AP – Washington Nationals outfielder Nyjer Morgan has received an eight-game suspension stemming his part in a brawl during a game against the Florida Marlins.
WADA reports breakthrough in gene doping tests (AP)
September 3rd, 2010 
admin AP – Two groups of scientists have developed tests for gene doping in what the World Anti-Doping Agency hails as a major breakthrough in fighting the next round of cheating in sports.
Posted in Sports Roethlisberger suspension reduced to 4 games (AP)
September 3rd, 2010 admin 
AP – Ben Roethlisberger is getting time off for good behavior.
Posted in Sports Eminem, Jay-Z Joined By Dr. Dre, Drake At Historic Detroit Concert
September 3rd, 2010 admin D12, 50 Cent and G-Unit, Young Jeezy also hit Comerica Park stage as Em, Hov unleash flurry of hits on first stop of Home and Home Tour.
By Shaheem Reid
Eminem and Jay-Z perform in Detroit on Thursday
Photo: Kevin Mazur/ WireImage
Detroit hasn’t screamed this loud at a baseball park since Kirk Gibson was hitting home runs in the 1984 World Series. Hip-hop history was made as Jay-Z and Eminem co-headlined the Motor City’s Comerica Park (home of the D-Town Tigers for the past decade) on Thursday night (September 2), the first of two shows on consecutive nights.
While Jay’s high-grossing touring schedule helped him to top this year’s Forbes’ “Hip-Hop Cash King” list, Eminem took a much-needed sabbatical to deal with a myriad of personal issues. Now beyond his darkest hour, Em had one of his brightest moments ever onstage. Not only did he gift his hometown with a seemingly endless string of hits, he pulled off some major surprises. After D12, 50 Cent and the G-Unit — acts that fans likely expected — came out for performances with Em, Slim Shady pulled off a shocker. Dr. Dre came out, first stunning the people then delighting them with smashes.
After his name appeared on the Comerica big screen, the man heralded by many as the greatest producer of his time came out to the opening notes of his world-famous “Next Episode.” Then the familiar first keys of “Still Dre” were played.
“Haters say Dre fell off,” the Doc rapped. “How n—a? My last album was The Chronic.”
After that, the Shady/Aftermath duo took it back to Dre’s Chronic days with “Nuthin’ But a ‘G’ Thang.”
“One, two, three and to the fo,” Em rapped in Snoop’s cadence.
” ‘Cause you know we came to rip sh– up!” Dre spit later.
Dr. Dre appeared to be in the best shape of his life. Wearing a T-shirt with the late Proof’s face printed on it, Dre looked strong enough to end the Undertaker’s undefeated streak at Wrestlemania.
“Got dammit, Detroit. Do I love you or what?” Eminem asked his fans. “Look what I brought out for you.”
Em then told Dre he wanted him to feel the love; Detox chants followed.
“Deeee-tox. Deeee-tox,” they yelled from the bleachers to the bullpen. Dre just smiled and said, “I’m Comin’!”
One would-be guest who couldn’t attend for obvious reasons was Lil Wayne. But Shady made sure to salute Weezy after “No Love.” And the Young Money flag did wave proudly in Detroit as Drake came out for “Forever” and gave a special nod to the Motor City.
“In Detroit, faded off the brown,” Drake rapped.
“Nino!!!!” the crowd responded.
“I’m so honored to be here to tonight. This is history in the making. I want y’all to make some noise for the muthaf—in’ legend that is Emimem.”
Em’s legend was largely built off his mastery of music and a catalog made for the kind of environment he played on Thursday: stadiums. The Detroit rapper has been making sing-along anthems throughout his career. Not just tracks you rap in the shower or in the car, but big records like “Sing for the Moment,” “Stan” and “Cleaning Out My Closet” — tracks practically begging for an audience of tens of thousands holding lighters up. Em proved he still has that rare connection with his fanbase. Grown men took off their shirts and got rock-n-roll rowdy when he rapped.
“Got dammit, Detroit, I’m back,” Em said early on in the night. “Did you miss me?”
It was clear that Em missed his fans as well. He was engaging, lively and energetic on this night. After the “Real Slim Shady” and “Without Me,” Em thanked his fans again.
“I love you. This song is for you.” “Not Afraid” followed. After screams of “encore, encore,” Em brought out the Unit, D12 and Detroit legend Trick Trick who had earlier performed on “Lose Yourself.”
Thursday’s Home and Home show kicked off with B.o.B, who came back later for “Airplanes, Pt. 2,” and set the tone with a quick set that included “Nothin’ on You.”
The audience was eventually alerted that the Jiggaman was 10 minutes away from showtime. Two clocks filled two oversize screens on the enormous stage while the Beastie Boys’ “No Sleep Till Brooklyn” blared from the speakers. When the countdown hit “0,” Jay rose from beneath the stage, the lyrically intricate “Dynasty Intro” being played by his band, the Roc Boys. Then a brief snippet of “Lucifer” played before Jay went into his jaw-dropping verse from Rick Ross’ “Free Mason.”
