During a Monday appearance on the CBS Morning Show, the good doctor took part in a riveting discussion about Tanning Mom and weighed in on the tragic death of Junior Seau before speaking more generally about the pressures professional athlete’s face.

“Eighty percent end up bankrupt, divorced or in serious financial trouble within two years of being out of the league,” Dr. Phil said. “… The research says that it’s because of the hangers-on, getting ripped off by advisors…”

Which brings us to Terrell Owens. Dr. Phil offered a glimpse into Owens’ situation at the 3:40 mark in the video below.

The details for those of you too lazy to click the play button: Dr. Phil said Owens “[S]ays he wants to set the record straight. He wants to tell people he’s not the person the media has depicted him of being,” adding “I’m not sure he made a lot of progress with these women.”

At one point during the encounter, one of the women tells T.O., “I have been raising our daughter to the best of my ability. I’ve tried to be the best mother I can be. I have always supported you Terrell and I think you know that. I have come to your defense all the time because I realize you are my child’s father. I would not wish any harm on you, I wish you nothing but the best because I know how I feel as a daughter.”

Owens disagreed when asked if he believed what the women were saying. (CBSSports)

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.

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.

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.

Richardson Kennedy, the estranged wife of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., was found dead on Wednesday in what police called an apparent suicide.

Despite their political fame and fortune, the family has been ridden with tragedy for decades, even years before the late-former President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in 1963. After this event, and the death of Robert Kennedy five years later, many began to believe the Kennedy family was under some sort of ominous curse, causing its members to die young from illness, assassinations and accidents, once they delved deeper into the history. Some even say troubles for the Kennedy family, an Irish-American clan originally from Massachusetts, began when the patriarch and father-of-nine Joseph Kennedy became an ambassador to Britain in 1937.

1941: Joseph Kennedy and wife Rose order a lobotomy for eldest daughter, Rosemary Kennedy, to control her violent mood swings. The procedure was not successful, prompting them to place her in a mental institution.

1944: On August 12, at the young age of 29, the eldest son, Joseph Jr., dies in a plane crash in World War II, after his bomber exploded.
1948: Kathleen Cavendish, the fourth of the children and the Marquess of Hartington, dies in a plane crash in France on May 13 at age 28.

1955, 1956: Jackie Kennedy, the wife of John F. Kennedy, has a miscarriage in 1955 and a stillbirth in 1956.

1961: Joseph Kennedy suffers a stroke which renders him speechless and in a wheelchair.

1963: Patrick, the son of John F. Kennedy and wife Jackie, dies two days after his birth in August.

1963: JFK, 46, is assassinated on Nov. 22 in Dallas, Tex. during a ride in an open convertible with his wife by Lee Harvey Oswald.

1964: Senator Edward “Ted” Kennedy survives a plane crash in June which killed his aide Edward Moss,

1968: Robert Kennedy is assassinated by Sirhan Sirhan after winning the Calif. Democratic primary on June 6 while on his campaign trail for the presidency. (International Business Times)

The show is back, airing on ABC at 8/7c this Sunday, May 20th, and social media is an integral part of the show this year. Make sure to join the conversation on Twitter throughout the weekend by using the official 2012 Billboard Music Awards event hashtag, #BBMA. Want the inside scoop on what else to expect? Read on… (Billboard)

She had largely kept her battle with lung cancer out of the public eye. But the website TMZ reported that the singer had told friends she believed her illness was the result of inhaling toxic dust from the collapsed Twin Towers.

On Thursday night tributes were paid to the singer, considered by many to be the voice of the 1970s.

A statement released on behalf of her family — husband Bruce Sudano, their daughters Brooklyn and Amanda, her daughter, Mimi from a previous marriage and four grandchildren — read: “Early this morning, surrounded by family, we lost Donna Summer Sudano, a woman of many gifts, the greatest being her faith. (Telegraph)

When kids grow up playing cops and robbers they usually don’t have to sit around waiting for a bad guy to expel evidence.

But that’s what Windsor, Ont., police have been doing after a famous jewelry thief, Richard Mackenzie Matthews, possibly swallowed a $20,000 diamond.

The thief, who is known for robbing other stores elsewhere and called the diamond switcher, initially came in to case out the Precision Jewellers, the Windsor Star reports. He returned and asked for the same employee, Liz Dick, to help him find an engagement ring. She pulled out a 1.7 carat diamond and let him hold it.

“I was shaking, I was scared but I tried not to show it,” she said to the Windsor Star. “The last thing I wanted him to do was bolt from the store. I wanted to keep him in the store until the police got there because I knew there were warrants out for this guy.”

He rolled it around in his hand and scooped his hand around and then handed her back something that looked like the diamond.

Dick has been working in the business for 25 years so she wasn’t fooled. She knew immediately what he handed her was a fake. Dick told him it wasn’t the same piece and later wrote a note to a coworker: “Call police.”

