This tournament is first ever happen in the history of Kansas to be played in the state since 2008 and once again, Kansas City will prove to be the best city to host the annual tournament.

There are plenty of teams to square off today in hopes of advancing in the tournament. Wednesday’s games kick off with Colorado and Texas Tech, with the winner advancing to play the #1 ranked Jayhawks.

Check out the Big 12 Basketball Tournament Schedule and Bracket below:

Wednesday, March 10, 2010
* Game 1: Colorado vs Texas Tech 11:30 AM
* Game 2: Missouri vs Nebraska 2:00 PM
* Game 3: Oklahoma State vs Oklahoma 6:00 PM
* Game 4: Texas vs Iowa State 8:30 PM

Thursday, March 11, 2010 – Quarterfinals

* Game 5: Kansas vs Game 1 winner 11:30 AM
* Game 6: Texas vs Game 2 winner 2:00 PM
* Game 7: Kansas State vs Game 3 winner 6:00 PM
* Game 8: Baylor vs Game 4 winner 8:30 PM

Friday, March 12, 2010 – Semifinals

* Game 9: Game 5 winner vs Game 6 winner 6:00 PM
* Game 10: Game 7 winner vs Game 8 winner 8:30 PM

Saturday, March 13, 2010 – Big 12 Championship Game

* Final: Game 9 vs Game 10 winner, 5:00 PM

Reserve your dollar and get tickets for this annual tournament now and Watch the Big 12 Basketball Tournament Kansas City LIVE!

Stay tune for more live updates right here at e-BUZZ Online Sports!

Top Rank’s Bob Arum is very persistent in maintaining this historic event alive as place of Manny’s fight.

“I have never had an experience where the venue has played such a paramount role in the promotion,” said Bob Arum, who is putting on the fight along with Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones. “It’s helped us sell the tickets, helped us get the publicity. … Whatever works.”

Cowboys new state-of-the-art stadium is in demand, besides being the home field for the Cowboys and now the host for Pacquiao-Clottey, the stadium also host many big sporting events like the annual AT&T Cotton Bowl Classic, NBA All-Star Game, the 2011 Super Bowl and the 2014 NCAA Men’s basketball Final Four.

One of the stadium’s most significant fan-friendly elements is the world’s largest (and most expensive at $40 million) HD video board, which is 72 feet high and 160 feet wide. It was expected that all fans regardless of where they are seated, would have a good view of the action because of this HD Video board.

Your ticket is worth for this event as Manny Pacquiao will defend his WBO welterweight title. Mark your calendar, MANNY PACQUIAO vs. JOSHUA CLOTTEY, World Welterweight Championship. Promoted by Top Rank, in association with the Dallas Cowboys and Tecate, Pacquiao vs. Clottey will take place Saturday, March 13 and will be produced and distributed live on HBO Pay-Per-View®, beginning at 9 p.m. ET/6 p.m. PT..

The 45-year old actress delivered an emotional speech as she received her award last (March 7) at the Kodak Theater on Sunday in Hollywood.

Read the disclosed acceptance speech of Sandra Bullock below:

“Did I really earn this or did I just wear you all down? I would like to thank the Academy for allowing me in the last month to have the most incredible ride with rooms full of artists that I see tonight and that I’ve worked with before and I hope to work with in the future, who inspire me and blaze trails for us. Four of them that I’ve fallen deeply in love with I share this night with and I share this award with.”

“Gabby, I love you so much. You are exquisite. You are beyond words to me. Carey, your grace and your elegance and your beauty and your talent makes me sick. Helen, I feel like we are family through family and I don’t have the words to express just what I think of you. And Meryl, you know what I think of you and you are such a good kisser.

I have so many people to thank for my good fortune in this lifetime and this is a once-in-a-lifetime experience, I know. To the family that allowed me to play them, the Tuohy family, I know they’re in here and you’ll probably hear her in a minute. Maybe not. Thank you for giving me the opportunity to… the family that made this film that gave me the opportunity to do something different. John Lee Hancock, Gil Netter, Alcon, Warner Bros., the actors, everyone who’s shown me kindness when it wasn’t fashionable, I thank you. To everyone who was mean to me when it wasn’t… George Clooney threw me in a pool years ago. I’m still holding a grudge. But there’s so many people to thank.

