The Entertainer

You may remember him from: I Love New York 2, I Love Money
You may remember him for: Sucking New York’s toes; Sucking at independent living (his tenure in his parents’ basement has been well documented); Sucking at hanging onto a stripper pole, which led to his elimination on last season’s I Love Money.
Our prediction: He was robbed of his chance at domestic freedom – expect him to come back with a vengeance. Oh, and don’t be surprised if he hooks up, like, immediately. Once a freak, always a freak!

Heat

You may remember him from: I Love New York, I Love Money
You may remember him for: Being the proud owner of a Ya-Ya; His fizzled bromance with 12 Pack; His fizzled romance with Destiney.
Our prediction: Without 12 Pack, we’ll finally get to see what Heat is like standing on his own. As far as his character arc goes, it’s sink-or-swim time. If that sounds like the premise of an I Love Money challenge, don’t be surprised if it turns out to be one.

Tailor Made

You may remember him from: I Love New York 2, New York Goes to Hollywood
You may remember him for: Getting pounced on by Mr. Wise out of unresolved spitting-incident beef (our favorite kind of beef at VH1, since it carries extra bacteria!); Getting punched by Buddha; Getting dumped by New York on New York Goes To Hollywood after ultimately “winning” her heart on I Love New York 2. Tailor’s supposed fame addiction and workaholism caused New York to dismiss him from the restaurant table they were sharing. Oooh! Cold!
Our prediction: After so much emasculation, things can only get better for Tailor – even if he comes in dead last.

Angelique

You may remember her from: Rock of Love 2, Rock of Love Charm School
You may remember her for: Always being naked always; Always being humorously subtitled always; Referring to stripping as if it’s a glamor profession; Smearing chocolate mousse on her boobs; Giving Bret the single most frightening kiss in either season of Rock of Love (no mean feat!); Happily leaving Charm School under the philosophy that you can’t improve upon perfection.
Our prediction: Despite her undeniable presence, Frenchie has appeared on just five show episodes in total (reunions and clip shows notwithstanding). Expect her to hold onto her time on I Love Money 2 with the tenacity she usually reserves for the stripper pole. You know she’s in this one for the long haul.

Leilene

You may remember her from: Flavor of Love, Flavor of Love Girls Charm School
You may remember her for: Crying a lot; Appearing on a dating show despite still being in love with her ex-husband or whatever; Getting a picture of her dead mother stolen from her by Larissa in Charm School in a multi-episode arc dubbed “Picturegate” by…well, us; Getting into an argument with Larissa that found her shrieking, “I am a damn…good…motherrrrrr!”; Taking second place in the original Charm School.
Our prediction: Leilene will show us she’s a damn good competitor as long as she doesn’t let her emotions get in the way. Stocking up on waterproof mascara couldn’t hurt either.

Buckwild

You may remember her from: Flavor of Love 2, Flavor of Love Girls Charm School
You may remember her for: Her controversial speech pattern; Being dubbed a “fairy princess…who resides over the pits of hell!” by New York; Leaving Flavor of Love 2 when New York’s reentry in the competition to win Flav’s heart was announced; Throwing a shoe at New York at the Flavor of Love 2 reunion; Forging an adorable sisterhood with Saaphyri on Charm School; Breaking down in the middle of Picturegate but finally pulling it together to place third in Charm School.

Our prediction: A fighter for what she wants, especially if that happens to be airtime, expect her to make good on the promise of her name. Once again, it’s that time…

Saaphyri

You may remember her from: Flavor of Love 2, Flavor of Love Girls Charm School
You may remember her for: Her flower-flinging fight over a bed with H-Town; Her ensuing prayer (”Lord, please forgive me for beating this bitch ass today and for thinking about doing it again”); Her offer of Lip Chap to her adversary; Her anger-management certificate that she rode all the way to a Charm School victory (the earnings allowed her to start her own Lip Chap line, as promoted in a series of viral videos); Saying, “Whoa, you mad, huh?” in response to Leilene’s aforementioned freak-out.
Our prediction: One of the most memorable and endearing characters in the …Of Love universe, we’re prepared to fall in love with Saaphyri all over again.

Prancer

You may remember her from: Flavor of Love 3
You may remember her for: Her reindeer fetish; The Heelys she used to zip around the mansion; Intimating that she and Flav did it in a rapping challenge (”Keep s*** on the low, you know what I know!”); Being one of the few girls from Flavor of Love 3 to admit that she was physically attracted to Flav; Her dearly departed weave.
Our prediction: If Money 2 was shot in the same house as the first season, there’s a lot of space for our favorite reindeer girl to get her skate on. We’re excited to watch Prancer gone wild!

