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Serena Williams 'Loves' Being Pregnant
Serena Williams with fi- ance, Alexis Ohanian.
Serena Williams "loves the feeling" of being pregnant and "can't wait" to be a mother, according to sources.
The 35-year-old professional tennis player is currently ex- pecting her first child with fi- ancé Alexis Ohanian, and sources say she's perfectly con- tent watching her belly swell as she believes the pregnancy is a “blessing.”
The sports star reportedly "can't wait" to give birth, as the insider adds that she's received "so much support" from 34- year-old Reddit co-founder Alexis.
Floyd Mayweather Reacts To
Mills: Carmelo Anthony
Conor McGregor KO Rumors, Says
Could Stay With Team
He’s Been Talking To Vargas
New York Knicks president Steve Mills said Monday that Carmelo Anthony could remain with the team this season, despite acknowl- edging that the organization would continue to pursue a trade involving the 10-time All-Star.
"We've been in contact with Carmelo's representatives. We've been in contact with other teams," Mills said Monday at a news conference to introduce new general manager Scott Perry. "Our view is if there's an opportu- nity that works for Carmelo and works for us, then we'll look at some kind of trade. But we also feel that Carmelo could easily be a part of our team next year.
“We're going to move for- ward so maybe with Carmelo or without Carmelo."
Mills also said that the Knicks would not pursue a buyout of the remaining years
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on Anthony's contract. Anthony has a no-trade clause in his contract, and the Knicks have discussed poten- tial trades of Anthony in re- cent weeks, with the Houston Rockets being a primary des-
tination of late.
Anthony is still hoping to
be traded to the Rockets, and Wojnarowski and Ramona Shelburne reported last week that the Knicks and Rockets were putting trade talks involving Anthony on hold for the moment, which Mills confirmed.
Former WBO boxing champ Jessie Vargas re- cently claimed that Conor McGregor has already been knocked out in training camp.
Floyd Mayweather has since responded, saying that he’s been in contact with Vargas, who used to be part of his stable of fighters.
“My thing is basically like this, if I ain’t seen no footage, I don’t believe it,” May- weather told Fight Hype. “And me and Jessie Var- gas are in communication.
“We’ve been talking about working with him, signing him back for Mayweather promotions. We’ve been communicating, but every- thing is just rumors until I
FLOYD MAYWEATHER
see it. I have to visually see it with my own eyes.”
For what it’s worth, Mc- Gregor’s team, and one of the two boxers rumored to have been involved, have flat out denied it, saying those two have never been part of the camp, let alone sparred and knocked out the UFC champion.
O. J. Simpson’s Bid For Prison
Release Drawing National
Obsession; ‘This Is The Parole
Hearing Of The Century’
Stay tuned for the parole hearing of the century.
O. J. Simpson’s date with a Nevada parole board Thursday is quickly ap- proaching national obsession status, reminiscent of his double murder trial, dubbed the Trial of the Century.
Just ask Christopher Darden, one of the prosecu- tors in the 1995 trial that ended with Simpson’s ac- quittal.
“In a way, I’m being forced to follow it. Is this the parole hearing of the century? I guess it is. People want his release. It’s hard to under- stand,” Darden told the Daily News on Tuesday.
“You don’t hear this much about (Charles) Manson and his parole hearings,” he said. “This is the parole hear- ing of the century.”
Simpson, 70, is incarcer- ated at Nevada’s Lovelock Correctional Facility for rob- bing two memorabilia deal- ers at a Las Vegas casino hotel back in 2007.
Prosecutors said he led a ragtag group of armed
O. J. SIMPSON
friends into the ill-fated heist. Simpson claimed he never saw a gun and only wanted to retrieve family heirlooms stolen by a former manager.
The former football star was sentenced to nine to 33 years in 2008. He has already served more than eight years and hopes the parole board will let him walk free in Octo- ber.
One of his victims, col- lectibles broker Alfred Beardsley, died in 2015. The other, Bruce Fromong, is expected to at- tend the proceeding and show support for Simpson’s release.
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