All those critics seem awfully quiet this morning… Cam Newton’s pro career began on the same field where his electric college career ended. And just like the BCS title game in January, Newton was flinging the ball all over University of Phoenix Stadium and leading his offense up and down the field. While confetti fell on Newton after Auburn beat Oregon for the national championship, there would be no storybook ending for the Panthers’ quarterback Sunday. He’ll have to settle for tying the best passing performance by a rookie in NFL history. Brushing off criticism that he could not succeed as a pro passer, Newton shredded the Arizona secondary for 422 yards and accounted for all three of the Panthers’ touchdowns. But the Cardinals took advantage of secondary and special teams breakdowns by the Panthers to claim a 28-21 victory and spoil the debut of the No. 1 draft pick. Newton broke the record held by Peyton Manning (302) for passing yards by a rookie in Week 1 and equaled Matthew Stafford’s record total for rookies. Stafford, the No. 1 overall pick of Detroit, threw for 422 yards against Cleveland in Week 10 in 2009. Play on playa, we see you! Source
“If you don’t buy me toys, I’ll start smoking again!” An Indonesian child who gained worldwide infamy for smoking aged just two years old has quit. But has told his mother he will smoke again unless she buys him toys. Ardi Rizal was found by a US news show and became famous when a shocking video of him puffing on a cigarette went viral. The show found that Rizal wasn’t an isolated case in the country however when they discovered another smoker aged just two called Chairul, who lives in a fishing village in Eastern Java. He was shown lighting up a cigarette straight after waking up from a nap, with help from his granddad. The grandfather told the show he allows Chairul to smoke because it tastes good, ‘like bread with chocolate.’ As Chairul smokes beside him, he said he doesn’t think it is a problem. ‘He sometimes smokes two packs a day,’ he said. He then added: ‘If the boy doesn’t smoke, he doesn’t feel good.’ It’s all right, he said, ‘as long as he drinks enough coffee with his cigarettes.’ In another town, ABC’s 20/20 programme found seven-year-old Maulana, who even blows out rings of smoke as his mother watches on. He is said to smoke a pack a day. His mother says she knows the cigarettes are deadly, but cannot take them away otherwise ‘he gets weak and starts crying’. The show accuses tobacco companies of exploiting loose advertising rules to target young people in a country where there is no age limit to buy cigarettes. Eventually, the show’s crew tracked down Ardi, now a chubby 4-year-old living in Sumatra, who was wearing some flamboyant sunglasses. The boy famously was supposed to have quit after the country’s embarrassed officials got him in rehab. But his mother said he uses it as a threat. ‘If I don’t buy him toys, he threatens to start smoking again,’ said his mother. Asked if he still smokes, he replies that he will ‘never smoke again’. But his mother said she caught him with a cigarette recently because people in town offer them to him when he visits. This is so sad. Those babies should be nowhere near cigarettes let alone smoking one and two packs a day. Source
Grab ya Kleenex for this one folks… Ontlametse Phalatse is a 12-year old girl that has been diagnosed with the aging disease known as progeria. Doctors give her only two years to live but the young girl from South Africa has dreams to be a psychologist. Phalatse says, “So that I can work on the problems of other people and so that they can accept the way that they are because they can see that I accept the way I am.” She calls herself the first lady. “I call myself a first lady because I’m the first black child with this disease … Which other black child do you know with this disease?” she said. Read more at HipHopWired
Can you guess who this is bustin’ the mean sag while hopping into his ride with a purple Member’s Only jacket and jeggins on? Yes. That is Bieber . Who now thinks he is Kanye West. We do not approve. SplashNews.com
Throughout his visit to Asia Dwight Howard has been spotted committing random acts of randomness and here’s the most recent: a Mongolian dance with a group of children in some kind of nightclub. We’re not going to ask why these kids are up in the club though… Source
Throughout his visit to Asia Dwight Howard has been spotted committing random acts of randomness and here’s the most recent: a Mongolian dance with a group of children in some kind of nightclub. We’re not going to ask why these kids are up in the club though… Source
