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Buccaneers Will Be Foolish To Pay Mike Glennon $6M Per Year
Ravens Owner Plans On Chartering Plane To Fly Players To Tray Walker's Funeral
The Tampa Bay Bucca- neers are talk- ing shop with other teams about tradingMike Glennon.
But the
Bucs don't
want to part GLENNON
ways with their backup quar- terback.
In fact, according to Rick Stroud at the Tampa Bay Times, they're prepared to offer him a two-year exten- sion worth over $6 million per year. Why would the Bucca- neers give Glennon $6 mil- lion a year?
Waste of Money.
Baltimore Ravens owner Steve Bisciotti is planning on chartering a plane in Balti- more so members of the or- ganization can attend the funeral for cornerback Tray Walker.
“That’s the least we can do,” Bisciotti told the team's website. “The fact that they all want to be there obviously is the right reaction. I’m happy they are going to be there re- presenting us, showing the family how much he meant to us. That’s really what you want to express.”
Walker died last week after being critically injured in
Shaquille O'Neal Will Visit Cuba
SHAQUILLE O'NEAL
The White House said for- mer NBA star Shaquille O'Neal is heading to Cuba in June as the two nations look to sports to improve ties.
O'Neal is part of a program that will be focused on work- ing with youth in Havana. The program will be the first in which the U.S. Embassy in Ha- vana partners with the Cuban Ministry of Sports.
just hours after Walker died. "The right words are hard to find at a time like this. As much as we can comfort Tray's mom and the rest of his family, we will."
After Walker's crash Thursday night, the Ravens sent three officials (director of security Darren Sanders, director of player engagement Harry Swayne and team chaplain Johnny Shelton) to South Florida to spend time with Walker's mother and family.
"Everybody just really loved him," coach John Har- baugh said.
MIKE
TRAY WALKER
a dirt bike crash in Liberty City, Florida. The funeral is set for Saturday in Miami.
"We have two sons not too much older than Tray, and we can't imagine how much his family is suffering. This is so sad," Bisciotti said Friday
NBA Hall Of Famer Dikembe Mutombo Survives Terrorist Attack In Brussels
NBA Hall of Fame basket- ball player Dikembe Mu- tombo was at the airport in Brussels Tuesday during the series of deadly terrorist at- tacks in the Belgian capital, but announced that he is safe and escaped injury.
“I am safe here” and “I am fine,” the 49-year-old eight- time All-Star posted on his Facebook page along with photos. His charitable foun- dation also posted a message on Facebook, saying that the former NBA star “was thank- fully unharmed.”
Multiple explosions rocked the Zaventem international
Rays Beat Cuban Team With
DIKEMBE MUTOMBO (inset)
airport and the Brussels sub- way system, killing at least 31 people.
ISIS has claimed responsi- bility for the attacks, saying that its extremists opened fire in the airport and “several of them” detonated suicide belts.
President Barack Obama And
President Raul Castro In Attendance
HAVANA -- When Kevin Kier- maier slid into home for the Tampa Bay Rays' first run of the day, President Barack Obama flung his arms wide to signal "safe."
President Barack Obama and Cuban President Raul Castro.
Then he turned
to his left and shook
the hand of his seatmate and Cuban counterpart, Raul Castro.
ace pitcher Chris Archer, who once was a minor leaguer for the Chicago Cubs. He gave President Obama, a White Sox fan, a glove owned by Moore.
The last time a big league club played in Cuba was 17 years ago, when the Baltimore Orioles came to this same sta- dium during spring training.
"We won't experience any- thing like this again," Rays manager Kevin Cash said af- terward. "So it's a very special day for Major League Base- ball, the Tampa Bay Rays and obviously all of our players, myself included."
President Obama and Castro were gone by the third inning, with President Obama heading to the air- port to fly south for a state visit to Argentina, but the stands remained packed until the final out.
The scene was a remarkable milestone for sports diplo- macy as the two presidents try to set aside more than 50 years of Cold War hostility, during which about the only thing the countries agreed on was a shared love of baseball.
Presidents Obama and Castro even joined in when fans were doing "the wave."
In the landmark game, the first visit by a major league team to the communist island since 1999, the Rays beat the Cuban national team 4-1 on Tuesday.
"Appreciate you guys," said the President, clad in a white shirt and sunglasses. Castro was slightly more formal in a blazer.
President Obama shared an extended handshake with
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