Russell Westbrook and Kevin Love were roommates at UCLA. Russell Westbrook and Kevin Love have grown into veteran NBA stars, but the memories of both sharing a room as teenaged UCLA teammates in the 2007-08 teammates haven’t faded into the background. “We had thermostat battles,” said Love, who spent only one year at UCLA and was one year younger than Westbrook. “He was doing 74, 75 degrees, wake up in the middle of the night, turn that thermostat up.
Colt Lyerla had the talent to be a high draft pick in the NFL, but his off-field issues cost him a professional career. The Oregonian reported that Lyerla has escaped from Washington County Community Correction Center. Lyerla, a tight end who was picked up by the Green Bay Packers after he wasn’t drafted in 2014 but cut that summer after a knee injury, was serving a six-month sentence for drug possession.
Add another layer to the intrigue into the suicide of Aaron Hernandez. On Friday, the suicide note Hernandez left his fiancée, Shayanna Jenkins-Hernandez, became public via a court filing by Bristol County (Mass.) prosecutors.