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Yahoo
03-08-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
Jets Training Camp Highlights Garrett Wilson, Olu Fashanu
The Jets continue to gear up for the start of the NFL season as Olu Fashanu gets in some work.
Yahoo
17-07-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Inside the Sauce Gardner deal
The Jets and Sauce Gardner have worked out a new deal. On the surface, it's the best deal ever signed by an NFL cornerback. At a deeper level, it's open to interpretation. First, the details. Here they are, per a source with knowledge of the terms: 1. Signing bonus: $13.75 million, paid in full by September 30, 2025. 2. 2025 base salary: $1.25 million, fully guaranteed. 3. 2026 option bonus: $20 million, fully guaranteed. 4. 2026 workout bonus: $250,000, fully guaranteed (but must be earned). 5. 2026 base salary: $5.25 million, fully guaranteed. 6. 2027 option bonus: $10 million, guaranteed for injury at signing and fully guaranteed in March 2026. 7. 2027 workout bonus: $250,000, guaranteed for injury at signing and fully guaranteed in March 2026 (but must be earned). 8. 2027 base salary: $13.953 million, guaranteed for injury at signing and fully guaranteed in March 2026. 9. 2027 per-game roster bonus: $750,000 total, guaranteed for injury at signing and fully guaranteed in March 2026 (but must be earned). 10. 2028 workout bonus: $250,000, guaranteed for injury at signing and fully guaranteed in March 2027 (but must be earned). 11. 2028 base salary: $19.2 million, guaranteed for injury at signing and fully guaranteed in March 2027. 12. 2028 per-game roster bonus: $750,000 total, guaranteed for injury at signing and fully guaranteed in March 2027 (but must be earned). 13. 2029 workout bonus: $250,000. 14. 2029 base salary: $29.1 million. 15. 2030 per-game roster bonus: $750,000 total. 16. 2030 workout bonus: $250,000. 17. 2030 base salary: $29.1 million. 18. 2030 per-game roster bonus: $750,000 total. The new-money APY of $30.1 million beats Texans cornerback Derek Stingley Jr. by $100,000 per year. However, there are some key differences. First, Stingley signed a three-year extension. He's under contract for five years, not six. Second, Stingley has better guarantees than Gardner, despite being under contract for one fewer year. For Stingley, the total guarantee is $89 million, with $48 million fully guaranteed at signing, $68 million fully guaranteed by 2026, and the full $89 million vesting by 2027. For Gardner, the total guarantee is $85.65 million, with $40.5 million fully guaranteed at signing, $65.45 million fully guaranteed by 2026, and the full $85.65 million vesting by 2027. Stingley also has better cash flow in the early years, with $6 million more in 2026 and $7.3 million more through 2027. One last point. Stingley pushed the bar up by $5 million per year, over Panthers cornerback Jaycee Horn. Gardner has nudged it by only $100,000 per year. It's still a great deal for Gardner, who had a down year in 2024. The new regime easily could have waited until 2026 to re-do the deal. Of course, if/when Gardner had gotten back to his form of 2022-23, it would have cost a lot more if they had opted to kick the can for a year.
Los Angeles Times
28-03-2025
- Entertainment
- Los Angeles Times
Remember This Banger: Selena's ‘Dreaming of You'
Before Selena Quintanilla was murdered on March 31, 1995, she was on the precipice of something big — the culmination of all her grinding and hustling in the Tejano music scene was about to send her into another stratosphere. The 23-year-old Grammy winner had already accomplished so much in her short life, becoming a beloved figure among those who wore Stetson hats and frequented rodeos. But just when the promise of more was on the horizon, Selena's light was snuffed out. In the 30 years since her death, Latinos (and beyond) have elevated the late singer to sainthood. Hers is a tragic story of a life cut too soon to realize her fullest potential. And no song in her catalog encapsulates that more than 'Dreaming of You.' Released on Aug. 14, 1995, 'Dreaming of You' was the posthumous lead single from the Corpus Christi-bred singer's fifth and final studio album of the same name. It was the first Spanish-language album to debut at no. 1 on the Billboard 200, selling 331,000 copies in its first week, and would go on to become the best-selling Latin music album for the next 20 years. Selena's memory has far outlasted the number of years she was alive — and her legacy has become her best-selling product. The Quintanilla family has continuously capitalized on Selena's memory, making millions upon millions on her image, story and music. It doesn't always sit well with fans. But back in 1995, the album was a welcome opportunity to honor Selena's talent, grieve her loss and mourn what a long life could have given her and her fans. Given that her death happened in the midst of recording, songwriters, producers and her family had to finish the album without her, filling the void of not just an artist, but a loved one. In E News' oral history of the making of 'Dreaming of You,' Selena's husband Chris Perez recalls how difficult it was to continue work on the album so soon after her death. 