Bad News Bears Remake Star Sammi Kane Kraft Dies in Car Crash at Age 20

Sammi Kane Kraft, the real-life baseball player who portrayed Amanda Whurlitzer in the 2005 remake of Bad News Bears, died in a car accident in Los Angeles, E! News reports.

The athlete and actress was 20 years old. Authorities told E! that Kraft was the passenger in an Audi "traveling at a high rate of speed" when it rear-ended a big rig and was then hit by another car. Kraft was pronounced dead at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. The driver, 21-year-old Molly Kate Adams, survived with moderate injuries, and was arrested for suspected felony drunk drinking.

Kraft played the tomboy character originated by Tatum O'Neal in the original 1976 Bad News Bears.

"I could never fill Tatum O'Neal's shoes," Kraft (who had a 70 mph fastball) said in 2005, "but I tried to make the role my own."

California Highway Patrol is investigating the crash.

Chinese author Mo Yan wins Nobel Prize for Literature

Chinese author Mo Yan has been awarded the 2012 Nobel Prize for literature.

A prolific author, Mo has published dozens of short stories, with his first work published in 1981.

The Swedish Academy praised his work which "with hallucinatory realism merges folk tales, history and the contemporary".

The 57-year-old is the first Chinese resident to win the prize. Chinese-born Gao Xingjian was honoured in 2000, but is a French citizen.

Mo is the 109th recipient of the prestigious prize, won last year by Swedish poet Tomas Transtroemer.

Presented by the Nobel Foundation, the award - only given to living writers - is worth 8 million kronor (£741,000).

"He has such a unique way of writing. If you read half a page of Mo Yan you immediately recognise it as him," said Peter Englund, head of the Academy.

He said Mo had been told of the award, adding: "He was at home with his dad. He said he was overjoyed and terrified."

Born Guan Moye, the author writes under the pen name Mo Yan, which means "don't speak" in Chinese.

He began writing while a soldier in the People's Liberation Army (PLA) and received international fame in 1987 for Red Sorghum: A Novel of China.

Top 10 Worst Superheroes

We all love superheroes – when we were kids we wanted to be like them – actually – I guess we still want to be like them when we are adults! Listverse has features many lists on heroes, villains, side kicks, etc. but never before have we explored the realm of the worst superheroes; the superheroes we don’t want to become and, worse still, the ones we don’t want to help us in a tough situation. Enjoy.

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'So awkward': Cheryl Cole describes how Nicole Scherzinger sang Promise This at their first meeting

 

They spent an evening in the same night club just last week suggesting the pair might have patched things up after Nicole Scherzinger usurped Cheryl Cole on the X Factor USA.
But the former Pussycat Doll might not be so eager to have any relationship with Cheryl at all after details of their first meeting were described by the Geordie singer as 'so awkward'.
In a page from new book My Story which leaked on Twitter, Cheryl explains how the pair first met backstage on the talent show when she was a judge on the UK version of the show. 

Pictured: Youthful Will Smith in 80s mugshot after arrest in connection with vicious attack which almost left man blind

 

It has been revealed that in 1989 Will Smith was arrested over an alleged vicious assault which took place in Philadelphia.
According to reports, Smith - who at the time of the arrest was 20 - was involved in an argument which resulted in a man almost losing sight in one eye.
The charges against the 44-year-old actor, which were later dismissed, included aggravated assault, criminal conspiracy, simple assault and recklessly endangering another person.

Toddler pictured drinking WHISKY instead of fruit juice at second birthday party after

Toddler pictured drinking WHISKY instead of fruit juice at second birthday party after mistake by waiters at Frankie and Benny's

• Sonny Rees, two, drank half a glass of the 40% alcohol with mixer
• Staff at Frankie and Benny's in Swansea served him spirits by mistake
• His mother noticed something was wrong when he began pulling faces
• Sonny was rushed to A&E when he was monitored and later discharged

A toddler drank half a glass of whisky through a straw after a restaurant accidentally served him spirits instead of fruit juice at his second birthday party.
Sonny Rees drank the 40 per cent alcohol, which was served with water, when the error went unnoticed at Frankie and Benny’s restaurant in Swansea.
But when he started pulling strange faces and wriggling in his chair each time he took a sip, his mother smelled the unmistakable whiff of spirits in his glass.

Mix-up: A family photo of Sonny Rees, two, tucking into a whisky and water in the Swansea branch of Frankie & Benny's on Saturday. The image was taken when his parents thought he was drinking lime and water

David Letterman warns Mitt Romney(Video)

David Letterman has taken a glimpse into Mitt Romney's future, and if the GOP candidate doesn't appear on "The Late Show" soon, Letterman predicts that he'll be dancing with the stars before he's running the country.

After reassuring Mitt that he wasn't upset about him doing Leno's show first, Letterman kicked things up a notch and instructed his viewers not to vote for him unless he does so before the election.
But Romney still hasn't planned to come on the show, mostly because Letterman keeps running his mouth, and Letterman is getting impatient. On Wednesday night's show, he gave Mitt a direct warning:

 "So you can't blow this off, Mitt. Im telling you, with every fiber of my being: if you want to go to the White House -- not on the tour -- you have to come here and shut me up," Letterman says into the camera. "You've gotta prove that I'm a dumbass punk and you've gotta come here and do it now... Because we wouldn't want anything to go the wrong way."

On a slightly unrelated note, Letterman also apologized to Donald Trump for calling him a racist. And look! They're totally BFFs again: