A lot of things have happened since my last report. Indiana's storybook ending came true as they defeated the Miami Hurricanes in their backyard pretty much...to win the National Championship. The turn around that Indiana just pulled off is the stuff of movies I mean it's incredible. They were pretty much irrelevant for decades and now they're National Champions...congratulations!
Not much has changed in the WNBA, the players are still turning down record breaking money for the ladies because they want revenue sharing like the NBA players get. What a mess! They have a huge media rights deal next year that's going to bring in $200 million a year for 11 years. This is good news but the ladies feel they're being short-changed in the new contract proposal. Remember, that deal doesn't kick in until next year, they still need to play this upcoming season. The schedule has come out for the new season but the players and owners don't seem to be budging.
From the owner's side of things, these guys haven't see a profit since the WNBA begin operations in 1996. So the owners are like 'we haven't made a dime off of you guys and now you want a part of the media rights? Easy ladies...not so fast. Here take this $500,000 to $1.3 million contract which by the way is five times what the players currently get. The players are like nah we're going to risk it all...wow good luck! Holding out for the big payday almost never works. The players have the most to lose because they're betting the league in essence. But are the owners really going to let go of $2 billion when they never made a profit? We'll see I guess.
Meanwhile the NFL is in the headlines and it's not about the playoffs. Nope, it's about another player going Wild Wild West in the airport. Green Bay Packers offensive lineman Rasheed Walker is the latest player trying to bring heat on a plane. Dude had a firearm and ammuniton in a bag that he voluntarily checked at LaGuardia in New York City, of all places to try something like this.
It went how you thought it would go...dude was arrested and booked on two counts of second degree criminal possession of a weapon and one count of criminal possession of a firearm. He appeared in Queens court and released without bail.
Walker's attorney said his client mistakenly believed he could travel with his gun...Who does he think he is Jason Bourne? Dudes firearms are registered in Wisconsin not NY so they had to arrest him and his lawyer is confident NY will drop the case. So it was an error in judgement, hey we all make mistakes but ignorance is not a legal defense especially when it comes to packing heat at an airport.