Basketball Babe #4 Derrick Rose Chicago Bulls near $200 Million Adidas Shoe Deal

NBA All Star Derrick Rose and Reigning MVP signed a monumental basketball shoe deal with Adidas worth what could climb to a whopping $200M with incentives.

The signed deal is a 13 year deal with Adidas and guaranteed for $185M and with incentives could reach $200-$250M total!

The Chicago Bulls and the NBA might like the softening of the blow to the salary cap and increased player salaries. His last extension with the Bulls was only $94 over 5 years.

We will see lots more ads like these for the Adidas folks get their monies worth!

Throw in few commercials on TV for more of the 13 to 40 age group demographics!

Adidas should have signed him while coming out of a Memphis Tigers uniform they may have saved some $$$M?

or maybe high school at Simeon (Maybe the NCAA would balk on that one)?

I wonder if Dwight Howard or Ken Jeong "Slim Chin" will want a cut?

The Boston Red Sox banned alcohol revealed Bobby Valentine

I guess we have to take all of these back!

Bobby Valentine says it all here!

Baseball Babe #80 Honors Ryan Zimmerman Washington Nationals $100M Extension

 The Washington Nationals franchise third baseman signed a deal for six years for $100 million with a club option for a seventh. Ryan Zimmerman has two seasons left on a $45 million, five-year contract, and the new deal, which contains a no-trade clause, will keep him with the in Washington Nationals uniform through 2019.

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Basketball Babe #4 Honors Jeremy Evans Utah Jazz Wins 2012 Sprite Slam Dunk Contest

The Utah Jazz represented with winner Jeremy Evans aka "The Human Pogo Stick"!

His 2nd round dunk with a jump over double alley-oop aided by teammate Gordon Hayward helped seal his way into the lead and help to secure the win.

His dunks won over Houston Rockets' Chase Budinger, Paul George of the Indiana Pacers and Derrick Williams the Minnesota Timberwolves.
He did bring some fanfare to the contest by jumping ober comedian Kevin Hart in a retro Karl Malone jersey!

The much media hyped 2012 Sprite Slam Dunk Contest fell flat for the viewers.
The contest had a new twist with only 2 minutes between dunks and fans able to vote but still fell short due to megastar appeal.
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Basketball Babe #3 Honors Tony Parker San Antonio Spurs 2012 NBA Skills Challenge Winner

The NBA all-stars had their night in the limelight and San Antonio Spurs guard Tony Parker made the best of his by winning the 2012 NBA Skills Challenge. The win was a suprise most fans had Boston Celtics' Rajon Rondo picked to win, New Jersey Nets' point guard Deron Williams a sleeper and the lesser known Kyrie Irving of the Cleveland Cavaliers point guard was even favored.

Parker's 29.2 seconds in the first round set the tone for the whole competition.

But, the skillful veteran showed us why he is an all-star by completing the skills challenge in 32.8 seconds beating out Rondo (34.6) and Williams (41.4) for the win.

Winning deserves a trophy!

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Basketball Babe #2 Honors Kevin Love Minnesota Timberwolves wins 2012 NBA Foot Locker 3-point Shootout

The Minnesota Timberwolves' all-star power forward Kevin Love showed his skills are more than banging the boards and dunking. He used his shooting touches to win the 2102 NBA Foot Locker 3-point Shootout. So, he gets three babes in his honor!

He started out rough in the first round and having to win a tie-breaker over Miami Heat gaurd Mario Chalmers.

He came thru in the end with a stunning finish scoring 17 points over Oklahoma City Thunder small forward Kevin Durant and his 14 points.

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Basketball Babe #1 Honors Jeremy Lin New York Knicks Going Linsanity

The inaugural Basketball Babe has to go to Jeremy Lin for his surging popularity that has gone to super-hyped in the first half of the NBA season.

The New York Knick fans have even let the world know it's Linsanity!

The injury plagued Knicks had a choice to make early in the season when team needed a some energy for the fans, a point guard and Carmelo Anthony and Amare Stoudemire needed time off.

The traded, dropped and D-league bench player from Harvard got his look from Coach Mike D' Antoni. The Jeremy Lin number 17 gave them the 1 jersey number of Stoudemire and the 7 jersey number from Anthony all in one package to ignite the fans at Madison Square Garden and play his way to staying in the starting line up!

So, I guess the dream is coming true for this asian american from California!

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Baseball Babe #79 Honors Ryan Braun Milwaukee Brewers Wins Appeal on Positive Test for Performance Enhancing Drugs

The wait is over the 2011 National League MVP, Ryan Braun who wins an appeal of a positive test for performance enhancing drugs.

The 50 games that he was suspended was overturned by an arbitrator on Thursday and was announced by the players union soon after.

Now he can get back to work for the Milwaukee Brewers and be ready for opening day!

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Baseball Babe #78 Honors Manny Ramirez Minor League Signing with Oakland A's

The Oakland Athletics dipped into the well and with little investment and minimal risk are taking their chances with Manny Ramirez.

Manny coming off of his reduced to 50 games suspension this season for an illegal drug failed test signed a minor league contract with A's for a prorated $500,000. The amount will be more like $300,000 under the league minimum after the suspension. Very cheap if Manny makes it back to the big show.

Could we find Manny Ramirez wearing a Triple AAA  Sacramento River Rats logo and fizzle away or in an Oakland A's uniform?

Will "Manny being Manny" effect the young talent such as Yoennis Cespedes positively or negatively? If the bat is there he can surely show the kids how to hit!

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Will Perry Ellis Wichita Heights' Falcons High School Phenom heading to the Kansas Jayhawks be the next NBA Star?

Wichita Heights senior power forward Perry Ellis has put his name down as one of the best high school basketball player in the nation. At 6'8' and 220 lbs he is a beast to br reckoned with at the high school level. The national basketball websites Scout.com ranked him the 36th ranked college prospect and Rivals.com followed up with 24th on their list.

The phenom started his acsent to greatness in junior high at Brooks Junior High.

Check out this dunk in of Perry while playing for Brooks!

 

The Falcon's coaches at Heights must have been jumping for joy and shaking in anticipation of Perry coming to them as a freshman!

Well they have not be disappointed so far. In the 2012 season the Falcons broke the state record for consecutive wins for a Kansas high school basketball team with 60 straight wins!

The team has flourished with the star on their team. His talents have been noticed as he passed Kansas legend Greg Dreiling as the scoring leader.

Dreiling

Ellis

Perry Ellis also led Wichita Heights to a third consecutive Class 6A state title last season while averaging 22.1 points and 7.9 rebounds per game. Now in his senior season he is looking to make it 4 straight.

So he has shown the nation he is ready for the next level!

  

 

The next level is the Kansas Jayhawks where he has signed his letter of intent on Sept. 21,  2012. He will be staying home and playing for Bill Self, a coach that went to his first game at Heights as a freshman. He will be wearing his number 34 that was once worn at KU by Paul Pierce.

Will the next level take him to the NBA like these great forwards did coming from high school... Lebron James, Blake Griffin, Kevin Durant or Dirk Nowitzki and win a championship?

Lebron James

Blake Griffin

Kevin Durant

Dirk Nowitzki

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