East Coast rivalry: Jay-Z sues David Ortiz over nightclub name

Did Big Papi just pull off a big copy?
That's what rapper and noted Yankee fan Jay-Z is contending after he and a business partner filed a lawsuit against the Boston Red Sox star on Thursday.
Jigga's beef? Ortiz opened a nightclub in Santo Domingo in his native Dominican Republic and named it "Forty-Forty."
Jay-Z thinks that's a sample that's too close to his line of "sports lounges" which carry the "40/40 Club" name ... no matter if Ortiz is spelling out the digits in order to be different.
Reuters has more:
"Jay-Z and Juan Perez(notes) own 40/40 Clubs in New York City, Atlantic City and Las Vegas and have plans to open further venues in Tokyo and Macau.
"They have accused Ortiz of trading on the fame, value and goodwill of their name through his club Forty/Forty and its website, www.fortyforty.net, which they say has caused their business 'marketplace confusion and damage,' the lawsuit said.
"'David Ortiz(notes) is fully aware of plaintiff's Manhattan 40/40 Club, since he had been a patron there on several occasions long before he opened his infringing Forty/Forty Club,' said the lawsuit filed in Manhattan federal court.
According to the 40/40 Club website, Jay-Z picked the name for his club because "the 40/40 club in baseball is as exclusive as it gets." But as Fanhouse's Tom Fornelli points out, Ortiz has never had a 40 homer, 40 steal season so it doesn't make sense for him to rip off the name — no matter how much he likes the food.
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Thanks to Papi's lapse in creativity, this has to qualify as one of the strangest instances of the Red Sox-Yankees rivalry. Not that Ortiz's performance can fall any further — he's hitting .154 with 13 strikeouts in 26 at-bats this season — but dragging a Red Sox rival into court is one heck of a great mind game from a Yankees fan.
Wonder what Jay-Z's path would have been if it was A-Rod who did the same thing?

Weezy anounces release of "Tha Carter IV"

Wayne mentioned the possibility of this album as early as September 2008. He began recording this album in early October 2008, but later that month he claimed that he did not want this to follow Tha Carter III immediately. In early 2009, Wayne changed his position; he stated that he will release this album in 2009, the same year as his rock album Rebirth, around the end of the year. Production duo Play-N-Skillz has been tapped to contribute production. Birdman stated that Tha Carter IV will be packaged with Rebirth as a double disc album. However, Wayne denied this idea saying that "Tha Carter IV deserves Tha Carter IV". After several rumors stating that the album would be released in 2009, Wayne told Billboard that the album would be released in 2010. However, due to Wayne's current jail sentence, he stated that the album would be released in 2011 shortly after his release. It has been reported that he has completed 20 songs for the album. Two music videos for unknown songs were shot in February 2010 and have been confirmed to be on Tha Carter IV.

Kentucky lands a pair of No. 1 recruits on the same day!! DAMN

It has been a foregone conclusion for weeks that Gatorade national player of the year Brandon Knight would don a Kentucky cap when he announced his college choice on the first day of the spring signing period.
The timing of highly touted junior Michael Gilchrist's commitment, however, is a far bigger surprise.
By persuading both Rivals.com's top-ranked recruits in the class of 2010 and 2011 to pledge to Kentucky in nationally televised announcements on the very same day, Wildcats coach John Calipari has pulled off a basketball and PR masterstroke.
On the court, Kentucky adds two potential cornerstones of future title runs. Off of it, the Wildcats' Elite Eight loss to West Virginia and the likely departure of five NBA-bound underclassmen suddenly become old news, replaced by a celebration of the imminent arrival of the program's next two stars.
Knight, a 6-foot-3 point guard who averaged 31.9 points and 8.6 rebounds per game for Pine Crest High School in Florida, chose Kentucky over Kansas, Syracuse, UConn and Florida. Gilchrist, a 6-foot-6 wing from Elizabeth (N.J.) St. Patrick High School, spurned Villanova and Oregon, following through on a promise he made as early as eighth grade to attend college wherever Calipari was coaching.
"I like Coach Cal a lot, I like his staff and i like the fans there are lot," Gilchrist said. "They have a lot of energy. It's really crazy there."
Although it's certainly possible that Kentucky's incoming class won't immediately elevate the Wildcats to the heights that John Wall and DeMarcus Cousins did, it's also hard to imagine the program slipping too far. Adding Knight to a 2010 class that already includes highly touted Turkish big man Enes Kanter and forward Stacey Poole gives Kentucky three potential immediate contributors for next season, while Gilchrist provides the foundation for 2011.
Knight made his announcement Wednesday in a packed auditorium at Pine Crest. Asked which school he was selecting, the 6-foot-3 point guard paused for dramatic effect, reached into a bag underneath the table and donned a blue UK hat to a thunderous ovation from his classmates.
"I felt it was the place that had great players, great environment and just a place where I can elevate my game," Knight said. "It came down to being comfortable there when I went on my visit and feeling I could get better at Kentucky."
[Video: Dunk contest goes hilariously wrong.]
It's easy to see why Knight would be enamored with Kentucky considering Calipari's track record with elite point guards in recent years. Derrick Rose is an NBA all-star, Tyreke Evans is the favorite for rookie of the year and Wall is the leading contender to be selected No. 1 in the draft.
Then again, Knight is no lock to be one and done — whether his play next season warrants it or not. The gifted student reportedly has a 4.3 GPA and has yet to receive anything less than an A in high school.
Kentucky is still involved with a handful of other elite unsigned recruits in the class of 2010 including guard Josh Selby and forwards Terrence Jones and C.J. Leslie, so Knight will do his part to recruit them.
"There's a lot of great players out there," he said. "Whoever wants to come, I'm going to try to get them to come."

