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Barkley Has To Pay Back $400,000

Former NBA player Hall Of Famer and TNT studio host Charles Barkley has to pay back $400.000 in a gambling debt to a Las Vegas Strip casino. He promises to repay it after a prosecutor told him to pay the debt or face felony charges.

Here is what Barkley and others do not realize. Gambling is a SICKNESS. It is like being hooked on drugs or pills. He needs help.

My late father, Leon Curvey was a gambler who worked 37 years with the U.S Postal Service. But he died with NOTHING in the bank. Because he did not fill out his paperwork correctly to receive benefits etc when he died. our family had to pay for his casket etc. My mom and my dad divorced when I was six years old.

Why? Because of his gambling. He used to get off from work and head directly to the after hours and "underground" gambling houses to play poker and black jack. When you are a gambler, you win and sometimes you do not. Sometimes he would bring home enough money only to help pay a few bills.

My mom worked at Boeing to help put food on the table for my brother and I but meanwhile my dad was sometimes gambling all his cash away. Sometimes when I was a older teenager I would go to the gambling places to help serve drinks to the guys (and gals). And a lot of times I got a lot of "hot" things like TV's etc that my dad won with his gambling.

This was behind my mom's back. Because of my dad's gambling and my mom's life, I grew up confused and mixed up. It led to depression and testing drugs in my early 20's. I tried suicide at the age of 22.

On my dad's death bed in 1996, he told my sister in law, he wished he would have lived a better life and saved his money instead of gambling his cash away. And he said he wished he would have helped me go to broadcasting school.

I can go on and on folks with stories but what I am saying is Charles Barkley is sick. He needs help. I don't give a damn about how much money he has. Just think how many people can be fed with the $400,000 he spent on gambling. He could build the "Charles Barkley Youth Center" in Phoenix or another city, say in New Orleans for inner city kids with $400,000.

Have you heard of Barkley doing anything for inner city kids? I have not. But you hear a lot about his gambling problem. 

Of course he will get on TV with Ernie and The Jet and run his mouth about being sorry etc but in my opinion sorry is not enough. He says he is not a role model BUT HE IS. He is in the public eye. With my program, Music Inner City, I am in the public eye. Kids look up to me. I got a interview with Oprah and other big stars because they feel I am a role model. Does Barkley want his kids or other kids to grow up being a gambler like he is?

Finally, Charles can do whatever with his money. I just hope he would realize that young people look up to him. He is a Hall Of Fame basketball player. One day he might owe the wrong person and his kids and wife will no longer have their father around after he is found in a alley or in the truck of a car.

Yo Charles get some help my brotha, BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE.     Gordon Curvey

 

Moss Joins NASCAR Craftsman Series

NFL player Randy Moss is a successful player. You would be hard pressed to find any sports fan who does not know his name. Now Moss is looking to push that success into an new direction. The world of professional auto racing.

Moss has announced that Moss Motorsports will fire up their engines for the 2009 racing season. Moss will debut in the world of auto racing by entering the professional truck racing circuit of NASCAR's Craftsman Truck Series. Littlie is known at this time as to many of the details surrounding the racing team that Randy Moss has selected. There has been no mention of the team leader, driver or even who the sponsor will be-just word from Randy that the 2009 season is the target for his NASCAR racing team.

However, do not take the lack of details on his team serious because Moss is no stranger to the world of auto racing. Moss sponsors a dirt track program in his home state of West Virginia, and is a Goodwill Ambassador to the Urban Youth Racing School in Philadelphia.

People are starting to wonder if 2009 will be the year that Randy Moss opens the door for minorities to be successful in NASCAR auto racing. There is already a lot of speculation that Moss Motorsports will be using an African American driver, but such reports are purely rumors at this point    G.C

 

Kobe Wins First MVP of NBA

Los Angeles (AP) Regarded as the NBA's best player for several years but never it's MVP, Kobe Bryant earned the honor after leading the Los Angeles Lakers to the best record in the Western Conference.

He entered the season as the league's two time defending scoring champion. He had finished as high as third in the MVP voting twice after the 2002-2003 season, when he averaged 30 points for the first time.

Bryant received 82 first place votes and 1,105 points in the media vote. He was followed by New Orleans's point guard Chris Paul with 889 points and the Celtic's Kevin Garnett with 670 points followed by LeBron James of Cleveland with 438 points.

Bryant averaged 28.3 points, 6.3 rebounds, 5.4 assists and 1.84 steals while playing all 82 games despite tearing a ligament in his right pinkie in February. He put off surgery until after the Olympics.

Kobe, second in the NBA in scoring behind James, is the first Laker to win the MVP award since Shaquille O'Neal in 2000. Other Lakers to win since the award was presented in 1956 were Kareem Abdul-Jabber and Magic Johnson.

                                                  

Steelers Owner Rooney Endorses Obama's Bid

Pittsburgh (AP) Pittsburgh Steelers chairman Dan Rooney has endorsed Democratic Sen, Barack Obama's presidential bid.

