Saturday was a slam dunk for LeBron James, who wed his high school sweetheart, Savannah Brinson, in a super-luxe — and super-secret — ceremony at the Grand Del Mar hotel in San Diego.
The Miami Heat All-Star, 28, and Brinson, 27, exchanged vows in front of a select group of family and friends, including the pair’s two children, LeBron Jr., 8, and Bryce, 6, R&B singer Ne-Yo, Heat teammate Dwyane Wade and his girlfriend, actress Gabrielle Union, who posted a photo from the wedding with a special message to Instagram.
While it wasn’t exactly an intimate affair, the guest roster was rather conservative by celebrity standards. “[LeBron] cut the list down because he didn’t want to have 1,000 people at the wedding,” a source told the New York Post.
And, according to Us Weekly, those who were lucky enough to make the cut were treated to a surprise performance of “Crazy in Love” by Beyoncé and Jay Z, complete with a full band!
James, who has been with his lady love since he was 16, finally popped the question at the Shelborne hotel in Miami on December 31, 2011. Though the two had a long engagement leading up to their walk down the aisle, both threw big blowouts this summer to commemorate their last days of being single. He celebrated the end of his bachelorhood with a bunch of pals in Toronto last month, while Brinson hosted a seven-day bachelorette bash in July that started in Las Vegas before jetting off to Anguilla with a bunch of girlfriends.
Ladies and gentlemen, the big fight weekend has arrived.
Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Saul “Canelo” Alvarez will end months of promotional build-up and weeks of premium cable sniping on Saturday night, when they meet in the ring at the MGM Grand for both a pair of 154-pound titles and the enviable position as the sport’s top drawing card.
The fight was initially announced in the spring, shortly after Alvarez had improved to 42-0-1 with a defeat of previously unbeaten Austin Trout and Mayweather scaled to 44-0 after a 12-round clinic against former two-division world champion Robert Guerrero.
The men faced off in 10 cities during a two-country press tour, then appeared in dueling video segments during the four-part Showtime All Access documentary series, which ended Wednesday.
The official weigh-in for the fight, at which both men contractually agreed to arrive at 152 pounds or less, is scheduled for today at 6 p.m. ET. The fight card will begin Saturday at 5:30 p.m. ET, with the Showtime pay-per-view broadcast set to open at 9 p.m. ET.
Big numbers are expected for the event, which could approach the record of 2.4 million buys set when Mayweather fought the since-retired Oscar De La Hoya in May 2007.
“It’s hard to predict where we’ll end up on this fight,” said Stephen Espinoza, Showtime’s top boxing executive. “De La Hoya/Mayweather was a perfect storm. Oscar was at the peak. Floyd was just starting to make a lot of noise. You had the perfect good guy/bad guy storyline. It’s hard to replicate that.
The winner of last season’s Sixth Man Award J.R Smith, will miss the first five games of the season for alledegedly testing positive for Marijuana, according to this tweet from Adrian Wojnarowski and Yahoo Sports.
Oklahoma City Thunder guard DeAndre Liggins has been jailed on domestic abuse complaints, according to Oklahoma County Sheriff’s Office records.
He was taken to the Oklahoma County jail. He is being held on complaints of domestic assault and battery with a dangerous weapon and domestic abuse in the presence of a minor, a jail official said.
Oklahoma City police were called at about 4:40 p.m. to the 2300 block of NW 180th near North Pennsylvania Avenue. An official police incident report is not yet available, Lt. Arthur Gregory said.
“From what I understand it was a boyfriend/girlfriend relationship,” Gregory said. “And I don’t know who the child was, if it was theirs, her’s or his.”
Liggins averaged 1.5 points and 1.4 rebounds in 39 games with the Thunder last season, his first in OKC. He is on a non-guaranteed contract for the upcoming season. Training camp begins in late September.
Tommy Morrison, the hard-punching heavyweight with boy-band good looks who once beat George Foreman and later starred in the Rocky franchise before falling ill in recent years — all the while denying he was HIV positive — died on Sunday at a hospital in Nebraska. Morrison, who was nicknamed “The Duke,” was 44.
Morrison’s death was confirmed by his wife, Trisha to the mixed martial arts website, “MMA Dirty,” which reported he died of “respiratory and metabolic acidosis and multiple organ failure.” His death was also confirmed by Morrison’s long-time promoter, Tony Holden to the Associated Press.
