Brock Lesnar’s good and all … but he ain’t an MVP WWE superstar like, say, THE MIZ — this according to The Miz. Here’s the deal … we got Miz chillin’ in the Big Apple, and asked him to pick the winner of this weekend’s “Survivor…
Showing posts with label Brock. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Brock. Show all posts
Sunday, November 19, 2017
Thursday, October 19, 2017
Demetrious Johnson: I Can Beat Brock Lesnar, Here"s How
UFC flyweight champ Demetrious Johnson says size actually doesn’t matter … telling TMZ Sports he thinks he could actually beat Brock Lesnar, and he has a plan on how to get it done. FYI — DJ is 5’3″, 125 lbs … Lesnar is a damn…
Wednesday, August 9, 2017
NFL"s Tramaine Brock Off the Hook In Domestic Violence Case
Prosecutors have dropped the domestic violence case against ex-San Francisco 49ers cornerback Tramaine Brock after the alleged victim stopped cooperating with investigators, TMZ Sports has learned. Brock was arrested in Santa Clara, CA back in…
Sunday, August 6, 2017
Randy Couture: Jon Jones Can Beat Brock Lesnar, Here"s How
UFC Hall of Famer Randy Couture knows exactly what it’s like to fight Brock Lesnar — and thinks Jon Jones can beat the guy … if he works on one very important part of his game. Couture and Brock threw down back at UFC 91 in 2008 — with…
Randy Couture: Jon Jones Can Beat Brock Lesnar, Here"s How
UFC Hall of Famer Randy Couture knows exactly what it’s like to fight Brock Lesnar — and thinks Jon Jones can beat the guy … if he works on one very important part of his game. Couture and Brock threw down back at UFC 91 in 2008 — with…
Monday, July 31, 2017
UFC"s Dan Henderson: Jon Jones Should NOT Fight Brock Lesnar, Here"s Why
UFC fans are hurtin’ to see Jon Jones fight Brock Lesnar next … but Dan Henderson is stompin’ out the potential super-fight. Why? Hendo told TMZ Sports he’s got ZERO interest in seeing Jones vs. Brock “because…
Tuesday, June 6, 2017
Ex-49ers CB Tramaine Brock Charged with Domestic Violence, Allegedly Punched GF
Former San Francisco 49ers cornerback Tramaine Brock has been hit with a felony domestic violence charge after he allegedly attacked his GF in front of their 1-year-old child. Officials say 28-year-old Brock — who played with SF from 2010 to…
Thursday, April 13, 2017
St. Louis Cardinals Hall of Famer Lou Brock Diagnosed With Cancer
St. Louis Cardinals legend Lou Brock has been diagnosed with bone cancer and is currently receiving treatment for multiple myeloma, the team announced Thursday. Brock — a 2-time World Series champ — was a first ballot Hall of Famer in 1985…
St. Louis Cardinals Hall of Famer Lou Brock Diagnosed With Cancer
St. Louis Cardinals legend Lou Brock has been diagnosed with bone cancer and is currently receiving treatment for multiple myeloma, the team announced Thursday. Brock — a 2-time World Series champ — was a first ballot Hall of Famer in 1985…
Friday, April 7, 2017
49ers Player Tramaine Brock Arrested For Felony Domestic Violence (MUG SHOT)
49ers CB Tramaine Brock was arrested for felony domestic violence near San Francisco … after he allegedly got physical with a girl he was dating. Santa Clara police say they responded to a report of domestic violence on Thursday night at 9:35 PM.…
Wednesday, February 15, 2017
Brock Lesnar to UFC ... I"m Retiring from MMA
IT’S ALL OVER!! Brock Lesnar has informed the UFC he’s officially retiring from MMA. The 39-year-old superstar informed the UFC about his decision, a rep for the organization tells MMAFighting.com. Lesnar was a beast in his prime and…
Wednesday, February 1, 2017
Brock Osweisler DISSED By Texans Owner ... We"re Lookin" for a Replacement
Bad news for Houston Texans QB Brock Osweiler — his owner basically just said he’s looking to replace his $ 72 million man. When discussing Brock’s underwhelming 1st season with the Texans, owner Bob McNair said, “We need better performance…
Tuesday, December 27, 2016
Brock Lesnar"s Likely Done with UFC ... Says Dana White (VIDEO)
Dana White tells TMZ Sports he’s still on great terms with Brock Lesnar — despite the UFC 200 PED drama — but believes his days in the Octagon are probably over. “I think his career is winding down but he’s a freak of nature. Who knows ……
Monday, December 19, 2016
Brock Osweiler"s Wife Is Pregnant ... Meet Our Fetus! (PHOTO)
Some good news for Brock Osweiler … he’s gonna be a dad!! TMZ Sports has learned Brock’s wife, Erin, is pregnant with a little girl due in April! It’s the couple’s first child and we’re told Brock and Erin’s families are super…
Thursday, December 15, 2016
Brock Lesnar Hit With Year Suspension, $250k Fine
Brock Lesnar was just hit with a 1 year suspension and massive $ 250k fine for two failed drug tests at UFC 200.
