Second thoughts

Defensive end takes a big hit

Talk about being blindsided.

Buffalo Bills defensive end Mario Williams has filed a lawsuit against his former fiancee in Houston, seeking the return of an engagement ring reportedly worth $785,000, according to Dan Herbeck of the Buffalo News.

Williams, who signed a six-year, $100 million contract with $50 million in guaranteed money with the Bills a little more than a year ago, claims in the lawsuit that Erin Marzouki “unilaterally terminated” their engagement in January for reasons that were “caused solely” by her, the newspaper reported.

The lawsuit also claims Marzouki used the relationship to “get money and acquire gifts” and that she never intended to marry Williams.

The ring was described in court documents as a “GIA certified radiant cut diamond weighing 10.04 carats, E color grade and VS2clarity grade.”

Williams said in his lawsuit that he gave Marzouki the ring Feb. 19, 2012, which was 3 ½ weeks before he signed his free-agent contract with the Bills that made him the league’s highest-paid defensive player at the time. Williams and Marzouki were living in Houston at the time.

Williams also claimed he gave Marzouki a credit card to use for living expenses and that she charged $108,000 on the card in 2012, and that he had purchased “additional luxury items” for Marzouki with a total value of $230,000.

Marzouki has not filed any documents in the Houston court in response to Williams’ claims.

Who’s keeping score?

Chicago Cubs owner Tom Ricketts is threatening to move the Cubs out of Wrigley Field if the city doesn’t let him have a 6,000-square-foot scoreboard.

“These are the Cubs,” comedian Argus Hamilton said.

“Don’t you need to score runs before you need a 6,000-squarefoot scoreboard ?”Feed the Reds

The Cincinnati Reds aren’t hungry.

At least when it comes to their charter flights.

Yahoo!Sports passed along a Twitter message from Dallas Latos, the wife of Reds pitcher Mat Latos, regarding the team’s menu for its flight from Chicago to Cincinnati over the weekend.

Here are the highlights:

Pre-departure snacks: Individual personal pizzas, California sushi rolls, peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, assorted chips, shrimp cocktail, fresh fruit cups.

Dinner selections: Carrot cake, fried shrimp with macaroni and cheese and sauteed haricot verts, chicken stir fry with jasmine rice and stir fried vegetables, baked lasagna, bleu cheese and spinach entree salad with a grilled beef fillet on top of a salad, angus beef burgers

Snacks: Haagen-Dazs ice cream bars, caramel popcorn, fresh fruit and cheese, assorted candy bars, mixed nuts.

Just imagine if the flight had been longer than an hour.

Ace Republican

Sen. Saxby Chambliss, R-Ga., made a hole in one Monday while playing golf with President Barack Obama at Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland.

Chambliss hit a 5-iron 156 yards on 11 for the hole in one.

“Actually,” Chambliss told Reuters, “I told him since I’d made a hole-in-one, he ought to give us everything we want on entitlement reform.”

Quote of the day

“I went from wanting to trade him on the spot to wanting to cook breakfast for him tomorrow morning.” San Antonio Spurs Coach Gregg Popovich on Manu Ginobili’s three pointer that beat the Golden State Warriors in double overtime after he had taken an ill-advised shot just seconds earlier

Sports, Pages 22 on 05/08/2013

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