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CHICAGO — Chicago Bulls guard Derrick Rose is the youngest Most Valuable Player award-winner in the history of the NBA.

The 22-year-old Rose was officially announced as MVP on Tuesday after leading the Bulls to a 62-20 record and No. 1 seed in the playoffs.

Rose got 1,182 points and 113 first-place votes from a panel of media voters, supplanting Wes Unseld as the youngest to win the award with a runaway win. Orlando’s Dwight Howard (643 points) finished second, Miami’s LeBron James was third, the Lakers’ Kobe Bryant was fourth and Oklahoma City star Kevin Durant finished fifth.

The Chicago-born point guard had a breakout third season, averaging 25 points, 7.7 assists and 4.1 rebounds. After a summer with the U.S. National team, Rose made a significant leap.

During the Bulls’ media day in September, Rose wondered aloud in front of the media why he couldn’t win the MVP award. Eight months later, Rose answered his own question.
“Back in training camp when I said I wanted to be MVP, I wasn’t trying to be cocky at all,” Rose said Tuesday. “I knew that I put a lot of hard work in over the summer in the offseason, and I just wanted to push myself.”

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Allen, TX — A Texas high school is building a $60 million football stadium.

Most of the people living in Allen voted in favor of a $119 million bond for the project. Allen High School’s stadium holds about 14,000 fans but it’s a tight fit believe it or not.

The marching band has more than 600 members, which makes it the largest in the nation. The new stadium will have 18,000 seats and is scheduled to open in 2012.

The Great state of Texas (home of George W. Bush) obviously is not a victim of the recession that has hit hard in cities like Detroit, MI which is scheduled to close half of its public schools (DPS) creating classrooms with 60:1 Student to Teacher ratio for 2012 school year.

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Jay-Z may be the most influential rapper alive, but Hip Hop is a game for the younger crowd.  Nas, Snoop Dogg, Kayne West, Outkast, E 40 and Jigga are pioneers in the rap game but there is a new wave of Hip Hop talent amongst us.  We doubt L.A. Reid or any major label executive is going to sign a 40 year old rapper or rap group in this economy.

The staff over at GWOP Magazine has compiled a list of the best rappers in Hip Hop 29 years and younger.  Checkout the full list after the jump.

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Lisa Nicole Lopes (May 27, 1971 – April 25, 2002) better known by her stage name Left Eye, was an American rapper, singer, dancer, and songwriter, best known as a member of the R&B girl group TLC.

Lopes contributed her self-written raps to many of TLC’s hit singles, including “Ain’t 2 Proud 2 Beg“, “What About Your Friends“, “Hat 2 da Back“, “No Scrubs“, “Waterfalls“, and “Girl Talk“.

Lopes was the sole fatality of a car accident in Honduras on this date 9 years ago.  She died at the age of 30 years young.   Watch video below of Lopes’ last minutes before swerving to avoid a head on collision.  From the video, Lopes was not wearing a seat belt.    R.I.P. Lisa “Left Eye” Lopes

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