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Elin Nordegren speaks! In the new issue of People magazine, the former Mrs. Tiger Woods tells all in her one and only interview. She went to People to tell her side of the story. Elin says she went through feelings of disbelief, shock and anger when she realized her husband was a serial cheater. She says despite the money …She Got Millions…she says it doesn’t buy happiness, and it won’t repair her broken family. Nordegren and Woods have two children, three year-old daughter Sam and 19 month-old son Charlie.
Chad Ochocinco Johnson of the Cincinnati Bengals has landed another reality show. Ochocinco has landed a part on the VH1 reality show Basketball Wives. He’s going to play the love interest of Evelyn Lozada. Ochocinco was recently fined $25,000 for tweeting messages during a preseason football game.
Basketball Legend Michael Jordan may have to talk with his sons. They took to twitter to talk about their wild adventures, including spending over $56,000 on booze and women. Marcus and Jeffrey Jordan love the blondes and the booze. In a recent two-day spree in Vegas, they blew their money.
Newly hired Southern California athletic director Pat Haden says Reggie Bush apologized to him and expressed regret in a phone call last week about the NCAA’s sanctions that resulted from findings that he received improper benefits while playing for USC.
“He’s really contrite,” Haden told USA Today of Bush. “He knows he made a series of mistakes. It wasn’t just one mistake. It was a series of mistakes.”
Bush, a running back for the New Orleans Saints, has not been stripped of the Heisman Trophy he won in 2005, though USC has returned Bush’s Heisman given to the school. Two trophies are awarded for each recipient.
“He told me, ‘If I could turn the clock back, I would. If I could give the Heisman Trophy back, I would,’ ” Haden told the newspaper.
In Louisiana for the start of the Saints’ training camp, Bush said he was focusing on football but admitted he is bothered by the way the university has distanced itself from him.
“I think I’d be lying if I said it didn’t,” Bush has said publicly. “Obviously, it does, but at the end of the day it is what it is. All I can really do now is focus on the New Orleans Saints and just try to move on. It bothers me and it sucks. The whole situation is terrible and nobody feels worse about it than I do.
“But, at the same time, I can’t dwell on the negatives because I do have a job to do and I have a whole organization and a city riding on my back, not necessarily my back, but the team’s back.”
Haden said Bush was barred from visiting the Los Angeles school.
“I wish I could ask Reggie to come talk to our football team. I can’t,” said Haden, who replaced ousted AD Mike Garrett on Aug. 3. “He’s not allowed on the campus. But I think he would tell them what a big mistake he made and how sorry he is.”
Bush said he hopes his relationship with USC doesn’t remain fractured forever.
“I hope someday at some point it can be repaired,” Bush said when training camp started. “We’ll see what happens. That’s all I can do.”
Charles Barkley wants Lebron James to know that he isn’t through puttin’ his foot up his (James’s) butt.
On Wednesday the renown TNT analyst and former NBA All-Star weighed in on a recent Twitter statement by LeBron James.
Barkley, said he hopes James remembers his critical comments and called a couple of James’ more significant actions this summer “punk” moves.
“I heard about LeBron’s little tweet that he’s remembering everybody who said anything bad about him,” Barkley said Thursday on ESPN Radio 103.3 FM in Dallas/Fort Worth. “And he said ‘everybody.’ Well, I want him to make sure that he puts my name on that (list).
“I thought that his little one-hour special was a punk move. I thought them dancing around on the stage was a punk move, and I thought he should’ve stayed in Cleveland. Him joining Dwyane Wade’s team was very disappointing to me.”
Barkley spoke on “Galloway and Company,” hosted by Randy Galloway, Ian Fitzsimmons and Matt Mosley. He also took the time to light into Chris Bosh and Dwyane Wade and their antics at the Miami Arena when the three were introduced.
“Them jumping around on stage like punks, that wasn’t cool to me.”
Shaquille O’Neal says he won’t quit the NBA until he is 40. He’s 38 now, and his latest stop is the Boston Celtics. He will be coming off the bench and getting a $1.4 million salary. O’Neal has had a varied career with stops in Los Angeles, Phoenix, Miami, Detroit and now Boston. I gotta admit….. he’s gonna look weird wearing that Green!
Terrell Owens arrived fashionably late, received a white jersey with his favorite number, and got a smattering of applause for doing even the simplest thing.
Every catch was an event.
A few thousand fans showed up for Owens’ first practice with the Cincinnati Bengals, who signed him to a one-year deal on Thursday evening, then got a glimpse of what the 36-year-old receiver has left.
”He hasn’t slowed down,” said quarterback Carson Palmer, who worked out with Owens in California this month. ”He’s a guy that’s kind of ageless and he’s still got a lot left in the tank.”
Owens enjoyed the reception — fans cheering every catch and screaming his name to lure him over for autographs when the two-hour workout ended.
”This team is special,” Owens said. ”I really feel that there is something around the corner for this team. With me being here, (it) has really created a buzz. I think the guys feel the energy.”
The energy came a bit late.
Owens missed an overnight flight that would have brought him to town earlier in the day, allowing for a proper introduction. Instead, he caught a later flight, rolled in less than an hour before an evening practice and quickly suited up.
He and buddy Chad Ochocinco were the last two to jog onto the field, drawing loud applause. Owens occasionally waved to the fans in appreciation, but played it low-key throughout the practice.
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”It’s a circus,” Palmer said. ”Him and Chad, them being them. It’s funny. I was laughing.”
Palmer knows that Owens has a reputation for turning on
his quarterback. Owens got a chance to join the Bengals in part because Palmer lobbied to sign him after watching their workouts in California.
