Shane Mosley's New Girlfriend Bella Gonzalez Is HOT!

Millions of boxing fans watching the boring Mosley/Pacquiao fight last night in Las Vegas were introduced to one very sexy lady: Shane Mosley's new girlfriend Bella Gonzalez! We're boxing fans and we live in Vegas so we're used to seeing the hot girlfriends and wives of boxers, but Ms. Gonzalez is definitely a level above most of the boxing WAGs we've seen!

Check her out below and you'll see what I'm talking about:


Dang! :-o

As we immediately suspected upon seeing her well "enhanced" body, Bella Gonzalez is a professional model. Here's a video of a recent shoot featuring boyfriend Sugar Shane:



Very nice Mr. Mosley... we applaud you!

Las Vegas Tourism Numbers Point to Recovery

Local tourism is picking up in Las Vegas and the city is slowly moving toward economic recovery, according to some recent statistics. That's more good news for our home city. Reports show that "foot traffic" is increasing on the Strip and visitation rates have increased for 12 consecutive months, a trend local tourism experts expect to continue at least for the rest of the summer.

The casinos are even beginning to make some money again. For example yearly revenue at MGM Resorts, one of the biggest gaming companies in the world, is up over $7 million compared to last year. The Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority predicts that the city will receive about a million more visitors in 2011 -- 38 million in total -- than it did in 2010.

Other numbers point to a Vegas recovery as well. Travel websites have seen a big jump in the number of people interested in visiting the city. And for the first time in years Vegas room rates are increasing slightly. Of course, the room prices are still pretty low at around $103 per night currently.

According to the LVCVA its doing a lot of social media promotion to get people interested in coming to Vegas again. All the big events and celebrity sightings in Vegas make that easy to do.

We say: This is definitely good news for our favorite city. But, as we've said before, a true Las Vegas economic recovery won't happen until more locals get back to work!

Learn some mo': Signs show Las Vegas tourism starting to pick up again

Facebook (or Google) Is Buying Skype (Maybe)

According to reports, Facebook is about to buy Skype, the popular free/cheap VoIP internet phone service. The selling price? Close to $4 billion buckaroos! But some insiders believe that it may really be a joint venture deal instead of an outright buyout.

Google also is apparently trying to buy or enter into a JV deal with the company.

Skype and Facebook have had a relationship for some time now. In fact, Facebook social networking features have been built into Skype since version 5.0 was released. Fully integrating Skype functionality into their site could allow Facebook to dominate the social networking landscape even more.

Google is fighting valiantly to get a foothold in the social networking/social communication arena. Getting Skype could definitely help them make some big moves, especially as more and more people around the world begin using the internet to make low-cost and even free phone calls!

Learn some mo': Facebook and Google consider buying or partnering with Skype, report says

Las Vegas Is Recovering (According to Some)

The Las Vegas economy has finally started to recover, at least according to some rich casino executives. MGM Resorts CEO Jim Murren said this week that tourists are beginning to spend more money on all facets of Vegas entertainment, including hotel rooms, dining, shows, and gaming.

That sounds like great news to us... but is it really true?

There has definitely been a pick up in 2 markets in the past year or so: the "budget" market and the "high-end" market. That's good and it shows that Vegas is finally starting to do what it used to do extremely well: provide great value to both the penny-slot player and the millionaire baccarat fan. Vegas deals are always a good thing! Also, according to the stats, Strip casinos are bringing in a lot more convention business.

According to Murren:

"The recovery that has been felt for well over a year in other leisure markets around the U.S. has finally arrived... We're seeing growth on the high end and the economy side, which indicates a sustainable recovery as opposed to ... a somewhat one-dimensional recovery."

Awesome. If it's true.

One very good sign is that room revenue, long a measure of overall tourism demand, has risen 13% in the first quarter of 2011 because of increases in room rates and occupancy levels. The big convention hotels like Mandalay Bay and Aria are doing especially well as conventioneers use their expense accounts on entertainment and dining.

Overall, consumer confidence is up slightly in the US. But that may change soon because of skyrocketing gasoline prices. For now though, drive-in "auto traffic" from places like California is actually increasing during the spring months.

We say: This is all good and well. But many (most?) of the big Strip players still have billions of dollars of debt. MGM Resorts alone has a debt load of over $12 billion! Things have to REALLY begin to pick up in order for these gaming companies to start making some money. Also, there is still one big problem for Las Vegas locals: jobs. Until we figure out a way to bring down unemployment in the Las Vegas Valley it's hard to believe that any true "recovery" is on the horizon.

Learn some mo': MGM’s Jim Murren: ‘Recovery has finally arrived’

Buzz Aldrin Punch Video on The Daily Show

Daily Show host John Stewart just showed this awesome video of one of our space heroes punching out a conspiracy theorist:

Hilarious!

And no, we didn't get our blog name from this incident... ;)

P.S. Great job Seal Team 6!!