Monday, December 12, 2016
Boxing Champ Deontay Wilder -- I Wanna Fight Brock Lesnar ... And I"d Kick His Ass (VIDEO)
Heavyweight Champ Deontay Wilder says there’s only one UFC fighter he’d like to get in the boxing ring … and it ain’t Conor … telling TMZ Sports he’d love to kick the hell out of Brock Lesnar. We got the big man out at LAX and wanted to…
Wednesday, November 2, 2016
Brock Turner Rape Victim Speaks Out, Declares: I"m a Survivor
For the first time since Brock Turner was freed from prison, the woman he raped has released a public statement.
Turner, of course, is the Stanford University student who was convicted of rape this past spring, only for a judge to sentence him to a mere six months behind bars.
The case made national news after Turner’s victim, who preferred to remain anonymous, addressed her attacker in court.
Within four days, her statement had been viewed 11 million times; was read aloud on CNN; and also on the floor of Congress.
It also made national news because Turner was found guilty of assaulting this woman behind a dumpster in an alley… and yet his father dismissed the action as nothing more than a drunken mistake.
His mother said the same thing and Turner himself blamed both his alcohol intake and even that of his victim for his actions.
Turner was released from jail after just three months and was forced to register as a sex offender.
But that was a pretty small price to pay for that he did.
Now, Glamour has named Emily Doe its Woman of the Year and has given her a platform to share her thoughts on Turner, his conviction, his sentencing, his release and, of course, her role in this sad tale.
Out of respect for the victim, we are simply going to run her statement to Glamour in its entirety below.
She deserves to tell her story in full, without any commentary or editorializing from our staff…
From the beginning, I was told I was a best case scenario.
I had forensic evidence, sober unbiased witnesses, a slurred voice mail, police at the scene. I had everything, and I was still told it was not a slam dunk. I thought, if this is what having it good looks like, what other hells are survivors living?
I’m barely getting through this but I am being told I’m the lucky one, some sort of VIP. It was like being checked into a hotel room for a year with stained sheets, rancid water, and a bucket with an attendant saying, No this is great! Most rooms don’t even have a bucket.
After the trial I was relieved thinking the hardest part was over, and all that was left was the sentencing. I was excited to finally be given a chance to read my statement and declare, I am here. I am not that floppy thing you found behind the garbage, speaking melted words.
I am here, I can stand upright, I can speak clearly, I’ve been listening and am painfully aware of all the hurt you’ve been trying to justify.
I yelled half of my statement. So when it was quickly announced that he’d be receiving six months, I was struck silent. Immediately I felt embarrassed for trying, for being led to believe I had any influence. The violation of my body and my being added up to a few months out of his summer.
The judge would release him back to his life, back to the 40 people who had written him letters from Ohio. I began to panic; I thought, this can’t be the best case scenario. If this case was meant to set the bar, the bar had been set on the floor.
The morning after the sentencing, my phone screen was stacked with texts and I turned it over saying, not today, on this day I deserve to sleep. My phone kept ringing and I learned that BuzzFeed was waiting for my permission to publish my court statement in full.
As soon as it was posted, I remember thinking, what have I done, making myself exposed and vulnerable again. I texted my sister when it hit 20,000 views, thinking that was it, the comments were actually quite nice, and I closed my computer.
I started getting e-mails forwarded to me from Botswana to Ireland to India. I received watercolor paintings of lighthouses and bicycle earrings. A woman who plucked a picture of her young daughter from the inside of her cubicle wrote, This is who you’re saving.
When I received an e-mail that Joe Biden had written me a letter I was sitting in my pajamas eating some cantaloupe. You are a warrior. I looked around my room, who is he talking to. You have a steel spine, I touched my spine. I printed his letter out and ran around the house flapping it in the air.
There was, of course, the wee sprinkle of trolls. Some photos of me leaked and someone said, “She’s not pretty enough to have been raped.” In response I say, damn I wish the world could see me. I wish you could see my big, beautiful head and huge eyes. Perhaps now you are at home imagining me looking like some sort of bloated owl. That’s all right.
