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The BET show The Game is making changes. Two top stars, Tia Mowry and Pooch Hall, have been let go from the show. Reports say the two wanted more money. They were promised a pay raise when the show moved to BET. Then they were denied despite the fact that the show is one of BET’s top rated. I hear other castmates may be leaving too. The show was pretty lame this season, but I can’t imagine The Game without “Derwin” and “Melanie.” Meanwhile, Tia Mowry just released a book about parenting (Oh Baby: Pregnancy Tales and Advice, From One Hot Mama To Another), and Hall is already working on new projects. I hear there may be also be changes coming to 106 & Park. Terrence J and Rocsi’s jobs may be in jeopardy.
Deion Sanders gets to keep the kids in his ongoing saga with his estranged wife Pilar Sanders. The Sanders have been making headlines with their disputes as they prepare to divorce. After 11 years and three kids, it’s over between the former football player and his wife. The latest incident that involved the two revolves around a fight at their home. A judge ruled that Deion gets to keep the kids temporarily, and Pilar has to stay 500 yards away from their home. Pilar was arrested for attacking her husband, and the judge ruled that Deion was justified in defending himself.
Despite falling short of the title, Red Devils duo Patrice Evra and Paul Scholes are also included, with Everton’s Nikica Jelavic, Steven Pienaar and John Heitinga all in our XI
Manchester City duo Sergio Aguero and Pablo Zabaleta feature in our final TOTW this season after they both found their names on the scoresheet in Sunday’s dramatic 3-2 victory over QPR.
The right-back bagged Roberto Mancini’s side’s opening goal of the afternoon, and while the Hoops took a shock 2-1 lead, his Argentine compatriot capped a stunning comeback in stoppage time to seal City’s maiden Premier League title.
Paul Scholes and Patrice Evra are both included in our XI following Manchester United’s 1-0 win over Sunderland at the Stadium of Light, yet the three points were not enough to secure a 20th league championship for the Red Devils.
Black Cats goalkeeper Simon Mignolet makes his debut in our TOTW despite the defeat, with the Belgian pulling off a number of fine saves to ensure the deficit remained at just one goal.
Tottenham’s Younes Kaboul lines up in defense for the sixth time this season after Harry Redknapp’s side saw off Fulham 2-0 to finish in fourth place. Joining him is teammate Aaron Lennon, who features in our side for the first time this season after he assisted Jermain Defoe for Spurs’ second of the afternoon.
While the loss meant Martin Jol’s side was unable to overhaul Liverpool into eighth place in the table, Moussa Dembele’s exciting display will ensure he is high on a number of club’s transfer lists when the summer window opens, and the 24-year-old is also included.
Rounding off our TOTW are Everton trio Nikica Jelavic, Steven Pienaar and John Heitinga, who all found the back of the net in the Toffees’ 3-1 win over Newcastle at Goodison Park.
The on-loan South African opened the scoring for David Moyes’ men, while the ex-Rangers striker bagged his 10th goal since arriving at the club in January to double the lead – in turn keeping goalscoring Norwich City duo Simeon Jackson and Grant Holt out of the side.
Heitinga, whose long ball led to Jelavic’s goal before grabbing his side’s third of the afternoon, rounds off our TOTW at center-back.
Honorable mentions go to Arsenal’s Andre Santos, Canaries midfielder Jonny Howson and Chelsea striker Romelu Lukaku, with the Belgian striker impressing in his first league start for the west Londoners.
David Beckham has topped a list of the richest people in sport in the UK and Ireland.
The LA Galaxy footballer, 37, was in pole position with a fortune of £160m, according to the annual Sunday Times sport rich list.
In terms of the world’s richest athletes, Mr Beckham was only 10th, as golfer Tiger Woods led with £538m.
Tennis player Maria Sharapova was the richest female athlete, with earnings boosted by lucrative endorsement deals.
There were 48 footballers in the top 100 in the UK and Ireland.
But the second place after Mr Beckham went to Paul Caddick, the property and construction entrepreneur who runs rugby league club Leeds Rhinos.
No current British or Irish athletics competitor – that is, a cyclist, track and field athlete or swimmer – made the top 100 in the year of the London Olympics.
Last year, Mr Beckham was number two with Wigan chairman Dave Whelan in first place at £190m.
Globally, in 2012, Mr Woods was followed by German Formula One driver Michael Schumacher and basketball legend Michael Jordan.
NBA baller Dwayne Wade stirred up some controversy recently when he said NBA players should be paid for the Olympics.
The discussion was then brought upon of: “Should you be paid for having the honor of representing your country?”
What do you think?
Well, our partner Uptown Magazine wrote an opinion piece on it and also took a poll.
Check out the excerpt of the op-ed below:
Two-time Olympian Dwyane Wade has traded in the patriotic chant “U-S-A!” for a more forward demand: Show me the money!
In an interview at practice Wednesday, the Miami Heat star gave his stance on NBA Olympians being compensated for their time and effort at the Summer Games.
