2K Sports released the details concerning the soundtrack for NBA 2K9. The soundtrack includes:

Beastie Boys - Root Down

Blackwizard - Dem Nah Ready fe We

Blockhead - Duke of Hazzard

Bloody Beetroots - Mac Mac

Dangerdoom - Sofa King

Dawn Penn - You Don’t Love Me (Extended Mix)

DJ Rasta Root - RootZilla Beez

DJ UNK - In Yo Face

Gnarls Barkley - Going On

Jamalski - That Undaground (Remix)

Mochipet - Sharpdrest

Mommy and Daddy - Pretty Loser

Money Mark - Silly Putty

N.E.R.D. - Spaz

Nickodemus - Funky In The Middle

Santogold feat. Switch & Freq Nasty - Creator

Skeewiff - Light the Fuse

Spank Rock & Benny Blanco - Loose (inst.)

The Brand New Heavies - Jump ‘N’ More

The Cool Kids - 2K Pennies

The Heavy - Coleen

The Limp Twins - Moving Closer to The Sofa

The Meters - Cissy Strut

The Pharcyde - Passing Me By

Ursula 1000 - Step Back (Deekline & Ed Solo Remix)

2K Sports has announced that you can now purchase individual songs from the soundtrack by visiting the 2K Beats channel.

“Every year our NBA 2K soundtrack features music innovators that push boundaries in the same way our franchise does,” said Tim Rosa, director of brand and lifestyle marketing at 2K Sports. “With NBA 2K9 we’re continuing the tradition with The Cool Kids representing our deepest music integration. They will appear in the game’s NBA Blacktop streetball mode, will perform on the 2K Sports Bounce Tour, and they recorded an original song which we’re giving away for free on the 2K Sports website.”

NBA 2K9 is now available in stores and retails for $59.99.

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Performed for the 1983 NBA All-Star Game, Marvin Gaye’s remix captured the passion of 80s soul, mixed it with some old fashioned patriotism and created a timeless classic.  And like Marvin and the Dream Team before them, this year’s Team USA Basketball intends to put on a show that will forever go down as one the greatest performances in the history of the sport.

Nike Basketball brings Marvin, LeBron James, Kobe, Jason Kidd and the rest of the team together to pay homage to basketball, America’s game.

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Ball Hype has been acquired by Future US, a special-interest media company. Future US acquire ballhype.com and showhype.com, for an undisclosed sum.

BallHype was founded in 2007 by Jason Gurney and Erin Gurney. Since its launch, it has rapidly grown its unique user base to nearly 2 million per month.

Using proprietary technology, it aggregates and clusters news and video content around a defined theme.

Currently, through http://ballhype.com and http://showhype.com users can view mainstream American sports and entertainment gossip content respectively. It also provides a suite of social media features and functionality that increases the value of the aggregated content by creating an active community of engaged participants.

“We’re very excited about the technology and the wealth of knowledge and expertise Jason and Erin Gurney bring to Future, and in turn to our advertisers, customers and strategic partners,” said Future US Head of Internet Development Tyson Daugherty.

About Future US

Future US is part of Future plc, an international special-interest media group that is listed on the London Stock Exchange (UK:FUTR: news, chart, profile) . Founded in 1985 with one magazine, today we have operations in the UK and US creating over 180 publications, websites and events for people who are passionate about their interests. We hold strong market positions in games, film, music, technology, cycling, automotive and crafts. Our biggest-selling magazines include T3, Total Film, Digital Camera, Fast Car, Classic Rock, Guitar World, Official Xbox Magazine, Official PlayStation Magazine, Nintendo Power and MacLife. Online, our websites include gamesradar.com, bikeradar.com, techradar.com, and musicradar.com. Future sells over 4 million magazines each month; we attract more than 11 million unique visitors to our websites; and we host 16 annual live events that attract hundreds of thousands of enthusiasts. Internationally, Future is both the UK’s largest licensor and the largest exporter of magazines with our content appearing in 90 countries worldwide.

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NBA star Steve Nash and the City of Victoria are teaming up to build a culture, art and sports and reconciliation center in northern Uganda.

The project, led by the Victoria-based Steve Nash Foundation, will help traumatized, impoverished youth, Nash said Sunday. Construction should begin next year.

“The youths of that community have experienced absolute horrors,” said Nash, the 2005 and 2006 MVP in the National Basketball Association, speaking outside a basketball camp in Victoria. “We want to create a centre to give these youths the opportunity we’re afforded.”

The centre will provide free basketball, soccer and other sports equipment, art materials, classes and counselling.

Steve Nash Videos Steve Nash Photos

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Kobe Bryant has put aside the Lakers loss to Boston in the 2008 NBA Finals and re-ignited his passion for the sport he dominated this past season. He said he is looking forward to the competition and pressure the United States faces heading into the Beijing Olympics.

“What we have is a determination to win,” Bryant said after the first day of practice at Valley High. “We have guys who work extremely hard, play hard, play well together and go out there and do what we do best.”

Kobe Bryant Stretching after USA Basketball Practice

“There is pressure every time we play, pressure to win, especially for us, USA Basketball,” Bryant said. “It comes with the territory. It comes from playing sports. Pressure comes along with it.

“But everyone is used to dealing with it. We thrive on it.”

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