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Sean Tuohy, Jr. whose family was the subject of the hit film "The Blind Side," is responding... ...Tuohy said Oher sent messages to family group texts in 2020 and 2021 with statements such as "'If you guys give me this much, then I won’t go public..." ...Sean Tuohy, Sr. also responded Monday...that the family contacted lawyers at the time "who had told us that we couldn’t adopt over the age of 18," and "The only thing we could do was to have a conservatorship." The elder Tuohy also said that everyone "got an equal share, including Michael" in the profits...

The 2009 movie “The Blind Side” does not state or imply that the Tuohy family adopted Michael Oher. Neither does Michael Lewis’ 2006 book that inspired the film that won Sandra Bullock an Oscar. In 2011, when Michael Oher published his first memoir, “I Beat the Odds,” he stated directly that the Tuohys secured a conservatorship when he was a senior in high school. He wrote that Sean and Leigh Anne Tuohy insisted that he maintain a relationship with his biological mother and 11 siblings. Oher wrote that his mother participated in the procedures necessary for the Tuohys to become...

On Super Bowl Sunday, proud adoptive mom Leigh Anne Tuohy will watch her son play football for the second time in the biggest American sports game of the year. Tuohy’s son Michael Oher is the offensive lineman for the Carolina Panthers and formerly the Baltimore Ravens, who he helped to achieve victory in the 2013 Super Bowl. Oher’s life had a troubled beginning. When Oher was born, his mother was addicted to drugs and his father was in prison. He struggled in school, moved through homes in foster care and spent time homeless until he met Leigh Anne and her...

The Rebound Life imitates art when the Blum family in Dubuque Iowa took into their family a 19 year old orphan from the south side of Chicago. The coincidences with the award winning movie "The Blind Side" are uncanny. Enjoy this heart warming story. Read all about it at http://www.rodblum.com/therebound.shtml And this man is taking the voice of the Tea Party to his campaign for the Republican nomination to Congress from Iowa's new First Congressional District. You can see his campaign web site at http://www.rodblum.com/index.shtml

Remarkable New Tea Party Candidate for Congress A remarkable businessman from Dubuque, Iowa has announced he is running for the Republican nomination to Iowa's new First Congressional Disrtict. Rod Blum is no career politician. Rod Blum stands with the Tea Party, and has spoken at Tea Party rallies in his hometown. If you would like to check out his campaign web site, just go to http://www.rodblum.com/index.shtml And if you want to know what Rod Blum is REALLY all about, click on the link to "The Rebound" at http://www.rodblum.com/therebound.shtml and you will read an amazing story.

For the reader who has no frame for "The Blind Side," it is a football movie where a snappy, sharp-tongued Southern woman (played by Sandra Bullock) rescues a black boy from his miserable life and creates of him, a la "My Fair Lady," a star athlete. "What do you think," I asked my young plebeians, "the writers and directors of ‘The Blind Side' are trying to persuade you of?" I told them to watch the trailer, and I wanted them to note the stereotypes of African-Americans. I turned on the projector, and away we went. The trailer is only 21/2...

Sandra Bullock and Jesse James are not living under the same roof right now. The actress left the Southern California house she shares with James just days before a report of infidelity by her husband surfaced, a source tells PEOPLE.

If there’s anything Hollywood appreciates less, or fears more, than the inexorable rise of Sarah Palin, it’s the success of the movie The Blind Side. Heading into the Oscars, Avatar may be the techno-wow box-office behemoth, The Hurt Locker the critically acclaimed scrapper, but it’s The Blind Side that has truly blindsided the film industry. To the head-scratching consternation of West Coast movie execs, God-fearing “red state” Americans in their millions have been storming cinemas to see it. The film cost just $35m, has taken nearly $250m since the end of November and is a shock smash hit. Based on...

All-American Michael Oher went from the streets as a 15-year-old son of a crack addict to potential NFL Rookie of the Year on the love and dedication of an adoptive family that wouldn’t let him fail. The movie that tells their story hits theaters in time for National Adoption Day—and recognition that about 130,000 Michael Ohers are waiting for a family to adopt them Sean and Leigh Anne Tuohy adopted as a family motto, "To whom much is given, much is required," they had no idea just how much would be required, nor that they were adopting far more than...