Kobe Bryant says he would hire a car service to get to road games before the team’s first bus so he could be inside the arena before the crowd arrived and prepare in complete silence, and says he would prepare meticulously for whatever looks the opposing defense was going to give him “If we had a road game, say Miami, a 7:30pm game, I’d still get up early and do weights. I’d have breakfast, get on the bus, go to shootaround, get my shots up, come back to the room, do treatment, ice, stretch. I might watch a movie, I might watch a little extra film.” “Then for the bus to the stadium, we had two buses. The first bus was generally around 4:45pm and the second bus was around 5:30pm. I was generally on the early one, just to get treatment and get shots up, because I liked getting to the arenas early.” “Sometimes I would actually get a car and leave before the first bus because even though the first bus was leaving early, there were still people coming into the stands. I liked getting to arenas when there was nobody in there and you could kind of feel the purity of the place, especially in a road environment.” “As far as how many shots I was trying to get up, it depended on how I was feeling physically and who we were playing. If I was playing the Spurs, I’d work on short-corner shots, mid-elbow shots, those types of shots because those were the shots their defense would give up. If I was playing Memphis and Tony Allen, I’d work on a lot of back-to-the-basket stuff, putting my body on Tony, making sure my footwork was right, making sure I was hiding the ball so he couldn’t swipe it. I’d go through those muscle-memory things. The positions of the shots would vary depending on the opponent.”

Alabama DB Dre Kirkpatrick, Jr. has been arrested. Again. Yeah, again. And now he's off the team. Kirkpatrick, Jr., son of former Bama & NFL cornerback Dre Kirkpatrick, was arrested Friday, Oct, 23. He's charged with doxing, a Class A misdemeanor, and harassing communications, a Class C misdemeanor. Bond was set at a mere $300 per charge. He was suspended and missed Saturday's 31-20 win over Texas A&M. On Monday, Kalen DeBoer said, "He's not with us....it's enough to where we know that's not how we operate." I bet you're wondering about his criminal record. I was, too. 🔴 HIS RECORD: - 2025: Police in Tuscaloosa charged him with reckless endangerment and attempting to elude, saying he drove a Mercedes toward officers who had to move out of the way. - He was suspended for the last 7 games of the 2025 season, then allowed back this year. - A separate leaving-the-scene traffic case is still pending, with a court date of Nov. 18. He played in every game as a sophomore. Even has a famous name behind him. And now he's thrown it all away. DeBoer did the right thing.

Buenos días @PdteEscalante, su empleado @rmagallan77 ya limitó su cuenta después de haber violado los derechos de privacidad de una persona que dignamente le pidió trabajo hace unos meses. Queremos saber cuales serán las consecuencias, ¿o están de acuerdo con esto? ¿Estos son los valores del Club @Atlante? Ya consiguieron ascender (como haya sido) ahora pongan el ejemplo.

Alex Rodriguez says his mother, who worked two jobs and sometimes brought home just $65 in tips, refused a $1,000,000 offer from the Seattle Mariners when he was 17 years old and their family was broke, because she believed he was worth more “The story was that the Mariners had offered me a million dollars. My mom, who had two jobs at the time, was a secretary in the morning, serving tables at night, said, ‘Absolutely not. If we don't get $1.5 million, my son is going to college, to the University of Miami, where he's going to play quarterback and shortstop.’ And I was thinking, looking at my mom like, ‘Mom, are you sure? We're broke. This is a lot of money.’” “She was so courageous that at the very end, it came down to a box of bats and two first-class tickets on American Airlines. So in the wee hours, we finally came to an agreement that it would be $1.35 million. It would be a three-year major league contract. I was 17, and the Mariners would buy me major league wood, my Louisville Slugger, while I was playing in the minors. The wood in the major leagues is much better than the one in the minor leagues.” “And then since I was 17, and I was supposed to be going to be a freshman in college, I was like, ‘I'm going all the way to Seattle. My mom, can she get three first-class tickets so that she can come see me three times a year?’ And they said, ‘That's it?’ I said, ‘That's it.’ So we got a deal, and then we started celebrating, and everybody was happy.” “Yeah, I mean, that I took from my mom, honestly. My mother and my sister were more in charge of the negotiation than I was. They were basically not even asking for my opinion. My mom was running point. That's my manager.” “And it was crazy. My mom would get home at 11:30 at night. I would take her pouch away and start counting her tip money. And anytime we had like 65 bucks, it was a great night. And here we are, counting 65 bucks in tips and ones, and my mom's like, ‘Nope, it's $1.5 million or nothing.’ I'm like, ‘Mom, are you nuts?’”