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Vanessa Strikes Back! After ten long years of being together and constant cheating, Vanessa Bryant has filed for divorce from Lakers Superstar Kobe Bryant. Vanessa, 29, is going to get paid. Kobe did not have a prenup (*what an idiot)! The Bryants have two kids. Kobe has never been faithful to his wife. There was the famous 2003 Colorado rape case, and there have been reports of two children by other women. Vanessa has been unhappy for a while, and she struck at the right time by waiting it out. By going the ten-year distance, she stands to gain half his fortune, plus homes, spousal and child support. Kobe may be a great basketball player, but his arrogance is going to cost him. He went against the advice of his parents, lawyers and people who had his best interest at heart. He is going to lose a lot of money. He is worth $150 million, and it looks like he’ll lose half. Meanwhile, don’t be surprised if he starts dating a Kardashian. They would love to get their hands on the money that’s left.
What is going on with Pro Football Player Terrell Owens? The former Philadelphia Eagle, Dallas Cowboy and current Cincinnati Bengal had to be hospitalized last week because of a possible prescription drug overdose. The free agent NFL receiver is 37, and his NFL career looks like it’s over. Owens’ career is not doing well and he has made bad choices with his money. Did he try to commit suicide? Back in 2006, he was hospitalized and claimed it was a bad reaction to painkillers. Close friends said he tried to commit suicide by taking 35 vicodin pills.
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Real Housewives of Atlanta Star Kim Zolciak is engaged to be married to NFL Player Kroy Biermann. They had a baby last month, and now they are getting married and getting their own reality show. The new season of Real Housewives Of Atlanta debuts November 6th on the Bravo network.
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Royce Reed is out as part of The Basketball Wives. Reed was one of the stars of the Miami version, and is also the babymomma to Basketball Star Dwight Howard of the Orlando Magic. She was the pot stirrer. Reed was always getting into it with the other ladies, who only saw her as a dancer. Reed felt like it was time to go, and she has already started a career as an author.
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Magic Johnson is the new owner of Soul Train. The former Lakers star says Soul Train is a great brand, and he has big plans for it. Johnson has been riding a big wave of success in his business ventures. Soul Train debuted in syndication 40 years ago this month with Host and Creator Don Cornelius. Over its more than 35-years on TV, Soul Train showcased Jazz, Blues, Motown, The Sound Of Philly, Chicago Soul, Disco, Hip Hop, New Jack Swing and all the stars that came with trends. A few years ago, Cornelius sold the rights to Soul Train to an independent group. Besides DVD releases, there’s been the Soul Train Awards on BET in recent years. Now, Johnson has acquired the rights to the ground breaking music show, and he plans to bring it back to television.
Sports Show Sunday with Coach Jordan. Who looks promising for the Super Bowl? Do you play Fantasy Football. What teams are favorite or need lot of help this season?, lol Tune and discuss with Coach Jordan the NFL Footbal season.
SHOW: “Talk 2 ME”
TIME: 4:00pm to 5:00 pm PST
(eastcoast 7pm – 8pm)
PHONE: 646-727-2914
Thank you for your participation, and fun!
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Well, well, well. Like the old saying goes, “what’s done in the dark …
According to a tell-all book to be released this month, staunch Republican and former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin reportedly had a one-night stand with former Heat/Hornet/Laker brother Glenn Rice.
The book, entitled “The Rogue: Searching for the Real Sarah Palin” by Joe McGinniss, said that Palin and Rice met when she was a sports reporter for Anchorage TV station KTVV and Rice was a 6 ft. 8 forward at the University of Michigan.
The tryst occurred in 1987, and Tea Party Palin was described by a friend as the aggressor, with a pal reporting “she hauled his a** down.”
The book also reports that Palin was once seen snorting cocaine off the top of a 55-gallon drum while snowmobiling with friends as well as smoking pot with a professor.
The 230-page book is due in stores next week.
