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href="http://torontoist.com/2008/02/phototo_snowbal.php">photographing a big, organized snowball fight.

Given the low cure rate for many cancers and the fact that cancer will affect one in three people in their lifetimes, Lance Armstrong is looking to create a massive lobbying group for and by the people to ensure the improvement of cancer care, treatment, and research, while ensuring that such programs receive the requisite funding. As we are still behind in diagnosing, preventing, and treating this pervasive disease, it needs to be placed higher on the agenda in Washington. Watch the new campaign video to see how you can help. The Live Strong campaign has supported other common sense issues, such as pushing for unfettered stem cell research. (Science and common sense are hard to come by, though, when veto power is in the hands of someone who doesn't believe in global warming.)

...Stupid: This isn't a stupid celebrity, so much as a stupid fan. A Kanye West fan showed up at the artist's Birmingham, England show sans ticket and decided that the best way to get into the concert would be by firing at the security guards in his way. (Via E! Online)

There are a lot of incredible athletes in the U.S. that don't get half the attention they deserve. If Lance Armstrong hadn't come up with those yellow bracelets, would we even know who he was? Can anyone name three players on the U.S. soccer team? Did you know that the Paralympics exist? Perhaps the most overlooked athletes of all, the members U.S. quad rugby team, finally get some long overdue exposure in Think Film's new documentary, Murderball.