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Reds’ Tommy Pham Accepts Three-Game Ban For ‘Will Smith-style’ Slap On Joc Pederson Over Fantasy Football

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Cincinnati Reds outfielder Tommy Phamhas been suspended three games and fined an undisclosed amount by MLB for “inappropriate conduct” prior to Friday night’s game against the San Francisco Giants. Pham says he has accepted a three-game suspension that resulted from his dispute with Joc Pederson of the Giants. The suspension began with Friday night’s game and will span the final two games of the weekend series between the Giants and Reds at Cincinnati. Michael Hill, MLB’s senior vice president for on-field preparation, made the announcement on Saturday.

According to Pederson and multiple reports, the altercation took place prior to Friday’s game. Pham allegedly slapped Pederson “Will Smith-style” because of a dispute within a Fantasy Football league in which the two players participated. Here’s Pederson’s explanation of what happened:

MLB launched in inquiry into the matter shortly after it occurred, and Pham was scratched from the Reds’ Friday lineup, likely in anticipation of a suspension.

Pham, 34, is in his first season with the Reds. In 42 games for Cincinnati, he’s batted .233/.335/.373 (92 OPS+) with five home runs and 24 walks.

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Meet the 17-Year Old Black Student Getting Paid $100K to Play High School Basketball

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At the age of 17, Bryson Warren earns at least $100,000 a year as a high school student-athlete through Overtime Elite, a New York-based company that recruits outstanding teenage basketball players around the world to play at its academy in Atlanta.

Warren, who is a native of Little Rock, Arkansas, was ranked by ESPN as no. 14 basketball player in his age group across the US. He has received offers from prestigious athletic programs since he was 14-years old. Most recently, he chose to sign with Overtime Elite, becoming the 8th five-star recruit and one of the top guard prospects. 

As an athlete at Overtime, Warren still attends regular classes in the afternoon after training and practice on weekdays. He could get a high school diploma and eventually take college-level courses. At the same time, he would be earning at least $100,000 with on-court performance bonuses of over $1 million.

“Not too many 17-, 18-, 19-year-olds can say they made at least $100K,” Warren told CNBC. “We’re just really getting a head start on life, just playing the game we love.”

Warren uses part of his salary to make a positive impact on the community by investing in a local co-educational AAU basketball team in his hometown in Arkansas which helps support kids from 2nd to 6th grade.

Moreover, Warren is looking forward the most to reach his NBA dream. He hopes that joining Overtime Elite serves as a stepping stone for him to get drafted into the NBA one day. He is aware that the path he chose to take was not usual for teenagers like him, but he is confident that he would continue towards his success.

“You could see Overtime as a risk, or you can see it as an opportunity,” he says. “This is the opportunity I chose, and it’s the one I’m going to live with, and I’m at peace now.”

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‘I haven’t been the same since my wife of 17 years cheated’ – Totti

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‘I haven’t been the same since my wife of 17 years cheated’ – Totti

Former Italy international Francesco Totti has revealed that he fell into depression after he found out his wife, whom he had been married to for 17 years, was cheating on him.

The Roma legend was married to Ilary Blasi but their marriage collapsed after the footballer announced his retirement.

Totti and Blasi tied the knot in 2005 and are blessed with three children, but the pair decided to split in July last year.

Italian superstar Francesco Totti spent 25 years playing for AS Roma
The 46-year-old said he struggled to cope after his retirement and further revealed that his father died after contracting Coronavirus.

According to Totti, he hasn’t been himself since Covid killed his father and his marriage also collapsed after his wife cheated.

“I have lived through a difficult period, first because I stopped playing and then my father died due to Covid,” Totti said, as quoted by Marca.

“I also had a strong Covid (illness) for 15 days. However, my wife, when I needed her most, was not there. It is not true that I was the first to betray. I said I was not going to speak and I did not, but I have read too many hoaxes in recent weeks. Some have even made my children suffer.”

He added: “In September of last year the rumours began to reach me: “look, Ilary has another one. Indeed, more than one.

“I had never done it in twenty years, nor had she ever done it with me. But when I received warnings from different people, whom I trust, I began to suspect.

“I looked at her cell phone and I saw that there was a third person, who acted as an intermediary between Ilary and another. Here was the evidence (of the affair). The facts. And that led me to depression. I could no longer pretend that nothing was happening, but it wasn’t me anymore, it was someone else. I got out thanks to Noemi.”

Totti retired in 2017 following a trophy-laden career that lasted over two decades.

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Tiger Woods ex girlfriend Erica Herman is suing him for $30 million after he kicked her out his house

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Golf legend Tiger Woods’ now-ex, Erica Herman has allegedly sued him and his Jupiter Island Irrevocable Homestead Trust for violating Florida’s Residential Landlord Tenant Act. Her lawsuit was initially filed in October 2022, usmagazine reported.

Wood, 47, tricked Herman, 38, into thinking he was taking her on vacation, but instead dropped her off at the airport and locked her out the house.

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Herman says she has lived at Woods’ residence since he purchased the Florida property and “performed valuable services at the request of [Tiger’s] agents,” which was part of an “oral tenancy agreement” that allowed her to live there. Herman further.., Woods had engaged in premeditated “prohibited practices” to get her to leave the mansion upon their recent split.

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In the filings, Herman alleges Woods used ‘trickery’ and repeatedly refused to let her back into the 12-acre grounds which, she says, violates the oral tenancy agreement and Florida law.

Herman also claims that Woods then removed her personal belongings from the house and ‘took $40,000 in cash that belonged to her, before making scurrilous and defamatory allegations about how she obtained the money.’

In the filing, Herman alleges that she and Woods had an ‘oral agreement’ that meant she could live at the mansion for a total of 11 years, of which she still had five years remaining when the couple called off their romance.

Tiger Woods and Erica Herman started dating in 2017, but haven’t been seen together in public since the US Open tennis tournament in August of last year.

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