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« Reply #20 on: July 06, 2009, 05:17:04 PM »

bearlythere - I can't speak for the NFL's practices but I do know that college players are given pain medications I wish weren't necessary but with injuries, pain management is a real issue. I speak from personal experience only, what has been given to my son with two injuries to date.

Frankly if you listened to the coach of the Titan's today, I believe his name is Fisher, he even referenced McNair getting an epidural post a rough game so that he could even practice? That's essentially a spinal block........

His relationship with this girl, a girl who clearly bought a gun just two weeks ago, is sadly going to eclipse all he accomplished in football. I feel for his wife and his children.
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« Reply #21 on: July 12, 2009, 07:23:46 PM »

http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/football/2009/07/06/2009-07-06_steve_mcnair_mistress_sashel_kazemi_bought_gun_that_killed_her_football_star_cop.html



Steve McNair mistress, Sashel Kazemi, bought gun found at scene, cops say

By Michael O'Keefe In Nashville and Jonathan Lemire In New York

DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER

Updated Tuesday, July 7th 2009, 4:02 AM

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Steve McNair was found shot to death along side 20-year-old Sashel Kazemi.

The gun used to murder star NFL quarterback Steve McNair was bought by his much-younger mistress just two days before the shooting, Nashville police revealed on Monday.

Investigators believe Sahel Kazemi, 20, bought the pistol from a private owner Thursday night, not long after she was busted for drunk driving in an SUV with McNair.

Two days later, on Saturday, cops found the weapon under the lovers' lifeless bodies in a luxury condo in downtown Nashville - an apparent murder-suicide.

The former Tennesse Titans icon died just 6 miles away from the home he shared with his wife and three children.

His mother, who watched her son rise from the tiny town of Mount Olive, Miss., to national stardom, said yesterday she could not bear to follow the probe.

"I don't want to know," Lucille McNair told The Tennessean newspaper. "Because the way I see it, it was the Devil's work and not God's work."

"I'm not mad. I am just grieving over my son," she said. "He was a great son [and] he was special. I just have a hard time talking about it - I get teary-eyed."

It's not clear if McNair's wife, Mechelle, knew about his brazen affair with the Dave and Buster's waitress.

Kazemi's family said she believed he was getting a divorce. Court records do not show any pending split, but the McNair family home is up for sale for $3 million.

In an emotional tribute to his longtime quarterback, Titans coach Jeff Fisher said, "the Steven McNair I know would want me to say 'I am sorry.'"

"'I am not perfect," Fisher imagined McNair saying. "We all make decisions that are not in the best interest. Please forgive me.'"

Ballistics reports that should shed more light on the shooting will be available this week, police said.

McNair, 36, had been shot four times, once at point-blank range and three more times from 3 feet away. Kazemi, who started dating the gridiron great earlier this year, died from a single shot to the head.

Cops believe the killings were a murder-suicide, but have not made an official ruling.

Kazemi's family - who maintains her innocence - has said that investigators have told them they believe she pulled the trigger.

Police said they interviewed Kazemi's ex-boyfriend for several hours Sunday but said he is not a suspect - and they're not looking for anyone else.

Keith Norfleet - who dated Kazemi for four "volatile" years, according to his family - was cooperative with detectives, officials said.

A memorial service will be held Thursday for McNair in Nashville, where he is renowned for his community work. He will be buried on Saturday in Mount Olive.

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« Reply #22 on: July 12, 2009, 07:28:45 PM »

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Cops: Steve McNair shot dead by girlfriend Sahel Kazemi while he slept in murder-suicide

BY Michael O'Keeffe In Nashville, Tenn. and Bill Hutchinson In New York

DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITERS

Updated Thursday, July 9th 2009, 3:03 PM

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Gunshot residue was found on the left hand of 20-year-old Sahel Kazemi, girlfriend of slain ex-NFL quarterback Steve McNair.

NFL great Steve McNair's suicidal mistress, who believed the married retired quarterback had a second girlfriend, shot him dead as he slept on a sofa, police said Wednesday.

Sahel Kazemi, 20, had been "spinning out of control" in the days leading up to Saturday's shocking murder-suicide in her Nashville condo, cops said.

"The police department has concluded that Steve McNair was murdered by Sahel Kazemi and that, in turn, Sahel Kazemi killed herself with a single gunshot wound to her head," said Nashville Police Chief Ronal Serpas. "The totality of the evidence clearly points to a murder-suicide."

Serpas said the findings were based on the appearance of the crime scene, evidence collected, autopsy findings and laboratory results. He said he broke the news to the widow of the former Tennessee Titan's quarterback, Mechelle, before going public.

"We believe now, at this time, that McNair was seated on the sofa and likely was asleep," Serpas said.

"And we believe that Kazemi shot him in the right temple, then shot him twice in the chest and then shot him a final time in the left temple."

The chief said Kazemi sat down on the sofa next to the 36-year-old McNair and shot herself once in the right temple.

