<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><rss xmlns:atom='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' version='2.0'><channel><atom:id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8251368087264484762</atom:id><lastBuildDate>Thu, 17 Dec 2009 11:59:50 +0000</lastBuildDate><title>YourBlackSports</title><description>YourBlackSports is a place for brothers to talk about sports from a black perspective.  This is not ESPN, this is Your ESPN.  We see the analysts on all the shows talking this and that about black athletes, without a brother even being invited to the conversation.  Well that doesn't happen at YourBlackSports, since this site is all about you!</description><link>http://yourblacksports.blogspot.com/</link><managingEditor>noreply@blogger.com (Staff)</managingEditor><generator>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>194</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8251368087264484762.post-84759276802844792</guid><pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 13:46:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-10-30T09:57:24.933-04:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>NBA players</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>black basketball players</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>african american men</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>african american sports</category><title>New doc explores the high school years of hoops star LeBron James</title><description>&lt;a style="font-family: verdana;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/players/profile?playerId=1966"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 188px; height: 234px;" src="http://www.tvworthwatching.com/blog/nba%20lebron%20james%20dunk.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;" &gt;Between 1999 and 2003, the &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://www.stvm.com/athletics/athletic_director.php"&gt;St. Vincent-St. Mary high school basketball team&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;" &gt; from Akron, Ohio was virtually unbeatable. It helped that the star player on the "Fighting Irish" was a kid named LeBron James, who now rules pro hoops as "King James" — an elite offensive force for the Cleveland Cavaliers and this year's NBA MVP.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;" &gt;'&lt;span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"&gt;I wasn't supposed to come back but they never told me to leave and so I just kept showing up; that's pretty much how that whole season went&lt;/span&gt;.' —Kristopher Belman, on shooting More Than a Game&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;" &gt;Director Kristopher Belman's new documentary More Than a Game is a fascinating look at &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LeBron_James"&gt;LeBron James&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;" &gt;'s almost premature rise to stardom and the thorny issues it presented for his high school teammates. It's easily the most comprehensive record we have of a star athlete's adolescence. James was no ordinary teenager: by his junior year he'd been profiled in a Sports Illustrated cover story, and St. Vincent-St. Mary games were being broadcast on ESPN.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;" &gt;Belman followed the team — dubbed the "Fab Five" — during their fourth and final year at high school, and used home videos, TV news reports and more recent interviews to assemble the rest of the story. Although the doc's substantial buzz is a direct result of the &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://www.nba.com/playerfile/lebron_james/"&gt;LeBron James&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: verdana;"&gt; connection, Belman's film is also a potent reminder that basketball is a team game: James isn't the only compelling character on the squad, nor is he the only one who struggles with being put through the media meat grinder.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;" &gt;CBC News spoke to Belman about how he gained access to the teenage phenomenon six years ago, and how his assignment for a college film class became a feature film.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;" &gt;Read the rest of the story by &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://www.cbc.ca/arts/film/story/2009/10/29/f-kristopher-belman-more-than-a-game-lebron-james.html"&gt;clicking here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;" &gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8251368087264484762-84759276802844792?l=yourblacksports.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://yourblacksports.blogspot.com/2009/10/new-doc-explores-high-school-years-of.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Mark O'conell)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>3</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8251368087264484762.post-1240380912287293248</guid><pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 12:23:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-10-28T08:57:43.668-04:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Basketball</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>black athletes</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>black basketball players</category><title>Rasheed Wallace a perfect fit with Celtics</title><description>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://wsoesports.files.wordpress.com/2009/07/rasheed_wallace2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 175px; height: 240px;" src="http://wsoesports.files.wordpress.com/2009/07/rasheed_wallace2.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;The numbers told one story. &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rasheed_Wallace"&gt;Rasheed Wallace&lt;/a&gt; shot a career-low 41.9 percent from the floor last season, and his 12.0 ppg was his lowest average since his rookie year.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;The eyes told another story. Wallace still had game. But heading into a 2009-10 season when he would be 35, the feeling around Detroit was that he simply couldn’t put said game on the floor for as long as he used to, that the intensity with which he played was draining him.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;It also was rather clear that the Pistons’ fall from the top of the Eastern Conference and their mixed success in rebuilding on the fly were getting to everyone there.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So as much as the Celtics [team stats] needed Sheed, Sheed needed the Celtics.&lt;/span&gt;  &lt;span style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“I think with a player like that, they need energy around them,” coach Doc Rivers said. “They need a reason to really play, and I think our group gives him that.&lt;/span&gt;  &lt;span style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;“He picked the right place for him - and obviously for us. I do think it’s a terrific fit.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Wallace concurs.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“At this point in my career, yeah,” he said. “I want to win, and this is a great place for that. We’ve got a lot of young, hungry guys and great veterans, and this group has already won a championship. They know what it takes, and they want to go back.”&lt;/span&gt;  &lt;span style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.bostonherald.com/sports/basketball/celtics/view/20091026rasheed_wallace_a_perfect_fit_with_celtics_going_green/srvc=home&amp;amp;position=also"&gt;Click here&lt;/a&gt; to read the rest...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8251368087264484762-1240380912287293248?l=yourblacksports.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://yourblacksports.blogspot.com/2009/10/rasheed-wallace-perfect-fit-with.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Mark O'conell)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8251368087264484762.post-7633031981727264070</guid><pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2009 16:07:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-08-25T12:07:58.071-04:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>black news</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>black athletes</category><title>Your Black News: Iverson Can’t Get a Job?</title><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://blacksports.wordpress.com"&gt;&lt;img title="image" height="244" alt="image" src="http://blackbloggers.files.wordpress.com/2009/08/image24.png?w=244&amp;amp;h=244" width="244" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Dr. &lt;a href="http://youngblackstudents.com/deborahstroman/"&gt;Deborah Stroman&lt;/a&gt;, a leading scholar on Leadership and Sport, was asked why Allen Iverson can’t find a job.