UPDATE: 02-10-2012: These days, it seems like a pretty rare occurrence when an athlete in the mainstream news for something good. For the second year in a row Brett Keisel has made the news while shaving his beard to raise money for charity. The second annual “Shear The Beard”, when Keisel shaves his massive beard, was a huge success – raising more than the $40,000 that the event raised last year. The beard-shaving/fundraiser supports the…

Ryan Clark and his wife Yonka Clark have three children together: Jaden 11, Jordan 8, and Loghan 5. Ryan Clark has the sickle cell trait in his blood stream. Following a game in Denver in 2007, the high altitude/low oxygen caused his blood cells to sickle and ultimately burst the vessels. He had to have his spleen and gall bladder removed because of this and subsequent bacterial infections. Following this, Yonka says Ryan gained a…

Heath Miller and his wife Katie Miller were married in 2007 and are rumored to have been together since high school. They had their first child to the world in 2010. The two are very active in charitable endeavors. The Miller’s raised over $125,000 at an event in 2009 working with Glimmer of Hope, a charity designed to support breast cancer research. The two have also worked with various children’s charities including Variety and Urban…

As someone who’s not entirely tone-deaf to fashion and style, I can give a plus-one for Mike Tomlin’s wife Kiya Tomlin and her cool clothing line. She’s doing a great job promoting it with the help of the internet, and the overall quality of the looks appears to be quite high. Her original idea was to combine dresses and sweatshirt hoodies, and they look surprisingly fresh to me. I was looking at a picture of…

UPDATE: 10-21-2011: According to ESPN, the NFL has done something dumb. Let’s be honest. If you’re Troy Polamalu and you suffer what was described as a “very mild” concussion, isn’t Troy Polamalu’s wife Theodora Polamalu your first call? I mean, Troy did what most red-blooded Americans would do in that situation – call your wife, tell her you’re OK, and calm things down before they blew up. Apparently, the Shield didn’t love that he did…