MIKE CELIZIC

msnbc.com - Only on msnbc.com
Add To Watchlist

Celizic: Time for NCAA to get serious about education

To listen to the reaction from the college basketball establishment, you’d think that Barack Obama’s secretary of education has just asked them to climb Mt. Everest barefoot in their boxer shorts and T-shirts.

Continue reading this entry ...

Elizabeth Edwards ‘disgusted’ by Rielle photos

Elizabeth Edwards’ sister and friends have fired back at John Edwards’ former mistress, calling Rielle Hunter “delusional” and saying Elizabeth was “disgusted” by photos of Hunter that appeared in GQ magazine.

Continue reading this entry ...

Kendra: I wouldn’t dance with stars like Kate G.

Celebrity mom and former Hugh Hefner squeeze Kendra Wilkinson had some unsolicited advice for fellow reality show star Kate Gosselin Tuesday: Don’t go dancing when you have kids at home.

Continue reading this entry ...

Celizic: Tiger still trying to control everything

Everything that lives is driven by something. For babies, it’s eating and pooping. For Wall Street bankers and brokers, it’s bonus checks. For Tiger Woods, it’s major golf tournaments and total control.

Continue reading this entry ...

Kirstie Alley denies ‘front’ for Scientology

After regaining all the weight she lost for Jenny Craig, Kirstie Alley has embarked on another public diet. But this time, the weight-loss program she’s selling is her own — and, the actress said, reports that’s it’s somehow connected to her Scientologist religion are unfounded.

Continue reading this entry ...

‘Diff’rent Strokes’ actor: I tried to help Haim

Twice now, Todd Bridges has reached out to fellow former child stars-turned-addicts to try to get them to stop destroying their own lives. And both times his efforts were in vain.

Continue reading this entry ...

Edwards’ mistress: Presidential run ‘reckless’

It was lust at first sight. She was 42 and divorced. He was 10 years her senior and a United States senator from North Carolina.

Continue reading this entry ...

Celizic: Dismiss Duke, but do so at your peril

The Duke Blue Devils don't sneak up on people on the basketball court. Their perennial success always makes them a favorite in every office pool across the country.

Continue reading this entry ...

Toddler is OK after being pronounced DOA

Bronson Staker is a typical 18-month-old — which is to say, he wasn’t interested in what Mom and Dad were talking about with a stranger. Bronson was far more interested in fussing and squirming and grabbing his father’s cell phone and pretending to talk into it and doing all the delightful things that toddlers do.

Continue reading this entry ...

Celizic: Athletes will do anything to win ... anything

The FBI is calling in superstar athletes to help in their investigation of a Canadian doctor whose assistant was caught bringing human growth hormone and another illegal drug into the United States.

Continue reading this entry ...

Bless you! Girl who kept sneezing has stopped

The most remarkable thing Lauren Johnson did Wednesday morning was — nothing.

Continue reading this entry ...

Boy, 7, who rescued family thanks 911 dispatcher

As he thanked the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s dispatcher who took his dramatic phone call, the 7-year-old hero who locked himself and his sister in a bathroom and called 911 when armed robbers invaded his home explained how he knew what to do in such a terrifying situation — his mom makes him rehearse what to do in an emergency.

Continue reading this entry ...

Celizic: Why no buzz about UConn women’s reign?

There’s nothing like an all-time streak or record of any kind to rivet attention on a sport.

Continue reading this entry ...

Rove defends record on Iraq, Plame, Katrina

Karl Rove fired back Tuesday against the critics who are saying his book about his years as President George W. Bush’s senior adviser is a collection of distortions and lies, particularly as it relates to the Iraq war, Hurricane Katrina and the Valerie Plame affair.

Continue reading this entry ...

George Clooney: Actor, heartthrob ... and tailor

It was a situation tailor-made for a hero. Red carpet time was looming, Hollywood was waiting with bated breath to see who would take home coveted Academy Awards — and George Clooney’s girlfriend was suddenly the victim of a major wardrobe malfunction.

Continue reading this entry ...

Karl Rove: I did not pull dirty tricks

Karl Rove said his reputation as a down-and-dirty political campaigner is undeserved. Tricks attributed to him were either media distortions or the work of others, he told TODAY’s Matt Lauer during an interview Monday on TODAY.

Continue reading this entry ...

Celizic: March makes us all college hoops fanatics

It’s the first Sunday of March. And that means college basketball. It means Northern Iowa vs. Wichita State, a game most sports fans wouldn’t think twice about.

Continue reading this entry ...

Karl Rove: I wasn’t George Bush’s brain

Most people would probably find it flattering to be called the brains behind the president of the United States. But not Karl Rove, the former senior adviser to President George W. Bush who has been called “Bush’s brain.”

Continue reading this entry ...

Missing teen’s father sees ‘eerie’ link to murder

When a registered sex offender was arraigned Wednesday for the murder and sexual assault of a 17-year-old California girl, one of the spectators in the courtroom was the father of another teenage girl from the same area who has been missing for just over a year.

Continue reading this entry ...

Celizic: Change NFL OT? Great! Now about ...

The NFL is talking about , at least in playoff games. To this, all anyone can say is, it’s about time.

Continue reading this entry ...

Celizic: We care about Tiger’s golf, not his marriage

Tiger Woods has run out of rehab centers. He went through the sex addiction clinic in Mississippi and now he’s gotten out of a family counseling clinic in Arizona.

Continue reading this entry ...

Get happy! ‘Partridge Family’ stars reunite

It’s been 40 years since “The Partridge Family” drove their creatively painted bus to the top of both the Nielsen ratings and the music charts. But for some of the cast, life continues to imitate art.

Continue reading this entry ...

Celizic: Bracketologists a casual fan’s best friend

The great thing about the Winter Olympics — and the reason we should have them every year — is that they fill up those otherwise empty and boring weeks between the Super Bowl and March Madness.

Continue reading this entry ...

Olympic rings to engagement ring for skier

If you say good things come in threes, Billy Demong is not going to argue with you. In the space of just a few hours, he won a gold medal, was named the flag bearer for Team USA, and got engaged.

Continue reading this entry ...

Celizic: Kobe’s pain is no different than any other’s

Kobe Bryant plays in awful pain, and he does it because that’s how much he wants to win another championship.

Continue reading this entry ...