HockShow Episode 32: Mom, Why does Dr. Pepper come in a can?

1. Who Killed Tupac? The LA Times ran a story this week that said that Diddy killed Tupac, finally solving the murder than nobody had thought about in fifteen years. The only problem? They were getting all their "inside info" from some con artist who was in prison who's never even met anybody involved. Oops!

2. Forget King James, LeBron Is King Kong. Vogue Magazine ran a special cover this week featuring LeBron James holding a basketball in one hand, and model Giselle Bunchen in the other. The black community has decried this as a racist portrayal of LeBron as an angry gorilla. Which totally reminds me of that scene where King Kong grabbed Faye Ray and posted up on Shaq.

3. Grand Theft Auto 4 Looms on the Horizon. In an interesting turn of events, if you hear a song on the in-game radio that you like, you can download it on your X-Box or PS3, and also grab a digital copy of it off of Amazon. Anything new? Nope. But an interesting use of a medium still pretty much in its infancy.

4. "Hot Hot Sex" is No More. While the Italian bloggers who were behind the craze never officially said that they were inflating the video's hit count, they will forever go down in net infamy as the creators of the Internet's stupidest controversy. After all, everybody knows that the "Rick Roll" and "Chocolate Rain" are YouTube's most watched videos.

5. Dr. Pepper Wants to Buy You a Drink. Of course, there's a catch. If Guns N Roses releases "Chinese Democracy" this year, Dr. Pepper will distribute one free can of soda for every American. How you might ask? Who cares! It's not going to happen. They might as well have offered to buy everyone a car for every copy of "Duke Nukem Forever" sold this year.