Athletes and Their Family Time

Posted by The ProWife in Family on March 10, 2010 | No Comments Yet Everyone in the world today has their struggles with the delicate balance between their families and work. It is much more difficult for the life of a professional athlete. It is hard enough for someone with just a 9-5 job for 40 hours a week, much less professional athletes that is away from their families and homes more than ten hours a day and are on the road half of...

Sports Groupies: Not my Kinda Club

Posted by The ProWife in Athlete Lifestyle on March 9, 2010 | No Comments Yet Just as with movie stars and rock stars, there are women in the world today that hang around sports celebrities with the sole intent to grab one for their own. So let’s clarify the term “Groupie.” This is not a women who meets a professional athlete through friends, family, at church, or at a picnic and they start dating, not because of what he does, or how much...

UCONN Girls 71 in a row! Believe it!

Posted by The ProWife in Sports Event on March 9, 2010 | No Comments Yet It is so awesome to hear about a team who has broken a legendary record, but it is more special when it is a women’s basketball team who displays such teamwork. The University of Connecticut womens basketball team broke their own record set in 2003. They have 71 consecutive wins and won all of their games this year by double digits.After their win against Notre Dame...

Preparing for the NFL Draft

Posted by The ProWife in Athletes, nfl on March 8, 2010 | No Comments Yet Times have changed in the last few decades when it comes to what college athletes do in order to prepare for the NFL draft. It used to be, finish up your college season and hope you made a big enough impression on a team for them to draft you in April. This is not the case anymore, and in order to get ahead and make an impression, as soon as the college season is over you...

The season is over..Now it’s time to play

Posted by The ProWife in Travel on March 2, 2010 | No Comments Yet If you are a professional athlete, or you are married to one, going on a vacation can be a stressful time because of the notoriety of the athlete. Fans are everywhere, and autograph seekers, people who want pictures and the starring eyes in restaurants can be quite unsettling, even in cities away from where the athlete plays. With that in mind, here are a few vacation...

Is the NBA a league of “thugs” who don’t respect the game?

Posted by The ProWife in Athletes on March 2, 2010 | No Comments Yet The NBA has dealt with this image issue for many years. No surprises here, granted the league is made up mostly of Black players. Beyond sports, blacks are sometimes called lazy, violent, unintelligent, or a combination of the three. If there’s one issue in regards to the latest incident with Arenas that bothers me most, it’s that it reinforces the idiotic stereotype...

A Sports Family – Life On The Move

Posted by The ProWife in Relocation on March 1, 2010 | No Comments Yet It is a fact of life among professional athletes that the possibility of getting traded or signing to a new team as a free agent in a different city could happen at any time.  The bottom line, as a professional athlete in any team sport, suggests that the chances of a professional athlete staying in one city throughout the course of their careers are very slim. There...

Irresponsible Athletes that go to Jail

Posted by The ProWife in Athletes, Celeb News on March 1, 2010 | No Comments Yet Former NBA star Jayson Williams choked on his words with his tears dripping onto the statement he was attempting to read in a New Jersey courtroom on Tuesday morning. He had just been sentenced to five years in prison for shooting limousine driver Costas Christofi with a 12-gauge shotgun and killing him after a night of heavy drinking. Typically, it took the legal system...

Holyfield Bows out of Dr. Phil Appearance

Posted by The ProWife in Athletes, Celeb News on February 26, 2010 | No Comments Yet Evander Holyfield and his wife Candi met with Dr. Phil McGrawat at his Beverly Hills home on Saturday. The couple is now pulling out from appearing on his Dr. Phil’s show to discuss their troubled marriage. The former boxing champion confirmed that he canceled a scheduled appearance on the talk show guru’s television show after a dinner date at Dr. Phil’s...

Julius Erving, The Doctor is in for a Surprise 60th Birthday Party

Posted by The ProWife in Athletes, Celeb News on February 26, 2010 | No Comments Yet On Friday at Taj Mahal in Atlantic City, Sixers legend Julius Erving, also known as “Dr. J.” was surprised when friends threw him a 60th birthday party. The party continued on Saturday night with a black-tie dinner. The “Doctor’s” actual birthday was on Monday. Dr. J., the “Doctor” who was given the nickname back in high school because he was a surgeon who...