All five shell casings littering the crime scene matched the weapon that Kazemi purchased on Thursday and was discovered beneath her slumped over body, Serpas said.

Gunshot residue was found on Kazemi's left hand. None was discovered on McNair's hands, bolstering the case's conclusions, said Serpas.

"Because there's a lack of any evidence of a struggle or defensive wounds to McNair, his physical position on the sofa, the trajectory of the bullets and the wound pattern we still believe it was likely that Kazemi shot Mr. McNair and he didn't know," Serpas said.

In the five days leading up to her violent explosion, Kazemi had been stressed out about having to make payments on two cars, including a Cadillac Escalade she had bought with McNair, Serpas said.

Her roommate had recently announced that she was moving out and Kazemi, a waitress at a Dave and Buster's sports bar in Nashville, feared her rent would double.

Compounding her anxieties was an increasing suspicion that she was not McNair's only mistress.

"She believed McNair was involved with another woman and that, too, participated in her state of mind, we think," said Serpas.

Kazemi even tracked down the woman she assumed McNair was romantically involved with and followed her home Friday, but did not confront her, Serpas said.

"She had become very distraught and on two occasions she had told friends and associates that her life was all messed up and that she was going to end it all," Serpas said.

He added that Kazemi told a friend on Friday, "My life is a ball of s--- and I should end it."

Relatives told reporters that Kazemi believed McNair, the father of four, was about to finalize a divorce from his wife of 12 years. In reality, no divorce papers were ever filed.

The same day she purchased her gun, Kazemi took out an ad on Craigslist selling all her furniture - including the sectional sofa she and McNair died on, the Tennessean newspaper reported. Kazemi's relatives said she was selling her belongings because she thought she was moving in with McNair.

The bombshell news came on the eve of McNair's funeral in Nashville, where he is revered for leading the Titans to the Super Bowl in 1999 and praised for his charitable work in the community.

McNair, a three-time Pro-Bowl pick who ended his illustrious career with the Baltimore Ravens, will be buried in his hometown, Mt. Olive, Miss.

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« Reply #23 on: July 12, 2009, 07:38:06 PM »

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Thursday, July 9, 2009
Updated: July 10, 8:37 AM ET


Nashville, NFL bid farewell to McNair

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NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- Steve McNair's pastor and close friend cautioned against judging the ex-NFL quarterback Thursday, reminding people who gathered for his memorial not to cast the first stone when talking about his life off the field.

McNair, who was married, was shot to death at his condo early Saturday by his 20-year-old girlfriend, Sahel Kazemi, who then turned the gun on herself.

"Drop your stone the next time you write about Steve McNair. Drop your stone the next time you text somebody. Drop your stone the next time you twitter. Drop your stone, those of you in the barbershops, the beauty shops. Those of you walking the streets on the corner, drop your stone," Bishop Joseph W. Walker III told thousands of people, among them family members, fans and more than 50 former teammates, gathered at Mount Zion Baptist Church.

"What I do know about this man was that he loved God though he was just like us: imperfect," Walked said. "But he knew God."

Among those in the audience was McNair's wife, Mechelle, who later left wearing sunglasses. Walker called her an amazing woman.

 
"You have inspired us all to endure hardship as a good soldier," he said.

It was her first public appearance since her husband died, and press photographers were asked not to take pictures of her or other family members.

Fans had lined up starting Thursday morning to view McNair's closed silvery-gray casket at a funeral home and later outside the church. A helicopter provided live TV footage as McNair's body was moved by hearse, and three of four local TV stations showed the memorial service live.

McNair's casket was on display at Mount Zion Baptist Church, where he had attended services since moving to Nashville in 1997. It was flanked by a large photo of him posing with his 2003 NFL MVP award on the right and another of him holding a football on the left.

The program included a statement from the McNair family.

"Today in our loss, our hurt, and our pain we recognize our gains in you our friends and loved ones ... They have all been a source of strength and comfort at this time to our family," it read.

Titans owner Bud Adams, Tennessee Gov. Phil Bredesen, Nashville Mayor Karl Dean all attended.

Among those speaking was Titans coach Jeff Fisher, who recalled a hit McNair took to his chest in September 2000 that had the NFL quarterback ready to quit the game. He was in so much pain that he spent a bye weekend with the team's former chaplain in Houston.


Then McNair, who struggled to breathe, watched his backup get knocked out of the Titans' next game. Fisher said McNair looked at him, winked, tossed two passes and then drove them down the field to a game-winning touchdown. Fisher said he caught up to McNair walking off the field that day in Pittsburgh and started to talk when the quarterback interrupted and pointed to the sky.

"No more turf toe, no more sacks. No more shoulder problems, and no more interceptions, only touchdown passes. I'm going to miss you No. 9," Fisher said.

