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FRIDAY'S BROADCAST HIGHLIGHTS:NBA: Boston at Orlando, 7 p.m. (NBCSB)NBA: LA Clippers at Oklahoma City, 8 p.m. (NBATV)NBA: Miami at LA Lakers, 10:30 p.m. (NBATV)
AROUND THE WEB:
-- Logan Ryan tweeted to Jason McCourty on Thursday to congratulate him on joining the Patriots and threw in a joke about Duron Harmon.
"Shoutout to @McCourtyTwins (Jmac) teaming up w his brother add in @dharm32 and you got the baldest Db core to ever do it lol!!! Congrats Jmac! Great Fit!!," Ryan tweeted.
Ryan and the McCourty brothers played four seasons together with the Patriots before Ryan signed with the Titans in 2017. Ryan, Harmon and the McCourtys also all played for Rutgers.
Other Patriots players found Ryan's message hilarious and reacted on Twitter.
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— Rob Ninkovich (@ninko50) March 15, 2018------ lmao https://t.co/2fnwhmRZ3l
— Nate Ebner (@NateEbner) March 15, 2018Lmao straight up https://t.co/HwHokOJj4o
— Patrick Chung (@PatrickChung23) March 15, 2018-- The woman who was beaten by her baseball player ex-fiance in a newly released video from 2016 is speaking out.
Fabiana Perez, the then-fiancee of Danry Vasquez, said she wishes she had pressed charges against the former Astros prospect. She and Vasquez had been together for six years at the time of the incident and did not break up until months later.
"May God forgive him. He knows what he did," Perez told Univision. "He wronged me, and at the time I forgave him, but if I had the knowledge I have now, I would have made a different decision."
To people who criticized her for staying with Vasquez, Perez said, "It's true what they say: you need to walk a mile in someone's shoes to know how you'd feel in their situation. People don't know the stuff that I lived, people don't know the fear that I suffered. Like I said, a lot of what you see in that footage, I don't remember. I see the video now and remember moments of the situation, but you really don't know how you would feel."
Vasquez was released by the Lancaster Barnstormers after the graphic video from 2016 surfaced this week of him beating Perez in a stairwell.
QUOTE OF THE DAY: "I say that after a lot of reflection and mostly a lot of belief that, ultimately, what is the most important thing in life is to be happy. As much as it was a great honor to be the voice of 'Monday Night Football' –– and you guys know me well enough, and certainly a lot of my friends and family do –– it wasn't a tremendous amount of fun the last two years." -- Sean McDonough, with K&C, on being replaced as the voice of "Monday Night Football"