Not enough time, so I would like to thank what this film is about for me which are the moms that take care of the babies and the children no matter where they come from. Those moms and parents never get thanked. I, in particular, failed to thank one. So… if I can take this moment to thank Helga B. for not letting me ride in cars with boys until I was 18 because she was right. I would’ve done what she said I was gonna do. For making me practice every day when I got home. Piano, ballet, whatever it is I wanted to be. She said to be an artist, you had to practice every day, and for reminding her daughters that there’s no race, no religion, no class system, no color, nothing, no sexual orientation that makes us better than anyone else. We are all deserving of love. So, to that trailblazer, who allowed me to have that. And this. And this. I thank you so much for this opportunity that I share with these extraordinary women and my lover Meryl Streep. Thank you.”

Thank you Just Jared!

If you are curious about the Academy awards winners then the big winner of the spectacular night was Kathryn Bigelow. She became the first woman to win the Best Director award and at the same time edged Avatar with the Best Picture award.

See the disclosed 2010 Academy Awards Winners below:

Best Supporting actor – Christoph Waltz
Best Animated Feature – Up
Best Original Screenplay – The Hurt Locker (Mark Boal)
Best Animated Short Film – Logorama
Best Original Song – ’The Weary Kind’
Best Documentary Short – Music By Prudence
Best Live Action Short – The New Tenants
Best Make-up – Star Trek
Best Adapted Screenplay – Precious (Geoffrey Fletcher)
Best Supporting Actress – Mo’Nique
Best Art Direction – Avatar
Best Sound Editing – The Hurt Locker
Best Sound Mixing – The Hurt Locker
Best Cinematography – Avatar
Best Original Score – Up (Michael Giacchino)
Best Visual Effects – Avatar
Best Documentary Feature – The Cove
Best Film Editing – The Hurt Locker
Best Foreign Language Film – The Secret In their Eyes
Best Actor – Jeff Bridges
Best Actress – Sandra Bullock
Best Picture – The Hurt Locker
Best Director – Kathryn Bigalow

Make a roaring sound at the comment’s section below.

The “Blind Side” star, Sandra Bullock is the favorite of the many for “Best Actress” arrived in real Hollywood style appealing beautiful and sexy in her red carpet gown.
The entertaining performance of Neil Patrick Harris, to start-off the ceremony was a big hit. Alec Baldwin and Steve Martin started the show with a popping and hilarious routine which made everyone laugh.

This 82nd Academy Awards will surely be a memorable in Oscars’ history with stars in excellent form that still waiting to be called as Best Actress, Best Actor, Best movie and so on.

The awards are still ongoing LIVE at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California. So head over to ABC or watch on your favorite website to stream online for free.

See also the Complete List of 82nd Oscars 2010 Nominees.

The road to Oscars is on its way to handicap those nominees especially the Best Picture Awards. Currently, there are Nine films who are nominated for Best Picture that includes Avatar, The Blind Side, District 9, An Education,The Hurt Locker,Inglorious Basterds, Precious, Up, and Up In the Air.

But what are really the Oscars’ Best Picture Preferences?

Configuring the past winners, I’ve noticed that previous Best Picture champs have possessed these qualities to be named as “Oscars Best Picture”
1. They are grand scale
2. They are dramas or musicals
3. They represent a technological advance
4. They express liberal political or social sentiments – but only those that everybody already agrees with
5. They are box office successes
6. They are usually not the product of a brilliant directorial talent, but of a great team effort
7. They are not artistically adventurous or audacious.

Academy Members like grand-scale movies. Films that represent a technical advance have an edge as well. It is called the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences because a lot of members are from scientific and technical disciplines.

Well, let see and find out the final verdict this coming March 07, 2010 at the Kodak Theatre in Los Angeles, California.

The Spain’s maritime rescue service make a sound with a BIG Buzz as they announced that there is a 26-foot waves slammed into the Louis Majesty cruise ship in the Mediterranean a while ago.

Leaving two passengers dead and six injured. Police in Greece said among passengers killed was German and also the other was Italian. They said there were 1,350 passengers in the ship and 580 crew, including the Greek captain.
The wave “smashed windows inside the lounge area” of the Maltese-flagged Louis Majesty, a spokesman to the service told AFP.

The accident occurred Wednesday evening from the coast of Spain’s northeastern Catalonia region since the vessel, run with the Cypriot-based Louis Cruise Lines, was en route to the Italian port of Genoa.

“The windows in a public area on deck 5 on the forward part of the vessel smashed resulting (in) the fatal injury of two passengers of German and Italian nationality while 14 more passengers suffered light injuries,” the line says in a statement.

