Sunday, February 15, 2009

NBA All-Star 2009: Weekend @ a Glance



Well as the 2009 NBA All-Star Weekend comes to an end with the West out hooping the East. I gotta say it was pure hotness seeing Kobe and Shaq share the MVP honors. Of course I had to add Shaq doing his pop and locking! Please enjoy the pics & video clip.












(photos via suns.com)


Monday, January 19, 2009

CELEBRATING MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR & PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA



2008 RAP UP: VIDEO BY SKILLZ

This video by Skillz raps up the year 2008 in Hip-Hop news you can use!!!! I soooo likey so take a listen!!!

The Road To The White House: Pictures N Such











Above are pictures from several events on the road to the White House: Pictures N Such.
From Bottom to top: Teyanna Taylor/Angel Lola Love/Akon & Tracey Edmonds/Beyonce, Bruce Springstein, and Will I Am/Prezident Obama & Jamie Foxx/Prezident Barack Obama & First Lady Michelle Obama.

NBA'S DEWAYNE WADE:DIVORCE 'HEATS' UP!


Well since err'body else is reporting this foolishness who am I not to inform my Sassy Muffins? Drum roll please.....(giggle giggle). In NBA gossip last weekend the Miami Herald reported a story revealing a whole lots of bedroom secrets that should have been kept between husband and wife divorce or not. But if a certain NBA hoopster is carrying a certain STD well I guess the truth shall set you free and the groupies too. Let me stop!!!! Here's the story via the Miami Herald you decide whether it's news you can use or not. Sweet Jesus, Mary, and Joseph!


"Heating up: Miami Heat guard Dwyane Wade's divorce from wife Siohvaughn, his high school sweetheart. In legal papers, she alleges he abandoned his children, committed adultery, and infected her with an unspecified sexually transmitted disease. She wants the names of ''all of his sexual partners'' during their six-year marriage.


Dwyane petitioned for the divorce last May in Cook County, Ill. They wed in Chicago on May 18, 2002.


Dwyane's Windy City attorney, James Pritikin, issued a statement: ``These malicious allegations are absolutely false and we look forward to the opportunity to dispute them in court.''


Dwyane turns 27 on Saturday. He and Siohvaughn, 27, have two boys, Zaire, a first-grader who will be 7 next month, and Zion, 1. Siohvaughn moved back to Chicago with the kids last year.
Dwyane's Heat salary is $14,410,581, according to published reports. He hauls in millions more from major endorsements such as Gatorade and Converse. He has a dozen vehicles, including four Cadillacs, four Mercedes-Benzes and a Maybach, court papers say.


The All-Star has been romantically linked to actress Gabrielle Union, 36, once married to former Jacksonville Jaguar Chris Howard.


From Siohvaughn's pleading: ``Dwyane has dissipated substantial sums of marital property including . . . buying his mother a $2 million church; placing substantial sums of money in an account with another woman; providing numerous friends and family members with unfettered access to accounts with hundreds of thousands of dollars of marital funds from which they made substantial withdrawals . . .''


Meanwhile, she says, he cut her off financially.


Dwyane, named a ''Father of the Year'' in 2007 by the National Father's Day Committee, has gone ''months'' without seeing his boys, Siohvaughn says. His ''failure to spend time with them . . . has resulted in the children at times being afraid of him; in fact, Zion . . . does not recognize or know Dwyane.'' She wants sole custody, and support.


She also says she has suffered ''grievous physical, emotional and mental injury'' from the STD, diagnosed in the fall of '07. (The infection is not HIV or a ''killer thing,'' sources say.) Dwyane and his ''paramour or paramours'' are liable, she alleges.


'Dwyane must disclose the identity of all of his sexual partners during the parties' marriage,'' says her counter-petition, prepared by attorney Michael J. Berger of Chicago. Siohvaughn has another Chicago lawyer, Dorene Marcus.


Says Pritikin: ``It is sad that an obviously angry and bitter woman will go to any lengths to publicly damage Mr. Wade.''


Siohvaughn speaks the truth, Marcus insists. ''A person's public persona does not necessarily reflect his behavior in private,'' Marcus adds. ``Mrs. Wade is prepared to prove everything she alleges. And, medical records don't lie.''

Thursday, January 15, 2009

HAPPY B-DAY MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.




Martin Luther King, Jr. (January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968) was an African American clergyman, activist and prominent leader in the American civil rights movement. His main legacy was to secure progress on civil rights in the United States and he is frequently referenced as a human rights icon today.



A Baptist minister, King became a civil rights activist early in his career. He led the 1955 Montgomery Bus Boycott and helped found the Southern Christian Leadership Conference in 1957, serving as its first president.



King's efforts led to the 1963 March on Washington, where King delivered his “I Have a Dream” speech. There, he raised public consciousness of the civil rights movement and established himself as one of the greatest orators in U.S. history.



In 1964, King became the youngest person to receive the Nobel Peace Prize for his work to end racial segregation and racial discrimination through civil disobedience and other non-violent means. By the time of his death in 1968, he had refocused his efforts on ending poverty and opposing the Vietnam War, both from a religious perspective.



King was assassinated on April 4, 1968, in Memphis, Tennessee. He was posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1977 and Congressional Gold Medal in 2004; Martin Luther King, Jr. Day was established as a U.S. national holiday in 1986.




*Above info courtesy of: Wikipedia.org*