During “D.O.A. (Death of Auto-Tune),” Jay rhymed “this might need a verse from Jeezy.” On cue, the Snowman came out for the “Dey Know” remix followed by “Soul Survivor.” His mini-set ended with “Put on for My City” and “Lose My Mind.”
After that though, it was the Jay hit parade — with assistance from Memphis Bleek. The Brooklyn duo rocked with a flurry of big records, including “You Don’t Know,” “99 Problems” and “(Originator 99).” During “Big Pimpin’,” Jay delivered Pimp C’s verse in the late UGK legend’s cadence.
“What y’all know about them Deetroit boys?” Hov asked.
A tribute to hip-hop’s fallen soldiers ensued, as the audience shouted in unison, “Prrrrrooooooooof!”
“I know y’all going through a lot, but Detroit has heart and Detroit will be back,” Jay said.
Hov and Slim Shady shared but a few minutes of stage time as Jay emerged for “Renegade” during Em’s set.
The Home and Home Tour continues Friday night (September 3) at Comerica Park and comes to the Bronx, New York, on September 13 and 14 at Yankee Stadium.
Were you at Jay and Em’s Detroit stop? Tell us what you thought of the show!
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Posted in Music Lady Gaga Poses As Lady Liberty On Magazine Cover
September 3rd, 2010 admin Pop star poses alongside Marc Jacobs for the New York issue of V Magazine.
By James Dinh
Lady Gaga on the cover of <i>V Magazine</i>
Photo: V Magazine, LLC
As evidenced by her recent well-publicized attendance at a Mets game and her glorious Madison Square Garden show, Lady Gaga has always repped for her hometown of New York City. So it’s no surprise that Gaga is paying tribute to the Big Apple by posing as the Statue of Liberty alongside fashion guru Marc Jacobs on the fall cover of V Magazine.
Posing with Jacobs, a shopping cart and an old TV set, Gaga stands with her mouth slightly open in a black lace bra and panties with a gray dress sliding off her body. With her toned abs and her hair shaped into a crown, the pop star is holding a burning torch, mimicking the New York landmark. And while Gaga does her best impression of the neoclassical sculpture, Jacobs remains serious and firm, sitting on top of the television in a traditional black-and-white suit. In another photo, the singer is seen crouched in the carriage as she’s pushed around by the fashion designer with her torch held high. Just last year, the singer appeared on the fall issue of the magazine donning Jacobs-designed pieces.
In the issue, which is on sale now, V Magazine highlights some of New York’s most profound figures, people they say “are making the city their own way.”
Editor Stephen Gan revealed that he chose the pop star because her representative values parallel those of the magazine. “Just as the Statue of Liberty was France’s gift to America, Gaga is, to us, New York’s greatest gift to pop culture and fashion,” he said in a statement. “She embodies everything V is about, and is also a beacon of the city’s creativity and hope. Exactly one year after her first V cover (the first fashion magazine cover she was on), we decided to do the NEW YORK issue, and she was the first person who came to mind to represent our great city.”
Gan declared Gaga “a bonafide genius” and credited her as V Magazine’s “muse” of inspiration. “Above all, a New York issue should celebrate people who’ve done great things. We at V are grateful Gaga came along to put the New back in New York!” he concluded.
But the singer doesn’t always leave fashion editors with the best impression. Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour spoke about the pop star during her stop at “Late Night With Jimmy Fallon” on Wednesday.
“We had Lady Gaga this year,” she said of the singer’s performance at this year’s Metropolitan Museum Costume Institute Gala. “She was communing with God and she was praying in the back, waiting for God to tell her it was all right to actually go onstage.” Wintour chuckled before revealing that Gaga left the audience waiting for more than 40 minutes.
To learn more about Lady Gaga’s crazy road to fashion icon, watch “VMAs: Revealed Saturday at 11 a.m. on MTV.
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Posted in Music ‘Social Network’ Star Jesse Eisenberg Is Immune To Movie’s Buzz
September 2nd, 2010 admin As he dives into other projects, Eisenberg hasn’t paid attention to anticipation for this fall’s Facebook flick.
By Eric Ditzian
Jesse Eisenberg and Joseph Mazzello in “The Social Network”
Photo: Sony Pictures
Jesse Eisenberg doesn’t have a lot of free time at the moment. He’s holed up in Grand Rapids, Michigan, filming the action/comedy “30 Minutes or Less,” and when he’s not on set — as happened on a recent Sunday evening — he’s often writing term papers as part of the undergraduate anthropology degree he’s pursuing.
That, at least in part, explains why the 26-year-old hasn’t been paying close attention to the buzz — from beguiling teaser trailers to early rave reviews — about his upcoming turn as Mark Zuckerberg in “The Social Network,” the David Fincher-directed film about the founding of Facebook.
