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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Streetball Legends like The Future, Black Widow, Baby Shak and JFK to name a few. The Houston Takers are really planning to make an impact this season and so Larry Leonard decided to shedule this preseason game against the best. The Houston Takers are an American Basketball Association (ABA) team in Sugar Land, Texas.

“I’m wanting to pushing the envelope in bringing in the best in what they do on the court in the streets. I’m really looking forward to the game and it should truly tell you what kind of season we are planning to have. Tickets will only be $20 and we will donate 10% to a Hurricane Ike foundation,” states Leonard.

The game is to be played on November 15, 2008.

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The 2008 Beijng Olympics capped a great 2008 for Kobe Bryant.  Hundreds of millions of Chinese tuned into the games on television, and Kobe Bryant, the popular Los Angeles Lakers player, was greeted everywhere he went in Beijing to chants of “Kobe! Kobe! Kobe!”

Kobe Bryant Olympic Gold Medal Winner 2008

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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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