Money left on table is money lost
The San Francisco 49ers showed Tarell Brown the money, but the cornerback left it on the table in the form of $2 million.
Entering his contract year, Brown had been due to earn $2.925 million in salary for the 2013 season. The 28-year-old player chose to work out on his own in the off season instead of participating in the team’s voluntary off season program. Because he did not attend those voluntary workouts, he voided a $2 million escalator in his contract.
According to The Associated Press, Brown said he didn’t know about that clause and only learned of it through Twitter after the 49ers’ practice Thursday.
Brown then fired his agent, Brian Oversteet.
“No one wants to leave money on the table,” Brown said. “If I would have known the clauses in my contract … that’s what agents get paid to do, to orchestrate the contract and to let you know what you can and can’t do as far as workouts and OTAs and things of that sort. That’s what he got paid to do. He didn’t do that, so in my opinion, you have to be let go. We all are held accountable for our actions. This is part of the business.”
Brown said as soon as he read reports of his lost money, he contacted his agent and Overstreet reached out to the 49ers. Brown also spoke to the 49ers but said, “There wasn’t too much I really could say.”
In big trouble
It was written in this space July 13 about two amateur soccer teams needing large victories to earn a promotion to Nigeria’s professional football leagues.
The Nigeria Football Federation found that one player scored 14 goals in a 79-0 victory in one of the two fixed playoff games. In the other match, which ended 67-0 and was played at the same time, four goals were scored in a minute.
The federation made public its findings Tuesday after it banned all the players and officials involved in the games for life for match-fixing when Plateau United Feeders beat Akurba FC and Police Machine beat Babayaro FC.
The NFF said the four clubs were each banned for 10 years for their “fraudulent conspiracy.”
Bad badminton
A pretty intense scrap broke out during a badminton match Sunday between former doubles partners who had represented Thailand at the 2012 Olympics.
During a match last weekend at the Canada Open in Richmond, B.C., a suburb of Vanvouver, the pair were warned twice to cool their tempers. During a change of ends, Bodin Issara lunged at Maneepong Jongjit, chasing him on to another court before punching him several times. Issara threw a chair at Jongjit at one point during the chase.
“It’s come close to this point many times before, but I’ve never seen something go so over the top like this,” professional badminton player Luke Couture told Global News of Canada.
Jongjit and Issara were among the top-ranked badminton pairings and reached the quarterfinals at the London Olympics.
According to foxsports.com, they split in January so Issara could retire to take care of his ill mother, but he soon found another partner and started competing.
No charges have been filed in the incident.
Quote of the day
“Mike Gillislee was our first 1,000-yard rusher since 2003. That’s not going to be the
exception anymore at Florida, that’s going to be the norm.” Florida Coach Will Muschamp
Sports, Pages 20 on 07/27/2013