Football's Matt Leinart to Be a Father

People Magazine ^ | 8/29/06 | various

[BurbankKarl]

Arizona Cardinals quarterback Matt Leinart and University of Southern California basketball player Brynn Cameron are expecting a baby in the fall, PEOPLE has learned.

Leinart, 23, one of PEOPLE's 2006 Most Beautiful People, graduated from USC in December 2005 and lives in Los Angeles and Arizona.

Cameron, a 20-year-old USC junior, will sit out the upcoming basketball season.

"It's an exciting time in their life," says a source who knows both athletes. "They both have support from their families."

[Cyclopean Squid]

Except...I think this guy is going to crash. Remember that other famed usc qback Marijuanavich?...

I remember another one named Carson something or other...I think Lienart will be a good QB. He could be great with his WR corps in Zona. We'll see--it's way too early to tell. I hope he does the right thing with this situation.

[Dog Gone]

I'd have to think not, because it's not as if she suddenly discovered that she's going to have a baby in the next three months. So he has to have known for quite awhile as well.

[MikefromOhio]

yeah...

oh well...


his and her life, not mine.

[stop_fascism]

Of course, if you really believed that, you wouldn't have written your post, would you?

[wouldntbprudent]

Amen.

[wouldntbprudent]

Exactly. He looks more like just a sperm donor to me.

[Old_Mil]

Matt is becoming more and more skeevy with each passing day.

What did you expect? It's not like the guy was a quarterback for Notre Dame.

[wouldntbprudent]

Yeah, the new baby is a winning lottery ticket, so long as Matt doesn't go broke after two years in the league.

[stop_fascism]

Translation - As long as he comes through with child support, he can screw all the starlets and heiresses he wants.

Having a celebrity's bastard pays a lot better than being a shooting guard with bad hips in the WNBA. There is a word for that kind of woman, but it isn't ditz.

[Old_Mil]

Yeah, the new baby is a winning lottery ticket

Someone should do a study of the net worth in terms of child support of babies that are born vs those who are aborted. Brutal, yes...but it might shed some light on things.

[socal_parrot]

Todd's main problem was he didn't eat meat or junk food so he was never able to satisfy the munchies he got from smoking all that weed.

[wouldntbprudent]

The purpose of social shame is to deter others.

[Not A Snowbird]

Ryan Leaf is the new quarterbacks coach at West Texas A&M —as a volunteer. No paycheck.

Perhaps he's learned humility.

[Mr. Jeeves]

How does shaming them add any benefit to this situation?

Why, the prospect of God smiting their enemies makes the Old Testament Retributionists on FR feel much better. ;)

[wouldntbprudent]

Okay, you tease: what IS Leaf up to, then? :-)

The last I heard, he was busted or drugged down in Mexico while holed up with a highly expensive woman in a highly expensive hotel.

But what do I know.

Yes, my point was that he flunked out of football even though he had tremendous football skills. His immaturity, lack of discipline, inability to learn from criticism, etc. made him, in fact, a much worse player than a person with fewer or lesser skills but higher character.

So, diga mi: did the kid salvage his life somewhat after all? I hope so.

[wouldntbprudent]

What did he say? I missed it.

[MikefromOhio]

LOL

pretty much

[MikefromOhio]

I don't know where you heard that he was drugged up in Mexico....

Wikipedia entry for Leaf

That entry is pretty much right on for what I know. He's trying to make it either as an agent or some type of player rep last I had heard.

He had plenty of physical skills, but he couldn't make that mental jump to the NFL game. Heath Shuler was another who couldn't do it.

[VRWCmember]

Arizona Cardinals quarterback Matt Leinart and University of Southern California basketball player Brynn Cameron are expecting a baby in the fall,

Not exactly a ringing endorsement for the effectiveness of Trojans.

[darkangel82]

And now Shuler's running for Congress as a Dem.