Calif. school team's success linked to Snoop Dogg (AP)

AP - Football has long been the athletic stepchild at inner-city Crenshaw High School. Trophy cases are crammed with basketball awards. Gym walls are lined with hoops championship flags.

Linkin Park, Nickelback top decade's rock charts (Reuters)

Reuters - Linkin Park's trademark anthemic hooks came to represent a core sound in rock music in the 2000s, so it's no surprise that the band ranks as the top act of the decade on Billboard's Rock Songs and Alternative Songs decade-end tallies.

Alicia Keys finds "freedom" from Motown sound (Reuters)

Reuters - A music industry desperate for bankable superstars has all but anointed Alicia Keys as heir to the golden era of Motown, when Aretha Franklin, Smokey Robinson and others made it seem easy to pump out timeless R&B hits.

Creed keeps "Circle" spinning with "Live" DVD (Reuters)