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These guys are so terrible now, that a group of Cleveland third graders decided to make the entire Cavaliers organization their Valentine this year. Continue »

God is definitely on Congresswoman Giffords’ side. Continue »

Usher has just signed on as the new face of Belvedere. And they want him to do some good for his money. Continue »

BOSSIP recently caught up with Mike Bigga (aka Killer Mike) Continue »

Wow, how many coaches in the NCAA you think would do this for one of THEIR players? Continue »

Alright, alright, there’s some progress being made, hopefully Hosni Mubarak realizes that its a wrap and throws in the towel soon. Continue »

Just like a basketball player, life twists and turns. Melvin Jones is not only a basketball star, but also a top student at Portland State University — and all because his high school coach, Kasey Poirrier, thinks of him as a little brother. Kasey’s mom, Jennifer Annable, was five months pregnant when she moved to Seattle with 50 bucks in her pocket. She worked long hours, struggling to become a teacher. Eventually she became director of a school for children with special needs, but her marriage ended in divorce before she could give Kasey that little brother.

One night Kasey asked his mom: “How would you feel about Melvin coming to stay with us?” Melvin Jones had just been shoved out of two other high schools and had entered Kasey’s with zero credits. At age 16, he was drifting on the streets of Seattle. “Every time I took him home, I was taking him somewhere else,” Kasey recalled. “We drove around to four or five different places and there were no adults.”

Melvin’s mom was dying of AIDS. “He was loved, but not parented,” is how Jennifer put it. So she made up a room for him. Why would a single mom take on such a challenge? Jennifer’s father grew up in foster care; her mother in an orphanage. Jennifer had opened her home to kids before: Five, in fact, during Kasey’s childhood.

“My dream was always to run an orphanage,” she explained. “When I was a little girl, I had a hundred dolls and I used to line them up on the back porch. Those were my kids.” Her mom was almost adopted three times, but each time, the couple sent her back. “To think that somebody would take in a child, then give them back,” Jennifer said. She simply wanted to help children like her mom. Still, she recalled: “Taking in Melvin was one of the hardest things I ever did in the beginning.” He did not trust her. He stashed the groceries she bought him under his bed, afraid some one would steal them.

Melvin resisted Jennifer’s every attempt to become his new mother. “I did not like it at all,” Melvin said. “I fought it.” Jennifer told Melvin: “ ‘I’m not trying to take anyone’s place, but you need a mom!’ ” And she had love enough to help another child. Still, Melvin’s little sister, Marika, was not happy. “Why you wanna go move in with her? She’s not family.” “He was with me,” big sister Lasheka Bousley insisted. “I was trying to figure out why he’d want to go with someone else other than me.”

Melvin simply wanted someone to show him how to study. “Jennifer was like a gnat, like you slappin’ at a gnat and it just won’t go away.”

What originated in 1926 as the annual ‘Negro History Week’ – during February’s second quarter – was established by a man who was just one generation removed from physical captivity/chattel slavery – Dr. Carter Godwin Woodson. Continue »

Wow…wonder did they even know that Packers were in the Superbowl? *Kanye shrug*

For countless Packer and Steeler fans making the trip to Dallas, the Super Bowl will be an experience of a lifetime with plenty of fond memories to look back on. Continue »

Here is Shaquille O’Neal hoping out his Benz at to do a lil positive milkshake makin at Millions of Milkshakes. Continue »

Guess, Ted heard us talkin’ bad about him yesterday. Continue »

It seems like every time we turn around, there’s a new couple breaking up and getting into an ugly court battle. Continue »

Willis McGahee’s treatment of women might be a little questionable, but he’s got a redeeming factor: he’s all for the ethical treatment of animals. Continue »

Egypt’s mommy found out just how devoted her stans are, after they went all out in honor of her 30th birthday yesterday. Continue »

VH1 is no longer fueling the mansion and the chicks that Flavor Flav likes to give pet names and then slobber down their throats. Continue »