Throughout his visit to Asia Dwight Howard has been spotted committing random acts of randomness and here’s the most recent: a Mongolian dance with a group of children in some kind of nightclub. We’re not going to ask why these kids are up in the club though… Source
We’ve all come across some truly shocking things on the internet from time to time, but these pictures take the cake! The world wide web can be a cruel place, where people with keyboard courage can say, post, and tweet whatever type of bull$#!t they like with no fear of consequences. We’ve gathered some pictures that might make you ask aloud “What the f#$%?!?!” Peep the racist rhetoric on the following pages
SMDH. Gunfire repeatedly rocked the West Indian Day Parade in Brooklyn yesterday — even while Mayor Bloomberg marched nearby — as the city’s terrifying epidemic of shootings over the Labor Day weekend grew steadily worse. The orgy of violence — including eight fatalities among the 48 gunshot victims — seemed to follow the revelers everywhere, from the parade route to nearby fast-food joints and even to their own homes. In all, nine of the shooting victims were hit at or near the parade, the annual Caribbean-themed festival in Crown Heights, where a gunman had fired into the air only blocks from where Bloomberg had just begun marching. “[The gunman] shouted something, then ‘boom!’ Everyone ducked,” said a witness, Marlene Anthony, adding that the young thug was standing at Rockaway Parkway and Clarkson Avenue – just blocks from the parade staging area. “It was a bad mix of alcohol, ignorance and a fool with a gun who tries to ruin the fun of the parade.” The gunman, Devon Stevens, 25, jumped into a livery cab, but went only a couple blocks before hopping out on East 94th Street at Winthrop Street, where he ditched the gun as cops gave chase, authorities said. Hours after the parade ended, an elderly woman was killed in the crossfire of a melee between cops and a gunman. The parade had gotten off to a rocky start at 6 a.m., when a nearby McDonald’s — packed with 100 early risers prepping for the festivities — was the site of a senseless shooting. A customer Kenneth Beggs, 44, bumped into a man entering the Empire Boulevard eatery and apologized. But Anthony Carruthers, 28, allegedly refused to let the incident go and pumped bullets into Beggs’ legs. “The bullet shattered the door, so everyone ran out the other door,” said one McDonald’s cook. Tempers flared after parade ended, as well, with one reveler shot in front of a crowd on Eastern Parkway. A group of six or seven men had pummeled the victim on the ground and then an attacker pulled out a handgun and shot him in the leg. Before the gunman fled, he grabbed a pot of steaming rice from a food vendor and tossed it onto an onlooker. Cops tackled the gunman. His victim is expected to survive. The shocking 72-hour shooting tally came as police revealed that the number of people who took a bullet in the past week had skyrocketed. For the week ending Sunday, a whopping 98 people had been shot — nearly twice the 53 shot during the same week last year, the NYPD said. Those injured last week were involved in 72 incidents, compared to 40 shoot-ups in the same week in 2010, according to the Police Department. Police Commissioner Ray Kelly said that although the number of shootings so far this year is fewer when compared to a decade ago, the spree of gunfire over the weekend is “obviously . . . cause for concern. “We’re doing everything we can do,” added Kelly, who cited the NYPD’s shifting of resources to target guns on the streets, including boosting overtime. Some of the shootings were clearly “associated with the parade,” Kelly said. “Quite frankly, this is something that does happen with this parade.” Bloomberg said, “It was a bad weekend, no question about that . . . There’s just too many guns on the streets of this city. It’s a national problem . . . because it’s so easy to buy guns in other states, and just drive them in and sell them in the back of your car.” In all, at least 16 people were hit by bullets yesterday — 15 of them in Brooklyn. Wow. NYC has got to chill. Seriously. Source
One of Bossip’s favorites is looking good on a “Far Away” beach… Over the weekend a lucky fan spotted the beautiful Marsha Ambrosius on the beach in the Dominican Republic having some fun in the sun. Looks like Marsha’s Nintendo Wii weight-loss plan had paid off in all the right places! We see you girl and we like what we see!!