When Ashleigh Banfield read my letter on the news I sat stunned watching her speak my words, imagining them being spoken on every television set in the nation. Watching women and men at Gracie Mansion, on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives, girls in their rooms, gathered together to read each segment, holding my words in their voices.
My body seemed too small to hold what I felt.
In the very beginning of it all in 2015, one comment managed to lodge harmfully inside me: Sad. I hope my daughter never ends up like her.
I absorbed that statement. Ends up. As if we end somewhere, as if what was done to me marked the completion of my story. Instead of being a role model to be looked up to, I was a sad example to learn from, a story that caused you to shield your daughter’s eyes and shake your heads with pity.
But when my letter was published, no one turned away. No one said I’d rather not look, it’s too much, or too sad.
Everyone pushed through the hard parts, saw me fully to the end, and embraced every feeling.
If you think the answer is that women need to be more sober, more civil, more upright, that girls must be better at exercising fear, must wear more layers with eyes open wider, we will go nowhere. When Judge Aaron Persky mutes the word justice, when Brock Turner serves one month for every felony, we go nowhere.
When we all make it a priority to avoid harming or violating another human being, and when we hold accountable those who do, when the campaign to recall this judge declares that survivors deserve better, then we are going somewhere.
So now to the one who said, I hope my daughter never ends up like her, I am learning to say, I hope you end up like me, meaning, I hope you end up like me strong. I hope you end up like me proud of who I’m becoming. I hope you don’t “end up,” I hope you keep going.
And I hope you grow up knowing that the world will no longer stand for this. Victims are not victims, not some fragile, sorrowful aftermath. Victims are survivors, and survivors are going to be doing a hell of a lot more than surviving.
Tuesday, September 6, 2016
Brock Turner, Convicted Rapist, Registers as Sex Offender
Yes, by now, you likely know who Brock Turner is.
You probably didn’t need us to write in the above headline that he’s a “convicted rapist.”
Except far too many media outlets seemed to bury this lede when reporting on Brock Turner getting out of jail last week.
They wrote that “Former Stanford Swimmer Brock Turner…” was now out of prison or some similar nonsense.
So we just want to make it clear here:
Yes, Brock Turner once swam for Stanford University.
But that fact only matters to the shady judge who gave him a lenient sentence.
Brock Turner is only generating headlines these days because he is a rapist. He was convicted on three felony counts of sexual assault against an unconscious woman.
Okay, thank you for indulging us.
We had to get that out of our system.
Turner was somehow sentenced to only six months in prison for his heinous act, which took place in January of last year and which involved him inserting his figures in a woman lying on the street outside a party.
He was caught by a couple of fellow students and ran away as quickly as he could at the time.
Fortunately, one of those students caught up to Turner and tackled him to the ground.
He was eventually arrested and convicted of rape, only for his father to argue in court that his son did not deserve any jail time for a mere “20 minutes of action.”
The judge incredibly agreed with this assessment, going against the prosecutors’ recommendation and sentencing Turner to six months behind bars, which was reduced to three months due to good behavior.
Turner is now a free man.
But he will at least have an official stigma attached to his name forever.
As you can see below, Turner registered on Tuesday morning in Greene County, Ohio as a sex offender.
This registration, along with drug and alcohol counseling, was part of Turner’s legal “punishment.”
We have to put that word in quotation marks because it’s abhorrent just how easy to judge went on Turner.
In response to the light sentencing, Turner’s unnamed victim read a moving letter to her rapist in court.
It was then read on CNN by anchor Ashleigh Banfield, who fought off tears as she made public the words of this brave young woman.
It’s well worth your time to watch the video above.
Yes, it will make you even angrier over the Brock Turner sentencing.
But it will hopefully comfort you in the knowledge that his victim seems like the sort of woman who will recover from his act and maybe even use her horrible history to help others.
Brock Turner is a rapist. Brock Turner is a rapist. Brock Turner is a rapist.
Sorry. Just had to make sure we said that a few more times.
Friday, September 2, 2016
Brock Turner Released from Prison, Surrounded by Media
Brock Turner is officially a free man.
The former University of Stanford swimmer was convicted in March on three felony accounts of sexual assault.
A jury determined that Turner assaulted an unconscious woman outside a fraternity party in January of 2015.
Specifically, Turner was convicted of assault with intent to commit rape of an intoxicated woman; sexually penetrating an intoxicated person with a foreign object; and sexually penetrating an unconscious person with a foreign object.