Shaquille O’Neal is calling it a career. After years of speculation and criticism for staying too long, Shaq took to his twitter to announce his retirement from basketball. He took three NBA Championships with Kobe Bryant and Phil Jackson as an L.A. Laker and one more with the Miami Heat. O’Neal, 39, ends his career as a Boston Celtic. Despite the locker room feuds, the divorce from Shaunie, and his growing injuries, he still leaves as a 15-time All Star, a three-time NBA Finals MVP and the NBA’s fifth overall scorer.
Jill Scott is the cover girl for the music issue of Ebony magazine.
Toni Newman is ready to tell all. Newman is a transgendered prostitute who has written a tell-all book about his exploits with celebrities. The book mentions LL Cool J and Eddie Murphy. Reps for LL Cool J say the stories about LL are not true.
NeNe Leakes is preparing to return to The Real Housewives Of Atlanta. She walked off the set of Celebrity Apprentice saying she abruptly left the show because Donald Trump disrespected her behind and in front of the camera. She says she left for her own sanity. The new season of Real Housewives Of Atlanta kicks off later this year.
Paula Abdul is reuniting with Simon Cowell. It’s official. She will be a judge on Simon Cowell’s reality singing show The X-Factor. The X-Factor debuts on FOX this fall. Speaking of singing reality shows, NBC has a hit on its hands with The Voice. The talent on this show is awesome. Judges Adam Levine, Blake Shelton, Christina Aguilera and Cee-Lo Green have great chemistry.
Also on TV May 30th, it’s the 3rd season premiere of VH1’s Basketball Wives. All the ladies will be back (Evelyn, Royce, Jennifer and Tami) plus some new additions.
Kobe Bryant was fined $100,000 by the NBA this week. The fine came from Bryant’s use of a gay slur toward a referee. Bryant’s comments were picked up by a mic and aired on television. He issued an apology stating he let his emotions get the best of him.
SIDEBAR – Kobe keep your mouth in check, even if your brain says yes!
If you have even a passing interest in the legal world, David Boies is a name you should already know. He’s possibly the most famous litigator alive. So when he walked in with the union on Monday, you knew the news was bad enough to jeopardize the season.
The union has abandoned its right to negotiate on behalf of the players in order to sue the NBA in antitrust court for massive damages within the next 48 hours, according to its revamped legal team. The players in attendance said the decision was unanimous — that the league had backed them into a corner with ultimatum after ultimatum, even after the players gave back the equivalent of nearly $3 billion over a 10-year deal by lowering their locked-in share of the league’s revenue.
“Collective bargaining has totally failed the players,” said Jeffrey Kessler, the union’s outside counsel and commissioner David Stern’s designated villain.
“We put all our proposals out there, and they were rejected,” union vice president Maurice Evans told SI.com. “There was nothing else to evaluate.”
The move will shift the process from the bargaining room to the court system, jeopardizing the season and infuriating Stern, who said on ESPN minutes after the union’s announcement that players had “been badly misled.” Stern dismissed the union’s move as a negotiating ploy that had been in the works since at least February 2010, when Kessler, in Stern’s telling, informed the commissioner the union would go this route if talks broke down. “We were very, very close,” Stern said, “and the players decided to blow it up.”
So Stern has his public relations victory — the players did it! — and a league on the verge of suffering the most disastrous labor relations outcome (apologies to the NHL) in major professional sports history. Let’s be clear about one thing: Nobody knows what happens now. The season is not lost, despite the doomsday rhetoric, some of which agents on Monday characterized as part of Stern’s plot to scare the players into taking the deal on the table. The union and the league could settle their lawsuit in days, and that settlement would include the guts of the next collective bargaining agreement.
And the court process itself is uncertain, despite the common refrain that the NFL players failed in going down this exact path. Labor experts say the appellate ruling that reinstated the NFL’s lockout, after a lower court halted it, is a tricky opinion that did not provide the complete victory the NFL sought. Legal precedent for this kind of case is thin; the NBA believes it gave itself an advantage by filing a pre-emptive lawsuit over the summer declaring any future dissolution of the union would be a sham, but nothing is certain now.