Live Nation – one of the worlds largest concert search engines and leading live entertainment companies – has recently revealed plans to host three open air festivals in London during the 2012 Olympics. The festivals will be part of the Olympic celebrations and will take place in Hyde Park, Victoria Park and Trafalgar Square. The [...]
January 24, 2012
Alya Mooro
Arts News, Music, Sports
The Lil Weezyanimal that is Lil Wayne decided to venture off from the world of music and enter into the realm of sports. His new to try sports Vlog in the last week of December, entitled Weezy’s Sports Corner, has him talking about college football and basketball, the NBA, NFL, and of course skateboarding. [...]
January 1, 2012
Toney
Sports
As you may have heard… #NBABack. Yep, our beloved basketball league is set to return to our screen this Christmas. According to reports the greedy parties on both sides of the line are close to finalising a deal that’ll basically continue to make members on both sides richer than they already are, go figure. Although we have had [...]
November 28, 2011
I Am Ayo
Culture, Sports, TV
There are only two sports I watch religiously… Football (soccer) and Basketball – and as you may guess this ridiculous NBA lockout, which has resulted in the cancellation of a full month of NBA games, is really killing me. But like the old saying goes, “basketball never stops” and because of this I have been spent the last month [...]
October 29, 2011
I Am Ayo
Culture, Sports
Fellow basketball nut, Common was a special unannounced guest at NBA superstar Derrick Rose‘s Adidas sponsored ”Run For Rose” event that took place in Com’s home city of Chicago. The reigning NBA MVP set up the event to celebrate the release of his new basketball sneaker, the adiZero 2.0. To the surprise of many of those in attendance, Common stepped onto the basketball [...]
October 16, 2011
I Am Ayo
Freestyles, Sports
Following the announcement that the debut of the Take Care lead off track “Headlines” official music video will be premiering tomorrow, this commercial for the NBA 2K12 video game featuring Drizzy Drake alongside the likes of Michael Jordan and more has hit the interwebs. Set to be released on Tuesday, each of the big names [...]
October 1, 2011
Alya Mooro
Games, Music, Sports
The nominees have been announced for the BET Awards 2011, taking place in Los Angeles on Sunday, June 26th with Philadelphia hailing comedian and actor Kevin Hart (Soul Plane, Death at a Funeral) hosting the annual star-studded event. This year’s nominees include many of the expected commercial leaders from the world of urban music – [...]
May 18, 2011
M. Gosho Oakes
Awards, Film & TV, Music, Sports
Not many Hip Hop artists get a chance to pick up non-music based awards, however with Grammy Award acclaim eluding him thus far in his music career, legend Nas can now add his name to the small of emcees that have won a non-music based award (following the likes of Three Six Mafia, Will Smith [...]
What with the NBA 2011 Season at it’s playoff phase, New York Knicks fanatic and legendary director Spike Lee has cut himself a little deal with Nike and Michael Jordan for these “Spizike Knicks” trainers. Spike Lee is often pictured courtside cheering the Knicks on and the “Spizike” trainers were originally comissioned in 2006. These [...]
April 23, 2011
Aamir Yaqub
Sports, Style
NBA superstar Lebron James has reportedly purchased a stake in English Premiership football team, Liverpool FC. According to reports, the Miami Heat guard has strike a deal with FSG (Fenway Sports Group), Liverpool FC’s new owners, giving him a small stake in the 119 year old club as well as becoming exclusive world-wide representatives of Bron Bron’s sports-marketing firm, LRMR Branding & Marketing. [...]
April 10, 2011
I Am Ayo
Arts News, Sports