NFL fines Marshawn Lynch

Seattle Seahawks running back Marshawn Lynch spent the few minutes he was on the podium at Tuesday’s Super Bowl media day saying, over and over again, “I’m just here so I won’t get fined.”
Unfortunately, for Lynch, showing up wasn’t the only criteria. Sources tell ESPN that, after the Super Bowl, the league will review whether the hat Lynch wore during the event, which bears his “Beast Mode” logo, was permissible. If the NFL rules that Lynch used media day to promote a brand that was not approved by the league, he could face a significant fine. NFL spokesman Brian McCarthy declined to comment.
The NFL makes clear to players that they cannot wear brands that conflict with league partners on the field during games and during postgame interviews. That is extended to Super Bowl media day, where a record number of cameras are on the players.
That’s why the league fined Chicago Bears linebacker Brian Urlacher $100,000 for wearing a Vitaminwater hat on his podium during Super Bowl XLI in 2007. The league had, and still has, an official drink deal with Pepsi, which also owns Gatorade.
Lynch’s Beast Mode hat was selling on the clothing line’s website and advertised as “the hat Marshawn wore during the 2015 SB Media Day.” The hat, which costs $33, sold out and the site noted this morning that it was hoping to restock it as soon as possible. Lynch owns four trademarks to the phrase “Beast Mode” and has filed for three additional trademarks with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
The league frowns on players using what is considered a league event to promote something that it has not approved. And despite Lynch’s short time on the podium on Tuesday, he certainly got a lot of free advertising from news clips and social media showing the hat throughout the day.
Lynch’s situation isn’t exactly parallel to Urlacher’s in that Lynch wasn’t wearing a brand that competes with a league sponsor. The hat is made by New Era, which is the official hat of the NFL.
Lynch is no stranger to fines. In November, he was fined $50,000 for not talking to the media and another $50,000 that was being withheld by the league from the 2013 season that was contingent upon his future cooperation with the press. Lynch was also fined $11,050 for grabbing his crotch after a touchdown in a late December game against the Arizona Cardinals. He was fined $20,000 for doing the same thing in the NFC Championship Game.
Online sportsbook Sportsbook.com had a prop bet on whether Lynch would get fined for media day. The odds of that happening were set at 8-to-1, but the sportsbook lowered odds significantly after bets came in heavy for Lynch to get docked.

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The “Scream Tour” is coming back with an all-new lineup.
Kid Ink and DeJ Loaf will headline “Scream Nation: The Reintroduction Tour,” with more artists to be announced.
“I’m excited to be a part of the reintroduction of such a prestigious touring brand as Scream,” Kid Ink told Billboard. “It’s a brand I grew up respecting and admiring. I can’t wait to hit the road and get this started.”

The 26-city trek, a joint venture between Live Nation and Scream Nation, kicks off March 12 at the Peabody Opera House in St. Louis and wraps its six-week run at the State Theatre in Minneapolis on April 26.
Throughout its 15 years, the “Scream Tour” has featured many chart-topping acts including Chris Brown, Trey Songz, Bow Wow, T.I., and Ciara.
Tickets go on sale starting Jan. 31.
SCREAM NATION: THE REINTRODUCTION TOUR DATES
March 12 – St. Louis, MO – Peabody Opera House
March 13 – Chicago, IL – Aragon Ballroom
March 14 – Detroit, MI – Fox Theatre
March 17 – Denver, CO – Fillmore Auditorium
March 19 – Phoenix, AZ – Comerica Theatre
March 20 – Las Vegas, NV – The AXIS at Planet Hollywood
March 21 – Los Angeles, CA – Hollywood Palladium
March 22 – San Jose, CA – City National Civic
March 26 – Dallas, TX – South Side Ballroom
March 27 – Houston, TX – Bayou Music Center
March 29 – Nashville, TN – Nashville Municipal Auditorium
April 2 – Southaven, MS – Lander’s Center
April 3 – Atlanta, GA – Fox Theatre
April 4 – New Orleans, LA – UNO Lakefront Arena
April 7 – Miami, FL – The Fillmore Miami Beach at Jackie Gleason Theater
April 9 – Clearwater, FL – Ruth Eckerd Hall
April 11 – Jacksonville, FL – Moran Theater at the Times-Union Center
April 12 – Greensboro, NC – Greensboro Special Events Center
April 16 – Norfolk, VA – Ted Constant Convocation Center
April 17 – Washington, DC – DAR Constitution Hall
April 18 – Camden, NJ – Susquehanna Bank Center
April 19 – New York, NY – Kings Theatre
April 23 – Cleveland, OH – Playhouse Square Center
April 24 – Louisville, KY – The Louisville Palace
April 25 – Kansas City, MO – Independence Events Center
April 26 – Minneapolis, MN – State Theatre

