THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW

THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW

• According to Nielsen, Sunday night's Oscars ceremony drew an average audience of 34.3 million viewers, marking an 8% decline from last year's turnout (37.3 million).
• George Kennedy, star of "Cool Hand Luke" and the "Naked Gun' movies, died Sunday morning at age 91 while under hospice care in Boise, ID.
• Alabama's offensive coordinator Lane Kiffin and his wife Layla have announced that they're getting divorced.
• "Mad Dogs" has been canceled by Amazon. There will be no season 2.
• There's always someone -- this time, the Oscars' In Memoriam salute forgot to include Abe Vigoda and Tony Burton from the Rocky movies.
• Salma Hayek has a small ranch in the Yelm area of Washington State. For some reason, somebody shot and killed her German Shepherd this past weekend.
• Seattle Seahawks QB Russell Wilson launches "Good Man Brand" clothing line, but it will cost you - $78 for a T-shirt, $128 for a polo, $188 for jeans.
• Among those who attended Elton John's annual Oscar bash: Mariah Carey, Caitlyn Jenner, Hillary Swank, Charlie Sheen, Chef Gordon Ramsay, Jeffrey Tambor, Lea Michele and Matthew Morrson from Glee, Steven Tyler, Andie McDowell, Heidi Klum, and Kelly Osbourne, just to name a few.
• Middlebury College in Vermont has banned Red Bull and 5-Hour-Energy drinks because of their link to alcohol and high-risk sex.
• Alabama has passed a law barring cities and towns from passing their own minimum wage laws.
• The first Boeing 727 ever made will take its final flight to the Museum of Flight in Seattle. The plane was first used by United Airlines in 1963.
• Online shoe retailer Zappos was actually closed yesterday for Leap Day, telling employees to use the time to "do something big."
• Illinois Governor Bruce Rauner says quitting e-mail has improved the quality of his life dramatically.
• We make the switch to Daylight Saving time on March 13th this year.
• Dodger outfielder Yasiel Puig says he wants to buy a helicopter to get back and forth from Dodger Stadium.
• Mark Cuban is suggesting that the NBA should move the 3-point line further back.
• The salary cap of NFL teams in 2016 will be $155.27 million.
• Weight Watchers says that Americans gained 582 million pounds last year.
• Jeb Bush spent $32.5 million on each delegate he picked up in the primaries.
• There is a new website for Bernie supporters who are looking for love. It's called Berniesingles.com.
• A woman in Oregon has opened a business selling homemade weed pipes with Bernie's campaign logo on them.
• Up in Sisters, Oregon, the country's first Beer Spa (yes, you soak in a tub of hops and barley) is doing a booming business. It's called "Hop in the Spa."