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Flavor Flav Pleads Not Guilty

Posted 05.13.2013 | Black Voices

It seems the clock around Flavor Flav's neck is ticking, as he'll soon have to face the felony assault with a weapon and child endangerment charges re...

In the Presence of Royalty: B.B. King In Concert

Craig Carpenter | Posted 04.22.2013 | Arts
Craig Carpenter

For the second time in my still short life, I got to see Mr. King performing again. The Keswick Theater, a classic movie house, converted into a performance venue, is located just outside of Philadelphia. There was something especially fitting and refreshing for me to see him in such a setting.

Flavor Flav Faces Conflict With Hall Of Fame Induction

AP | KEN RITTER | Posted 04.22.2013 | Black Voices

LAS VEGAS -- Flavor Flav has a new court date in Las Vegas that doesn't interfere with his induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. A judge on ...

The Posey and Cain Contracts

Lincoln Mitchell | Posted 04.04.2013 | Sports
Lincoln Mitchell

This is the second year in a row the San Francisco Giants have ended spring training by signing a major star to an enormous contract extension. Catcher Buster Posey is now signed through 2021, with an option for 2022, at a total cost of about $167 million. Last year, they signed pitcher Matt Cain to a similar contract.

Pete Rose, Kiana Kim Get Comfy In New Furniture Ad?

The Huffington Post | Ron Dicker | Posted 03.15.2013 | Sports

Pete Rose certainly doesn't knock it out of the park in a local spot for Muenchen's Furniture, outlets seem to agree. AdWeek calls the new commerci...

Public Enemy's Chuck D: Digital Distribution Is the Future

Shira Lazar | Posted 05.16.2013 | Technology
Shira Lazar

Public Enemy hip hop sensation Chuck D stops by the John Lennon Educational Tour Bus at SXSW 2013 to talk about being inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, his Evil vs Heroes instrumental album, and the new digital label for independent artists, SpitDigital.

Five Questions for the 2013 Baseball Season

Lincoln Mitchell | Posted 04.15.2013 | Sports
Lincoln Mitchell

Baseball is, among other things, a game of questions. As each new year begins there are significant questions facing baseball that address deeper issues facing the game.

A New Voting System for the Hall of Fame

Lincoln Mitchell | Posted 04.02.2013 | Sports
Lincoln Mitchell

This year the Baseball Writer's Association of America failed to elect anybody to the Baseball Hall of Fame. This was partially because some all time greats were linked to steroid use. The steroid issue, however, only partially explains why nobody was elected to the Hall of Fame.

Steroids Aren't the Only Problem Facing the Hall of Fame

Lincoln Mitchell | Posted 03.17.2013 | Sports
Lincoln Mitchell

Keeping people out of the Hall of Fame because of suspected or real connections to steroids may or may not be wise, but keeping people out because the voting rules have not changed to fully recognize expansion is not.

Cheating in Sports: A Moving Target

Jose Antonio Tijerino | Posted 03.16.2013 | Sports
Jose Antonio Tijerino

As disgraced cyclist Lance Armstrong flirts with coming clean about steroids to Oprah and ostensibly all-time greats Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens are shut out of the baseball Hall of Fame, the issue of "cheating" has become ubiquitous in sports.

'The Daily Show' Talks Hall Of Fame

Posted 01.11.2013 | Sports

For the first time in seventeen years, the Baseball Writers' Association of America failed to elect a single Hall of Fame candidate from the 2013 ball...

Larry King: Let Bonds, Rose Into Hall Of Fame

Posted 01.10.2013 | Sports

"How did you play the game?" As far as Larry King is concerned this is the only question that should determine whether a player deserves election i...

LOOK: New York Times Gets Creative With Hall Of Fame Coverage

Posted 01.10.2013 | Sports

There will be no "Class of 2013" inducted into the Baseball Hall Of Fame, but there still needed to be coverage of the controversial group of supersta...

In Defense Of Barry Bonds

The Hardball Times | Posted 01.10.2013 | Sports

A lot can be said about Clemens, Schilling, Palmeiro and McGwire, but I want to focus on Barry Bonds. Bonds, along with Clemens, is one of the two sca...

Hall Of Famers' Roid Rage

AP | MIKE FITZPATRICK | Posted 03.11.2013 | Sports

NEW YORK — Keep all the cheaters out of our club. That was the prevailing sentiment from several baseball Hall of Famers who were happy to see ...

Denied

AP | RONALD BLUM | Posted 03.11.2013 | Sports

NEW YORK -- Steroid-tainted stars Barry Bonds, Roger Clemens and Sammy Sosa were denied entry to baseball's Hall of Fame, with voters failing to elect...

Will Bonds, Clemens Or Sosa Get Hall Call?

AP | RONALD BLUM | Posted 03.10.2013 | Sports

NEW YORK -- There's a chance the podium under the chandeliers in the gold-and-ivory-colored Vanderbilt Room of the Waldorf Astoria Hotel will go unuse...

The Hall of Fame and the Jack Clark Test

Lincoln Mitchell | Posted 02.10.2013 | Sports
Lincoln Mitchell

A good test for whether a player should be elected to the Hall of Fame is whether or not he was clearly better than Jack Clark.

Larkin: Hall Of Fame Is No Place For Cheaters

AP | HOWIE RUMBERG | Posted 12.06.2012 | Sports

NEW YORK -- Barry Larkin wants to keep baseball's most exclusive club clean. Inducted into the Hall of Fame last summer after a 19-year career with t...

Some Perspective on the Steroid Era

Lincoln Mitchell | Posted 02.03.2013 | Sports
Lincoln Mitchell

We have a Hall of Fame filled with many players who played in a segregated era and said nothing, who either took amphetamines or looked the way while others did and probably even players who said nothing about the gambling and betting on baseball they saw around them.

SURVEY: Bonds, Clemens Likely Miss In Hall Vote

AP | RONALD BLUM | Posted 12.03.2012 | Sports

NEW YORK -- Baseball's all-time home run king and its most decorated pitcher likely will be shut out of the Hall of Fame in January. A survey by The A...

Sluggers on Steroids and the Hall Of Fame

Richard Greener | Posted 01.29.2013 | Sports
Richard Greener

When it comes to the Hall of Fame, let everyone in or keep them out based on what they did between the lines. Forget about what they did in the bathroom.

Girls Guide to the Top 10 Baseball Hall of Fame Speeches

Lisa Davies | Posted 09.18.2012 | Sports
Lisa Davies

Forget those stats and histories crammed in your head. When you lack knowledge about baseball history like us, you can judge these speeches not by the color of their uniform, but by the content of their clichés. That's why we guarantee that this will be the most unbiased sports article you ever read.

Orioles Hall Of Famer Auctions Trophies For Autism Charity

AP | By DAVID GINSBURG | Posted 07.05.2012 | Impact

BALTIMORE -- Jim Palmer said he no longer needs trophies as mementos of his Hall of Fame career, so the former Baltimore Orioles ace has put his three...

Juicy Debate: Should Steroids Keep Players From Hall?

AP | JOSEPH WHITE | Posted 04.12.2012 | Sports

WASHINGTON -- Steroid use shouldn't keep baseball's best sluggers and pitchers out of the Hall of Fame, the head of the players' union said Wednesday....