Hell yea when it comes to exciting games. I mean these cats are playing with true heart. Scrappin’ hard to get to the finals. That shit is missing from NBA ball. Dudes just seem like they going through the motions.
Hats off to the NCAA March Madness this year is exciting as hell.
Can tennis stars Venus and Serena Williams score a ratings ace?
That’s what ABC Family TV is hoping for as it unveils a brand-new reality series starring the sibling tennis champions.
According to the network, the yet-to-be-titled series will follow the sisters around and unveil the details of their formerly private personal lives.
“The series will provide our fans with an up-close, inside look at our lives away from the tennis courts,” Venus said in a statement.
“We’re very excited to branch out into a new medium,” added Serena.
The six-episode series, which will bow in July on the family-friendly network, will feature the dynamic tennis duo “coming of age, as they find their place in the world outside of tennis,” per a release from the network.
Until now, the William sisters have been known for their quirky fashion sense, aggressive tennis styles and record championship titles, often coming up against each other in tournament play.
Between them, they have 11 major singles titles. Currently, Serena is ranked at No. 4 on the pro circuit and Venus is rolling in at No. 8, though both have held the top slot at one time or another.
It appears that the sisters aren’t satisfied with just breaking into television, however. They have also co-written an book for pre-teens called Venus and Serena: Serving From the Hip: 10 Rules for Living, Loving, and Winning.
“It’s a great book for teenage girls who deal with different issues,” Serena said in a statement. “Growing up, I would have loved to have had such a positive role model to look up to and try to be like and try to emulate. We love having that opportunity to say, ‘Look, you can be like us; you can be successful and at the same time have high morals and high self-esteem and be a very nice person at the end of the day.'”
Lest fans forget, the Williams sisters are still playing tennis. This week, they’re taking the court in Key Biscayne for the NASDAQ-100 Open. Both sisters won their matches Sunday and are moving on to the next round.
Damn March went pretty quick this year. Cant say its one I want to remember tho’. Spring is here and its time to get ready for the summer events. I am going to add info on where the hot events will be happending this summer.
I got some tight promos to give away this year at BCR so make sure you look for anyone rocking Dawg Films gear or materials.
Paul Silas was hired to mentor the NBA’s next superstar. While he succeeded with LeBron James, his failure with the rest of the team cost him his job.
Silas was fired as coach of the Cleveland Cavaliers on Monday, his team fighting for a playoff spot after leading its division earlier this year. Longtime NBA assistant Brendan Malone was appointed interim coach.
The dismissal came with 18 games left and the team clinging to the fifth playoff spot in the Eastern Conference. James seems to have been the only player who saw the move coming.
“You could kind of tell the way the air was, how things were going around here, there was going to have to be a change,” said James, who scored a franchise-record 56 points Sunday. “I didn’t know it was going to be this soon.”
Silas told The Associated Press he was informed at a morning meeting with general manager Jim Paxson and new owner Dan Gilbert. Silas’ son, assistant Stephen Silas, also was fired.
“They didn’t think the team was performing as well as it should be and they wanted to make a change,” Paul Silas said.
Malone will coach Tuesday night’s game at home against Detroit. He acknowledged he’s in a tough situation, taking over a team late in the season that is expected to reach the playoffs.
If you’re from the streets, one of the most honored codes is that you don’t tell, especially not on your friends. And although he testified against his estranged friend Lil’ Kim in her perjury trial, he maintains he’s not a snitch.
“Being that Kim took the case to trial, they subpoenaed all the witnesses,” Cease said on Friday (see “Lil’ Kim Found Guilty Of Lying To Grand Jury, Investigators”). “Me and Kim wasn’t on good terms for the moment, and she made it clear to the world that she didn’t want to have anything to do with me and my peoples. So she wasn’t trying to call us to her defense. Being that we was witnesses there, the U.S. government subpoenaed us. And there’s nothing you can do about that. When you’re subpoenaed, you either come or they take your ass to jail. It’s just that simple.”
Cease said his appearance in court was the first time he had seen his onetime close friend in several years.
“All the sh– I been through, this is the first time that I’ve touched the stand. … It was just sick. But at the end of the day … that sh– was like business,” he said. “When [the feds] come in there, they’re not playing. With this whole war on rap and these feds and this rap patrol, it’s serious. They’re looking for someone to make an example of.” (For more on the alleged war on rap, check out our investigative report “Is The NYPD At War With Hip-Hop?”)
Biggie’s onetime hype man and best friend said the Queen Bee should have never taken her perjury case to trial and should have accepted a plea bargain. Cease described the case the prosecution presented as practically insurmountable.
“She’s supposed to have caught the picture that they trying to put you away,” Cease vented. “But she felt like she could beat them, and I don’t know what she was trying to do with that. These federal people knew everything. They had phone taps, they had the video cameras from the [shooting at Hot 97]. They had that all on tape. They had pictures, they had two-way messages. Remember, [the shooting] was in 2001. So they worked on it for about two or three years, and they pulled everybody in there. My peoples, Rock and Gutta, they copped out to the case once they knew they couldn’t win it. Shorty thought she could take it further, and she did what she thought she had to do.”
The new leader of the Junior M.A.F.I.A. said that despite Kim’s conviction, he doesn’t expect her to do much time because her record is “as clean as a virgin.” Cease also made it clear that despite their ties being severed, he hates to see the woman he was once close to go to prison (see “Lil’ Kim Won’t Get Maximum Sentence, Expert Predicts”).