Funk legend Sly Stone was awarded $5 million on Tuesday in a breach-of-contract suit that claimed his business partners and his own company cheated him out of royalties.
A Los Angeles Superior Court jury ruled for the 71-year-old performer in his action against his ex-manager Gerald Goldstein, attorney Glenn Stone and Even St. Productions Ltd.
“It’s a good day for Sly, it’s a good day for entertainers in general,” said one of his attorneys, Nicholas Hornberger. “This was an important verdict for people that are artists, entertainers, music composers, etc.”
Sly Stone’s Dodgy Deals & Money Problems Explored in Court Case
Stone, whose real name is Sylvester Stewart, led the group Sly and the Family Stone to a string of hits in the 1960s and early ’70s including “Everyday People,” “Dance To The Music” and “Family Affair.” But heavy drug use began to take a toll.
His lawyers say Stone’s career was long eclipsed and he was destitute when Goldstein and Glenn Stone convinced him to become an employee of and co-owner of Even St. Productions with them in 1989.
Stone assigned royalty rights to the company and was supposed to receive some of the money it collected for him but Goldstein and Glenn Stone arranged to get it through shady accounting, Hornberger argued.
“They met him, they signed him up…but what they really wanted was his royalties,” Hornberger said.
Gregory Bodell, the attorney for Goldstein and Glenn Stone, said the performer approached his clients to revitalize his career and promised to make comeback records that he never recorded.
His clients weren’t seeking the performer’s royalties because he didn’t have any, in part because he owed millions to the Internal Revenue Service, Bodell said.
Sly Stone testified that he had not received any royalty payments between 1989 and 2000.
But Bodell said his clients helped to pay off the IRS, renegotiated royalty issues with record companies and over 20 years obtained millions of dollars in royalties for the performer – perhaps as much as $9 million.
Sly Stone’s Money Troubles Detailed in Court Documents 
Jurors assessed $2.5 million in damages against Even St. Productions, $2.45 million against Goldstein and $50,000 against Glenn Stone.
Bodell said the award will be challenged.
Even St. Productions filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in 2013. A message left for a lawyer representing the company was not immediately returned.

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FANTASTIC FOUR, a contemporary re-imagining of Marvel’s original and longest-running superhero team, centers on four young outsiders who teleport to an alternate and dangerous universe, which alters their physical form in shocking ways. Their lives irrevocably upended, the team must learn to harness their daunting new abilities and work together to save Earth from a former friend turned enemy.

Paramount Pictures has moved up the release date of one of their big franchises, Mission Impossible 5. The film was supposed to be headed to theaters on Christmas Day, but now will see a July 31st opening, to get out of the way from the strong competition in the fourth quarter. The Christopher McQuarrie-directed action blockbuster might fare better in the summer and with Tom Cruise back at the forefront.

After celebrating a 30th anniversary last year, Sony Pictures has finally outlined plans for its long-awaited Ghostbusters reboot. But the original cast of Bill Murray and Dan Aykroyd unable to come to terms for a third installment of the legendary sci-fi/comedy, Sony has decided to move forward and reboot the series with an entirely new cast. Bridesmaids co-stars Kristen Wiig and Melissa McCarthy will star in the reboot alongside Saturday Night Live regulars Leslie Jones and Kate McKinnon.

                  

The upcoming film, starring Tom Hardy, Noomi Rapace, Joel Kinnaman and Gary Oldman, is based on the Tom Rob Smith 2008 novel of the same name. It’s set in 1953 Soviet Russia, and follows MGB agent Leo Demidov in the investigation of child murders at the time of Joseph Stalin’s reign.