle and said a prayer, and a girl placed 12 red heart-shaped balloons at the empty lot.

    “Our heart goes out to everybody. We grew up in the community here and it’s in our backyard. It’s just too close to home,” Shawn Quintana, 40, whose sister lit 12 white candles for the victims, told NBC News.

    The memorial appeared a day after James Holmes allegedly attacked the theater after Friday midnight with four weapons and tear gas, killing 12 people and leaving 58 injured.

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    The people of Aurora are seeking comfort during a time of tremendous pain. NBC's Kristen Dahlgren reports.

    Some motorists honked their horns at the well-wishers as they passed by along the large roadway across from the theater.

    Terry Jackson, 50, his wife, Donna, 58, and their 20-year-old son brought a bouquet of yellow and white flowers to pay their respects. Terry said he felt “very angry” about what had happened.

    “I’d like to say that I felt peace in my life but I don’t,” he said, elaborating that he was “just angry that somebody could come in and be this evil and cause this much devastation.”

    The Most Important People on The Internet: Volume 2.30

    Welcome to this week’s installment of The Most Important People on The Internet coming at you later than usual to give The Dark Knight Rises review room to.. spread its wings? (Innocent people were senselessly murdered in a movie theater, yet I’m alive to make that pun. That’s how you know there isn’t a God.) So keeping that ball of horrible going, here are the comments from throughout the week that broke through my jaded heart and brought brief joy where there was only dick jokes and hate. Also, a special shout out to mismy on the TDKR thread for literally suggesting the government caused the Colorado shooting because it can control our minds via fluoride in the water and now Obama’s all set to sign a treaty with the U.N. in six days and take our guns. That’s the funniest shit I’ve read all week, and I’m not just saying that because the nano-bugs in my Starbucks told me to. (Those mostly just make me shop at Target instead of Walmart and act all prissy about it.)

    Kaitlyn Leeb's Three Breasts Give Her The Weirdest Cleavage We've Ever Seen

    In our awe over the wild costumes at Comic Con 2012, we skipped over perhaps the wildest one of all: Kaitlyn Leeb's sexy red costume and her daring cleav -- wait a second. Does she have... three breasts?

    Indeed, Leeb showed up to Comic Con sporting triple cleavage, thanks to prosthetics. Leeb, a Toronto-based model and actress, stars as a "seductive woman" in the upcoming "Total Recall" remake starring Colin Farrell, Kate Beckinsale and Jessica Biel.

    Schwarzenegger fans will recall that the original movie features a prostitute with three breasts, who famously causes one suitor to remark, "Baby, you make me wish I had three hands!" Hot? And you guessed it -- Leeb will be playing the woman in the film's remake, and she decided to show up in full costume.

    Fans of the look shouldn't get too excited, though: the whole shebang is fake.

    "There were a bunch of people at Comic Con asking if I had surgery for the third one,” Leeb told the Calgary Herald. “Others thought that the two on the side were real. I guess that’s the one thing that bothers me the most is that they think I’m out there prancing around Comic Con with my breasts out. They really are not mine."

    Leeb, who's of Chinese and Irish descent, has modeled in print for Dentyne Ice and Virgin Mobile; she also won the Miss CHIN Bikini pageant in Toronto in 2009.

    And now, the moment you've been waiting for... check out her three-breasted costume below.

    Olympian and fighter Ronda Rousey calls out Michael Phelps’ behavior in Beijing

    Before becoming an MMA fighter and the Strikeforce bantamweight champion, Ronda Rousey made her name by winning a bronze medal in judo at the Beijing Olympics. In a recent interview with Elie Seckbach, she talked about how great it was for all Olympians, no matter the stature, to get together and have fun.

    Well, almost all Olympians. There was one Olympian who didn't want to mingle: Michael Phelps.

    Rousey said while at a party for all American Olympians, the athletes happily mingled together. NBA players hung with the rest of the group, but Phelps had his own area that was just for his group.

    "These NBA players are a bigger deal than this guy, and they're hanging out with us. We're teammates. We're not a bunch of groupies. Come hang out with us," Rousey said.

    She said it was a similar set-up when Team USA visited "The Oprah Winfrey Show," which rubbed her the wrong way.

    "I don't like being somebody's teammate and being treated like I'm a groupie.
    swimmer before I did this stuff, and you can't tell me that swimming is OH MY GOD, because it's not."

    Rousey isn't the first athlete to criticize Phelps, who can break Larissa Latynina's all-time medal record with three medals in London. Fellow swimmer Tyler Clary questioned Phelps' work ethic after the Olympic Trials.

