Paris Hilton comes up short in Family Fortunes

Family fortunes: Paris comes up short in grandpa's judgement
It hasn't been a good year for Paris Hilton. First came a spell in jail for drink driving. Now her grandfather, the hotel squillionaire Barron Hilton, is so mortified by her behaviour that he has cut her out of his will. Instead of raking in her share of £1.15bn when he dies, she will now have to watch as it is frittered away on clean drinking water in Africa. Like, bummer.
It hasn't been a good year at all for heirs. Anna Nicole Smith's inherited millions stirred up another hornets' nest when she died in February. Jamie Blandford, disinherited in 1994, was arrested on drink driving charges. Then there was Bane Kostic, who disinherited his family and left his entire £8.2m estate to the Tories to help them fight "satanic and bestial monsters". A judge decided he was mad as a balloon and reversed his decision – the poor Tories must know how Paris feels now.
Paris Hilton:
Says she is a businesswoman and doesn't live off her inheritance – so she won't miss her share of the £1.15bn her granddad is leaving to charity.
Tori Spelling:
The star of 'Beverly Hills 90210', was disinherited by her TV mogul father Aaron after leaving her husband for a married man. She has done OK since.
Princess Stephanie:
Prince Rainier of Monaco redrew his will to leave his wild-child daughter, only 1 per cent of his £18bn. It didn't stop her running away with the circus.
Nancy Cunard:
Like Paris, Nancy was disinherited when she scandalised her family. The Cunards were mortified by her love affair with black musician Henry Crowder.
Source: The Independant

2008 NFL Draft No Longer Looking at Top Quarterback

Prior to this college football season, the 2008 NFL draft was looking like it might be the year of the quarterback. But as the college season comes to a close, a lot of the guys who once looked like top-notch NFL prospects no longer do.Through much of the season, three quarterbacks were considered likely Top 10 picks. But there are questions surrounding all three of those prospects. The first, Boston College's Matt Ryan, is indisputably talented but also maddeningly inconsistent. In leading Boston College to a 24-21 win over Michigan State in the Champs Sports Bowl, he made some tremendous throws, but he also threw some ugly passes, completing just 22 of 47 passes, for 249 yards. Scouts like a big arm, which Ryan has, but they also like consistency, which Ryan lacks. Back when Bobby Petrino was coaching the team, the Falcons were widely expected to select quarterback Brian Brohm, whom Petrino coached at Louisville, with a Top 5 draft choice. But Petrino's departure from the NFL makes Brohm less likely to be a high pick. Without a clear suitor for his services, Brohm could slide. And the other onetime top prospect, Kentucky's Andre Woodson, has taken a serious tumble. The more scouts saw of Woodson, the less they liked him, and now he seems very unlikely to be a first-round pick. Combine all that with the fact that there's not a single quarterback among the juniors likely to declare for the 2008 NFL draft, and this year all of a sudden isn't looking like a very good one for quarterbacks.
Source: Michael David Smith..NFL Draft

Xbox Live Failed? Codes Down

Reports are mounting online about the status of Xbox Live, as many people say Xbox Live failed or down when trying to create a Live account.
Troubleshoot Failed Xbox Live
Below is an information from Xbox.com on how to "Troubleshoot Your Xbox Live Connection"
Many Xbox Live gamers use a home network to connect their Xbox 360™ consoles to high-speed Internet connections. Most home networks employ either a stand-alone router, a home gateway (a combined cable/DSL modem and router), or a PC to access and/or share a single high-speed Internet connection. To work, network devices must be properly configured.
If you're using designated Xbox Live Compatible networking equipment with an Xbox Live Compatible ISP (Internet service provider), you should have no trouble configuring your equipment and accessing Xbox Live.
If you do experience difficulties—with or without Xbox Live Compatible equipment—use the Xbox Dashboard on your Xbox 360 console to help solve Xbox Live connection problems.
To troubleshoot your Xbox Live connection from the Xbox Dashboard:
1. Go to the System area of the Xbox Dashboard.2. Select Network Settings.3. Select Test Xbox Live Connection.
The system will perform a series of diagnostic tests, the results of which can help you configure your network to access Xbox Live.
# After the system has completed its tests, select More Info to learn more about your network, paying close attention to any test that failed.
In each case, the More Info section will offer tips for correcting the conditions preventing you from accessing Xbox Live.
Xbox Dashboard: Test Xbox Live Connection
Select Edit Settings to adjust your:
* IP Settings (including IP address, subnet mask, and gateway)* DNS Settings (including primary and secondary DNS servers)* PPPoE Settings (including user name, password, and service name)* Advanced Settings (including host name and alternate MAC address)Source: Source: Xbox.com