&amp;#160;&amp;#160; Here is what she had to say.&amp;#160; Other notable athletes, Edgerrin James, Marvin Harrison and Derrick Brookes are also on the sidelines. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;“Money is only one aspect of a good veteran not being picked up by a team. The other factor is leadership. If the organization is trying to develop new leaders, the coach and/or general manager will not gamble the new leader’s development and team chemistry with the introduction of a&amp;#160; veteran leader. And this veteran leadership may be displayed by performance or verbal acumen. For example, you may have a veteran wide receiver or running back who doesn’t talk much but has the potential to dominate on the field. A younger player may be drawn to that performer as a role model and not the new leader (often times the quarterback) who is trying to gain influence and control of “his” team. Or the veteran leader may be charismatic and draw attention to himself and away from the leaders that the organization is rightfully trying to impose on the other players. The organization feels that the signing of the veteran player is just not worth the risk.”&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8251368087264484762-7633031981727264070?l=yourblacksports.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://yourblacksports.blogspot.com/2009/08/your-black-news-iverson-cant-get-job.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Barbara Drear)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8251368087264484762.post-8179714683327875825</guid><pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2009 19:21:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-08-24T15:21:07.452-04:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>black athletes</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>black sports</category><title>Dr Boyce on Sports: John Calipari and Kentucky</title><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://blacksports.wordpress.com"&gt;&lt;img alt="" hspace="4" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.bvonmoney.com/media/2009/08/john-calipari1.jpg" vspace="4" border="1" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.yourblackworld.com" target="_blank"&gt;Dr Boyce Watkins&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://www.boycewatkins.com" target="_blank"&gt;Syracuse University&lt;/a&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;After reading about &lt;a href="http://drboycewatkins.com/payingcollegeathletes/?p=29"&gt;Kentucky Coach John Calipari being found guilty of cheating by the NCAA&lt;/a&gt;, I wasn't surprised in the least. Calipari has never been known for producing the most highly educated athletes in the world (his graduation rate &lt;a href="http://drboycewatkins.com/payingcollegeathletes/?p=29"&gt;among African American athletes is 44 percent&lt;/a&gt;), and he seems to want to win above anything else. The idea that my alma mater, The University of Kentucky, would immediately step in to pay tens of millions of dollars to a coach that has been proven to be a cheater makes a powerful statement about the ethical disposition of this university. Kentucky is like many NCAA institutions in their mass pillage of &lt;a href="http://yourblacksports.blogspot.com"&gt;African American athletes&lt;/a&gt; for the sake of their multi-million dollar fortunes. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;John Calipari and his old school, The University of Memphis, have been charged with having an SAT exam taken for a player on the basketball team (believed by many to be Derrick Rose of the Chicago Bulls). &lt;a href="http://yourblackscholar.blogspot.com/2009/08/more-ncaa-foolishness.html"&gt;According to several published sources&lt;/a&gt;, the SAT exam was falsified during the 2007 - 2008 season. The team has been required to give back 38 wins from that season, costing the school millions in revenue. These kinds of abuses don't just occur at The University of Memphis. The University of Kentucky's basketball program has nearly received the death penalty for its long list of violations in the past, so it is only fitting that they hire yet another arguably unethical coach to continue their storied tradition. Here are some quick thoughts about John Calipari and The University of Kentucky:&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.bvblackspin.com/2009/08/24/black-athletes-john-calipari-ncaa/" target="_blank"&gt;Click to read.&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8251368087264484762-8179714683327875825?l=yourblacksports.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://yourblacksports.blogspot.com/2009/08/dr-boyce-on-sports-john-calipari-and.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Barbara Drear)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8251368087264484762.post-5437125340829131906</guid><pubDate>Sun, 23 Aug 2009 13:29:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-08-23T09:29:30.403-04:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>african american athletes</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>black athletes</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>black sports</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>african american men</category><title>Carmello Anthony Sues His Former Manager</title><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://yourblacksports.blogspot.com" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img alt="" hspace="4" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.bvonsports.com/media/2009/08/carmeloanthony2-tz-180.jpg" align="right" vspace="4" border="1" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;When athletes finally make it to the professional level, they're immediately surrounded by people they don't know but are forced to trust. And young athletes in their twenties who don't have any money-management skills whatsoever are ripe for being taken advantage of. That's what happened to Carmelo Anthony, but now he's fighting back.     &lt;br /&gt;Melo filed a $2 million lawsuit against his former business manager, Larry W. Harmon and his firm, Larry Harmon &amp;amp; Associates P.A. The suit alleges that Harmon breached their contract by transferring $1.75 million of Anthony's money without his knowledge or consent to a company formed by Harmon, most of it in 2008, according to the Associated Press. There was another $265,000 invested in companies that Melo had no knowledge of or given consent to.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.bvonsports.com/2009/08/20/carmelo-anthony-files-lawsuit-against-former-business-manager/" target="_blank"&gt;Click to read.&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8251368087264484762-5437125340829131906?l=yourblacksports.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://yourblacksports.blogspot.com/2009/08/carmello-anthony-sues-his-former.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Barbara Drear)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8251368087264484762.post-5624836296650577309</guid><pubDate>Sat, 22 Aug 2009 09:46:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-08-22T05:46:00.229-04:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>black athletes</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Black Woman</category><title>Black News: Is this Athlete a Man or a Woman?</title><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://blackathletes.wordpress.com" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img height="212" alt="World Athletics: Caster Semenya 800m gold medal overshadowed by gender controversy" src="http://i.telegraph.co.uk/telegraph/multimedia/archive/01465/caster-semenya_1465588c.jpg" width="338" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;No 1: Caster Semenya celebrates as she wins gold in Berlin Photo: AP&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Semenya crowned a spectacular season by triumphing in 1min 55.45sec while Britain's Jenny Meadows produced a lifetime best of 1min 57.93sec to take the bronze - Britain's third medal of the championship. Fellow Briton Marilyn Okoro was eighth.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;But instead of being able to celebrate her victory, Semenya found herself facing uncomfortable questions about whether she should really have been lining up in today's first-round heats of the men's 800m.