Decatur,
GA - (March 20, 2009) - King streetballer, actor and entrepreneur,
Philip "Hot Sauce" Champion and his all star celebrity team will play
the Hot 107.9 Hot Shots for a worthy cause on April 11, 2009. Proceeds
for this event will benefit BaSix Knowledge Academy.
December 22, 2008 - American Basketball Association (ABA)
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"Get Caught In The Web" of the College Park Spyders, debut set for the 2010-11 basketball season in the Atlanta, Georgia area. Here is where you will get up to the minute news and related articles as they prepare for the American Basketball Association.
| December 9, 2009 |
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| October 28, 2009 |
Duane "Spyder D" Hughes Named Director of Entertainment For ABA |
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| September 4, 2009 | Spyder Hughes announcement regarding College Park Spyders: "On behalf of our staff and CEO, I regretfully announce that due to delays in securing our venue, we will sit out the 2009-10 season. Though we have found a suitable venue situation through our relationship with Davy DMX (former Kurtis Blow DJ), who is the new events coordinator at a 3,000 seat venue in the area, we don't feel that there is adequate time to get it basketball ready, and get our sponsors and partner relationships in place where their brands are done proper justice. I'd like to personally thank Stanley Pritchett, President at Morris Brown College and Mason Barfield, AD at Clayton State College & University, who gave us their time and consideration. Conflicts within scheduling and regulations made those situations untenable. Davy DMX, who is a lifelong friend of mine will work with me on getting set up for next season whereby we will have all our sponsor signage and venue partners in place, and, we hope to have several exhibitions and fund raisers during this season. I will continue to work with Joe Newman, Quentin Townsend, Levi Williams, Tony Chase and ABA Media, as well as the other members of the Southeast Division for their individual successes of each franchise." |
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| July 14, 2009 | For Immediate Release Media Inquiries: Dretam PR Tel: 678-495-1465 Email: pr@dretaminc.com Spyder D, here with LL Cool J, 2008 Legendary Emcee Spyder D Releases Single from Final Project First Single, Who You Follow (My Twitter Baby) With the popularity surge of online communication and texting, rap legend, Duane, Spyder D, Hughes speaks on it in his latest single âWho You Follow (My Twitter Baby). âThese days people are barely having phone conversations. Relationships are blooming through Twitter, texting, Facebook and others. I think its fun and we donât have to talk anymore, Hughes says laughing, âas long as long as itâs within a certain amount of characters of course.â Click below to hear the single: www.reverbnation.com/spyderd About Spyder D âSpyder D" (Duane Hughes) is a classic "old school" rapper and producer from New York City who combined elements of jazz and funk in his live instrumental backing tracks. "Big Apple Rappin" was perhaps his most famous 12" released on his own Newtroit Records in 1980, becoming the first rapper to do so. The bass player, Billy Wilson, and now president of the Motown Alumni Association, along with Spyder is starting the Newtroit label again with this release. Another notable release was "I Can't Wait (To Rock the Mike)" released in 1986 as singleâa version of the Nu Shooz hit "I Can't Wait". Other Spyder D releases include "Buckwheat's Rap" (Profile, 1985), and the house party hit "Smerphie's Dance", now an often-sampled cult classic. Spyder D's brand of music was characterized by a laid back attitude, humor, and skills on the microphone. During several stints in the 80s and 90s, Spyder worked for Power Play Studios in Queens which was the focal point of Hip-Hop recording. He engineered and mentored to several up and coming acts including the then eighteen year old Teddy Riley, Salt -N- Peppa producer Herbie Azor and a pre teen Peter Gunz. Through the urgings and tutelage of legendary disco era producer Patrick Adams, Spyder began a dual role as both engineer and manager for the renowned studio. He brought back in to the studio such luminary clients such as DJ Run of Run-DMC, producer Larry Smith (Whodini, Run-DMC Grandmaster Flash), BDPâs KRS One, Herbie Azor and Salt & Peppa along with superstar producers like P Diddy and Hit Squad producer Ron (Amen Ra) Lawrence. ### |
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| June 8, 2009 | College Park, Georgia TRYOUTS WILL BE HELD THE LAST WEEK OF AUGUST, 2009 College Park Spyders President/Coach Duane "Spyder" Hughes says that tryouts will be held the last week of August, during the weekend of 28, 29, 30. "I am positive on what I am looking for to make up the rest of this team", said Hughes, from his College Park residence. "Sauce" (star guard Phillip "Hot Sauce" Champion) is the corner stone. He will control tempo and flow of the game. The other starters will be the satellites that will revolve around what he does with the ball. The guys coming off the bench will have to be ready, mentally and physically to change the tempo, if the starters fail to establish that. There will be five or six opporunities for young men, or women, to come in and impress me, to make this team, that only has seven spots open. We will announce location and time soon. Please visit the website at www.spydersbasketball.com to get information." |
