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Ice Cube Has Approached Kobe Bryant About Playing In BIG3
ICE CUBE AND KOBE BRYANT
Tiger Woods Reportedly Adds BMW
Steph Curry Helps Raise More Than $21K For Nia Wilson’s Family
NIA WILSON AND STEPH CURRY
If Kobe Bryant ever wants to get back to playing competitive basketball again, one prominent fellow Ange- leno may have just the oppor- tunity for him.
In an appearance Monday on FOX Sports Radio’s “The Rich Eisen Show,” entertain- ment mogul Ice Cube said that he has pitched Bryant
on playing in his BIG3 basket- ball league. Ice Cube did add though that the retired 18- time All-Star has turned down all of his overtures but also that he would continue trying.
Bryant will be turning 40 years old later this month. He has been retired for the last two years now after playing 20 seasons in the NBA.
TIGER WOODS
Tiger Woods’ packed
end-of-season schedule ap- parently wasn’t busy enough. Woods’ agent has told
Golf Channel that the 42- year-old will compete in the BMW Championship, the third FedEx Cup Playoffs event. Woods had already committed to the first two playoff events – the Northern Trust and the Dell Technolo- gies Championship.
His appearance at the BMW will mean a fifth start in six weeks going back to the WGC-Bridgestone Invita- tional.
The BMW Championship will take place from Sept. 6-9 at Aronimink in Newton Square, Pa. Aronimink is a layout that previously hosted Woods’ Quicken Loans Na- tional twice.
This will be Woods’ first appearance in the event since a T-11 in 2013 (at Conway Farms).
Only the top 70 in the FedEx Cup standings qualify for the event, as the playoffs begin with the top 125 at the Northern Trust then gets crunched down to the top 100 for the Dell Technologies Championship and then the top 70 for BMW.
Woods is 20th in the FedEx Cup standings, which means he will qualify for all of these events.
Golden State Warriors’ Steph Curry dedicated the all-star game of his SC30 Se- lect Camp, where top 20 high school prospects get to train with the NBA superstar, to the family of Nia Wilson, the 18-year-old who was fa- tally stabbed by an alleged white supremacist at Oak- land’s MacArthur BART sta- tion in July. He helped raise $21,025 in donations for the Wilson family.
The game was streamed on Facebook Live during which the two-time league MVP made his announce- ment and encouraged fans to donate to the cause. “I sure everyone’s aware of the tragedy and loss we’ve had in the Bay Area recently with Nia Wilson,” Curry said. “Her family is here today ... it was a senseless tragedy that
should not have happened, and we want to use this game to dedicate to your family to show how much we appreci- ate you guys for fighting through this loss.”
The NBA champion then said, “Everybody who’s watching at home on the live stream on Facebook, please hit the ‘Donate’ button. Everything that is donated today — all the proceeds 100 percent — will go to Nia Wilson’s family.”
Ansar Al Muhammad, Wilson’s father, spoke to NBC Bay Area about Curry’s gracious offering. “This is what’s keeping me and my family so strong,” he said. “All the support from giants like Stephen Curry and abroad, that’s what’s keeping us strong at the mo- ment.”
Bills’ McCoy Finalizes
Eviction Of Ex-Girlfriend
Buffalo Bills running back LeSean McCoy finalized eviction proceedings against his ex-girlfriend after reach- ing an agreement in Georgia on Tuesday.
In the meantime, McCoy took his familiar spot with the starting lineup at training camp, where Bills general manager Brandon Beane said no evidence has come to light to alter the player’s sta- tus with the team amid alle- gations he severely disciplined his son and beat his dog.
“Nothing’s changed, and we see LeSean here for the future,” Beane told The As- sociated Press in the first public comments made by a team official since McCoy’s ex-girlfriend raised the alle- gations in a lawsuit filed in Fulton County, Georgia, on Friday.
Beane reiterated com- ments he made at the start of training camp last month by saying he foresees McCoy being in the Bills lineup to start the regular season.
LeSean McCoy and ex- girlfriend, Delicia Cordon.
Delicia Cordon is suing McCoy for failing to protect her after she was bloodied, beaten and had $133,000 worth of jewelry stolen dur- ing a home invasion last month. She also alleged McCoy would “often brutally beat his dog,” and would also “aggressively, physically dis- cipline and beat his young son.”
McCoy has previously denied the allegations, calling them “totally baseless” and “completely false.”
In Georgia
Championship To Schedule
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