The 2008 lineup is FRESH! KRS-One, 88-Keys, Buckshot, Blu & Exile, Fresh Daily, Mickey Factz, J. Period, Zaki Ibrahim and DJ Premier. The Brooklyn Hip-Hop main performance day is July 12th. Check the calendar on the Web site for the rest of the festival days programs & performers. If yer going, I’m super jealous - take me with you! I can fit in small spaces!

Kobe Bryant, Jason Kidd, Dwayne Wade, LeBron James, Carmelo Anthony, Tayshaun Prince, Carlos Boozer, Chris Bosh, Chris Paul, Dwight Howard, Michael Redd, Deron Williams.

Those would be the names of your coming US Olympic basketball team. Oddly absent would be a single Celtic, which will surely cause outrage on the East Coast. But let’s hope this bunch can right the US tradition of gold, as nothing else is deemed acceptable.

The Sonoma-Marin Fair puts on the World’s Ugliest Dog Competition annually in Petaluma, California and man, there are some hideous pooches. I was lucky enough to have viewed this event on television and there was a fine crop of hairless, toothless, crazy eyed dogs running around. The lucky 2008 winner was Gus, a Chinese-Crested, from Florida.

He captivated the judges and won the crowds hearts. A dog named Sam has won for the past three years but sadly died giving Gus the opportunity for the gold. Gus was a rescue dog from a bad home. He suffers from skin cancer - poor pup He won based on his unique looks. Gus is completely hairless, has only three legs and is missing one eye. His fourth leg was removed due to a skin tumor and his eye was lost in a cat fight. He now lives in a loving home with a mother and daughter who still think Gus is perrrty despite his complications.

So take my 10-15 point prediction and stack a heap of whooping on top and you’ve got the result from Boston.

Los Angeles was downed 131-92 in the biggest clinching game mop-job in the history of the NBA Finals. Paul Pierce took home MVP, and the Celtics now hang their first banner since 1986. The parade will be held Thursday morning in Bean Town.

It took five rounds of golf and 91 total holes, but Tiger Woods finally outlasted Rocco Mediate to grab the 2008 US Open.

Woods is now the owner of 14 major victories, rapidly approaching Jack Nicklaus’ record of 18. The tough luck runner up, Mediate, was vying for his first. Mediate took Woods all the way to a one hole playoff after the already additional round of 18 resulting from Sunday’s draw in score. Rocco Mediate would have become the oldest player to ever win a US Open.

The “Brown Note” is an infamous sonic weapon used on unruly crowds. Said weapon causes distress to the equilibrium, resulting in uncontrollable bowel movements. Mark Cohen, founder of re-Create 68, is worried that such tactics may be used at the Democratic National Convention in Denver.

“I think these weapons were mostly intended for military use and so their use for dealing with innocent protesters seems highly inappropriate,” he said. “The idea that they might be field testing them on people who are doing nothing more than exercising their first amendment rights is disturbing.”

Brown Note was reportedly used in 2003 at free-trade agreement protests in Miami (a scene of which is pictured above). The whole concept is strange to me. I have a hard time believing that the Democratic Convention will turn into some sort of riot, especially considering that the party now has a candidate. But then again, I wouldn’t put anything past a pack of angry law enforcement officers.