lil Wayne's SHOCKING Statement

Radio personality Charlamagne has put out a response to Lil Wayne's SHOCKING statement. Here it is, in its entirety:
This ladies and ghetto men is one of the most socially irresponsible things I have ever heard spoken by a public figure in my life. To keep it one hundred, this fake blood, want-a-be gangster, scream murder but I don't believe you, pill popping piece of pig shit has lost his muthafucking mind. Please tell him to back away from that triple stack of Styrofoam cups he walks around with. This young man that is contributing to the degradation of our culture has had to much Hawaiian Punch and Promethezyne. First of all to say, "I have four teardrops on my face" and "I come from the murder capital", is implying that you have indeed killed someone in your life. In case you people didn't know, a teardrop tattoo is a symbol of having committed at least one murder; well in North America it is. In Australia a teardrop tattoo has an entirely different meaning. It is forcibly marked on convicts who are accused child molesters! Now if I listen to Gillie the Kid, I guess that is why Baby, CEO of Cash Money, has his teardrop tattoos. It was said by Gillie that Baby used to touch on Wayne when he was a child. Like father, like son? They say the apple doesn't fall too far from the tree, but let's just stick to what Wayne was implying. He was implying that he has killed someone and so has his mother. Imagine that I work for the FEDS and I'm reading this. I'm like okay; I think this is an admission of guilt. Then I keep reading and see this idiot has relinquished all doubt because he says, "I will murder you"! Not just you, but "your family, your child, a newborn." Could somebody get this Fisher Price, my first red bandanna wearing kid a publicist, or has he already said too much? I think the City of New Orleans should charge Wayne with some of the city's unsolved murder cases. He is glorifying murder and admitting, even though I don't believe him, that he has killed someone. "I will murder you" should be taken seriously in a court of law! Have you ever seen "Minority Report" starring Tom Cruise, where a special police department called "pre-crime" apprehended criminals based on foreknowledge? Well we have the foreknowledge and the confession before the crime! Lil Wayne said he will "murder your family, your child, and a newborn"! Someone save this guy from his self! Usually when someone snitches on you to the FEDS and says that you did something or were involved in some way, the FEDS come and arrest you on what they call a conspiracy charge. Lil Wayne dry snitched on himself. No I take that back, he didn't dry snitch he flat out snitched on himself and his mother. I think they need to be picked up and charged with conspiracy to commit murder. I just want him to be charged so I can hear him tell the truth and say, "I never killed anyone, I'm just a rapper! I need to sound tough to sell records! I got these teardrop tattoos because it looked cute on Baby!" This dude ladies and gentlemen is a fraud, a phony, a fake, and those comments he made to Ozone Magazine are detrimental to society. Do you know how many kids this guy psychologically influences? Watch how many people you start to see walking around with Styrofoam cups; watch how many kids start drinking his Hawaiian Punch and promethezyne concoction; watch how many kids will get that thought branded into their brains that they "will murder you, your family, a child, and a newborn"! Has anybody read the new study that shows most teenagers will indulge in risk taking behaviors because of poor brain development? Even if they know right from wrong, good from bad, positive from negative, God from the Devil, they will still ignore it because that is what they have been programmed to learn. The study by Temple University Professor of Psychology, Laurence Steinberg, PhD, concludes from newly emerging research on adolescent brain development, that "Teenagers seek out risk-taking behaviors because the brain systems involved in decision making mature at different times. The section of the brain most involved in emotion and social interaction becomes very active during puberty, while the section most critical for regulating behavior is still maturing into early adulthood." "This explains" Steinberg says, "why teens are so susceptible to peer