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Down 2-0 against the San Antonio Spurs, the Los Angeles Clippers face the tough task of needing two victories at home to keep pace with the NBA's hottest team. Making things worse are injuries to Chris Paul and Blake Griffin that have robbed the superstars of their effectiveness. "The mood is still pretty good," Griffin said Friday after practice and a video session. "We're not completely out of this. " Not yet. Game 3 on Saturday is particularly crucial for the Clippers because no team in NBA history has ever rallied from a 3-0 deficit to win a series.

Organizers say the Hip Hop Hall of Fame Museum has found a home in midtown Manhattan. The Wall Street Journal ( http://on.wsj.com/JC6M9y) says the plans also include a restaurant, arcade, concert lounge, television studios, marquee, community and corporate rooms, and a gift shop. The company's business development manager, Bobby Fisher, says the address won't be released until July because the deal is still being wrapped up. The Hip Hop Hall of Fame Awards television show was broadcast by the cable network BET in the 1990s.

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. - Only seven games after returning from the disabled list, Kevin Youkilis was out of the Red Sox' lineup last night, having returned to Boston to get a sore left hip examined. He was diagnosed with bursitis and had an injection, according to manager Terry Francona . Depending on how Youkilis feels, the third baseman could rejoin the team as soon as tonight. Major League sources told the Globe that Youkilis also has been diagnosed with a hernia that will likely require surgery after the season.

Down 2-0 against the San Antonio Spurs, the Los Angeles Clippers face the tough task of needing two victories at home to keep pace with the NBA's hottest team. Making things worse are injuries to Chris Paul and Blake Griffin that have robbed the superstars of their effectiveness. "The mood is still pretty good," Griffin said Friday after practice and a video session. "We're not completely out of this. " Not yet. Game 3 on Saturday is particularly crucial for the Clippers because no team in NBA history has ever rallied from a 3-0 deficit to win a series.

San Francisco’s Aaron Rowand bruised his right hip when he was struck by the ball while diving into second base on a pickoff attempt in the fifth inning. Rowand stayed on base after testing his legs but Nate Schierholtz replaced the outfielder in the bottom of the fifth against the St. Louis Cardinals on Monday. Schierholtz played right field and Cody Ross moved from right field to left field.

The Patriots’ defensive line, already a position with some question marks, suffered a major blow yesterday when the team placed veteran Ty Warren on season-ending injured reserve with a hip injury. Warren had not been seen on the practice field since the second day of camp (July 30); he was hurt that day, in the morning session. According to Warren, preexisting bone spurs in his hip caused a tear in his labrum. Warren will undergo surgery Monday in Vail, Colo., at the Steadman Clinic.

FOXBOROUGH -- Don't count on Rosevelt Colvin forgetting about the horrific broken and dislocated left hip that nearly permanently derailed his NFL career two seasons ago. It's an unrealistic expectation when the remnants of the grisly injury and subsequent surgery include a metal plate and four screws strategically implanted inside his body. "The plate looks like a piece of metal you'd buy at Ace Hardware or Home Depot ," Colvin reported. "It doesn't hurt. I think I fell on it the other day in the Jets game.

Brandt Snedeker will be out of golf the rest of the year as he recovers from hip surgery. Snedeker, who won The Heritage in April and nearly earned a spot on the U.S. Presidents Cup team, had surgery Tuesday afternoon to fix a degenerative issue in his right hip. He is not expected to compete again for six to eight weeks. That affects two players who will replace him in tournaments Snedeker had planned to play. Rickie Fowler will take Snedeker's spot in the Chevron World Challenge, played Dec. 1-4 at Sherwood Country Club in California.

By Peter Abraham, Globe Staff ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. —Kevin Youkilis returned to Boston this morning to get his left hip examined. No word on his return. The third baseman was limping on Thursday. Erik Bedard also is back in Boston. He now has a lat strain to go along with a sore knee. But Terry Francona didn't feel it was a major issue. The good news? Clay Buchholz threw from 120 feet and felt fine. His next step could be taking the mound.

Reprinted from late editions of yesterday's Globe. Beware of Shakespeare productions bearing the adjectives "hip" and "edgy. " If one is hip and edgy, there's no need to advertise it. The Aquila Theatre Company, whose "Hamlet" is here through tonight at the Cutler Majestic Theatre, does advertise it. And it doesn't deliver. We've seen a hip and edgy "Hamlet" here and there -- the Ethan Hawke film, for one, which recast the existential Dane's crises in contemporary terms.

