Reporter: Drew Jacobs
'Golden Tate Fights Cancer, Puts up Mad Stats for Detroit
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'Keep on Trucking, Russell Wilson: Seahawks QB Flies High Above Drug and Abuse Scandals
Russell Wilson probably gets embarrassed when reporters liken him to a boy scout. That probably happens a lot, too. But increasingly, in the NFL, it's rare to see people doing what they're supposed to do. The Seattle quarterback's status as a role model was safe even before RogerGate happened, but now he looks like freakin' Christopher Reeve. With all the drug and abuse scandals going on in the game, Wilson is more important as a poster boy than ever. The best insult anyone can come with is that he's a "game manager". In the world of the dozens, that falls short. -
'Ex-Hawks Owner Bruce Levenson Joins Donald Sterling in the Disgraced NBA Owners' Club
Donald Sterling must be tickled pink now that he has someone to join him in the ranks of racist former NBA team owners. Bruce Levenson, former owner of the Atlanta Hawks, sold his interest in the team after the contents of a 2012 e-mail were made public. In the e-mail Levenson had expressed concern that the Hawks crowd was overwhelmingly black, and wondered if there were a way to reverse that trend. Though Levenson voluntarily shared the e-mail with the NBA, the subsequent investigation revealed the extent to which the NBA is trying to purge their reputation as a plantation league.
