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Skylar Diggins (TUL @ MIN, 7pm ET, Sun.)

EBC Rucker Park 2013 will be the only outdoor basketball tournament in the world played on a regulatio

EBC Rucker Park

The Entertainers Basketball Classic at Rucker Park in Harlem, New York, is a street basketball tournament established in 1983. The EBC is considered the premier street basketball tournament in the world. [1]Spurred in large part by the unprecedented competition brought to the park by the EBC, And1 calls Rucker Park “the birth of streetball,” ESPN counts the park as one of its “Top 100 Sports Arenas in The World”,[2] and Bleacher Report has it nestled between Madison Square Garden in New York City and Wembley Stadium in London.[3] Current and former NBA basketball players who have participated in the EBC at Rucker Park include the likes of Michael Jordan, Kobe Bryant, LeBron James and Kevin Durant. Many famous recording artists have also participated in the EBC as coaches, including P. Diddy, Jay-Z and Fat Joe. Among those who have been in attendance at the EBC are former President Bill Clinton, NBA Commissioner David Stern, actor Denzel Washington and business mogul and NBA owner Mark Cuban. The New York Times credits the Harlem Shake as originating from halftime entertainment during the EBC at Rucker Park.[4]

http://ebcruckerpark.com/ebc-history/

Chantelle, Gabrielle Union, & Sanaa Lathan

Miami,  FL – June 20, 2013 – After battling it out all season long, the Miami Heat found themselves in the NBA finals yet again, ready to win another championship.Hyde AmericanAirlines Arena was packed with fans watching the Heat take on the San Antonio Spurs one last time for a neck and neck game that ended in the ultimate victory in favor of our own Miami Heat.

SOURCE OF PHOTOS AND WRITE UP http://worldredeye.com/2013/06/heat-vs-spurs-game-7-hyde-aa-arena/

more photos https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.239809862714404.71393.100000561774910&type=3

to watch live games log on to http://dyckmanpark.ning.com/

Kayne West performs during the Samsung Galaxy Notes II launch at Skylight at Moynihan Station, on Oct. 24, 2012 in New York City. / 13THWITNESS/GETTY IMAGES FOR SAMSUNG

Kanye West has upset some Parkinson Disease groups after one of his lyrics on his latest album "Yeezus" seemed to poke fun at the symptoms experienced by people with the disease.

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Kim Kardashian and Kanye West

West raps during "On Sight": "Soon as I pull up and park the Benz / We get this b---- shaking like Parkinson's."

Leslie A. Chambers, president & CEO of theAmerican Parkinson Disease Association, said to CBSNews.com that the organization was alerted to the lyric after a reporter from TMZ asked what it thought of the lyric. Vice president Kathryn Whitford told the website that she found it to be "distasteful and the product of obvious ignorance."

SOURCE OF STORY http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-204_162-57590133/parkinsons-disease-groups-offended-by-kanye-west-lyric/

Joseph Robinson and his wife, Sylvia, co-founded Sugar Hill Records, which was based in Englewood. - 

The spot on Englewood’s West Street where hip-hop history was made is marked by a “for sale” sign. A chain-link fence blocks the entrance to what is now an empty lot, and a few cars are parked inside.

That’s all that is left of the Sugar Hill recording studio, where the song that introduced rap music to a mainstream audience was recorded in 1979, sweeping Englewood — and the enigmatic members of the Robinson family who ran the company — into the center of a burgeoning music craze with the now-iconic riff, “hip-hop and ya don’t stop.”

- See more at: http://www.northjersey.com/arts_entertainment/music/Sugar_Hill_Records_tax_issues_latest_chapter_in_Englewood_hip-hop_familys_rock_history.html?c=y&page=1#sthash.JVGduJ2X.dpuf

Hollie Wood & Friends (featuringHollie Wood, Venor, and M.J.) interview actress, rapper, speaker, and entrepreneur Lil Mama. She will speak on her upcoming role as Left Eye in VH1's TLC biopic and much more! http://www.blogtalkradio.com/hamptonblu/2013/06/17/lil-mama-speaks-on-role-as-left-eye-in-vh1s-tlc-biopic

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. -- A contrite Chad Johnson apologized Monday for disrespecting a judge when the former NFL star slapped his attorney on the backside in court last week, and his immediate release from jail was ordered.

http://espn.go.com/nfl/story/_/id/9395324/chad-johnson-leaving-jail-apologizing-judge

http://www.ticketmaster.com/DAngelo-tickets/artist/3314

As his voice carried with gusto across the New Haven Green, Aaron Neville looked as though he hadn’t even broken a sweat. The R&B and soul singer from New Orleans was singing Bill Withers’ “Ain’t No Sunshine” as he best does––smoothly, the notes blending together with ease. 

Nearly 20,000 New Haveners gathered under the crescent moon Saturday for the opening night of the International Festival of Arts & Ideas, where Neville and his quintet headlined.

source of story http://www.newhavenindependent.org/index.php/archives/entry/neville_sings_songs_old_new_timeless/

spike lee SCREENING: Bad 25

http://artidea.org/event/2013/1329