Eddie George, who helped McNair take the Titans to their lone Super Bowl in 2000, was among the pallbearers, along with four of the quarterback's former offensive linemen who escorted his casket out as the service ended. George read a poem describing McNair as a warrior during the service.

"You fought a good battle. Your life has just begun," George read.

Jean Ryan got in line nearly two hours before doors opened at Mount Zion to say goodbye to the man she had followed since the NFL team moved to town in 1997.

"I love him, and he was a beautiful man and I will remember not the circumstances of his death but the great things he did for the Titans and the community," she said, wearing a Titans' pin and crying at what she called the "utter sadness."

Approximately 4,500 filled the church sanctuary for the service, and church officials had overflow areas with a handful of people there.

The Titans estimated approximately 9,000 people had visited LP Field, where fans were invited to reminisce about his career, between Wednesday and midday Thursday. Radio stations were broadcasting from the stadium, where the shop had sold out all of its McNair merchandise except for a few children's shirts.

Derrick Lewis said McNair "put the Titans on the map."

Lewis, wearing a Titans jersey, said he and his family were devastated when they learned of McNair's death.

"Myself and my family were completely shocked and some of us were crying because you almost feel like you are related," Lewis said.

But Lewis said the details of the killing haven't changed his opinion of McNair.

"I will always remember him for the good things that he did for the community and the Tennessee Titans," Lewis said. "Nobody's perfect."

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http://www.clarionledger.com/article/20090712/NEWS/907120357/1001/rss01


July 12, 2009


Mourners celebrate McNair

Gary Pettus
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Trenton McNair, 5, put his head on his mother's lap, just a few short yards from his father's coffin.

For much of the two-hour funeral, Trenton kept his head down as others lifted up his father, Steve McNair - preaching and eulogizing the former NFL star and 36-year-old father of four who was shot to death on the Fourth of July.

The ceremony at the University of Southern Mississippi's Reed Green Coliseum was mostly upbeat - until the end, when many in the crowd of 5,000 were overcome, including Trenton's mother and Steve's wife, Mechelle, and Trenton's brothers Steve Jr., 17; Steven, 15; and Tyler, 10.

And Lucille McNair, Steve McNair's mother.

Funeral-home workers scrambled to bring her water and fan her face as she slumped in her chair shortly after the eulogy delivered by the Rev. James Dampeer of the Mount Carmel Missionary Baptist Church, who told his audience, "When Jesus knocks on your door, you can't bargain with him; you can't bribe him."

Moments before, Lucille McNair had been smiling, when National Football League star Ray Lewis told a story on her.

A Baltimore Ravens linebacker whose job was to stop McNair when he quarterbacked the Tennessee Titans, Lewis remembered the first time he ever met "Mama Lu-cille."

"She said to me, 'Don't you be hittin' my baby like that.' "

Lewis was one of the football stars and legends who spoke before the flower-draped coffin, on a platform lined on three sides with standing wreaths from the NFL's Detroit Lions, Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones and the Rev. Jesse Jackson.

Cardell Jones, who coached "Air" McNair at Alcorn State University, was there on the platform; as were the Titan's Craig Johnson, McNair's former quarterback coach; and Vince Young, now a Titans quarterback who as a teenager used to sneak into the Astrodome to watch McNair when he played in Houston.

"Steve was like a hero to me," said Young, his voice breaking, "and heroes are not supposed to die."

There was Jeff Fisher, McNair's head coach in Tennessee, who gripped Young's hand and led mourners in a recitation of the Lord's Prayer.

Among those mourners, were retired NFL star Brett Favre, a former USM standout; NFL quarterback Jay Cutler; and former NFL quarterback Doug Williams, the star of Super Bowl XXII.

"Pound for pound, he was the toughest man who ever played the game," Williams said of McNair during a post-funeral news conference.

Also on the celebrity list was the good friend of Lucille McNair's - renowned gospel singer Dottie Peoples, whose booming voice cheered the crowd in number after number, until she, too, was overcome with grief and stopped singing at one point, in mid-praise.

And there were also thousands of noncelebrities, people who weren't whisked in by a police escort.

Many began lining up outside the coliseum three hours before the service.

They fanned themselves, drank bottled water and wiped away sweat under the July sun as they waited by the hundreds for the doors to open.

There was Michele Garner, 39, who drove five hours from Ft. Benning, Ga., to honor the man she met by chance two years ago at a Buffalo Wild Wings in her hometown of Hattiesburg.

"I walked up to him, introduced myself, and told him I was about to be sent to Iraq," said Garner, who served two years overseas in the Army.

"He took down my name. He sent me care packages when I was in Iraq.

"It meant a lot."

There was Dedra Donaldson of Prentiss, near McNair's hometown of Mount Olive.

"We both went to Alcorn," she said, "but I was there about 10 years before Steve McNair," she said.

"But I used to go to the games and watch him play when he was there. I followed him up and down the road.

"When he ran that ball himself and they'd start playing that Alcorn (fight) song, we always had hope that Steve would bring us through.

