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1938 – Montreal Maroons dropped from NHL

1956 – Yankees announce purchase of outfielder Enos Slaughter from KC

1961 – Official Intl Hockey Hall of Fame opens in Toronto

1971 – NY Giant football team announces they’re leaving Bronx for NJ in 1975

1973 – David Eisenhower writes his last sports column

William Larned

1901 – 21st US Mens Tennis: William Larned beats Beals C Wright (62 68 64 64)

1922 – Curly Lambeau and Green Bay Football Club granted NFL franchise

1929 – Chicago Cardinals become 1st pro football team to train out of town

1967 – Ken Harrelson becomes baseball’s 1st free agent

1986 – Red Sox Spike Owens scores 6 runs in a 24-5 rout of Cleve Indians

The Best Hip-Hop Video category for this year’s MTV Video Music Awards is stacked with heavy-hitters like Jay-Z and an impressive upstart in Asher Roth. But Flo Rida is just looking forward to being in the building September 13.

The rapper was nominated for his clip “Right Round,” alongside Jay’s “D.O.A. (Death of Auto-Tune)”, Roth’s “I Love College,” Kanye West’s “Love Lockdown” and Eminem’s “We Made You.”

“I look forward to going [to the VMAs] and just enjoying myself,” Flo said of his nomination. “It means a lot to me. I can recall being in Las Vegas [where he once lived] and watching the music awards [in Miami] and seeing Jay-Z up for an award, and now here I am in the same category. I definitely look up to these guys. And even the newcomers you can learn from.”

The clip was directed by Malcolm Jones (Lil Mama, Ray J) and features Flo Rida being digitally imported to clubs across the world. The throwback track was inspired by a sample from Dead or Alive’s “You Spin Me Round (Like a Record).”

Earlier this year, Flo told MTV News how his sisters listened to pop music from the 1980s and the Dead or Alive song caught his ear. When he went to work on his sophomore album, the song was at the forefront of the project’s foundation. Now it’s his second blockbuster digital download following the breakout hit “Low,” featuring T-Pain.

“I just wanted to show the growth, show people I’m very well in tune with the ’80s music,” he explained of the track and his album, R.O.O.T.S. “Growing up in my household with seven women, I’d hear all types of music.”

Jay-Z and Lady GaGa will play live at the MTV Video Music Awards in New York on Sunday September 19th.

Also announced to present awards at the ceremony are Nelly Furtado, Leighton Meester and Miranda Cosgrove.

Lady GaGa is the undoubted pop success story of 2009 and is nominated for a staggering nine Moonmen, including the coveted Video Of The Year award.

Rapper Jay will perform the same week his hotly anticipated Blueprint 3 album is released and could bring some special guests with him- Jigga’s new single Run This Town features both Kanye West and Rihanna.

Previously announced to perform at the VMAs are Green Day, Pink, Taylor Swift and Muse.

On the night of August 1, at a Whitehall, Ohio Walmart, Virginia Dodson could not remember why she was sitting alone in a car. Coming to grips with her enclosed environment, it dawned on her that she did not know how to unbuckle her seat belt either. Panic began to take hold.

Her solution was to scrounge up a steak knife and cut through the straps, eventually finding her way into the confusing world of the parking lot, still wielding the blade.

The 84-year-old African American, has Alzheimer’s disease. Like many other sufferers, the responsibility for her care fell to her adult child. Her daughter, however, was inside the store.

It was only a short matter of time before the police were called.

As she wandered the parking lot calling her daughter’s name, she was approached by a white, female officer who clearly ordered her to drop the weapon. She did not.

What happened next was captured on video and uploaded that same night to YouTube by user “mainetaine187,” who says on camera as the scene escalates, “We gotta get real footage of this shit.”

A witness to the scene, one Tomya Beatty, quoted by the local NBC affiliate station, said: “She didn’t even ask her to drop the knife. The woman told her when the cop came charging at her. She said, ‘I’m not going to cut you. I’m not going to cut you.’ She was just calling her daughter’s name out.”

While the video contradicts Beatty’s statement that the officer said nothing about the knife, the use of force against an obviously frail woman is apparent. As the video progresses, a noisy scene develops around the officers as the confused old woman lays on the ground, bleeding.

Beatty, again quoted by NBC, said, “There was about to be a riot in front of Walmart…”

Another alleged witness, YouTube user “MisssBoo76,” wrote that the woman was “swinging a knife at people, when the police arrived she wouldn’t drop the knife so the police officer took her down, the lady also assulted a kid by hitting him which sparked the crowd of people outside anyway…”

During the video, a male police officer can be heard shouting at the crowd: “We’re not gonna hurt her! Step back!” Moments later, an unseen male asks, “What would you do if someone slammed your mother to the ground?”

TOM SIZEMORE has been arrested yet again. Cops hauled him in at around 10:45 P.M. Wednesday night, after he got into a physical altercation with a female companion in downtown Los Angeles. There’s no word if he was under the influence.

He was booked on a domestic violence charge, with bail set at $20,000. Last we heard, he was still behind bars.

Sizemore previously did time for assaulting then-girlfriend HEIDI FLEISS in 2003. He’s also been arrested numerous times since then on drug charges. His most recent arrest for narcotics possession occurred just this past May.

Both Sizemore and Fleiss are currently filming the new season of VH1’s “Sober House”.

The little back-and-forth between EMINEM and MARIAH CAREY has just taken a SERIOUS turn. Eminem has dropped an absolutely LETHAL dis track, which was apparently prompted by Mariah’s video for her single, “Obsessed”.

In some of the scenes in that video, Mariah was made up as a guy a pretty CONVINCING guy, actually and a lot of people thought she was trying to take a dig at Eminem.

Mariah DENIED it (and we believed her, since her disguise included dark hair and a thick goatee) but regardless, it set Eminem OFF.

Yesterday, he dropped a track called “The Warning” and it goes after Mariah and her husband, NICK CANNON, HARD. Here are a few highlights:

Eminem opens the track by saying, quote, “Only reason I dissed you in the first place is because you denied seeing me now I’m pissed off.”

Some quick context: Eminem started all this with a track called “Bagpipes from Baghdad”. In it, he takes a few shots at Mariah and Nick and then raps about wanting to take Mariah “back” from Nick. That was the first dis.

Also, Eminem has been claiming that he dated Mariah for about six months back in 2001 but Mariah has always denied it.)

Later, he raps, quote, “Oh gee, is that supposed to be me in the video with the goatee? Wow Mariah, didn’t expect ya to go balls out. (B-word), shut the (eff) up before I put all those phone calls out. When you was wilding out. Before Nick, when you was on my (rhymes with STICK).”

Eminem seems prepared to PROVE that he had a fling with Mariah. He alludes to having personal pictures and voicemails. And then he talks in graphic detail about what he claims was their only FULL-ON sexual encounter.

In that part, Eminem actually embarrassed himself slightly by admitting that he, well, finished too early. He raps that Mariah was so disgusted by the mess, that she almost got sick. For real.

The song goes on and on alternating between attacks and threats before ending with this: Quote, “I ain’t saying this (crap) again, ho. You know what it is. It’s a warning shot for before I blow up ya whole spot

“Call my bluff and I’ll release every (effing) thing I got including the voicemails right before you flipped your top.”

Speaking of that, the end of the song features what COULD BE pieces of those recordings. But all we know is that it’s an unidentified woman who sounds like Mariah who refers to herself as “Mary Poppins.”