It was the night of March 31st 2013. Many of us Yankee fans were getting ready for Opening Day the next day. It was late, already dark for several hours. When out of the cold windy night I heard an unfamiliar sound. Between the gusts of wind on this particularly chilly March night, I heard the sound of chains rattling. The sound continued for some time, seemingly getting closer with each rattle. I began to feel my nerves jumping with each thrash of metal that now sounded like it was outside my bedroom door. I locked the door hoping whomever was out there would be stopped, but I was mistaken. The door swung open with brut force and the chains were thrown at my feet.
Connected to these many links was a familiar man. Though it couldn’t be him, it was, staring me directly in my eyes. I said, “what are you doing here?” Nervous yet excited to hear his answer, hear him speak. He told me of a crime committed against the game of baseball. He said it was a injustice to the game. I asked him who was to blame expecting any answer other than the one I received. “Yankee fans.” He replied in a stern voice. I told him he must be mistaken. That we Yankee fans are among the best in baseball. He emplored me to listen to his reasoning but I interrupted.
“You see sir, this city is the greatest city in the world and so is this team. Winning is our legacy and October is our birthright. We live and die by the World Series.” I believe I spoke passionately, enough to sway him and make him see that we Yankee faithful could not be guilty of a crime. To my surprise, I only angered him. “You do not see the error of your ways!” He said, but continued “there is still time for you to learn what I never did, during the coming months you will be visited my three ghosts. The Ghost of Seasons Past, Present and Yet To Come.” And with that, he was gone. I woke up the next morning believing I had some strange dream the night before. The season started that day.
Before long I was visited by the first ghost. The Ghost of Seasons Past:
He emplored me to pay close attention to Mariano Rivera. Mo had already announced that this would be his last year but after spending almost a full season on the DL with a torn ACL, you wondered how affective he would be this year. The ghost showed me that it was wrong to wonder. Mariano would not blow his first save until late May and would be just as dominant as ever. In his final act, he would take us back to 1996 and show us just how truly special his career is. Watching him has been like watching a man frozen in time and the ghost expressed to me how much I need to cherish the past and be grateful that some things haven’t changed. But then the ghost left and late May is where it all went south for this team.
Everyone was hurt and the guys that weren’t hurt, couldn’t hit to save their lives. No righty power was present. The team would constantly lose low scoring games. The Ghost of Seasons Past was right but this team wasn’t the same anymore. No way they can win a World Series. And as if things couldn’t look any bleaker during the Yankees hitting woes, the Ghost of Seasons Present showed up.
The Ghost of Seasons Present:
The ghost showed me players that the Yankees had failed to re-sign this past offseason. He showed me Nick Swisher that by the All Star break, was having his usual offensive year that could have strongly benefited this Yankee team, but he was doing it in Cleveland.
The ghost then showed me Russell Martin who’s offense had not only improved but who also had become a clutch hitter for the Pirates. A leader for the Pirates as well, being not only a presence at the plate but also behind it. Martin was helping them become one of the best teams in baseball. Meanwhile our catcher was hurt and linked to a steroid scandal and we were stuck with a lack luster tandem of Chris Stewart and Austin Romine.
The ghost finally showed me a player that wrote himself into Yankee playoff history. A player that tied an October game in the bottom of the ninth with one swing and later won it with another. He showed me Raul Ibanez. Ibanez at 41 was having a prime season. One of the league leaders in home runs through the All Star break, missing out on him hurt badly. Especially with the injuries to Curtis Granderson, Mark Teixiera and Alex Rodriguez, the team’s home run threats.
Realizing this could just be a lost season. A season decimated by injuries, the anger faded but the disappointment was still strong as the Ghost of Seasons Present left and the final ghost arrived.
The Ghost of Seasons Yet To Come:
This was the ghost I feared the most. This was the ghost that showed me what the Yankees would be like without its beloved captain. Derek Jeter broke his ankle last October only to re-break it in march. He then came back after the All Star break only to injur his quad in the first game. He came back about 2 weeks later only to injur his calf. He’s provided a small spark each time he’s come back but the ghost was showing me just how little time could be left in the story book career that I and many like me have been blessed to whiteness since day one. The ghost made me realize how much I need to stop obsessing about certain things and just enjoy watching the team I love play the game I love. The players won’t always be the same but the game always will. I have to cherish it no matter what. Find the joy in it even when they’re down because that is the whole point of baseball. It’s a game meant to entertain.
