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Fast Broke: Excerpt IV — How to Go Broke on $100 Million

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We have all heard about the alarming statistics indicating that most professional athletes will be broke within five to seven years of retirement. And we all ask the same questions. “How can this happen when they make all that money?” “Who is advising these guys?” “Where is their agent?” “Why doesn’t the league do something?” Plus we have all heard the stories about the extravagant spending, the children out of wedlock, the bad investments and wonder, “How dumb can these guys be?” The answer is much simpler

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SheridanHoops.com Second Round Playoff Predictions

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OK, so we didn’t all post perfect records in the first round. You find me someone who did, and I’ll personally call the guy and offer him a job. But everyone here at SheridanHoops had Floyd Mayweather winning in a yawnfest decision over Manny Pacquiao, and we all took the American Pharoah-Dortmund exacta in the Kentucky Derby. Check the Yonkers Raceway surveillance footage if you don’t believe me. All of us also hit the daily number yesterday, and we all came home

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Fast Broke: Excerpt III — Why Athletes — and Regular Folks — Don’t Get It

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It’s In No One’s Interest That You Get It. All players entering the NBA participate in the Rookie Transition Program. The league and the players association require every new player to attend a weeklong training session before the season starts. The program is an intense immersion type experience designed to open player’s eyes to NBA life. All kinds of lifestyle topics are covered. They cover wealth and investing. They cover health. They cover sex education, drug education and other topics players need

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Kamenetzky: Chris Paul Silences His Haters, Once and for all

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LOS ANGELES — No NBA star has spent this season in the “put up or shut up” crosshairs more than Chris Paul. Among fans and media, the overriding narrative has been that of an hourglass quickly losing sand when it comes to accolades butting up against a limited playoff resume. It seemingly no longer matters that Paul is certainly still among the best guards — “point” or otherwise — in the NBA. It no longer matters if the second half of

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SH Blog: NBA players react to Mayweather vs. Pacquiao

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In a bout over five years in the making, Floyd Mayweather got a huge unanimous decision win over Manny Pacquiao. Seemingly everyone in the world was watching the fight, which, of course, meant most of the NBA was tuned in as well. Here’s what some players had to say: Don’t wanna see anything other than #MayweatherPacquiao in my timeline.. — Patrick Patterson (@pdpatt) May 3, 2015 32-11 in the last 2 rounds punches landed floyd over paq what are yall talking about —

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Fast Broke: Excerpt II — Smart Money vs. Dumb Money

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“A fool and his money is one big party!” If you read only one chapter in this book, read this one. It has the answer why so few succeed while most fail miserably. We have all heard that athletes and entertainers blow all of their money on cars, drugs, jewelry, clothes and women, and not necessarily in that order. We hear every day about all these poor slobs who burn through millions of dollars and are left broke and lonely with no

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