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Barkley
Has To Pay Back $400,000
Former
NBA player Hall Of Famer and TNT studio host Charles Barkley has to
pay back $400.000 in a gambling debt to a Las Vegas Strip casino. He
promises to repay it after a prosecutor told him to pay the debt or
face felony charges.
Here is what Barkley
and others do not realize. Gambling is a SICKNESS. It is like being
hooked on drugs or pills. He needs help.
My late father, Leon
Curvey was a gambler who worked 37 years with the U.S Postal Service.
But he died with NOTHING in the bank. Because he did not fill out his
paperwork correctly to receive benefits etc when he died. our family
had to pay for his casket etc. My mom and my dad divorced when I was
six years old.
Why? Because of his
gambling. He used to get off from work and head directly to the after
hours and "underground" gambling houses to play poker and
black jack. When you are a gambler, you win and sometimes you do not.
Sometimes he would bring home enough money only to help pay a few
bills.
My mom worked at
Boeing to help put food on the table for my brother and I but
meanwhile my dad was sometimes gambling all his cash away. Sometimes
when I was a older teenager I would go to the gambling places to help
serve drinks to the guys (and gals). And a lot of times I got a lot
of "hot" things like TV's etc that my dad won with his
gambling.
This was behind my
mom's back. Because of my dad's gambling and my mom's life, I grew up
confused and mixed up. It led to depression and testing drugs in my
early 20's. I tried suicide at the age of 22.
On my dad's death bed
in 1996, he told my sister in law, he wished he would have lived a
better life and saved his money instead of gambling his cash away.
And he said he wished he would have helped me go to broadcasting
school.
I can go on and on
folks with stories but what I am saying is Charles Barkley is sick.
He needs help. I don't give a damn about how much money he has. Just
think how many people can be fed with the $400,000 he spent on
gambling. He could build the "Charles Barkley Youth Center"
in Phoenix or another city, say in New Orleans for inner city kids
with $400,000.
Have you heard of
Barkley doing anything for inner city kids? I have not. But you hear
a lot about his gambling problem.
Of course he will get
on TV with Ernie and The Jet and run his mouth about being sorry etc
but in my opinion sorry is not enough. He says he is not a role model
BUT HE IS. He is in the public eye. With my program, Music Inner
City, I am in the public eye. Kids look up to me. I got a interview
with Oprah and other big stars because they feel I am a role model.
Does Barkley want his kids or other kids to grow up being a gambler
like he is?
Finally, Charles can
do whatever with his money. I just hope he would realize that young
people look up to him. He is a Hall Of Fame basketball player. One
day he might owe the wrong person and his kids and wife will no
longer have their father around after he is found in a alley or in
the truck of a car.
Yo Charles get some
help my brotha, BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE. Gordon
Curvey
Moss
Joins NASCAR Craftsman Series
NFL player Randy Moss
is a successful player. You would be hard pressed to find any sports
fan who does not know his name. Now Moss is looking to push that
success into an new direction. The world of professional auto racing.
Moss has announced
that Moss Motorsports will fire up their engines for the 2009 racing
season. Moss will debut in the world of auto racing by entering the
professional truck racing circuit of NASCAR's Craftsman Truck Series.
Littlie is known at this time as to many of the details surrounding
the racing team that Randy Moss has selected. There has been no
mention of the team leader, driver or even who the sponsor will
be-just word from Randy that the 2009 season is the target for his
NASCAR racing team.
However, do not take
the lack of details on his team serious because Moss is no stranger
to the world of auto racing. Moss sponsors a dirt track program in
his home state of West Virginia, and is a Goodwill Ambassador to the
Urban Youth Racing School in Philadelphia.
People are starting to
wonder if 2009 will be the year that Randy Moss opens the door for
minorities to be successful in NASCAR auto racing. There is already a
lot of speculation that Moss Motorsports will be using an African
American driver, but such reports are purely rumors at this
point G.C
Kobe
Wins First
MVP of NBA
Los Angeles (AP)
Regarded as the NBA's best player for several years but never it's
MVP, Kobe Bryant earned the honor after leading the Los Angeles
Lakers to the best record in the Western Conference.
