After being unable to agree to terms for a sequel, the folks at Warner Bros and the reps behind stars Bradley Cooper, Ed Helms and Zach Galifianakis finally seemed to be able to knock out a deal for The Hangover 2. I’m not entirely sure where you go for something like this, but with Todd Phillips set to direct the sequel and the cast returning, I’m fairly certain that the follow up can be entertaining at the very least. Don’t know that it could come anywhere to matching the original, but at least their back to make part two.

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a private tour of the Glenfiddich Distillery in Dufftown, Scotland, conducted by their malt master Biran Kinsman, where the recipient and a guest will learn firsthand how the famed single malt is produced before selecting a personal vintage cask of their own; a rare bottle of Glenfiddich 50 Year Old (above); two nights’ accommodation at Ballindalloch Castle, home since 1546 to the Macpherson-Grant family, who will host a dinner in the recipient’s honor; first-class roundtrip air travel for two from any U.S. city to Edinburgh; one night’s stay and dinner at Edinburgh’s renowned Prestonfield Hotel, plus a guided tour of Edinburgh Castle; private roundtrip helicopter rides from Edinburgh across the Scottish Highlands to the Glenfiddich Distillery; and a private tour of the historic Johnston’s Woolen Mill and a traditional Scottish lunch with the owner.

Dunno about you… the whole thing sounds nice and all, but I don’t know if that is worth 2 large

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Tiger Woods bought a massive piece property on Jupiter Island a couple years ago for almost $45 million.  Who knows how much the final price tag will come out for this one here. Take a look after the jump because that picture might just be the guest house. “I’m Tiger Woods” … Yeah right!!

Ariel shot of the crib from when they first started to present day after the jump, and maybe a picture or two of  his lovely wife Elin….

That was before… his property is from the water to that main strip…

I stopped counting cars out front at 12. Actually I got mad and threw something at the wall… Now on to his wife Elin Nordegren a former Swedish model, whom he met while she was a nanny for fellow golfer Jesper Parnevik…

P.S. Elin has a twin sister…

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StreetHeat reports “It was supposed to be a standard radio interview but things got extremely heated when R.A. the Rugged Man and P4P Boxing Champion Flloyd Mayweather JR. got into an argument.

Money May falls for the okie doke here, he is defending himself against a Stan. They both have valid points…Why doesn’t Mayweather just say, “Yeah dude, this is my job, I’m not trying to be talking like Sugar Ray, or my uncle, or Tommy Hearns, or my pops! I wanna make this money and get up out of there…”

Little has changed in the NBA’s world of no-trade clauses. Kobe Bryant remains the only player in the NBA with full no-trade language in his contract.

However …

There are 21 more players this season who can block trades through three other provisions. Sixteen of those 21 players possess one-year contracts that require them to give consent before being included in any deal because they are also eligible for Early Bird or Full Larry Bird free-agent rights at the end of the contract. Bird rights are not transferrable to a new team in one-year deals.

Three more players signed two-year contracts that are treated in the same manner as the aforementioned one-year contracts because the deals include a player option for Year 2.

Including Bryant, then, there are 22 players in a league of 430-plus players who begin the season with a say in trades. They break down into three groups:

Group 1: Kobe, again, is the only player in the NBA universe with unlimited veto power on all trades, essentially because no-trade clauses in the NBA are almost impossible to get. Players can only secure a no-trade clause if they have eight seasons of service time as well as a minimum of four seasons of service time with the same team and also must be an unrestricted free agent with the right to negotiate a no-trade clause into a new contract as Bryant was in 2004.

Most NBA stars with the requisite stature or leverage to request a no-trade clause sign their first big-money deals well before their eighth pro season. They also frequently sign extensions to those big contracts as opposed to going onto the open market and then re-signing with their current team, like Bryant did in 2004.

Many of Bryant’s contemporaries have thus never even been eligible for a no-trade clause, since the current collective bargaining agreement does not allow such clauses to be added to contract extensions. They’re only permissible in new contracts.

Group 2: The majority fall into this category. They are mostly one-year Bird cases such as former Dallas forward Devean George, who refused to grant his consent to being traded in February 2008, which nearly scuttled Dallas’ complicated trade for Jason Kidd.

A team must receive permission to trade a player on a one-year contract in three instances. They are: (1) when the player can become an Early Bird free agent at season’s end, which occurs when the player finishes two consecutive years with the same team; (2) when the player, like the current Knicks duo of David Lee and Nate Robinson, can become a Full Bird free agent at season’s end, which occurs when the player finishes three consecutive seasons with the same team; or (3) when the player, like Charlotte’s Raymond Felton, has accepted a qualifying offer for the fifth season of a rookie-scale contract.

Phoenix’s Grant Hill, Miami’s Joel Anthony and the Los Angeles Lakers’ Shannon Brown are included here as well even though they all signed two-year deals with a player option for Year 2, because each would still be eligible for Early Bird or Full Bird rights at season’s end even if they decline the option.

Players who qualify for this season’s no-trade list must forfeit their Bird rights if they give consent to be traded in these circumstances, which limits their earning power further next summer when they return to the open market. The list:

• Othello Hunter (Atlanta)
• Raymond Felton (Charlotte)
• Aaron Gray (Chicago)
• Lindsey Hunter (Chicago)
• James Singleton (Dallas)
• Anthony Carter (Denver)
• Johan Petro (Denver)
• C.J. Watson (Golden State)
• Steve Novak (Los Angeles Clippers)
• Brian Skinner (Los Angeles Clippers)
• Shannon Brown (Los Angeles Lakers)
• Joel Anthony (Miami)
• Jamaal Magloire (Miami)
• Sean Marks (New Orleans)
• David Lee (New York)
• Nate Robinson (New York)
• Adonal Foyle (Orlando)
• Royal Ivey (Philadelphia)
• Grant Hill (Phoenix)

Group 3: There are two players this season who, as restricted free agents in the previous offseason, signed offer sheets with other teams that were matched.

Any team that matches an offer sheet to its own restricted free agent can’t trade that player for one calendar year without the player’s permission. The player also can’t be traded to the team that signed him to the offer sheet for one calendar year.

Players With Matched Offer Sheets Orlando’s Marcin Gortat
Signed with: Dallas
Veto Rights End: July 13, 2010
Utah’s Paul Millsap
Signed with: Portland
Veto Rights End: July 17, 2010

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Nubeo boasts that it has created the world’s most complex watch case (given all the parts), with overall designs of the watches being influenced by Jellyfish and the ocean environment.  At least three limited edition Nubeo Black Mamba watches will be made available – each with different amounts of decoration.

The most limited in number will be the pictured Black Mamba MVP, which has rings of baguette cutsapphire crystals which have a “Whiskey” color.

more pics and details after the jump

The 48mm wide case is made from black titanium (with some DLC coating) and ceramic – while black sapphires frame two of the chronograph subsidiary dials on the face. Inside is an automatic mechanical movement of undisclosed origin. The banner pictured model will go for about $285,000, less for the models without as many sapphires. It is true that the economic status quo does not make it an ideal time for a new luxury watch release, but with limited numbers and niche market appeal, Nubeo (and Bryant) are confident in the Black Mamba’s market success.

Here he is seen wearing a Black Mamba MVP model with black sapphires around the bezel.

Prices for the Black Mamba watches strap at about $25,000 (more for the black sapphire stone covered models).

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