Hill recorded another album, The Hits, and the NFL Sunday Night Football theme song.

FORBES: Magazine Article

Adding to the night's Caribbean theme, the Olympics' biggest celebrity, Jamaica's Usain Bolt, collected his gold medal for winning Sunday night's 100-meter race.

WSJ: Menu

The running theme of the night was the duality of games and the difficult balancing act Facebook is playing.

FORBES: Launching Platform-Wide Changes, Facebook Seeks to Up Its Social Game

The historic nature of Obama's candidacy, the first African-American to receive a major party's presidential nomination, was a theme of the night.

NPR: Obama Accepts Nomination With Sweeping Speech

In Bedford, Iowa, Lena Rinehart, 65, missed part of the debate because she fell asleep--"When I get in my recliner, it doesn't take too long"--but she woke up soon enough to hear Gore's main theme of the night.

CNN: latimes.com: In many voters' minds, debate fails in the drama department

But waking up in the middle of the night with uncontrollable itching and nausea became a common theme in her life.

CNN: Ticks causing mysterious meat allergy

O'Brien's routine was well-received, as he closed the night by riffing on the "nerd prom" theme, pointing out how much the event resembled a high school cafeteria.

CNN: Obama gives as good as he gets at 'Nerd Prom'

That was the theme of his address to the nation Saturday night.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Three Jewish children

But Venice's gradual transformation into a theme park, overflowing with tourists by day, bereft of residents at night, is dreadful to behold.

ECONOMIST: A new candidate for the task of saving la Serenissima

Throughout the night, Brooklyn implored fans to dress all in black as part of their "Blackout in Brooklyn" theme when they host their first playoff game in the borough.

WSJ: Lopez, Blatche help Nets hold off Pistons, 103-99