If there is one thing I've always respected about Derek Jeter, it's that he never got married young. Why ruin a good thing by getting married young and not taking advantage of your sports icon status and playing the field?
Why not take advantage of your status, and finally find someone and settle down when your playing days are winding down. Trust me, Jeter at 40 is still going to find someone 100x better than anything me or you could pull.
This is why I was shocked when I saw that stud QB Kellen Moore of Boise St was married. I will give Kellen this, if you are going to marry young, Julie is the type of girl it should be for. Just perfect.
The former Julie Wilson met Kellen way back when he was a high school sophomore and she was a senior at Prosser High School. Julie was a 3 sport athlete and also class valedictorian. While Kellen gets all the press the girl is no slouch herself. The couple was married in 2011 as Kellen prepared to become the all time win leader in college football. Interesting side note: Kellen had a cool bachelor party consisting of bobsledding, zip-lining, and skeleton rides.
You can be sure that you'll see Julie sitting in the stands taking in Moore's final game during the pathetic MAACO Bowl that Boise State got jobbed into because of a single point single loss.
In the final entry of our posts chronicling the 2011 Heisman Trophy candidates and the women by their side, we profile the girlfriend of Wisconsin star Montee Ball
Meet Anne Marie Jahnke, who was unknown until recent days. An article in the Chicago Tribune revealed Jahnke to the general public when the passed along the following information: "We've all been mispronouncing his name. His birth certificate reads Monteé Lowell Ball. Notice the accent. Only his girlfriend, Ann Marie Jahnke, calls him: Mon-TAY. His mom favors "Junior" and his sisters go with "Monts."
Anne Marie Jahnke is a junior at the University of Wisconsin, majoring in Biological Anthropology. Anne stayed local going to college, having hailed from Madison, WI. From the looks of things, Anne is a very normal college girl liking amongst other things The Office, Lost, and Harry Potter and Twilight movies.
Montee Ball is a junior running back for Wisconsin who led the NCAA in rushing yards collecting over 1,700 yards from scrimmage and running in 38 touchdowns. Seriously, 38 freaking touchdowns. He has one year of eligibility left as Wisconsin, and his draft expectations are undetermined as of yet.
LSU's defensive star and Heisman candidate Tyrann Mathieu should expect to get his picture taken a lot this weekend,... only this time he can relax if he sees them show up on various websites.
Tyrann Mathieu has been dating Sydni Paige Russel for quite some time, which made the headlines that came out this week somewhat surprising. A notoriously salacious and at times comically absurd rumor monger of a website stated that they had naked pictures of Tyrann Mathieu. While they certainly provided some,... umm,... impressive graphic pictures of someone that sure looks like Mathieu, the veracity of the pictures was not initially confirmed. A second set of pictures were released a day later that have not been commented on.
While the authenticity of the pictures is in question, the larger issue to Tyrann and Sydni was the claim of the same website. The website claimed that the pictures were submitted by one of three women that Tyrann was running around with on the side of Sydni.
One problem with that? Sydni doesn't care for the accusation.
In a twittered barrage of tweeted awesomeness, Sydni strongly denies these allegations: @SydniPaige_: So yeah if you seen the media take out stuff, them pictures are from HIGHSCHOOL. Of course someone would leak that stuff to be MESSY AF!
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I'm DYING laughing !! LMFAO !! Like I can't stop smiling about this stuff lol . I'm so entertained (: lol
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Cause when I'm telling you I'm with this boy 24/7, I'm w/ him before class, in between classes , b4 practice, after practice,at night...
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...he couldn't even cheat if he WANTED to ! Lmao
Tyrann weighed in briefly on the matter at hand, laughing with some of the comments he was getting. His comments were brief and less direct: @TM7Era I'm tired of entertaing y'all! Y'all hate for every reason!! & for the record them pics are high school old!! Get a grip
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I still love my girlfriend!!!!!!
Tyrann and Sydni are oftentimes openly affectionate with one another on Twitter, so these should come as no surprise
Time Together: Case Keenum dated Kimberly Caddell since his senior year of high school. The couple was engaged just a week after the NCAA approved Case's petition to come back and play his senior season at the University of Houston which happened to be his sixth year there.
