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Tom Jackson Is Not Likely
Hall Of Famer Warren Sapp Is OK After Being Bitten By A Shark
WARREN SAPP
Warren Sapp is a Hall of Fame defensive tackle who spent 13 seasons manhandling offensive linemen. On Wednes- day, Sapp was on a lobstering charter off the Florida Keys and found himself in a different kind of fight -- with a shark.
And let's just say the shark won.
"Warren Sapp attacked by a shark while lobstering," Two Conchs Charters wrote on In- stagram, later adding: "The shark wanted the lobster just as bad as Sapp. ...Sapp got the lobster and the Shark got his lick in too."
Contacted by the Tampa Bay Times' Greg Auman, charter captain Jack Carlson texted: "It's simple. He was lob- stering with me and a shark bit Sapp while he was grabbing the lobster. He's OK."
Carson said Sapp "may need stitches" but said that the injury didn't end the charter prematurely.
"We bandaged it up, put some gauze on there, some black electrical tape and hit a couple more spots, then headed in," the captain said.
Gerald McCoy Says Bucs Are Now Jameis Winston’s Team
To Return To ESPN
According to the New York Daily News, Tom Jackson, who spent 28 seasons as one of the most recognizable and insightful NFL studio analysts on television, likely will not return to ESPN’s “Sunday NFL Countdown.”
“He’s still weighing his op- tions,” an NFL TV source said. “This will be Tommy’s call. It’s up to him. Tommy’s driving the train on this one. The situation is fluid.”
TOM JACKSON
The source said Jackson, 65, has been contemplating his TV future for quite awhile.
Bucs Place Louis Murphy, J. R. Sweezy On PUP List
GERALD MCCOY
When the Tampa Bay Buccaneers take the field for their first training camp prac- tice Thursday morning, quar- terback Jameis Winston will take on a new role as face of the franchise, replacing defensive tackle Gerald McCoy.
“Me and Jameis had a private conversation about what he feels this team needs me to be as a leader,” McCoy said Wednesday just after veterans reported.
“He’s an intelligent guy,” McCoy said of Winston. “Young or not, [he’s] very ma- ture ... very intelligent. He sits back, he watches and ana-
JAMEIS WINSTON
lyzes and he [saw] something that I could do to help this team be better. It’s not hard to do. It’s just a matter of me doing it.”
Although McCoy’s role within the team is changing, the 28-year-old said he’s ready to embrace it.
“You guys are used to see- ing me do things a certain way,” McCoy said. “That’s going to change because the face of the franchise came to me and said, ‘Hey, listen. If we’re going to win, we need you to do this, OK?’ Our quar- terback said this is what he needs, so this is what I’m going to do.”
Tampa Bay Buccaneers wide receiver Louis Murphy fell asleep while at a wedding recently and woke up to find himself locked inside a mu- seum.
Murphy had to break a pane of glass in order to sum- mon help, but it wasn’t an in- jury sustained in that breakout that landed him on the physically unable to per- form list on Tuesday.
Murphy tore his ACL last October and did not take part in the offseason program while working his way back to health.
Guard J.R. Sweezy also landed on the PUP list, so his first training camp practice as a member of the team will be a bit delayed. The Bucs an- nounced that Sweezy, who signed as a free agent this off-
LOUIS MURPHY
season, had surgery in April, but did not specify what in- jury led to that outcome. Pewter Report reports it was a back issue.
The Buccaneers rounded out the day’s transactions by placing safety Elijah Shu- mate on the non-football in- jury list, signing offensive lineman Joel Hale and waiv- ing offensive lineman Gar- rett Gilkey with an injury designation.
#PokémonGoWhileBlack: Iowa
Football Player Gets Guns Drawn On
Him Because He ‘Fit The Description’
RGIII Is
A University of Iowa de- fensive end took to Facebook on last Wednesday to de- scribe a frightful encounter with police while outside playing Pokémon Go in a Iowa city park.
Cleveland’s
Starting QB
“Today was the first time I’ve truly feared my life and I have the media to thank for that,” Faith Ekakitie, a 23- year-old senior at the univer- sity wrote.
According to the Post, Ekakitie wrote that he was “happy to be alive” after being stopped by five police officers who pointed four guns at him because he matched the de- scription of a man who had just robbed a bank.
“My pockets were checked, my backpack was opened up and searched care- fully, and I was asked to lift up my shirt while they searched my waistband,” Ekakitie wrote. “Not once did they identify themselves to me as Iowa City Police of- ficers, but with four gun bar- rels staring me in the face, I wouldn’t dare question the authority of the men and woman in front of me. This is what happened from my point of view.”
However, Ekakitie tried to see things from the offi-
ROBERT GRIFFIN, III
The Cleveland Browns’ starting-quarterback job looks to be Robert Griffin, III’s to lose.
Tony Grossi, a longtime Cleveland sports reporter, went on “PFT Live” on Tuesday morning and said Griffin will get four out of every five reps with the first-team offense. He’ll be competing mainly with veteran journeyman Josh Mc- Cown (combined record as a starter the past two seasons: 2- 17), third-round draft pick Cody Kessler and Austin Davis (10 career starts).
“It’s not an open competi- tion with Josh McCown,” Grossi said, hinting that it’s Griffin’s job to lose even though he sat out all of last sea- son with the Redskins.
FAITH EKAKITIE
cers’ point of view as well. “All they knew was that a bank had just been robbed less than ten minutes ago. The suspect was a large black male, wearing all black, with something on top of his head
and the suspect is armed. Ekakitie acknowledged that he did not immediately respond to officers because he had on his headphones and they had approached him
from behind.
According to the Post,
Iowa City Police Sgt. Jorey Bailey told the Des Moines Register that the armed rob- bery had occurred less than a block from the park. Given that Ekakitie fit the descrip- tion of the subject – a large black man in black clothes – and did not respond when of- ficers initially approached him, it was “reasonable” for officers to draw their weapons.
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