Two years into retirement, an astounding 78 percent of professional football players are in financial distress or file for bankruptcy according to a Sports Illustrated study.

Fortunately, there are professionals such as former NFL coach Joe Gibbs that are trying to change this trend.

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Four white football recruits sue historically black college Savannah State University in Georgia because they were not given athletic scholarships since they are white.

The coach that recruited the players is also white and no longer employed by the school. He is suing the school because he claims that his dismissal was based on the fact that his fiancee is black.

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution has more on the text of the suit:

While Stephen Jackson was away, three men were able to break into his home which is in a gated community in Charlotte, NC.

Stephen's wife was locked in the bathroom. Fortunately, she was not hurt.

The Huffington Post has more details on this story.

A response Super Bowl ad illustrates why people of color need to be a part of the decision making process.

A young, white superstar college football quarterback Tim Tebow has been tapped to appear in a Super Bowl ad with his mother Pam.

The ad is about saying no to abortion and promoting life. Tim's mother Pam while on a missionary trip with her husband contracted amoebic dysentery and the medicines used for her recovery threatened her unborn fetus.

Doctors advised her to abort the fetus and Pam ignored their advice and gave birth to Tim Tebow. This is the gist of the ad.

Due to religious beliefs, there are many Americans that are against abortions. There is another group of people in this country that do not believe in abortions for a completely different reason.

These are the white Americans that are concerned that they are slowly but surely losing their majority status in America. Since more white women have abortions than any other ethnic or racial group, stopping abortions and promoting life has become a strategy to reverse the declining white population trends.

Abortion rights advocates were surprised that a major broadcast network would allow a political advocacy ad since they have been avoided for years. A counter ad promoting a women's right to choose is now in the works.

This is where it becomes interesting. Ex-Vikings player Sean James and Olympic gold medalist Al Joyner were hired to star in the response ad to Tim Tebow's ad.

It makes all the sense in the world to use athletes in the response ad. However, the decision to use two black men in an ad promoting a women's right to choose versus a white guy promoting life is unbalanced and just stupid at best.

Abortion is an explosive issue in this country. It makes sense to show racial and ethnic balance whenever possible when dealing with such an emotional issue; therefore, it would have have been better to have at least one white athlete in the ad promoting a women's right to choose.

This is needed because too many Americans will see these ads as nothing more than whites promoting life and blacks promoting abortions.

Most coaches have the best intentions of their players at heart. There are some coaches that have ulterior motives. All coaches have to be viewed with a certain amount of vigilance by parents.

Some coaches have too much access to kids at times. They may offer to drive a child home from practice which is convenient for busy parents. Even though the coach may drop off many players after practice, the last player being dropped off could give a coach with molesting tendencies private time with a child.

Veteran Compton high school coach (20 years at Dominguez High School and 5 state championships) Russell Otis has been sentenced to 60 days in county jail, placed on three years' probation and ordered to undergo a year of sex offender counseling.

Mr. Otis, who is 47 years old, was convicted last year of a misdemeanor charge of child molestation for subjecting a former player to a barrage of text messages that the player testified was sexual in nature.

Even a former player for Russell Otis at Dominguez High testified about his experiences many years earlier with the coach. -Read former player takes the stand.

Fortunately for young basketball players in Compton, CA, Mr. Otis also will have to register as a sex offender. This will bar him from teaching or coaching again. He plans to appeal the decision according to his attorney.