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;h6&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/othersports/athletics/6057676/World-Athletics-Caster-Semenya-800m-gold-medal-overshadowed-by-gender-controversy.html" target="_blank"&gt;Click to read more.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h6&gt;  &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8251368087264484762-5624836296650577309?l=yourblacksports.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://yourblacksports.blogspot.com/2009/08/black-news-is-this-athlete-man-or-woman.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Barbara Drear)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8251368087264484762.post-979336465686645916</guid><pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2009 19:05:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-08-20T15:05:21.386-04:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>black athletes</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>black sports</category><title>News: calipari Found Cheating – Kentucky Coach Must Give Back 38 wins</title><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://blackathletes.wordpress.com" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://scottandholman.files.wordpress.com/2009/05/john-calipari-eyes-closed.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP)—Memphis will be forced to vacate the record 38 victories from its Final Four season of 2007-08 under former coach John Calipari because of NCAA violations, The Commercial Appeal reported.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;The newspaper, citing an unidentified source close to the situation, said on its Web site Wednesday night the NCAA will release findings of its investigation Thursday. The Commercial Appeal said it was unaware of any penalties beyond this season.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;The NCAA investigated whether someone took the SAT exam for a player on that Final Four team. Memphis was notified of potential violations in January and met with the governing body in June.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;The NCAA has said an unknown person took the college entrance exam for a player—with his knowledge—and that the player used it to get admitted. The governing body says the athlete played for the Tigers only in the 2007-08 season and the 2008 NCAA tournament. Just one person fits that description: Derrick Rose, the &lt;a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/teams/chi/;_ylt=Aq_6uMd86Zy9jbI.4jnSMqAOvbYF"&gt;Chicago Bulls&lt;/a&gt;’ No. 1 overall draft pick in 2008 and its rookie of the year.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/basketball/news?slug=ap-memphis-vacatedwins&amp;amp;prov=ap&amp;amp;type=lgns" target="_blank"&gt;Click to read.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8251368087264484762-979336465686645916?l=yourblacksports.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://yourblacksports.blogspot.com/2009/08/news-calipari-found-cheating-kentucky.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Barbara Drear)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8251368087264484762.post-3008353769482013147</guid><pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2009 14:17:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-08-20T10:17:24.131-04:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>black sports</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Venus Williams</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Serena Williams</category><title>Williams Sisters Considering Buying a Share of Miami Dolphins</title><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://yourblacksports.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://youbeenblinded.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/venus-and-serena.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://yourblackcelebrities.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"&gt;Serena Williams&lt;/a&gt; and her sister &lt;a href="http://yourblacksports.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"&gt;Venus&lt;/a&gt; are in preliminary talks to become part-owners of the &lt;a href="http://yourblacksports.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"&gt;NFL&lt;/a&gt;'s &lt;a href="http://yourblacksports.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"&gt;Miami Dolphins&lt;/a&gt;, the 11-time grand slam winner confirmed on Wednesday.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;There have been preliminary talks and hopefully it will work out,&amp;quot; Serena Williams told reporters after her second round win over Kazakhstan's Yaroslava Shvedova at the Toronto Cup. &amp;quot;That would be a great opportunity for both of us.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;We'll see what happens, you never know.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;If they did acquire a stake in the Dolphins, the Williams sisters would join musicians Jimmy Buffet and Gloria and Emilio Estefan, who became minority partners in the team earlier this year.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Buffett, owner of Margaritaville Enterprises, signed a deal in May, which includes the team's stadium being renamed after his LandShark Lager beer for the 2009 season.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;The Williams, who live in &lt;a href="http://www.yourblackworld.com/" target="_blank"&gt;Palm Beach Gardens, Florida&lt;/a&gt;, are not described as big NFL fans but view the Dolphins as a vehicle to promote themselves.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Venus and I are always trying to expand our brand,&amp;quot; said Williams. &amp;quot;If the opportunity presents itself we would love to see where it can take us.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Hopefully we'll be able to expand our brand.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/sportsNews/idUSTRE57J0AR20090820" target="_blank"&gt;Source&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8251368087264484762-3008353769482013147?l=yourblacksports.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://yourblacksports.blogspot.com/2009/08/williams-sisters-considering-buying.html</link><author>ladybabynumber1@yahoo.com (LadyBaby)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8251368087264484762.post-2851254669625009714</guid><pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2009 03:12:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-08-13T23:12:12.355-04:00</atom:updated><title>Dr Boyce Watkins: Michael Vick’s Return is Good for All of Us</title><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://yourblacksports.blogspot.com"&gt;&lt;img alt="" hspace="4" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.bvblackspin.com/media/2009/08/vick2.jpg" vspace="4" border="1" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;by &lt;a href="http://youngblackstudents.com/drboycewatkins" target="_blank"&gt;Dr. Boyce Watkins&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://www.boycewatkins.com" target="_blank"&gt;Syracuse University&lt;/a&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;He's back. After a 2 year saga that kept my head spinning, the young man who made a terrible mistake is finally being allowed to make a living. I have &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8HCZYN44RUM"&gt;supported Michael Vick all along&lt;/a&gt;, but not because I felt that he was innocent. I've supported him because I do not believe that dog fighting is the kind of crime that deserves a lifetime punishment. So, to the extremists at PETA who want to see Michael Vick burn in the hell of unemployment and incarceration for the rest of his life, I only have one thing to say: grow up.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://blackbloggers.wordpress.com/2009/08/14/black-news-michael-vick-signed-by-the-eagles/"&gt;Michael Vick's reinstatement to the NFL and recent signing by the Philadelphia Eagles&lt;/a&gt; unleashed a plethora of thoughts within me. On some level, his return is a bit of an &amp;quot;Athletic Juneteenth&amp;quot; for those who tire of seeing our country make &lt;a href="http://blackbloggers.wordpress.com/2009/08/14/black-news-michael-vick-signed-by-the-eagles/"&gt;African American athletes&lt;/a&gt; into public enemy number one whenever they screw up. To this day, we act as if Marion Jones is the devil, Barry Bonds is a monster, and Terrell Owens is some kind of criminal. This treatment is nothing new, as black athletes have been getting villified for decades, and their molehills are consistently turned into mountains, ripe for high-tech lynchings. This is the tradition of America.