• Baseball Player Traded for Bats

      Posted on May 24th, 2008 by mageditor

      What can 10 maple bats buy you?

      A minors league baseball player appearently.

      John Odom, a soon-to-be former player for the Calgary Whipes, is packing his bags to join the Loredo Broncos of the United League after his team traded him last week for 10 maple bats that retail for about $69. 

      “They just wanted some bats, good bats-maple bats,” Broncos general manager Jose Melendez said to the AP.

      “I don’t really care,” Odom told the AP. “It’ll make a better story if I make it to the big leagues.”

      Hmm if your only worth 11 bats, roughly $715, maybe you should forget about the big leagues.

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      Racism Alive and Well In Alabama

      Posted on May 24th, 2008 by mageditor

      Parents of several black students at a middle school near Montgomery, Alabama are claiming that their children are subject to racial slurs and are punished more severely than their white pupils.

      The parents have filed a lawsuit detailing the allegations that claims their children have been called “N-word,” “filthy trash” and “black monkey” by students at the school in Monroeville, Ala.

      The AP is reporting that the lawsuit also describes an incident in which a student was being teased by white classmates who called her a “black monkey.” The student told the white teacher, who responded by saying “sit back down because you do look like a black monkey.”

      The same teacher also gave another student an ‘F’ on a project to design a futuristic pair of pants. The teacher told the student that his project “looks like something a slave would wear.”

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      Blog Roll//Bow Wow Joins Entourage//’Hills’ Star Not a “Whore”// Tyson Gets Documentary

      Posted on May 23rd, 2008 by mageditor

      (Lil) Bow Wow is set to join the upcoming season of HBO’s “Entourage.” He’s been cast to play Charlie, a new stand-up comic client of the show’s main character E.

      After 16 years in the music industry and six successful albums, I’ve decided to shift my energy to something else I’m passionate about, acting. I’m going to try to be the next Will Smith,” he told the Hollywood Reporter.”

      Whoa there Bow Wow, lets not get ahead of ourselves.

      ‘The Hills’ Star Audrina Says She’s No Whore

      Audrina Patridge, star of MTV’s ‘The Hills’ tells Vegas Magazine that despite having nudie pictures of her floating in cyber space, she’s not in need of attention.

      I am not an attention whore. I’m not going to release naked photos of myself just to get attention. I’d rather get different attention and be respected.”

      You WORK it Audrina! So what if nobody was paying any attention to you before your nude photos some how “leaked.”

        

      Tyson Gets Documentary

      Mike Tyson may be coming to a theatre near you.

      Well, not exactly.

      A documentary film on the former world heavy weight champion is reaching a final distribution deal with Sony Pictures Classics. The films, simply called Tyson, mixes archival footage of Mike Tyson with interviews taken specifically for the documentary. The film is shooting for a November release.

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