After a new Seahawks scratch lottery ticket was introduced, the Seattle Seahawks became one of the first NFL teams to take advantage of the league’s decision to allow franchises to make deals with state lotteries.
Washington State Lottery introduced the new Seahawks scratch ticket on Tuesday while the New England Patriots also have a licensing agreement with their state lottery.
The top prize of the Seahawks ticket will be as high as $50,000, and non-winning tickets can be entered in a second-chance drawing with a prize of game tickets plus a trip to Miami worth about $12,000. Even if you are a fan who likes only steelers jerseys, you can also try your luck with seahawks lottery tickets.
Fans can buy the Seahawks scratch tickets at regular lottery outlets and at Qwest Field during home games. The Seahawks has already made a plan to use the money they earn through selling lottery tickets. The money will mostly used to pay down debt on the stadium and the adjoining events center.
Thursday, July 23, 2009
Wednesday, July 22, 2009
Russell has a firm grasp, Vick showing good speed
According to the Contra Costa Times reports, JaMarcus Russell still has a firm grasp on the Raiders’ starting quarterback role despite his rocky offseason practices.
Head coach Tom Cable still seems optimistic about Russell’s progress this season. It is hopefully that Russell will step up when training camp begins next week and really shows his coaches some improvement. Even though Russell remains in the middle tier of quarterbacks fantasy-wise, it is believed that he has the talent to be much more valuable than that if he and the Raiders can develop some consistency in the passing game. He should not choose rams jersey.
Another player does not have the same good time. Michael Vick worked out with speed and conditioning coach Tom Shaw while confined in his Virginia home, the St. Petersburg Times reports.
According to Shaw, Vick is in good shape and can still run a 4.4 40-yard dash. Many believe that he’d have to play another position if he were to return to the NFL. But no teams have expressed an interest in acquiring Vick till now, so it is still uncertain whether Vick will have chance to be back with the NFL even if he is reinstated by commissioner Roger Goodell.
Head coach Tom Cable still seems optimistic about Russell’s progress this season. It is hopefully that Russell will step up when training camp begins next week and really shows his coaches some improvement. Even though Russell remains in the middle tier of quarterbacks fantasy-wise, it is believed that he has the talent to be much more valuable than that if he and the Raiders can develop some consistency in the passing game. He should not choose rams jersey.
Another player does not have the same good time. Michael Vick worked out with speed and conditioning coach Tom Shaw while confined in his Virginia home, the St. Petersburg Times reports.
According to Shaw, Vick is in good shape and can still run a 4.4 40-yard dash. Many believe that he’d have to play another position if he were to return to the NFL. But no teams have expressed an interest in acquiring Vick till now, so it is still uncertain whether Vick will have chance to be back with the NFL even if he is reinstated by commissioner Roger Goodell.
Friday, July 17, 2009
NFL players appeared at American Century Celebrity Golf Championship
Recently, a lot of current and former ballers arrived at Lake Tahoe to for the American Century Celebrity Golf Championship. Those ballers included NFL players Dan Marino, the original L.T. (Lawrence Taylor), Ronde Barber and Vinny Testaverde, and NBA players Alonzo Mourning and Steve Wyche.
Marino had just come off the course from playing a round with L.T., and jokingly said he has had a hard time lately because he just spent the past few days with Taylor filming NutriSystem commercials. It looks like both Hall of Famers felt good with the weight-loss program. They have no plan to wear packers jersey there.
Barber seemed relaxed when he talked about the changes down in Tampa. He admitted that at 34, he is the old man of the team and he is willing to see young players step up and become team leaders players.
Marino had just come off the course from playing a round with L.T., and jokingly said he has had a hard time lately because he just spent the past few days with Taylor filming NutriSystem commercials. It looks like both Hall of Famers felt good with the weight-loss program. They have no plan to wear packers jersey there.
Barber seemed relaxed when he talked about the changes down in Tampa. He admitted that at 34, he is the old man of the team and he is willing to see young players step up and become team leaders players.
Tuesday, July 14, 2009
The Giants cornerback Kevin Dockery set his individual goal at five interceptions
In 2006, the Giants were doing a favor to Kevin Dockery and his agent when they allowed Dockery to attend rookie minicamp on a tryout basis. Now, Dockery, the undersized 5-8, 188-pound cornerback, is entering his fourth season with heart and toughness. This is perhaps his last as a Giant with unrestricted free agency approaching this coming offseason, and he will have to compile a few interceptions to get himself a big payday. Dockery already has a number in mind. It proves that he still does not want to change to jacksonville jaguars jersey.