"And he did.

"When he'd do that ... something went over the stadium.

"People for the other team would cheer for him."

And there was Donaldson's friend, Lisa Williams, also of Prentiss, who, when asked why she came to the funeral, said, "He (McNair) was a community icon.

"You got to come."

Williams, one of the hundreds who showed up early, finally surrendered to the sun and sat on a bench to rest.

She watched the mostly silent mourners lining up, one by one, including several children, some the same age as Trenton McNair.

"It's sad, isn't it?" she said.

Additional Facts
McNair Bio
Steve McNair, 36, was a Heisman Trophy finalist at quarterback while at Alcorn State University in 1994. He went on to achieve All-Pro status and was co-MVP of the NFL as a quarterback with the Tennessee Titans in 2003. He led the Titans to the Super Bowl in 2000, only to lose to the St. Louis Rams. McNair was killed by his 20-year-old girlfriend, Sahel Kazemi, early in the morning of July 4. She shot him four times then fatally shot herself. Police say she thought McNair, who was married, was seeing another woman.


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during a memorial service for former Titan quarterback Steve McNair at Mt. Zion Missionary Baptist Church in Nashville, Tenn.



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The funeral service for Steve McNair is held in Reed Green Coliseum at The University of Southern Mississippi in Hattiesburg.



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The casket of Steve McNair is taken past a photograph of him in playing in the Senior Bowl and his Tennessee Titans jersey.




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Lucille McNair, right, mother of the late Steve McNair, stands with Mechelle McNair, second from left, wife of Steve McNair.



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Tennessee Titans quarterback Vince Young, left, speaks during the funeral service for Steve McNair.




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Mechelle McNair comforts her son during the funeral service.




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Former NFL quarterback Brett Favre, right, hugs Baltimore Ravens linebacker Ray Lewis as they leave the funeral service for Steve McNair.




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A hearse carrying former NFL quarterback Steve McNair approaches Griffith Cemetery near Prentiss.



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Prohibited from taking photos during the burial ceremony of former NFL quarterback Steve McNair, these attendees waited until the ceremony was over before video recording images of the of the player's burial vault at Griffith Cemetery near Prentiss.
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« Reply #25 on: July 12, 2009, 09:15:31 PM »

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Thousands remember NFL star Steve McNair, killed by mistress in murder-suicide, at his funeral

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Updated Saturday, July 11th 2009, 10:27 PM

 
Thousands turned out in Mississippi yesterday to bid farewell to Steve McNair, the ex-NFL quarterback slain in a murder-suicide.

"We're going to have church this morning, and we're going to praise God for Steve's life," said gospel singer Dottie Peoples, a close friend of McNair's mother, Lucille.

More than 5,000 people packed the Reed Green Coliseum on the campus of the University of Southern Mississippi.

Most of McNair's small hometown of Mount Olive came in buses rented by the athlete's family.

Police escorted McNair's wife, Mechelle, and his mother, Lucille, into the stadium.

Brett Favre, who had a home near McNair's in Hattiesburg, sat a few rows behind the McNair family.

Tennessee Titans coach Jeff Fisher and quarterback Vince Young, Baltimore Ravens linebacker Ray Lewis and Chicago Bears quarterback Jay Cutler also attended.

Doug Williams, the first black quarterback to win the Super Bowl, also was there.

"Steve was like a hero to me, and heroes are not supposed to die," Young said before stopping to rub his eyes.

McNair was shot and killed on the Fourth of July by Sahel Kazemi, a 20-year-old girlfriend who then shot herself in the head.

Days later it was revealed that Kazemi was angry with the married McNair because he had a second girlfriend.

The funeral program included memories from McNair's mother, his wife and sons, brothers, and nieces and nephews. Photos were also displayed of the quarterback who played 13 NFL seasons with Tennessee and Baltimore before retiring in 2008.

Coach Nevil Barr brought the entire jersey-clad Oak Grove High School football team to the service. Steve McNair Jr. attends Oak Grove, and his father joined Favre at a summer workout two weeks ago to play catch with the kids.

"He was on our sideline every Friday night supporting his son," Barr said.

"He loved to come watch Steve Jr., and we loved having him there. He always had that smile."

McNair, 36, was a father of four.
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« Reply #26 on: July 12, 2009, 09:50:57 PM »

Rest in Peace, Steve McNair.


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"I can look back over the past 10 years and there were no steps wasted, and there are no regrets,'' she said. "I did all I knew to do and I think that gives me greater peace now." "I've lived every parent's worst nightmare and I'm the parent that nobody wants to be," she said.

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« Reply #27 on: July 18, 2009, 02:25:49 PM »

Another wrinkle in untangling McNair estate

It appears that Steve McNair's estate won't be settled easily.

The Tennessean reports that the family of at least one of the two sons born before McNair's marriage will put in a claim for a share of the slain quarterback's estate.

