From Pro to Broke

Gold diggers, step your game up! You’re running out of time. A new report from Yahoo! Sports suggests 80% of NFL players near bankruptcy 2 years after they retire from the game. 60% of NBA players go broke within 5 years of hanging up their shorts. And you can blame bad decision-making for their money woes.

According to the report, these are some of the biggest financial mistakes of all time:

Scottie Pippen
The former Bulls star lost $120 million in career earnings due to poor financial planning and bad business ideas, including blowing $4.3 million on a Gulfstream II corporate jet.

Evander Holyfield
The boxing champ raked in about $250 million during his career but made the very unwise decision to buy a $20 million house with 109 rooms. Now, he can’t afford heat.

Latrell Sprewell
Spree turned down a $21 million NBA contract because he couldn't feed his family off that *blank stare*, eventually, the government seized his yacht and his house went into foreclosure two years ago.  You mean the rim game wasn't profitable?

Mike Tyson
The ear muncher boxing champ blew his near $400 million fortune on a Bentley, a $2 million tub and some tigers. Tyson went bankrupt in 2003 but he went nuts circa 1990.

And what is the lesson we can learn from this? Don’t chase these dudes in the club, they have no money.

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Evander Holyfield Beat His Wife?

Here we go again.

Candi Calvana Smith, 3rd wife of boxer Evander Holyfield, is seeking a protective order against her husband. Smith claims he hit her in the face after the two argued about the heat being cut off in the house and the kids being too cold. Oh, but but but but wait it gets worse (© Onyx) that argument then escalated to a quarrel over church payments. Yeah, you read that right. 

Holyfield allegedly told her she was being disrespectful and that she needed to "put God first in her life." They continued to argue when he asked had she been tithing to the church. Holyfield demanded she show him the check stubs to prove it. When Smith refused, that’s when she alleges he hit her in the face, on the head and on the back (White Jesus does not approve). Smith also says Holyfield has a history of violence (duh!) and has been violent in the presence of their children.

Smith wants a divorce. A court date has been set for February 18th. Holyfield reportedly has 11 children. Fertile much? 

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Tyson and Holyfield Meet on Oprah

Mike Tyson was back on Oprah this morning for a live showdown with Evander Holyfield. Only, it wasn't much of a showdown.

Mutual praise and admiration dominated during the face to face meeting. The former friends haven't been on the best of terms since June 28, 1997, when Tyson chomped on Holyfield's ear like a piece of Church's chicken.

Today, Tyson shook Holyfield's hand and poured on the praise, calling Holyfield a "beautiful guy."

Holyfield admitted that he had bitten other people during childhood play-fighting as a way to get out of headlocks. Ewww!

Holyfield said one reason he wanted to appear with Tyson on television was to demonstrate to youth caught up in violence that reconciliation is always possible.

Aww, Rodney King!  We can all get along!

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