pressure and why education and prevention efforts designed to keep teens from engaging in risk-taking behaviors don't work all that well. We have tried to prevent these behaviors by educating kids about the dangers of things like smoking, drinking, taking drugs, and unprotected sex," he tells WebMD. "The thinking has been, if they know about the dangers they won't do these things, but that is clearly not true." Damn right it's not true because if I'm a teenager whose brain is not fully developed and I'm listening and following a jackass like Lil Wayne, that means I'm going to want to join a gang (and kids you will get jumped in, you're not going to pay your way in like Lil Wayne). Wayne, if you wanted to be an honorary member of an organization and pay dues you should of pledged A.K.A. I'm sure those fine women would have accepted you as one of their own. It would have made more sense because pussy knows pussy. I call him pussy because only a pussy, during an interview with a national publication, would say he would kill a child or a newborn baby! Let me refocus, if I'm a teenager whose brain is not fully developed and I'm following a jackass like Lil Wayne, I'm going to want to join a gang. I'm going to drink my syrup all day and I'm going to look for someone to kill for no reason, possibly a newborn baby because Wayne said he would and he's the best rapper alive (allegedly)! The problem with this is the judge does not want to hear that a 17-year-old's brain is not fully developed. By the time this not fully developed brain under the influence of drugs goes out and really kills someone and is arrested, then sentenced to life in prison, it's too late. Case in point,the four young men, who broke into Washington Redskins player, Sean Taylor's home looking to steal. When Sean popped out, they shot him and now he is dead. Now those kids are going to jail forever! What influenced those kids to do that? I'm not going to blame that on Lil Wayne, but comments like those made by Wayne don't help. If my brain is not fully developed and this drugged out, fake gang banger, possible baby killer is the closest thing I have to an influence then what the fuck? Lil Wayne said, "Fuck what the world thinks, we real." I hate that word because the definition of what real is in hip hop is not real at all. Real is not pulling into the parking lot of Walgreen's in ATL, in the middle of a Saturday afternoon and allegedly trying to purchase machine guns. Real is not being 38 years old and now pledging your allegiance to the Bloods and flagging at award shows. Real is not being on DVDs pointing guns at the camera and licking shots in the air. Why incriminate yourself like that? Lastly, real is most certainly not interviewing with a national publication and saying that you will kill children and newborn babies. As a matter of fact, going into 2008, I don't want any rappers to say that they are keeping it real. The dictionary defines real as being or occurring in fact or actuality; having verified existence; not an illusion. You rappers like Lil Wayne are about as real as the tooth fairy, Santa Claus, and the Easter Bunny. Poverty and unemployment are real. 40 million people with little to no healthcare in America is real. The war in Iraq is real. The HIV/AIDS epidemic is real. Pedophilia is real. Incarceration is real. Our people, continuously dying at the hands of one another, for no reason is real.With all these problems going on in the world, the only thing Lil Wayne can think to have come out of his mouth is, "I will kill you, your family, your child, a newborn baby"? Charlamagne Tha Gods says fuck Lil Wayne. I say fuck him because I say fuck the devil every day. When you proclaim that you "can't go to hell because you will take over," what you are really saying is you are worse than Satan. You are saying you are worse than God's mortal enemy. Fuck Wayne and any rapper or person that thinks like him. Praise to be ALLAH!! Death to all Devils! P.S. When I hear statements like those made by Lil Wayne, I realize people's value of life is at an all time low. I would hope the tragic and untimely passing of the legendary Pimp C, (who I am sure was an influence to Wayne) touched him in a way that makes him value and appreciate his life. Not just his, but his daughters lives and newborn babies everywhere. R.I.P. Pimp C
Source: MediaTakeOut.com

