NBA star Tracy McGrady makes some fat dollars.  Try $21 million a season to play for the Houston Rockets.  Well T-Mac has a little one who was born in Florida and the baby’s momma wants him to pay up. 

He is currently married and has three kids already.  The court papers says his daughter Tracy was born in the fall of 2005.  One month before his son was born and a year before he was married.

A Florida court says he has to pay up.  Just 54 thousand a year.  Not a month…a year.  Talk about a guy who got off easy.  T-Mac had one heck of a lawyer.

The amount is far less than the $204,000 a year that Pearl Vega, 36, had argued would be more in line with McGrady’s $21.6 million annual income and give their child a lifestyle more equal to that of McGrady’s other children.

Vega’s attorney immediately filed a notice the mother would appeal.

In a trial in December, Vega’s attorneys highlighted exactly what it means to be the child of an NBA star:

McGrady shares a six-bedroom, 23,000-square-foot house with a pool outside Houston with his wife and three children. He spends $5,000 per month on a chef and $1,732 for a housekeeper.

One of the children had a $16,000 birthday party for about 40 children, with a magician, clown, face painter, games and music.

McGrady and his family spend about $45,000 per month for personal travel, sometimes on private jets. The children went on trips to New York, to North Carolina a dozen times — to Florida about the same number — and to Atlanta, California, the Turks and Caicos Islands, the Bahamas, Mexico, the Virgin Islands, and Rio de Janeiro.

They stay at Ritz-Carltons, have private preschool and tutors, and get thousands of dollars of clothes every month.

here is the story.

This is from AOL.com sports:

ESPN’s Bonnie Bernstein was a guest on Mike and Mike in the Morning Wednesday, and when the subject turned to a high school basketball player who is considering playing professionally in Europe instead of going to college, Bernstein made an extremely odd comparison between American high school basketball players and Palestinian suicide bombers.

Sounds like Bonnie B went someplace she shouldn’t have…..read the rest here.

Put this under the big yawn category.  SMU football is ditching their blue helmets and going back to the white ones.

It really doesn’t matter.  Wins some games, then somebody may care.  

New coach June Jones and the AD are making the changes.

SMU will officially “unveil” the uniforms at the annual Football Kickoff Luncheon on August 20th at the Hilton Anatole in Dallas.

“The fans have spoken and we have listened. Since I arrived at SMU, I have stated that I wanted to return the Mustang football program to national prominence,” said SMU Director of Athletics Steve Orsini. “When people think of SMU, they think of white helmets with a red Mustang logo. When you have a rich tradition like we do here at SMU, it only makes sense to draw from that.”

The newest Dallas Star, Sean Avery, isn’t the tallest kid on the ice at 5 foot 10, but he’s doing well with the ladies.

Avery has dated Elisha Cuthbert, Lake Bell, and Mary-Kate Olsen. This man is a real playa.

Move over Mike Modano and Tony Romo.

Thomas O. Hicks is a fantastic hockey owner.  He has a Stanley Cup title and he is looking another.   After losing in the Western Conference Finals to the Red Wings, Hicks is putting up the cash to bring in Sean Avery.

This is from dallasstars.com:

Sean Avery is a Dallas Star. The Stars has signed the free agent left wing to a four-year contract that will pay him a total of $15.5 million ($3.5 million next season, and $4 million in 2009-10, 2010-11 and 2011-12).

“We are excited about the opportunity to add a player like Sean Avery to our group,” said Stars Co-General Manager Brett Hull. “His ability to play the game with skill and tenacity makes us a better team and is a great complement to the players we have here.”

In 86 games with New York over the last two seasons, the Rangers went 50-20-16 with Avery in the lineup for a winning percentage of .674 (and 9-13-3 record when he was not on the ice).

“His skill keeps improving every year,” said Hull. “He is feisty and tenacious. Sean has the ability to score and make plays and he is fearless. I think he’s a very good compliment to Brenden Morrow. We like our team, but the thing I think we were lacking was a little bit of sandpaper and some grit, and we also improved our skill level with Sean.

“He made the Rangers a much better team. In talking to some of the guys on that team, they are very sorry to see him go. He’s a great teammate – he’ll do anything for the team, he’ll do anything to win.”
 
Avery, who turned 28 in April, collected 33 points (15 goals, 18 assists) in 57 games with the New York Rangers last season, and placed second on the club with 154 penalty minutes and tied for third with four game-winning goals. In eight Stanley Cup Playoff games with the Rangers this past spring, Avery recorded four goals and three assists for seven points with six penalty minutes.
 
A native of Pickering, Ontario, Avery has skated in 379 career NHL games with the Detroit Red Wings, Los Angeles Kings and New York Rangers, collecting 65 goals and 102 assists for 167 points with 1,067 penalty minutes. He has appeared in 18 career Stanley Cup Playoff games, all with the Rangers, earning 12 points (5 goals, 7 assists) and 33 PIM.
 
