I wonder what he think about at night in that cell, to shoot yourself then get two years in prison has to be kinda difficult to swallow.
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From a fan stand point it seems pretty ridicules to watch millionaires argue with billionaires about contract disputes, when most fans are barely making $40-50 grand a year. But when you view a situation like the New York Jets and Darrell Revis hold out from a business positions, one can understand a player of his caliber taking a stance and demanding more money. In the defense of the professional athlete (especially NFL players who’s contracts are not guaranteed), they have to get all the can while they can because the average career is short lived. Inaddition, these team owners are making tons of money off of these players so they deserve a fair compensation in relationship to the revenues they are capable of generating.
In the video above LeCharles Bentley doesn’t blame the Jets’ Darrelle Revis one bit for holding out and he explains why, check it out.
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Well, it’s not new to hear of celebrities and sports personalities getting their body parts insured. Now joining the likes of JLo’s multi-million dollar-insured butt and David Beckham’s legs is Troy Polamalu’s hair. Yes, famed shampoo brand, Head & Shoulders have taken out a staggering $1 million insurance policy on Pittsburgh Steelers safety Troy Polamalu’s hair! Polamalu is the brand’s spokesperson and his trademark hair certainly makes him the right choice for a hair products brand. The player has not cut his hair in the past seven years and even has a website dedicated to his hair, called Troyshair.com. Head & Shoulders has taken the policy with Watkins Syndicate at Lloyd’s of London. The first ever such insurance policy taken by Head & Shoulders will protect the player’s hair for the entire NFL season.
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Pic: Ed Reinke / AP
Tim Tebow finally has his first NFL game under his belt, and he actually performed pretty well. There are a lot of doubters about Tebow’s ability to play in the NFL, but if his debut was a sign of things to come Tebow will be just fine. He completed 8 of 13 passes for 105 yards and rushed for a 7 yard touchdown. Tebow is definitely the future face of the Denver Broncos and I know that big brands like Nike and Gatorade are taking notice. Tebow is going to make a lot of money in years to come, mark my words.
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This has been a bitter sweet year for Reggie Bush the New Orleans Saints running back. On the heels of winning NFL Super Bowl, Reggie was hit with the new that he had been found guilty of receiving over $300,000 worth of gifts from marketing agents during his time at USC.
Bush and USC have been in hot water since June 10, when the NCAA sanctioned the school with four years of probation and a two-year ban on postseason bowl games. The Trojan football team was also forced to forfeit all its victories during the three seasons Bush played, and it was stripped of 30 football scholarships intended for new players over the next three years.
Bush proclaimed his innocence in a public statement, saying, “I very much regret the turn that this matter has taken, not only for USC, but for the fans and players. I am disappointed by {the} decision and disagree with the NCAA’s findings. If the University decides to appeal, I will continue to cooperate with the NCAA and USC, as I did during the investigation.”
Now it seems things are getting a bit worst because the IRS is taking a look into the case to see if they can get their paws on some possible back taxes from Bush’s $300,000 worth of gifts. If the IRS is creative enough its said that Bush will have to cut them a check upwards of $150,000.
Decisions, decisions, decisions; it’s so unfortunate that the USC program and Bush’s former teammates will have to suffer such harsh penalties because of his foolishness. It really doesn’t matter how well he does in the NFL the rest of his career, he will forever be remembered as the person that killed the USC legacy; what a shame!
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Cube produces a film that captures the relationship between hip hop culture and his beloved L.A. Raiders of the 1980 and 90s, check it out:
“Straight Outta L.A.,” Ice Cube’s highly watchable film about what might be called the aesthetic intersection of the Raiders — back in the 1980s and ’90s, when they were the Los Angeles Raiders, after and before they were the Oakland Raiders — and Southern California hip-hop as embodied by N.W.A., the platinum-selling, hard-edged Compton-based group to which he belonged. And though it doesn’t deeply develop or substantially support all the ideas it advances, it does set up interesting resonances.
Although Cube sets his tale solidly within the context of the time — of Reaganomics and ghetto drug wars — this is less a story of events than it is of image and self-image whose only tangible measure is the rate by which N.W.A.’s adoption of the team’s brand gear and black-and-silver color scheme increased sales of Raiders merchandise. Oddly, among all the real accomplishment recounted here, on the football field and in the recording studio, this is largely a story about the power of design. With a different name, a different logo or less dramatic colors — “Purple and gold,” says N.W.A.’s MC Ren, “I don’t think that would have looked good on us” — this might not be a story at all.
Cube enlists a wide variety of voices to tell his tale, including players, marketing men, politicians, reporters, ex-gangsters, scholars and his biggest fish, quixotic Raiders majority-owner and general manager Al Davis. (“History will dictate what I am,” he says. “You do it your way, don’t let the culture tell you what to do. That’s being a Raider.”) From music, and the street, are such hip-hop philosophers as Ice T, Chuck D and Snoop Dogg, who tosses a football around with Ice Cube on the field of a significantly empty Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum and pinpoints the way the Raiders’ take-no-prisoners Weltanschauung reflected rap’s own: “We couldn’t represent flowers and trees and birds… We had to represent something like a pirate attitude.” Part 1-3 of the documentary inside when you… Read More…
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It was Chad’s last dance yesterday as he was voted off the hit show Dancing With The Stars.
