Aaron Rodgers is now the highest paid player in the game of pro football.
The Green Bay Packers signed Rodgers to a five-year, $110 million contract extension, topping the recent six-year deal received by Joe Flacco from the Baltimore Ravens.
JR Smith was named NBA Sixth Man of the Year, to no ones surprise.
The 8-year pro played in 80 games and averaged 18 PPG off the bench this past regular season for the New York Knicks.
The Knicks (2nd seed in the East) have not won a playoff series since ’99-00, so this award gives their already favored team an extra boost in the quest to oust the Boston Celtics.
Game 2 of the Knicks-Celtics series (1-0) will be played Tuesday, 8 ET, at Madison Square Garden.
Darrelle Revis is now a member of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
The New York Jets traded the All-Pro cornerback to the Bucs for a first-round pick (13th) in Thursday’s NFL Draft. Also included are a 2014 conditional pick and fourth-round pick.
Revis, coming off an ACL injury he suffered early in the 2012 season, is the beneficiary of a six-year, $96 million deal (non-guaranteed).
Though they won 3 of 4 against Brooklyn, the Chicago Bulls will need to be at the top of their game to win the playoff series against the home-court advantaged Nets. Tom Thibodeau’s stalwarts must come with the determination, energy, and robust defense displayed when they ended the respective 27 and 13 game winning streaks of Miami and New York.
Despite Coach Thibodeau’s constant demand for heightened “in-game” awareness and execution of willful floor competency that leads to wins, almost eight weeks of performance inconsistency caused the Bulls to lose 18 of their final 40 games.
Kim Kardashian and Kris Humphries are free of one another.
In a good riddance moment, a settlement was reached Friday in Los Angeles, with Kim present, and Kris off attending practice with his Brooklyn Nets teammates.
Brian Shaw is always on some team’s radar for a head coaching job.
This off-season will be no different.
The Pacers brought Shaw on as Assistant Head Coach in 2011. This after the Lakers passed on naming him head coach following Phil Jackson’s retirement.
‘Outing’ of NFL’s Kerry Rhodes example of why athletes stay in closet
18 April, 2013
by Rob
Rumors of Kerry Rhodes being gay come full circle with release of vacation photos
A young man named Russell “Hollywood” Simpson has released a gallery of photographs of himself vacationing (cozily, I might add) with NFL free agent defensive back Kerry Rhodes.
While the pictures are a rather convincing indication that Rhodes might be gay, he flatly denies it.
Here is his statement to TMZ… Advance the ball for more
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