Now that I’m older and able to put it all in perspective, my indoctrination into the shoe game occurred early in life. And, in a lot of ways, I have to blame my parents because they’re the ones who gave me a subscription to Sports Illustrated when I was maybe eight. In their hearts, they wanted to foster my adolescent love for reading and sports – which they did – but a definite by-product was my exposure to Nike’s earliest and arguably best advertising. Read the rest of this entry »

Jay-Z & Beyonce Donating Their Baby Gifts To Charity [Prefix]

10 Essential Civil Rights Movement Photographers [Flavorwire]

Even Thieves Are Ignoring DVDs And CDs As Worthless [Techdirt] Read the rest of this entry »

On Ross’ “Stay Schemin’,” Drake’s defense of his homie Kobe’s bank account has become an instant quotable. “Bitch you wasn’t with me shooting at the gym” has become a rallying cry for, well, anything and nothing at the same time. Almost instantly, it’s been seen and posted all over Twitter and Facebook with no real rhyme or reason besides the fact it’s hilarious to recite. Read the rest of this entry »

Derrick Rose Reportedly Signing $250 Million LIfetime Deal with adidas [Dime]

Michael Jordan Apparently Didn’t Learn Anything From Michael Jordan [With Leather]

Court Upholds C-Murders Life Sentence [The Boombox]

Al Qaeda on the Ropes: One Fighter’s Inside Story [Newsweek]

Midwife Delivers Own Baby Using Makeup Mirror [HuffPo]

This Is What Drives Google in 2012 [Motley Fool]

How To Tell If A Girl Has Implants [Coed]

25 People Who Woke Up On New Year’s Day In A Strange Place [Buzzfeed]

The Year in Weird: The 10 Most Insane News Stories of 2011 [Film Drunk]

The 2 Funniest Photos from Drake’s New Year’s Eve Performance [Broken Cool]

And Now GoDaddy’s Finally, Officially Against SOPA [Gizmodo]

New Balance Spring 2012 Made in USA Collection [FreshnGood]

Watch a 15-Year Old Korean Girl Perform an Amazing Cover of Adele’s ‘Rolling In The Deep’ [The FW]

Why Skyrim’s Greatness is in Its Flaws [Unreality]

Flesh-N-Bone Reaches Plea In Domestic Battery Case [AHH]

2012 Movie Preview: From Steven Soderbergh to Quentin Tarantino [Moviefone]

“Fast Five” Is The Most Pirated Movie of 2011 [Vulture]

5 Rules for Rapping in Public [Grantland]

Did Michael Jordan Pop The Question? [The Urban Daily] Read the rest of this entry »

10 Fun Busta Rhymes Facts [The Urban Daily]

Engadget’s Black Friday 2011 Roundup [Engadget]

Michael Jordan’s 10 Biggest Moments In The Air Jordan 3 [Nice Kicks] Read the rest of this entry »

When I came across this picture of Air Jordan jamming in his NC college dorm while wasting time on imgur earlier, my buddy who’s been a diehard MJ fan since the womb said he’d seen it before. I had not and found the nostalgia quite cool. Read the rest of this entry »

Viantha Foxx

Pete Townshend Calls Apple ‘Digital Vampires’ Over iTunes’ Commissions [Spinner]

Wolf Blitzer Claims He Convinced Michael Jordan to Play for the Wizards [Slam]

The 10 Smoothest Hip-Hop Executives in the Game [Vibe] Read the rest of this entry »

Michael Jordan was found hanging out in my in-laws’ basement. With the NBA lockout and everyone involved having inordinate amounts of free time available, I’m sure stranger things have happened but finding the Bobcats owner chilling downstairs was unexpected to say the least. Read the rest of this entry »

Video games really aren’t my expertise. Yet, if this NBA lockout continues, I may have to scrap together some pennies and cop NBA 2K12 pending it gets Cadet’s approval. Per the marketing department, the 2K family rallies together some familiar and not-so-familiar faces to debate the greatest team of all time in this 35 second clip. Read the rest of this entry »

The self-proclaimed “Mike Jordan of recording” and…the Mike Jordan. Read the rest of this entry »

NBA 2K11 is easily one of the very best sports games to ever grace a gaming console. The realism was off the charts and the “Jordan Challenge” was a great addition. It’s got to be a daunting task to follow up the video game equivalent of Illmatic, but the Visual Concepts people are sure giving it a shot with NBA 2K12. Read the rest of this entry »

Well, the NBA Lockout’s outlook doesn’t bode well for us basketball nerds but at least we can still turn to digital hoops while these fools toil the season away. 2K Sports, undaunted by the league’s troubles, plans to keep things rolling through rain or shine with NBA 2K12. Read the rest of this entry »

While it’s unclear if this move is a testament to their greatness or testament to the lack of living legends in today’s NBA, the fine folks over at 2K Sports opt to go with faces that people trust and slap Michael Jordan, Magic Johnson and Larry Bird as the visual selling points for the next installment of NBA 2K. Read the rest of this entry »

Aniley Perez

Amazing Spider-Man Trailer Leaks, Goes First Person POV [Gamma Squad]

Twitter Was Almost Named Jitter [Gawker]

In Case You’re Wondering, Michael Jordan Is Still Michael Jordan [With Leather]

How Fox News Uses Hip-Hop to Create Race Panics [Colorlines] Read the rest of this entry »