On
Monday, Derrick Rose—he of the $94.3 million contract—told reporters he’s
looking forward to free agency two years down the road, “Just knowing my day
will be coming up soon, and it’s not for me.
It’s for [son] P.J. and his future, so that’s what I’m thinking about
now.”
On
Tuesday, Rose demonstrated just how hard it is to play basketball with a foot
in your mouth when he took an elbow to an eye socket, necessitating
surgery. Meanwhile, Rose’s legal team
responded to a civil lawsuit charging him and two companions with rape, saying
the accuser “consented to sexual interaction with more than one co-defendant on
more than one occasion, consented to sexual interactions on the day in question
and invited the defendants to her apartment and buzzed them in.” The incident in question happened in August
of 2013, when Rose’s son turned ten months old.
Also
on Tuesday, Cal Ripken Jr. travelled to Chicago for a dedication ceremony. The foundation Ripken named for his father has
donated a ballfield at Marquette Park on the Southwest Side. Ripken told a reporter for DNAinfo.com
Chicago, “I always liked the influence I had on kids as a baseball player, and
really it was a way to direct them into doing some good things using the
platform of baseball.” The Cal Ripken
Sr. Foundation has sponsored fifty new ballfields across the U.S. over the past
five years.
Derrick,
you and Patrick Kane might want to consider asking one simple question to guide
your personal lives: What would Cal Ripen
do?
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