McNair didn't leave a will and his widow Mechelle has filed court papers saying she and sons Tyler, 11, and Trenton, 6, are the heirs. Mechelle's probate filing also says she can't confirm whether the other two sons are actually his.

UPDATE: The AP says federal agents have arrested a convicted felon in connection with providing the gun that was used to kill McNair.

McNair's oldest son, Steven L. McNair Jr., is a senior and star wide receiver at Oak Grove High in Hattiesburg, Miss.

His second son, Steven O'Brian Koran McNair, 15, lives in Mount Olive, Miss.
That son's grandmother told the Tennessean that the boy received $500 a month for child support.

"We don't know what's going on and don't know if he was entitled to anything," said Cora McNair, who was no relation to Steve. "They need to get on board with this."

McNair earned more than $75 million during his 13-year NFL career with the Titans and Ravens, and the Tennessean says that so far no records have surfaced indicating he set up trust funds or completed any estate planning.

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« Reply #28 on: July 18, 2009, 02:27:11 PM »

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Man arrested in sale of gun used to kill McNair
(AFP) – 21 hours ago

NASHVILLE, Tennessee — Federal prosecutors on Friday announced charges against a convicted murderer who admitted he sold the gun that was used to kill former National Football League quarterback Steve McNair.

Agents of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives arrested Adrian J. Gilliam jnr and charged him with being a convicted felon in possession of a firearm.

The 33-year-old Gilliam could face a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison and a fine of up to 250,000 dollars, prosecutors said.

According to a criminal complaint, Gilliam told police he sold the gun to the woman who later shot McNair.

McNair was shot and killed on July 4 at his condo by his 20-year-old mistress, Sahel Kazemi, who then turned the gun on herself.

Gilliam was convicted in 1993 in Florida for murder and attempted armed robbery.

Investigators said Friday that Gilliam used a photo provided by police to identify Kazemi as the person who bought the gun from him for 100 dollars.

Police have said they don't know the exact motive for the killing but said Kazemi had been distraught in recent weeks about making ends meet financially. She feared her rent was going to double because a roommate was moving out on her. She was also making payments on two cars and dealing with a drink driving episode.

McNair, a star with the Tennessee Titans who also played for the Baltimore Ravens before retiring last year, was survived by wife Mechelle (eds: correct) and four children.
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« Reply #30 on: July 19, 2009, 12:42:31 AM »

Steve McNair was more than how he died


By Bryan Burwell / St. Louis Post-Dispatch  |   Thursday, July 16, 2009  |  http://www.bostonherald.com  |  NFL Coverage





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ST. LOUIS — The world of sports loves to give us winners and losers, heroes and villains.

But it rarely gives us humans. Humans have too many dimensions to comprehend. Humans are fragile and complicated. Humans are layered and dappled like abstract art. But sports tend to obscure an athlete’s human frailties. Too often, the bright lights of fame and fortune cast a one- or two-dimensional shadow that never adequately provides an accurate and fully developed picture of anyone who lives in that spotlight.

We see them from a controlled distance inside the athletic arena, wrapped in achievement or cloaked in defeat and that becomes the sum total of who we believe they are: Saturday’s hero or Sunday’s goat.

And that has always been part of the great sports mystique, not just in America, but all over the world. Sweep us away from all the bad news. Hide us from tragedy and turmoil. Protect us from all of the disturbing realities of the world. Give us uncomplicated snapshots and comic book heroics, and of course that works well until tragedy creeps into Sports World and opens our eyes in ways we can rarely predict.

I thought I knew Steve McNair pretty well, and for the past two weeks I have been trying to make sense of how the former National Football League MVP could have been murdered. Yet even though I am greatly disturbed by the manner of his death, I am not particularly flabbergasted by the tabloid circumstances surrounding it. That is not a reflection on anything in particular that I might have known about McNair’s personal life (I sure as heck didn’t know he was involved in an affair with a 20-year-old girl 16 years his junior). It’s more of a statement that looking at a sports world with my eyes wide open no longer allows me to be shocked or disappointed when the athletes I have covered for the past 36 years turn out to be real-life humans, not make-believe idols.

It’s one of the reasons I have always found Charles Barkley to be so refreshing. I remember how he warned us all nearly 20 years ago that athletes were not role models. In those graphic Nike commercials, Barkley tried to warn us that jumping out of the gym or running fast as the wind or throwing a curveball that drops off the table or hitting tape-measure home runs should never be the sole criteria for elevating an athlete to hero status.

Heroism is so much bigger than that. What Barkley was trying to say was that it is OK to admire athletes, but don’t worship them.

I wish everyone would remember that every time they even think about turning modern professional athletes into something more than they really are and then get crushed when they fall off those lofty and unreasonable moral pedestals.

Humans, not machines, is what Tony La Russa always says. Yet while the Cardinals’ manager was talking about on-field performance, he could easily be talking about real life, too.

