The 2009 Video Music Awards on MTV were a hit Sunday night. While most moments were happy and thrilling, there was one that really proved to be embarrasing and crazy. When the time came to give the award for the best female music video, two women stood out as the clear favorites, being Beyonce and Taylor Swift. As Taylor Swift was announced as the winner the entire crowd seemed to agree with the choice of the voters, the entire crowd except for Kanye West. When Swift was standing on the stage giving her acceptance speech, Kanye decided that he should go up and rudely interupt Swift not only by just being on the stage unannounced but by also taking the mic from Taylor and voicing his opinion on whom he thought the winner should have been. West said, "Hey Taylor. I'm really happy for you and i'm gonna let you finish, but Beyonce had one of the best videos of all time! All time!" After his comment, West was booed off the stage and escorted out of the building. Later on in the show when Beyonce was awarded a moon man for video of the year, Beyonce called Taylor back out so that she could have her moment and give a proper acceptance speech. Kanye has since apologized for his embarrasing outburst.

US Open

Seventeen year old Melanie Oudin, of Marietta, Georgia, has been taking the tennis world by storm at the 2009 U. S. Open. The 70th-ranked tennis star has been dishing out upsets to some of the sports' biggest stars, including Russian phenoms Elena Dementieva, (whom was the number four seed), and Maria Sharapova, (the number twenty nine seed). To add to it, she beat 13th seed Nadia Petrova in three sets on Monday. Because of this, she has become the youngest American to move into the quarterfinals since Serena Williams in 1999. She takes on Caroline Wozniacki of Denmark next for a possible semifinal berth. It will be interesting to see if this young woman still has enough left in the tank to pull of another upset and possibly even win the entire U. S. Open.

John and Kate Plus 8

Last Thursday, Kate Gosselin decided to show up at the home of John Gosselin out of anger because of the babysitter who John hired. Kate's anger came mainly from the fact that the babysitter was a twenty three year old who gives shots at the local bar. Upon showing up at the home of John, the police were called on Kate because she was causing a scene and it wasn't her time to have the children. Recently, John has been seen pictured in the magazines out with the babysitter and also with a plastice surgeon whom he supposedly was seeing while he was married to Kate. After all of this the Gosselin's are still about to begin a new season of their hit television show John and Kate Plus Eight. Surely there will be more drama to unfold in the near future with John and Kate.

CBC vs Harding

Last Saturday CBC Men's Soccer played Harding. The match proved to be extremely intense. From the first kick off to the ending whistle players on both sides of the ball went all out. In the first half the Mustangs were awarded a penalty kick in which Tj Rodriguez made a solid finish to put us up 1-0. We continued into the second half with a 1-0 lead and maintained that lead until the 85th minute or so. After two amazing saves, unfortunately Chance Murphy's shut out was broken when the Harding men put one in the back of the net to tie the game.
Right after the lead was broken, forward, Caleb Dayer had a break away and was pushed down in the goal box. After trying to get up, a Harding defender knocked him down again. He, mistakenly was not awarded a penalty kick, and the ball was given to the Harding goal keeper. As anyone could imagine, this created quite the uproar between Mustang and Bison fans.
The game ended in a tie 1-1.