Avery’s most productive NHL season came in 2006-07, split between Los Angeles and the Rangers, when he posted career-highs in goals (18), assists (30), points (48), shots on goal (249), average time on ice (17:11) and games played (84). He also led the Rangers and placed fifth in the league with 174 minutes during that campaign.
 
The 5-10, 195-pound left wing was undrafted, but made his NHL debut with Detroit on Dec. 19, 2001 vs. Vancouver, and scored his first NHL goal (a game-winner) on Mar. 2, 2002 vs. Pittsburgh. During the 2003-04 season with Los Angeles, he led the NHL and set a career-high with 261 penalty minutes. He appeared in 221 Ontario Hockey League games with Owen Sound and Kingston, registering 87 goals and 166 assists for 253 points, along with 564 penalty minutes.

I am no fan of ESPN.com Page 2 writer Jamele Hill.  She was recently suspended for writing this:“Rooting for the Celtics is like saying Hitler was a victim. It’s like hoping Gorbachev would get to the blinking red button before Reagan.”

Yep…she wrote THAT.

Read her apology and the rest of this tale of her brain fart here.

Sir Drink A Lot, Sidney Ponson, pitches for the Yankees tonight against the Texas Rangers.

Ponson was told to leave town after being a first class jerk according to Rangers GM Jon Daniels.  Now he takes the ball tonight against the Rangers at Yankee Stadium.

This is from the the New York Daily News:

Less than a month after being cut by Texas, Sidney Ponson will have a chance to get a little payback Wednesday, when he takes the mound against the Rangers.

Although Ponson didn’t speak to New York media Tuesday - claiming that he doesn’t talk the day before he pitches - he did offer these comments to the Dallas Morning News:

“Look, they are just another team,” Ponson said. “I’ve got to try to get them out, and they are going to try to beat my brains in. I have no problem. If there is any problem, it’s for (Rangers GM) Jon Daniels or (Rangers manager) Ron Washington to answer. I’m not going to sit here and talk about what happened in Texas. That’s the past.”

I hope the Rangers light him up tonight.

I always liked La Roi Glover when he played defensive tackle for the Cowboys.  Too bad he got run off by Bill Parcells for the Tuna’s pet Jason Ferguson, who was absolutely a bust in Big D.

Glover is now in St. Louis.  He recently went back to school to earn his college degree in Public Adminstration.  As a six time Pro Bowler, he’s got a boatload of cash in the bank.

He told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch,  “Now that I have three children, it was important for me to show them … the importance of going back and getting it.”

Jason Witten of the Cowboys recently got his college degree from Tennessee.  It’s good to see players understand the importance of a degree and the message it sends to kids and fellow players.

Former Indy 500 winner Dario Franchitti is out of a job. 

The husband of actress Ashley Judd had his #40 Dodge NASCAR team shut down by team owner Chip Ganassi.

Lack of sponsorship was the reason given.

“If I keep going I run the risk of dragging the other two teams down. I don’t want to do that,” Ganassi told the Associated Press. “There’s no money. It makes no sense to be running this out of my pocket. I had to put a stop to it.”

Dario won the Indy 500 last year and was the IRL points champion before he decided to jump to NASCAR.

His first year has been rocky. The team was 41st out of 63 teams in the points standings.

Well, as at least his wife can pay the bills for him.

Hollywood star Pam Anderson is a big time PETA supporter and she is all mad at Jessica Simpson for wearing a “Real Girls Eat Meat” T-Shirt while walking with Cowboys quarterback Tony Romo.

Bang it here.  TMZ.com has the audio of her putdows.

Check out the “Real Girls Eat Meat T-Shirt” here.

Anderson called Jessica few nasty names at celebslam.com:

Pam Anderson blasted Jessica Simpson during a weekend interview with an Australian radio station. When asked about the “Real Girls Eat Meat” shirt Jessica was recently spotted wearing, Pam — an active member of PETA — replied (audio deliciousness below):

“Bitch! . . . Whore! . . . She was not referring to actual cows and chickens, she was, ya’ know, men.

The same chick that filmed/released two homemade pornos, has been on the cover of Playboy more than any other person, and became famous by getting basketball-sized breast implants, is calling another woman a whore? Is there a word stronger than irony (something cool like MEGA-irony), because that’s what that is. Besides, I don’t think Pamela’s really a vegetarian. I’ve seen her “home movies” with Tommy Lee and Bret Michaels, and she swallowed more meat than a hungry cannibal locked in a morgue.

Jessica opened herself up for shots by wearing that T-shirt.  She is from Texas so I’m not mad at her.  Meat is good.