Aren’t we all rooting for Lawrence Taylor on Dancing with the Stars? He looks so uncomfortable! I just want to give him a big hug and help him along. Well this week should be extra special because another football player and former Dancing alum Warren Sapp has given the original LT some encouragement.

According to People, Sapp’s advice was that, “You can’t worry about the judges. You just go out there and have fun. If you’re not having fun then why do the show?”
So true. Part of not being so stiff is just relaxing and …read more

NFL player Donte Stallworth has hit and killed a pedestrian in Florida early Saturday morning. The Cleveland Browns wide receiver was was in his Bentley on “a busy causeway linking Miami and Miami Beach.”
No charges have been filed yet and Stallworth is cooperating fully with authorities.
The man he hit was Mario Reyes, a 59-year old who was rushed to the hospital right after the accident. Yahoo sports says Stallworth was “due a $4.75 million signing bonus Friday.”
Image: Newscom

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Even big-time football players have it rough in this economy.
Muhsin Muhammad (of the Carolina Panthers) has a house in Charlotte, North Carolina, and is trying to sell the thing on eBay.
Surely he could go through a real estate agent for this, couldn’t he?
Apparently not. Muhammad and his family don’t even live in the house anymore, but they have placed the six-bedroom number up for sale on the biggest rummage sale outlet in the world.
That’s some smart investing for ya!
The home “sits in a gated neighborhood near Highway 51 and is more than 8,600 …read more

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It is JUST not Plaxico Burress‘ year. He’s had the problems with the ref, problems with tossing a ball into the stands, problems with shooting himself, and now… this.
Apparently he rear-ended a woman in May, and like the careless young lad he is he failed to pay his car insurance! And now he’s being sued.
Miami resident Alise Smith says Plaxico hit her car from behind and now seeks $15,000 for “medical bills, lost wages, and damage to her car.”
Plaxico, whose salary is $7,850,000, had failed to pay the last three premiums (to Allstate, his …read more