“I’m really immersed in this movie,” Eisenberg told us on the “30 Minutes” set. “My sister did send me a text message saying that there were posters up in New York (for ‘Social Network’).”
But that explains only part of it. The other explanation is that Eisenberg simply can’t stand to watch his own performances until time has passed and he has enough emotional distance from what he was attempting to accomplish in a role.
“I don’t like to watch the movies I’ve been in when they first come out because to me it’s only disappointing, even if the movies are great,” he admitted. “I’ve gotten to be in some great movies, but I feel personally disappointed with myself, so I like to wait until the initial attention dies down and it’s a little more comfortable to watch them.”
“Social Network” arrives October 1, so it will be a while until Eisenberg sits down to watch what has become one of the most-anticipated films of the year. Based on Ben Mezrich’s bestseller “The Accidental Billionaires,” the movie brings together some of Hollywood’s leading talent: Fincher, screenwriter Aaron Sorkin, Andrew Garfield, who’s just been named the new Spider-Man, and Rooney Mara, who nabbed the starring role in “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.” Its pitch-perfect trailers have only served to increase the buzz, and, according to The New York Times even Facebook itself is said to be worried that the film — which presents the founding of the company in a less-than-flattering light — will have a long-term negative impact on its core business.
At the center of it all is Eisenberg, an actor who certainly fits the portrait of Zuckerberg constructed in “Accidental Billionaires”: nebbish, introverted, quietly confident. To capture all of these traits, Fincher would often film hundreds of takes of each scene, leading to a two-and-a-half-month production.
“Why actors love working with him and why I loved working with him is because you try a scene in 200 different ways, you know he is able to edit together several different performances for each role,” Eisenberg said of Fincher. “One of the interesting aspects of my character was disengagement, so the character is kind of a little aloof and emotionally, really quite reserved. For my collaboration with the director on that movie, we would be often doing half the scene 60 times one way, then 60 times a little more engaged.
“It’s kind of a wonderful experience for an actor,” he added, “because you get to experiment within the scenes in a way that, on any other movie set, may be seen as indulgent and asking for too much.”
From the saucy Jessica Alba in “Little Fockers” to James Franco’s grueling journey in “127 Hours,” the MTV Movies team is delving into the hottest flicks of fall 2010. Check back daily for exclusive clips, photos and interviews with the films’ biggest stars.
Check out everything we’ve got on “The Social Network.”
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Posted in Movies Rihanna Begins Filming ‘Battleship’ In Hawaii
September 2nd, 2010 admin Photos of the singer from the movie’s set surface online.
By James Dinh
Rihanna on the set of “Battleship” on Wednesday
Photo: Splash News
While rumors of a new single spread across the Internet, Rihanna is already beginning work on the set of her feature film debut in “Battleship.” Photos of the Barbadian songstress surfaced online yesterday showing a brunette Rihanna dressed in character.
Donning a traditional U.S. Navy getup with gloves and work boots, the singer was spotted in Hawaii on the set of the Peter Berg-directed science-fiction movie, wearing a nametag with the name “Raikes.” The board-game adaptation is the story of naval officers who use Earth’s ships to fight against alien intruders.
According to one of Rihanna’s latest tweets, the singer is scheduled to continue work in Hawaii for two weeks. “HAWAII…Hawaii…hawaii……who wouldn’t want to work here for 2 weeks,” she tweeted, along with a photo of her posing on a balcony.
In addition to the pop star, the film’s cast lineup includes “True Blood” star Alexander Skarsgård, Taylor Kitsch of “Friday Night Lights” and bombshell supermodel Brooklyn Decker.
Skarsgård told MTV News that the film will be “quite different from the board game,” and added that he doesn’t think “Battleship” will follow the latest trend of filming in 3-D. Skarsgård will play a commander of one of the Navy destroyers in the film.
Universal has set “Battleship” for May 25, 2012, release.
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Posted in Movies Get Ready For Jay-Z And Eminem’s Epic Stadium Shows!
September 2nd, 2010 admin 
Get Ready For Jay-Z And Eminem’s Epic Stadium Shows!
We’re getting excited for the big shows happening at Detroit’s Comerica Park and New York’s Yankee Stadium featuring the best of both cities, Jay-Z and Eminem.
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Posted in News MTV News Extended Play: Chelsea Handler
September 2nd, 2010 admin 
MTV News Extended Play: Chelsea Handler
The candid comedian talks Justin Bieber, “Jersey Shore,” and her new gig hosting the MTV Video Music Awards.
Posted in News US pulls away in 2nd half to rout Tunisia 92-57 (AP)
September 2nd, 2010 admin 
AP – Eric Gordon scored 21 points and the United States pulled away from Tunisia after sleepwalking through the first half, winning 92-57 on Thursday in its final game of pool play at the world championship.
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