• The Root dedicated its editorial space to black fathers today. [The Root]

• Last night's disaster of a game (if you're a Laker fan) drove Kobe Bryant to drink. [TMZ]

• Mike Tyson makes my head hurt. [PH]

• Office fans: Rashida Jones could be starring in a spinoff of the NBC comedy. [E!]

• Alicia Keys wants to adopt a multicultural group of kids just like Angelina Jolie! [SP]

• When you're Karrine Steffans, one of the first things you do when you find yourself a domestic abuse situation with the dude who played Eddie Winslow on Family Matters is to text Perez Hilton. [PH]

• Mike Tyson is a sad, paranoid man. [SP]

• Maybe this will stop would-be thieves from targeting NFL players' mansions for their home invasions. [BV]

• The side of the victim's family that possibly received money from R. Kelly is now testifying for the defense. [MTV]

• The Cartoon-Network-banned episodes of The Boondocks will be available on DVD. But you're probably already seen them on YouTube. [EUR]

Mike Tyson might have contributed 30 hours worth of interviews for a documentary on his life that will premiere in Cannes this week, and he might be flying all the way to France to attend the opening, but he's not happy about it. Not at all.

"I look at it now and I'm embarrassed I did it," Tyson told the New York Times. "There's a lot of information people didn't need to know… I don't know who I am. That might sound stupid. I really have no idea. All my life I have been drinking and drugging and partying and all of a sudden this comes to a stop. I never thought I would live to this age."

Tyson, who has dedicated himself to a life of clean living, will now presumably have the clarity to figure out who exactly he is, at the age of 42. There's always a ready punchline when writing about Mike Tyson, but knowing what I know about his life, it's all just pretty sad.

Jamie Foxx has tentative plans to film a two-hour comedy special in which he does nothing but impersonate Mike Tyson. Oh. But I think they're calling it a biopic, not a comedy special.

Tyson says that Foxx, who has done Tyson impersonations in his stand-up routines, will play the embattled boxer in a movie about his life. Tyson says he wants kids to learn his story so they don't make the same mistakes. Hear that kids? No biting people's ears off!

If Foxx does indeed plan to portray Tyson in a movie, I suppose the producers will have to wait for him to finish shooting his all-important reality show, From G's To Gents, before shooting begins. [NYDN]

Say what you will about Mike Tyson's intelligence, but, based on his facial expression at a charity banquet in Johannesburg, SA, today, he can tell when he's not wanted. Women's groups in South Africa are incensed that the convicted rapist is being invited to charity events in a country with one of the highest rates of rape. Based on their criticism, African National Congress leader Jacob Zuma — who was found not guilty of rape two years ago — was a no show at the event. [MSNBC]

50 Cent is putting his Farmington, CT, home, which formerly belonged to Mike Tyson, on the market for $18.5 million, but not before he shows it off on MTV's Cribs.

"I like the look of an Architectural Digest," 50 said of his designing style. "There's a lot of good living going on, and it ain't based (on) the actual money that's being spent, it's the choices that people make. You don't have to buy a $50 million home to build a lifestyle that's equivalent."

Of course, that's coming from a man with a house so big there are times he has guests — and doesn't even know it…

But 50, who owns several homes, said he's grown weary of the two-hour plus commute from Farmington to New York City. Plus, he's looking to downsize.

"It might be a lot smaller," he said of his future house. "The basics — maybe four or five bedrooms."

Disregard that last statement — 50 Cent's not going to live in a four-bedroom house. I guarantee it.

The special airs tonight, but you know MTV. It will be on every night until 2009, so, even if you're moderately interested, there's no rush. Plus, if you've seen one room in an obnoxious rapper's Architechtural Digest-inspired home, haven't you seen them all?

Lindsay Lohan* spent just 80 minutes in jail for her DUI and minor cocaine charges, but Mike Tyson just did his entire 24 hour bid in an Arizona jail for similar charges. He suffered through it by reading American Gansta and eating Sloppy Joes. What a soldier! I say we march to the Arizona Department of Justice and demand answers. [TMZ]

*For the sake of the joke, forget about Nicole Richie and Paris Hilton's sentences. It's the day before Thanksgiving.

