Adidas Promised $100,000 To The Athlete With The Fastest 40 Time At The Combine, But They’re Not Paying Up
Prior to the 2015 NFL Scouting Combine Adidas (pronounced ‘AH-DEE-DAS‘) announced they would be offering up a $100,000 prize to the three fastest athletes in the 40-yard dash, if those athletes agreed beforehand to sign with Adidas and endorse their shoes.
Well, UAB wide-receiver JJ Nelson went to the Adidas tent before running his 40, chose his favorite Adidas shoes, signed a waiver, and then went on to run the fastest overall 40 time. Only Adidas isn’t paying up, claiming that JJ Nelson didn’t sign with Adidas beforehand (even though he thought he did).
Former UAB receiver JJ Nelson, who ran the fastest overall time at the NFL combine, is confused why he doesn’t have $100,000 in his pocket.Adidas said it would pay the top three fastest players who ran the 40-yard dash in its shoes and signed a contract to endorse the brand before they ran $100,000.When Nelson went to the player suite where he had a choice to run in the latest models form Nike, Under Armour and Adidas, he said he chose Adidas not only because the shoes were comfortable but because he was aware of the $100,000 prize.“I wasn’t completely focused on it at the time,” Nelson told ESPN.com. “I was obviously focused on getting a good time first.”An Adidas news release said that the offer was “open to the athletes who sign with adidas prior to running their official 40 yard dashes later this month,” but Nelson said he wasn’t ever given a chance to sign with the brand.“I signed some waiver at some point, but I was never given a chance to sign an endorsement deal,” Nelson said.
So they didn’t even give the man a chance to sign? And now they’re not paying up? Adidas has ungodly sums of money at their disposal, surely they’ll find a way to make good on this….
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The Horrifying Story Of A Man Who Is Serving Life In Prison For Selling $20 Worth Of Marijuana
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There’s a lot of silly, petty B.S. on the Internet right now, like people losing their minds over the color of dresses. There is also some incredibly important journalism out there that you should read right this second, including Abby Haglage’s heartbreaking tale of Fate Vincent Winslow at The Daily Beast. Winslow’s story is unconscionable in so many ways: He is currently serving life imprisonment with hard labor in Louisiana for selling $20 worth of marijuana while homeless and hungry in 2008. He’s house in Louisiana State Penitentiary a.k.a. Angola, the largest prison in the United States, with no chance of parole.
Go read it. Right now.
The story of Winslow’s lifetime incarceration for $20 worth of marijuana so he could “get $5 to get something to eat” begins in Shreveport, Louisiana:
The story of Winslow’s lifetime incarceration for $20 worth of marijuana so he could “get $5 to get something to eat” begins in Shreveport, Louisiana:
On September 5, 2008, Fate Vincent Winslow watched a plainclothes stranger approach him. Homeless and hungry, on a dark street rife with crime, the 41-year-old African American was anxious to make contact, motivated by one singular need: food.Another man, this one white, stood next to Winslow. He is referred to in court documents exclusively as “Perdue.”It was nearly 9:20 p.m., hours after the sun had dipped below the abandoned buildings surrounding them. The lights of downtown Shreveport, Louisiana, flickered in the distance as the plain-clothes man—unbeknownst to them, an undercover cop—arrived.“What do you need?” Winslow asked. “A girl and some weed,” Officer Jerry Alkire replied.Perdue remained silent as Winslow and Alkire negotiated the costs. Winslow wanted a $5 delivery fee for the $20 (two dime bags) of pot. Fine. Money settled, he grabbed Perdue’s bike and took off. In the meantime, Alkire and Perdue waited. According to the police report, the two hardly spoke.A “girl” was the prime reason Alkire was there. Prostitutes were known to frequent these seedy streets, and he was looking to nab one. It was for this reason that an arrest agent, Sgt. Ricky Scroggins, sat listening to the bug hooked up to his ear from an unmarked vehicle nearby.The details of what happened next remain murky. Winslow returned to the scene, allegedly with marijuana. Money and drugs were exchanged between hands in the dark. When Scroggins and the other officers rushed to the scene after Officer Alkire confirmed the pot, they found $5 on Winslow and $20 on Perdue. Both bills had been marked, but no one could explain how, exactly, they got there.Police arrested Winslow, drove him to prison, and locked him up. Six months later, a jury found him guilty of distribution of a schedule I substance (marijuana). Three months after that, a judge sentenced him to life imprisonment with hard labor, without the benefit of parole.Perdue was never arrested.
Winslow has a slew of other non-violent drug-related prior felonies, but it’s baffling that he’s behind bars for the rest of his life when cops were looking to make a bust that seems like the law enforcement equivalent of fishing with dynamite. Even the warden at Angola himself is speaking out about Winslow’s incarceration at his facility:
“There’s an answer to this without being so extreme. But we’re still-living-20-years-ago extreme. Throw the human away. He’s worthless. Boom: up the river,” says Angola Prison Warden Burl Cain. “And yet, he didn’t even kill anybody. He didn’t do anything, he just had an addiction he couldn’t control and he was trying to support it robbing. That’s terrible to rob people—I’ve been robbed, I hate it. I want something done to him. But not all his life. That’s extreme. That’s cruel and unusual punishment to me.”
Just go read the entire thing over at The Daily Beast. It’s a heartbreaking tale you feel an ounce of compassion for your fellow human being. Perhaps even more importantly is that it raises some provocative questions about why we, as a society, levy such baffling criminal convictions against non-violent offenders, especially marijuana prohibition laws continue to crumble around the country.
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The 10 Most Unintentionally Awkward Movie Sex Scenes Of All Time
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Little tip: If you want to try to get your lady friend “in the mood” by watching a sexy movie, DON’T watch any of these films.
And for God’s sake, don’t ever watch Gigli. EVER. Whether by yourself or with someone else. Despite what this video says, Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck have to take the title for most awkward all of movie sex scenes ever made. And they were a freaking couple! No wonder their relationship didn’t last. Yeesh.
Andre The Giant Attempting To Jump Off The Top Rope Is Something You Don’t See Every Day — AND THANK GOD
Andre The Giant, the biggest attraction in wrestling for decades, was known for many things — his drinking ability, his handsome face and his massive dong but a man 7’4″ can’t be good at everything. While Andre was able to move about the ring with a certain gargantuan grace, he wasn’t exactly always…how to put this..well sometimes he was fucking painful to watch. Especially in those final years when his back was shot.
But my God. My sweet God this sequence is awful. Andre coming off the second rope gets funnier every time. I have to believe he never intended to go all the way to the top but it sure looks like he’s trying, right? For a brief moment, after his foot slides off the second turnbuckle, I feel like he got caught up in the crowd reaction of “HOLY SHIT ANDRE IS CLIMBING THE ROPES!” and pondered 520 pounds belly flopping onto his opponent.
He probably then thought “oh, right, I might fucking kill the guy.” He thought it in French, though.
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