It’s official, Geno Smith is a Jet.
The standout West Virginia University quarterback signed his rookie contract with the New York Jets today (July 22) solidifying his second major contract since being drafted. Smith will reportedly earn $5 million through four years and is expected to compete with Mark Sanchez for a starting position at quarterback. Over the weekend, Smith confidently told reporters he has a “great shot” at winning the starting role an that he is already comfortable with the team’s play book.
If you take anything away from the Tiger Woods fiasco, let it be this: You best protect your text. And thanks to a new app called TigerText, it’s easier than ever to do just that. Ordinarily, once you send someone a text, that text is received and either deleted immediately, kept until the recipient’s phone automatically deletes it or simply saved forever (just ask Tiger!), which might just leave you in a precarious position sometime in the future.
Jerrod Carmichael has issued a public apology to Dave Chappelle for deeming the comedian an “egomaniac” during a recent verbal tirade.
Carmichael appeared on The Breakfast Club on Tuesday (April 16) and doubled back from his previous comments regarding Chappelle, labeling the Washington, D.C. native as one of kind and the last of a dying breed.
“I want to say that I’m sorry for that because, one, I’m a huge Dave Chappelle fan,” Carmichael began while delivering his apology.
The Jewish reggae rap star Matisyahu has cut off his beard and announced he is no longer a non-chassidic rap artist. The 32 year old emcee revealed the big change to fans via Twitter yesterday, tweeting a photo of himself without his beard. He later posted a message on his website explaining his life change:
This morning I posted a photo of myself on Twitter.
No more Chassidic reggae superstar.
The ever-philanthropic John Legend is putting his celebrity to good use yet again. The Grammy and Oscar award-winning singer has launched a campaign to end mass incarceration. Dubbed FREE AMERICA, the multi-year initiative will find Legend performing at a correctional facility in Texas and participating in a press conference with state legislators this week (Apr. 16).
“We have a serious problem with incarceration in this country,” Legend told the Huffington Post. “It’s destroying families, it’s destroying communities and we’re the most incarcerated country in the world, and when you look deeper and look at the reasons we got to this place, we as a society made some choices politically and legislatively, culturally to deal with poverty, deal with mental illness in a certain way and that way usually involves using incarceration.