This is not in any way, shape or form an exoneration of McNair’s extramarital business. But it’s also not going to be some holier-than-thou rant about how professional athletes are role models and must be held to a higher standard than we have for any other men who walk the earth.

I am just here to say that maybe I’m just too cynical or smart to allow myself to be surprised anymore by any indiscretion by any man regardless of his station in life. Whether it’s Steve Garvey or Shawn Kemp, Ty Cobb or Dennis Rodman, Joe Namath or Barkley too, throughout the decades the sports world has provided us with a full palette of human frailties: philanderers and bigoted fools, drunkards and incurable gambling addicts.

And that shouldn’t diminish their athletic legacies unless they are running for sainthood — instead of Cooperstown, Springfield or Canton.

So it appears that McNair was a murder victim at the hands of a disturbed lover. It’s hard to deny that or soften the salacious details that keep coming out. But ultimately, what I hope we realize is that it should only serve as one tragic chapter in a life that had so much more to it than to be defined only by a shocking murder scene.

The rest of his life story should also be about the side of the young man I knew. The crazy-talented, tough-as-nails Tennessee Titans [team stats] quarterback who almost single-handedly spoiled the Rams’ Super Bowl dreams 10 years ago. I will remember the conversations we used to have about football and life, and the pride he felt when he built his mother a beautiful home on a sprawling tract of land on the outskirts of Mount Olive, Miss. The man I knew couldn’t stop beaming when I told him that I spent an afternoon sitting on the front porch with his mother, beneath the soaring columns that made this new house look like a grand antebellum mansion. His mother Lucille cried when she talked about the day that he showed her the property and how she realized that as a child she used to pick cotton on this same land.

I never assumed any single story could serve as the entire picture of Steve McNair’s life. And now that the final chapter turns out to be an unsettling tragedy, I won’t let that be the full picture, either.

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Steve McNair Jr. returns to practice

By Associated Press  |   Saturday, July 18, 2009  |  http://www.bostonherald.com  |  High School Football
JACKSON, Miss. — Wide receiver Steve McNair Jr. is back at practice at Oak Grove High.

Friday’s practice was his first since his father, former NFL quarterback Steve McNair, was shot to death in his sleep July 4 in Nashville.

He also learned that he’d been named to the Dandy Dozen, The (Jackson) Clarion-Ledger’s list of Mississippi’s top 12 high school football players. His father made the list in 1990, its second year.

McNair says the honor made his day.

McNair lives with his mother, Cotina McNair. He said he left Mount Olive High — where his father starred and a cousin was a top running back in 2007 — for Oak Grove largely on his father’s advice. He says it hurt to leave his friends, but the Hattiesburb suburb is also a loving community, where people give him hugs and handshakes.

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Baltimore Pro Boxing to Honor Late Steve McNair with Ten Count on July 25


Baltimore, MD - Steve McNair never wrapped his hands, hit a heavy bag, or starved himself to make weight but in many ways, he was just like a model pugilist. A hard working community oriented athlete who refused to let injuries take him off his game, McNair was known for much more than winning the 2003 NFL co-MVP.


A fan favorite during his short tenure in Baltimore, McNair led the Ravens to a franchise best 13-3 in 2006. Still a visible figure in the community with The Steve McNair Foundation and Gridiron 9 Restaurant, McNair was far from forgotten when he retired after the 2007 season. On July 4, McNair’s life was tragically cut short in Nashville, Tennessee. The sad news of McNair’s passing was not only disheartening for his family and former teammates but also to promoter Jake Smith of Baltimore Pro Boxing. A diehard Ravens fan, Smith proudly wore his #9 McNair jersey on any given Sunday.

Smith will pay respects to McNair with an honorary ten count as well as a moment of silence prior to the main event of his card July 25 at the Du Burns Arena. While he was most remembered for his on the field efforts, Smith also admired McNair as a person.

“To me, it is only appropriate to honor a warrior like McNair,” said Smith. “McNair was one of my favorite players and arguably the best QB in Ravens history. I feel it is my duty to honor a fallen hero in the same city where he gave it his all day each and every time he stepped onto the field.”

The Du Burns Arena is located at 1301 S. Elwood Ave in Baltimore. Doors open at 6:30 and the opening bell is at 8 p.m. Tickets can be ordered by calling 410-375-9175.

Headed by former pugilist Jake Smith, Baltimore Pro Boxing has promoted professional and amateur shows during the last 15 years. Their current stable of fighters includes hot Junior Middleweight prospect James Stevenson, Welterweight contender Tim Coleman, rising Heavyweights Maurice Byarm, Mike Dietrich, surging Super Middleweight Demetrius Davis, Light Heavyweight Henry Mayes and exciting Cruiserweight Steve Wheeler.

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Police: McNair mistress knew gun seller for weeks
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Ex-NFL quarterback Steve McNair's mistress exchanged messages for weeks with the man who sold her the gun she used to kill McNair and herself, police said Tuesday.

