Amid allegations of ballot-box stuffing and fraud, Vladimir Putin was sworn in two days ago for his third term as President of the Russian Federation. How does a virtual czar celebrate becoming Russia’s head of state for the third time in four terms? He wins a hockey game, of course.

College football can be an emotional game for players, and we discovered on Tuesday night during an Intelligence Squared series debate just how hard it is for some former players to separate their feelings from the facts.

The Celtics’ 101-79 blowout win over the Hawks had one particularly high-profile spectator: Mitt Romney, former Massachusetts governor and presumptive Republican presidential nominee this fall. The only thing seeing Romney did for Charles Barkley, though, was inspire him to talk trash.

At last evening’s showing of the new play Headstrong, presented by Ensemble Studio Theatre on Manhattan’s West 52nd street, you could sense that the audience and the actors had one man specifically on their minds: Junior Seau.

The namedrop isn’t much — it occurs around the 3:50 mark — but it is perhaps the pop culture climax of a viral video that’s clearly trying to put a bunch of things people feel strongly about (singing, the President, and Tim Tebow) into one clip.

Right now, the Nets are playing their last game in New Jersey, ending a 35-year Garden State run that saw some success but more failure. And with that in mind, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie’s parting message to the franchise was especially apt. See it after the jump.

Alabama’s BCS national champion football team was honored by President Obama at the White House today. Obama, though, wasn’t the only one who got to do the talking. We imagine what Nick Saban said after the jump.

In light of all that has happened in the last few days, how should Bud Selig’s trip down to Havana in 1999 strike the American public? And does he have the right to blast Ozzie’s comments the way he did? Details after the jump.

Recently-suspended Marlins manager Ozzie Guillen just held a press conference explaining his controversial, sympathetic-sounding comments about Cuban leader Fidel Castro, which were magnified in light of Miami’s large Cuban population. See Guillen’s most common refrain from that press conference after the jump.

Sometimes, the shots aren’t falling. Unfortunately for President Barack Obama, he was having one of those days, and it was caught on camera. He eventually regrouped, but you can imagine how his opponents are salivating at all those misses.