Lamar Odom and Dallas Mavericks Part Ways for Good
After disputing rumors that the Dallas Mavericks were sending forward Lamar Odom to the D-league, the Mavs and Odom have officially parted ways today.
“The Mavericks and I have mutually agreed that it’s in the best interest of both parties for me to step away from the team,” Odom said in a statement to ESPN.com.
The Mavericks will list Odom as inactive, meaning the team can trade Odom next season. The 32-year-old former LA Laker will be forced to sit out for the rest of this season.
Former Falcons coach caught cheating on his wife in the most embarrassing way
Former Atlanta Falcons coach Bobby Petrino held a press conference on Tuesday to talk about Sunday’s motorcycle crash that landed him in a hospital with broken ribs and neck injuries.
According to ESPN, the Arkansas Razorbacks football coach, “who is married with four children, didn’t mention he had a passenger during a news conference on Tuesday, two days after Sunday’s accident, and a school statement that day quoted Petrino’s family as saying “no other individuals” were involved.”
Petrino also didn’t tell his athletic director that his passenger was a woman half his age, or that she worked for the university.
Arkansas athletic director Jeff Long announced the decision to put Petrino on leave at a late-night news conference. He said he didn’t know about Petrino’s passenger — 25-year-old football program employee Jessica Dorrell — until the 51-year-old Petrino called him Thursday afternoon, minutes before a police report was released that disclosed her presence at the accident.
Petrino told Long that he had spent Sunday with his wife, Becky, at a lake and was going for an evening ride when he lost control of his motorcycle.
“When I came out of the ditch, there was a lady there that had flagged down a car,” Petrino said. He didn’t mention that “the lady” had been riding with him on his motorcycle when he crashed.
Lottery Jackpot winner refuses to share winnings with co-workers
Lottery pools at work are as common as apple pie. Usually the pool trusts one co-worker to buy the lottery tickets, and if they win the jackpot they are expected to split the winnings equally among themselves.
That was the plan when co-workers at a Maryland McDonald’s pooled their money in hopes of winning the historic $640 million Mega Millions jackpot last week.
But one of the holders of Friday’s three Mega Millions jackpot tickets is refusing to honor the agreement she made with her McDonald’s co-workers. Now a judge might have to decide if Mirlande Wilson, 37, is telling the truth when she said she purchased the winning ticket separately from her McDonald’s co-workers plan.
“We had a group plan, but I went and played by myself. [The winning ticket] wasn’t on the group plan,” Wilson told The New York Post.
“I was in the group, but this was separate. The winning ticket was a separate ticket,” the single mother of seven said as she and her fiancé left her home.
Did profiling lead to the death of a black woman who was arrested for demanding treatment?
The tragic death of Trayvon Martin due to racial profiling has dominated headlines around the world. But there is another death due to a different form of profiling that has gone virtually unnoticed.
Like Trayvon, Anna Brown was also young and black. She died at age 29 due to the indifference, and gross negligence, of an emergency room doctor who denied her the basic right to seek medical treatment because he formed the opinion that she was a drug seeker.
On Sept. 20, 2011, Anna Brown showed up at St. Mary’s hospital emergency room complaining of acute pain in her ankle and knee. She had sprained her ankle and had visited the emergency room earlier complaining of pain. X-rays of her knees were negative and she was given a prescription for a painkiller.
But Brown knew something was terribly wrong with her. She refused to leave the emergency room. She told hospital security that she could barely stand due to the excruciating pain in her legs.
Brown was literally dragged from St. Mary’s Hospital by police and thrown into a jail cell because the emergency room doctor told police she was a drug seeker. Brown died less than an hour later of a pulmonary embolism — blood clots that traveled from her legs. This is the same condition that took the life of rapper Heavy D.
Brown, who was homeless, fit the doctor’s profile of a “drug seeker” because she was young, black, poor, and in pain.
Once you are profiled as a drug seeker by a doctor or a nurse in the emergency room setting, there is almost nothing you can do or say to change their opinion of you. You will be denied basic health care, and you may lose your life as a result.
If you think what happened to Anna Brown can’t happen to you, read on.
Celebs Out & About: Beyoncé
Pub singer Beyoncé was seen entering an office building in New York City today. It’s the same office building that Bey was seen entering almost daily when she was supposedly pregnant. I’m told the building is where Beyoncé and Tina Knowles’ clothing line is housed — and that Beyoncé is actually working a 9-5 job overseeing designs, patterns, fabric selections and things of that nature. Maybe she’s not such a dummy after all?
Photo: Tom Meinelt-Jason Winslow/Splash
Sanford police chief steps down
CNN reports that Sanford police chief Bill Lee is stepping down “temporarily” while the federal probe into his police department’s corrupt cover up of Trayvon Martin case continues.
“I am aware that my role as a leader of this agency has become a distraction from the investigation,” he told reporters. “It is apparent that my involvement in this matter is overshadowing the process. Therefore, I have come to the decision that I must temporarily remove myself from the position.”
He added, “I do this in the hopes of restoring some semblance of calm to the city, which has been in turmoil for several weeks.”
NAACP President Ben Jealous said Lee’s stepping aside is not enough. “Parents don’t feel that their children will be safe with Lee heading the police department,” he said. “He needs to go right now.”
Crybaby Derek Fisher buys out his contract from Houston
What is wrong with these effeminate girly men who play for the Los Angeles Lakers? Don’t they understand that being traded is a part of the game? First Lamar Odom acts like a cry baby about being traded to Dallas, and now Derek Fisher is boo-hooing after being traded to the Rockets.
As you probably know, the Lakers traded Fisher to Houston in return for Jordan Hill on Thursday. It seems that, just like his former teammate Odom, Fisher has taken his sudden trade very hard. Reportedly, even his former teammates, Kobe Bryant and Pau Gasol couldn’t console him.
Bryant, Gasol and Andrew Bynum all said they spoke to Fisher over the previous three days since the Lakers traded him, according to the Chicago Sun-Times.
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