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Mary J Blige's husband took a punch to his face after Blige thought he was flirting with a waitress at her record release party on Tuesday, the NYPost reported.
"She turned to him and was screaming, 'You're not going to ruin my night,'" according to the report citing a witness.
Blige's husband, Kendu Isaacs, was then escorted out of the club following the incident and Blige left soon afterwards.
Buddy has some explaining to do. Maybe he meant to give her a $10 bill instead of a $100. Let's not forget yall, Mary was a one time D-boy back in her Jodeci days.
Texas Tech head coach Mike Leach has been fired over allegations from prominent ex football star and ESPN analyst Craig James. Supposedly, Leach subjected his son to humiliating isolation on two occasions because of his injury. Disputes then ensued over the details and the motivation behind said allegations -- ex-players rushed to the coach's defense; James and his father were apparently bitter over his lack of playing time; the purported "electrical closet" turned out to be the size of a garage; a doctor swore Leach inflicted no harm --
As for the helicoptor dad Craig James, it's hard to imagine his own career will remain unscathed. While it's hard to criticize a father for looking out for his son, he's put himself in a very uncomfortable situation. An ESPN analyst -- a purportedly objective college football commentator -- just got a prominent college football coach fired. Will viewers take him seriously now when he critiques a coach's judgment? Will coaches of the games he's covering even speak with him? ESPN won't fire James for being a concerned parent, but it could certainly relegate him to Tuesday night MAC games for the foreseeable future.
I guess it's true. Some people do have that much power. Just think though! All Leach had to do was keep his job until Dec. 31st and he would have received a $800,000 bonus. This story has more twist,turns, and allegations than R. Kelly trapped in the closet series. Why nobody told me R. Kelly made 22 parts to Trapped in the Closet. ME----->SMH!
DETROIT -- Sarah Thomas made history at the Little Caesars Bowl on Saturday, becoming the first woman to officiate a bowl game when she worked the matchup between Ohio and Marshall.
Sarah Thomas worked as a line judge in the Little Caesar Bowl.
Thomas is one of five women officiating in major college football, but Little Caesars Bowl spokesman Tim Moore said she was the first to draw an assignment for a Bowl Subdivision postseason game.
Four Quadruplets Get Accepted Into Yale!
DANBURY-- The Crouch quadruplets, who have distinguished themselves at Danbury High School and in the community with their individual talents and strengths, have been accepted into Yale University.
This may be the first time in memory that a set of quadruplets was accepted to the Ivy League school in New Haven. Click here to read more.
...SEXTING! No, "not I," said the dog! What happen to the days of passing a note with the boxes...do you like me? Check YES, NO, MAYBE. Gone are the days of "Hide and Go Get It," one of my favorite neighborhood games (shout out to East 22nd St.).
The new thing is texting, which is cool although a little impersonable. But the new generation had to take it a step further with SEXTING. In fact, a study says that 6 percent of those as young as 12 have received a racy text. Thirty percent of 17-year-olds who have cell phones say they have received "sexting" photos or video messages, according to a new report from the Pew Internet and American Life Project.
Eight percent of 17-year-olds say they have sent such sexually suggestive images. Among teens ages 12 to 17 years old, 15 percent say they have received nude or nearly nude images of someone they know via text messaging on their cell phones, while 4 percent say they have sent such photos. Among 12- and 13-year olds, 6 percent say they have received "sext messages."
Thus far, sexting has sparked national debates because of legal, emotional, and moral issues after a 13 year old Florida girl committed suicide after she used a cell phone to send a topless photo of herself to a boy she liked who then shared it with those at schools and a neaby high school.
Electronic devices such as cell phones, ipods, mp3's and host of others should not exist on a middle or high school campus. You shouldn't have to call your 8 year old on a cell phone to say where are you? Here is a perfect reason why cell phones should be illegal on a high school campus until the final bell rings. See 8 second video below! You tube should be wrong for allowing video's like this other one to be posted as well. Reach one, teach one...we have to start now.
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The former is only skin deep. Any definition or search engine may tell you that it’s having qualities that delight the senses, especially the sense of sight. In my opinion, it also delights sin, tactful relationships, and friendships. You can be the prettiest thing on the outside but if you don’t have a heart of gold, than your “woman or man’s worth” is worth nothing.
The latter is a state of extreme happiness. Joy and peacefulness. You know most people never find it. Some are only able to get a glimpse before it’s taken or given away never to return. Others don’t care for it or at least pretend on the outside they don’t. But they do!
Together it’s Beautiful Bliss.
