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Lakers President Says Next Season
Buccaneers Re-Sign RB Bobby Rainey
BOBBY RAINEY Running back Bobby
Rainey has signed his one- year contract offer from the Buccaneers, the club said Fri- day afternoon.
A restricted free agent, Rainey was tendered a one- year, $1.542 million contract.
The 27-year-old Rainey has been one of the Buccaneers’ re- serve tailbacks over the last two seasons. He rushed for 406 yards and racked up 315 yards receiving for Tampa Bay in 2014, appearing in 15 games (five starts). Rainey previously had stints with Baltimore and Cleveland.
Doug Martin, Charles Sims, Mike James and Rainey are the top veteran options in the backfield for Tampa Bay. A three-year starter, Martin has struggled to regain top form after a promising rookie season.
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As this week’s Beauty Unlimited feature, Rolanda wants everyone to know she’s not going away. As a matter of fact, she says she’s just getting started. If you think you’ve seen this young lady be- fore, you’re right, but it was because of your re- quests that we brought her back once again. Rolanda will be a very familiar face in the future, and you will be in shock to realize you knew her be- fore fame came along. Until then, congratulations to Rolanda as this week’s Beauty Unlimited feature.
Will Be ‘Celebration’ Of Kobe Bryant
It’s been more or less known without anybody out- right saying it for a while that next year will be Kobe Bryant's final year.
His contract is up in 2016, which will put his career at 20 seasons, all with the Lakers, and the last three have ended with injuries.
Lakers president Jeanie Buss seems to know the end of the Kobe era is coming, if you go by her comments on a Sunday morning. "I look at this season as a celebration of his 20 years with the Lakers." Bryant has said that he doesn’t want a Derek Jeter-style
KOBE BRYANT
farewell tour when he hangs it up, but it seems pretty obvious that it’s coming. And for the impact he’s had on the NBA and the sport worldwide, he deserves to take a victory lap regardless of what the Lakers do next season.
Peyton Manning Donating $3 Million To Tennessee
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. -- Denver Broncos star quarter- back Peyton Manning is do- nating $3 million to Tennessee to benefit the Volunteers' foot- ball program and Manning's scholarship endowment.
The university issued a re- lease Friday saying Manning and wife Ashley announced a "$3 million leadership com- mitment." Manning starred for Tennessee from 1994 to '97.
ors Gus Man- ning, who isn't related to the quarter- back, and Carmen Tegano. Gus
PEYTON Manning has MANNING served Ten- nessee's ath- letic program since 1951 in many roles. Tegano, an asso- ciate athletic director, has worked at Tennessee for more
Cowboys DE Greg Hardy In Verbal Spat With Teammate
Manning's donation hon-
Michael Jordan And
LeBron James Debate Gets Physical, Ends In Arrest
Davon Coleman
Michael Jordan or Le- Bron James, who is the bet- ter player? It has been a raging debate ever since James began his career in the NBA. The legacy of Jor- dan versus the unfinished legacy of James has been cause for discussion among many fans of basketball for years now.
Jordan has six NBA championships, while James only has two. Jordan was the most dominant during his time. Many argue, though, that James would have been more dominant had he played against Jordan.
The debate can go on and on forever because neither Jordan nor James have ever had the chance to play against one another while each were in their prime.
Some basketball fans do not see the inherent endless- ness of the debate over whether Jordan or James is the best of all time. Many on either side of the debate even refuse to concede that they might be wrong.
That was what lead to the arrest of a 22-year-old Penn- sylvania man after he as- saulted his roommate over a
IRVING, Texas -- On the final day of the first week of the Dallas Cow- boys' offsea-
GREG son program, HARDY Greg Hardy and Davon Coleman had to be sepa- rated by teammates following an on-field argument, sources said, confirming a Fox Sports
report.
The incident occurred as
the defensive linemen were running sprints and escalated to the point where teammates needed to step in.
Coleman made a pointed reference to Hardy's domes- tic violence issues.
However, Coleman's agent, Michael Loeffler, told ESPN the players didn't need to be separated.
"There was no physical al- tercation of any nature what- soever," Loeffler said. "No physical contact, touching, nothing. Basically my under- standing is that Davon and Greg Hardy finished a work- out, had a discussion and there was nothing to step in to and nobody did because there was nothing going on except a discussion ... I think it's get- ting a little blown out of pro- portion."
NFL Says It Will Not
McDonald In 1 Of 2 Cases
than three decades.
MICHAEL JORDAN And LEBRON JAMES
simple debate of who was bet- ter between Jordan and James.
The dispute over who is the best NBA player of all time ending in the arrest of Daniel Mondelice, the Centre Daily Times reported. According to police, the argu- ment about who has the bet- ter career in the NBA landed Mondelice in jail with an ag- gravated assault charge.
Mondelice physically as- saulted his roommate when the discussion got more and more heated.
It remains unclear who Mondelice favored between Jordan and James. Mon- delice was later released on bond and was arrested again for alleged trespassing and harassment. It is also unclear if he returned to continue the debate.
Discipline Bears'
NFL officials said Friday they have informed Chicago Bears defensive end Ray McDonald that he won't be disciplined by the league for a domestic violence incident that occurred at his San Jose, California, home last year.
''We have completed that [domestic violence] investi- gation,'' NFL general counsel Jeff Pash said.
Lisa [Friel] and her team completed that investi- gation [and] did not establish a violation of the personal conduct policy. We informed the player and the [NFL] Players Association.''
Pash said the league in- formed the former San Fran- cisco 49ers lineman of its ruling a few weeks ago.
McDonald was arrested Aug. 31 on suspicion of do- mestic violence while cele-
RAY MCDONALD
brating his 30th birthday at his home with teammates and friends.
Santa Clara (Calif.) County prosecutors an- nounced in November that they had insufficient evi- dence to charge McDonald. They cited conflicting ver- sions of what happened, a lack of verifiable eyewit- nesses and a lack of coopera- tion by the alleged victim, McDonald's fiancee.
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