Dockery participated the Giants summer questionnaire, telling that he wanted to get a lot of picks and by so far he had set his goal at five. He admitted that catching is hard part for him, but he would be able to make three returned for a touchdown. Dockery believed that the defense of the Giants would be better this year because of signing Michael Boley and other players. He said that the team becomes versatile and everybody is comfortable with the system, so "it's going to be a fun year for the defense."
Dockery participated the Giants summer questionnaire, telling that he wanted to get a lot of picks and by so far he had set his goal at five. He admitted that catching is hard part for him, but he would be able to make three returned for a touchdown. Dockery believed that the defense of the Giants would be better this year because of signing Michael Boley and other players. He said that the team becomes versatile and everybody is comfortable with the system, so "it's going to be a fun year for the defense."
Saturday, July 11, 2009
Dennis Paiva said he will beg passers-by for money to pay for Brady's planters
Dennis Paiva was a 61-year-old convicted bank robber. He unwittingly stole two flower planters worth $8,000 from behind Tom Brady's Boston condominium, and he told reporters that he will have to panhandle to pay restitution.
Paiva said that he scours the streets for trash to sell and just happened to find the planters behind a condominium because they were next to the trash, but did not find any bears jersey. He took it and sold them for $450. After he was caught by police on surveillance video, he said that he did not know the planters belonged to the New England Patriots quarterback TOm Brady. He agreed to pay $4,000 restitution to Brady's real estate trust. But he says he can't work after recent surgery so he has to beg passers-by for money.
Paiva said that he scours the streets for trash to sell and just happened to find the planters behind a condominium because they were next to the trash, but did not find any bears jersey. He took it and sold them for $450. After he was caught by police on surveillance video, he said that he did not know the planters belonged to the New England Patriots quarterback TOm Brady. He agreed to pay $4,000 restitution to Brady's real estate trust. But he says he can't work after recent surgery so he has to beg passers-by for money.
Friday, July 10, 2009
Similarity between Michael Jackson and the NFL
It is not strange to put pop music and sports together in current changing world. So it is not strange for me to write something about the King of Pop, Michael Jackson and the NFL here.
We never see Jackson taking part in any NFL events, but in these days when millions around the world are mourning the death of him, it just came to me naturely to compare him and the NFL. My first thought was about black and white. In the late ’70s and early ’80s, America was at a pivotal crossroad as racial divisions were not only pervasive in the South, but across this great country. It was Jackson's appearances on American Bandstand with Dick Clark to the Thriller video which broke the racial logjam at MTV. And since then America became comfortable with black faces. No one ever saw Jackson wearing eagles jersey.
Similarly, the NFL has some patriarchs who have been laid to rest that also played a pivotal role in the diversity of this great nation. Pete Rozelle and Gene Upshaw were the brilliant men who forged their version of a contract with America to show that it did not matter whether a person was black, white, purple or green, we are all just Americans.
We never see Jackson taking part in any NFL events, but in these days when millions around the world are mourning the death of him, it just came to me naturely to compare him and the NFL. My first thought was about black and white. In the late ’70s and early ’80s, America was at a pivotal crossroad as racial divisions were not only pervasive in the South, but across this great country. It was Jackson's appearances on American Bandstand with Dick Clark to the Thriller video which broke the racial logjam at MTV. And since then America became comfortable with black faces. No one ever saw Jackson wearing eagles jersey.
Similarly, the NFL has some patriarchs who have been laid to rest that also played a pivotal role in the diversity of this great nation. Pete Rozelle and Gene Upshaw were the brilliant men who forged their version of a contract with America to show that it did not matter whether a person was black, white, purple or green, we are all just Americans.
Thursday, July 9, 2009
Police released video of Kazemi's DUI arrest before murder-suicide
Police released Wednesday the video of Sahel Kazemi's being arrested by Nashville police a week ago. On the same day they also confirmed that Kazemi killed McNair and herself in a condominium that McNair rented. No colts jerseys were found there.
The video was recorded by patrol-car cameras. It showed that Kazemi was laughing and teasing the officer but also repeatedly asked to have McNair come to the window of the police cruiser where she was sitting. However, McNair, as a passenger in Kazemi's car and not charged, left in a taxi without talking to Kazemi. He later bailed her out of jail. The video also showed that McNair gave Kazemi a call and told her ther officer, Shawn Taylor, was the one who had previously arrested him for DUI in 2007.
The motivation for Kazemi's committing murder-suicide was said to be mounting financial problems and her suspicion that McNair was seeing someone else.
