Being that Anderson Silva is my favorite fighter who competes in MMA, when I came across this trailer it gave me goosebumps. I can’t wait for August 27th…
August 26, 2011 | Categories: Baseball, Basketball, Boxing, Football, MMA, Sports, Videos | Tags: Anderson Silva, Babe Ruth, GOAT, Jim Brown, Michael Jordan, Muhammad Ali, Pele, Rio de Janeiro Brazil, Tiger Woods, UFC 134, Vitor Belfort, Wayne Gretzky, Yushin Okami | Leave A Comment »
You all are aware of the acquittal earlier this year of the Bellaire officer who shot my cousin Robbie in front of his house in Bellaire. You may also remember there was a story on Bryant Gumbel’s Real Sports in 2009 on the shooting. There will be a follow-up story that will be air in this month’s edition of Real Sports on HBO starting tonight, August 17th at 9PM CDT. It will be rebroadcast multiple times during the next couple of weeks.
HBO Sports revisits its February 2009 investigation piece on Robbie Tolan, the young black minor league baseball player shot by a police officer on his parent’s doorstep in Bellaire, Tx, a white enclave in the greater Houston area. Tolan dreamed of following in the footsteps of his father, retired Major League Baseball outfielder Bobby Tolan. But in the early morning of Dec. 31, 2008, those dreams came to a halt when police held him at gunpoint and wrongly accused him of driving a stolen car. When his parents protested and were themselves detained by police, the confrontation led to Robbie Tolan being nearly fatally shot in the chest. Since the story first aired, Jeffery Cotton, the police officer who shot Tolan was indicted and tried for aggravated assault and finally acquitted in a jury trial, angering many in the black community. The Tolans now vow to press federal civil rights case against the officer and Bellaire. Real Sports has obtained footage from the night of the shooting in which Officer Cotton describes to investigators why he fired at Tolan. With the bullet still lodged in his liver, Robbie Tolan has miraculously returned to minor league baseball to pursue his dream of playing in the big leagues like his father.
August 17, 2010 | Categories: Baseball, Notes, Sports, Television | Tags: Baseball, Bellaire, Bryant Gumbel, Cotton, HBO Sports, Robbie Tolan | Leave A Comment »
This story was writen by Hassan Adams and came from Black Sports Online
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Bobby Bonilla is clearly a client of Wu Tang Financial, and he heeded their advice to “protect his $*@#*%$ neck!” We thought that Michael Finley and Allan Houston were masters of getting paid, but the folks over at No Guts, No Glory report that Bonilla pulled off the greatest heist ever (you were close, Drew Gooden):
One year from today, the Mets will add to their payroll a 47-year-old, past-his-prime power hitter who has a reputation as a malcontent—a player who has been retired from professional baseball for nine years and won’t play another game again.
Nevertheless, starting on July 1, 2011, Bobby Bonilla will remain on the franchise’s payroll for 25 years, collecting an annual salary of $1,193,248.20. Those are the terms the Mets agreed to Jan. 3, 2000, when they bought out the final year of Mr. Bonilla’s contract.
That’s right, in addition to hitting the lottery of playing pro sports, Bobby Bonilla is basically receiving lottery-type annual payouts from the Mets. Over 1M per year for 25 years? Somebody get Inspectah Deck on the line, now! It’s good to see athletes making savvy financial moves, and this is probably the best I’ve come across. On the flipside, how many mistakes could former Mets GM Steve Phillips possibly make? Is the man even employed anywhere now? His name pops up once a year, it seems, and it’s never for anything good. The silver lining here? If Tiki Barber ever weasels his way into a GM role, make sure you negotiate your contract with him. You know what they say about birds and feathers and all.
July 2, 2010 | Categories: Baseball, Sports | Leave A Comment »