The final ghost left me and I awoke the morning of August 31st. I hadn’t missed it. The season wasn’t over! And miraculously, the bruised and battered Yankees are only 4.5 games out of the Wild Card. Jeter is back again and with the return of guys like Rodriguez and Granderson and the addition of Mark Reynolds, things are looking up. Austin Romine has really come around and shown this team he belongs here and with a gift from the Ghost of Seasons Past, Alfonso Soriano, the Yankees are a threat from both sides of the plate, capable of making any pitcher pay.
They may not make it to October, but they are fighting. They are grinding it out. We Yankee fans are a proud bunch but if October doesn’t end with a parade it’s “bah humbug!” We need to realize that October is not a right, it’s a privilege. And maybe a visit from these 3 ghosts will make us smile a little easier, cheer a little louder and beam a little brighter when our team grinds it out hard enough to have the honor of October baseball. This year, or seasons yet to come.
I think that’s what The Boss’ ghost was trying to teach me, trying to teach us all.
Drugs and alcohol have Mike Tyson up against the ropes as the former heavyweight champion fights for his life against addiction.
Tyson made the startling revelations about his substance abuse problems while plugging the first fight card under his Iron Mike Productions promoting venture.
“I’m on the verge of dying because I’m a vicious alcoholic,” Tyson told reporters at the Turning Stone Resort in New York, where Argenis Mendez retained his IBF junior lightweight title after battling to a 12-round draw with challenger Arash Usmanee.
Friday night’s main event, however, was overshadowed by Tyson’s press conference-turned-confessional from earlier in the day.
“I haven’t drank or took drugs in six days, and for me that’s a miracle. I’ve been lying to everybody else that think I was sober, but I’m not.
“This is my sixth day. I’m never gonna use again,” a choked up Tyson told the media, who gave him a standing ovation.
Tyson’s emotional testimonial came after discussing his attempts to reconcile with former trainer Teddy Atlas, who was working the fight as an announcer for ESPN. Tyson and Atlas had a well-documented falling-out in the early ’80s that reportedly included Atlas pulling a gun on the then 15-year-old Tyson after Mike he allegedly attacked a young girl who was related to Atlas’ wife
Part of me cried a little today. Today marks the retirement of Tracy McGrady, this month marked the retirement of Allen Iverson as well. Goodbye Tracy McGrady. Goodbye Allen Iverson
Allen Iverson aka “The Answer”, a former first round pick for the Philadelphia 76ers, lived up to his high draft pick. Allen is historically one of the 76ers greatest players to ever wear their uniform, add to that his ROTY (Rookie of the Year) award, a NBA MVP, multiple:scoring titles, All Star selections and NBA First Team selections, lastly a 2001 Finals appearance; A.I has quite a nice resume for any NBA player.
“The Answer” will probably be best remembered for his “practice” rant that signaled his end in a 76ers uniform. Past that rant though, he’ll be remembered for his killer cross over, his one handed put back dunk, and his amazing Game 1 Finals performance in 2001.
Allen’s legacy will be an interesting one. He revolutionized the Point Guard position, proved a little guy can hang with the best, and brought about a cultural revolution in the NBA (tattoos, corn rows, oversized jerseys); on the flip side though he will be remembered for being selfish, a cancer to teams, and a coach killer.
Tracy McGrady aka T Mac was a former 9th round draft pick for the Toronto Raptors. He may have played up to his superstar potential but never achieved the success others did. T Mac was a prolific scorer and earned multiple scoring titles, All Star selections and NBA First Team selections as well; sadly T Mac never took his own team to the Finals, let alone past the first round of the playoffs.
T Mac will be best remembered for the classic performance he put on against the Spurs where he scored 13 points in 35 seconds! McGrady will also be remembered for his amazing dunks and his offensive dominance.
Tracy McGrady’s legacy is also an interesting one. He had the superstar potential to be one of the best, in his prime years he easily was the best. Sadly due to injuries he never was able to win it all.
This month marks the end of two of the great players in the NBA. While these two men have no rings between the two, their names are still talked about today and I will tell my kids about Allen Iverson and Tracy McGrady. I hope to see both in the NBA Hall Of Fame as soon as they’re eligible.
I’m now convinced that the game of Golf is a Very Difficult game. For over 10-years, Tiger Woods had made us believe it was as simple as getting up in the morning and tying a pair of sneakers. But, for those of you that play this great game, we know different. Now, it appears that Tiger is facing that fact too.
