Posted Sep 5th 2008 5:29PM by TMZ Staff
As if life couldn't get any better for Tom Brady being a hot, rich NFL quarterback with a supermodel girlfriend -- now it turns out the football star just made a killing in real estate. Donald Trump, we've found your apprentice.
In 2006, Brady bought a Boston building and began renovating and converting it into four condos. According to the Boston Globe, the New England Patriot kept the top floor for himself and recently sold the other three to a South American businessman for $7.95 million -- about $1.7 million more than he paid for the entire building. Housing crisis? What national housing crisis?!
Besides the Boston property, Brady recently purchased a plot of dirt in L.A. for $11 million and put his NYC pad on the market for $19 million. Comparatively, the Cowboys' quarterback Tony Romo is living on skid row, purchasing a home in Dallas for under $700K and having girlfriend Jessica Simpson decorate it. Oh, the humanity.
Filed under: Celebrity Pay Dirt, Talk Sports
Posted Sep 5th 2008 7:15AM by TMZ Staff
TMZ has learned Marion Jones has sprinted out of Federal prison.
She just left a halfway house in San Antonio at 8:44 AM CT after serving her six month sentence for perjury.
Details to come ...
Filed under: Celebrity Justice, Talk Sports
Posted Sep 4th 2008 1:00PM by TMZ Staff
The secret to Serena's success has just been revealed.
Those thick thighs hold what tennis dreams are made of.
Filed under: Wacky & Weird, Talk Sports
Posted Sep 4th 2008 12:35PM by TMZ Staff
The Lakers couldn't win the title without injured center Andrew Bynum, so just the sight of him walking around last night in Hollywood is music to their ears.
While Bynum claimed to be 100%, watch the video closely -- was he grasping for his keys or checking on his bum knees?
Filed under: Talk Sports
Posted Sep 3rd 2008 12:50PM by TMZ Staff
If at first you don't succeed, get more hot chicks in lingerie.
Last year, the Lingerie Bowl went limp and got canceled at the last minute. Now some (clearly genius) money men are involved, and it's back. They've gotten a whole effing league (the LFL) with team names like the San Diego Seduction, Chicago Bliss, and the Dallas Desire. We're told they've already booked the Staples Center for the L.A. squad.
And yes, there will be cheerleaders.
Filed under: Talk Sports
Posted Sep 2nd 2008 3:05PM by TMZ Staff
Millions of kids still wanna be like Mike -- and according to the American Cancer Society, that's a bad thing.
The ACS is fuming over several photos TMZ posted earlier of MJ playing softball with a fat stogie hangin' out of his mouth. Now, the ACS has unleashed a mouthpiece of their own, their former president Cary Presant MD, who told us, "When high profile athletes publicly display unhealthful habits they can mislead young people to emulate their behavior. According to the American Cancer Society tobacco use in this country is responsible for 1/3 of all cancers and remains the most preventable cause of death in our society. 8.6 million Americans suffer from chronic smoking-related disease. Since 1964 smoking has cause more than 12 million premature deaths in the U.S."
Calls to Jordan's reps were not returned.
Filed under: Talk Sports
Posted Sep 2nd 2008 1:00PM by TMZ Staff
With his professional baseball career already up in smoke, Michael Jordan decided to smoke up while playin' a little baseball yesterday -- and he was still better than everyone else on the field.
His Airness hit a local diamond in Atlanta for a Labor Day softball classic with his boy Jermaine Dupri -- where the former minor leaguer refused to take the cigar out of his mouth the entire game. He hit, he smoked. He stole, he smoked. He fielded, he smoked. He even ripped his jeans while sliding into third -- cigar in mouth the entire time.
Good thing he can afford a new pair.
Filed under: Talk Sports
Posted Sep 2nd 2008 10:52AM by TMZ Staff
We've just gotten the Jacksonville Jaguar Fred Taylor arrest report early Saturday morning, and it's like a clinic on how NOT to deal with the popo.
