Patriots QB Tom Brady, appearing on his weekly WEEI spot in Boston, claimed he doesn’t remember talking to Bengals WR Chad Ocho Cinco over the weekend. The wide receiver reported on his Twitter page that he called Tom Brady, and his shoulder was fine. – WEEI
No one wants to have their name attached to Ocho Sucko..The dude is a loony tune..-TO
Terez, its a package deal..You date one, you gotta take care of the other
Serena Williams and Common keep a low pro file, but they’re still going strong. Williams, in town for the US Open, showed up for the wrap party of her rapper boyfriend’s new flick, “Just Wright,” at Greenhouse earlier this week and proceeded to spend all night with him. “They were having fun, dancing, and affectionate,” says a witness. Also at the party were Rihanna, Robin Thicke and Common’s co- star, Queen Latifah. – NY Post
If it wasn’t for Common, Serena Williams would have zero street cred. -TO
Tim James is in Iraq, in a suffocating desert 105 miles north of Baghdad, but he isn’t making one of those celebrity visits to cheer up the troops. No, he is the troops. The former University of Miami basketball star and former Miami Heat first-round pick enlisted in the Army a year ago, at the age of 31, and now he finds himself in the dusty, dirty center of a war. Betty James wanted to scream. She knew she had raised a tough man in Liberty City, but did he have to go and be this tough? He had other career options. Teaching. Coaching. Couldn’t he choose a new career path in his 30s that didn’t involve insurgents and explosions? Her son had money. He made almost $2.5 million playing for the Heat, Hornets and 76ers. The Heat’s per diem of $113 means an NBA player gets more in meal money a season than the $2,000 a soldier of James’ specialist rank will earn in a month. More than triple, actually. And James earned plenty playing professionally in Japan, Turkey and Israel, too. But as he traveled all over the globe playing his beloved game, seeing a world he never thought he’d see growing up poor in Miami, he didn’t learn to merely value or appreciate America’s freedoms. He decided he wanted to fight to protect them, too. “I never saw this coming,” his mother says. – Miami Herald
Now we know at least one selfless guy has come from the NBA..-TO
Backstage after Toby Keith’s show Saturday at Red Rock Resort: Roger Clemens, Greg Maddux, former UNLV basketball coach Charlie Spoonhour, and Harrah’s exec Don Marrandino, who is leaving this week for a top job in Atlantic City. – Las Vegas Review-Journal
I can’t wait for the day where he gets arrested and thrown in jail..His day is coming..-TO
Indiana Pacers forward Danny Granger, a confessed superhero fan, wants digs similar to Batman’s. So he’s building a batcave in New Mexico. Designs of a hidden underground tunnel entrance recently hit a snag because of state building codes, but the getaway is supposed to be livable within a couple years. An underground garage and surrounding moat are expected. “He likes to dabble in different things,” says his agent, Mark Bartelstein. – Wall Street Journal
I have to admit it sounds pretty cool..New Mexico however, does not..-TO
More proof that the NFL’s own channel isn’t a house organ afraid of risking controversy: The NFL Network will formally announce today that Michael Irvin will become one of its lead Sunday studio analysts. Irvin’s TV career seemed on hold indefinitely in February 2007, when ESPN didn’t pick up the option on his contract. … Irvin was upbeat as he left ESPN, saying he was interested in acting — he’d been in the movie The Longest Yard — and needed more career “leeway” than he’d get there. Now, however, Irvin says the key to his interest in TV involves his sons’ football games. Son Michael, entering seventh grade, and Elijah, in sixth grade, are scheduled to play games that won’t conflict with Sunday TV duties. – USA Today
Michael is way past his cocaine, hookers and angeldust days..People do get second chances..-TO
I hope she doesn't do the same thing as the last Mexican reporter did..."I showed up all hot and sexy, and those men just were nasty to me, when I went to see them naked in their locker room, where I didn't belong"
