Jaws were on the floor offline as well. Sherri Shepherd said that Miley was "goin' to hell in a twerkin' handbasket" for her bump-and-grind act. "When I was growing ...

When a 16-year-old Steve Chmelar created the original "No. 1 hand" as a way to support his high school basketball team at the Iowa state championships in 1971, he never expected to see one used in ...

n our culture, people must use their fingers carefully because some gestures might offend. Miley Cyrus would know. Cyrus’ use of a sports-fan foam finger during her racy performance at Sunday’s Video ...

If you watched much of the Vikings-Cardinals game last night (it wasn’t much of a game), you probably saw this week’s installment of Toyota’s “Great Moments in Tailgating History.” The topic: the ...

The foam finger, a staple at sports events around the country, is Iowan Steve Chmelar's baby. He created it in 1971. So when Miley Cyrus began touching Robin Thicke's manhood and pantomiming digital ...

Chmelar himself is a VP of commercial sales at a construction supply company now and has a patent for "a concrete forming system called Riser Solutions that is used to construct tiered concrete." ...

The latest individual to join the Miley-Hate parade has a bone to pick with Cyrus' on-stage antics, mainly because he says that controversial pop star "degraded" one of his inventions. What is that ...

Arizona Cardinals safety Rashad Johnson suffered a gruesome injury against the Saints on Sunday: he lost the tip of his finger. It's all fun and games in the NFL until someone loses a finger, but ...

RALEIGH, N.C. (WTVD) -- An N.C. State student volunteer working a basketball game found a foam finger belonging to an 8-year old fan, and the school is now working to return it directly to the family.

After all the finger wagging in the wake of Miley Cyrus' Video Music Awards performance, one giant foam finger (and the man who created an early version of it many years ago) is getting some attention ...