Myammee

You may remember her from: Flavor of Love 3
You may remember her for: Getting booted from FOL3 for a phone call gone awry that she said was “Just a, uh, guy!”…who was looking for money?; Her eternal struggle to prevent her weave from getting weet; Being a “pretty girl wanting to do pretty things” (seriously; direct quote); And, let’s be honest: her 34DDDs. (Don’t hate us for knowing that — we wouldn’t if she weren’t proud enough to have bragged about it!)
Our prediction: Myammee will rock swim caps like Megan rocked bikinis. We can’t wait to see her head in a thong!

Ice

You may remember her from: Flavor of Love 3
You may remember her for: Being upfront about appearing on Flavor of Love to further her career (to the point of self-sabotage); Being upfront about how unattractive she found Flav; Maybe conducting an interview with her radio station while on the show?
Our prediction: Some post-show beef with Buckwild sets up a battle of the counterparts very nicely. Otherwise, let’s hope for Ice’s sake that she plays her cards a little bit closer to her chest.

Cali

You may remember her from: Real Chance of Love
You may remember her for: Being accused of industry-chickery (what she really wants to do is make-up!); Denying a fake caller’s advances, which led to Real and Chance’s fake bar brawl that led to their fake arrest.
Our prediction: She “failed” the no-snitching challenge, which says a lot about her ethics, but also her inability to work under pressure (at least given the confines of the challenge). Do ethics have a place on I Love Money, anyway?

Milf

You may remember her from: Real Chance of Love
You may remember her for: Her Real-and-Chance-endorsed grown-and-sexiness; Her child-obsession; Her frequent tears that came from being targeted by the other girls; Her frequent gymnastics.
Our prediction: Milf often seems like the house punching-bag on Real Chance of Love. It’ll be great to see how she operates in an environment where she isn’t competing for a man. As long as she’s tumbling, we’re watching. Seriously…she’s really underrated!

Buddha

You may remember him from: I Love New York 2
You may remember him for: Being the first contestant in Celebreality history to be eliminated from a show and then return on the same season (Thing 2 on Flavor of Love 3 was the second); Almost winning New York’s heart (he came in second, right after Tailor Made, the dude he was initially eliminated for punching); Almost losing New York’s mind for her (New York Goes to Hollywood had nothing on the theatrics brought forth in her hotel room during the Final 3’s visit to Miami); Adult programming on Showtime.
Our prediction: Brawn, brains and a flair for drama? From the looks of it, Buddha is the one to beat…as long as he doesn’t beat his competitors first. Literally.

Onix

You may remember him from: I Love New York
You may remember him for: The puddles of drool he was able to extract from New York; Calling out Sister Patterson (he thought her caterwauling performance at church was put-on) and surviving unscathed!
Our prediction: Brutal honesty might not be the best strategy for this game of deceit. If he holds his tongue, he’ll go far. Being shirtless as much as possible couldn’t hurt either. Just saying.

20 Pack

You may remember him from: I Love New York 2
You may remember him for: Being hot. Duh. Oh, also, he once took a mud bath with New York. That was hot, too.
Our prediction: From 20 Pack? Hmmm. Hotness perhaps?

It

Note: Before you get your panties in a bunch, It is a hunk because we said so. Really, we did. We love him, maybe a bit irrationally, but no matter: he totally does it for us in ways that his hard-bodied counterparts can’t. Although they’re hot, too, so whatever.

You may remember him from: I Love New York 2
You may remember him for: Claiming the flowers Tailor Made had sent to him as his own (he reasoned that “Larry Fishburne” sent them on behalf of It, which, what?); Licking a lot; Chopping bricks at the I Love New York 2 reunion; Presenting New York with a jewelry box full of French fries; Acting all together…special whenever cameras are around.

