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Moviemaker Spike Lee has launched a new initiative at his former college in a bid to flood journalism with African-American sports writers.

The sports fan is a member of the board of trustees Morehouse College in Georgia - a private, historically black liberal arts school - and used his weight to prompt a new journalism school and curriculum. Lee insists newspapers need more black sports writers to match the growing number of African-Americans playing professional sport. He says, “We started the Morehouse College School of Journalism and Sports Journalism.

We were trying to do it for the last seven years and we finally got it through. Right now there’s a dearth of representation of African Americans in the sports industry as far, as journalism is concerned. Seventy-five per cent of the players in the NFL (National Football League) are black, an even higher number of African Americans play basketball, but, if you look in the press box and the magazines and the newsrooms, you don’t have that representation now, so that’s what we want to do.

 It will start next semester. Registration is going on now.”

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Jessica Simpson and John Mayer have sparked rumors they are dating again after being spotted together in Los Angeles on Saturday night.

Simpson famously fired her publicist earlier this year over reports she was dating the singer, but the celebrity couple may indeed be together again after allegedly getting cozy at top nightspots. According to E! News, the pair were spotted in Beverly Hills enjoying a night out on the town together.

They were seen at both the Sunset Marquis hotel and The Four Seasons where Simpson was seen resting her head on Mayer’s chest. The couple then left the hotel with a large group of friends. Simpson and Mayer may have rekindled their romance, but they aren’t going public with their feelings.

Simpson’s representative refused to confirm the new relationship insisting she is “not commenting on (Jessica’s) personal life.”  Celebrity Gossip reports that heard from two different sources that Simpson was dating new Dallas Cowboys superstar Quarterback Tony Romo.

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A sequel to the blockbuster movie adaptation The Da Vinci Code is in the works. Scriptwriter Akiva Goldsman, who adapted the Dan Brown novel for the screen, has reportedly been paid $3.8 million to write the sequel.

However, it’s said the sequel will not be an original story, but will actually be based on Angels And Demons, the book which precedes The Da Vinci Code. Sources claim the plot, which sees cryptologist Robert Langdon, played by Tom Hanks, help a woman to discover the links between her father’s death and secret society conspiracies, will be altered so that it can follow on from the first film.

It is expected the movie will be released in 2008.

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