For all of the vaunted democratizing power that the inception of hip-hop introduced into the world of DIY music, there's been a similar, no less important paradigm shift in recent years, as the proliferation of easy-to-use production techniques have filtered down into the consumer marketplace. Two turntables and a microphone may seem worlds apart from a MacBook and a copy of FruityLoops, but the software revolution has had an enormous impact on the ability of kids at home to jump straight into the game with nothing more than an omnivorous appetite for records, an ear for a tune, and hours...

Karmaloop is on a $200,000 mission to make its home city of Boston as hip as the clothing it sells. The 12-year-old company - it's an online seller of so-called streetwear that says it is battling McFashion - is investing that amount to establish the Future Boston Alliance, a nonprofit advocacy organization that will be launched Wednesday. The alliance, which Karmaloop says is being formed to help invigorate the local creative economy, will lobby City Hall to relax regulations and allow for more 24-hour services and restaurants.

Oklahoma City's Kendrick Perkins is out of Game 4 of the playoff series against Dallas because of a right hip strain. Perkins walked gingerly back to the bench after getting called for his second foul with 4:09 left in the first quarter Saturday night. The Thunder were on defense at the time when the 6-foot-10 center made contact with another player, though it wasn't exactly clear if that is when he got hurt. The Thunder said Perkins wouldn't return to the game. Perkins had two rebounds, two assists and missed his only shot in his 8 minutes.

Hip-hop is often so loud, cocky, and rhythmically suggestive that its most bullying tendencies can seem inevitable, even to fans with conflicted consciences. Big K.R.I.T.'s loud, cocky, and rhythmically suggestive performance Tuesday at the Middle East felt refreshing largely because it seemed to eschew bullying naturally, leaving out the violent tales and disparaging sexism without undercutting hip-hop's raw and rude rebellion. In its trappings, the show hit Southern hip-hop's blustering formulas expertly, demonstrating how this 25-year-old Mississippi rapper and producer...

JUNE 16-17 HOLLYWOOD, Calif. Playboy Jazz Festival: Hugh Hefner is known for his interest in scantily-clad women, but the Playboy publisher has another hobby: jazz. This year's lineup includes Sheila E., who had the 1984 hit "The Glamorous Life" and used to play with Prince (who wrote that song) and Ringo Starr. Also scheduled to appear is sax player Boney James, who was born in Lowell. Ticket prices start at $20. Hollywood Bowl, 2301 North Highland Ave., Hollywood. 323-850-2000, www.playboyjazzfestival.com JUNE 8-10 FAIRFAX, Va. Celebrate Fairfax Festival:...

Performer Yuri Lane grew up the son of artists in San Francisco's then-gritty Haight-Ashbury neighborhood, which he found to be good preparation for traveling the West Bank as a Jew. "I learned a lot about tolerance, and seeing people for who they are, not judging them," he says. "Also, some street smarts. " Lane began visiting Israel and the West Bank in the late 1990s, following his girlfriend, now wife, Rachel Havrelock, a religion scholar who studied on both sides of the Green Line that marks Israel's pre-1967 borders.

A dream team by virtue of their legendary stature, Jay-Z and Mary J. Blige brought two very different sides of the hip-hop/soul coin to the Garden last night. She was transparent, emotional, and inward-looking - a victim-turned-survivor eager to empower her peers. He was cool and collected, the hustler-turned-mogul, personable but imperious. Performing together, they made a thrilling whole for a few too-brief moments during the monumental "Heart of the City" tour, which was triumphant not just for its marquee names but for nearly 2 1/2 hours of top-flight music.

Shaun Marcum has a strained left hip flexor but hopes to make his next scheduled start after leaving the Milwaukee Brewers game with a hip injury. The right-hander threw 44 pitches in the first inning of the Brewers’ 10-4 loss to the Boston Red Sox on Friday night. He was replaced at the start of the bottom of the second by Marco Estrada. It was announced late in the game that Marcum had a strained left hip flexor. Manager Ron Roenicke said Marcum, 7-2 with a 2.85 ERA, told him the hip hurt.

The next installment of the popular Science on Screen series at the Coolidge Corner Theatre will combine a talk by Dr. Charles Limb, a researcher and musician who studies the brains of freestyle rappers in the midst of rhyming, and a screening of Curtis Hanson's 2002 hip-hop drama, "8 Mile," at 7 p.m. April 16. The film stars Eminem as a young white rapper in Detroit's predominantly black hip-hop world, and features a furiously creative freestyle rap...

WHEN THE cyberhackers of Anonymous set their wrath on Boston police in February, they managed to bring down the department's main news and information website, bpdnews.com. They also brought out the muse in the Boston cops, who responded by poking fun at the attack. Apparently because police had cleared out the Occupy Boston protests, members of Anonymous infiltrated and defaced the department's main website, replacing the usual flow of public information with a video for "Sound of Da Police" by rapper KRS-One.