Oprah, is scheduled to host Gov. Christie and Mayor Cory Booker when they announce and provide details on the $100 million gift from Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg. STORY INSIDE

Christie and Booker will proclaim that the long-troubled Newark schools, which have been under state control for 15 years, are going to be placed under Booker’s authority. Together, Booker and the school system will embark on a massive program of educational change long opposed by teachers unions.
It will include an expansion of charter schools, new achievement standards and methods for judging which schools and teachers are effective, the sources said.
The announcement was confirmed by a third person with knowledge of Booker and Christie’s arrangements. The sources detailed the plans on the condition they not be identified because they were not authorized to go public before Friday’s show.The reordering of the state’s largest school district will be made possible by a challenge grant of $100 million from Zuckerberg, the 26-year-old billionaire who co-founded Facebook.The grant is an invitation for others to become donors – with a goal of raising another $100 million, bringing the total gift to $200 million. The grant from Zuckerberg alone amounts to more than 10 percent of the district’s annual budget.
Zuckerberg is expected to join with Christie and Booker at Winfrey’s studio in Chicago for the announcement, according to the sources.The announcement is scheduled to air live Friday in Chicago at 10 a.m. EDT and then rebroadcast at 4 p.m. on ABC Channel 7 in North Jersey and Channel 6 in the southern portion of the state.
The school plan calls for Christie to use his authority as the official overseer of the Newark district and name Booker a “special assistant to the governor” for education in the state’s largest city.Assembly Speaker Sheila Oliver said tonight she was pleased the money would be going to Newark schools but was concerned with any strings that might be attached to the gift.”The devil is in the details,” Oliver said. “We have to be very careful in terms of the intrusion into the public system and any donor that would provide funding to the Newark schools system, but I do want to examine what strings come with it.”The move was designed to “circumvent the local community and local control,” Oliver said, adding that in order for the mayor to achieve control of schools by traditional means, the matter would have to go before a public referendum of Newark voters. “They probably know the mood in the Newark community is not one that would want to give the mayor appointing authority.”
Oliver also noted the irony of Christie’s recent push to eliminate the practice of holding dual offices in New Jersey.”Last week the governor said he didn’t want people to have two jobs,” Oliver said.Bruce Baker, an associate professor in Rutgers University’s Graduate School of Education and an expert on education spending, said “open questions” abound about how Newark will use such a large donation.”We don’t know if it’s $100 million all at once, spread out over time, with conditions and strings attached,” Baker said. “These circumstances are certainly interesting if not bizarre.”

If teams can blast crowd noise and fight songs during practices to prepare for hostile road environments like the one Oregon State goes into Saturday night on the infamous "Smurf Turf" at Boise State, I guess it makes sense to paint the practice fields blue, too!!

It feels strange to go from a new Lil Wayne record every 37 minutes to (relative) silence from the man, but in the past 24 hours an avalanche of Weezy-related material has come out from the currently incarcerated emcee, including a new video, cover and tracklist for his upcoming EP "I Am Not A Human Being", so let's i previously posted the not a human bein video for you guys.. see earlier post if you missed it


Buh above is the cover for Wayne's upcoming EP so yea im assumin it has leaked . I don't know. It's a cover. It's allright.. Shoulda let me do it lol pause. More importantly, the tracklist has also found its way onto the internets. In addition to the hit "Right Above", the EP"s basically just a Young Money compilation album, bringing on Drake four time, Nicki twice and all the other TM folks you don't really care about. I should note that this is the tracklist according to Rap-Up, whom for all I know just made it up. I find it hard to believe Drizzy's on a cut titled "Gonorrhea", but I guess anything's possible. We'll see....

1. “Gonorrhea” feat. Drake
2. “Hold Up” feat. T-Streets
3. “With You” feat. Drake
4. “I Am Not a Human Being”
5. “I’m Single” feat. Drake
6. “What’s Wrong With Them” feat. Nicki Minaj
7. “Right Above It” feat. Drake
8. “Popular” feat. Lil Twist
9. “That Ain’t Me” feat. Jay Sean
10. “Bill Gates”
11. “YM Banger” feat. Jae Millz, Gudda Gudda, and Tyga
12. “YM Salute” feat. Lil Twist, Lil Chuckee, Gudda Gudda, Jae Millz, and Nicki Minaj

And finally, the EP is officially set to drop digitally on Monday, September 27, with a physical release to follow shortly thereafter. In related new, Mack Maine has hinted that "Carter IV" will drop in November on the same day Weezy gets out of prison, but there's a snowball's chance in hell of that happening. Just due to the fact of promotion etc .. buh who knows this is Lil Wayne we're talkin bout!!

There’s no way possible we could sit here and name Micheal Jordan’s numerous amount of accolades, lets face it this man was simply a legend from day one, he has enough background to make 10 New York Times Best-Sellers easily. From the up and downs through his career no one could ever say when this man stepped on the court they did not feel the impact he brought, from the Great Walls of China to the back streets in Brooklyn his name rung bells in the basketball world. Not only that, but his success in the sneaker culture was crazy. Men died over the kicks he roamed in, but hey thats apart of the sneaker culture and what he made it.

In 1993 when Micheal retired for the first time in his career, it was devastation to the basketball world, he basically opened up the doors for other teams to get their shot even though he was fresh off of his 3rd championship.

1993: The playoffs that year were a piece of cake, with a man strictly about business how could ever lose? Running through every team in the east, the time came when he had to bump heads with Charles Barkley one of the most powerful players the NBA had ever seen, but him and the Phoenix Suns of 1993 was no match for the Chicago Bulls.

Game 1 Wednesday, June 9 Phoenix 92-100
Game 2 Friday, June 11 Phoenix 108-111
Game 3 Sunday, June 13 Chicago 121-129 (3OT)
Game 4 Wednesday, June 16 Chicago 111-105
Game 5 Friday, June 18 Chicago 98-108
Game 6 Sunday, June 20 Phoenix 98-99 Chicago
Bulls win series 4-2

 

Kanye West set  2010 MTV Video Music Awards stage on fire  as he performed his dope hit “Runaway” to his fans and haters. To me It was the Dopest performance of the night .. In Kanye fashion, he sported his Infrared Suit and his Louis Vuitton Don sneakers shits are $845 beans smh in red which served as the perfect color choice for the majority white backdrop. In my opinion it was the perfect song, outfit, and performance to put him back on top. 

Lebron James was spotted heading to an after-party following Jay-Z and Eminem’s ”Home & Home” concert that took place this past Monday in New York City. Representing for his good friend Jay-Z, Lebron was seen wearing one of Jay-Z x New York Yankees x New Era fitted caps and a dope t-shirt of a young Hov wearing a pair of Jordan 4′s. The hat is part of a limited edition release of tee shirts, sweatshirts, and fitted caps only sold at Yankee Stadium, to mark Jay-Z and Eminem’s historic concert.

 

SMH to those who know me! Probably know how badly its killin me I dont have this NewEra Yankee smh

Wow they really did it up for Jay-Z MAD that i missed it !!