Line of the day

I'm fresh I'm fly I'm always high

Don't tell Kobe Bryant what he can't do (Video Below)

There are a few hard and fast rules to consider when watching Kobe Bryant(notes) play basketball.
First, just assume anything is within the realm of possibility for Kobe when he's on the court. That way, when he does something unbelievable you don't go in to cardiac arrest. You should also probably know that nine out of 10 times, Kobe is taking the game's last shot. Of those nine shots, probably four of them are going in, even if they seem like a terrible look. Just be prepared.
And probably the most important, especially if you happen to be a broadcaster, never tell Kobe Bryant he can't do something because he'll make you look silly on national television.
Sorry, Jeff Van Gundy. Apparently you forgot Kobe trained with Hakeem Olajuwon before this season and learned a whole bunch of post moves. As such, you violated the third rule, and therefore had to pay the consequences. There's a reason I have these made up rules — they're for your protection.
I guess one way to deal with a nagging right finger injury is to add a left-handed hook shot in your 13th NBA season. Between that and his penchant for lefty buzzer beaters, eventually Kobe won't even need that right hand. Maybe he can donate it to the Gatorade Sports Science Institute for testing or cloning purposes.

Verse of the day:

"This is your life and you're in school to get right"
"Nah, music is my sun and you blocking my light".

(Highly Recomended) I Hate College (Remix) - Sam Adams [Lyrics Below]

i hate college but love all the parties
finishing kegs and crushing bottles of bacardi
king or the class, id rather lay up with a hottie
single doesnt mean im looking for somebody
some say a drink blaze up a hardly
puffin' PK, ski a little bit of mali
am i out my mind most people say probably
but ive been on my grind puffin' nugs of that cali, collie

pack my bag no parents didn't drop me off
i felt lost saw some herbs all wearin lacoste
couple dudes in pinnies musta played lacrosse
grabbed my duffle and i hustled through the dormitory doors
of course my homie lived on the same floor
soon to blow trees and down to pound coors
down to pound whores, out of time though
flow the better up to the whole town oooh

i hate college but love getting laid
socialite swagga at night when the sun fades
check my sun shades talking about upgrades
i cant see the haters no more i feel great
my eyes 20/20 so sunny when skies gray
im loved by the hunnies what more can i say
im just getting paid working like a slave
between school athletics and music its all day

so invite your friends to come play
gave you the invite if you miss it dont complain
if you lucky get a kiss but miss no thats lame
wanna get it in with wizzy, im your man
sweating bullets no fan can contain
short to pull it, but quick to amaze
im looking forward to tours in these planes
seeing the cork popping from bottles of champagne
dear lord taking your name in vain
all these sins in college i made
well well my games off the chain
i last a couple hours tomorrow go insane

i hate college but love all the parties
finishing kegs and crushing bottles of bacardi
king or the class, id rather lay up with a hottie
single doesnt mean im looking for somebody
some say a drink blaze up a hardly
puffin' PK, ski a little bit of mali
am i out my mind most people say probably
but ive been on my grind puffin' nugs of that cali, collie

i hate college but love all the parties
finishing kegs and crushing bottles of bacardi
king or the class, id rather lay up with a hottie
single doesnt mean im looking for somebody
some say a drink blaze up a hardly
puffin' PK, ski a little bit of mali
am i out my mind most people say probably
but ive been on my grind puffin' nugs of that cali, collie

i cant sleep cause my god damn teach keeps assigning essays
due at the end of each week
but little do they know i got a show by the beach
watching girls flash wizzy way more than their teeth
they mad id rather learn flows than their lesson plans
but sit me down asking do you get the message sam
this is your life and you're in school to get right
nah, music is my sun and you blocking my light
and if i dont blow get high and ignite
my life full of lines so my money gets nice
well money's not happiness, you'll only get greedier
but shit it'd make life a whole lot easier
and my field gets a whole lot cheesier
dominos bread but still getting meatier

but schools good for one thing i must add
and thats having a plethora of my vocab
whole bags of verbs that i must grab
and throw down like a rich girls bar tab

i hate college but love all the parties
finishing kegs and crushing bottles of bacardi
king or the class, id rather lay up with a hottie
single doesnt mean im looking for somebody
some say a drink blaze up a hardly
puffin' PK, ski a little bit of mali
am i out my mind most people say probably
but ive been on my grind puffin' nugs of that cali, collie
but ive been on my grind puffin' nugs of that cali, cali

Kobe Bryant