Terrell Owens Lose 2 Dallas Condos

Terrell Owens Lose 2 Dallas Condos, Just because football star Terrell Owens has earned $80 million over the course of his career doesn’t mean he’s immune to foreclosure.

Owens, the star wide-receiver notorious for his off-field antics, is facing foreclosure on two of his Dallas condominiums, according to RealtyTrac, a real estate site that tracks foreclosure filings. The two upscale condos, which are less than three miles apart, will be auctioned on March 6, according to RealtyTrac.

One of the condos is at the luxury Azure Condominiums, and the other is at 3701 Commerce Street, according to RealtyTrac.

Owens isn’t the first athlete to fall on tough financial times. More than three-fourths of retired NFL players lose their fortune within two years, and sixty percent of NBA players become financially insolvent within five years of quitting.

Owens has lost nearly all of his money due to bad investments and steep child support payments, according to a recent profile in GQ. In addition, expensive mortgage payments on his multiple properties have become unsustainable. Owens’ property in Atlanta is on the market, and he sold a place in south Jersey for less than half the amount that he had paid for it, according to GQ.

Exacerbating his financial troubles, Owens, who has had an NFL career that includes stints in San Francisco, Dallas , Cincinnati, Philadelphia and Buffalo was unemployed in 2011 because he needed to recover from a surgery on his left knee.

But Owens has a job in football again. He scored three touchdowns on Sunday night in his first game for the Indoor Football League’s Allen Wranglers, according to Yahoo! Sports.

Terrell Owens Raiders

Terrell Owens Raiders, Terrell Owens impressed Carson Palmer in a recent workout, but don’t expect T.O. to join the Oakland Raiders’ receiving corps anytime soon.

Palmer, who threw to Owens during the 2010 season with the Cincinnati Bengals, invited the free-agent wideout to catch passes alongside the Raiders’ young wideouts, including top receiver Darrius Heyward-Bey, CSNBayArea.com reports.

Terrell Owens is seeking a job, but there’s a catch: He’s Terrell Owens. (AP Photo)
“It’s good to be around that,” Palmer told the website. “It was good for them to see that’s what it takes if you want to play for a long time and you want to be successful and have yards and catches and touchdowns and all that and that’s what it takes to work.”

Owens had on-field issues in meshing with coaches and teammates over his 15 years with five teams. But he never ran into off-field trouble the way Heyward-Bey did.

Heyward-Bey was arrested for drunken driving in early May, reportedly for an April traffic stop.

Heyward-Bey improved significantly last season but must keep working hard to become a bona fide No. 1 receiver.

Owens, with his 1,078 receptions, 15,934 receiving yards and 153 receiving TDs, is a pretty good role model in that regard.

There’s no doubt that Owens, at 37, has kept his body in peak condition waiting for another NFL chance. After tearing a knee ligament last offseason, he didn’t play in the NFL in 2011. With Palmer and the Bengals in 2010, he had 72 catches for 983 yards and nine TDs.

Mugger Tries To Rob MMA Fighter

Mugger Tries To Rob MMA Fighter, If you’re going to pick somebody to rob, make sure it’s not an MMA expert. Otherwise you’re liable to have your face pounded like this purple-faced clown.

The dude pictured is 24-year-old Anthony Miranda. He’s already done time for two burglary cases in 2005, and he was out on parole. It’s pretty obvious the dude is an amateur, because when he’s not getting caught, he’s getting beat up.

Miranda probably figured he was going to score some cash Friday night during a routine mugging in Chicago. Yeah, one problem: the guy whose car he walked up to happened to be a UFC fighter.

Here’s apparently how the whole thing shook down.

Miranda walks up to the car and asks the intended victim — a 6’2? 240-pound hulk named “Justin,” — if he had a light for a cigarette. Miranda then pulled out a gun, demanded Justin’s valuables, and ordered him out of the car. From there, a struggle ensued and Justin went all HAM on the robber.

From the looks of things, I’d say Justin got in a few punches to the eyes, and elbow to the nose, and probably a few knees for good measure.

Not pictured: Miranda’s ankle, which was shot when the two fought over the gun. Miranda ended up in the hospital, as you could imagine.

Elin Nordegren Single

Elin Nordegren Single, Tiger Woods‘ ex Elin Nordegren is single again.According to People magazine, she broke off her relationship with financier Jamie Dingman in January.

“She says Jamie’s a great guy — and they’re still friends — but I think it was just too early [after the divorce] for her to get serious with anyone,” a friend of Nordegren told the magazine.

The pair were first linked last summer. Dingman, the son of billionaire Michael Dingman, president of international investments firm Shipston Group Ltd., manages his father’s business in China. He and Nordegren’s pro-golfer ex-husband reportedly share something in common — a fling with former nightlife hostess Rachel Uchitel. (ABC News)

Junior Seau Burglarized

Junior Seau Burglarized, There are people in or around the town of Oceanside, Calif., who just got an express trip to the place where the red guy with the horns and pitchfork does his business. There are few things more disgusting than a robbery that affects the family of a man who just died, but that’s what happened last week to the family of Junior Seau.

Just five days after the great linebacker took his own life, some sorry excuses for humanity broke into Seau’s home, went through cabinets in the garage, and stole a bicycle that belonged to a friend of Seau’s.

Oceanside police Lt. Leonard Mata said that the stolen bike is gray with chrome fenders and a black seat, and there are 143 spokes in each wheel. Whoever broke in didn’t enter the house — just the garage. Nothing else was taken. The estimated value of the bike is approximately $500.

On May 7, at approximately 9:35 a.m., Seau’s girlfriend placed a 911 call indicating that she had found the body of the future Hall of Fame linebacker in a spare bedroom of his home. The death was suspected to be, and was later ruled, a suicide.

Seau, a 12-time Pro Bowler and six-time First-Team All-Pro, was selected fifth overall in the 1990 NFL draft after an outstanding collegiate career at USC. He played with the San Diego Chargers through the 2002 season, spent 2003-2005 with the Miami Dolphins, and then signed with the New England Patriots in time for the 2006 season. In New England’s perfect regular season of 2007, he played in all 16 games and started four. Seau first retired after that season, only to come back and play for the Patriots in 2008 and 2009 before finally leaving the NFL for good.

“I’m going to go surf,” he told Showtime upon his January 2010 retirement announcement. “Whatever happens, I can honestly say, that that probably was my last game.” (Yahoo! Sports)

Broke UFC Fighter Scores Big Payday

Broke UFC Fighter Scores Big Payday, Tom Lawlor’s quick knockout of his foe gives him his first check in over a year.Tom Lawlor knocked out Jason MacDonald in under a minute at UFC on Fuel 3 Tuesday and earned a $40,000 Knockout of the Night bonus. It turns out the extra money could not have come at a better time.

Lawlor, who is known for his flamboyant entrances and joking mood, became serious in a post-fight interview with Ariel Helwani. When Helwani asked about the pressure to win after coming off a loss at UFC 139, Lawlor admitted that the pressures were financial.

“I’ll be honest. I’m broke. I have no money. This money that I got today, it’s going to be the first time I’ve deposited a check in over a year. A year and a half. This is like a big deal to me. I had to borrow money from friends and family just in order to go into this fight. I want to thank them, obviously. This means a lot to me mentally, it means a lot to my bank account.”

He recently switched training camps and moved to Massachusetts to be closer to family. The cost of living and fighting just once in 2011 — a loss to Chris Weidman at UFC 139 — caught up with him.

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