It’s happened to every great team. The Yankees had their dry spell in the 1980s, the Celtics in the 1990s, the 49ers in the mid-2000s, the Montreal Canadiens right now. Bad drafting, bad trades, bad signings, bad ownership … one or more of them will come back and bite every team sometime.
For Los Angeles Dodgers fans, the last few years must have seemed like an endless parade of eye-gougings. Lost in the wilderness? They were on a different planet. Owner Frank McCourt’s very public, very messy imploding marriage bankrupted the team and crippled their baseball activities (despite having Cy Young winner Clayton Kershaw and shoulda-been MVP Matt Kemp, L.A. finished third in their division last year); if that weren’t enough, a Giants fan was nearly beaten to death at Dodger stadium. The damage to one of baseball’s most historic franchises was catastrophic – and it proved to be a real black eye for baseball. America’s second-biggest market deserves better.
The good thing is they got better, real quick. What better person to turn the Dodgers around than the man who absolutely epitomizes Los Angeles sports – the architect of the “Showtime” Lakers and one of the towering figures of 20th century sports, Magic Johnson. Johnson and his partners paid an astonishing two billion dollars for the Dodgers, the highest price for any sports franchise. Ever.
It’s a lot of money, but we all suspect that Magic will get his money’s worth out of that cash. Of course, he can’t fill out the rotation, bat cleanup or bring back James Worthy and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar to run the fast break from the owner’s box and distract the opposing team – but what he will bring to the Dodgers is his astonishing business acumen and a sense of credibility that the franchise had been lacking. Check out this Times article; the man’s been a creative, brilliant businessman since he left the game in the 1990s. He’ll back make all the bucks he laid out for the franchise soon enough.
More important than that, though, is the credibility factor. The first image of Magic’s smiling, jovial face at Chavez Ravine will wipe away all those ugly memories of McCourt and the team’s off-the-field mess. It’s something that Los Angeles deserves, and it’s something that baseball fans everywhere should feel good about; a strong franchise in the City of Angels helps the game immensely.
Basketball Great Charles Barkley is dressing like a woman in his Lose Like A Man weight loss campaign for Weight Watchers. The ad campaign debuts this week. So far, Barkley has been doing well. He has lost 42 pounds. His goal is to lose 100 pounds.
One game is a grudge match between teams that know each other all too well. The other is a rare rematch between virtual strangers.
The Final Four is set. In one game Saturday, Kentucky will play Louisville in an intrastate rivalry that puts Cardinals coach Rick Pitino against the school he once coached, then later alienated by returning to the Bluegrass to lead its archrival.
In the other semifinal, it will be Ohio State and Kansas, meeting for only the ninth time in their history but for the second time this season. The Jayhawks won the first game 78-67 in Lawrence, Kan., back on Dec. 10. Ohio State’s Jared Sullinger sat out of that game with back spasms. It was the first time the teams had met since 1999-2000.
The winners will play for the national title April 2. Kentucky already has seven national titles but none since 1998, the year after Pitino left. Kansas has three championships, Louisville has two and Ohio State, better known as a football power, won its lone title in 1960 and is making its third trip to the Final Four since 1999.
Absent from this year’s ultimate hoops weekend, taking place at the Superdome in New Orleans, are the longshots and little guys who have made March Madness so special over the years. Although there are no Butlers, VCUs or George Masons, there are plenty of good stories to tell. That list starts with Pitino vs. his old school.
It was Pitino who restored Kentucky to its former greatness when he arrived there in 1989 and the Wildcat program was coming off the sting of NCAA violations. Pitino took the program to three Final Fours and won one championship, but left in 1997 to take a second shot at the NBA, where he had previously coached the New York Knicks.
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Tiger Woods finally brought the buzz back to the very thing that made him famous — winning.
Two weeks after another injury scare, and two days before his former coach’s book goes on sale, Woods looked dominant as ever in that red shirt on Sunday to win the Arnold Palmer Invitational.
It was his first PGA Tour victory since a sex scandal at the end of 2009 led to one of the greatest downfalls in sports. And with the Masters only two weeks away, Woods looks more capable of ever than resuming his pursuit of Jack Nicklaus in the majors.
Woods closed with a 2-under 70 for a five-shot win over Graeme McDowell.
The question two weeks ago was when he could play again. Now, it’s whether he can get back to player who once ruled golf.
Even though he won the unofficial Chevron World Challenge last December, this was meaningful for Woods — a full tour event against a strong field, and a performance so clean that he was never seriously challenged on the back nine.
The final hole was a mere formality, and Woods tapped his putter on the ground waiting for his turn, knowing that his 30 months without a win on the PGA Tour was about to end. He walked off the green with his arm extended, waving his cap to a raucous gallery.
“It does feel good. It feels really good,” Woods said before signing his card. “It’s been a lot of hard work.”
Woods finished at 13-under 275 for his 72nd PGA Tour win, one short of Nicklaus for second place on the career list. But that’s not the record Woods wants. He has 14 majors, four shot of the Nicklaus standard, and he tries to end a four-year drought at the Masters, which starts April 5.
“I am excited, no doubt,” Woods said. “I’m looking forward to the momentum I’ve built here.”
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