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After taking a look at Warren Sapp’s bankruptcy filing you have to assume that a lot of this comes down to the back child support he owes in the amount of $876K to his former wife Jamiko Sapp and the fact that he maybe job free soon.

I thumbed through the bankruptcy documents and found it interesting that Sapp lists his cash on hand at $100 although he does cite having a few thousand in money market accounts. But in terms of readily available funds he claims to have none.

Odd, because if you scroll down the documents it shows that he had abnormally high income for March–including final contract payments and appearance fees that brought his income up to $115K. And as late as March 1, 2012 he gave $900 cash to a female friend who happens to have the same name as a certain tattooed model that he’s following on twitter.

In fact, he gave several cash gifts to female friends over the past 9 months ranging from $500 to $1500 suggesting that he normally has at least a little bit of cash to throw around.

By far, the bulk of his assets are tied up in annuities and a big chunk of his value is 2 million plus dollars in life insurance.

All of this makes his decision to start snitch-gate with Jeremy Shockey even more appalling.

Sapp has been very well aware of the great pains the NFL has gone through to rebrand itself, limit liability, and encourage players to be upfront about anything that compromises those efforts. And yet and still, Sapp tweeted about Jeremy Shockey being the “snitch” in the Saints bounty scandal knowing full well his contract with NFL network would be up for renewal consideration in August and he badly needs to keep his job.

NFL network has been much kinder when it comes to ignoring Sapp’s “trangressions” than any other network I can think of would be. They’ve virtually let him do whatever he wants on social media–recently saying his twitter is his PRIVATE account and not associated with NFL network— which simply would not fly any where else in the media sphere that would pay him upwards of the 45K a month he is receiving right now.

He really blew this whole thing.

Sites are already reporting that it is very unlikely that his contract will be renewed after it expires on August 31 and that he has not been on air since Snitch-gate nor have plans been released to have him on again.

Remember that firm I told you about that is owned by Darien Dash, Jay-z’s former business partner Damon Dash’s cousin? The one that was helping arrange loans for cash strapped players during the lockout? The one that sounded seedier than all get out but you didn’t hear that from me?

Well apparently right before the lockout began Ravens LT Bryant McKinnie borrowed money using the firm’s services and never paid it back. This season, the firm will seek to garnish McKinnie’s wages:

Baltimore Ravens offensive lineman Bryant McKinnie could lose about $4.5 million in wages due to a lawsuit filed in New York Supreme Court and a related case in Baltimore alleging he failed to repay a loan taken out last year.

Pro Player Funding, a private New York sports lending agency, alleges in a November lawsuit that McKinnie took out a loan of about $4.2 million in February 2011 in anticipation of the NFL’s player lockout that lasted about five months last year. Pro Player says McKinnie failed to repay that loan, as well as a separate loan of about $229,000 he took out in July.

The Ravens management, according to court documents, has agreed with both McKinnie and Pro Player Funding to garnish McKinnie’s future wages in the coming season, placing the funds in an escrow account until a second lawsuit in Baltimore City Circuit Court is settled.

In that lawsuit, Pro Player is seeking to recover the money from McKinnie’s future wages this season. But lawyers representing McKinnie filed a counterclaim alleging that Pro Player Funding’s loans were unscrupulous and that the loan agency failed to advance McKinnie at least $1.7 million of the original $4.2 million loan. That lawsuit is still open.

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ESPN’s Rick Reilly writes a story that paints yet another complex (and sort of negative) picture of Tiger Woods. Reilly quotes Tiger’s half siblings as saying they haven’t had contact with Tiger since their father died 6 years ago despite leaving numerous voice messages and even having one of Tiger’s nieces visit him for Thanksgiving.

“I leave messages,” Earl Jr. says. “I leave updates on Kevin, but for whatever reason I don’t get a response. … Kevin loves Tiger. A call from Tiger would really pump Kevin up. When he doesn’t call, it just makes him feel worse.”

Earl Jr., Kevin and sister Royce are the children of Earl Woods and Barbara Gary, of Kansas. They’re 20, 18 and 17 years older than Tiger, who is the offspring of Earl’s second marriage, to Kultida Punsawad. Though they lived in different houses, the four kids visited often and say they remained close until Tiger turned “about 15 or 16,” Earl Jr. says. “But the more universal Tiger got, the less we heard from him.”

Royce, who also lives in San Jose, stayed close with Tiger during his two years in college, fixing him meals and doing his laundry. In thanks, Tiger bought her a house. But since the funeral, none of them have been able to contact him.

“I would live in a shack,” Royce told author Tom Callahan for his 2010 book “His Father’s Son,” “literally a shack, if I could have my relationship with my brother back.”

According to the article, Tiger’s brother Kevin is suffering from an undisclosed serious illness and is on the verge of losing his house.

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Baylor powerhouse basketball player Brittney Griner admits she searches her name to see what people are saying. Well, I’ve seen what people have said and I don’t know how she does it. Truthfully, she probably can’t resist. There’s something hypnotic about people’s ignorance that sometimes draws me to read people’s filthy thoughts. Maybe a part of me hopes that one day I’ll understand what makes people so mean and stupid. Maybe Brittney does too…or maybe she’s just curious about it all or finds it motivating in some strange way.

This week the Houston Chronicle did a short write up about the nasty things people say about Griner:

Female athletes have long been subjected to taunts about gender and sexuality, in large part because to many, muscles and femininity don’t mix. Because Griner is taller than the average NBA player and can do things on the basketball court no woman her size has ever been able to do, she is the target of particularly callous and puerile assaults.

All because she can dunk a basketball … better than most men.

As you might imagine, Baylor head coach Kim Mulkey has no patience for the fools who taunt her junior center.

“This is someone’s child. This is a human being, people,” Mulkey said, her voice shuddering with emotion. “She didn’t wake up and say: ‘God, make me look like this; make me be 6-8; make me have the ability to dunk.’

“This child is as precious as they come when it comes to being a good person, a sweet kid, a coachable (kid), one of the greatest players I’ve ever coached, probably the greatest, and the easiest to coach. I love going to work and seeing Brittney Griner’s face. She just makes me happy.

“But yet the stuff she’s had to read about, the stuff she’s had to hear, the stuff people say about her, the stuff people write about her … it’s gotta stop. That stuff’s gotta stop.”

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