Cheick Kongo

2011 Gold Cup
Soccer has gained more mainstream coverage within American sports the last couple of years—Team U.S.A. had relative success in the 2010 World Cup and there's been a growing interest in Major League Soccer. So when the United States faced Mexico in the finals of the Gold Cup, the U.S. was poised to give American soccer some much needed creditability. 93,420 fans filled the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, Calif., to witness the U.S gain a quick two goal lead. But Mexico turned up the pressure and overwhelmed the U.S with four unanswered goals to capture the title, 4-2. Along with the loss, many of the fans were rooting for Mexico, jeering the Americans with insults throughout the match. While Mexico earned a birth in the 2013 Confederations Cup, the U.S will look for answers to improve in time for the 2012 Olympic Games.

UFC on Versus
There was little excitement surrounding the original main event of Nate Marquardt versus Rick Story. And on Saturday afternoon the main event fell apart after Maquardt failed his medical tests. Then UFC President Dana White fired him and named Charlie Brenneman as the last second replacement. Despite all the troubles with this card, the fights delivered some awesome finishes. Former NFL standout Matt Mitrione KO'd Christian Morecraft and Brenneman pulled off the upset by earning the decision against Story. Pat Berry and Cheick Kongo moved into the main event and delivered one of the best comebacks in the history of MMA. Berry caught Kongo with a series of punches and almost finished him, but the referee didn't stop the fight. Eventually Kongo gained his composure just enough to nail Berry and win the fight. The comeback victory could give Kongo some momentum to make one more run at the heavyweight title.

A rare photo of La Jaula

The Alibi is throwing a totally amazing Pride party at Casa Esencia, and some of my mysterious friends are playing. Three of the best (and most fun, and good looking) musicians around have formed the band La Jaula, and they're going to sex it up on Wednesday, June 8. The group is hard to catch, often playing underground cabarets or house parties, but the members have agreed to appear at the Alibi Pride event in all their full glory.

Who are these sexy mysteries?

They perform Cuban boleros, Argentinian tangos, Mexican ballads and more, while playing characters that are sultry and funny.

La Jaula goes on pretty early—around 7:30 p.m. or 8—and you want to eat the delicious food from Standard Diner and Rodeo Grill before it's gone anyway, so come at the beginning of the party.

Wednesday, June 8 at 7:00pm - June 9 at 12:00am

Also featured:
DJ Nicolatron, DJ Tahnee, DJ Mello and the Alibi's own music editor, DJ Cassyle, all spinning glam rock, disco and electro. Sweet!

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Europe to curtail passport-free travel, stopper immigration.

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Facebook paid PR firm to smear Google.

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Two cyclists hit by cars Thursday, one dead. Not cool.

NM Forest Service to close several forests due to extreme fire danger.

Murders/suicide in Idaho leaves
five dead.

Mapfund announces a million in grants to groundbreaking performers.

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County official's son killed by APD.

Tuition climbs at UNM and CNM.

An Arizona bill that would legalize guns in all public and government buildings is almost through the legislature. People in Tucson don't like it.

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Mom drives her minivan and three kids into the Hudson River but lets one boy go.

The first loose-lipped mob boss takes the stand.

President Obama is going to weigh in on the deficit.

Burka ban takes effect in France, and two women have been arrested.

Death toll hits 116 in the mass grave in Mexico.

Demi Lovato candid about eating disorder.

The Facebook guy is maybe a jerk.

Dogs left in the nuclear zone.

Fish theft.

Sugar Ray Leonard eliminated from "Dancing With the Stars."

An interview with author Beverly Cleary (she wrote the Ramona Quimby books), who turned 95 yesterday.

Jenny from the block is People Magazine's most beautiful person.

Hugh Grant spies on a wiretapping tabloid reporter. Revenge!

Officer involved shooting in Santa Fe.

Stranded travelers in Moscow airports riot.

Santa Fe man forces people who owe him drug money to fight to pay off debts.

That housing recovery everyone is hoping for looks bleak.

The last member of a small Mexican town's police force disappears.

New study shows that Neanderthals cooked and ate vegetables.

Check your local salad bar for al Qaeda.

If you're conservative, it's your brain's fault.

Illinois woman arrested for assaulting cop with sex toy.

Top 10 video games stories of 2010.

Watch this NYC sanitation crew wreck a car.

Calculate how much of a raise you'll get on January 1.