Although Tiger has won five times in 2013, he has been Major-less since 2008. He has invited the doubters, nay-sayers and media deniers along with the greatest of Monday morning quarterbacks into the fray of questioning the State of his Game. Yes, he’s won five times but Tiger himself has said he measures success by the number of Majors he wins.
Tiger Woods is chasing Jack Nicklaus’ career majors mark of 18 which some had believed would never be challenged but then, a young kid who had won 3-consecutive Amateur Championships prior to turning Golf Professional, sprung onto the scene. Winning his first major championship at the famed Masters Championship in 1997, a New sheriff was in town and ready to take the reins from the beloved Nicklaus. Fast forward to 2008, Tiger is sitting on 14-majors. And this sit is five years long. Just to put things in perspective, Nicklaus too had run into a 5-year slump of winning a major from 1980 – 1986.
There are similarities in these two great golf champions as well from a perspective standpoint. Coming into this week’s final Major Championship of the year, the PGA Championship, Tiger and Nicklaus had the exact number of majors won (14) to major appearances, 63. Jack won his 15th at this timeframe. Tiger didn’t. What does this mean? Absolutely nothing. Tiger is still on a good pace to surpass the great Jack Nicklaus but the window of opportunity is slowly closing.
Even though it’s been five years since Tiger has hoisted a Major championship trophy, he has a number of things on his side. One, he is only 37-years old. Nicklaus had won his 15th at the age of 38 so a bit of encouragement from a parallel standpoint. Also, Tiger is in tremendous shape. He is known for his workout regimen and has a body fat around 1%. He has been through a number of injuries that has slowed him down over the years including knee surgery that placed him on the golf shelf for a season. His personal indiscretion in his marriage also delayed his opportunities not to mention his much talked about swing changes, swing coaches (3), and firing of his long time caddy, Steve Williams. Through it all, he still wins golf tournaments.
Tiger’s main adversary appears to be Tiger. Touching on the swing changes from the previous paragraph, Tiger has gone through four of them. Since his college days at Stanford University which was his original golf swing, his first coach as a professional was Butch Harmon. Butch set him on his pathway to a string of Major wins with a swing that current Masters champ Adam Scott is still using today. That was swing #2. His third swing came from Hank Haney where many questioned why Tiger would leave Butch when he was on such a Major role. Although Tiger won a few more majors with Hank, the golfing world felt that Haney ‘ruined’ Tiger’s swing and game. This was the first time Tiger had gone into any type of win slump. Finally, Tiger has moved on from Haney to now, his new coach, Sean Foley. And with Foley, another swing change, #4.
Golf is a game of repetition, feel, vision, creativity, guts, perseverance, nerves, mental toughness and again, repetition. That is what I believe is hurting Tiger. I recall a commercial with a great golfer in his own right, Vijay Singh. In that commercial where Vijay was on the tee addressing his ball, it was a slow motion shot of him taking his swing. While going through the backswing, he had All of these swing thoughts going through his head. It was like a Pop Up Video with about 20 different things popping into his mind at once. That’s what I think is going on with Tiger. Just watching him go through his routine at approach when he rehearses his swing, he approaches the ball and sometimes does the complete opposite or Double Crosses himself which causes a horrendous shot per Tiger Woods Standards.
Having all of these swing coaches and swing changes places a lot of conflict in the mind and body. Imagine doing something as simple as tying your shoes the same way for years only to have someone else show you a different way to tie them. Then 5-years later, someone comes along and teaches you another way and finally, the latest person comes along and says, “No, he’s a New Way”. Eventually, your mind gets in the way of something that had been so simple in the past. You begin to revert back to the past as opposed to living in the present.
Golf is an amazing game. Watching the pros on TV, I have a brand new appreciation for them and the game they’ve made fun for me, a hacker at best. It’s not easy. Not even for Tiger Woods. Yes, he makes it look easy at times, but it’s not. For four consecutive days, these guys beat this little white ball around the course in hopes of winning the big trophy and a whole lot of cash to boot. A lot can happen in four days which is what makes this game equally challenging. This is another reason I think Tiger will break Jack’s record; Mental Toughness.
I’m a believer in this guy. He’s won 14-majors and about to break the ALL-Time wins title held by Sam Snead for years. Snead has 82-career wins and Tiger is sitting on 79. He is the money leader to date this season, the FedEx leader that awards the winner of the FedEx playoff championship a $10 million annuity at the end of the season and he’s the #1 golfer in the World. Not too shabby to me. After winning five times this year, he’ll get that record next year if he remains healthy. Although that achievement is Huge in its own right, Tiger still has his sights on becoming the ALL-Time Majors leader. And so do we Tiger, so do we.