Music Legend Ike Turner Dead at 76

Ike Turner, who died Wednesday at age 76 in his suburban San Diego home, changed the course of modern music, scored numerous hits and yet is best known as the scoundrel who abused Tina Turner.
The couple’s bloody, bruised relationship, portrayed in the 1993 movie “What’s Love Got to Do With It,” helped turn Ike Turner into a villain. Yet before he ever met Tina, Ike Turner was a visionary multi-instrumentalist and songwriter.
Long before Elvis Presley and Chuck Berry burst into the public eye, Turner was playing rock ‘n’ roll. Some people think he even invented it with the pummeling “Rocket 88” in 1951, recorded with his Kings of Rhythm at Sam Phillips’ Sun studio in Memphis and spiked by Turner’s distorted guitar. The song, released on Chicago-based Chess Records and released under the name of the singer, Jackie Brenston, established a pattern for Turner’s career: He would always be the man behind the scenes, a crucial but often unrecognized cog in the development of blues, R&B, rock ‘n’ roll and soul over the next three decades.
“Blues men in America, we were outcasts,” he said in a 2001 interview with the Tribune. “All of our lives, since I was born, we were outcasts. Before the Beatles and the Rolling Stones and the Yardbirds came along --- it had to come from whites in England for America to appreciate what we did.”
Turner grew up in Clarksdale, Miss., the cradle of the modern blues, but his childhood was an ugly one. He was sexually abused and witnessed the lynching of his father. He learned piano by watching Pinetop Perkins play in a friend’s basement, “and music became my life,” he said.
He mastered piano and guitar, and worked as a band leader and talent scout through the ‘50s, participating in historic sessions by B.B. King, Otis Rush, Bobby “Blue” Bland, Elmore James, Little Milton, Junior Parker and countless others. Turner moved his Kings of Rhythm to St. Louis later in the decade, playing a high-octane brand of blues, boogie and rock ‘n’ roll. When Annie Mae Bullock barged onto Turner’s stage one night between sets and demanded to sing, the bemused band leader gave the teenager a shot, and was sold. With the soon-to-be-christened Tina Turner, he had found his meal ticket.
Ike and Tina Turner became one of the biggest soul acts of the ‘60s and ‘70s, crossing over to the rock audience thanks to collaborations with Phil Spector (Tina Turner sang lead on “River Deep, Mountain High”) and the patronage of the Rolling Stones, who asked the duo to open the band’s legendary 1969 North American tour.
Ike Turner’s arranging and playing provided a backbone for hits such as “A Fool in Love,” “It’s Gonna Work Out Fine” and an incendiary remake of Creedence Clearwater Revival’s “Proud Mary.” But it was the vivacious, raw-voiced Tina Turner who got all the attention. Their relationship spiraled downhill in the ‘70s as Ike Turner plunged deeper into drug addiction, and Tina left him in 1976. Her 1984 comeback album, “Private Dancer,” outsold any of her recordings with Ike, and in 2000 she became the top-grossing female artist in concert history.
Meanwhile, Ike Turner’s life unraveled. He was arrested 11 times in the ‘70s and ‘80s for various offenses, mostly drug-related. In 1990, he was convicted of possessing and transporting cocaine, and the next year, as he and Tina were being inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, he was sitting in a prison cell, completing an 18-month sentence.
The release of “What’s Love Got to Do With It,” loosely based on Tina Turner’s autobiography, further damaged his career and reputation. It portrayed Ike Turner as a musical svengali and surrogate father figure who turned his women --- wives, backup singers and lovers alike --- into servants and punching bags.
When his days with Tina Turner were brought up in the 2001 Tribune interview, Ike Turner was defiant. "I did a lot of wrong things in my life, and a lot of good things, and I don't regret any of them,” he said. “The only regret I have -- I made one mistake in my life, during the time I was doing drugs -- I signed a contract with Walt Disney [makers of ‘What's Love Got to Do With It'] giving them permission to portray me in this movie any way they wanted, not realizing I was signing away my right to sue them. They totally exaggerated everything she said in the book on the screen, and that sabotaged my career."
In a 1993 Tribune interview, Tina Turner described a life of “torture” with Ike Turner, and said she stayed with him for 14 years only because she was the mother of their four children (two from a previous Ike Turner marriage). “It wasn’t about money, it was about having kids in school, and I wasn’t going to subject my kids to living on the streets because I couldn’t live with Ike Turner,” she said. “I was strong enough to put up with his crap until they were out of school.”
When Ike Turner was released from prison, he turned his life around. He stopped taking drugs and started performing and recording again. “He fought that devil and he has won,” said the executive who first hired Turner to a recording contract, Joe Bihari, in a 2001 Tribune interview.
Turner pieced together a new Kings of Rhythm and recorded music at his home studio in San Marcos for a 2001 album, “Here and Now.” Last year, he won a Grammy Award in the traditional blues album category for "Risin’ With the Blues." He was touring and performing to the end.
“It doesn’t matter if I invented rock ‘n’ roll, because it didn’t make me any money,” Turner told the Tribune. “I made $60 from ‘Rocket 88’: Six-oh. I don’t care about the glamour or the money. I don’t care about the nominations and Grammys, all that bull. I just care about making people happy --- getting onstage and getting everybody going.”
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Brady's Patriots Squash Steelers Pride