'To be around the voice at that particular time was really painful,' he explained. 'To the point to where I just would ask to not even have that vocal going on, you know, just pop it in here and there so I knew where I was in the song. It wasn't fun.' The album was to be Selena's big anglophone crossover attempt, with 'Dreaming of You' leading the charge. Originally written by Franne Golde and Tom Snow for Minneapolis pop R&B group The Jets, 'Dreaming of You' is a sweet, longing ballad of a girl sitting in her room dreaming of the boy she loves. It reads and sounds like a starry-eyed teenager's diary entry: Late at night when all the world is sleeping / I stay up and think of you / And I wish on a star / that somewhere you are / thinking of me too… 'Dreaming of You' was Selena's highest-charting single on the Billboard Hot 100, peaking at No. 22 on the chart. The song had captured the very essence of Selena and her life to that point: a young girl who had fallen in love with a boy her parents didn't approve of, but compelled by her passion, decided to run away and marry him despite their dismay. The song also reads like an allegory for a young Mexican American woman who is caught between two cultures, struggling with the confining nature of being enough for both sides of her identity. Selena was a predominantly Spanish-language artist who modeled herself after divas like Donna Summer, Jody Watley and Paula Abdul, within a primarily Mexican genre. She wanted to be an American R&B-pop singer, but had been cordoned off from that path — a business decision made by her father when she was too young to fully possess her own voice. And it became the primary goal of her artistry to create a space that fit her fullest self, as she was and as she wanted to be. This is most evident on 'Dreaming of You.' On the sentimental banger, she taps into the same heart-wrenching, ranchera balladeering she performs on 'Tú Solo Tú' and 'No Me Queda Más' and transfers it to English-language pop. And to fully emphasize the crossover, she does an interlude in Spanish. It serves as a connective bridge between two periods of her career that would allow her fans to cross over with her. Although it's the ultimate story of what could have been, the truth is that Selena did accomplish the career she dreamed of. As she crossed over into the afterlife, she also crossed over into the American pop mainstream, just as she had hoped for in her time on Earth. And in sharing her music from generation to generation, fans continue to fulfill that dream.
Yahoo
16-03-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
Jets signing three-time Super Bowl champion DT Derrick Nnadi
The Jets are adding a veteran presence to their defensive line, signing DT Derrick Nnadi, his agency SportsTrust Advisors announced. The 28-year-old ( who'll turn 29 in May) has spent his entire seven-year career with the Kansas City Chiefs, winning three Super Bowls. He was drafted with the No. 75 pick in the third round of the 2018 NFL Draft out of Florida State. Listed at 6-foot-1 and 317 pounds, Nnadi has started 87 of the 115 games he's played in and made 233 combined tackles (109 solo) with five sacks, a forced fumble, and an interception. He was mostly a backup in 2024 for the Chiefs, starting just one game and playing only 20% of the snaps. Nnadi will fit in as a rotational piece for HC Aaron Glenn and DC Steve Wilks' defense behind star DT Quinnen Williams.
Yahoo
27-02-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Jets on Davante Adams: He's on team right now, we have a plan in place
The Jets have announced that they will release quarterback Aaron Rodgers in the near future, but they've been mum about what they have in mind for another splashy veteran addition to the offense. Wide receiver Davante Adams is set to have a cap hit of more than $38.25 million during the 2025 season and the Jets can clear more than $29 million from their books by releasing him. Given Adams's ties to Rodgers, a departure seems likely but neither head coach Aaron Glenn nor General Manager Darren Mougey were willing to share any of the team's thoughts during their Scouting Combine press conferences. Glenn said Adams is on the team "right now" and that they are "in the business of collecting good players" while also adding that the team will "continue to have conversations about how we're going to move in that direction." Mougey followed similar talking points. "Davante is on the team right now," Mougey said, via a transcript from the team. "Obviously we have a plan there and in the next few weeks we will kind of address that issue, but Davante is on the team." Adams is under contract, so there might be some hope that they can trade him rather than just cut him loose. The cap number makes that difficult and Mougey said he'll keep his conversations with the wideout private when asked if the team has given the veteran permission to speak to other clubs.
