Russell Simmons: A Message For the New Decade

At the dawn of a new decade, we have arrived at a moment unlike any other in the history of our beautiful nation. We have endured the brutality of slavery, we have survived the pain of Jim Crow and we have overcome segregation to declare our dignity and equal rights. We witnessed and participated in one of the greatest achievements in the history of our country when we elected our first black president, Barack Obama. And here we stand, with ..read more

Tom Cruise: A Decade In PDA Moments (PHOTOS)

It’s been a busy decade for Tom Cruise. He kicked off the aughts married to Nicole Kidman, whom he divorced in 2001, just shy of their tenth anniversary and while she was three months pregnant (she later miscarried). Tom began dating ‘Vanilla Sky’ costar Penelope Cruz soon after and the two were together until 2004. In the spring of 2005 he began dating Katie Holmes and a year later she was pregnant with Suri.

While Tom’s arm candy has rotated ..read more

Kenya:Sports Sensations Emerged to Rule the World – AllAfrica.com

Allan Buluku

30 December 2009

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When Cesc Fabregas got off the bench to fire the Gunners to a thumping victory over a stubborn Aston Villa last weekend, I could only marvel at the Arsenal captain’s sheer ingenuity.

In sports, as in politics, there’s always one moment of brilliance which turns the pattern of a game or the destiny of a people. Often, pride is at stake. Take, for instance, Raila Odinga’s march from Kanu in 2002 with a gang of political heavyweights to ..read more

Richard (RJ) Eskow: A Horror-Movie Decade (With a Horror-Twist Ending)

A stolen election. Great skyscrapers falling. Meaningless wars in distant countries. Floodwaters destroying a great city. Acts of torture in American-made prisons. We had seen the sights and sounds of this decade before.

But only in the movies.

The decade won’t technically end for another year, but people are calling this the end of the 00’s, and with good reason. The past ten years have a structure, a form, a shape that could almost be mapped ..read more

Countdown to ‘10: Top sports innovations and trends since 2000 (USA Today)

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Live sports online: The advent of broadband made watching sports online more more-viewer friendly.

But it was technology that limited what online users could access that really paved the way for the proliferation of live online sports. The problem with showing live sports online had been that it would be a party crasher interfering with leagues’ more lucrative TV deals. But geo-tracking, which uses consumers’ Internet addresses to block online content geographically, opened up new online possibilities. MLB ..read more

Fitzpatrick is ready to go for Bills – ProFootballTalk

New Bills G.M. Buddy Nix will have a chance to evaluate quarterback Ryan Fitzpatrick in person this week.

Fitzpatrick (ankle) took the majority of first team reps for the second straight day Thursday, and should start against the Colts Sunday.

With Fitzpatrick back in the mix, the football populace will be robbed of a Brian Brohm vs. Curtis Painter duel.

The Bills will try to avoid losing to a number one ..read more

Armed Forces Bowl: Air Force vs. Houston (The Charlotte Observer)

Armed Forces Bowl

Air Force Falcons (7-5)

vs. Houston Cougars (10-3)

Noon, ESPN

STORY LINE: Houston can’t stop the run, which is what Air Force does, and the Falcons can’t stop the pass, which is the Cougars’ game.

PLAYERS TO WATCH: Houston quarterback Case Keenum, Air Force defensive tackle Ben Garland.

WHAT’S AT STAKE: The same two teams played in the same bowl last season. A victory over the Falcons last December, wrapping up Houston coach Kevin Sumlin’s ..read more

Rush Limbaugh hospitalized: ire & compassion from Twitter – Examiner.com

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From Y2K frenzy to a Tiger caught by his tail – this decade brought us … – Boston Herald

From Y2K frenzy to a Tiger caught by his tail – this decade brought us delicious, daring and disastrous pop culture milestones:

SEX: The decade should have been called the naughties, because everything under the covers was exposed.

Teens “sext” messaging (Thanks Vanessa Hudgens!)

Same-sex kissing went from taboo to totally TV (“Dawson’s Creek” “All My Children”) – Madonna and Britney on the “American Music Awards” and Adam Lambert’s controversial smooch.

The sex tape – highlighting the horizontal antics of Paris Hilton, Screech, Verne ..read more

Plenty of Ritchie on decade’s worst list – Seattle Post Intelligencer

Time flies when you’re having fun but has a way of slowing down when you’re getting pins stuck in your eyes. Vacations blur into a pleasant memory, and it’s even possible to have an entire romance without remembering, years later, what the two of you ever talked about. But the trauma of seeing something like “Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest” never quite goes away. Like toxic waste, those 151 minutes don’t degrade, don’t get reabsorbed into the soil ..read more