Sports News: 1/9

Detroit Red Wings

–The Wings signed goalie Chris Osgood for three more years. He’s been playing the “best hockey of his career” this season and is a major reason for the Wings success thus far. I’ve always liked Ozzie. How could you not?

–Chris Chelios became the second-oldest player to partake in an NHL game last night against the Avs. The defenseman is 45 years-old! Good for him.
–Three Red Wings will accompany coach Mike Babcock at the NHL All-Star game: Datsyuk, Zetterberg and Lindstrom will all start for the Western Conference. Only fitting that so many people come from the best team in the league!

University of Michigan

–QB Ryan Mallet is officially leaving the football team at U of M. Adrian Arrington and Mario Manningham will also be leaving to declare for the NFL draft. The boys in maze & blue (specifically Coach Rod) better hope Terrelle Pryor commits to good ol’ Meechigan.

Detroit Pistons

–The Pistons take on the Dallas Mavs tonight in hopes of winning 12 out of their last 13 games. This is gonna be a tough one. They always have trouble with Dallas, so we’ll see what they got tonight.

Detroit Lions

–Mike Martz was named offensive coordinator of the San Francisco 49ers, where he claims the offense is “much further along” when compared to the Lions. The 49ers offense he speaks of ranked dead last in total offense last season. Doesn’t really say much for the Lions.

Video: Ice Cube - Gangsta Rap Made Me Do It

I’m really feeling this new Ice Cube song/video.

It is far from all of the mindless ringtone rap out now.

The main thing I like is the message he is sending. And while people who don’t like or listen to hip-hop might not understand, I think it’s pretty clear as to what he is trying to say:

Are you gonna blame rap music for everything?

“It sets the tone for what my record is about,” Cube noted of the song. “It also sets the tone for … I think people have been waiting for rap to be relevant to their lives [again]. Not just to be all about one man’s glory, or whoever’s on the mic bragging about what most of the people can’t buy. It comes to the point where the music used to be the voice of the voiceless, and I wanna take it back to [that]. My album, Raw Footage, I don’t expect no commercial success from this record, and I’m not looking for it. I’m looking for the mature, intelligent, hardcore hip-hop fan to be pleased, satisfied and cherish the record. By being independent on Lench Mob records, I don’t have to worry about pleasing some program director or some record exec or anybody like that. Just please the fans, people who love Ice Cube. People who love it raw.”

Check it out for yourself…

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