And so it was written that North Ruimveldt would sweep Wortmanville/Werk-en-Rust in their best of three finals to retain their Georgetown Inter-Ward Basketball Championship. They did it in style by blowing them out by 26 points (85-59) and cashing in on the tournament’s $500,000.Wortmanville/Werk-en-Rust showed little resistance and at times none whatever as, from jump ball, Andrew ‘Mr. Dunk’ Ifill scored the first four points of the game hitting back-to-back jumpers.
Player/coach of the Wortmanville/Werk-en-Rust team Naylon Loncke, attempted to put some pressure on Ifill (who literally made his opponents appear woeful throughout the tournament) by placing Paul Mendonca on him and also adding a little double team with centre Royston Siland helping out.But this only made things easier for the North team who swung the ball well for easy shots.Loncke told Stabroek Sport after the game that maybe his players were still recovering from their narrow defeat in the previous game and he called it right considering their lacklustre performance.
The North team led 17-9 at the end of the first period and things only got worse as once again Ifill showed why he is deemed unstoppable, scoring eight of his 10 shots from the floor. It was decorated with some smooth fade-away jumpers, and he also lived up to his sobriquet by throwing down some massive dunks.
His run, coupled with the good team chemistry, highlighted North Ruimveldt’s first half which ended with the eventual champions leading 46-27.
The third quarter saw a more purposeful type of basketball from Wortmanville/ Werk-en-Rust with Loncke and Siland leading the way. However, North Ruimveldt closed the penultimate period 61-47 and it was so close but yet so far as North made the 14 points deficit look impossible for their opponents to wipe off.
Ifill sat out almost the entire third quarter and immediately made his presence felt in the final period, opening with a jumper over Siland who was having one of his worse nights of the tournament.
The tide never really turned for the losers in the game and the North players looked like winners all the way.
As a matter of fact, the team played with a swagger that even trickled down to their supporters, some of whom had walked with a broom to the Sports Hall to signify a clean sweep of the series.
Ifill scored a game high 26 points with 10 of 21 shooting from the floor and he also grabbed eight rebounds, two blocked shots, five steals and one assist. Ryan Stephney also had a fruitful night on the court, netting 15 points and picking up three steals.
Quincy Jones and Damien Liverpool once again controlled the boards while finishing with 10 and 11 points respectively.
For the losers, only Loncke and Aubrey Smith touched double figures, each scoring 12 points. Siland could only manage seven points but grabbed nine rebounds in the process.
Wortmanville/Werk-en-Rust had to settle for $300,000.
In the third place play-off, Charlestown Albouystown defeated South Ruimveldt and got the $100,000 prize.
The presentation of prizes will be on Saturday at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall.
Our boy Breezy was at Pleasure P album release party, You can bet your last dollar he wasn't thinking bout Rihanna who he had allegedly beatdown a few months back. Breezy was trying very hard to bring back his superstar steeze rollin’ in expensive cars, poppin’ bottles, flirting with older chicks and actin’ a fool.Omarion, Bow Wow, Richgirl and Mario were at the party actin' like big dawgs.
If this were a movie, nobody would believe it: A rancher struggling to eke out a living in one of the poorest corners of America claimed one of the biggest undivided jackpots in U.S. lottery history Friday — $232 million — after buying the ticket in a town by the name of Winner.Neal Wanless, 23, said he intends to buy himself more room to roam and repay the kindness other townspeople have shown his family. "I want to thank the Lord for giving me this opportunity and blessing me with this great fortune. I will not squander it," he promised, wearing a big black cowboy hat and a huge grin.
Wanless, who is single, lives with his mother and father on the family's 320-acre ranch near Mission, where they raise cattle, sheep and horses. They don't own a phone, a mobile home of theirs was repossessed last year, and records show they have fallen $3,552 behind in their property taxes.
Wanless bought $15 worth of tickets to the May 27 30-state Powerball drawing at a convenience store in Winner during a trip to buy livestock feed. He will take home a lump sum of $88.5 million after taxes are deducted.
The Wanless home stands in a grove of trees in Todd County, home to the Rosebud Sioux Tribe. It was the nation's seventh-poorest county in 2007, according to the Census Bureau.
Dave Assman, who owns farmland next to the Wanless ranch, said he is happy the family won't have to worry about money any more. "They've been real short on finances for a long time," Assman said. "They are from real meager means, I guess you'd say."
"I hope they enjoy their money," said county assessor Cathy Vrbka, a family friend. "They work hard, backbreaking hard work."
Wanless' father, Arlen Wanless, 54, has made a living in recent years mainly by buying and selling scrap metal, but his fortunes dropped with the price of iron, said Dan Clark, an auctioneer from Winner and a friend of more than two decades.
The younger Wanless told lottery officials that he spent the last week working on the ranch and that he intends to continue that lifestyle, albeit on a larger piece of land. According to lottery officials, he recently told his horse, Eleanor, "It'd be nice if we go for a longer ride than usual on a bigger ranch of our own."
"My family has been helped by the community, and I intend to repay that help many times over," Wanless said. He gave no details.
An Oregon family turned $40 worth of tickets into $340 million Powerball prize in 2005, and at least four other winners collected larger jackpots than Wanless' prize.