The findings came a day after investigators released 50 text messages between McNair and Sahel Kazemi they say supports their conclusion of a murder-suicide because she was desperate over money and feared their relationship was ending.

Police spokesman Don Aaron said Kazemi also was in contact weeks before the July 4 killings with Adrian Gilliam, who pleaded guilty to gun charges for selling the weapon to her.

Aaron declined to say more about the exchange of messages, first reported by CBS News, because Gilliam was awaiting sentencing in December. Police say Kazemi bought the gun from Gilliam the night of July 3, and used it hours later.

"The Police Department has been aware that their relationship was more than we were initially led to believe," Aaron told The Associated Press.

According to the CBS report, Gilliam and Kazemi exchanged more than 200 calls more than three weeks before the murder-suicide, including 49 texts and calls the day before.

Police also said Kazemi texted McNair on July 3 to say she was so stressed she might have a breakdown and asked for $2,000 to pay bills. Texts show McNair had someone transfer the money.

Aaron repeated Tuesday that there's no reason to believe the case should be reopened.

"Given the totality of the evidence as we know it now ... the conclusion of the murder-suicide classification has not changed," he said.

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Dec. 22, 2009
McNair Case: Many Questions Remain
Chief Investigative Correspondent Armen Keteyian Analyzes Murder Case that May Not Be as Open-and-Shut as Police Claim

From the start the Nashville Police Department seemed to view the Steve McNair murder investigation as an open and shut case.

In the five months since the former NFL star quarterback for the Tennessee Titans died in the early morning hours of July 4, local police put hundreds of man-hours into the case, officially closing their investigation last Friday. But despite all the nagging questions, they held firm to the conclusion they reached very early on: the 36-year-old McNair, a married father of four, was murdered at a downtown condo he rented with a friend by Sahel "Jenni" Kazemi, his 20-year-girlfriend, before she turned the gun on herself.

"I think she had her mind set on killing the man that she … could not live without," said Homicide Detective Pat Postiglione at a press conference last Friday. "She figured if she couldn't have him then nobody would."

Both Postiglione and chief spokesman Don Aaron said the crime scene provided all the evidence they needed. "When it all comes down to the science of the crime scene, and a detailed analysis of the crime scene," said Aaron, "we concluded that, no question she killed Mr. McNair and then killed herself."

For the police, last Friday's sentencing of Adrian Gilliam Jr. marked the final chapter of the case. Gilliam told police he sold Kazemi the murder weapon, a 9-mm semi-automatic pistol. For his part, as a convicted felon in possession of a gun, Gilliam was given a sentence of 30 months in prison despite what Judge Todd J. Campbell called a "very serious and violent criminal history," including a second-degree murder conviction at age 16 and several robbery and assault convictions.

Judge Campbell's court was silent as he announced his decision, except for the wracking sobs of Gilliam's fiancée and mother of his 2-year-old daughter. For some the scene seemed slightly out of kilt given the fact that phone records show Gilliam and Kazemi exchanged more the more than 200 text messages and calls in the three weeks prior to the two deaths - a much deeper relationship than police originally claimed and one of many contradictions and investigative errors exposed as part of a two-part CBS News investigation into the case on "The Early Show" in October.

Part One
Part Two

"The messages that he sent to her clearly indicate he wants to be around her," said spokesman Aaron. "He was pursuing her. There was a desired relationship."

The 34-year-old Gilliam, an out of work car salesman, was the man in the middle of the case from the start - a case that upon close inspection proved far more complicated and far less certain than some in the Nashville Police Department saw it. Last Friday, local police officially admitted Gilliam had been a suspect in the case, otherwise confirming every aspect of our investigation while adding a few more intriguing details about Gilliam's relationship with Kazemi.

Yes, he had texted or talked with her 49 times the last full day of her life; yes, he had called and talked with her for three minutes at 12:02 a.m. on July 4, two hours before she and McNair supposedly died, and texted her - "u good" - at 1:17 a.m.; yes, he had repeatedly changed his story on how they met and when he sold her the gun, the final answers being outside a bar downtown and July 3, around 6 p.m.. And, oh yeah, turns out Gilliam also lied about his whereabouts the night of the two deaths - his alibi of hanging out at a friend's house cracked in half after that friend, a bail bondsmen, told investigators that Gilliam was never around that night.

Yet despite all the inconsistencies, contradictions and outright lies, Gilliam was eliminated as a suspect. The reason, said Postiglione, who supervised the investigation, is that Gilliam's cell phone records placed him about 18 miles from the crime scene on the night in question. And, Postiglione said, no "third party" presence was ever established at the crime scene.

"Do we have some suspicious people out there? Yeah, we do," he said. "But none of that changes the dynamics of what occurred inside that room."