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;It only seems appropriate that Michael Vick sign his contract in a city like Philadelphia, the place that I love and fear at the same time. I love the city because they've supported me in&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qE_MPvaAj8"&gt; my work with the great Wendy Williams&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qE_MPvaAj8"&gt;Dom Giordano&lt;/a&gt; and&lt;a href="http://www.bvblackspin.com/tag/CharlamagneThaGod/"&gt;Charlamagne Tha God&lt;/a&gt;. But there is a dark side of &amp;quot;Killadelphia&amp;quot; that shows itself in the way they support their sports teams. They are the fans that cheered when it appeared that Michael Irvin may have broken his neck, so they sure as heck aren't going to pay much attention to animal rights protestors blocking their path to a Super Bowl. In a city like Philly, the slogan is simple: &amp;quot;If you win, we forgive all sin.&amp;quot; Vick will be right at home.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.bvblackspin.com/2009/08/13/michael-vick-philadelphia-eagles-black-athletes/" target="_blank"&gt;Click to read more.&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8251368087264484762-2851254669625009714?l=yourblacksports.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://yourblacksports.blogspot.com/2009/08/dr-boyce-watkins-michael-vicks-return.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Barbara Drear)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8251368087264484762.post-3951485735687025955</guid><pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2009 01:05:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-08-13T21:05:58.023-04:00</atom:updated><title>Your Breaking News: Michael Vick Gets a Job</title><description>&lt;p&gt;Former Atlanta Falcons quarterback Michael Vick has signed a two-year deal with the Philadelphia Eagles, according to ESPN’s Chris Mortensen.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.ajc.com/sports/atlanta-falcons/report-vick-to-be-an-eagle-115315.html?bigName=&amp;amp;bigPhotog=&amp;amp;bigCap=Michael+Vick+discusses+his+situation+with+James+Brown.&amp;amp;bigDeclCap=&amp;amp;bigCred=Courtesy+of+CBS&amp;amp;bigUrl=http%3a%2f%2fwww.ajc.com%2fmultimedia%2fdynamic%2f00233%2fvick1_233983c.jpg&amp;amp;superSizeImage=y"&gt;Enlarge photo&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.ajc.com/sports/atlanta-falcons/report-vick-to-be-an-eagle-115315.html?bigName=&amp;amp;bigPhotog=&amp;amp;bigCap=Michael+Vick+discusses+his+situation+with+James+Brown.&amp;amp;bigDeclCap=&amp;amp;bigCred=Courtesy+of+CBS&amp;amp;bigUrl=http%3a%2f%2fwww.ajc.com%2fmultimedia%2fdynamic%2f00233%2fvick1_233983c.jpg&amp;amp;superSizeImage=y"&gt;&lt;img alt="Michael Vick discusses his situation with James Brown." src="http://www.ajc.com/multimedia/dynamic/00233/vick1_233983l.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Courtesy of CBSMichael Vick discusses his situation with James Brown.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;h5&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.ajc.com/sports/atlanta-falcons/"&gt;Related Falcons stories »&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h5&gt;  &lt;ul&gt;   &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.ajc.com/sports/atlanta-falcons/report-vick-to-be-an-eagle-115315.html"&gt;Report: Vick to be an Eagle&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;    &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.ajc.com/sports/atlanta-falcons/bulldog-qbs-to-take-115307.html"&gt;Bulldog QBs to take centerstage in Falcons' opener&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;    &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.ajc.com/sports/atlanta-falcons/vick-regrets-115227.html"&gt;Vick regrets dogfighting, accepts full responsibility&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;    &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://stats.ajc.com/merge/tsnform.aspx?c=ajc&amp;amp;page=nfl/teams/061/sched.aspx?id=061"&gt;Schedule and results&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;    &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.ajc.com/sports/atlanta-sports-tv-90690.html"&gt;TV Listings&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt; &lt;/ul&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Vick will return to the NFL after two seasons away, including 23 months in federal prison, and a league suspension that will end after Week 6 this year.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;The Falcons host the Eagles in a Sunday game on Dec. 6, at the end of the regular season.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;The controversial signal caller has gone through a whirlwind of highs and lows since the Atlanta Falcons drafted as the No. 1 pick in 2001.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;He inked a $62 million deal that included a $15 million signing bonus. After a year waiting in the wings, took over the starting position in the 2002 season, and led the team to its first playoff berth since the 1998 NFC Championship season.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.ajc.com/sports/atlanta-falcons/report-vick-to-be-an-eagle-115315.html" target="_blank"&gt;Click to read.&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8251368087264484762-3951485735687025955?l=yourblacksports.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://yourblacksports.blogspot.com/2009/08/your-breaking-news-michael-vick-gets.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Barbara Drear)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8251368087264484762.post-8302240451816501127</guid><pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2009 03:51:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-08-11T23:51:50.293-04:00</atom:updated><title>News: Kentucky Coach Rick Pitino Cheated on his Wife</title><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://youblacksports.blogspot.com"&gt;&lt;img title="image" style="border-top-width: 0px; display: inline; border-left-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px" height="244" alt="image" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_9uVLrc2BqRQ/SoI8VA8QqcI/AAAAAAAAADM/YEoJjitvIG0/image%5B3%5D.png?imgmax=800" width="159" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;University of Louisville men's basketball coach Rick Pitino told police that he had consensual sex with Karen Cunagin Sypher at a Louisville restaurant where he'd been drinking on Aug. 1, 2003.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;He also told police that he later gave Sypher $3,000 to have an abortion, according to Louisville Metro Police reports The Courier-Journal obtained under the Kentucky Open Records Act.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;But Pitino denied Sypher's allegations that he raped her at Porcini, after the restaurant closed, and again a few weeks later at a different location, police records show. And prosecutors who have reviewed Sypher's claims say Pitino won't be charged.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Sypher has been indicted by a federal grand jury on charges of conspiring to extort money from Pitino in exchange for her silence about the alleged crimes, and with lying to the FBI. She has pleaded not guilty.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.courier-journal.com/article/20090811/SPORTS02/908110350/Pitino%20told%20police%20he%20had%20consensual%20sex%20with%20Sypher" target="_blank"&gt;Click to read.&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8251368087264484762-8302240451816501127?l=yourblacksports.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://yourblacksports.blogspot.com/2009/08/news-kentucky-coach-rick-pitino-cheated.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Barbara Drear)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8251368087264484762.post-7983782065826633807</guid><pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2009 12:48:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-08-11T08:48:07.519-04:00</atom:updated><title>Tiger Gets Fined</title><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://blackbloggers.wordpress.com" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img height="345" src="http://weblogs.baltimoresun.com/sports/thetoydepartment/TigerWoods.jpg" width="299" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://yourblacksports.blogspot.com" target="_blank"&gt;Tiger Woods&lt;/a&gt; will be fined by the PGA Tour for his public criticism of a rules official after winning the Bridgestone Invitational, a tour official said Monday.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;The official spoke on condition of anonymity because the tour does not publicize fines.