    Rwanda's B-Boys: From the streets to break beats

    Sporting a black t-shirt proudly proclaiming "Live 2 Break," a group of grinning boys form a slightly jagged circle inside a dusty yard on the outskirts of Kigali, Rwanda's capital.

    Inside the circle a bandana-wearing dance instructor spins from his back onto his chest flaring his legs high in the air in a V-shape. The boys respond to his virtuoso dance moves with claps and cheers before taking to the floor themselves, twisting and turning as they try to perfect their breakdance moves.

    They are part of an uplifting dance project at Les Enfants De Dieu, a residential care center working to transform the lives of former street children in Rwanda.

    The center accommodates 126 boys aged six to 18 who, apart from their tough upbringing, share a deep passion for an art form that also originated in the streets: Hip-hop.

    "Once their basic needs are fulfilled, they need to nourish their spirit, their self-esteem and their pride in themselves," says Nicola Triscott, co-founder of Catalyst Rwanda, a UK-based group that organizes art programs for vulnerable youth.

    "I think hip-hop really helps to do that, because it's such a young person's art form -- it came off the streets and it's about one-on-one teaching. There's this great spirit of sharing in hip hop," she adds.

    Teen Choice Awards to be handed out this weekend

    Stars of TV, music, movies and sports will all vie for surfboard statuettes this Sunday night at the Teen Choice Awards.

    The fan-voted awards will be handed out in a two-hour ceremony hosted by singer/"X Factor" judge Demi Lovato and "Glee" actor Kevin McHale.

    Nominees include "The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1," "The Hunger Games," "The Vampire Diaries," "Snow White and the Huntsman" and "The Avengers."

    Miley Cyrus, Zooey Deschanel, Zac Efron, Ellen DeGeneres, Selena Gomez, Josh Hutcherson, Lea Michele, Gordon Ramsey, Dax Shepard, Jordin Sparks and Taylor Swift are all scheduled to make appearances during the show.

    Performers are set to include Justin Bieber, Carly Rae Jepsen, Flo Rida, No Doubt and "Jersey Shore" star Pauly D, who will serve as the "Choice" DJ for the event.

    Fans ages 13-19 can vote online once per day for their choices until 11:59 p.m. PDT on July 21.

    The Teen Choice Awards will be broadcast live on Sunday, July 22, at 8 p.m. EDT on Fox.

    Here is the full list of nominees:

    MOVIES

    Choice Movie: Romance
    "The Lucky One"
    "Think Like a Man"
    "This Means War"
    "The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1"
    "The Vow"

    Choice Movie Actor: Romance
    Michael Ealy, "Think Like a Man"
    Zac Efron, "The Lucky One"
    Robert Pattinson, "The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1"
    Chris Pine, "This Means War"
    Channing Tatum, "The Vow"

    Choice Movie Actress: Romance
    Miley Cyrus, "LOL"
    Meagan Good, "Think Like a Man"
    Rachel McAdams, "The Vow"
    Taylor Schilling, "The Lucky One"
    Kristen Stewart, "The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1"

    Choice Movie Voice
    Zac Efron as Ted, "Dr. Seuss' The Lorax"
    Seth MacFarlane as Ted, "Ted"
    Jesse McCartney as Theodore, "Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked"
    Chris Rock as Marty, "Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted"
    Taylor Swift as Audrey, "Dr. Seuss' The Lorax"

    Choice Movie Chemistry
    Ryan Gosling and Steve Carell, "Crazy, Stupid, Love."
    Jennifer Lawrence and Amandla Stenberg, "The Hunger Games"
    Will Smith and Josh Brolin, "Men in Black 3"
    Channing Tatum and Jonah Hill, "21 Jump Street"
    Mark Wahlberg and Ted (voice of Seth MacFarlane), "Ted"

    Choice Movie Liplock
    Zac Efron and Taylor Schilling, "The Lucky One"
    Jennifer Lawrence and Josh Hutcherson, "The Hunger Games"
    Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson, "The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1"
    Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling, "Crazy, Stupid, Love."
    Channing Tatum and Rachel McAdams, "The Vow"

    Bar Refaeli: The Skimpiest Tennis Outfit Ever!

    Bar Refaeli: The Skimpiest Tennis Outfit Ever! Serena Williams may be known for her outrageous tennis outfits, but none of them are as skimpy as this! Bar Refaeli donned a pair of barely-there boy shorts and a sports bra for a sexy under.me video shoot. The supermodel — who graced the cover of the 2009 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue — designed the underwear line, which is also available for men.
    Check out Bar’s um … racquet in the clip below.

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