All the good, history-making things Dennis Green did during his football career weren’t fully revealed until his death. Check This! Dennis Green was the first black coach at Northwestern in Big 10 history and at Stanford. Dennis Green coached the Minnesota Vikings eight times and the Arizona for two years. Green died Friday, he was 67. . Yes, the flags at the home headquarters of every NFL city should be flown at half-staff until after Dennis Green’s funeral.
Check Signals! God gives us all more than second chances. Who am I or anyone else to tell the Baltimore Ravens or any other NFL team not to give Ray Rice a second chance. Yes, Rice’s wife elevator beating video will live on in infamy. But Rice has cleaned up his act and is traveling the right way.
. It’s a done deal! Tiger Woods will miss all four majors in the same year for the first time. This means Tiger will go an entire year without playing.
The Lakers No.1 draft pick Brandon Ingram is a future big time player. This is the word of a Western Conference head coach and his own Lakers head coach Luke Walton. “The kid is skilled. He’s got a good basketball IQ. He’s going to be more than fine. I think the Lakers got themselves a big time player who is going be around a long time,” will become an All-Star, according to the aforementioned Western Conference coach.
QB Cam Newton was shocked by Denver Broncos’ 24-10 loss in Super Bowl 50, leaving the Panthers with a 20-2 overall record. Cam’s dad is Bishop Cam Newton, Sr. and his mother Jackie Newton and Cam’s entire family constantly prays for him. With this kind of support he is assured he get over anything in his path. . Hey all 32 NFL teams, get ready. Cam is coming back better and stronger than ever.
Check This! Dodgers Manager Dave Roberts had the team only three games (56-44) behind the first place San Francisco Giants (58-40) on July 25th.
Dwight Howard switched from his old No.12 to No.8 when he joined the Atlanta Hawks not because it was the number Kobe Bryant wore. Howard said his mother had seven miscarriages before her first child and Howard was No.8 and that it is in honor of his mother’s first child and in honor of his birth.
A hijab wearing African American Muslim, Ibtihaj Muhammad, will participate in the individual sabre fencing events in the Rio Olympics. She ranks second in the USA and No. 8 in the world and a three time NCAA All-American and a grad of Duke. She was born in Maplewood, N.J.
USC cornerback Isaiah Langley will miss the Trojan’s first game vs. Alabama at Coliseum.
The 28-year old Jordan Burroughs hopes to earn his second gold medal in Paralympics wrestling at the Rio Olympics. Burroughs collected his first gold medal in the London Games. Since then Burroughs’ wife Lauren has given birth to a pair of sons. Life has made some happy returns for the 163-pounder who could become the first American to repeat as champ since John Smith in 1992.
Ken Griffey, Jr. a No.1 pick in the 1987 draft is the highest pick in the Hall of Fame. Mike Piazza joined Griffey in the Hall this year. Incidentally, the Angels’ Mike Trout wore white shoes in honor of Ken Griffey, Jr. Nike provided the shoes to Griffey ahead of Sunday’s celebration.
The ESPY Awards got it right when it named the Cleveland Cavaliers’ LeBron James Best Male Athlete for 2016 because of James’ classic block in the final minutes in game six to assure a championship victory.
The ‘Beast’ Marshawn Lynch is gone, Gone into retirement from the Seattle Seahawks. QB Russell Wilson will have to recruit a new runner to attempt to replace “The Monster” one of the most explosive backs in the NFL.
New York Giants wide receiver Odell Beckham, Jr. has pages of pictures and pictures and more pictures in a spread in the latest edition of GQ Magazine. He is the one with the dirty looking blond hair. Beckham in his third season and is noted for “flypaper catches and on-field beefs.” He has promised to keep everything clean this season.
Other women of color in the Rio Olympics are gymnasts Simone Biles and Gabby Douglas and water polo star Ashleigh Johnson.
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