Lakers Hold On 103-98 In Game 5!!!

I just got the best Fathers Day present. My LA Lakers kept the dream alive, forcing the Celtics into Game 6. Pack up the championship trophy and book a flight back to Boston, the NBA finals are still on and poppin'. That 103-98 win was too close for comfort, but I was totally feeling the game.

After church, breakfast on Santa Monica Boulevard, splashing around at Zuma Beach in Malibu, and capping off the evening on the couch with my boys and my girl, this what living in Southern California is all about! Don't hate!!!

When Kobe Bryant tipped the ball away from Pierce in the final minute and went to the other end for a dunk, it was enough for a victory at the Staples Center that kept the NBA Finals alive for a possible historic comeback.

The Celtics still lead 3-2 in the best-of-seven series. Game 6 is Tuesday night in Boston.

Pierce had 38 points to lead the Celtics. Bryant’s 25 were high for the Lakers, who came periously close to blowing a huge lead for the second straight game.

No team has overcome a 3-1 deficit in the finals to win a title. The first 28 failed, and now the Lakers, who blew a 24-point lead and lost Game 4 and nearly squandered a 19-point lead in Game 5, have a chance to do something extraordinary.

They'll have to win on the Celtics' parquet floor Tuesday night to force a winner-take-all Game 7, where anything is possible.

Especially with Bryant, the game's best player, on hand.

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Wesley Snipes Enjoying Freedom and Fatherhood For One More Day

Days of Freedom are limited for actor Wesley Snipes, before he has to turn himself in to serve his 3 years of jail on federal tax evasion.

We wish him an especially Happy Fathers Day. In the end his choices don't negate that he is a father as well. He reminds all dads that the decision we make don't only effect me but effect our children as well.

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CELEBRATING FATHER'S DAY, WHILE LOOKING AT THE STATE OF BLACK DADS

For Chris Gardner who was played by Will Smith in the movie "The Pursuit of Happyness," fatherhood is the greatest job in the world.

It is also a job that Gardner and others believe is increasingly in trouble.

More than 19 million children — about one in four — were living in households where no father, biological or other, was present, according to a U.S. Census Bureau report in 2005.

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The statistics also show that this burden falls more heavily on black children, with 56 percent living in single-parent families mostly headed by mothers.

That figure compared with 22 percent of white children and 31 percent of Hispanic children.

“Father absence in the African American communities, across America, has hit those communities with the force of 100 hurricane Katrinas,” said Phillip Jackson, executive director of the Chicago-based Black Star Project. “It is literally decimating our communities...”

For groups like the Black Star Project, the focus is on education, sponsoring activities such as getting fathers to walk to school with their children on the first day of classes each year.

In 2006, the National Fatherhood Initiative commissioned a survey that found over 90 percent of those questioned agreed there is a father-absence crisis in America.

They listed work demands as the No. 1 barrier to being a good father. Fathers who were not married to the mother of their children cited a lack of cooperation from mothers as the chief obstacle to being a good father, followed by work, money and treatment of fathers by the courts.

Roland Warren, president of the National Fatherhood Initiative, said that children in fatherless households are more susceptible to life’s challenges.

“They are two to three times more likely to use drugs, become teen parents, be connected with the criminal justice system, to fail in school or to live in poverty,” he said.

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A staggering 70 percent of African-American children are born out of wedlock, according to federal health statistics.

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Wendy Gladney is hooking you up for Father's Day:

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BLACK MEN SLAM LEBRON JAMES' 'CAVALIER' ATTITUDE ABOUT FATHERHOOD

Cleveland Cavalier basketball superstar LeBron James and his girlfriend Savannah Brinson welcomed their second son, Bryce Maximus James, on Thursday, their rep tells PEOPLE.

The 8 lb., 6 oz. baby was born at 12:51 a.m. in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio. The heir To Michael Jordan's throne also has 2-year-old, LeBron Jr.

"LeBron and Savannah are overjoyed with the birth of their son," a rep for the couple says, "and are looking forward to bringing him home to his big brother, LeBron Jr."

In having a Father's Day discussion with Black men who are also dads, the discussion last week turned to Lebron and an interview he gave prior to the birth of his son.

James, 22, a forward for the Cleveland Cavaliers, is in the thick of the NBA Finals, with his team trailing the San Antonio Spurs three-games-to-none in the best-of-seven series.

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