Can DNA evidence prove that John Wilkes Booth was alive 40 years after his death?

Here is some of the best of New Zealand's recently released UFO files.

Don't shovel that snow, eat it!

Here's a look back at the great novelty sandwiches of 2010.

How much did those AOL cds from the 90s cost AOL?

Lucky Poor bastards in the UK can get a Brussel Sprouts Whopper.

These guys taped a camera on the top of a sword, and it looks pretty cool.

Happy birthday Danny McBride!

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Zozobra burns tonight in Santa Fe.

Sunport kills prairie dogs on orders from the feds.

City Council stiffens DWCell-phoning rule.

You probably saw, but Google sped up searches.

Ex-Gov. Gary Johnson contemplates a run at the big White House.

Many black voters who cast a ballot in 2008 won't be back in November, poll says.

Rio Grande teachers high-five after the old principal splits. Students still don't have class schedules.

Ladies love flamboyant dancing.

The president rails against tax cuts for the rich ...

… then asks a Florida minister not to burn the Quran. He says the act would create a "recruitment bonanza" for al Qaida.

London Catholic church offers gay mass.

Castro criticizes communism in Cuba.

Middle-class, American, high school football star matures into a high-ranking kingpin for a Mexican drug cartel. (Growing up, he even had a wooden swing set.)

Rodney King is marrying a juror from his case.

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The Senate Judiciary Committee votes on the nomination of Elena Kagan today.

North Korea requests the presence of our very own Governor Bill Richardson to ease tensions between the countries.

There’s a new vaginal gel on the market that reportedly cuts the chances of contracting HIV in half.

Apparently, Hillary Clinton thinks Pakistan knows the whereabouts of Bin Laden.

New York City is having its hottest July ever.

Meanwhile, 175 people die in South America due to a massive cold spell.

You’ll get arrested in Mexico for carrying 18 monkeys around your waist.

Seven other Latin American countries join Mexico in a lawsuit against Arizona’s SB 1070.

National Guard troops will be deployed to the Mexican border in light of increased drug-related violence.

 

1787 – Captain Arthur Phillip leaves Portsmouth, England with eleven ships full of convicts to establish a penal colony in Australia.

1846 – The United States declares war on Mexico. Mexico, claiming that the official boundary was the Nueces River, considered the advance of Taylor's army an act of aggression (which it was) and in April sent troops across the Rio Grande. Polk, in turn, declared the Mexican advance to be an invasion of U.S. soil, he asked Congress to declare war on Mexico, which they did.

The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, signed on February 2, 1848, ended the war. The Rio Grande was made the southern boundary of Texas, and California and New Mexico were ceded to the United States. In return, the United States paid Mexico the sum of $15 million.

1917 – Ten year old Lúcia Santos and her younger cousins, siblings Jacinta and Francisco Marto report the first apparition of the Virgin Mary in Fátima, Portugal. She appeared for six consecutive months on the 13th of each month. According to Lúcia's account, the woman imparted sacred secrets to the children.

Two of the children died, Spanish Flu. Both children had their remains exhumed in 1935 and again in 1951. Jacinta's face was found incorrupt, fresh as a daisy; where as her brother’s body had decomposed. Who decided to dig them up? We should do that again. That left Lucia as the only shitty secret keeper. The Vatican made her tell, therefore negating all of existence.

Nazi/Emperor Pope said of the third secret and final secret:

"A careful reading of the text of the so-called third 'secret' of Fatima ... will probably prove disappointing or surprising after all the speculation it has stirred. No great mystery is revealed; nor is the future unveiled."

I'm swayed more by, Father Malachi Martin, who wrote the 3rd was all about the satanic infiltration of the Catholic Church, and the approach of apocalyptic events. Dude, the Emperor is in charge!

1933 - Roger Zelazny, American author, is born.

1940 - Winston Churchill gave his first speech to the British Parliament:

I would say to the House as I said to those who have joined this government: I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat. We have before us an ordeal of the most grievous kind. We have before us many, many long months of struggle and of suffering.

You ask, what is our aim? I can answer in one word: Victory. Victory at all costs — Victory in spite of all terror — Victory, however long and hard the road may be, for without victory there is no survival.

1964 – Stephen Colbert, American comedian and actor, begotten by the father.

1994 – Johnny Carson makes his last television appearance on Late Show with David Letterman.