Alex Alex Rodriguez has effectively turned himself into MLB’s public enemy number one. He is now Baseball’s Villain.
It’s been almost six months since we first heard about the Miami based anti aging clinic that was allegedly pedaling performance enhancing drugs to more than 20 MLB players. And here we are, waiting with bated breath to find out exactly how Major League Baseball will deal with these dopers. We have already seen Ryan Braun served with a 67 game suspension that will cover the remainder of the 2013 season. Now word is Nelson Cruz will be suspended this week. Braun’s suspension doesn’t hurt the Brewers because they are not in a pennant race. Cruz’s absence is much more noticeable for a Texas team that seems playoff bound.
But what about the big fish? The 1,000 pound marlin that Bud Selig would love to reel in and mount on his wall of shame. The word around the baseball universe is that the amount of evidence the league has on Alex Rodriguez far surpasses the amount they had on Braun. The analogy has been used that the league has “a skyscraper of evidence on A-Rod compared to a Lego they had on Braun.” It seems as though Bud Selig is absolutely fed up with Alex Rodriguez because insiders are claiming that Selig is getting ready to put the final nail in Rodriguez’s coffin.
Commissioner Bud Selig poses with child wearing an “A*ROID shirt.
The team A-Rod has hired to defend him has said that they will fight any suspension handed down to Alex. This was stated just after word had leaked that the commissioner’s office offered Rodriguez a deal. Accept a plea of a suspension for the rest of this season and all of next season and Selig would not seek to ban him for life. Now that it seems Rodriguez will fight the ban instead of taking the deal, Selig is no longer messing around. A-Rod could appeal the ban based on the collectively agreed drug policy and he would still be eligible to play during that appeal process. Selig wants to make sure that doesn’t happen.
The commissioner now plans to use the Collective Bargaining Agreement to ban Alex Rodriguez rather than the drug policy. What’s the difference, you ask? Well, according to Article XI Section A1b of the CBA, the commissioner has the ability to ban a player for life based on preserving the integrity of the game of baseball. In this situation, Rodriguez can still appeal but he would not be eligible to play through the process. Also, instead of having an arbitration hearing to decide his fate, A-Rod would instead be appealing to very man that enacted the punishment, Mr. Bud Selig. Needless to say, Rodriguez would lose the appeal.
A-Rod could then take MLB to court but at that time, MLB would move to ban Alex based on the drug policy, to which he could also appeal. So Rodriguez and the MLB would be locked into a court case and an arbitration hearing. So lets talk scenarios.
Best scenario for Alex: He wins the court case and the CBA ban is dropped and then the arbitrator rules in his favor for the drug policy ban. No way the arbitrator lets him walk with the mountain of evidence he has against him. He still serves a severe suspension but is able to attempt a return to the game after a certain amount of time and look to collect on the remaining $60-75 million left on his contract.
Worst scenario for Alex: He loses the court case so therefore the arbitration hearing is moot and he is banned from the game for life. Never being eligible for employment in any regard by Major League Baseball. Plus he loses the rest of his money and the Yankees get out of a major contract.
It’s hard not to ask yourself why this man would even consider fighting at this point. Selig isn’t f**king around.
Well I’m a die hard fan of my home state New Jersey Devils and am truly devastated by the departure of our star Ilya Kovalchuck and now I can’t say I’m too excited for the 2013-2014 hockey season. We are a team without a star, an aging star goalie, and seriously depleted of any offensive talent. Of course Devils fans have expressed any displeasure and over the off season we’ve acquired some nice pieces such as goalie Cory Schneider. Now the latest news is that we have signed Jaroimir Jagr…
Jagr spent his last season with the Boston Bruins
Jaromir Jagr is 41 years old, has played with 7 NHL teams over the course of his career, and we just gave him a one year contract where he can earn $2-4 million. I’m not a Jagr fan as he seems to play for the money over the love of the game, but this signing makes complete sense for the Devils. While Jaromir Jagr may not be on the same level as Ilya Kovalchuck at this stage of his career, he is a savy and experienced veteran winger with the occasional sparks of his brilliant play. I’m not expecting Jagr to make a huge impact on the Devils as we are a team in serious transition this year. All I can do is brace myself for a rough season ahead.
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