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| April 11, 2009 |
Hot Sauce All Stars Prevail 97-93 over Hot 107.9 Hot Shots in Decatur Charity Game April 11, 2009 Decatur, Ga. Led by a superior outside shooting performance by And1 star Fifty and former NBA standout Mahmoud Abdul Raouf, The Hot Sauce All Stars, coached by ABA College Park Spyders president and coach "Spyder" Duane Hughes, defeated the Hot 107.9 Hot Shots 97-93, in a game that featured several high flying dunks and the usual outstanding basketball acrobatics of Phillip "Hot Sauce" Champion. Hughes was chosen to coach by Andre Peeples, who is starting his own streetball tour with some of the players utilized in this charity event to raise funds for BaSix Knowledge Academy. Coach Spyder Hughes noted, "This was still basically a street basketball exhibition game, but it gave me a chance to see what Sauce could do when surrounded by shooters like Abdul-Raouf who I feel could still be on an NBA roster. We tried to get everybody playing time, while winning the game was still very important to me." Hughes, who will coach the ABA's College Park Spyders only other pro coaching experience came during the 2005-06 ABA season in a loss against player coach Tim Hardaway's Miami Pit Bulls. This season will mark his first full season as a coach on any level. "Hot Sauce", who is one of the most known basketball players in the world because of his exploits as a ball handling wizard for the And1 Mixtape Tour team, was signed by Hughes to lead the team into it's inaugural season this coming winter in 2009-10. "Sauce and I have talked about his role as a leader, and I am fully confident in his abilities, said Hughes. "He has a high basketball IQ, and a handle like Allen Iverson. Even with the showboating that comes with streetball, you have to have basketball sense. The Professor (Grayson Boucher), is another example. He absolutely proved himself last year on the CBA level, as a true point guard capable of putting up respectable numbers against former pro and division one NCAA standouts. Abdul Raouf should still be in the NBA as far as I am concerned. Did you see the shape he is in? It was an honor to be on the sidelines with him on our team. Purest shooter. The form on his jumpshot is text book. This was a very competitive game, though there was not a lot of strategy I needed to employ. The few times I called timeout was just to remind them that momentum has swung their way, and let's get some defensive stops to squelch that momentum." "Hi Riser", also of And1 fame wowed the crowd with several high flying dunks that is the signature of these "streetball" type of exhibition games. "50", also a And1 alum hit several long jump shots when the game tightened up. "Hot Sauce" found Abdul-Raouf for some wide open three point shots to put the game away in the final three miutes. Block Entertainment's Jody Breeze (Boyz In Da Hood), Robert Edwards (New England Patriots), and his wife Tracy Edwards former WNBA star (Minnesota Lynx) were also part of the all star celebrity lineup put together by Peeples and his wife, Tambria Peeples of Dretam Inc.. Rolling Out Magazine was a co-sponsor of the event. |
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| February 28, 2009 |
Spyders President Announces New Basketball Shoe February 27, 2009 College Park Spyders President of Basketball Operations announced today, as part of their community outreach and marketing program, they will launch the Spyder AK15 basketball shoe (see prototype photo below). "I am excited to finally get this program underway", said the American Basketball Association's College Park Spyders President "Spyder" Duane Hughes, a former rap pioneer, from his College Park office. "I reached out to my graphic artist guru Chris Drew last year with the basic concept as a possible shoe for my former star point guard Zach Marbury, brother of Stephon Marbury, whose "Starbury clothing/shoe line outfitted our now defunct CBA squad.We have since tweaked that model to come up with the current one. As usual, with Chris Drew and I, he nailed the vision I conveyed on the first draft, just like he did with the Krunk basketball uniforms, and the Chrissy Wallace racing jacket. You give this guy the basic concept, and he is a beast at interpreting the vision. Absolutely uncanny!" Cornel Hardy will be our lead consultant for the retail and online launch, as he has vast experience in the industry. The Book Bank Foundation will be a major recipient of what we do, as Glen Toby and I will fashion a sort of "books and shoes" program for back to school, Thanksgiving and Christmas clothing drives. We will also work with Chris Chaney and his street ball tourney at Princeton. We will keep the shoe very affordable and accessible, so that the average family can both find, and afford them. The shoe is designed to be both stylish and comfortable, while being sturdy for quick stops and starts, which is what the prototypical basketball players moves rely on in todays game." "Hopefully, we will also work out something with ABA CEO Joe Newman, and a third party sponsor, whereby we can outfit the ABA. I am working on new uniform designs as well, which I will soon pass on to Chris Drew for him to do his graphics artist wizadry. We will then get the patterns to our manufacturer. We will have all types of gear, from warmups to practice gear, baseball caps, and a winter coat for teams and schools that have to travel in wintery conditions. I am very proud of the line that we are developing. It is further evidence to our commitment to the game of basketball and the young aspiring boys, girls, men and women that play the game. |
