Bryant McKinnie is ready to trade the trenches for the draft room!
The retired Pro Bowl tackle, who starred for the Minnesota Vikings and later won a Super Bowl with the Baltimore Ravens, recently swung by the TMZ offices, where he told Babcock he'd love a front office gig so he can finally start fixing some of the head-scratching decisions he sees from the couch.
“I would like to work in the front office and try to help them out,” McKinnie said. “Sometimes I sit there, I’m like, ‘Who was making these decisions?’
Jed York was clearly taken by surprise when cops pulled him over in East Palestine, Ohio ... body cam footage from the scene shows.
Authorities released footage from the billionaire's arrest, which shows him in a New York Yankees T-shirt, gray basketball shorts, and sneakers. He's even wearing his wedding ring, though we've learned he and his wife split months before this incident.
Jimmy Butler's baby mama says she's living with the NBA superstar after their nasty legal war over child custody and support ... TMZ has learned.
Jimmy's ex-girlfriend, Kaitlin Nowak, filed court docs explaining she recently worked out a comprehensive agreement on a parenting plan with the Golden State Warriors small forward.
Kaitlin said she is living with Jimmy and that "there are other circumstances which can be presented to the court" without specifically laying them out in filed docs.
Kyle Singler is raising serious alarms after the former NBA player and Duke basketball star posted a series of unhinged videos to Instagram ... targeting his iconic college coach.
Check out the troubling posts ... a disheveled and rambling Singler is wandering around his place ... saying he has nothing to his name -- and claims he was brushed off when he reached out to Mike Krzyzewski.
In one of the three posts -- there are four total, but two are the same -- Singler says Coach K "set me up," and when he reached out for help, he was "benched."
Debbie Clark -- a former cast member on "American Gladiators," better known as "Storm" -- is dead ... TMZ has learned.
Her brother, Steven, tells TMZ ... Debbie died Monday at her home in Boston. She had a pacemaker, and it gave out. Family was home at the time.
Her son Crayton tells us her pacemaker stopped working due to her overworking herself ... adding she passed away in his arms as they were waiting for the paramedics to arrive. Clayton says paramedics tried to resuscitate her, but she had already died. He was living in the same apartment complex as Debbie, so that he could spend time with her and take care of her.
He believes Debbie died from cardiac arrest. He's started a GoFundMe to be able to spread her ashes with her mother.
The show posted the tragic news to its official Facebook account ... noting she was "an exceptional athlete" before she became a Gladiator -- excelling in basketball, soccer and track.
Former boxer Adrien Broner is facing a criminal trespass charge after cops say he showed up at a Florida casino despite being banned for life ... TMZ has learned.
According to court documents, Adrien is charged with trespass in connection with an alleged incident at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino.
The Seminole Police Department report says officers were called to the casino in April 2024 over an alleged trespass. They say Adrien was issued a lifetime ban from the casino back in August 2023 ... but claim he came back anyway, leading to his arrest.
Jed York's recent arrest might be a learning experience for the San Francisco 49ers owner ... and a popular Nevada brothel is willing to teach the billionaire how to pay for sex without breaking the law.
Dena Duff -- the Madam and GM for Sheri's Ranch Brothel in Pahrump -- tells TMZ ... the brothel would like to offer Jed, his fellow NFL owners and players, some lessons on how to legally hire sex workers.
Duff says ... "Nevada's licensed brothels offer something an NFL owner should appreciate: a legal, regulated environment where discretion and privacy are paramount. Sheri's would be happy to host Jed, along with any interested NFL owners and players, for a seminar on how Nevada's legal brothel system works, why discretion is such an important part of the business and, frankly, how to do prostitution correctly."
Claressa Shields has accomplished just about everything in the boxing ring ... but there's still one more MUST on her bucket list -- Beyoncé!
The undisputed champ stopped by the TMZ Sports offices for a sit-down with Babcock on Tuesday ... where she made a direct plea to Queen Bey.
"Beyoncé, listen, baby girl. Before I retire," 31-year-old Shields said ... "I need you to walk me out. You pick the song, and only perform 30 seconds, one minute, whatever you decide."
"The Girls" star Khadijah Haqq is slamming her estranged husband and ex-NFL star Bobby McCray as they continue to duke it out in divorce court ... and now she's claiming he blocked her phone.
TMZ obtained court docs, filed by Khadijah, in which she claims her text messages to Bobby are no longer being delivered ... leading her to believe he blocked her number.
Khadijah says the alleged blocking went down over the past 2 weeks.
Enes Kanter Freedom's WNBA bid has already hit a speed bump ... because one of the league's teams has banned him from its arena following his verbal altercation with a player.
Michael Alter -- the owner of the Chicago Sky -- announced during a news conference Tuesday that the former NBA star has been banned from Wintrust Arena in the Windy City.
A Wheat Hill Mobile Home Park resident tells TMZ ... she's fed up with police using the community for these operations ... saying cops are bringing potentially dangerous people right to their doorstep.
She says she's glad arrests are being made -- she just wants the prostitution stings moved somewhere else.
Her suggestion? Use a McDonald's, an empty parking lot ... basically anywhere kids don't live.
Jed York allegedly arranging to pay a prostitute $140 for sex in a trailer park ended up costing him $1,150 in fines after his arrest ... and it looks like the San Francisco 49ers' Chief Security Officer paid his boss' court fees.
According to online records, someone named "D Cory" paid Jed's fees after he pleaded no contest to a couple of misdemeanors in Ohio.
"D Cory" appears to be Dan Cory ... the CEO of Nickel Group, a security and risk management firm that protects San Francisco 49ers executives and team members. Dan's LinkedIn says he's the Chief Security Officer for the 49ers ... and the team announced last August it was hiring his firm.
San Francisco 49ers owner Jed York allegedly had been prostitute-probing for days before his big bust ... because police say he reached out to a prostitution ad multiple times -- and used fake names to conceal his billionaire status.
In a police report obtained by TMZ ... Jed allegedly reached out to a fake ad for a hooker a couple of times on Saturday, trying to score some company ... and then did again on Sunday morning -- which led to him being popped near a trailer park. California Postwas first to report.
The Mahoning Valley Law Enforcement Task Force says Jed used the alias "Joe," asked for an address, and agreed to pay for full-service sexual activity ... before he was ultimately arrested for engaging in prostitution.
Cam Hazzard is ready to throw down against the biggest name in dunking!
The pro dunker with a 50-inch vert chopped it up with TMZ Sports just days before his big DUNKMAN matchup Tuesday night against fellow high flyer Joel Henry ... and while Hazzard is totally locked in on the task at hand, he can't help but anticipate a potential future matchup with Mac McClung.
“Of course I’ve thought about going against Mac,” Cam told us. “He’s a huge name. Won the NBA dunk contest three times in a row. And everybody always considers him the GOAT of dunking because he’s like the biggest name in the competition."