He entered the season
as the league's two time defending scoring champion. He had finished
as high as third in the MVP voting twice after the 2002-2003 season,
when he averaged 30 points for the first time.
Bryant received 82
first place votes and 1,105 points in the media vote. He was followed
by New Orleans's point guard Chris Paul with 889 points and the
Celtic's Kevin Garnett with 670 points followed by LeBron James of
Cleveland with 438 points.
Bryant averaged 28.3
points, 6.3 rebounds, 5.4 assists and 1.84 steals while playing all
82 games despite tearing a ligament in his right pinkie in February.
He put off surgery until after the Olympics.
Kobe, second in the
NBA in scoring behind James, is the first Laker to win the MVP award
since Shaquille O'Neal in 2000. Other Lakers to win since the award
was presented in 1956 were Kareem Abdul-Jabber and Magic Johnson.
Steelers
Owner Rooney Endorses Obama's Bid
Pittsburgh (AP)
Pittsburgh Steelers chairman Dan Rooney has endorsed Democratic Sen,
Barack Obama's presidential bid.
The 75-year old
Rooney said endorsing political
candidates is not something he
regularly does.
"As a
grandfather and a citizen if this community, I think Barack Obama's
thoughtful, strategic approach is important to America," Rooney
said. "When I hear how excited young people seem to be when they
talk about this man, I believe he will do what is best for them,
which is to inspire them to be great Americans."
The Obama campaign said
the Illinois senator and Rooney met recently after Obama spoke at a
meeting of the Alliance for American Manufacturing. Last month former
Steelers running backs Franco Harris and Jerome Bettis also endorsed
Obama.
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Schultz
Says Current Owners Violated Sale
Well it has come
down to this in our fight to keep the Seattle Sonics in town.
Former owner Howard
Schultz is going to sue the current ownership to get the team back,
on the basis that the new owners violated the sale contract by not
making a good faith effort to keep the Sonics here in Seattle.
Word is Schultz has
hired a lawyer, Seattle based attorney Richard Yarmuth, and that
Yarmuth plans to sue the current Sonics ownership group, Professional
Basketball Club LLC, led by Clay Bennett, in the next two weeks.
Bennett and his ownership group plan to move the team to Oklahoma
City.
Yarmuth has said
that Schultz will not sue for monetary damage and that the lawsuit
will seek to rescind the July 2006 sale based on the fact that
Bennett's group always planned to move the Sonics to Oklahoma City.
Bennett bought the Sonics and its sister team in the WNBA, the Storm,
for $350 million, and he agreed to make a good faith effort to keep
the clubs in Seattle. We here at Sports Inner City will have the
latest news on this issue. The fight to keep the Seattle Sonics in
Seattle. G.C
How
Can The Mariners Celebrate This Day?
On April 15th, Major
League Baseball celebrated "Jackie Robinson Day" at
games all over the league.
The Mariners have
one African Americans on the team, zero African
Americans in front
office management positions and do little to zero marketing in
African American media in the Seattle area. That means the Facts and
Medium newspapers and my program, Music Inner City TV/Online.
Mariner broadcaster
Dave Sims and Arthur Rhodes are the only visible African American in the Mariner
organization. How can this be?
The Angels were in
town and they had five African Americans in the starting lineup
playing against a team at that time with zero on the whole team. Arthur
Rhodes was brought up on a few days ago.
The Mariners just
cut a young African American player who was not given a chance to do
anything. The manager said they needed "a change" and
brought up a fella who hit .245 last year and four homers. This past
summer, the Mariners traded Adam Jones. It seems when ever a African
American player comes here, they are quickly gone. A few years ago,
when the Mariners were looking for a new manager, they DID NOT even
interview current Red's manager Dusty Baker who came out and said
he was interested in the position.
If Jackie Robinson's
widow Rachel & his daughter visited Seattle on Jackie
Robinson Day they would be very disappointed. Knowing the Seattle
Mariners have a almost total exclusion of African Americans on the
field and off. The Mariners should be ashamed of themselves for
celebrating Jackie Robinson Day! Gordon Curvey
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