Author: Anthony Stalter (Page 1308 of 1503)

SPORTSbyBROOKS.com is calling out Reggie Bush for telling SI.com’s Arash Markazi that he hates the paparazzi for stalking him and girlfriend Kim Kardashian. Bush also said that if he wasn’t with Kardashian, the paparazzi wouldn’t care about him.

If you know Bush the way we know Bush, you understand that he doesn’t hate the paparazzi because they “are all over us”.

He hates the paparazzi because of what he said in the quote: “When I’m not here, they don’t care about me.”

He wants to be the star at all times. This is the same Bush who demanded security guards escort him around when he was still playing at USC. And the same Bush who turned down autograph requests from guys like former USC All-American wideout John Jackson (who wanted it for his son).

And of course, the same Bush who allegedly oversaw his parents taking $200,000 cash from fake agents (of that, around $40K for himself – allegedly).

Here’s another thing Bush told Markazi in the SI.com article: “Getting free stuff is the best,” said Bush, who wasn’t allowed to address the allegations against him at a party he hosted Sunday duiring the Sudance Film Festival. “Getting free stuff is the greatest. They have a lot of great stuff here like watches and jewelry. I can’t believe you just walk in there and they’re giving it away for free. It’s crazy. I love it.”

I bet you love all that free stuff, Reggie. It must take you back to your days…ah, that’s too easy.

The Miami Dolphins apparently want Trent Green to be back in their quarterback mix for 2008.

Dolphins football operations chief Bill Parcells and General Manager Jeff Ireland have reached out to Green to express their interest in his return.

“There have been conversations about Trent returning, pending his health issues,” Green’s agent, Jim Steiner, said Monday night. “The conversations are just getting started, and they will be ongoing for quite some time.
Green has “got a huge passion for the game, and he’s passing his medical tests 100 percent,” Steiner said.

But Green still hasn’t made up his mind whether he wants to resume a career that has been waylaid by concussions in each of the past two seasons.

Green, who wants to enter broadcasting once he retires, spent the playoffs commentating for ESPN and the NFL Network and appeared to be having fun.

I could only imagine being a professional athlete at the end your career and having to make a decision about whether or not to leave your sport. However, after two seasons in which he’s suffered multiple head injuries, isn’t it time for Green to call it a day? He’s no spring chicken anymore and nobody is going to mistake the Dolphins’ offensive line for the Patriots. I’d hate to see him risk injury again just because Parcells wants a veteran quarterback.

TMZ.com caught Tom Brady wearing a walking boot while limping into girlfriend Gisele Bundchen’s apartment in New York Monday.

The Boston Herald and Boston Globe had the photos — credited to infphoto.com — on their Web sites. A video of Brady walking with a slight limp from an SUV to girlfriend Gisele Bundchen’s apartment in New York is available on TMZ.com.

“Ah, you know, there’s always bumps and bruises. I’ll be ready for the Super Bowl,” Brady said Monday during his weekly radio appearance on WEEI — before the photo and video emerged — when asked if his leg was injured. “I’m not worried about that. I’m not missing this one. I’d have to be on a stretcher to miss this one. There will be treatment this week. In games like this, you get a little nicked up. It’s nothing serious.”

Better call the ol’ bookie and lay a cool $5 on the Giants, because based on TMZ.com’s video, it’s clear Brady won’t be ready in time for the Super Bowl. Hopefully tomorrow they’ll be video of Bill Belichick sneezing too hard and throwing out his back, because then I’ll bump my bet up to $10.

Update: Bets off – apparently Brady shed the walking boot in order to hit the town last night.

YAHOO! Sports reports that San Diego Chargers’ quarterback Philip Rivers will have surgery to repair a torn ACL in his right leg. Also, running back LaDainian Tomlinson has a sprained ligament in his knee, but it doesn’t require surgery.

This won’t make big mouth Deion Sanders very happy.

Tomlinson is one of the humblest players in all of pro sports. He was the NFL’s MVP in 2006 and has won two straight league rushing titles. Yet his toughness was questioned by fans and TV commentators alike, including former star cornerback Deion Sanders of the NFL Network.

Sanders said he was under the impression that Tomlinson was close to 100 percent. “I have expectations, and when you don’t meet my expectations, you open yourself for us to try to guess,” Sanders said. “Now what’s the problem? You’re a big-time player. And big-time players must play big-time games.”

Sanders also said he thought Tomlinson’s injury would need to warrant a surgery “for him to get a pass on this one.”
Tomlinson didn’t appreciate hearing that.

“He’s never been a running back and had a sprained MCL,” Tomlinson said. “You tell me what running back has played with a sprained MCL and been effective. You might go out there and try to limp around and play, but it’s not going to happen. I don’t know how information gets passed on, but until you talk to the source of the problem, what’s going on with me, I think it’s ridiculous when people make comments like that.”

Tomlinson said he understands that teams don’t like to let opponents know what’s going on, and that it might lead to players’ toughness being questioned.

“I think the funny thing to me is, all the things I’ve played with through my career and haven’t missed a game, now all of a sudden I’m not tough?” he said. “You think I just wanted to sit on the sideline and not go, in the championship game? You think, me? Come on, man, that’s ridiculous.”

Far be it for anyone to question LT’s toughness after what he’s accomplished in his career, but I must admit it was puzzling to watch him stand on the sidelines Sunday while Rivers gutted it out and played through a (what we now know) torn ACL. With that said, however, I’m sure if Tomlinson could have gone, he would have. It probably killed him to be on the sidelines of the AFC Championship Game.