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| January 26, 2009 |
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| January 26, 2009 | By Tai Saint Louis The American Basketball Association’s College Park Spyders is promising fans an exciting debut year, with the addition of AND1 superstar Phillip “Hot Sauce” Champion to the expansion team’s roster. The Spyders, which joined the ABA in December, made the announcement today with team president Duane “Spyder-D” Hughes comparing the acquisition to a previous high-profile ABA signing. “This signing reminds me of when Julius Erving first came into the ABA with the Virginia Squires,” Hughes explained to AllHipHop.com. “There were no trumpets blaring or fanfare. The Squires executives knew just what they were doing though. They were signing Mr. Excitement.” Champion has already brought his fare share of excitement to basketball through his six year stint on the AND1 Mixtape Tour. The Orland, Florida-born, Columbus, Georgia native joined the AND1 team during the summer of 2000, recruited after the same street-style of playing that kept him off his high school’s basketball team, found him a following on Atlanta’s Run N’ Shoot courts, a popular gym for pick-up games. Hot Sauce’s popularity on the AND1 circuit led to a role in the basketball movie Crossover opposite Wayne Brady and Wesley Jonathan. Hughes, who previously helmed the ABA’s Charlotte Krunk, has no doubt that his newest player will fit into the ABA’s more conventional style despite his street ball roots. “I told Sauce just to be himself on the court,” he said. “Basketball is basketball when you are born with God-given gifts. Like the ABA of old, people will come to see something they have never seen before. That’s what the great ones do: they create, improvise and mesmerize. That is our challenge as an organization. That is Hot Sauce’s challenge as a player who will be leading an expansion franchise.” Hughes, followed a successful high school basketball career with a pioneering Hip-Hop career. He then returned to basketball with the ABA in 2005, but has not retired his rap aspirations. The “Big Apple Rappin’” artist, who was one of the first rappers to launch his own label, Newtroit Records, in 1979, is currently working on an autobiography. He is also putting the finishing touches on his final rap album, Legendary, so named as an homage to those he has worked with throughout his career, including Roxanne Shante, Sparky D, Father MC, Eric B, and countless others. |
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| December 22, 2008 |
As an artist/producer, Spyder Hughes shared the 80's musical spotlight with fellow Hollis natives Run-DMC, LL Cool J, Davy D, Hurricane, Orange Krush and Alyson Williams. Childhood schoolmate Russel Simmons later became his manager and mentor. Spyder formed Newtroit Records with college friend Tito Lewis and spawned classics like "Big Apple Rappin," Smerphie's Dance" and others He has worked with Nas, The Beatnuts, Eric B, CJ, Akinelye, DJ Polo, Father MC. Currently, he is working on his autobiography and on his final rap album, "Legendary," in honor of the legendary people he has worked with over the span of his career. "I am thrilled to be back in the ABA," stated Hughes. "I am a basketball junkie that has always been enthralled with the Red, White and Blue since Dr. J and Bill Melchioni were winning championships on Long Island, NY in the seventies. The influence the ABA had on me as a youth is still evident now as I approach this thrilling challenge of bringing pro ball to my adopted home of College Park, GA, the home of so many entertainment stars. My CEO, Glenn Toby, is already laying the groundwork for a successful foray for the community, our players, and the ABA." For more information, call 1-800-201-9919, or email spyderd@spydomobile.com. The new website will be active shortly. • Discuss this story on the American Basketball Association message board... The opinions expressed in this release are those of the organization issuing it, and do not necessarily reflect the thoughts or opinions of OurSports Central or its staff. |
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Indianapolis, IN. The American Basketball Association (ABA) today announced that it will add a team to College Park, GA next season. "We are extremely pleased to have Duane "Spyder" Hughes back in the ABA," said Joe Newman, ABA CEO. "His knowledge of basketball and entertainment is extraordinary and combined with his business acumen, we know that this team will be very successful. The College Park Spyders will be a great addition to the ABA and will certainly add to our Southeast region."
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