An oil rig which exploded and sank last Thursday is still leaking oil five days later.  According to a report from ABC News officials originally thought the leak was contained.  Fox News reports that a remote controlled sub employed Monday in attempts to turn off the underwater well failed. The Washington Post reports that “BP said it would attempt to drill two relief wells to intercept the oil flow and divert it to new pipes and storage vessels. It said it was also working to fabricate a dome to cover the leak area and channel it into a new pipe to storage facilities.”  Both Fox News and The  Washington Post report that it could take weeks to get the leak contained. Officials announced Tuesday the possibility of having a “controlled burn” to “reduce the volume” of the slick, according to an article in Business Week. The slick, which is off the cost of Louisiana,  stretches for 1,800 square miles, or larger than the state of Rhode Isalnd, and is visible from space, in images recently released from NASA.

Chicago Breaking Sports reported that The Crosstown Classic series between the Cubs and White Sox will include a trophy commemorating each years winner of the annual showdown. The announcement is purported to take place this morning at a press conference.

On Saturday Carlos Zambrano made his first relief appearance since June 28, 2002, and he was effective holding the Brewers to just one run. The big right-hander had made over 240 starts before coming out of bullpen in Saturday’s game.

High school student rejected from Harvard after an alleged Facebook status demeaning the school.  A  high school  student name Jacob, posted the following on his Facebook account:

“I just got my admittance letters into Yale, Duke, Northwestern, Penn, and Columbia. Now Harvard is begging my a– to go to their school. FULLY PAID SCHOLARSHIP. LOL. Hmmmm…. Ahahahaha naw kiss my a–. F— Harvard! I don’t need no harvard or no scholarship HAHA! No really though, I’m going to harvard guys. Wooooooo! =D”

The Daily News reported on April 21, 2010 18 year Cheryl Wolfe died after suffering from a stroke a week prior. Last week Wolfe was taking to the hospital after she collapsed while in school, she remained in a comma for week before she died.

The United States beat Russia 3-2 today, pushing them into the Fed Cup final, an international premier team competition in women’s tennis. Although Russia had won four out of the past six years, the U.S. holds the record with 17 wins.

Game 4 of the Chicago Bulls-Cleveland Cavaliers series ended with a 121-98 win by the Cavs, putting them ahead in the series 3-1.

On April 20, 2010 news broke about Hip Hop Rapper Guru dying at the age of 43. Guru who battled cancer for more than a year, hid the illness from the public and wanted to keep his sickness private. Many of his fans and friends instantly tweeted about the tragic death of Guru.

Discovery has a new show that premiered tonight called “Into the Universe with Stephen Hawking” where Hawking theorizes on Aliens, Spaceship travel and other popular Sci-Fi topics. The miniseries comes in four parts, the first two aired Sunday at 9pm ET. The series has visually stunning CGI pictures of Aliens walking Europa, one of the moons of Jupiter thought to be possible for for alien life, or what a space ship may look like as it approaches the speed of light.

Fans around the Vancouver area are bracing themselves, getting ready for a heated game between the Canucks and Kings in the NHL Playoffs. Fans are looking for a big win tonight out of the Canucks as the team looks to advance on in the playoffs, tweeting:

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   KaptKatz Kick the #Kings down boys; send them home!! And Kesler? Lets get some goals tonight. GO #CANUCKS 26 Apr 2010 from web
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   Adam_Goss @jason_baker you got a feel for this one? I think #Canucks know the importance. Definitely don’t want any chance of a lucky LA win in gm 7! 26 Apr 2010 from Tweetie in reply to jason_baker
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   texturasalon Tonight’s game is a, let’s finish this series off and get rid of the pesky Kings kind of game #canucks 26 Apr 2010 from TweetDeck