Dick didn’t press the issue with Matthews and stalled the visitor by telling him to wait for her boss to come over and offer a better deal. She then whispered instructions to another co-worker and he went and locked the door. (Yahoo! News)

In “fish pedicures,” the fish, called Garra rufa, exfoliate clients’ feet by nibbling on them. During a session, clients immerse their feet, or sometimes their entire bodies, in water with the fish, allowing the fish to feed on dead skin for cosmetic reasons, or to control skin conditions, the researchers said.

The researchers found that supplies of these fish from Indonesia destined for spas in the United Kingdom harbored potentially harmful bacteria. The researchers intercepted and tested the fish upon their arrival at a U.K. airport.

The fish carried a diverse range of bacteria, some of which are capable of causing soft tissue infections in people, the researchers said. The bacteria were resistant to a variety of antibiotics, the researchers said.
One type of bacteria found, Vibrio vulnificus, can cause wound infections and septicemia, a condition with high mortality rates, especially among people with conditions such as liver disease, diabetes or impaired immune function, the researchers said.

Another type, called Streptococcus agalactiae, is a common cause of skin and soft tissue infections, especially in older adults and those with chronic diseases such as diabetes. Although the particular strain identified in the study does not generally cause human disease, it could evolve after repeated exposures to people, the researchers said. (Mother Nature Network)

In a statement, the Legion said it was sorry it hadn’t acted “earlier and more firmly” to remove the Rev. Thomas Williams from his very public ministry as a spokesman, author and high-profile television personality. It said it took responsibility for the lapse, but didn’t admit when Williams’ superiors knew of the existence of his child.

Williams, an American moral theologian and former superior of the Legion’s Rome general office, admitted Tuesday he had had a relationship with a woman and had fathered a child “a number of years ago.” He didn’t identify the woman or say whether he is supporting the child, though the Legion said the child is being cared for.

Williams’ admission was issued after The Associated Press last week confronted the order with the allegation against Williams, which was lodged by a Spanish association of Legion victims. The association’s accusations, sent to the Legion and Vatican several weeks ago, also named other Legion priests accused of S-EX-ually abusing minors.

The Legion has been beset by scandal following revelations that its late founder, the Rev. Marciel Maciel, fathered three children with two women and S-EX-ually abused his seminarians. Maciel died in 2008, and in 2009 the Legion admitted to his crimes. The Maciel scandal has been particularly sensational given that the Mexican-born priest was held up by Pope John Paul II as a model for the faithful, with his priests admired for their orthodoxy and ability to bring in money and attract new seminarians.

The facade, however, began to crumble in 1997 with revelations of his abuse, though it wasn’t until 2006 that the Vatican sanctioned Maciel to a lifetime of prayer and penance for his crimes. Just last week, the Legion admitted that seven of its priests were under investigation by the Vatican for allegedly S-EX-ually abusing minors – suggesting that the same culture of secrecy and silence that Maciel used to cover his crimes enabled other priests to abuse children. (Huffington Post)

The FTC also busted Skechers for “falsely representing that clinical studies backed up the claims.”

The misrepresented claims came in TV, print and Internet advertising. According to the FTC, that included an extensive campaign featuring Kim Kardashian, highlighted by a TV spot that aired during Super Bowl XLV in which she traded her trainer for a pair of Shape-ups.

Skechers’ Shape-ups “Get Back In The Game” marketing featured Joe Montana, Karl Malone, Wayne Gretzky, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Brooke Burke. A Skechers commercial that aired during Super Bowl XLIV featured Montana’s voice but not his image.

The FTC complaint did not cover GoRun, a line that Skechers launched around Super Bowl XLVI this year with a TV spot featuring a French bulldog named Mr. Quigley.

Of the money from the settlement, $40 million will go toward customer refunds. The FTC has set up a Web site and a Hot Line (866-325-4186) for consumers to determine whether or not they are eligible for a refund and for what amount. In addition, $5 million will be used to settle state allegations and $5 million will be used to pay class-action legal fees.

The FTC said in a statement that the Huntington Beach, Calif.-based Skechers “made unsupported claims that Shape-ups would provide more weight loss, and more muscle toning and strengthening than regular fitness shoes.” Skechers also made deceptive claims about its Resistance Runner, Toners and Tone-ups shoes, according to the FTC. (NYSportsJournalism)

While on the stand, Drug Enforcement Administration Agent Victoria Delollo described to jurors the events surrounding the execution of a search warrant last May at an apartment in Manhattan. Prosecutors claim the residence was being used as a drug “stash house” by Rosemond and his accomplices.

During the search of the residence, investigators were counting on finding money, narcotics and other drug paraphernalia at the East 65th Street apartment. Delollo testified that they found a scale that looked like a CD case, some plastic bags, and several documents which had the names of Rosemond, his mother and an associate.

The DEA agent also told jurors that federal agents also recovered a “Justin Bieber concert pass” that had Rosemond’s photo on it from the Apartment, according to TheSmokingGun.com.

