Florida Sentinel Bulletin

The $3.8 million Denver mansion of former NBA all-star, Allen Iverson has fallen into foreclosure after Iverson stopped making the payments.

Iverson let the six-bedroom, nine-bathroom home fall into foreclosure owing an outstanding balance of $2,572,914.
The home is expected to be sold by the bank in early April for a price that “is close” to the asking price of $2.85 million.

Iverson was playing with Besiktas of the Turkish League but left the team midway through the season due to a calcium deposit discovered in his right leg.

He is reportedly back in the United States awaiting surgery.

Tiger Woods said Monday that he is almost ready to move from Orlando to his new Jupiter Island, Fla., mansion.

“Pretty soon, I’ll be moving into my new home in Jupiter, Fla. I’m excited about that and even more excited about my new practice facility. It’s phenomenal. Working with my team, I designed the short-game facility and oversaw its construction. It features four greens, six bunkers with different depths and kinds of sand, a video center and a putting studio. If no wind is blowing, the longest club I can hit is a 7-iron. It’s also set up so I can hit shots out of my second-story studio.”

Woods will play at the WGC Cadillac Championship at the Doral resort in Miami this week, his first event since losing in the first round of the Accenture Match Play Championship in Tucson last month.

AUBURN, Ala. — Heisman Trophy winner Cam Newton waited more than four hours while his Auburn teammates went through their drills at pro day.

Then came the 48-minute grand finale, where the quarterback once again put his arm and footwork on display before dozens of NFL officials. Newton felt he had plenty to prove after drawing less-than-rave reviews for his throwing session at the combine.

“Every single day I feel like I have coaching pointers,” the 6-foot-5, 248-pounder said. “The combine was no different. I left there not happy with my performance, but came out today and wanted to focus on the things I didn’t do well at the combine.”

That means making passes on patterns like comebacks, posts and out routes and being more consistent in making the transition from the spread to prostyle offenses. His performance drew some nice reviews.

There were 125 NFL officials, including five head coaches, at the 5 1/2-hour pro day, Auburn said. That includes new Carolina coach Ron Rivera, whose team has the first overall pick that some buzz has indicated might go to either Newton or Auburn defensive tackle Nick Fairley.

Newton and Fairley both participated only in the position drills and let their 40 times and other performances from the combine stand.

When Ravens safety Tom Zbikowski isn’t playing football, he’s boxing. In fact, he has a fight in Las Vegas this weekend. Hopefully, he’ll have another fight down the road as Zbikowski challenged Chad Ochocinco to a fight.

Tiki Barber had it all figured out.

The New York Giants running back stepped away from the NFL in 2007 at the peak of his football career to pursue a role in broadcasting. Despite critics who questioned why Barber would leave $8.3 million on the table and retire.
Barber was approaching age 32. Barber landed a role as a correspondent for NBC’s Today and Football Night In America.

Enter Traci Lynn Johnson.

The 23-year-old blonde was an intern at NBC and caught the eye of Barber, who was married to his college sweetheart, Ginny. The couple had two children together and two more on the way when Barber left his 8-months-pregnant wife for Johnson last April.

It would mark the beginning of a hellacious three months for Barber, who not only saw his personal life spiral out of his control, but his career as well. Prior to his divorce, Barber was notified his contract wasn’t going to be renewed at Football Night In America. But once Barber became “Page Six” fodder, NBC quietly pulled the plug from his contract, citing he had violated the morality clause.

With his $300,000 NBC salary gone, Barber was reportedly so broke that he couldn’t afford a divorce settlement.

Fast forward to Tuesday when Barber’s agent, Mark Lepselter, announced the 35-year-old had filed papers with the league office to come out of retirement and attempt to revive his football career.

Talk about sleeping with the enemy, Shaun Gayle, who played for the 1985 Chicago Bears Super Bowl Champions, testified at the murder trial of the woman accused of killing his pregnant girlfriend and his unborn child.

Marni Yang of Chicago is accused of  killing Rhoni Reuter and the unborn baby in 2007.

Gayle acknowledged he first encountered Yang in 2005 and formed a business relationship that led to them becoming sexual partners.

Yang plead not guilty to first-degree murder and intentional homicide of an unborn child.

Prosecutors described the killing as “cold, calculated and premeditated.” Defense attorneys argue investigators never considered other suspects.

HACKENSACK, NJ — A judge on Friday rejected former NFL star Lawrence Taylor’s attempt to have the news media barred from court proceedings involving him and the mother of a 12-year-old girl he fathered, but has never met.

Ebony Washington of Secaucus is seeking to have child support payments increased for her daughter, who has been diagnosed with Crohn’s disease. Taylor has filed a cross-claim to have the amount reduced. The child currently receives $456 per week, according to Washington’s attorney, Debra Weisberg.

Taylor’s attorney, James Key Jr., said the former New York Giants linebacker has never missed a support payment and that news stories have portrayed him.

NEW YORK — Braylon Edwards has been a star for the New York Jets, and he wants to keep it that way.

Edwards, a free agent, emphasized Monday that he wants to stay with the team, and he said he believed the interest was mutual.

Edwards had 53 catches for 904 yards and seven touchdowns in his first full season with the Jets after they traded for him in October 2009. He made a key catch to set up the Jets’ game-winning field goal over the Indianapolis Colts in the final minute of this year’s AFC wild card playoff game.

Free agents have been in limbo this offseason as the NFL and the players’ union try to negotiate a new contract. Teams and players are waiting to see what a new agreement might look like.

Edwards, 28, said he’d spoken recently to Jets coach Rex Ryan and general manager Mike Tannenbaum, conversations he described as just catching up.

Police said they pulled Edwards over in Manhattan around 5 a.m. Sept. 21 because his luxury SUV’s windows were too dark. Officers said his blood-alcohol level was twice the legal limit.

He denies driving drunk. He’s challenging the basis for stopping him, the reliability of the test and other aspects of the case. Frankel told a court Monday he planned to file more papers contesting the breath tests.

A judge didn’t rule Monday on any of Edwards’ arguments. He’s due back in court May 16.

Olivia Vigil, 11, will have quite the story to tell people when she gets older: she got to play computer games with superstar Miami Heat player LeBron James.

Walking into a room filled with kids screaming from excitement, James donated 59 new computers to the Northwest Girls and Boys Club in Miami. The donation is part of a partnership between the LeBron James Family Foundation and Hewlett Packard to donate 1000 computers to Boys and Girls Clubs all across the country.

“I can remember [when] I was in junior high school or elementary. Not even a professional athlete, but if anybody would have came in and donated 1000 computers to our school we would have been so excited, we would have never forgot that moment,” James said. “To be able to do that for these kids its some thing they won’t ever forget. “I’m humbled [that] I’m in a position to do this.”

James donated more than just new computers. The Club also got a makeover complete with a new media, art and game room with a Foosball table. One student even won a room makeover from a random drawing.

“I really appreciate how the game room looks, the movie room, and I don’t know what the art room looks like but I think it’s going to be a very nice room,” Vigil said. “I would say thank you very much and give him a big hug.”