First, says the arresting officer, Taylor got "vocal" and began to "argue" with cops and "attempted to insite [sic] the crowd of bystanders" when they wanted to search his Benz for guns. Then, when they sent a sniffer pooch to look for drugs, Fred really got testy, yelling, "Get that f***ing dog out of the car."
It got so bad, the cops gave up and just booked his ass for disorderly conduct. Taylor apologized to fans and the owner of the Jags for the incident.
Filed under: Celebrity Justice, Talk Sports
Posted Sep 2nd 2008 7:56AM by TMZ Staff
Jacksonville Jaguars tackle Richard Collier is fighting for his life after being shot several times early this morning.
Collier was waiting outside an apartment building when a gunman shot into the car he was in. A Sheriff's rep says the six-foot-seven, 300-plus-pound Collier was shot several times but it's not clear where he was injured. He was taken to a local hospital where his injuries have been described as "life-threatening."
The motive for the attack hasn't been determined, and an investigation is ongoing.
Filed under: Talk Sports
Posted Aug 31st 2008 3:27PM by TMZ Staff
Hopefully Sarah Palin has become the master of her own teleprompter, because she absolutely sucked at it in 1988 as a 24-year-old sports anchor for KTUU-TV in Anchorage. The third member of The Judds entertained Alaskans with the Beaver roundup in the 4 minute, deer-in-the-headlights performance.
The guys over at Deadspin.com found this gem.
Filed under: Talk Sports, Prez Election 2008
Posted Aug 31st 2008 6:44AM by TMZ Staff
You drafted him, you were fired up about him, and now Fred Taylor has gone and done something stupid just days before your first fantasy football match up.
Taylor, starting running back for the Jags, was arrested early yesterday morning and charged with disorderly conduct outside of Miami Beach night club Club Cristal. The big back was released from the scene on promises he'd show up court at later date, according to the Orlando Sentinel.
Details of the arrest will not be released until after the long Labor Day weekend. Taylor's teammates Dennis Northcutt and Matt Jones have all had off-field troubles lately -- giving the Cincinnati Bengals a run for the title of "Team with the Least Amount of Law Abiding Citizens!"
...and if you didn't draft him, at least you have some ammo for the message boards for the sucker who did.
Filed under: Talk Sports
Posted Aug 30th 2008 1:12PM by TMZ Staff
Legendary wrestler Walter "Killer" Kowalski passed away early this morning at the age of 81.
After a massive heart attack on August 8, Kowalski was taken off life support two weeks ago.
Kowalski wrestled for nearly 30 years and went on to train the likes of Chyna and Triple H.
Filed under: R.I.P., Talk Sports
Posted Aug 30th 2008 10:05AM by TMZ Staff
Every picture tells a story, don't it?
Sharri Henry (far left) claims NFL star Dennis Northcutt (right) had his cousin beat her up after an NFL party they both attended back in May -- allegedly because Henry wouldn't get an abortion (Northcutt is the probable baby daddy).
Now check out the pic on the left of Henry just moments before she was allegedly brutalized. The pic on the right was taken at the same party, also just before the attack. It shows Northcutt with his extremely hot new GF at the time. Some people who were at the party tell us when Henry saw her ex with the new chick, she went after him with all the ferocity of a scorned woman.
Henry is now seven months pregnant. She's suing Northcutt over the attack.
Filed under: Celebrity Justice, Talk Sports
Posted Aug 30th 2008 10:00AM by TMZ Staff
By the end of this post, Ricardo Colclough may no longer be a member of the Carolina Panthers.
Colclough was arrested for DWI early this morning in Charlotte, NC -- only hours before his team was scheduled to make final roster cuts. Colclough was iffy to make the team to begin with, so we're guessing this won't help.
When called for comment, a Panthers team spokesman simply said, "We're aware of it."
Filed under: Talk Sports
Posted Aug 29th 2008 3:40PM by TMZ Staff
Filed under: Beauty, Talk Sports