There was no other testimony involving the superstar singer. Bieber has never been represented by Rosemond or has in any way been connected with the drug trafficking case.

The government indicted Rosemond on 13 felony charges over his involvement in a nationwide drug trafficking enterprise which prosecutors claim made over $10 million a year. (Christian Post)

The “lucky” man is Gary Head, who she dumped and dedicated this hilariously angry video to just a couple of weeks ago! How quickly times change!

No word on when theyeven got back together, but the troubled Teen Mom 2 star revealed that she and Gary are getting married this morning.

Jenelle Evans posted a photo of the engagement ring from Head, with the message “I’m the luckiest girl in the world to have @gary_head in my life.”

Details are few and far between so far, though Jenelle has re-tweeted a bunch of people reporting that the two are engaged, so that sort of proves it.

She also replied to a follower who asked if Gary Head got the ring from a gumball machine – nicely played, follower – with a simple “no he def didn’t.”

The engagement comes out of virtually nowhere, as she and bad boy ex Kieffer Delp were back together when she had her b**b job … this month.

Kieffer’s apparently out of the picture again, though, leaving Gary Head to see Jenelle Evans n**e for the rest of their lives … or at least probably May. (The Hollywood Gossip)

Though Sanders doesn’t have to pay spousal support, he will have to cough up $275,000 to cover his ex’s legal fees, TMZ reports.

The child support order is just the latest chapter in the couple’s contentious custody battle, which began with an April 23 domestic dispute at their Dallas-area mansion. After the altercation, both parties made allegations of assault. Pilar was arrested and held overnight in jail for misdemeanor family violence.

According to the Associated Press, the judge ruled Tuesday that neither party had committed domestic violence.

Sanders filed for divorce from Pilar in December, but the pair reportedly still shared their Dallas home until Pilar’s arrest.

It’s one of the last homes Terrell still owns after being forced to sell off several others — most recently in Dallas — but Deutsche National Bank sued him in April, claiming he still owes $1.47 million on the property … and hasn’t made a payment in 6 months.

According to mortgage docs attached to the lawsuit, Terrell originally took out a loan worth $1.55 million in 2006 … and had faithfully been making monthly payments of $5,126 … that is, until last November. (TMZ)

“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)

“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)

Are Twitter and YouTube good prognosticators for American Idol winners?

If so, Jessica Sanchez will be crowned the next American Idol on May 24.

Jessica Sanchez, currently a Top 4 finalist on American Idol, now tops her competitors with the most video views on YouTube – by far – with her solo performance video views from the competition now tallying more than 17 million. And the 16-year old has the most fans on Twitter: 296,866 followers.

On YouTube, the other American Idol contestants trail far behind on video views. Take the most recent performances, for example. Fellow Top 4 contestant Phillip Phillips attracted 3,660 YouTube views for his performance of “Volcano” on Wednesday night’s show. Hollie Cavanagh got 3,704 views for her video of the song “Faithfully” from Wednesday night, while Joshua Ledet drew 5,101 for “It’s a Man’s Man’s World.”

By contrast, Sanchez has already scored 19,242 views for her performance of “And I Am Telling You I’m Not Going.”

The Chula Vista, Calif.-born singer of Filipino-Mexican decent has seen her other Idol performance videos score similarly boffo numbers. Her video of the performance of Joe C**ker’s “You Are So Beautiful” totals 21,968 views (so far) and the Luther Vandross “Dance With My Father” has had 1,219,714 watchers. (Alaska Dispatch)

The Simpsons is the longest-running prime-time scripted programme on US TV and is contracted to run for another two seasons.

The episode entitled ‘Lisa Goes Gaga’ is being shown on 20th May in America and features Lady Gaga visiting Springfield to cheer up Lisa.

Lady Gaga, who is embroiled in a row about her upcoming tour of Indonesia, said: “I make music, but I don’t do voice-overs every day of the week, and their characters are so awesomely convincing and sincere and wild and funny, I had to remind myself constantly of the sincerity of the humor. I would say this is one of the coolest things I’ve ever done. My dad’s probably going to do 80 backflips when the episode comes out.”??

Yeardley Smith, who voices Lisa Simpson, told Broadway.com about the pop star’s appearance on the show, claiming: “This is extraordinary! I’m stunned that she has time in her schedule that she’s coming to our studio to record.” (Telegraph)

Suleman’s case was thrown out because she didn’t file a dozen financial documents and statements required to prove bankruptcy. In her initial filing April 30, Suleman estimated that she owed as much as $1 million that she is unable to repay.

Suleman had sought protection from her debts under Chapter 7 bankruptcy, which means a court-appointed trustee would have liquidated her assets to pay off creditors before she is discharged from most of her debts. According to the filing, she owed money to more than 20 parties, including utility companies, her father and a Christian school.

A representative for Suleman did not immediately provide comment.

Suleman is an unemployed single mother who became famous after giving birth to octuplets in 2009. Her octuplets are the world’s longest living set. (Huffington Post)