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Bucs WR Bernard Reedy Goes From $11 An Hour To 53-Man Roster
T. J. Ward Lands With The Bucs On A 1-Year Deal
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As expected, safety T. J. Ward was not on the market for long. The Buccaneers signed Ward to a one-year deal worth up to $5 million.
FSU QB Deondre Francois Out For The Season
Florida State quarter- back, Deondre Francois is out for the season.
Florida State's quarterback Deondre Francois is out for the season with a patella tendon injury, according to reports.
Francois had surgery on his knee on Tuesday.
Francois, a redshirt soph- omore, had his leg rolled up on while he was being sacked during the fourth quarter of Florida State's 24-7 loss to Al- abama on Saturday in At- lanta.
Francois stayed on the ground clutching his left knee and had to be helped off the field. He was put into an air cast on the Florida State side- line and carted off the field.
Alabama safety Ronnie Harrison, who sacked Francois on the play, al- ready took to Twitter to wish Francois a speedy recovery.
Coach Jimbo Fisher has not yet confirmed the severity of Francois' injury. How- ever, Fisher did say after the Alabama game that James Blackman will start against Louisiana-Monroe next Sat- urday. Blackman is a true freshman from Glades Cen- tral High School in Belle Glade, Florida. He was a three-star member of the Semionles' recruiting class.
Dolphins-Buccaneers
Tampa Bay Buccaneers wide receiver Bernard Reedy won’t be returning to his side job anytime soon. The former undrafted free agent, who spends his offsea- son making $11 an hour working as a wheelchair transporter, was informed Saturday that he made the Bucs’ 53-man roster.
Reedy told reporters, “Words can’t explain it. I’ve fought and fought year after year. To clinch a spot is price- less to me. Now it’s time to continue to progress and help the team in any way I can.”
As a member of the active roster, he’ll make a base salary of $465,000 this year, or a little over $27,300 per week.
Won't Be Played In Miami
BERNARD REEDY Reedy made the Bucs’
only touchdown catch of the preseason Thursday night -- a 10-yard pass from Sefo Liu- fau in the final minutes of the fourth quarter. He had been in a heated competition for the Bucs’ final receiver spot behind Mike Evans, De- Sean Jackson, Adam Humphries and Chris Godwin.
The Miami Dolphins will not play their regular-season opener against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers at Hard Rock Sta- dium on Sunday due to the threat of Hurricane Irma, the NFL announced Tuesday.
A source reports the game likely will be rescheduled for Nov. 19, when both teams have a bye week, according to league sources. The NFL has yet to announce an official de- cision.
"The league will continue to examine other options, in- cluding playing the game this Sunday at a neutral site or in Miami later this season, and will provide an update on that decision as soon as possible," the league said in a statement.
The Dolphins practiced Tuesday with the expectation that a game will be played this week. Several Miami players were vocal about wanting to play, regardless of the circum-
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stances.
Hard Rock Stadium had
approximately $500 million in renovations over the past two years. A big part of those renovations were to reinforce the stadium to withstand a Category 4 hurricane. Irma was upgraded Tuesday to a Category 5 hurricane.
Rescheduling the game in November would result in the Dolphins and Buccaneers playing 16 straight games, which is not ideal for either team.
Sunday As Irma Nears
Floyd Mayweather Wins Big At Las Vegas Casino
Floyd Mayweather has hit the headlines once again after showing off his winning streak – but this time the loser wasn’t a boxing oppo- nent, but a poker machine in a Las Vegas casino.
The undefeated former boxing champion and Insta- gram icon took to social media to share news of his impressive win, which came to more than $100,000.
While the sum may be lit- tle more than pocket change to the billionaire boxer, it shows that the Money’s current lucky streak shows no sign of cooling down.
Serena Gives Birth To Baby Girl
Mayweather posted an
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image on Instagram of his video poker screen and his winning tickets, indicating a win of $105,000.
He also claimed to have scooped another $70,000 earlier in the day – bringing the total to an impressive $175,000.
Serena Williams has given birth to a girl, accord- ing to the United States Open’s official Twitter ac- count and her coach.
The highly anticipated an- nouncement came late Fri- day afternoon as Serena’s sister, Venus Williams romped over another oppo- nent and into the fourth round of the major tennis tournament in Flushing, Queens.
The tennis legend broke the internet when she re- vealed she was 22 weeks pregnant in mid-April.
This put the baby's due date either the end of August or beginning of September – and right on cue, Serena went into labor on September 1 in West Palm Beach, Florida.
She gave birth to a baby girl that day after clearing an entire hospital floor in order to welcome her first child in total privacy.
A local news producer tweeted that the baby girl weighs 6 pounds, 13 ounces.
Fiancee and father of her child, Alexis is most famous for co-founding social news website Reddit, which was recently valued at $407 mil- lion and is considered to be the seventh biggest site in the U. S.
He also wrote bestselling book, Without Their Permis-
Serena Williams and her fiance and father of her baby, businessman, Alexis Ohania.
sion: How the 21st Century Will Be Made, Not Managed, which was published in 2013.
Beyoncé Congratulates Serena Williams On The Birth Of Her Daughter
Queen Bey can add an- other principality to her do- minions — pregnancy Instagram posts.
After breaking the internet with Instagram posts an- nouncing both her pregnancy and the birth of her twins, Sir and Rumi Carter, Bey- oncé is using social media to congratulate another new mom.
Shortly after the news broke, Beyoncé posted a photo of a pregnant Serena Williams with the words “Congratulations Serena.”
Trade To Cavaliers 'Still Hurts'
Isaiah Thomas' two sons had different reactions to his trade from the Celtics to the Cavaliers.
His older son, James, is excited that his dad will get to play alongside LeBron James. Thomas' younger son, Jaiden, had fallen in love with Boston and was afraid that Cleveland won't have any skate parks.
"Everything about that trade, everything that I was feeling in my heart in those moments -- they got it down to the only two things that mattered," Thomas said in a 3,500-word post on The Players Tribune about the deal that sent him to the
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Cavaliers for fellow All-Star Kyrie Irving.
"And so when I say this hurts, man -- just know that it isn't because of anything anyone else did. It's only be- cause of something I did," he said. "I fell in love with Boston."
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