Mike Tyson was just sentenced to 24 hours in jail, plus 3 years of probation, for driving under the influence and drug possession. The people who are in jail around the time Tyson checks in better pray that his sentence is of the Lindsay Lohan/Nicole Richie variety and he never sees a jail cell. Sharing an enclosed space with Mike Tyson for 24 hours has to amount to cruel and unusual punishment. [TMZ]

Evander Holyfield proves once and for all that what boxers lack in brain power they make up for in, I don't know, grills? Can't he come up with his own business venture?

Holyfield, of Atlanta, is preparing to unveil the "Evander Holyfield Real Deal Grill," a direct competitor to Foreman's famous "Lean Mean Fat Reducing Grilling Machine," which has reportedly earned $100 million in sales since 1995.

"I've got a George Foreman grill. It's a good grill," Holyfield, 44, told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. "But don't you think the latest grill is supposed to be the best grill?"

At least being copycat grill-seller is better than getting pulled over by the cops with coke in your jeans pocket.

[AP]

However unorthodox it seems, I often feel bad for Karrine Steffans. She obviously thought for many years that sex was the only thing she had to offer in the world, and thus allowed herself to be used and thrown away like a piece of trash over and over again. That's got to do something to your psyche. Case in point — what made her feel like she had to continue having excruciatingly painful sex with Mike Tyson for hours (if what she wrote is to be believed, of course)? Also, ewww. From the The Vixen Diaries:

Mike Tyson, she writes, "loves the same way he fights: hard and rough. His kisses are like uppercuts, and his lovemaking is like a title match. And as he proved against Evander Holyfield, Mike Tyson is a biter. His passion manifested through pain as … I endured the extreme force of his 200-pound frame colliding into mine, he kissed, sucked and bit me overzealously. I was in excruciating pain as we continued in this manner for several hours. At the end, I was covered in bruises and bite marks and vowed to never have sex with him again."

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Probably because the District Attorney just wanted Mike Tyson out of the state of Arizona ASAP, the trouble-plagued pugilist was given a plea deal in his DUI and drug possesion case, which stemmed an arrest last year when cops found bags of cocaine on Tyson during a traffic stop.

He returns for sentencing in November.

Taking a page out of Diddy's book, Tisha Campbell is smiling through the pain (of her separation from Duane Martin) at the DesignCare fundraiser benefit in Malibu Saturday. Sports stars and other celebs (from A-D list) were in attendance, including Mike Tyson, who seems to be on the scene again. Shudder. Pics after the jump.

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Kim Kardashian had to know when she posed for this picture at the ESPY Awards gifting suite that bloggers the world over would have groupie jokes. I'm going to be the better person and leave that alone, but she should really put down the football next time. Check out more pics of swag-loving sports celebs, including one of Mike Tyson looking at Denyce Lawton like he really wants to fornicate, after the jump.

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Mike Tyson: an embarrassment to the sport of boxing, his race, his gender, or all of humankind? You tell me after you watch this clip of his most ridiculous television moments, most of which contain NSFW language. With all of the soundbites put together in one video, it is very apparent how frighteningly, sadly unbalanced the man is. And how much he enjoys fornicating.

[BWE]

Wait, Mya actually saw girls hanging out with Sisqo???? [C&D]

It's time for Dennis Rodman to remove himself from the public eye and never come back. What a waste of an athlete. [TMZ]

Why are Rihanna and Kelly Rowland more interested in Paul Walker and Orlando Bloom than sexy black men? Halle Berry might have the answer. [Bossip]

Am I late in seeing this "sparkling wiggles" video? It doesn't matter. I'm appalled, anyway. Poor child's got nowhere to go but down. [Racialicious]

Just because Mike Tyson wants Bollywood, it doesn't meant Bollywood is ready for Mike Tyson. [MC]