First off, Pittsburgh safety Anthony Smith did not "guarantee" a Steelers victory over the Patriots. That was a creation by the press. Smith actually made a perfectly innocent statement in saying, "I guarantee we'll win if" — emphasis mine — "we make our plays." Any player before any game could say as much. Secondly, Smith should have kept his mouth shut and understood that anything he said before a game like this was going to be taken out of context. And thirdly, he should have understood that if newspapers quoted him on anything, the New England Patriots were going to make him pay. The sight of Smith frantically pursuing Patriots receivers Randy Moss and Jabar Gaffney on long touchdown passes stands as the lasting image for the Pittsburgh Steelers' 2007 season.
Actually, the idea that this was ever going to be a game in the first place was a press creation. Through their first 10 games, it might have looked as if the Steelers had a crack at beating the Patriots and winning the division. They had, after all, the league's best defense, at least on paper, and in Ben Roethlisberger one of the two or three best passers in the league. But this edition of the Steelers is a team that finds ways to lose games it should not only win, but win handily, especially on the road. In their fourth game of the season, they lost, unforgivably, to a bad Arizona Cardinals team, 14–21. Two games later, they lost by a field goal to the equally unimposing Denver Broncos.
But any illusions that the Steelers were in a class with the Patriots should have been dispelled with their 19–16 overtime loss to the Jets on November 18. If that didn't do it, then their 3–0 squeaker against the winless Miami Dolphins a week later should have been the wakeup call. After all, beating Miami 3–0 when you're playing at home is as close as you can come to losing without actually losing.
Forget talent and potential: In consecutive weeks the Steelers, playing against two teams that had, otherwise, a combined 3–21 record, scored 19 points on offense and allowed 19 on defense. I can understand Smith's confidence that his team could beat the Patriots; he's paid to be confident. But how on earth, after watching the Steelers play the Jets and Dolphins, could so many experts get suckered in?
With 10 minutes to play in the third quarter, the Patriots pulled off a play that symbolizes the contemptuous ease with which they played all afternoon in the 34–13 victory. Tom Brady took the snap and fired a lateral to Moss, who had taken a step back from the line. Moss dropped the ball — a fumble, since the pass was a lateral — and then calmly scooped it up and threw it right back to Brady, who then lofted a long pass to Gaffney in the end zone. The Patriots don't have to do things like this to win games: The bravado was just for anyone, the Colts or Cowboys in particular, who might happen to be watching. Brady and Moss looked like two camp counselors playing a game of touch with children.

Source: ALLEN BARRA

Scott Baio and Renee Sloan Tie the Knot

Scott Baio married longtime girlfriend Renee Sloan on Saturday in a small ceremony. The couple wed on the rooftop of a luxury high-rise in Los Angeles. Among those who attended the ceremony was Sloan’s 18-year-old daughter from a previous relationship, and the couple’s newborn daughter.
The ceremony was filmed for the second season of Baio’s reality show, ‘Scott Baio is 45…and Single,' which premieres in January. The show follows Baio’s struggle with marriage and commitment to one woman. The actor previously admitted his doubt of spending the rest of his life with one person.