Chad Ochocinco and professional partner Cheryl Burke were ousted from the hit ABC show Tuesday, making them the 100th couple banished from the ballroom during the show’s 10 seasons.
Ochocinco came into Tuesday’s results show in last place, with 52 points out of 60 for his two dances. Judges’ scores are combined with viewer votes to determine which couple is eliminated each week.
Ochocinco and Burke were coy about their relationship throughout the season. Fans speculated the two might be more than friends when the football star bought the pro dancer a flashy diamond ring one week and a delicate diamond pendant the next.
They continued their coyness Tuesday. Burke characterized their relationship as a “special friendship that will always mean the world to me.” Ochocinco said that what the couple built during dance practice will “continue for a lifetime.”
He thanked Burke and the show’s cast, calling his experience on the show “awesome.”
“I enjoyed the journey,” he said. “I met some wonderful people, and I got some great criticism that’s only made me stronger, man.
“In my eyes, really, I’ve already won.”
Burke called her partner “the most amazing, soft, gentle man in the world.”
Ochocinco’s elimination came during a semifinal results show packed with performances. Sarah McLachlan sang a medley of her songs; teams from Rutgers and Utah Valley universities competed in the new college dance championship; former contestants Joey Fatone and Melissa Rycroft did a tango in costumes picked by the public; and Miley Cyrus, in a leotard and thigh-high boots, performed her new single, “Can’t Be Tamed.”
The final slate is set: Singer Nicole Scherzinger, Olympic figure skater Evan Lysacek and sportscaster Erin Andrews will dance for the show’s mirrorball trophy on Monday. A new “Dancing” champ will be crowned the next day.
Ochocinco will join previously ousted contestants – actors Pamela Anderson, Niecy Nash, Shannen Doherty and Aiden Turner, reality stars Kate Gosselin and Jake Pavelka, astronaut Buzz Aldrin – for the season’s final episodes.
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Hate to call this good news, because no news about this case is good but it seems that there are some discrepancies it the 3rd degree rape case against Lawrence Taylor, check it out:
The 16-year-old hooker whose claims about having sex with ex-Giant Lawrence Taylor led to a rape charge against him actually bragged to a friend about making “easy money” because “I didn’t even have to f— him,” a source told The Post.
The friend, who drove with the hooker to meet Taylor that night, has given a sworn statement that the girl told her immediately afterward that the Hall of Famer merely engaged in masturbation before paying her $300 — not sexual intercourse or oral sex, said the source.
If what the friend saying is true, the source noted, “that clears him of rape-3” — the third-degree rape charge lodged against Taylor, 51, for the May 6 tryst in a Rockland County hotel.
“This is reasonable doubt,” said the source, noting that there has to be sexual intercourse with an underage person to sustain that felony charge.
The friend — a stripper who lived with the hooker and accused pimp Rasheed Davis in The Bronx — told investigators she has come forward to contradict the hooker’s tale to cops because of “three things: they didn’t have sex, she’s lying, and he’s innocent,” according to the source.
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The sports world has been flipped upside down with news being released that former New York Giants starLawrence “LT” Taylor has been accused of third degree rape of a 16 year old run away and solicitation. LT has had his troubles in the past but this, I just can’t believe that LT would go out like this… lets hope and pray this is just a bunch of allegations. Video inside when you….
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After many ups and downs it seem that Pacman Jones may be getting a second/third/fourth hell I lost count, chance to play in the NFL again check it out:
Adam “Pacman” Jones is getting looks from NFL teams again. Detroit Lions coach Jim Schwartz said Wednesday at the NFL meetings that the Lions are gathering more information about Jones’ level of commitment and how he could fit in Detroit’s system. The Lions were among a few teams that worked out Jones last week in New Orleans.
“Not only did we send someone down there to work him out, but also someone to spend some time with him,” Schwartz said. “I wouldn’t say anything’s imminent, but we’re definitely interested and gathering information.”
Once considered a promising star, Jones’ tattered history is a big reason other teams have stayed clear.
Jones, now 26, was an elite cornerback and kick returner in his first two seasons with the Tennessee Titans. But he was suspended for the 2007 season by NFL commissioner Roger Goodell for his repeated off-field incidents, including six arrests since he was drafted in 2005.
Schwartz coached Jones in 2005 and 2006, when he was the defensive coordinator for the Titans. Schwartz said he already knows Jones’ talent from their history together.
“I didn’t need to look at the tape,” Schwartz said. “He’s still young. I looked at the numbers, but when you have experience with somebody, unless there’s an injury or something like that, the workout won’t be the final determination. The workout was just to see what kind of conditioning he was in, I would say, from a commitment standpoint.
“I can’t speak from where he’s at,” Schwartz added. “We know where he’s at from a physical standpoint. He had a good workout. I think that where we’re at is we’re evaluating all our options.”
The off-field incidents might be the biggest factor for Detroit and any team considering signing Jones.
Before Dallas traded for him in 2008, Jones was arrested six times and involved in 12 episodes requiring police intervention since he was drafted in the first round out of West Virginia.
He got into a scuffle with a bodyguard who was part of a team-employed security detail in October 2008, and was suspended again. The Cowboys released Jones after the season in which he averaged 4.5 yards per punt return and was spotty at cornerback. He did not play last year.
Copyright 2010 by The Associated Press
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