The Majesty was in the midst of a 12-night Western Mediterranean cruise out of Genoa that included calls in Tunisia, Morocco, the Canary Islands and Spain. It had been scheduled to return to Genoa on Thursday but instead will head back to Barcelona, it’s last port of call, the line says.

“Louis Cruises extends its sincere condolences to the families of the two victims and its full support to the injured passengers while expressing its deep sorrow for the incident,” the statement says. “The vessel’s medical team is already providing all possible care to the injured passengers.”

After the accident the captain thought to take the vessel to the Spanish port of Barcelona to evacuate the victims.
Spanish news reports said only one in the six injured, a 62-year-old woman whose legs were broken, was in serious condition.

Please extend our prayers!

The 2010 Oscars will take place on March 07, 2010 at the Kodak Theatre in Los Angeles, California and will be hosted by Alec Baldwin and Steve Martin.
The Oscars Nominations 2010 has been announced last February 2,2010 at Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills, California by Tom Sherak – Academy Awards President and Actress Anna Hathaway.

Scroll Down to View the Complete List of the 82nd Oscars 2010 Nominees and make a sound below  Who among these nominees are your bets to Win the Oscars 2010 Awards.

Best Picture
Avatar
The Blind Side
District 9
An Education
The Hurt Locker
Inglorious Basterds
Precious
Up
Up In the Air

Best Actor
Jeff Bridges, Crazy Heart
George Clooney, Up in the Air
Colin Firth, A Single Man
Morgan Freeman, Invictus
Jeremy Renner, The Hurt Locker

Best Actress
Sandra Bullock, The Blind Side
Helen Mirren, The Last Station
Carey Mulligan, An Education
Gabourey Sidibe, Precious
Meryl Streep, Julie & Julia

Best Supporting Actor
Matt Damon, Invictus
Woody Harrelson, The Messenger
Christopher Plummer, The Last Station
Stanley Tucci, The Lovely Bones
Christoph Waltz, Inglourious Basterds

Best Supporting Actress
Penelope Cruz, Nine
Vera Farmiga, Up in the Air
Maggie Gyllenhaal, Crazy Heart
Anna Kendrick, Up in the Air
Mo’Nique, Precious

Best Director
Kathyryn Bigelow, The Hurt Locker
James Cameron, Avatar
Lee Daniels, Precious
Jason Reitman, Up in the Air
Quentin Tarantino, Inglourious Basterds

Best Original Screenplay
Mark Boal, The Hurt Locker
Alessandro Camon & Oren Moverman, The Messenger
Joel Coen & Ethan Coen, A Serious Man
Pete Docter, Bob Peterson & Tom McCarthy, Up
Quentin Tarantino, Inglourious Basterds

Best Adapted Screenplay
Jesse Armstrong & Armando Iannucci, In the Loop
Neill Blomkamp & Terri Tatchell, District 9
Geoffrey Fletcher, Precious
Nick Hornby, An Education
Jason Reitman & Sheldon Turner, Up in the Air

Best Animated Film
Coraline
Fantastic Mr. Fox
The Princess and the Frog
The Secret of Kells
Up

Best Foreign Language Film
El Secreto do Sus Ojos (Argentina)
Un Prophete (France)
The White Ribbon (Germany)
Ajami (Israel)
The Milk of Sorrow (Peru)

Best Art Direction
Avatar
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
Nine
Sherlock Holmes
The Young Victoria

Best Cinematography
Avatar
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
The Hurt Locker
Inglourious Basterds
The White Ribbon

Best Costume Design
Bright Star
Coco Before Chanel
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
Nine
The Young Victoria
Best Documentary
Burma VJ
The Cove
Food, Inc.
The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers
Which Way Home

Best Editing
Avatar
District 9
The Hurt Locker
Inglourious Basterds
Precious

Best Makeup
Il Divo
Star Trek
The Young Victoria

Best Score
Avatar
Fantastic Mr. Fox
The Hurt Locker
Sherlock Holmes
Up

Best Song
“Almost There,” The Princess and the Frog, Randy Newman
“Down in New Orleans,” The Princess and the Frog, Randy Newman
“Loin de Paname,” Paris 36, Reinhardt Wagner & Frank Thomas
“Take It All,” Nine, Maury Weston
“The Weary Kind,” Crazy Heart, T-Bone Burnett & Ryan Bingham

Best Sound Editing
Avatar
The Hurt Locker
Inglourious Basterds
Star Trek
Up

Best Sound Mixing
Avatar
The Hurt Locker
Inglourious Basterds
Star Trek
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen

Best Visual Effects
Avatar
District 9
Star Trek

BEIJING (Reuters) – A craggy peak in a scenic part of southern China has been renamed after floating mountains featured in Hollywood blockbuster “Avatar,” with the province hoping to cash in on the movie’s massive success.