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Woods was bothered after his four-shot victory Sunday because he and &lt;a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/pga/players/404/"&gt;Padraig Harrington&lt;/a&gt; were put on the clock at the par-5 16th. He said that caused Harrington to rush three difficult shots, leading to triple bogey.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/golf/pga/news?slug=ap-woods-criticism&amp;amp;prov=ap&amp;amp;type=lgns" target="_blank"&gt;Click to read.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8251368087264484762-7983782065826633807?l=yourblacksports.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://yourblacksports.blogspot.com/2009/08/tiger-gets-fined.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Barbara Drear)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8251368087264484762.post-241313167310337232</guid><pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2009 16:02:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-08-10T12:02:00.752-04:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>black sports</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Football</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Michael Vick</category><title>Stop Praising Michael Vick and Let Him Play</title><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://yourblackbrothers.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img title="michael-vick" style="border-top-width: 0px; display: inline; border-left-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px" height="176" alt="michael-vick" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_TzO3K4xDNz4/Sn7XGg7XVBI/AAAAAAAABbk/2T2vVxpNBHU/michael-vick%5B3%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="236" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;By Glenn Minnis&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Like most fair-minded and even moderately temperate souls, I am of the unwavering belief that &lt;a href="http://yourblacksports.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"&gt;Mike Vick&lt;/a&gt; has now paid his debt to society, served his time, and should again be free to live his life in the most upwardly mobile fashion he's blessed enough to navigate. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Being convicted of a crime, in and of itself, should in no way result in an automatic death sentence. Some of those who've sought to bury Vick by mercilessly stripping him of his already earned riches and &lt;a href="http://yourblacknews.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"&gt;NFL&lt;/a&gt; livelihood struck me as hypocrites of the highest degree in their straying beyond the law by insisting that Vick's transgressions not only be punished by the legal system but that his world forever be left in ruins.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;That doesn't strike me as justice, but rather overkill. And yet, I couldn't help but feel as if the Vick Express on the road to redemption veered recklessly off course this week when he was to be honored in his &lt;a href="http://www.yourblackworld.com/blogs/yourblackbrothers.htm" target="_blank"&gt;Virginia&lt;/a&gt; hometown as something just short of a demigod.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;'Celebration for Mike Vick' event organizer and Southern Christian Leadership Conference chapter president Andrew Shannon intimated that hundreds of youths were expected to be on hand to cheer Vick on and hear him speak before an unforeseen scheduling snafu caused the entire event to be scraped.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;I'll call it divine intervention. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Admit it, in a world where black and minority men make up far to high of a percentage of those incarcerated, the image and implications born of Vick being paraded as some sort of cause célèbre of indisputable virtuosity before so many impressionable minds could be more than just a bit dysfunctional for its audience. Idolatry, you see, can be a form of imprisonment of its own. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://yourblacksports.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"&gt;Click here to read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8251368087264484762-241313167310337232?l=yourblacksports.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://yourblacksports.blogspot.com/2009/08/stop-praising-michael-vick-and-let-him.html</link><author>ladybabynumber1@yahoo.com (LadyBaby)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8251368087264484762.post-2127668712121264591</guid><pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2009 10:20:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-08-10T06:20:00.349-04:00</atom:updated><title>News: Lebron Has a whole Bunch of Options</title><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://yourblacknews.blogspot.com" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://imagecache5.art.com/p/LRG/11/1151/Q4OM000Z/lebron-james-2004-multi--exposure.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://blackathletes.wordpress.com" target="_blank"&gt;LeBron James&lt;/a&gt; is going to make the Cleveland Cavaliers wait — and sweat.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;James indicated Friday that he is unlikely to accept a contract extension from the Cavs until after the 2009-10 season and presumably will become a free agent.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;At an event in his hometown to unveil Nike Air Max LeBron VII, the latest sneaker in his signature line, James made his strongest comments yet about his future. The NBA's reigning MVP said he signed a three-year contract in 2006 to give him more options once it expires.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;I signed a contract in 2006 with an option, and it would make no sense for me to sign that contract if I didn't keep my options open,&amp;quot; he said. &amp;quot;I'll let you fill in the blanks.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;The Cavaliers offered James a contract extension on July 18, the three-year anniversary of the signing of his current contract. The team could offer the extension — at the highest salary allowed — of up to three years. James can sign the extension offer anytime before June 30, 2010.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;James, who will make $15.7 million next season, also has an option in his current contract that can extend his deal through the 2010-11 season.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;However, it appears for now that James does not intend to sign the extension or pick up his one-year option for $17.1 million anytime soon.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gbmsRkI17OvJVZ033FWrXyC7HHJwD99UB9I80" target="_blank"&gt;Click to read.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8251368087264484762-2127668712121264591?l=yourblacksports.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://yourblacksports.blogspot.com/2009/08/news-lebron-has-whole-bunch-of-options.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Barbara Drear)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8251368087264484762.post-665783607780977941</guid><pubDate>Sun, 09 Aug 2009 08:29:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-08-09T04:29:00.297-04:00</atom:updated><title>Your Black News: Another Day, Another Liar?</title><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://blackathletes.wordpress.com" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img title="image" style="border-top-width: 0px; display: inline; border-left-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px" height="160" alt="image" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_9uVLrc2BqRQ/Sn3g3kMXKHI/AAAAAAAAADI/GWGRAvm4ToM/image%5B3%5D.png?imgmax=800" width="244" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;NEW YORK (AP) — &lt;a href="http://yourblacksports.blogspot.com" target="_blank"&gt;David Ortiz&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://fantasysports.usatoday.com/content/player.asp?sport=MLB&amp;amp;id=2494"&gt;(FSY)&lt;/a&gt; thinks legal supplements and vitamins likely caused him to land on a list of alleged drug users seized by the federal government, and Major League Baseball and the players' association said some of the names on the list never tested positive for steroids.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;MLB said in a statement Saturday that at most 96 urine samples tested positive in the 2003 survey — and the players' association said 13 of those were in dispute.