A few of my blog followers always ask me, what do you really think? Beautiful bliss to me is religion, family, school, work. I pray for safety and the health of my family, friends, and those who breathe the same air as me. I’m able to do the work that I do because of the education that I received and the knowledge that continues to be impressed upon on me.
Beautiful bliss to me is also music. It doesn’t matter to me matter who sings or raps the song because the most important thing is how the rhythm, and not the lyrics, make me feel. It’s not about the dance that accompanies the song; it’s about the person dancing.
Beautiful bliss is life. And each moment we spend judging others or yearning for what we don’t have (and what they do have), it takes away from their happiness. What about your happiness you ask? Well, you may have to intrinsically find it in someone else’s to realize and appreciate yours.
One for the basement (sing it with me)….“You know it gets no better than this, it’s like sunshine on a rainy day it’s like a high could you take me away…take me away, away…it’s a beautiful day…”
When is a bet not a bet? A week ago while the New Orleans Saints were on the verge of loosing to the Redskins, a fan decided to Facebook (FB) his friends saying if the Saints came back to win, they could all come over and shoot up his 60 inch flat screen TV...not only did they shoot up his TV, but they set the YouTube world on fire when he posted the actual video. Buddy actually predicted that he was going to get a 1 million YouTube hits, I'm just not sure this was the smartest way to go about it! Let's not even talk about all of the laws being broken in this video. I can only imagine what would happen if the SAINTS actually win the Super Bowl.
MIDWOOD, N.Y. (WPIX) - Two female teachers in Brooklyn have been reassigned after they were reportedly found naked inside a school classroom last month, PIX News has learned.
A 33 year old French teacher and a 29year old 29 married Spanish teacher, were busted by a school janitor who caught the "undressed" instructors allegedly sharing a kiss in the empty classroom at James Madison High School during a Nov. 20 assembly. (Read More)
Does anyone else have a problem with the way the media reported this story (see video)? Almost as if it was a celebration (kids in the background and such). I'm thinking they could have attempted to put a positive spend on this situation? Maybe, maybe not!
There is no doubt in my mind that these two teachers are smart. But somethings are better off done in a private setting. So if this is going on in the high schools, I do not want to think what the students are doing.
Chad Ochocino got fined for rocking a decorative poncho and sombrero in the bench area. This latest fine will cost him $30,000. He had to pay $20,000 for playfully bribing the refs a month ago.
At what point do you say, I'm not bigger then the team and I'd rather spend $50k on something way more important.
As the chorus to the song suggest, maybe "they (NFLers) can't help it" and since they got the money to give away, who are we to blame them...right? I'm not so sure.
While the NoFunLeague needs to relax a little, I hope some of that money goes to charity and not in the NFL's pocket.
SN: I'm hoping he scores 3 TD's against the Vikings for two reasons, as long as it helps them win so the SAINTS can earn home field and two, because this week I'm not playing the Wreckin Rams (shout out to Willie).
Not all blogs are meant to be negative (funny – YES!). Some are simply here to shed light on news. Respect the positivity…no need to slam Shaq while he’s doing a good thing therefore comments have been deleted.
While we may all be shocked, nobody’s judging Tiger Woods and if you are, that’s your business. Nevertheless, a good brother of mine and more importantly, a good friend and writer has written a note and asked me to share. A note that I will close out this Tiger Woods drama as it relates to this blog and hopefully put this entire ordeal into some sort of prospective.
A good friend opined this morning, "I didnt know Tiger Woods invented infidelity." No, the man everyone now loves to hate didnt. But he didnt just cheat, Tiger supplanted a sport that people that look like him were never supposed to master, he became the most endorsed and the richest athlete in the world, he married a Nordic blond woman that women envy like Jimmy Choo shoes, he bests the English language with a smile that belongs on a billboard, he triumphs, he overcomes, he surpasses, he amazes, he inspires, he........wins....a lot!
So what brings us to this place of misery when it concerns him? No, I dont mean misery like the pain of a stab wound on Desperate Housewives, or the misery of seeing a ref blow a call against the Carolina Basketball team, or the misery of a made-up chart that dogs Obama's Cabinets private sector experience. It's much worse. It's like the misery of seeing your child's best friend get into Harvard while he gets kicked out of Durham Tech. It's like the misery on the faces of the old men that meet everyday at P-Bobs when the election results came in last November. It's like learning that your hero, a man that you want to see on Mt Rushmore....cheated on his wife too. Chris Rock once said that, "men are as faithful as their options." So let's take a look down cheating memory lane and the options bestowed upon the famous and see how you feel about Tiger at the end.
