On Tuesday, LA Lakers forward Ron Artest received the J. Walter Kennedy Citizenship Award from the Professional Writer's Basketball Association.

On Friday, New York's P.S. 3 elementary school received a visit from swimming Olympian Cullen Jones (pictured), 26, the first African American to break a record in swimming in 115 years.

Anyone who watched the Beijing Olympics in 2008 was sure to see the U.S. swimming team, headlined by Michael Phelps. If you did watch, then you remember Jones as the only African American on the team and the second African American ever to win gold.

Cullen Jones, who hails out of Irvington, N.J., came to the West Village school to tell the kids his story and emphasize the importance of learning how to swim.

For his part, Jones has been taking his message national for the past two years. According to Jones, nine people die every day from drowning. His organization, Make a Splash, and USA Swimming and oil company ConocoPhillips are passionate about their crusade to get as many young people, especially African Americans and minorities, to learn how to swim:

People love him or absolutely hate him: Floyd "Money" Mayweather stands as a polarizing personality who knows how to equally entertain and chafe the public.

One issue that's not up for debate, though, is his skills and domination over the boxing sport. Mayweather has an undefeated record and is a six-division world champion. He is also arguably one of the best boxers of all time and is often described as a "future hall of famer." On May 1st, Mayweather seeks yet again to put it all on the line in his bout against Shane "Sugar" Mosley.

Floyd "Money" Mayweather, 32, and Shane "Sugar" Mosley, 38, are set to fight at the MGM Grand Hotel in Las Vegas on May 1st in a bout already being compared with the great fights of Evander Holyfield and Sugar Ray Leonard.

Officially announced on the PGA Tour website, Tiger Woods will finally be holding a press conference at TPC Sawgrass clubhouse in Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla., on Friday, at 11 a.m. ET.

According to the PGA Tour:

"Tiger plans to discuss his past and his future and he intends to apologize for his behavior."

This will be Tiger's first appearance since the fateful car accident in late November 2009, which unraveled his marriage and galvanized a circus-like succession of alleged mistresses for the golf star.

With hope, Tiger's announcement will turn the page on both the negative publicity and endless rumors (i.e., gay affairs, pregnancy claims and sex rehab clinic) that have assaulted his career and life.

Get your fill of the Tiger fiasco here.

Since retired baseball player Sammy Sosa revealed his new complexion and then attributed it to a cream, the cacophony of speculation and debate has not abated. Former basketball forward and colorful sports commentator Charles Barkley added his voice to the discussion during a TNT doubleheader on Thursday night.

After showing a quick picture of Tina Fey and Sarah Palin, the cast cut to the split image we've all come to know: Sosa before and after his skin-color change. Things got funnier, as Barkley and cast tried to visualize what it would look like if both colleague Kenny Smith and Barkley were to turn white.

Once the altered images disappeared, Smith rambunctiously yells, "Say it loud, Chuck... I'm black and I'm proud." Barkley is then shown with a makeup artist applying white makeup to his face while he asks, "If I become white, am I allowed to eat chicken, hamhocks and neck bones?"

As Smith guffaws Barkley continues:

"Seriously, I love chitlin's.... I'm telling y'all, though, if I was white for a couple of minutes, I'd be missing some chitlin's and hamhocks already. What about honey buns and grape and coke?

Then they switch to a clip of Sosa done up like the infamous joker, red lips in tow.

Barkley ends with:

Sammy Sosa, you know I got love for you, man, Stop it! Stop It, Sammy Sosa! Are you kidding me?

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Baseball great Sammy Sosa spoke to Spanish station Primer Impacto yesterday regarding the dramatic lightening of his complexion. Defending his newfound facade, Sosa shot down claims that he is suffering from vitiligo, a skin disorder, and actually attributed his new look to a moisturizer.

According to the New York Daily News, Sosa said:

I'm doing well, doing well, thanks to God. ... I use a cream to keep my skin smooth and soft. I apply it before I go to bed. When I was playing for Chicago all those years, I was in the sun a lot for 1 o'clock games. The flashes (from the cameras) also made my skin look lighter.