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Rehabbed from top to bottom, this house will always be remembered as the home of Ozzie and Harriet, America’s first real television family between 1952 and 1966. It also served as Ari Gold’s home on “Entourage.” When it last changed hands in 2013 for $3.025 million,the home still had the same kitchen layout as it did on television, and Ozzie’s wood-paneled “pub room” stood frozen in time, complete with Ozzie’s model train. As Yahoo! reported, previous owners said the train would sometimes start on its own. And other owners since Ozzie’s death said they would sometimes find a kitchen drawer open beside the sink, presumably because his ghost...

Before the Pritchetts and Dunphys, or the Cosbys, or the Bradys -- before the Cleavers, even -- there were Ozzie and Harriet Nelson and their sons, David and Ricky. For 14 years and 435 episodes, the Nelsons starred in a TV show about themselves, filmed on sets that replicated their own Los Angeles home. They invited America into their living room from 1952 to 1966, and hundreds of thousands of American families returned the favor. Even now, the phrase "Ozzie and Harriet" is practically synonymous with clean-scrubbed 1950s America.

The always outspoken Chicago White Sox manager Ozzie Guillen calls actor Sean Penn "a loser" for his comments after a trip to Venezuela. Guillen also says in the interview with Yahoo! Sports that he'll personally show parts of his native country the Oscar-winning actor may not have toured during a short trip to Venezuela. "This is Venezuela bro," Guillen says about rougher areas of the country he'd show Penn. "This is Venezuela. Not the one they show you."

Ozzie is a very good friend of mine. He is one of those people whom everyone loves. He is a positive Christian man, who affirms in the face of adversity, that "It's all good." Ozzie is facing a battle with lung cancer. He is having surgery today for a mass in his Gall Bladder. Then after he heals from that they will take the spots off his lung. I know that a beautiful prayer thread with lots of neat graphics would do wonders for him. So, I'm asking you to help me.

You can add Sean Penn to the long list of people who have been called out by Ozzie Guillen. The outspoken White Sox manager called Penn a "payaso" (clown) and "izquierdista estupido" (stupid leftist) on Twitter Friday for his praise of controversial Venezuela President Hugo Chavez. "Oh my God, Sean Penn defended our President Hugo Chavez," Guillen, a Venezuela native, tweeted. "That's easy when you [don't] live in Venezuela and have money. LOL...shame on [you]." Penn appeared on HBO's "Real Time with Bill Maher" last week and was asked why he continues to defend Chavez. "Every day this elected leader...

This is a little off color, but if you follow White Sox baseball it is HILARIOUS. Click on link to see.

CNBC announcing - After July 2008, Bill Gates shall leave his daily role at Microsoft, but will remain as company chairman.

After snapping a four-game losing streak, the Chicago White Sox head to Detroit on Monday to begin a three-game series with a team that reminds the world champions of themselves at this time last season. The Tigers started 5-0 before losing 5-3 to Texas on Sunday, but have hit 17 home runs and are tied with Cleveland atop the Central Division standings. Detroit has posted 12 consecutive losing seasons and hasn't made the playoffs since 1987. "The worst thing you can do is call them a fluke," Chicago first baseman Paul Konerko said. "That's what people were calling us a...

My favorite element of the photo accompanying this column is the Secret Service agent moving in on me like a bouncer breaking up a brawl. In classic neighborhood tradition, I did the same move with the president of the United States that I do during virtually any photo op with any man, woman, child or dog. I throw my arm around ya, like we've known each other for years. THAT'S the Chicago way. But when you've got your hand squeezing the neck of the leader of the free world, it's the Secret Service's job to make sure you're not going...

Michael Jordan did it in 1991. Some members of the U.S. Ryder Cup team threatened to do it in 1993. Bobby Jenks, Scott Podsednik, Freddy Garcia, Tadahito Iguchi and Frank Thomas will do it Monday. But the only person we're talking about is Ozzie, Ozzie, Ozzie. White Sox manager Ozzie Guillen is hardly the first person to decline an invitation to visit the White House. But judging from the local furor, you might think otherwise. Mayor Daley, a Sox fan, seems to think Guillen has become too big for his britches. Sox chairman Jerry Reinsdorf would prefer that Guillen cut...

With the World Series trophy in tow, White Sox manager Ozzie Guillen flew to Venezuela on Thursday on a private jet furnished by President Hugo Chavez for a weekend tribute in his homeland that will cap a whirlwind week. Sox Chairman Jerry Reinsdorf supplied a plane for Guillen to fly from Chicago to Ft. Lauderdale, where Chavez's jet was waiting. Venezuelan officials have arranged for the trophy to be guarded by military personnel and transported in an armored car during the visit. Guillen is expected to return early next week when his schedule might begin to ease. Guillen was so...

OZZY JOINS BUSH BASH WITH HITLER MONTAGE Thu Jul 15 2004 11:38:38 ET Rocker Ozzy Osbourne took Jones Beach, NY last night on what is quickly becoming a predictable Bush-bashing express. Osbourne opened his concert with the song "War Pigs," featuring a video portrait comparing Bush to Adolph Hitler. The video featured Bush and Hitler on the same screen, with the caption: "Same sh*t different a**hole," says a source. Footage of bombs dropping and Hitler marching flashed as Ozzy screamed and guitars screeched. Ozzy also flashed a picture of Bush with a clown nose, caption: 'The White House Circus." Other...

<p>LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) -- Ozzy Osbourne was seriously injured Monday in an accident while riding an all-terrain vehicle on the grounds of his British estate, according to Cindy Guagenti, a publicist for the heavy metal legend.</p> <p>Guagenti said Osbourne underwent emergency surgery after breaking his collarbone, six ribs and a vertebra in his neck.</p>

10th miner was spared from ordeal by day off (OR, How the Prince of Darkness saved my life, can I have my 15 minutes now?) When mine flooded, he was at Ozzfest Monday, August 05, 2002By Bob Batz Jr., Post-Gazette Staff Writer They were supposed to be 10. Ten miners, not nine, were scheduled to be on the crew that wound up trapped 240 feet underground at the Quecreek Mine last month. Roger Shaffer Jr. thanks Ozzy Osbourne that he didn't have to go through that now world-famous, 78-hour ordeal near Somerset. Shaffer, 22, who lives outside nearby Hollsopple, is...

Smoking out 'The Osbournes' message By BARRY SAUNDERS Watch out, kids, it's a trick. On second thought, don't watch, kids: it's a trick. Parents have been warning children about the evils of drug abuse for decades, if not centuries, and most of the warnings have been lost in a plume of reefer smoke. As a teen-age camp counselor I once had to show -- without bursting out laughing -- a group of impressionable adolescents the cult classic anti-drug movie "Reefer Madness," which purports to prove that the evil weed makes you wacky and violent. That being the mid-1970s, I knew...