“My parents were married 53 years, good and bad. Can I do that? Probably not. But I really hope I can. I don’t know, 53 years with the same human being?”

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Thermohaline circulation 2008 Hurricane Predictions

Hurricane forecast calls for 7 hurricanes, 3 major, in 2008

20072008 forecast: 13 named storms, 7 hurricanes, 3 major hurricanes, 1 U.S. strike probable
Hurricane forecasters William Gray and Philip Klotzbach are predicting a "somewhat above-average" hurricane season for 2008. The Colorado State University researchers anticipate seven Atlantic hurricanes, three of them "major" (category 3 or higher), during the 2008 season. In total 13 named storms in the Atlantic are expected. Gray and Klotzbach estimate a 60 percent probability that a major hurricane will hit the U.S. coastline. The eastern seaboard faces slightly higher risk than the Gulf coast region. "Despite fairly inactive 2006 and 2007 hurricane seasons, we believe that the Atlantic basin is still in an active hurricane cycle," Gray told the Associated Press. "This active cycle is expected to continue at least for another decade or two."
The swirling clouds of an intense low-pressure system sat off the southeast coast of the U.S. on Tues., May 8, when the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Terra satellite captured this image. By the following morning, the system had developed into a subtropical storm. While Andrea has the circular shape of a tropical cyclone, it lacks the tight organization seen in more powerful storms. Winds associated with Andrea have worsened wildfires (red boxes) in Georgia and Florida. Image credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. Caption credit: Mike Bettwy, RSIS/NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. The authors say it is this cyclical process rather than global warming that is responsible for about average hurricane activity in recent years. "The global warming arguments have been given much attention by many media references to recent papers claiming to show such a linkage. Despite the global warming of the sea surface that has taken place over the last 3 decades, the global numbers of hurricanes and their intensity have not shown increases in recent years except for the Atlantic," write Gray and Klotzbach. "The Atlantic has seen a very large increase in major hurricanes during the 13-year period of 1995-2007 (average 3.8 per year) in comparison to the prior 25-year period of 1970-1994 (average 1.5 per year). This large increase in Atlantic major hurricanes is primarily a result of the multi-decadal increase in the Atlantic Ocean thermohaline circulation (THC) that is not directly related to global temperature increase. Changes in ocean salinity are believed to be the driving mechanism. These multi-decadal changes have also been termed the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation (AMO)."
Evidence of global warming? "There have been similar past periods (1940s-1950s) when the Atlantic was just as active as in recent years. For instance, when we compare Atlantic basin hurricane numbers over the 15-year period from 1990-2004 with an earlier 15-year period (1950-1964), we see no difference in hurricane frequency or intensity even though the global surface temperatures were cooler and there was a general global cooling during 1950-1964 as compared with global warming during 1990-2004." Last year the hurricane prediction team called for nine Atlantic hurricanes but only six formed. In 2005, Gray and Klotzbach again expected nine hurricanes, but five materialized. Still the team's predictions are closely monitored by disaster planners and agencies. 2007 saw only two major hurricanes form in the Atlantic (Felix and Dean), but had the distinction of being the first year to have two Category 5 storms make landfall in a single hurricane season. Related Historical records of Atlantic hurricanes are accurate says study(11/28/2007) Counting tropical storms that occurred before the advent of aircraft and satellites relies on ships logs and hurricane landfalls, making many believe that the numbers of historic tropical storms in the Atlantic are seriously undercounted. However, a statistical model based on the climate factors that influence Atlantic tropical storm activity shows that the estimates currently used are only slightly below modeled numbers and indicate that the numbers of tropical storms in the recent past are increasing, according to researchers. Wind shear could reduce future hurricane activity(4/17/2007) The debate over the impact of global warming on hurricane intensity rages on with a new study published April 18 in Geophysical Research Letters. The research, conducted by Gabriel A. Vecchi of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and Brian J. Soden of the University of Miami, suggests that an increase in vertical wind shear in the tropical Atlantic and East Pacific Oceans could inhibit the formation and intensification of hurricanes. The authors note that increased vertical wind shear has historically been associated with reduced hurricane activity and intensity.
Source: Mongabay.com