Craig sent the contestants a message informing them to choose new captains, and hinting at the idea that the challenge would involve using their mouths. Because Mr. Boston scored the winning point for the Green Team at the previous challenge, he was chosen as captain while the Gold Team went with The Entertainer. The teams also had to pair up their members. Expecting the challenge to consist of gross foods they would have to eat, the Green Team paired up weak people with strong people so that every pair would earn a point. However, they were surprised to find the challenge was a reference to the event in which New York and Flavor Flav shared a long, steamy kiss at dinner. Chance, being paired with Mr. Boston, immediately said he wouldn’t compete in the challenge. Heather led the strategy of teasing Chance, saying a picture of the kiss would pop up on TMZ, and Chance fell for it leading to the Green Team’s disqualification. Other members of the Green Team scolded Chance for refusing to lock lips with Mr. Boston for just one second, but his brother Real supported the decision. Heat was angry that Chance didn’t kiss Mr. Boston so he threw a towel at Chance. Chance ” threatened to kick Heat’s ass”..Heat and Chance got into a heated argument and Destiney defended him. Chance and Destiney then argued and when Heat failed to take up for his “girlfriend” when she was defending him in the beginning she ended things with Heat and moved on to The Entertainer. Meanwhile, Heather and 12 Pack’s relationship took a turn when Megan egged on 12 Pack into flirting with her. Heather lost all trust with 12 Pack. At the vault, the Green Team was split and didn’t make a decision for the bottom three in the time limit. Therefore, as captain of the Gold Team, The Entertainer was granted the ability to choose the bottom three himself. He chose Megan, Heat, and Mr. Boston, infuriating his team because of the lack of stronger players. The four were given a chance to talk before eliminations at lunch on the beach, where Mr. Boston pretended to vomit in hopes of looking weak. The Entertainer lashed out at Megan for starting trouble between 12 Pack and Heather, and she got teary-eyed. The Entertainer was certain on sending Megan home for personal reasons, but also contemplated sending Heat out for threatening his potential romance with Destiney. At the elimination ceremony, Mr. Boston and Heat both said Megan should leave and Megan joked she wanted Mr. Boston to stay, because she felt an attraction to him. Mr. Boston received his check first, and The Entertainer called Heat to get his check, only to tell him he was being eliminated. Megan was safe, and Heat had his check voided.

Winner: Gold Team
Pay Master:  Loser: Green Team
Bottom 3: Heat, Megan, Mr. Boston
Eliminated: Heat

The 17 contestants arrive at a beach where they must jump into the choppy water to get to shore. Right away, Midget Mac is targeted for being unable to get off the boat easily but 12 Pack lifted him up and put him on land. The contestants then walk up a beach where they find host Craig Jackson. They are told to run into the mansion and make themselves comfortable. Upon entering the mansion, alliances are start to form. Destiney, Heather, Heat and 12 Pack form an alliance and old friends Whiteboy, Chance, and Real do the same. Mr. Boston find himself without a bed, but later Mr. Boston finds a bed that Megan and Brandi C hid from him. Next Jackson calls them up one by one and asks them what they would do if they won the grand prize money of $250,000. After they answer he signs the check with their name on it for that amount. Jackson then tells the contestants that they must dress in a bikini for their challenge. Once outside, the challenge is revealed that contestants must get the most amount of money from a money machine. Megan and Brandi C are disqualified and Midget Mac and Chance choose not to participate. The top 3 are revealed as Hoopz, Destiney, and Whiteboy. The top 2 are Hoopz and White Boy, making them team captains. Once back inside the house Rodeo attempts to convince Midget Mac to apologize to Hoopz for calling her a hoe and some degrading names that anger both the women and men of the house, but to no avail. Meanwhile, contestants attempt to make deals to remain in the competition. Mr. Boston approaches Whiteboy and says that they should remain allies because they are both Jewish. At the elimination ceremony Hoopz chooses Rodeo, 12 Pack, The Entertainer, Toasteee, Heather, and Pumkin. Whiteboy chooses Chance, Real, Mr. Boston (saying he’s doing so “for mental purposes only”), Heat, Destiney, and Megan. Heat is unhappy to be on Whiteboy’s team, as he wanted to be on the same team with 12 Pack. The bottom three were Brandi C, Midget Mac, and Nibblz. Nibblz and Brandi C. try to show off their strength by giving a speech and doing push-ups, where Brandi hurts her ankle, while Nibblz does ten perfect ones. Midget Mac refuses to give a speech. Hoopz then picks Nibblz leaving Whiteboy with the final decision of who to choose last. He ends up choosing Brandi. Midget Mac therefore is not chosen by Hoopz or Whiteboy, being the first eliminated.

Challenge Winners: Hoopz (1st), Whiteboy (2nd)
Eliminated: Midget Mac

The Suns have agreed to the trade that will bring center Shaquille O’Neal to Phoenix in exchange for Shawn Marion and Marcus Banks.

O’Neal passed his physical exam to the Suns’ satisfaction this afternoon and a trade call was being placed with the league to make the trade official.

O’Neal flew into the Valley today and could even be in attendance at US Airways Center on Wednesday night for Phoenix’s 7 p.m. game with New Orleans.

Though O’Neal has been out with a hip injury, it was believed that he would pass the physical because he is in great condition and is said to be at 312 pounds (down from his listed 325 pounds) with low body fat.

He seems to be a motivated player too, having jumped on a plane this morning after talking to several of the Suns, such asSteve Nash and Amaré Stoudemire, on Tuesday night