”Carson being that quarterback that can get the ball up and down the field at any given point on the field — that makes my mouth water,” Owens said. ”I’ve longed to have a quarterback like Carson.”
Now he’s got him. Got his favorite number, too.
Owens wore his customary No. 81 at practice, part of a deal he made with the previous owner. Receiver Antonio Bryant got the number when the Bengals chose him over Owens in the offseason, giving him a four-year deal. Bryant agreed to give up his number.
”I’m a realist,” Bryant said. ”I said, ‘Hey man, I’m not going to make no big spectacle about it. You’ve got a bigger legacy and a number than I do. I’ve been on several teams like you, but I’ve changed my number several times. You’ve had the same number.
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First, Owens had to arrive. It wasn’t as easy as planned.
The Bengals expected him to show up early in the day, take his physical and sign his one-year contract while the rest of the team held its first workout. They scheduled an introductory news conference after the morning practice.
The news conference had to be rescheduled for after the evening session because Owens missed his redeye flight.
With Owens showing up late, Bryant was a focus of the Bengals’ morning workout — for his knee, not his number.
He had surgery for torn cartilage in his left knee during training camp with Tampa Bay last year. He was limited to 39 catches for 600 yards and four touchdowns. The Bengals signed him to a $28 million deal, hoping he would provide another outside threat with Ochocinco.
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Looking for more dirt on the Bengals? Get the inside slant, stats, scores, schedules and more scoops right here. Bryant backed off workouts last month because the
muscles around the left knee didn’t feel strong enough. He went through drills tentatively on Thursday, never running at full speed.
”The only thing I’m struggling with right now is just being comfortable and mentally just putting (the left foot) down and doing what I want to do without thinking, ‘Oh, I might feel pain,”’ Bryant said. ”That’s my biggest hurdle.”
Bengals coach Marvin Lewis insisted that Bryant’s knee problem had nothing to do with the decision to sign Owens. Bryant isn’t so sure.
”If I owned the team, I would definitely go after the best players, if possible, especially with the situation they acquired him,” Bryant said. ”I definitely would have went after the guy.”
Running back Cedric Benson fully participated in the workouts. Last week Benson met with NFL commissioner Roger Goodell about his offseason arrest in Texas on a charge of misdemeanor assault. Benson is accused of punching a bar employee, a charge he has denied.
Benson hasn’t heard anything more from Goodell, who could discipline him.
”We had a good talk, a good session,” Benson said. ”I guess no news is good news.”
(sidebar) T.O. you are not all that ok, let’s get that straight. Yes you are a good NFL player, but
not by no means the greatest. Keep your ego in check my man, or the 2 million dollars will feel like
a $2 bill. You have been given a chance to return to the game you love don’t blow it with your
ego, or you will be right back where you started. No one wants a loud mouth diva playing the game.
Prove yourself, and let’s go from there and see what happens.
Stedman Graham was born on March 6, 1951 in Whitesboro, NJ, a community founded in 1901 by a group of prominent African-Americans which included Booker T. Washington and Paul Laurence Dunbar.
Stedman attended Middle Township High School where the 6’6? phenom starred on the varsity basketball team.
After earning a Bachelor’s degree in Social Work from Hardin-Simmons University, he played professionally in Europe for a few years before returning to the U.S. to work on his Master’s in Education from Ball State.
An enduring, high-profile relationship with Oprah Winfrey has perhaps overshadowed the long list of business and charitable accomplishments accumulated over the course of Mr. Graham’s impressive career as Chairman and CEO of S. Graham & Associates, a management and marketing consulting firm specializing in the corporate and educational fields.
A prolific writer, he is also the author of ten books, two of which became NY Times bestsellers. And he has taught at several colleges, including a course on leadership at the University of Illinois and one on strategic management at Northwestern.
Most importantly, Mr. Graham has exhibited a lifelong commitment to community via Athletes Against Drugs (AAD), a non-profit organization he founded in 1985 which remains dedicated to developing leadership in underserved youth through scholarships and education. Recently, Stedman talked to me about his work with AAD and other projects.
Police officials in Memphis have found the body of missing former NBA basketball star Lorenzen Wright in a wooded area in southeast part of the city.
A law enforcement source confirmed to the Memphis Commercial Appeal newspaper the body was that of Wright, who has been missing since July 19, though the Memphis Police Department won’t officially comment. Police are referring to their investigation as a “death investigation.”
Wright, 35, recently flew from Atlanta to Memphis to visit friends and his six children, friends said.
According to sources, a 9-1-1 call was made from Wright’s cell phone on July 19. A fire dispatcher could hear the loud blasts of several gunshots. The cellphone call ended at that point.
The body was found by someone who called police today.
The 6-11 Wright starred at the University of Memphis before being drafted No. 7 overall in 1996 by the L.A. Clippers. He played for the Atlanta Hawks from 1999-2001, spent the next five seasons with Memphis, and returned to the Hawks for two more years in 2006-08. He last played for Cleveland in 2008-09.
Before he went missing, Wright, split his time between Atlanta and Memphis, according to AJC.com.
He’s a got a hit reality show, but he can’t get a football gig to save his life. Terrell Owens, a.k.a. T.O, says he can’t understand why no football team has signed him. His last team, The Buffalo Bills, only kept him for a year. Owens has had previous stops with the Cowboys, Eagles and 49ers. He has a rep as troublemaker, but he has never been disciplined by the NFL for off field conduct. His reality show is currently in its second season. The T.O. Show airs Sundays at 10pm on VH1.