(“The TEN” is not a top ten but ten items worth being included in “The TEN”)
1. The Rams and the Dallas Cowboys will play a preseason game in Hawaii on August 17.
2. Former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick and Carolina Panthers safety Eric Reed will receive less than $10 million total in the grievance they settled against the NFL for collusion.
3. Quarterback Robert Griffin III will rejoin the Baltimore Ravens with a two-year deal.
4. The Indianapolis Colts signed former Kansas City Chiefs LB Justin Houston to a two-year, $24 million deal.
5. Ichiro Suzuki told the Seattle Mariners that he will retire after Thursday’s game against Oakland in Tokyo, Japan. The Mariners beat the A’s 5-4 in 12 innings to sweep the two game series.
6. The St. Louis Cardinals sign Paul Goldschmidt to a five-year, $130 million extension. The Cards acquired Goldschmidt in December in a trade with the Arizona Diamondbacks.
7. The San Marino coaching search.
8. March Madness.
9. On this date in 1969 UCLA beat Purdue 92-72 to win its fifth National Championship in six years.
10. Houston Texans defensive end JJ Watt turns 30 today.
If we can agree that Mid Valley Sports has the absolute right to determine what gets posted here, I’m guessing that the NFL should have a smidgeon of say-so about the way its representatives behave. If a guy wants to rant and rave about his hot causes, he should do it on his own time and his own dime. Again, we’ll wait to see how much of that $10 million gets spent on spreading the good word.
That’s less than 10 million before the lawyers take their cuts. Then you have to minus taxes.
So the rumored 60-80 million actually worked out to less than 3 each.
Don’t blow it all on PIG socks……
Eager to see how much of that $10 million Kaepernick and Reed spend on righting the world’s wrongs. Hard to pay for something you used to get free.
#2 he was blackballed for political beliefs… 10 mill is about right
#2 That’s about $10 million too much, especially for the player that rejected the original contract that was offered to him by the 49’s. He was the sole person responsible for his situation. Why reward him for anything that happened after that fact?
#6 Don’t understand a contract extension for a player that hasn’t played a single game for you yet. It will be nice to only have to see this Dodger killer 4 times in April and 3 times in August plus the playoffs.