Victor Ortiz relearned one of the first rules of boxing - protect yourself at all times - the hard way, dropping his guard and then getting knocked out by Floyd Mayweather Jr. at 2:59 of the fourth round last night at the MGM Grand Garden Arena.
With the victory, Mayweather regained the WBC welterweight championship and maintained his unblemished ring… Continue
The world's largest sperm bank is telling redheads to keep their semen.
Demand for ginger-haired donors is so low that Cryos International says they needn't bother donating.
"There are too many redheads in relation to demand," Ole Schou, the director of Cryos, told the Danish newspaper, Ekstrabladet, according to London's Telegraph.
A back-to-school event at a Montreal university is being characterized as racist after students painted themselves in blackface.
Students at the Universite de Montreal's business school dressed up as Jamaican sprinters, with black paint covering their skin, for a frosh-week event.
One witness, who is of Jamaican descent, said he felt… Continue
The Broward Sheriff's Office released video Thursday of a wild brawl aboard a school bus in Oakland Park.
BSO said five sisters allegedly boarded the bus last week and punched some middle school kids.
The bus surveillance video shows a group of young women struggle past the bus driver as he tries to hold them back, and the bus erupts into… Continue
Kanye West closed out Day 1 of the Austin City Limits Music Festival at Zilker Park in Austin, Texas, in grand fashion. He didn’t need any guests (Jay-Z and Coldplay’s Chris Martin were rumored surprises) to shine with his expansive repertoire of hits. The rapper, who will embark on the Watch the Throne tour with Jay-Z on October 29, suffered from technical… Continue
Scared a$$ ni**a b!tched up & his man gets mad @ him & tells him he gotta knuckle up! In the hood only the strong survive & b!tch ni**as get made an example of!…
The Urbanworld Film Festival is back - for its 15th anniversary, no less - and the next two days will bring a typical mix of high-profile premieres and thoughtful debuts.
Friday night's pick may be Mario Van Peebles' "All Things Fall Apart." 50 Cent, who co-wrote and co-produced, stars as a college running back with increasingly shaky NFL dreams.
Dame Dash can breathe a little easier as his "bootlegging" charges have been put to rest.
A Manhattan judge agreed to settle the restraining order that was placed on 172 Duane Street, the building that housed his DD172 studio/building, after claims that the property's owners and Damon Dash were selling and distributing alcohol without a license.
There are enough celebrity children breaking into show business these days. And Nick Cannon swears he and wife Mariah Carey won't be adding to the crop.
The "America's Got Talent" insisted to People that his 4 ½-month-old twins, Moroccan and Monroe, will "absolutely not" pursue careers in the entertainment industry.
The fact that crack cocaine and hip hop became the two biggest elements of urban street culture in the 1980s, suggests a new VH1 documentary, was not entirely coincidence.
"Planet Rock" (Sunday night at 10) doesn't suggest hip hop caused the crack epidemic, or vice versa. It does argue that they fed off each other, particularly hip hop off the crack… Continue
A young Irishman is facing an international drug trafficking rap after authorities collared him at a South American airport with nearly a kilo of cocaine buried in his bowels.
Brazilian authorities busted the 20-year-old drug mule Monday as he tried to hop a flight at Congonhas Airport in Sao Paolo bound for Portugal, The Independent of Ireland… Continue
Queens-bred NBA star Ron Artest scored the new name Metta World Peace in a California courtroom Friday.
His Lakers jersey will now say World Peace on the back, his publicist said, but it's not clear how ABC will deal with the quirky new moniker during his "Dancing With the Stars" debut Monday.
"I think there will be more about that when he goes on the… Continue
R. Kelly made a rare appearance during the close of New York Fashion Week. Kellz suited up and had the well-dressed crowd sweating to his R&B jams during ARISE Magazine’s Made in Africa fashion show after-party at the Jumeirah Essex House in New York City.
“All I can say is R muthercking Kelly. If you weren’t at the Essex house for the Arise Mag party, you missed… Continue
In an interview set to run in Sunday's issue of Parade, the "Moneyball" star, 47, talks about life with partner Angelina Jolie, 36, fatherhood and, yes, mistakes he made during his marriage to Jennifer Aniston, 42.
"I spent the '90s trying to hide out, trying to duck the full celebrity cacophony. I started to get sick of myself sitting on a couch, holding a joint,… Continue
A 14-year-old Puerto Rican girl stabbed 37 of her classmates with a hypodermic needle, inciting panic that they had been infected with HIV or hepatitis C, officials said.
The incident occurred Tuesday during lunchtime at a school in the southern coastal town of Arroyo, The Associated Press reported.
Investigators said they were still trying to figure out… Continue
Young Money’s teen idol cut part of his trademark hair during a live Ustream session with his fans.
“I’m getting rid of this Mohawk. The Mohawk is like six years old. It’s been having so much swag for so many years, but now it’s time to switch it up,” said the 18-year-old rapper before his barber brought out the clippers.
Jimmy Henchman Used To Ship Cocaine, Cash At Interscope Records
The office of Interscope Records is coming under scrutiny now that the Smoking Gun reports that it was at one time, a helm for drugs and cash.
As previously reported James "Jimmy Henchman" Rosemond was arrested following a month long manhunt and charged with intentionally conspiring to… Continue