The 2009 Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame class is tremendous. All-time assists and steals leader John Stockton, 2-time champion David Robinson, Utah Jazz coach Jerry Sloan and Rutgers University women’s basketball coach C. Vivian Stringer are all a part of this year’s enshrinement class.
However, we’ve buried the lead because you always have to save the best for last – Michael Jordan – the greatest professional basketball player to don an NBA jersey is also heading to Springfield, MA to join his peers on September 12.
We all know about your royal Airness’s accolades: 14-time NBA All-Star, five-time NBA MVP, Defensive Player of the Year (1988), nine-time All-Defensive Team member and – of course – six-time NBA champion and Finals MVP.
Jordan was simply amazing!
With his awe-inspiring feats and triumphant statistical accolades, Scribe Culture wanted to pay tribute to the best hoops player ever. We’ve compiled what we believe are MJ’s greatest moments in the Association, starting with the Chicago Bulls drafting him in 1984.
Developing and maintaining friendships can be very complicated. While most endeavors are approached and achieved with relative ease, such as a promotion at work, passing a class or booking airline tickets, friendships seem hardest to maintain, mainly amongst women.
Earlier this year, I asked a handful of my friends what to do when a woman finds herself in a dispute with another, and more often than not, the response was, “Give her some space, discuss it if possible, and get over it.”
“A misunderstanding is one thing, but a willful offense, quite another,” says Emicia Parker, a fashion designer at the 4W Circle of Arts and Enterprise. “I collect purses and I collect books and magazines. I do not collect people.”
DJ and graphic designer Stanley Pitton thinks people should just “get over it and get past it. Life is too short. Now if this person is dispensable, why waste your time arguing with a brick wall? Keep it moving! Life is too short.”
I don’t agree with Stanley whole-heartily but he raises an interesting conclusion. How does one determine if someone’s influence in his or her life is dispensable? And why does it seem like women would more readily denounce their friendship with another woman than a friendship with a man? Why are women still using the “I mostly have guy friends” line?
From personal experience, we as women expect more from each other. At the height of our friendships, we tell the most sordid, wonderful, private details of our encounters. With guy friends we tend to omit certain details but we give ourselves to each other. We expose ourselves to one other and when that is betrayed, we feel ashamed and naked. There is rarely any coming back from that. We hold grudges and in that space of time we make new friends, harboring this distrust toward females, we oftentimes ally ourselves with male friends.
Sure, men have been written out our books and regaining a friendship with a woman who didn’t use her best discretion is possible, but we need each other. We need to want to keep each other. Who else would give us personally crafted advice on our issues? Who else can we call when we cry at night? Men? Our psychiatrists? The Internet?
I’m not saying to entrust the same woman who betrayed you but rather desire to somehow bring peace to your relations. If you’re sorry, say you’re sorry. If not, smile at her and say “hey” or “good morning.”
If you’re inclined to discuss it with someone, keep it courteous and professional. Avoid trashing her and confrontations. Instigating a situation can only make things more volatile and if she’s the instigator ignore her. Leave the room. She is dispensable and not worth you! Friendship shouldn’t hurt but I’m beginning to think that maybe there is no hope for us unless we make a change for the better. Remember, “In as much as lies within you, live peaceably with all men.”
Nine people are presumed dead after a tragic midair collision over the Hudson river between a Piper PA-32 plane and a Eurocopter AS 350 tourist helicopter. Among the dead are five Italian tourists aboard the chopper, the pilots and two passengers on the plane – sadly enough, one of the passengers on the fallen plane was a 15-year-old girl.
Hundreds of witnesses on both sides of the river watched in disbelief as the low-flying plane lost a wing after clipping the ascending helicopter’s rotors north of the Statue of Liberty.
“Sadly, it appears to us at this point that this was probably not survivable. This is not going to have a happy ending,” said a solemn Mayor Bloomberg, referencing the miracle crash landing of a US Airways Airbus on the Hudson in January.
In support of cyclist Lance Armstrong’s Livestrong Foundation, French DJ Busy P designed these fresh pair of black and maize Nike’s dubbed Livestrong x Busy P Air Force 1. The sneaker was designed as part of Nike and Livestrong’s collaborative global art exhibition, Stages, which was organized to raise funds and awareness for cancer research.
Check out these new Supra Duct Tape kicks. Each pair in the set utilizes duct tape as opposed to sticky adhesives for its fresh look. The Skytop, Skylow and Vaider will all be in stores this week.
Yet another blow to the music industry as VIBE magazine closed its doors today due to the financial restrain of the recession. A statement was released by Editor-in-Chief Danyel Smith stating it was “with great sadness, and with heads held high, that we leave the building today…as the doors of VIBE Media Group close, on the eve of the magazine’s sixteenth anniversary, it’s a sad day for music, for hip hop in particular, and for the millions of readers and users who have loved and who continue to love the VIBE brand.”
The Hip Hop and R&B magazine was introduced to reader in 1992 by music icon Quincy Jones. In an exclusive interview with EbonyJet.com, Jones said he is trying to buy back the magazine and maintain its presence online.
Taiwanese mobile-phone maker HTC showcased its third Google-leveraged, Android-based device, nicknamed Hero, which has a new interface that is easily customized to fit a user’s needs and wants.
The interface is called HTC Sense and it is believed to be the foundation for the company’s goal to set itself apart from its competition in the increasingly saturated high-end phone market.
HTC’s solution was to design Sense to more naturally mirror the way people think and function. For instance, all communications from a given person, including email, texts, photos, Facebook updates and calls, are listed under that person’s name.
Practically this means that instead of digging into each individual application to retrieve a piece of information, users can just tap a person’s name and the information will show up.