He faced up to 10 years in prison, with prosecutors recommending six years behind bars.
Instead, to the shock and dismay of everyone outside of Turner"s family, a judge only sentenced Brock Turner to six months in jail.
Moreover, he only served half that time, leaving prison this morning around 6 a.m. after a three-month sentence.
You can see him walking out of the jail in the following video, ignoring the press and stepping into an SUV.
Santa Clara County Sheriff Laurie Smith told reporters soon after Turner"s release that "he should be in prison right now, but he"s not in our custody."
Smith added that "we need to change the laws in California … if you rape someone who is unconscious and intoxicated, you go to prison."
She is not alone in this thinking.
The case made national news mostly due to the ridiculously short sentence, but also because Turner"s father wrote the judge a letter than downplayed his son"s actions.
Drastically.
Mr. Turner claimed Turner should not go to jail for what amounted to just "20 minutes of action."
The judge somehow agreed, stating that a lengthy sentence would have a "severe impact" on Turner.
In response, the woman Turner raped released a statement of her own in court
There"s no video of her doing so and she has chosen to remain anonymous, but CNN anchor Ashleigh Banfield read the entire statement on air soon after this sentencing travesty went public.
“You don’t know me, but you’ve been inside me, and that’s why we’re here today,” Banfield read to open the message.
It went on to walk folks through the victim’s difficult experience – and it"s very much worthy of your time to listen to below:
Turner will need to attend drug and alcohol counseling and receive random testing as part of his so-called punishment.
But he was found guilty of raping an unconscious woman and spent only three months in jail.
Think about that as you watch him walk out a free man below:
Tuesday, August 30, 2016
Brock Turner to Be Released from Jail Early
Brock Turner is back in the news.
For all the wrong reasons.
The former Stanford University swimmer was convicted of sexual assault against an unconscious woman in January of 2015.
The case made headlines this spring when he was sentenced because a judge determined that Turner should not spend much time in jail.
As a result, Turner is set to be released from prison on Friday, according to the Department of Correction’s website of Santa Clara County in California.
At that time, he will have served three months of a six-month sentence.
For those who have forgotten about the Brock Turner case, here is a refresher:
On January 18, 2015, two students came across Turner inserting his fingers inside of an unconscious woman in an alley.
He tried to flee on foot upon being caught, but was caught and tackled by one of the witnesses.
Evidence pointed to Turner shoving pine needles and other objects into the woman’s vagina, with his attorney trying to argue that Turner asked for permission and that the sexual acts were consensual.
However, a jury did not buy this defense and Turner was found guilty on multiple counts of rape.
Yes, RAPE. Turner was found guilty. There’s no debate here over his crime.
Except that Turner’s father sent the judge a note that pleaded for a lenient sentence.
He disgustingly downplayed his son’s actions at the time of the rape, writing that Turner’s “life will never be the one that he dreamed about and worked so hard to achieve” if he goes to jail.
Turner’s dad added:
“That is a steep price to pay for 20 minutes of action out of his 20-plus years of life.”
Here is a look at Dan Turner’s full statement:
Santa Clara County Judge Aaron Persky* mostly agreed with Mr. Turner in the end, ignoring the prosecutors’ recommendation that Turner spend up to six years in jail.
He sentenced Turner to a mere six months, along with probation.
It’s possibly worth noting that the judge also attended Stanford.
(*According to CNN, Persky will no longer hear criminal cases beginning September 6; he will instead preside over civil cases.)
The case continued to earn national attention when a statement the victim read in court went viral.
It was read by CNN’s Ashley Banfield on air and it opened with the following line:
“You don’t know me, but you’ve been inside me, and that’s why we’re here today.”
The letter then walked people through the victim’s difficult experience, which continues today.
It’s pretty clear her punishment will outlast that of Turner.
Watch the CNN anchor try to hold it together while reading the words of the victim out loud:
The former college athlete blamed his actions on “party culture” in his own memo to the judge, claiming that he hadn’t been exposed to drugs or alcohol prior to entering college.
This would be a ridiculous excuse under any circumstance.
Plenty of college students try alcohol for the first time in college and do not tape anyone.
However, in a prosecutor’s sentencing memo obtained by the San Mercury News, it was discovered that Turner had sent text messages in high school to friends suggesting they drop acid and buy pot.
Turner will be required to attend drug and alcohol counseling after his release.
The victim, meanwhile, has decided to remain anonymous even after her powerful letter to Turner went public.
In a statement to local news outlets, she said that her decision comes as “a statement that all of these people are fighting for someone they don’t know” and that “for now, I am every woman.
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