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MMAJunkie has Lauzon vs Florian and Bonnar vs Hamill as the main events of a scheduled UFN in April which will serve as a lead-in for the new TUF season.

Turkey Rolls Cauliflower w/ cheese sauce Mashed taters Corn Beans Hashbrowns Gravy on everything

One of Canada's greatest musicians and one of the most talented Jazz pianists died today in his Mississauga home of kidney failure at age 82. Courtesy of the CP24.com site....... He won eight Grammys, was made a Companion of the Order of Canada and even had his legend honoured on a Canada Post 50-cent stamp. Oscar Peterson, a Canadian jazz music treasure and a piano wizard, has died at his Mississauga home. The Montreal-born Peterson, who had been sick for a number of years, succumbed to kidney failure at the age of 82. It's the end of a long and storied career that has seen the music master jam with the likes of Louis Armstrong, Count Basie, Charlie Parker, Roy Eldridge, Duke Ellington, Nat King Cole, Stan Getz, Dizzy Gillespie and Ella Fitzgerald. Born in 1925, Peterson's music career began more than five decades ago when he played Montreal jazz clubs as a young man in the 1950s. His talent was undeniable and soon Peterson found himself sharing a stage with other legends of the genre. He enjoyed working with them as much as they enjoyed his performances. "There's an extreme joy I get in playing that I've never been able to explain," Peterson explained in 1996. "I can only transmit it through the playing; I can't put it into words." But there weren't words for the craft of this amazing man. He let his music do all the talking. And it spoke volumes. The acclaim brought him an ever-growing audience, and soon he was playing not the modest jazz bars of his hometown but some of the biggest venues in the world - including New York's Carnegie Hall. And it wasn't just the people he played with that were impressive - it was those he performed for, as well. They included the Queen and former then-U.S. President Richard Nixon. Peterson overcame prejudice and poverty to win eight Grammy Awards, including a lifetime achievement nod in 1997, innumerable prizes from his peers, and the Governor General's Performing Arts Award for lifetime achievement. In all, he recorded nearly 200 albums, some of the most famous with partners Herb Ellis and Ray Brown, often cited as one of the world's finest jazz threesomes. "You saw the greatness immediately," Ellis recalled of his partner. "He was awesome right away -- always." Peterson was proudly Canadian but his greatness led many down south to consider him one of their own. "I've achieved a funny kind of status in Canada," he once related. "Most of it comes because I went to the United States and other places, and as a result of Canadians having seen me repeatedly on the television shows of people like Johnny Carson, Merv Griffin ... I think that has weighed heavily with Canadians." His status allowed him special honours rarely afforded a mere mortal music man. He helped open Toronto's Advanced School of Contemporary Music in 1960, but it failed for a lack of funding. He later served as an adjunct music professor at York University in the mid-1980s and became its chancellor in the 1990s. His health began to fail about 20 years ago, first stricken with the most terrible ailment that could befall a piano player - arthritis. He suffered a stroke in 1993 but recovered. But he never let age or infirmity get in the way of the music. "Age doesn't seem to enter into my thought to that great an extent," he noted in 2001. "I just figure that the love I have of the instrument and my group and the medium itself works as a sort of a rejuvenating factor for me." Not to mention all those who heard him play. He leaves behind a wife, a daughter and millions of fans.

Anderson Silva- Dominance Not like you needed to be reminded of how awesome he is.

My point wasn't about how many movies he does, just that whenever he makes one it's usually the best performance of the year.

If, ya know, GSP weren't fighting Hughes that night I'd pretty much be there. We'll have to settle for drunken MMA revelry.

Hopefully we won't see Dano naked in rollerskates in this one.

Joey Joe Joe Junior Shabadoo. Get it right.

I remember there being some pretty sexy rolling sequences in that fight.

Well that made this movie just a bit more awesome. Anderson has always used good music in the past and looks like that trend will continue.

Opens in select theaters on Christmas day, national release sometime in January I think but not 100%.

I might go down to Oscar Peterson Way and pay my respects a bit later. Dude was a great human being and like Carlito said one of the greatest jazz pianists ever.

Don and Nick are pretty much this seasons "Haven't fucked up badly enough to get hurt by it", in that for every error they've made another team has made it worse. I don't know if they're competitive enough to keep up with The Goths or Nate and Jen in terms of workrate though.

Unless I'm wrong The Wire has never done any flashbacks episodes so I doubt it though I wouldn't mind seeing D show up again.

I'm glad that Kynt and Vyxsin were saved, I think they just had an off-day but next weeks preview looks like they undertake the "By whatever means necessary" approach to winning which I'm down with. Out of the teams that are left I'm rooting for The Goths and TK and Rachel. The old man and the kid I'm indifferent to, Christina is boring and Ron is an asshole and Nate and Jen were pretty much made for each other. I love how Jen talks about how she's not sure where they'll be when they're done the race when I totally see them as a "Guy knocks girl up, marriage follows and the trap is set" kind of relationships.

Alexander getting tooled in the fashion he did was probably the least surprising thing in MMA this year to me.

Ease up Barron, JC has proven to be one of the more talented actors in a long fuckin' time. Just not in this movie that's all.

I'm honestly not surprised that Walk Hard did poorly, it looks like most of the funny moments are in the trailers and in terms of what people expect from Apatow and Co. nowadays it doesn't look like it fits the mold.

So I'm not sure how reliable this report is but word is that Walk Hard bombed like Nagasaki this weekend, coming in something like fourth or fifth place. National Treasure 2 was #1 with something around 45 million which would normally look good but after I Am Legend's haul it'll be tough to top.

Thanks for the post, good interview.

I'm pretty curious to see how far along Apatow-Association can go. I imagine Walk Hard will do fairly well this weekend and Seth Rogen was box office gold in 2007 so Pineapple will likely hold its own as well.

Yeah but......it's not a flattering name.

Agreed but then again you're talking a legit preview for Sarah Marshall and a 4 minute clip of Franco and Rogan talking shit for Pineapple so I don't think it's fair to compare the two.

The key thing to note about that article is the $30 million dollar payday" line, something that will never happen in MMA. Gotta give Cuban credit here, he knows there's likely a small chance of Floyd actually going through with it but he's using the situation to draw attention towards HDNet Fights.

I'm not really seeing this as anything big at the moment, simply because with Floyd taking time off from boxing plus the amount of time he'd need to train his wrestling and jitz if he commits we likely wouldn't see him fight until at least 2 years from now. Or they bring him in and pay a guy off to only stand with him. Or that.