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;The government seized the samples and records the following year from baseball's drug-testing companies as part of the &lt;a href="http://content.usatoday.com/topics/topic/Bay+Area+Laboratory+Co-operative"&gt;BALCO&lt;/a&gt; investigation. The list of 104 players alleged to have tested positive has been the subject of a five-year legal fight with the union trying to force the government to return what federal agents took during raids.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.usatoday.com/sports/baseball/2009-08-08-ortiz-statement_N.htm" target="_blank"&gt;Click to read.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8251368087264484762-665783607780977941?l=yourblacksports.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://yourblacksports.blogspot.com/2009/08/your-black-news-another-day-another.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Barbara Drear)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8251368087264484762.post-2478838191521951733</guid><pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2009 13:16:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-08-06T09:16:57.770-04:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>black news</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>boxers</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Vernon Forrest</category><title>Suspected Killer of Vernon Forrest Appears in Court</title><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://yourblacknews.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img alt="Suspect in Vernon Forrest&amp;#39;s murder appears in court" src="http://www.thegrio.com/assets_c/2009/08/AP090805014694ForrestSuspect-thumb-360xauto-3663.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;By &lt;a href="http://yourblacknews.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"&gt;theGrio&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;As his grandmother sat nearby weeping, a 20-year-old man charged with killing ex-boxing champion &lt;a href="http://yourblacksports.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"&gt;Vernon Forrest&lt;/a&gt; had his first appearance in court Wednesday morning.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Demario Ware, who turned himself in to authorities Tuesday night, is charged with murder, aggravated assault, armed robbery and possession of a weapon by a convicted felon.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;He appeared at a jailhouse hearing in front of &lt;a href="http://www.yourblackworld.com/blogs/yourblackbrothers.htm" target="_blank"&gt;Fulton County&lt;/a&gt; Magistrate Sylvia McCoy, who read him the charges. Wearing a navy blue jail jumpsuit and handcuffs, Ware said nothing other than &amp;quot;yes, ma'am&amp;quot; and kept his eyes on the floor. He is being held without bond.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Ware's grandmother, Rose Thomas, sat in the courtroom crying.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;He wasn't raised up to do the thing he done,&amp;quot; she said after the hearing. &amp;quot;I'm sorry to the gentleman that got killed and his family. I know if I'm hurting like I am, then I know they're hurting.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Police say Forrest, 38, was shot to death July 25 after he chased a man who robbed him of his championship ring and Rolex watch. No other arrests have been made in the case, but police do not believe Ware is the person who shot Forrest.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;The investigation continues into the shooting.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.thegrio.com/2009/08/dorie-turnerassociated-press-writer-atlanta.php" target="_blank"&gt;Click here to read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8251368087264484762-2478838191521951733?l=yourblacksports.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://yourblacksports.blogspot.com/2009/08/suspected-killer-of-vernon-forrest.html</link><author>ladybabynumber1@yahoo.com (LadyBaby)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8251368087264484762.post-3672856913337308921</guid><pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2009 22:30:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-08-05T18:30:01.257-04:00</atom:updated><title>News: NBA Baller Accused of Gang bangin on Twitter</title><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://yourblacksports.blogspot.com" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img height="228" src="http://a323.yahoofs.com/ymg/ept_sports_nba_experts__29/ept_sports_nba_experts-584451853-1249480810.jpg?ymqRyrBDCHDMKgVn" width="380" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;     &lt;br /&gt;Hours after The Denver Post raised questions about whether his tweets were written in a way commonly associated with street gangs, Nuggets guard &lt;a href="http://twitter.com/jr_smith1"&gt;J.R. Smith pulled the plug on his Twitter page&lt;/a&gt; on Tuesday. He presumably didn't think it was worth all the bad publicity.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;His last message to fans before it was closed late Tuesday afternoon: &amp;quot;ok people i love all of my fans im sorry but this will be my last tweet you know why but it is what it is love all an tke Care&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Smith's tweets raised &lt;a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/blog/ball_dont_lie/post/J-R-Smith-s-Twitter-page-drawing-controversy?urn=nba,180690"&gt;print eyebrows&lt;/a&gt; after someone noticed he was &lt;em&gt;occasionally&lt;/em&gt; replacing words that would have a &amp;quot;C&amp;quot; in them with a &amp;quot;K,&amp;quot; giving &lt;em&gt;some&lt;/em&gt; the impression of an association with the Bloods street gang. (Kudos for the capital &amp;quot;C&amp;quot; jab above, kid.) Smith tried to correct the issue in a tweet late Monday night, but ultimately decided to close the account, &lt;a href="http://www.denverpost.com/sports/ci_12993784"&gt;according to The Denver Post&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/blog/ball_dont_lie/post/J-R-Smith-shuts-down-Twitter-account-amid-contr?urn=nba,180969" target="_blank"&gt;Click to read more.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8251368087264484762-3672856913337308921?l=yourblacksports.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://yourblacksports.blogspot.com/2009/08/news-nba-baller-accused-of-gang-bangin.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Barbara Drear)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8251368087264484762.post-9048756940509221149</guid><pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2009 23:13:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-08-03T19:13:53.403-04:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>NFL</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>african american athletes</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>black athletes</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>New York Giants</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Plaxico Burress</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>african american sports</category><title>Former Super Bowl Star Burress Indicted On Weapons Charges</title><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://yourblacklife.blogspot.com/"&gt;&lt;img src="http://scrapetv.com/News/News Pages/Sports/images/plaxico-burress-interview.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Former New York Giants wide receiver &lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://yourblackbrothers.blogspot.com/"&gt;Plaxico Burress&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt; was indicted by a Manhattan grand jury on weapons charges stemming from an incident last November in which Burress accidentally shot himself in the thigh at a New York nightclub, prosecutors announced Monday.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Burress, 31, was indicted on two felony counts of criminal possession of a weapon and one count of reckless endangerment, according to the announcement by the Manhattan &lt;a href="http://yourblackattorneys.blogspot.com"&gt;District Attorney&lt;/a&gt; Robert Morgenthau.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;New York Giants linebacker &lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://blackmeninamerica.blogspot.com"&gt;Antonio Pierce&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;, Burress' former teammate who was with him at the club and drove him to the hospital, was not indicted for his role in the incident, according to the prosecutor's announcement.