The “Southern Sky Column” in Zhangjiajie in southern Hunan province formally had its named changed to “Avatar Hallelujah Mountain” in a ceremony on Monday, according to the Zhangjiajie government’s official website (www.zjj.gov.cn).

Tourists can now join a “Magical tour to Avatar-Pandora” or a “Miracle tour to Avatar’s floating mountain,” the Zhangjiajie branch of China International Travel Service Corp said on its website. (www.citszjj.com)

“Pandora is far but Zhangjiajie is near,” the municipal government added on its website. “Welcome to Zhangjiajie to see ‘Avatar’s Hallelujah Mountains’ and discover the real world of Pandora.”

Excerpt from Reuters.com

Below are the Official Results of the Iloilo Dinagyang Festival 2010 “In the Hall of Fame” Ati-ati and Kasadyahan Competition, Tambor Trumpa Marcha Musika, and Luces in the Sky held last January 23-24, 2010.

Dinagyang Ati Competition Winners

Special Awards :
* Best in Discipline :  Tribu Pan-ay (Fort San Pedro National High School)
* Best in Head dress :  Tribu Paghidaet (Lapaz National High School)
* Best Costume Designer/Design: Tribu Paghidaet (Lapaz National High School)

Minor Awards :
* Best in Streetdancing :  Tribu Pan-ay (Fort San Pedro National High School)
* Best in Music :  Tribu Paghidaet (Lapaz National High School)
* Best in Musical Director :  Raymond Perolino / Tribu Paghidaet
* Best in Costume :  Tribu Paghidaet (Lapaz National High School)
* Best in Choreography :  Tribu Paghidaet (Lapaz National High School)
* Best in Performance :  Tribu Paghidaet (Lapaz National High School)

Major Awards :
* 4th Runner up :  Tribu Silak (formerly Tribu Lunok of Iloilo City National High School)
* 3rd Runner up :  Tribu Salognon (formerly Tribu Ang Taga-Jaro of Jaro National High School)
* 2nd Runner up :  Tribu Pan-ay (formerly Tribu ni San Pedro of Fort San Pedro National High School)
* 1st Runner up :  Tribu Bola-Bola (Iloilo National High School)
* Champion : Tribu Paghidaet (Lapaz National High School)

Kasadyahan Competition Winners

Special Awards:
* Best in Streetdancing (P10,000) :  Tribu Patubas (Barotac Viejo)
* Best in Costume (P10,000) :  Tribo Kasag (Banate)
* Best in Music (P10,000) :  Tribo Kasag (Banate)
* Best in Choreography (P10,000) :  Tribu Kasag (Banate)
* Best in Performance (P10,000) :  Tribu Kasag (Banate)
* Best Choreographer (P10,000):  Tribu Kasag (Banate)

Major Awards :
* Consolation Prize :  Tribu Tinu-om (Cabatuan)
* 4th Runner up (P20,000) :  Tribu Mandurriaonon
* 3rd Runner up (P30,000) :  Tribu Pantat (Zarraga)
* 2nd Runner up (P40,000) :  Tribu Patubas (Barotac Viejo)
* 1st Runner up (P50,000) :  Tribu Tubung-tubong (Tubungan)

Luces in the Sky Winners
* 2nd place (P50,000) :  Shooter #20 Supreme Fireworks from Iloilo City
* 1st place (P60,000) :  Shooter #18 DSS Fireworks from Dumaguete City
* Champion (P80,000) :  Shooter #10 Shin Tang Fireworks from Bulacan

Miss Iloilo Dinagyang 2010 Winners

* Angelie Joy Golingay – 1st place
* Mary Rayon Velez – first runner-up
* Ariane Gabriela – second runner-up
* Mary June Suria – third runner-up
* Jocelyn Caceres – fourth runner-up

Tambor, Trumpa, Marcha, Musika Winners Drum & Bugle Competition

Elementary Level:
* 2nd runner up : Alibango Elementary School
* 1st runner up : Dingle Central School
* Champion : Guimbal Central School

Secondary Level:
* 2nd runner up : New Lucena National Comprehensive High School Cabilawan
* 1st runner up :  Guimbal National High School
* Champion :  Iloilo City National High School

Marching Band Competition

* 1st runner up :  Sun Yat Sen Band
* Champion :  Alimodian National Comprehensive High School Band