UFC
The new Ultimate Fighting Championship® production is a series of international competitive mixed martial arts events televised throughout each year and available live or tape-delayed on pay-per-view and other formats, seen domestically and internationally. The New Ultimate Fighting Championship® producers are committed to providing the highest quality live event and television production available to entertain and engage viewers in a fascinating sport. The New Ultimate Fighting Championship® brand of MMA event distinguishes itself from the controversial spectacle of the last decade: The first event produced under new ownership and management was February 23, 2001.
The Ultimate Fighting Championship® events are produced exclusively in cooperation with and under the exclusively ownership of Zuffa, LLC.
Basketball
Michael Jeffrey Jordan (Majkl Džefri Džordan) (17. februar 1963. Brooklyn, New York City) je bivši američki NBA košarkaš, koji se uglavnom smatra za najboljeg košarkaša svih vremena.
Michael Jordan je u NBA proveo 15 punih sezona sa 30,12 poena po utakmici u regularnoj sezoni (najviše u NBA). Osvojio je 6 NBA šampionata sa Chicago Bullsima, bio 10 puta najbolji strijelac i 5 puta najkorisniji igrač lige. Devet puta je izabran u prvu odbrambenu petorku, a 3 puta je bio najbolji po broju ukradenih lopti. Od 1983. se rekordnih 49 puta pojavio na omotu časopisa Sports Illustrated i 1991. bio proglašen za sportistu godine po izboru ovog časopisa. Proglašen je 1999. za "najvećeg sjevernoameričkog sportistu u 20. vijeku" po izboru sportskog kanala ESPN, a drugi je na listi najboljih sportista vijeka po izboru Associated Pressa. Njegova mogućnost odraza, koju najbolje dočarava zakucavanje sa linije slobodnih bacanja, i drugi podvizi su mu donijeli nadimke "Air Jordan" i "Njegovo vazdušno visočanstvo". Glumio je i u filmu Space Jam 1996. godine. Rap Early years Main articles: Old school hip hop and Roots of hip hop Some believe that the five elements of hip hop culture, which include B-Boying, beatboxing, DJing, graffiti art, and MCing, existed on the East and West Coasts of the United States simultaneously during the mid-seventies.[1] This theory runs in opposition to the more universally accepted belief that the fundamental elements of hip hop were all born and cultivated exclusively on the East Coast, New York City in particular, in the most early stages of the culture.[1] Although it is agreed that hip hop was given its name in New York, some say a culture that closely mirrored the East Coast hip hop culture had emerged in the West existing from Los Angeles to the San Francisco Bay Area during the same period.[1] The culture itself is believed to have been a mutual creation which probably evolved from interaction between people who identified with elements from their respective coasts.[1] Schoolly D, Ice-T, Moriah Rhunkie, and Boogie Down Productions are often cited as the founders of gangsta rap.[2] Several years after they emerged, the Compton city based group N.W.A. debuted and helped gangsta rap achieve wider attention. Eventually, N.W.A. and their record label Ruthless Records infamously received a letter from an assistant director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) excoriating their landmark 1988 album Straight Outta Compton for its lyrical themes and content in 1989. By the early 1990's, gangsta rap became the most common form of Hip-hop on the West coast, spawning many notable critically, and commercially successful artists.[[edit] Gangsta rap era