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2009/football/nfl/08/03/burress/index.html?cnn=yes"&gt;click here to read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8251368087264484762-9048756940509221149?l=yourblacksports.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://yourblacksports.blogspot.com/2009/08/former-super-bowl-star-burress-indicted.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (merwordup)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8251368087264484762.post-6021847817507127549</guid><pubDate>Sat, 01 Aug 2009 19:44:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-08-01T15:44:53.218-04:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Basketball</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>african american athletes</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>ncaa boycott</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>NCAA</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Boyce Watkins</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>black men</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>african american men</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>black scholars</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>african american sports</category><title>College Athletes Should Be Paid</title><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://financiallovemaking.blogspot.com/"&gt;&lt;img src="http://blog.syracuse.com/today/2009/07/sp_090730_ap_obannon.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href="http://yourblackeducation.blogspot.com/"&gt;NCAA&lt;/a&gt;, which is a nonprofit, tax-exempt 'educational' organization, has come under fire recently for capitalizing on the commercialization of college sports. Many athletes have accused the organization of unfairly using them for financial gain. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Since 1995, the NCAA has spent more than $84 million on legal fees, including some settlements. Former UCLA basketball star &lt;a href="http://blackmeninamerica.blogspot.com/"&gt;Ed O'Bannon&lt;/a&gt; filed a lawsuit on July 21 against the NCAA and its member schools, accusing them of illegally profiting from using the likeness of former players for commercial pursuits like video games, DVDs, and jersey sales. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://blackspeakers.blogspot.com/"&gt;Dr. Boyce Watkins&lt;/a&gt;, a finance professor at Syracuse University, has become a vocal critic of the NCAA, for what he calls its exploitation of the black community. &lt;/p&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.syracuse.com/today/index.ssf/2009/07/syracuse_university_professor.html#preview"&gt;click here to read more&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8251368087264484762-6021847817507127549?l=yourblacksports.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://yourblacksports.blogspot.com/2009/08/college-athletes-should-be-paid.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (merwordup)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8251368087264484762.post-6553877578828128070</guid><pubDate>Sat, 01 Aug 2009 17:52:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-08-01T13:52:55.185-04:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>african american athletes</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>David Ortiz</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>african american men</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Baseball</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>steroids</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Manny Ramirez</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>highest paid athletes</category><title>Ortiz and Ramirez Listed Of Positive Test</title><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://yourblackeducation.blogspot.com/"&gt;&lt;img src="http://i2.cdn.turner.com/si/2009/baseball/mlb/07/30/ortiz.steroids/ortiz-manny-keith.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;In a statement he released Thursday afternoon, Red Sox slugger &lt;a href="http://blackmeninamerica.blogspot.com/"&gt;David Ortiz&lt;/a&gt; acknowledged that a &lt;i&gt;New York Times&lt;/i&gt; report that said he was one of the players to have tested positive for &lt;a href="http://yourblackhealth.blogspot.com/"&gt;performance-enhancing drugs&lt;/a&gt; in 2003 was accurate. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;I have already contacted the Players Association to confirm if this report is true. I have just been told that the report is true,&amp;quot; Ortiz's statement read in part. &amp;quot;Based on the way I have lived my life, I am surprised to learn I tested positive.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://drboycespeaks.blogspot.com/"&gt;Manny Ramirez&lt;/a&gt;, the Dodgers star who has already served a 50-game suspension for a failed test earlier this season, was also named in the &lt;i&gt;Times&lt;/i&gt; report. According to &lt;i&gt;The Associated Press&lt;/i&gt;, he had no comment other than to direct reporters to call the players' union.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2009/baseball/mlb/07/30/ortiz.steroids/index.html?eref=sihpT1"&gt;click here to read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8251368087264484762-6553877578828128070?l=yourblacksports.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://yourblacksports.blogspot.com/2009/08/ortiz-and-ramirez-listed-of-positive.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (merwordup)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8251368087264484762.post-9107917479018763486</guid><pubDate>Sat, 01 Aug 2009 17:42:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-08-01T13:42:20.108-04:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>NFL</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>african american athletes</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>black athletes</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>black men</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>african american men</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Football</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Michael Vick</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>football players</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>african american sports</category><title>Newport News Plans To Celebrate Michael Vick</title><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://tooblackinamerica.blogspot.com/"&gt;&lt;img src="http://i.a.cnn.net/si/2007/writers/pete_mcentegart/03/15/ten.spot/p1_vick.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;NEWPORT NEWS, Va. (AP) &amp;#8212; Community organizers in &lt;a href="http://drboycespeaks.blogspot.com/"&gt;Michael Vick's&lt;/a&gt; (FSY) Virginia hometown are preparing a &amp;quot;celebration&amp;quot; for the former NFL quarterback.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://blackscholarsinamerica.blogspot.com/"&gt;Andrew Shannon&lt;/a&gt;, who is president of the &lt;a href="http://yourblackinspiration.blogspot.com/"&gt;Southern Christian Leadership Conference&lt;/a&gt; chapter in Vick's hometown of Newport News, says the event is scheduled for Aug. 8. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.usatoday.com/sports/football/nfl/2009-07-31-vick-celebration_N.htm"&gt;click here to read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8251368087264484762-9107917479018763486?l=yourblacksports.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://yourblacksports.blogspot.com/2009/08/newport-news-plans-to-celebrate-michael.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (merwordup)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8251368087264484762.post-3570212440407473418</guid><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2009 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-07-31T10:00:28.619-04:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>black gossip</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>black athletes</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Michael Vick</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>black football players</category><title>Does Anyone Want Mike Vick?</title><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://yourblackbrothers.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img title="michael-vick" style="border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px" height="184" alt="michael-vick" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_TzO3K4xDNz4/SnL4-gYG9FI/AAAAAAAABUY/6QOhPsLYVcI/michael-vick%5B3%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="244" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;If any NFL teams are interested in &lt;a href="http://yourblacksports.com/" target="_blank"&gt;Michael Vick&lt;/a&gt;(notes), they’re not saying.