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Jeopardy!'s Alex Trebek Suffers Heart Attack
Originally posted 06/24/2012 05:30PM
Jeopardy! host Alex Trebek is expected to make a full recovery after suffering a "mild heart attack."
Sent to Los Angeles's Cedars-Sinai Medical Center on Saturday, "Trebek is in good spirits and is currently under observation and undergoing further testing," reads a statement from Sony Pictures Television, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
"He is expected to fully recover and be back at Jeopardy! when production begins taping in July for the new season, the show's 29th."
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Anderson Cooper to Appear on Jeopardy's 'Power Player Week'
Originally posted 05/14/2012 09:45AM
He's a silver-haired CNN anchor who recently got his own talk show. Who is Anderson Cooper?
The giggling newsman is going to be on Jeopardy for the game show's "Power Players Week."
Cooper, who is one of 15 celebrity contestants to appear on "America's Favorite Quiz Show" beginning Monday, is hoping to win $50,000 for the charity of his choice, The Trevor Project.
He'll compete on Friday's episode against NBC News's Kelly O'Donnell, who is playing for Lost Dog & Cat Rescue Foundation, and The New York Times columnist Thomas L. Friedman, who is playing for Conservation International.
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Alex Trebek Injures Leg While Chasing Burglar
Originally posted 07/27/2011 07:00PM
We'll take Freak Game Show Host Injuries for 500, Alex.
Jeopardy!'s Alex Trebek was the one facing questions this time when he was seen hobbling on crutches Wednesday at the National Geographic World Championship at Google's headquarters in Mountain View, Calif.
"It happened at 2:30 a.m., chasing a burglar down the hallway of my San Francisco hotel when my Achilles tendon ruptured and I then fell on carpet, bruising the other leg in process," Trebek, 70, explains to Patch.com. "Surgery on Friday."
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Ken Jennings: Why I Lost to a Computer Named Watson
Originally posted 02/17/2011 05:00PM
What is ... defeat?
In the much-anticipated match-up of man vs. machine on Jeopardy!, man got trounced – and he wasn't happy about it.
"I felt honored, even heroic," Ken Jennings wrote on Slate.com of competing on the game show against IBM's supercomputer, Watson, this week. "I envisioned myself as the Great Carbon-Based Hope against a new generation of thinking machines – which, if Hollywood is to believed, will inevitably run amok, build unstoppable robot shells, and destroy us all."
"But," he continues, "I wasn't the hero at all. I was the villain."
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Jeopardy! to Bring Back Ken Jennings
Originally posted 12/30/2004 08:00AM
Expect to see Ken Jennings back on Jeopardy! in 2005, as nearly 150 past winners from the game show's 21-year history will be invited to go head to head in a "Super Tournament."
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Ken Jennings Plans Life After Jeopardy!
Originally posted 12/01/2004 08:00AM
The answer: Ken Jennings.
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Jeopardy! Champ Jennings Finally Loses?
Originally posted 09/09/2004 12:00PM
The Jeopardy! winning streak of Ken Jennings may be over. TV Week magazine is reporting that the Utah software engineer finally loses in an episode taped Tuesday – after 75 games and $2.5 million in his bank account.
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Jeopardy's Jennings Preps for 32nd Win
Originally posted 07/15/2004 08:00AM
Ken Jennings continues to prove to be the Energizer Bunny of Jeopardy!
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Jeopardy! Champ Tops $1 Million Mark
Originally posted 07/14/2004 08:00AM
Jeopardy! champ Ken Jennings pulled off his record-setting 30th appearance on the syndicated game show Tuesday night by winning (again) and bringing his total to more than $1 million.
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Swimmer Phelps Upset at Olympic Trials
Originally posted 07/13/2004 09:00AM
SIDETRACKED: American swimming phenom Michael Phelps, 19, shown in all his Speedo-ed glory in the current issue of PEOPLE, was defeated by lanky California backstroker Aaron Peirsol, 21, Monday in a dramatic world-record-breaking 200-meter backstroke race on the sixth day of the U.S. Olympic swimming trials. Phelps, who next month in Athens hopes to beat Mark Spitz's unprecedented 1972 win of seven gold medals in Munich, finished Monday's match in Long Beach, Calif., in 1:55.86. Peirsol did it in 1:54.74, breaking his own record of 1:55.15.
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