Southampton boss Alan Pardew has some sympathy for Portsmouth ahead of Saturday’s FA Cup tie – but wants his team to add to their woes.

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With the Winter Games kicking off Friday, we try to guess which Americans will bring home some hardware. The U.S. finished with 25 medals during the 2006 games in Turin, a number that the Americans could improve upon in Vancouver if everything goes according to plan.

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Hugh Pickens writes “Pete Carey writes in the Mercury News that there are ‘clear warning signs’ that Silicon Valley has entered ‘a new phase of uncertainty’ in which its standing as a tech center is at risk and that decisive action by business, government and education is needed if the region is to retain its standing as the world’s center of technical innovation. ‘It could be that Silicon Valley has a different future coming,’ says Russell Hancock. (more…)

Good idea or no, EA is going ahead with plans to push out a third-person action-adventure inspired by Dante’s Inferno. But Alighieri isn’t the only literati who penned great game fodder. Read on for a list of classic tales that could just as easily be bastardized as games.

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the3stars writes “‘Removing part of the brain can induce inner peace, according to researchers from Italy. Their study provides the strongest evidence to date that spiritual thinking arises in, or is limited by, specific brain areas. This raises a number of interesting issues about spirituality, among them whether or not people can be born with a strong propensity towards spirituality and also whether it can be acquired through head trauma.”

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Marriage is said to be the union of two people who are entering blissfully into a loving relationship. But with the end of a marriage, this gamer just really missed the games.

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