To put any additional questions to rest the Nashville PD just released their final case summary - 250-plus pages of statements, interviews, diagrams, lab analysis, that police say never contradicted their conclusion: Kazemi did it.

But a careful reading of the report appears to raise as many questions as it answers.

Where did they find the gun?

One of the more intriguing aspects of the crime scene is language used by police spokesman Aaron and others in pinpointing the location of the murder weapon. On the day of the deaths Aaron told the press the gun was found "close" to Kazemi's body and then "near" her body. The next day Aaron told reporters, "We think that the gun was underneath Ms Kazemi's body when officers entered the residence. It was not initially visible and was only discovered late in the process of the scene."

A supplemental report filed by an officer that same day (July 5) puts the pistol "underneath Kazemi's body near her hands." For those scoring at home, that means in a 24-hour period the gun moved from "close" to "near" to "not initially visible" to "underneath Kazemi's body near her hands," which diagrams show were by her waist.

Fast forward to the final case summary written on September 4 - the gun appears to have moved yet again. According to the report, it was "observed underneath Ms. Kazemi's head." Somehow, over a five month period, the murder weapon - according to police statements - traveled the length of Kazemi's torso.

At his press conference Postiglione said of the weapon: "There was blood around the entire weapon. When you move the weapon up, you can actually see the imprint of the weapon just lying on the floor, you can see the imprint, which would suggest that nothing moved, nothing was moved." Still, the inconsistent location of the gun makes one wonder about the validity of other crime scene reports.

Was someone else inside the condo that night? Or before police arrived?

According to an officer who arrived on scene at 3:15 p.m. on July 4, both the back door in the dining room leading to a balcony deck and the door leading to the garage were found unlocked. Conceivably, an intruder could have entered or exited the condo from either area.

Another intriguing third party figure surfaces in a supplemental report to the case.

In it, Sgt. John Nicholson states upon arrival at the scene he was informed by lead investigator Charles Robinson that "three citizens, friends of McNair, had been through the apartment prior to police arrival."

Three citizens? Public reports repeatedly named only two people who set foot inside the condo before police arrived - Wayne Neeley, McNair's roommate, and another friend who Neeley called to the scene, Robert Gaddy. So who is Citizen No. 3? Who else was in that condo before police ever arrived?

Did McNair's roommate tell the truth?

Neeley told police that he first arrived at the condo at around 12:40 p.m. He walked through the living room - the crime scene -- thinking the male and female were both asleep - somehow missing all the blood and bullet holes - before entering the kitchen and getting a beer from the refrigerator. From there, Neeley said, he walked back to the living room and finally noticed the blood, stopping to pick up a shell casing. At this point Neeley told police he still didn't recognize the male victim as McNair. He then exited the condo and called Gaddy, who arrived about 15 minutes later and immediately exclaimed, "Oh my God, it's Steve!" By the time Gaddy called 911 at 1:35 p.m., 55 minutes had passed since Neeley first showed up. Which begs these questions: how did Neeley not know it was McNair, a guy he'd lived with for at least three years? And what happened during that nearly one-hour interlude before police and medical personnel arrived?

The police said they "looked at" Neeley as a suspect. Postiglione went so far as to call his story "ridiculous." But in the end they chalked it all off to Neeley being in a "state of shock" and determined he had "told the truth."

"If he was involved," said Postiglione, "I would think he would come up with a whole lot better scenario than that one."

Was Jenni Kazemi afraid for her life?

According to the case summary, Adrian Gilliam says he sold Kazemi the gun after she told him someone had been beating on her door and trying to kick it in, and was "threatening her life." If that's true who was it? What was she so afraid about?

So it appears what you have here is not an easily reached conclusion but rather a host of contradictory elements. Could Jenni Kazemi have killed Steve McNair and then herself? Yes. But you'd have to believe a 20-year-old girl who friends and family said never fired a gun in her life got scared for her life and bought a weapon as protection only to go crazy four hours after she left work, eight hours after she allegedly bought it, killing the man she loved, the man she thought she was about to move in with, who had just wired $2,000 into her account to ease her financial troubles. And then after shooting him four times execution-style - twice in the chest and twice more in the head - sat down right next to him on the couch, in all that blood, wearing just a pink tank top and pink shorts, and put a 9-mm pistol to her right temple and shot herself. I guess it could happen.

Or one can wonder about a moving murder weapon, an unidentified third party entering the condo before police, statements that make no sense, an alleged threat on Kazemi's life and a host of other questions and circumstances, including one that took place outside Judge Campbell's court moments after Adrian Gilliam Jr. had been sentenced to 2 ½ years in prison, the lowest end of the federal guidelines.

Inside Campbell's court Gilliam had stood before the judge and struck a somber tone. "My heart goes out to the families of the victims," he said. "I have learned a lot of lessons."

But according to an eyewitness no sooner had Gilliam exited the court than his mood shifted. Gone was the humbled man…replaced by the cock-sure ex-con, smiling and joking around with security.
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