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;A day after the quarterback was conditionally reinstated to the league, only the &lt;a href="http://yourblacksports.blogspot.com/"&gt;Baltimore Ravens&lt;/a&gt; would directly acknowledge evaluating him.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;“We’ve had long discussions about Michael Vick and we have a feeling about how he would impact our team and not impact our team,” coach John Harbaugh said Tuesday.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;General manager Ozzie Newsome declined comment. Previously, he has said the Ravens have enough quarterbacks.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Other teams either refused comment or insisted they wouldn’t pick up the former &lt;a href="http://yourblacksports.com/" target="_blank"&gt;Atlanta Falcons&lt;/a&gt; star, who served 18 months in federal prison for running a dogfighting ring and was released from home confinement on July 20.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Commissioner Roger Goodell said Monday that Vick can immediately take part in preseason practices, workouts and meetings and can play in the final two preseason games—if he can find a team.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Once the season begins, Vick may participate in all team activities except games, and Goodell said he would consider Vick for full reinstatement by Week 6 (Oct. 18-19) at the latest.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Two clubs that might have seemed like a logical destination—the Miami Dolphins and Cincinnati Bengals—said they wouldn’t pursue Vick.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/news?slug=ap-vickreinstated&amp;amp;prov=ap&amp;amp;type=lgns" target="_blank"&gt;Click here to read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8251368087264484762-3570212440407473418?l=yourblacksports.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://yourblacksports.blogspot.com/2009/07/does-anyone-want-mike-vick.html</link><author>ladybabynumber1@yahoo.com (LadyBaby)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8251368087264484762.post-1899091467808739255</guid><pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2009 13:13:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-07-28T09:13:58.793-04:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>NFL</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>black gossip</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Michael Vick</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>football players</category><title>Michael Vick is Reinstated in the NFL</title><description>&lt;p&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://yourblackgossip.com/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://blogs.bet.com/news/playahater/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/michael-vick.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.yourblackworld.com/blogs/yourblacksports.htm" target="_blank"&gt;Michael Vick&lt;/a&gt; is back in the &lt;a href="http://www.yourblackworld.com/blogs/yourblacksports.htm" target="_blank"&gt;NFL&lt;/a&gt;. Now all he needs is a team to play for. Vick, free after serving 18 months in prison for running a dog fighting ring, was reinstated with conditions by NFL commissioner Roger Goodell on Monday. He could participate in regular-season games as early as October.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Vick can immediately take part in preseason practices, workouts and meetings and can play in the final two preseason games -- if he can find a team that will sign him. A number of teams have already said they would not.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Once the season begins, Vick may participate in all team activities except games, and Goodell said he would consider Vick for full reinstatement by Week 6 (Oct. 18-19) at the latest.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Goodell suspended Vick indefinitely in August 2007 after the former Atlanta Falcons quarterback admitted bankrolling a dog fighting operation on his property in Virginia. At the time, Goodell said Vick must show remorse before he would consider reinstating him.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;I accept that you are sincere when you say that you want to, and will, turn your life around, and that you intend to be a positive role model for others,&amp;quot; Goodell said in his letter to Vick. &amp;quot;I am prepared to offer you that opportunity. Whether you succeed is entirely in your hands.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.thegrio.com/2009/07/nfl-reinstates-vick.php" target="_blank"&gt;Click here to read the rest&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8251368087264484762-1899091467808739255?l=yourblacksports.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://yourblacksports.blogspot.com/2009/07/michael-vick-is-reinstated-in-nfl.html</link><author>ladybabynumber1@yahoo.com (LadyBaby)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8251368087264484762.post-4072987797723304574</guid><pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2009 03:00:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-07-27T23:00:39.884-04:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>black gossip</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>black sports</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>NBA players</category><title>Why is Stephon Marbury Crying???</title><description>&lt;p&gt;Over the weekend &lt;a href="http://www.yourblackworld.com/blogs/yourblacksports.htm" target="_blank"&gt;NBA&lt;/a&gt; baller &lt;a href="http://www.yourblackworld.com/blogs/yourblackbrothers.htm" target="_blank"&gt;Stephon Marbury&lt;/a&gt; hosted a 24 hour live broadcast on &lt;a href="http://www.yourblackworld.com/blogs/yourblackbrothers.htm" target="_blank"&gt;Ustream&lt;/a&gt; and let the viewers see his soft side.&amp;#160; Click the image below to watch the video.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.worldstarhiphop.com/videos/video.php?v=wshh7aUKv42787lzfGLF" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.nba.com/media/knicks/MarburyInside.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8251368087264484762-4072987797723304574?l=yourblacksports.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://yourblacksports.blogspot.com/2009/07/why-is-stephon-marbury-crying.html</link><author>ladybabynumber1@yahoo.com (LadyBaby)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8251368087264484762.post-4539129648623178901</guid><pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2009 14:24:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-07-27T10:24:39.115-04:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>black news</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>black athletes</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Vernon Forrest</category><title>Vernon Forrest had Intuition about His Death</title><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://yourblackbrothers.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.boxnews.com.ua/photos/1050/Vernon-Forrest-Sergio-Mora7.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Former Boxing Champ &lt;a href="http://yourblackbrothers.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"&gt;Vernon Forrest&lt;/a&gt; who was killed Saturday in &lt;a href="http://www.yourblackworld.com/blogs/yourblacksports.htm" target="_blank"&gt;Atlanta&lt;/a&gt; when he was robbed at gun point Tweeted a week before his death about a dream he had that was similar to the way he was killed.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Man I had a nightmare last nite I dreamt I come home and found 4 guys were breaking into my house. I pull my heater and it was empty they chased me and was about to shoot me then I woke up. The first thing I did was get my heater and made sure it was loaded. That dream will not come true.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Man that’s is some scary ISH.&amp;#160; I think I will start taking my dreams a little more serious.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://necolebitchie.com/" target="_blank"&gt;Source&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8251368087264484762-4539129648623178901?l=yourblacksports.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://yourblacksports.blogspot.com/2009/07/vernon-forrest-had-intuition-about-his.html</link><author>ladybabynumber1@yahoo.com (LadyBaby)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></item></channel></rss>