“No matter what our situations, I didn’t have no problems with her,” he insisted. “My thing was she didn’t call me to her defense, so I left it at that. She could have called me, she could have subpoenaed me as well, but it was the U.S. government that subpoenaed me. She don’t mess with me and my dudes, so we kept our distance from them.”
— Shaheem Reid
Rapper Lil’ Kim could face years in prison when she is sentenced in June for lying about a shootout outside a New York radio station.
Her convictions Thursday in federal court on three counts of perjury and one of conspiracy carry terms of up to five years in prison each, but as a first-time offender, she is expected to receive far less than 20 years. The Associated Press reports that any term would make her the first major female rapper to do time. That’s the AP for you, always looking on the bright side.
The 29-year-old performer, known for her raunchy raps and raunchier outfits, was acquitted of obstruction of justice.
Tonight, Shaquille O’Neal and Kobe Bryant will face each other for the second time since “the divorce” (or the third time, counting the All-Star Game). What used to be the best story about basketball has now become the best story in basketball … which has nothing to do with basketball. It has become a saga of Bush/Moore proportions, one that makes 50 and The Game’s beef look vegetarian, one that has an impact on a generation much like that of two hungry, young, gifted MCs who came into the game to prove they had skills and prove that they belonged and wound up changing the world.
Theirs is a story that really isn’t one, this Kobe and Shaq tale. They played together for six years. Half the time together they won chips, the other half they didn’t. At times, they loved each other; at times, they didn’t. The “B” in the NBA stands for business: trades happen; free agency occurs when contracts expire; coaches retire. We the media made a story out of this. We the media will continue to do so. The angle: a severed friendship. “It’ll be better than ‘Tilt,'” a producer will scream to an announcer, an editor to a reporter. A real-life soap opera. Too bad Mark Burnett didn’t think of it first.
They will say nothing to each other. Kobe might make an attempt to holla, Shaq will make an attempt not to hear it. “General Hospital” material. But what makes the Shaq/Kobe dynamic die-namic is not what doesn’t exist anymore between them; it’s the nature of what has been created. The hatred, the betrayal, the fact that none of us knows whom to blame, the fact that both of them are to blame. “One More Chance” or “Hail Mary”? Can’t choose both.
ORLANDO, Fla. – Johnny Davis was fired Thursday as coach of the Orlando Magic, who have lost six straight games and are on the verge of falling from playoff contention. Assistant Chris Jent was named interim coach.
“We work in a bottom line business,” general manager John Weisbrod said in a statement. “It is our responsibility to do everything possible to create the best opportunity for success.”
Davis was dismissed along with assistant coach Ron Ekker hours after Wednesday night’s 110-102 road loss to the Los Angeles Clippers, dropping the Magic to 31-33 and leaving them tied with Philadelphia for the final Eastern Conference playoff spot. The team, in the middle of a West Coast road swing, plays Friday at Seattle.
Davis told the Orlando Sentinel he was “surprised and disappointed” by the firing with just 18 games left in the season and the club still trying to make the playoffs.
“It caught me completely off guard,” Davis told the newspaper.
Jent, who spent two seasons in the NBA and was a member of the 1994 champion Houston Rockets, became a Magic assistant this season and is a head coach for the first time. He was promoted over assistant Paul Westhead, who coached the Los Angeles Lakers to the 1980 title and later coached the Denver Nuggets.
Davis was hired as coach on Nov. 17, 2003, replacing Doc Rivers when last season’s team was 1-10 and on its way to losing 19 straight. Later in the season under Davis, the team lost 13 straight, including an NBA-record seven straight by at least 15 points and finished 21-61.
In the offseason, the team traded All-Star forward Tracy McGrady to Houston. Orlando showed improvement before its recent slump.
Davis, a low-key coach, seemed to lose control of his players. In Sunday’s 98-82 home loss to New Jersey, the Magic received several technical fouls and scuffled with the Nets. Reserve guard DeShawn Stevenson booted the ball into the stands at the buzzer and forward Stacy Augmon squirted lotion on reporters in the locker room.
Davis’ overall record with the Magic was 51-84. He also coached Philadelphia in 1996-97, going 22-60 there.
Young Buck of G-Unit was supposed to perform at a local Nashville club in celebration of his birthday, but the party ended abruptly when revelers unable to get in the venue rushed the doors.
According to reports, about 700 people were outside of The Trap club and on-site security, which was armed, was unable to manage the situation. Roughly 30 officers responded to a request for help.
The result was three arrests on minor offenses and no reported injuries.
According to the Associated Press, police appealed to Buck for assistance in controlling the unruly crowd, but he reported refused. The rapper never did perform.
The inside of The Trap sustained damage from the disorderly crowd according to local reports.
Young Buck, a native of Nashville, still faces assault charges related to an alleged stabbing at the VIBE Awards in November.
Wuz up people! Its mid-month and exactly 1 month away from the BCR DOWN IN DAYTONA!! I have been hitting the weighs over the winter and making sure everything is looking right so when I pull up on these females they will melt in my hands.
Its going to be crazy and I will be ready for ’em.
We wont be able to cover Kappa this year, so if you want to make some $$$$ filming the haps in Texas contact me for more info!