The store where Wanless bought the winning ticket will get a $50,000 bonus. Sharon Ulmer, manager of the store, said she is glad the Wanless family won.
"From what I understand they don't have a lot, so the money definitely went to a good place," Ulmer said. "I know it went to a good home. They can use it."
That's one lucky dude, I wish i could quit my day job too
Hope he really spends the rest of it well.
In case anyone had any doubts about Whitney making a comeback, Put it aside now cause it's bout to go down soon, Whitney’s new album is coming out in the early fall.Source:Whitney Houston’s new album will be released worldwide September 1, 2009 on Arista Records. This is Whitney’s 7th studio album. Since her 1985 self-titled debut, she has built an illustrious career that has generated over 170 million combined worldwide sales of albums, singles and videos. Cited by the Guinness Book of World Records as music’s “most awarded female artist
of all time,” with an unsurpassed tally of 411 awards, inclusive of 6 Grammy Awards, 2 Emmy Awards, 23 American Music Awards and 16 Billboard Music Awards…Houston remains a singular force in music today.
Let’s hope she stays on track from here on out and doesn’t link herself to anymore nasty, drug-addicted, low down, crusty @ss washed up R&B singers. Bobby, stay away, please. Just stay away.
She makes double of what Hov does and has planted herself fourth on the Forbes list. And where might Hova rank you might ask? Well let’s just say, he aint’ in the top 20. Also Oprah had to step down, Peep list the below to see who beat Oprah for the #1 spot and who's stacking more than who....1 Angelina Jolie
2 Oprah Winfrey
3 Madonna
4 Beyonce Knowles
5 Tiger Woods
6 Bruce Springsteen
7 Steven Spielberg
8 Jennifer Aniston
9 Brad Pitt
10 Kobe Bryant
11 Will Smith
12 Dr. Phil McGraw
13 Britney Spears
14 David Letterman
15 Coldplay
16 Adam Sandler
17 Harrison Ford
18 Michael Jordan
19 LeBron James
20 Tom Cruise
21 Bon Jovi
22 Donald Trump
23 Rush Limbaugh
24 George Lucas
25 Simon Cowell
26 Stephenie Meyer
27 Roger Federer
28 David Beckham
29 Miley Cyrus
30 Tyler Perry
31 Kenny Chesney
32 Jay-Z
33 Clint Eastwood
34 Howard Stern
35 Sean (Diddy) Combs
36 Phil Mickelson
37 Jerry Seinfeld
38 Dave Matthews Band
39 Tom Hanks
40 Ellen DeGeneres
41 Eddie Murphy
42 Rascal Flatts
43 Jay Leno
44 Ryan Seacrest
45 Nicolas Cage
46 Kanye West
47 AC/DC
48 George Clooney
49 Barack Obama
50 50 Cent
Well well congrats to Angelina, we see Madonna is still making that paperand Kanye is making good moves, but ironically enough, Bugsy sits right behind President Obama, at 50.
We at GSB always like to keep our readers entertained, whether it be with our juicy gossips, new music upload or hot topics. So today we bring to you our question of the day....Do Friendship Expire??? We would love to get your answer and thoughts on this so please feel free to leave your comments.You may have more Facebook friends as the years go by, but when it comes to your close friends, you lose about half and replace them with new ones after about seven years, new social research suggests. As a result, the size of your social network stays about the same.
People might like to think they have control over whom they choose as friends, but social networks could also be influenced by the context in which we meet one another. Sociologist Gerald Mollenhorst of Utrecht University in the Netherlands was interested in finding out exactly how much our networks are shaped by social context or by personal preference.
He conducted a survey of 1,007 people ages 18 to 65, and then contacted the participants seven years later. From the original group, 604 people were re-interviewed. The survey contained questions such as: Who do you talk with, regarding personal issues? Who helps you with DIY in your home? Who do you pop by to see? Where did you get to know that person? And where do you meet that person now?
The results showed that personal network sizes remained stable, but that many members of the network were new. About 30 percent of discussion partners and practical helpers had the same position in a typical subject's network seven years later. And only 48 percent were still part of the network. This finding goes against previous research which had showed that social network sizes are shrinking.
Mollenhorst also established that networks were not formed based on personal choices alone. Our friend choices are limited by the opportunities to meet. He saw that people frequently choose friends from a context in which they have previously chosen a friend. Also, whether or not our friends know each other strongly depends on the context under which people meet.
Television viewers were hooked to their television's last night for the first episode of FACTS 3 as Student Designers and Student Spokesmodles showed Guyana and the world their talent on HJTV,While most were anticipating a good show it turn out to be somewhat disappointing. Get the load on this and pics of some of the designs when you As if we couldn't ask for better hosting, the host for the show couldn't even get his words together not to mention the models/spokespersons the for the student designers, yeah their students but a little speech training before you go on NATIONAL television wouldn't hurt.
But they certainly didn't need training on how to flaunt their stuff on the catwalk as they did in those oh so very skimpy ''supposedly'' physical education uniforms.
However, on a lighter note we must say some of the designs where excellent and they were students who actually were being students with their designs and how they were displayed.