The Nutty Buddy by Mark Littell

PHOENIX (AP) - Former major leaguer Mark Littell is pitching his Nutty Buddy. The ex-pitcher says he's come up with a better cup. And he's willing to put his you-know-what on the line to prove it. A YouTube video shows Littell getting shot right between the legs with a pitching machine. Littell says the Nutty Buddy is more comfortable and better protecting than the typical cup because it's anatomically correct. It's also twice as expensive, at about 20 bucks each. Littell says he's sold about 3,500 online and his hoping to sign a deal with jock strap inventor Bike Athletic.

Michael Vick Sentenced Today

Richmond, VA (Sports Network) - Disgraced Atlanta Falcons quarterback Michael Vick was sentenced to prison on Monday for his participation in an illegal dogfighting ring.
Vick was given 23 months of jail time and three years probation by U.S. District Judge Henry E.Hudson.
The suspended signal caller has already begun serving his jail time, having surrendered to authorities on November 19.
"This is a tragedy in the life of this young man," Vick's lead attorney, Billy Martin, said outside the courthouse. "Michael has fallen so hard, so far, so fast. He has been punished for his mistake."
Under terms of Vick's plea agreement, federal prosecutors agreed to recommend sentencing at the low end of the guideline range -- reportedly from 12 to 18 months. However, Hudson was under no obligation to follow the guideline and could have sentenced Vick to a maximum of five years in prison.
"Michael Vick's federal prison sentencing today is another step in his legal journey," Falcons owner Arthur Blank said in a statement. "This is a difficult day for Michael's family and for a lot of us, including many of our players and fans who have been emotionally invested in Michael over the years.
"We sincerely hope that Michael will use this time to continue to focus his efforts on making positive changes in his life, and we wish him well in that regard."
Previously, Purnell Peace and Quanis Phillips, two of Vick's co-defendants in the case, were sentenced to prison. Peace received 18 months of jail time and Phillips was given 21 months. Peace's sentence was on the high end of his 12-to-18 month guideline range recommended by federal prosecutors, while Phillips' time was in the middle of his 18-24 month range.
Tony Taylor, the fourth co-defendant in the case, is scheduled to be sentenced on December 14.
Vick and the three other men entered guilty pleas to federal dogfighting charges this summer.
Vick pleaded guilty to charges of conspiracy to travel in interstate commerce in aid of unlawful activities and sponsoring a dog in an animal-fighting venture.
The charges stem from an operation allegedly conducted at a house owned by Vick in Smithfield, Virginia.
According to the July 17 indictment of the suspended Falcons quarterback, he and his co-defendants were involved in an ongoing animal fighting business based out of Vick's property from early 2001 through sometime in April of this year.
Since Vick purchased the property in June 2001, the defendants formed a dog fighting enterprise known as "Bad Newz Kennels" and used the property for housing and training pit bulls used in dog fights. From at least 2002, the defendants and others sponsored dog fights on the property and brought dogs from several states to participate in the events.
During the fights, the participants would place bets ranging from the hundreds to thousands of dollars. The fights would last until either the death or surrender of the losing dog, which would then sometimes be put to death by drowning, hanging, gunshot, electrocution or other methods.
Also, the indictment said the defendants participated in dog fights in North and South Carolina, Maryland, New Jersey and elsewhere in Virginia.
The dog fighting affair was first brought to light when Vick's home was raided on April 26 when authorities seized 54 dogs, along with several other pieces of equipment associated in dogfighting.
The property was again searched on June 7 by federal officials, who uncovered the graves of several pit bulls on the property.
Vick did not admit to killing any dogs personally or gambling on the fights. The summary of facts accompanying the plea agreement said Vick was aware four dogs were killed in 2002 and six to eight dogs were killed this past April as a result of the "collective efforts" of Vick and two of his co-defendants.
All four men are also facing state dogfighting charges.