The 75-year old Rooney said endorsing political candidates is not something he regularly does.

"As a grandfather and a citizen if this community, I think Barack Obama's thoughtful, strategic approach is important to America," Rooney said. "When I hear how excited young people seem to be when they talk about this man, I believe he will do what is best for them, which is to inspire them to be great Americans."

The Obama campaign said the Illinois senator and Rooney met recently after Obama spoke at a meeting of the Alliance for American Manufacturing. Last month former Steelers running backs Franco Harris and Jerome Bettis also endorsed Obama.

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Schultz Says Current Owners Violated Sale

Well it has come down to this in our fight to keep the Seattle Sonics in town.

Former owner Howard Schultz is going to sue the current ownership to get the team back, on the basis that the new owners violated the sale contract by not making a good faith effort to keep the Sonics here in Seattle.

Word is Schultz has hired a lawyer, Seattle based attorney Richard Yarmuth, and that Yarmuth plans to sue the current Sonics ownership group, Professional Basketball Club LLC, led by Clay Bennett, in the next two weeks. Bennett and his ownership group plan to move the team to Oklahoma City.

Yarmuth has said that Schultz will not sue for monetary damage and that the lawsuit will seek to rescind the July 2006 sale based on the fact that Bennett's group always planned to move the Sonics to Oklahoma City. Bennett bought the Sonics and its sister team in the WNBA, the Storm, for $350 million, and he agreed to make a good faith effort to keep the clubs in Seattle. We here at Sports Inner City will have the latest news on this issue. The fight to keep the Seattle Sonics in Seattle.   G.C

How Can The Mariners Celebrate This Day?

On April 15th, Major League Baseball celebrated "Jackie Robinson Day" at games all over the league. 

The Mariners have one African Americans on the team, zero African Americans in front office management positions and do little to zero marketing in African American media in the Seattle area. That means the Facts and Medium newspapers and my program, Music Inner City TV/Online.

Mariner broadcaster Dave Sims and Arthur Rhodes are the only visible African American in the Mariner organization. How can this be?

The Angels were in town and they had five African Americans in the starting lineup playing against a team at that time with zero on the whole team. Arthur Rhodes was brought up on a few days ago.

The Mariners just cut a young African American player who was not given a chance to do anything. The manager said they needed "a change" and brought up a fella who hit .245 last year and four homers. This past summer, the Mariners traded Adam Jones. It seems when ever a African American player comes here, they are quickly gone. A few years ago, when the Mariners were looking for a new manager, they DID NOT even interview current Red's manager Dusty Baker who came out and said he  was interested in the position.

If Jackie Robinson's widow Rachel & his daughter  visited Seattle on Jackie Robinson Day they would be very disappointed. Knowing the Seattle Mariners have a almost total exclusion of African Americans on the field and off. The Mariners should be ashamed of themselves for celebrating Jackie Robinson Day!   Gordon Curvey

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Thanks For Making Me Happy

As I write this, today might be the last game in Seattle of our Seattle Sonics. A team which has a forty-one year history in this town. A team which has brought us our only major sports world title in 1979. I feel truly depressed and truly sad as a sports fan.

No matter who is at fault, it is the fans that will suffer. I put the blame on the owner of Starbucks and the former majority owner of the Sonics, Howard Schultz for selling the team to Clay Bennett who in case you do not know, wants to move the Sonics to Oklahoma City.

As I sit here and think about the history of the Sonics I think of Spencer Haywood, "Downtown" Fred Brown, Gary Payton, my good friend, Shawn Kemp, Dale Ellis, "The X Man", Sam Perkins, Nate McMillan, Lenny Wilkens, Jack Sikma, Rachard Lewis, Ray Allen, Slick Watts, Det, Kevin Calabro (Sonic broadcast) and Marques Johnson together broadcasting games, the original Sonics broadcaster, "The Voice" Bob Blackburn and much much more!! Heck what about G.P and Kemps jersey hanging up in the rafters?

The NBA will not be the same if our Sonics are gone. Watching the NBA playoffs will not be the same. NBA fans in Seattle will not be able to watch young star, Kevin Durant grow as a man and as a player.

No more "Rally In The Alley" before a Sonic playoff game with fans being happy to support our team in the playoffs. We will miss all this and more if our team leaves Seattle. How can this happen. It is wrong for a team to leave a city that is in the top fifteen radio/tv market, to the forty fifth market in O.C!!

Let's hope the NBA owners will be on our side. Let's hope a lawsuit to keep our team here at least until 2010 when the current lease for Key Arena runs out. Let's hope our Governor can pull some strings for us. As the Rev Jesse Jackson says "Let's keep hope alive" for our team to stay in Seattle. If not, we will be saying what the late Bob Hope said for years and years...."Thanks for the memories". I want to thank the Seattle Sonics for making me happy as a NBA fan and as Sonic fan. If our team leaves I will be truly sad and truly depressed.  Gordon Curvey 

 

 

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