Ironically enough, it appears that all 2011 Heisman candidates have a similar move when they want to propose their girlfriend. In a proposal with similar component's to Robert Griffin III's proposal, Case took his girlfriend to the practice field where she was met with a path of lit candles and rose pedals set up by family members, before Case dropped to one knee and proposed.
The couple was married on June 11, 2011 in Abilene, Texas. Case proudly declares that he and Kimberly were both virgins when until their marriage
Quote: Case admits that he knew Kimberly was the one for him while recovering from his torn ACL, Case told Fox Sports,: "I realized there's nobody out there that's better for me. She took care of me when I absolutely needed it the most and was at my lowest."
And now for a bonus quote!!!
In an interview with ESPN's, Ivan Maisel, Case reiterated his stance: "It's one of the big reasons we're married today. I realized how much she loved me. She showed it. I don't think I could have gotten that from anybody else. Here's a picture of her right here [Case shows Maisel his playbook with her pictures on the cover]. She got her bridal portraits done at the stadium. That's pretty funny, isn't it?"
2011 Heisman candidate Robert Griffin III is a fascinating man. He graduated from high school early, he's committed to earning a Master's degree even while playing in the NFL, and as opposed to most jocks, has no issues revealing his emotions in the national print media. In 2010, while Robert Griffin was dating his longtime girlfriend, Rebecca Liddicoat, he spoke with the New York Post: "Love can be hard, man,... But I don't mind being vulnerable."
In an ironic twist, the date that article was printed (10/23/2010) would be the last day Griffin could call Liddicoat his girlfriend. In an elaborate set-up, Griffin proposed following Baylor's 47-42 victory over Kansas State that night. After the game, Griffin had Liddicoat meet him in the teams indoor athletic facility, where she was met with lit candles, surrounded by family and serenaded by Griffin who had a teammate playing guitar behind him, before Griffin dropped to one knee. She said yes, though there are no known wedding plans yet.
Griffin and Liddicoat were given the gift of celebrating their one year engagement anniversary on Griffin's only by week of the season.
Liddicoat is originally from Boulder, CO
Fast Facts: Sevina Fatu is the ex girlfriend of Heisman trophy candidate, Trent Richardson. Trent and Sevina dated for years and have two children together; daughters Taliyah and Elevera. Taliyah was born during Richardson's sophomore year of high school at Escambia High School in Pensacola, Florida, and Elvera during his senior year.
Trent and Savina's daughters live with Trent's mother, Katrina in Birmingham, AL. Trent tells ESPN that he sees his girls almost every weekend.
Fun Facts: OK, this might be my favorite fun fact to ever write:
Savina is Samoan American, and has a family tree filled with professional wrestlers.
Two of her uncles are the late Umaga (former Intercontinental champion in the WWE). and Rashiki (of course famous for the Stinkface finishing move). Now we all know that Rashiki and Umaga are cousin's of Yokozuna, and The Rock, so somewhere in there, Sevina is related to The People's Champ, but I don't really understand relationship titles... second cousins? Is that what it is? Would Sevina and Trent's kids be third cousins of the Rock? Or are they Uncles? Would they be Uncle Rock and Uncle Yokozuna?
Matt Barkley's girlfriend Brittany Langdon is an athlete in her own right. Brittany is a junior at Seattle Pacific University where she plays for the women's soccer team and was an all-conference midfielder last season. one could surmise that she dealt with injuries this season as she started only 7 games of the 16 she played, of the teams overall 20 games.
Matt and Brittany met when they were five years old and began dating at 16. Their families are close, and their sisters consider one another best friends.
Early in 2011, and over their respective Christmas breaks from school, Matt and Brittany traveled to Nigeria at the invitation of the group, Go Nigeria. While there, the couple, alongside friends and Matt's family, built houses, distributed over 1,200 pounds of food and hygeine packs, met and played soccer and football with children and orphans, and also brought Christmas gifts to some individuals in the various locales they visited.\ Matt calls the expeirence life changing,: "The perspective we have now after being over there and witnessing everything we did, it changed us so much. I get to play football, this game I love and dreamed of playing, and it really is something I haven't taken for granted since I got back."
