“The World Is Watching” is a six-episode basketball documentary directed by Rik Cordero and narrated by legendary New York City filmmaker Spike Lee. The film features prominent teenage athletes competing in a New York City Basketball tournament called Battle of the Boroughs.

It features the best up and coming basketball players in New York City including rising star Maurice Harkless, currently playing for the Orlando Magic. As the players push their bodies to the limit, they must also live up to the expectations of their coaches, their families and their boroughs.

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50 Cent releases the Music Video for ‘My Life’, new single feat Eminem and Adam Levine

 

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We first broke the Dana Gold Story earlier this year.  Dana recently sat down exclusively with GWOP Magazine in his luxurious suite at the Bellagio in  Las Vegas,  to discuss his upcoming film.  Dana has a 140 page screen play completed, which was written by Bob Burris (Growing Pains TV Series  producer ’90s, In The House  TV Series producer ’90s ) and Brian Rouff (author of Dice Angel).

Here are a few facts to recap the Dana Gold story.

Dana overcame a childhood handicap to become a high school All-American basketball player in the early 1980s.  In his high school days he played alongside NBA greats such as Steve Kerr (5x NBA Champion, NBA 3 pt Champion), Cedric Ceballos (’92 Slam Dunk champion) and Kiki Vandeweghe (2x NBA All Star).  Dana stopped chasing hoop dreams and became “Hoogie” the biggest drug kingpin in Los Angeles moving 100-1000 kilos of cocaine a week. Dana lived according to his motto, “hardwork, dedication and believe in yourself”. Dana Gold broke color barriers with the notorious LA street gangs; Blood’s and Crips, dated super model Brooke Burke (host  of Dancing With The Stars) and helped the career of ex wife R & B singer Cherrelle. Dana took his punishment and paid his debt to society. Read More

Psy’s viral music video hit “Gangnam Style” just passed Justin Bieber’s “Baby” to become the most popular video in the history of YouTube. The video has now been watched over 805 million times. The video made its YouTube debut on July 15 and currently has over 5.3 million likes and about 320,000 dislikes.

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While serving an 11-month sentence at the Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora, N.Y., Tupac Shakur penned a screenplay, which is the only script the popular rapper/actor ever wrote. Now, development has started on getting Shakur’s work made into an actually film. Read More


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#4. The Weeknd – Trilogy – 86,000 (86,000)

#18. Kendrick Lamar – good kid, m.A.A.d. city – 34,000 (379,000)

#22. Ne-Yo – R.E.D. – 25,000 (91,000)

#27. Meek Mill – Dreams & Nightmares – 21,000 (227,000)

#49. Travis Barker & Yelawolf – Psycho White – 11,000 (11,000)

#59. 2 Chainz – Based On A T.R.U. Story – 8,600 (383,000)

#62. Macklemore & Ryan Lewis – The Heist – 8,100 (134,000)

#186. E-40 & Too Short – History: Function Music – 2,600 (9,100)

#189. Nas – Life Is Good – 2,600 (326,000)

#196. Buckshot & 9th Wonder – The Solution – 2,300 (2,400)

* data comes from Nielsen Soundscan, rounded to nearest thousandth for units above 10,000, nearest hundredth for units below 10,000.

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The Grinnell College sophomore guard scored an NCAA-record 138 points during the Pioneers’ 179-104 win Tuesday night against Faith Baptist Bible College in an Iowa-school Division III matchup.

Taylor, a 5-10, 170-pound guard from Black River Falls, Wisconsin, shot 52-of-108 from the field, 27-of-71 from 3-point range, and 7-of-10 from the free-throw line to finish with the historic, head-shaking line of 138 points.

Source: USAToday