The video was recorded by patrol-car cameras. It showed that Kazemi was laughing and teasing the officer but also repeatedly asked to have McNair come to the window of the police cruiser where she was sitting. However, McNair, as a passenger in Kazemi's car and not charged, left in a taxi without talking to Kazemi. He later bailed her out of jail. The video also showed that McNair gave Kazemi a call and told her ther officer, Shawn Taylor, was the one who had previously arrested him for DUI in 2007.
The motivation for Kazemi's committing murder-suicide was said to be mounting financial problems and her suspicion that McNair was seeing someone else.
Wednesday, July 8, 2009
Browns WR Stallworth did not feel drunk before DUI crash
Cleveland Browns wide receiver Donte’ Stallworth told police he did not feel drunk in the hours before he struck and killed a pedestrian with his car.
Stallworth told police that he drank four shots of premium tequila while partying with friends, including fellow Browns receiver Braylon Edwards, and lab tests later showed Stallworth had a blood-alcohol level of .126, above Florida’s .08 limit. He encountered 59-year-old Mario Reyes while driving out for breakfast in his 2005 Bentley.
“I seen him in the street and I flashed my lights at him to let him at least know I was coming. I tried to swerve over as much as I could,” Stallworth said. “If he would have completely stopped and not kept going … don’t know why he kept going. I don’t know. I should have just stayed home.”
Edwards said he and Stallworth had drinks earlier in the day by the pool at the hotel before meeting at the nightclub and confirmed that Stallworth didn’t seem impaired when they parted ways early the morning of the crash.
Toxicology analysis also confirmed reports that Stallworth tested positive for marijuana in addition to alcohol. Neither Stallworth nor Edwards mentioned any use of marijuana. Stallworth has been suspended indefinitely by NFL commissioner Roger Goodell now.
Possiblity of Stallworth's future is unclear. Not sure if he will be released by the Brwons or be able to wear other team such as denver broncos jersey if so.
Stallworth told police that he drank four shots of premium tequila while partying with friends, including fellow Browns receiver Braylon Edwards, and lab tests later showed Stallworth had a blood-alcohol level of .126, above Florida’s .08 limit. He encountered 59-year-old Mario Reyes while driving out for breakfast in his 2005 Bentley.
“I seen him in the street and I flashed my lights at him to let him at least know I was coming. I tried to swerve over as much as I could,” Stallworth said. “If he would have completely stopped and not kept going … don’t know why he kept going. I don’t know. I should have just stayed home.”
Edwards said he and Stallworth had drinks earlier in the day by the pool at the hotel before meeting at the nightclub and confirmed that Stallworth didn’t seem impaired when they parted ways early the morning of the crash.
Toxicology analysis also confirmed reports that Stallworth tested positive for marijuana in addition to alcohol. Neither Stallworth nor Edwards mentioned any use of marijuana. Stallworth has been suspended indefinitely by NFL commissioner Roger Goodell now.
Possiblity of Stallworth's future is unclear. Not sure if he will be released by the Brwons or be able to wear other team such as denver broncos jersey if so.
Friday, July 3, 2009
Florida judge refused to release video of Stallworth crash that killed pedestrian
As several news organizations, including The Associated Press, made public-records requests seeking release of the video, Miami-Dade Circuit Judge Dennis Murphy refused Thursday to release surveillance video depicting the moment that a car driven by Cleveland Browns wide receiver Donte' Stallworth struck and killed a pedestrian in a drunk-driving crash.
The judge said that the privacy interests of the family of victim Mario Reyes outweighed the public's right to view the video and the video will be kept sealed for the foreseeable future as far as he is concerned.
On a recorded 911 call made by Stallworth, he said that Reyes "came out of nowhere" before the crash. And his attorney Christopher Lyons received permission from Murphy to view the video in the future.
Stallworth is serving a 30-day jail sentence after pleading guilty to DUI manslaughter and will face two years of house arrest, probation and other restrictions. He was also suspended by the NFL commissioner indefinitely.
The judge said that the privacy interests of the family of victim Mario Reyes outweighed the public's right to view the video and the video will be kept sealed for the foreseeable future as far as he is concerned.
On a recorded 911 call made by Stallworth, he said that Reyes "came out of nowhere" before the crash. And his attorney Christopher Lyons received permission from Murphy to view the video in the future.
Stallworth is serving a 30-day jail sentence after pleading guilty to DUI manslaughter and will face two years of house arrest, probation and other restrictions. He was also suspended by the NFL commissioner indefinitely.
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