Steve McNair found shot to death

[dwolfman]

the AP link not working.   

the Jason Whitlock opinion I'm not sure I buy into.  Does it then follow that divorcees who don't have custody of their children should refrain from starting new marriages and families? I had a short stint as a teacher and I came into contact with several such parents that could only be described as involved.

My whole thing is if he and his mistress were spending so much time together that people thought they were living together and his wife didn't notice then either 1) he had a history of being negligent/absent or 2) they had effectively separated (whether she knew the real reasons or not).

None of this is to condone the adultery or explain the affair but it's just that I find the jump from saying he was spending a lot of time with his new girlfriend to saying that he was a negligent father doesn't seem to be grounded in anything substantial that has come out.   

Of course it is entirely plausible that Jason Whitlock, as a well-connected member of the media, has access to information that he can't just come out and say.

Maybe he does have information that we don't, but I suspect it's more intuitive based on the things he's seen among athletes. Logically though it's not a stretch to believe that to spend as much time as McNair spent with Kazemi meant that his family did not see a lot of him. Whether or not it's true we may never know.

I went back and found the AP article and just copied and pasted it below.

Updated: July 8, 2009, 12:22 PM EDT
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - An associate said Wednesday that the wife of ex-NFL quarterback Steve McNair didn't know about Sahel Kazemi before the 20-year-old woman was found dead alongside her husband on the Fourth of July.
McNair, 36, was shot four times in what the medical examiner has said is likely a murder-suicide, though police haven't confirmed that Kazemi was responsible.

Mike Mu, who has worked with McNair's charitable foundation for years, said Mechelle McNair "didn't know who this girl is."

Mechelle McNair, who has not spoken publicly since the shooting, has been described by people close to her as being very upset and distraught. Agent Bus Cook said McNair's wife was "in and out" of it in the hours after the shooting.

Kazemi's family told reporters that the woman was so confident McNair was divorcing his wife of 12 years that she was preparing to sell her furniture and move in with the former quarterback.

Mu is handling media inquiries for Thursday night's memorial service in Nashville. A funeral service will be held Saturday in Mississippi.

The close friend who reported McNair's death to 911 defended his friend since their days playing football at Alcorn State to The Tennessean. Robert Gaddy, who did not immediately return a text message to his cell phone from The Associated Press on Wednesday, said the the McNairs' Nashville home was on the market because they were looking for a new house.

"People need to quit talking about what they don't know. Mac never said anything to me about he was going to get a divorce, and ever since this has all happened everybody is trying to paint a certain picture and they need to talk about what they know," Gaddy told newspaper.

The four-time Pro Bowl quarterback was being remembered Wednesday at the stadium where he played much of his career. The Tennessee Titans opened LP Field for fans to watch video highlights of McNair's 13-year NFL career, look at photos of the quarterback and had a book for them to write messages that will be given to the family.

The McNairs married in 1997, and Mechelle is the mother of two of his four sons. She met McNair while both were students at Alcorn State, though she also studied nursing in Nashville and became a nurse while he played for the Titans.

Mechelle McNair tended his numerous injuries at home, changing bandages and even helping with intravenous fluids in 2001 when her husband needed I.V. antibiotics for an infection that developed after shoulder surgery.

[asylumseeker]

She and Iran gehhin bashed all kinda way on the blogs ... That her biography has all kinda twists and turns does not help ... and, well, the Southern "gentlemen" need no invitation to bruck out the familiar adjectives, nouns and compound nouns ... 'cause they doing so already. Racism is alive and well.

All that's left is for Ahmadinejad to tune in to this as an example of the potential for American moral and societal corruption.

[giggsy11]

Messin with young women's head. Hey isn't that one of the reasons older men target younger women?

[Dutty]

All that's left is for Ahmadinejad to tune in to this as an example of the potential for American moral and societal corruption.

it go be a hell of a ting if the story morph into that