Gone over seas

The trend these day's for most Basketballers is to play for a high power Prep school for the extra year to hone their skills, then log a couple of years in Div I College get drafted by their favorite Franchise (Which ever one would draft them) get a couple years for one team etc... etc..... It's 2008 even Proballers are Jumping ship to the Professional leagues overseas.

Two of M.O.E's favorite Basketball sons are no strangers to the overseas route Fred "The Razor"Williams with Argentina then Tochigi Brex of the JBL ( Japan Basketball League) and Corey "Homocide" Williams for the Townsville Crocodiles of Australia’s National Basketball League, leading that team last week with 26.9 ppg 10.5 boards and 2.5 assist holding it down Down under (pause) Down under is what they call Austrailia for the slow folks. Another trend surprisingly enough pretty much beginning this year is NBA pro's going to overseas teams for the money and playing time.


Our own Andre Barrett instead of breaking another 7 footers heart (if you didnt know Dre beat out 7-foot-1-inch Luke Schenscher for the final spot on the 2006 roster) to go Overseas to FCBarcelona not yet killing out there but he's well on the way.


Some dead weight leftt the league for cash Josh Childress who I think made the best move for himself received a three-year deal from Greek club Olympiakos worth about $20 million after taxes. It is far more than he would have received from any NBA team.
Earl Boykins is reportedly the highest-paid player in the Italian League and former New Jersey Net Bostjan Nachbar signed a three-year, $14.3 million deal with Dynamo Moscow. Many more to go and for the most part good riddence for bad rubbish

Say it aint so B

As originally reported by SOHH Soul Rebel
If you believe Fox News *smirk* Beyonce and her Dadager (Dad/manager for the slow folks) have been "strong arming" songwriters for publishing rights. The latest word is that Bey jacked her new single "If I Were A Boy" from a young unsigned singer by the name of BC Jean. BC allegedly wrote the melody and lyrics for the song, which is the first single off Bey's third album I Am...

The grapevine is claiming that BC didn't even realize the song her song had been swiped until recently. She originally recorded a dozen or so songs with German producer Toby Gad for his album, but Gad walked away with them and shopped them to major artists instead.

Now insiders tongues are wagging that Matthew Knowles aggressively pursued the publishing rights to the potential hit record with the goal of getting the rights to the song and putting Beyonce's name on the writing credits. According to sources, part of the deal is that the two singers will duet on BC Jean's debut album once she gets her own recording deal.

Rebel Talking... Whoa Bey, maybe you should change your album title to I Am... A Thief. Just sayin'! If this ain't some mess straight outta Dreamgirls...