Florida Sentinel Bulletin

Free agent guard Gary Neal reached an agreement on a two-year guaranteed contract with the Milwaukee Bucks.
The person spoke on the condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak publicly until the deal was official. The deal is worth nearly $3 million per season.
Neal turned into a late unrestricted free agent find after the San Antonio Spurs withdrew their $1.1 million qualifying offer last week. The Spurs already had signed free agent guard Marco Belinelli and were satisfied with their depth at that position.

Tampa Bay Buccaneers wide receiver Mike Williams has been a consistent contri-butor over the past three seasons, and on Wednesday the team rewarded him with a five-year extension through the 2018 season, according to the Bucs’ Twitter account.

Since Williams was already under contract for the upcoming season, the signing ensures that he will be a Buc for the next six seasons barring a trade or release. Williams’ six-year deal is worth a total of $40.25 million, although it’s unclear how much of that is guaranteed.

After a subpar 2011 campaign, Williams bounced back in a big way last season. With Vincent Jackson pulling attention away from him, Williams got back to his rookie form as he reeled in 63 passes for 996 yards and nine touchdowns.

Kobe Bryant is now a couple of championship rings short.

Actually, the rings he gifted to his parents—which at one point were part of a lawsuit he filed against his mother—have been sold at auction.

The NBA championship rings that Kobe Bryant gave to his parents each sold for more than $100,000. Goldin Auctions said six items of Bryant memorabilia sold for a combined $433,531 in the monthlong auction that closed early Saturday morning.

A 2000 Lakers championship ring gifted by Bryant to his father, Joe, sold for $174,184. A ring given to his mother, Pamela, from the same championship season went for $108,153. Bryant had filed a suit against the auction company, saying his mother didn’t have the right to sell the items. A settlement was reached last month allowing six items to be auctioned after the five-time NBA champion’s pa-rents apologized to their son and thanked him for his financial support.

The other items included Bryant’s 2000 NBA All-Star game ring, which sold for $55,597, two game-worn uniforms from high school and a medallion and ribbon from the 1996 Magic’s Roundball Classic.

The title of “hero” is often thrown around freely in the world of sports.

On Tuesday, Tennessee Titans linebacker Jonathan Willard truly earned that title. The 6’2”, 225-pound Willard reportedly saved a family from a burning car.

Willard, who signed with the Titans as an undrafted free agent out of Clemson after the 2013 NFL draft, said that he spotted a car with black smoke coming out of it while driving from South Carolina to Tennessee for the Titans’ upcoming training camp.

Sensing the danger that the woman, three children and dog were in, Willard reportedly sped up, flashed his brights and honked his horn in an attempt to catch the attention of the driver, finally getting her to pull over. From there, the linebacker sprung into action.

Los Angeles Dodgers outfielder Matt Kemp doesn’t want any revisionist historians giving him the 2011 NL MVP award, won by now-disgraced Milwaukee Brewers outfielder Ryan Braun.

He just doesn’t think Braun deserves to have it, either. Asked by reporters before Tuesday night’s game against the Toronto Blue Jays, Kemp acknowledged that he feels Braun should be stripped of the award.

“I mean, yeah, I do,” Kemp said. “I feel like it should be, but that’s not for me to decide, you know?” The Milwaukee slugger was suspended for the remainder of the 2013 season by Major League Baseball Monday for his part in the Biogenesis performance-enhancing drugs scandal.

Braun released a statement acknowledging his mistakes.

The Tampa Bay Buccaneers traded cornerback Eric Wright to the San Francisco 49ers for a conditional pick in the 2014 draft, the team announced Friday.

Signed as a free agent last year, Wright had a rocky first season with the Bucs. He missed part of the offseason program while dealing with an undisclosed medical condition and was suspended four games for violating the league’s policy on performance-enhancing substances.

Wright played in 10 games with Tampa Bay, finishing with 37 tackles and one interception. In 2011 with the Detroit Lions, Wright started 16 games and had four interceptions.

After last season, Wright agreed to a restructured contract that included a large pay cut, which seemed to clear the way for him to stay with the Bucs.

But Tampa Bay apparently had other ideas. The departure of Wright likely clears the way for rookie Johnthan Banks to start opposite Darrelle Revis.

Bucs offensive lineman Donald Penn voiced his displeasure with the trade on Twitter:

“I can’t believe this trade and I’m just gonna  leave it at that.”

This one will sting for a while.

Tiger Woods was poised to make a run at his 15th major title but simply never got on track Sunday in the final round of the 142nd Open Championship at baked-out Muirfield in Gullane, Scotland.

The top-ranked Woods entered the final round tied for second, two shots behind leader Lee Westwood. But Tiger bogeyed three of the first six holes and never challenged, closing with a 3-over-par 74.

Tiger tied for sixth at 2-over-par 286, five strokes behind winner Phil Mickelson, who matched the week’s best score with a final-round 66.

After putting on slick greens early in the tournament, a composed but frustrated Woods said they got progressively slower and he had a hard time adjusting.

“They were much slower, much softer,” Tiger said.

“I don’t think I got too many putts to the hole. I really had a hard time and left myself a couple of long lag putts early on when it was really blowing and left them way short and didn’t make those putts. I really didn’t play that poorly.”

Olympic hurdler turned bobsledder Lolo Jones is under investigation for her  role in a bar brawl with the step-daughter of bobsled Hall-of-Famer, Tony Carlino.

Jones was allegedly partying at Roomers, a popular club in Lake Placid, N.Y., when the incident took place and the two women had to be separated by bouncers.

Darrin Steele, chief executive officer for the U.S. Bobsled and Skeleton Federation (USBSF), said that it did not appear as if Jones “knocked out” the woman as initially alleged. He also said that though no sanctions had been levied against Jones — yet — that was subject to change as more details come to light. Neither Jones or Carlino have issued comments.

As previously reported, Jones recently made headlines when she mocked Trayvon Martin’s friend, Rachel Jeantel, on Twitter by comparing her to Tyler Perry’s alter-ego ‘Madea.’

Dwyane Wade’s ex-wife, Siohvaughn Funches, was captured on video in front of Chicago’s Daley Center blasting him for leaving her broke and “on the street.”

Funches claims that Wade stopped depositing money into a joint account, per a 2008 agreement. The agreement also requires Wade to pay half of the income from his 2006 NBA contract into the account.

The suit, filed by attorney William P. Suriano, claims Siohvaughn Wade has been unable to pay her mortgage or home or auto insurance because of funds withheld from Wade’s endorsement deals with retailers T-Mobile, Staples, Gatorade and Li Ning, a Chinese sporting goods company.

Funches received a lump sum of $1 million plus receives $25,000 per month in spousal support in their divorce settlement, but apparently that was not enough.