Henry VIII: Not only did ol Henry cheat the pope out of an entire church, but he cheated on almost every wife...click here to read rest of the note
Neither wanted a picture in the paper. Few of their friends know they are homeless, and not all of their professors know. But they agreed to tell their stories… (read full story)
Petula Dvorak, a Metro columnist for The Washington Post, profiles two students who are striving for their college degrees while homeless. Both come from broken homes and lost jobs because of the tough economic times. But both consider a college education a way out of their situation. Meanwhile, though, they struggle to study amid the bedlam and petty theft of a homeless shelter, and worry about issues unknown to most college students, such as scheduling classes.
This is a story of inspiration at its finest. These two students should be commended as they continue to push on even after one gets his lap-top stolen right before midterms by someone at the shelter or and the other finding out that she’s pregnant. I pray and hope they see it through to the end. I think it’s great that these two students recognize their own potential, something that so many young people fail to do.
From what I understand, this song titled "All the Way Turnt Up" has been ripping through the "deep south" for a minute. Now everyone has a remix to it from Lupe to Ludacris to Soulja Boy. To be perfectly honest, you may get confused when you try to determine who's the real owner of the song, at least I did. You decide which version you like best by clicking here...
So we learn that another Entertainer/Athlete is HUMAN! What's the big deal? Read Here.
Should the 1st athlete EVER to earn over a billion dollars be subjected to so much scrutiny?
I'm just not sure! I would love to say that this is going to blow over in a week or two, or maybe even a month, but it's not looking good.
It also doesn't help that he's on the cover of the January Issue of Golf Digest with President Obama - "10 things Obama could learn from Tiger -- and vice versa." Let's see if that hits the newsstands.
Side notes...
The other Thunder Cat (mistress) from Las Vegs sold her soul (story) to the devil (media/tabloids) for a rumored $100,000...I'm thinking she could have at least have gotten a half a million out of the deal.
Question, does Tiger bounce back like Kobe or does he disappear faster than Steve Harvey afro (edge it up)?
I'm hoping he bounces back...shout out to Juvenile!
And big ups to Philly's favorite Daughter, Allen Iverson is headed back to Philly. I just hope he stays the entire season and they at least make the playoffs.
The death of 5 year old Shaniya Davis received national attention a few weeks ago. The gruesome circumstances surrounding her death has not only left the Fayetteville, NC community in shocked and disbelief, but it also left one NBA great, like many others, in tears.
"I was sitting at home watching it on the news and the story brought a tear to my eye," Shaq, as he is commonly known, told The Cleveland Plain Dealer newspaper.
He first asked to get in touch with the Lockhart family on Nov. 18, the day after the State Medical Examiner's office confirmed that a child's body found in Lee County on Nov. 16 was in fact Shaniya's.
You know this story has flew under the radar for a week and some change now and I'm sure Shaq would prefer for it to be this way. He didn't have to do it, but he did and that alone deserves high praise. Bless his heart!
To be perfectly honest! I don't feel sorry for Bobby Bowden. For 25 years, he was one of the best coaches in college football. For the past 5, he's been one of the best cheerleaders. You're 80 and your wife is still alive. Go be with her and your 20 plus grandchildren. I promise that FSU will have something named in your honor and they will never forget you. Neither will college football for that matter.
As one article put it, Tiger would love to use a mulligan right about now. Let's call it for what it is. Curiosity kills the cat and by Tiger trying to avoid the obvious, it's only going to make it worse. For those who haven't been following the story, click here!
I have a few theories of my own...
1). It's true, Tiger was playing Thunder Cat with ole girl from the tabloids and his wife got fed up. After his wife hit hm a few times, he thought about Chris Brown and wanted to drive away from the situation.
2.) TP: Why did he leave his house so late? ME: Maybe he was going to get ice cream (w/o the swirl)!
3.) Word on the street is Tiger don't drink like that, but maybe he did that night, and before he left the house, ole girl had already busted out the windows and his lip and face. Therefore he decided to try his luck and bolt for Cali for his golf tournament a few days early...
Respect Earned Now. We Believe! Two of the many signs displayed by Saints' fans during the Monday Night Football game between the Patriots and the Saints. With every win this teams brings the parrishes, cities, and the state much closer after hurricaine katrina and chaos that continues to occur in its aftermath nearly wiped out it's historic culture and traditions 5 years ago.
It may be too early to believe the hype, but Drew Brees showed tonight that if he don't turn the ball over, the Saints will be tough to beat down the stretch.
I can only imagine the atmosphere on Bourbon Street right about now. Who dat...who dey!
