AJ Hawks’s wife Laura Hawk has football in the blood. After growing up in a football house, AJ and Laura Hawk met in their sophomore year of college and began dating after their junior year. According to Laura, the relationship moved quickly, officially becoming boyfriend and girlfriend within a month, and getting engaged 5 months after they started dating. They were married July 24th, 2006 in a civil ceremony at a courthouse (and online rumors…
Matt Cassel’s wife Lauren Killian was born and raised in Los Angeles, where she also graduated from high school before going to USC. Lauren was a national champion while playing volleyball at USC when she and Cassel first met. The two were married in 2007, where Carson Palmer served as Cassel’s best man. It’s weird to me that competing Quarterbacks would have that good of a relationship, but maybe I’m just a bad person. Cassel’s wife was…
Brandi Duncan The two have been together for years, but were finally married on August 1, 2009. For their honeymoon, the two went to Africa on both a vacation and as part of the NBA Cares program. In 2007, Brandi was diagnosed with ovarian cancer. When Brandi lost her hair during chemotherapy, Jason shaved his head completely bald to help support her. Brandi attributes her healthy full recovery to Jason’s steadfast support through her difficult…
Tony Gonzalez and wife October Gonzalez recently posed for a PETA campaign discouraging wearing fur. Though Tony is not a typical PETA vegan, he did experiment with veganism as an alternative therapy after a bout of facial paralysis caused by Bell’s Palsy. He has also credited going vegan to making him more focused, with a higher energy level. Given how long his career has lasted, and the fact that he has only missed ONE game…
Deron Williams wife Amy Williams has been a constant in his life for most of his life. Deron met the former Amy young in the second grade and the two began dating for real in high school. Following college, the couple married, and now has two daughters together. Denae was born in 2003 and Daija was born in 2006. Who says that NBA players can’t be sensitive guys? Deron says his favorite tattoos are the…
Kenyon Martin’s girlfriend Trina (real name Katrina Laverne Taylor) is a rapper who broke onto the scene in 1998, appearing on a Trick Daddy single which peaked at #3 on the rap single charts. She went on to work as a solo artist, whose third solo album, Still da Baddest, debuted at #1 on the Billboard Rap and R&B chart, and at #6 on The Billboard 200 chart. Rumors of their relationship began sprouting up…
Shaq and wife Shaunie O’Neal were together long before their December, 2002 marriage. They have four children together, while Shaunie has one other child from a previous relationship. Shaunie filed for divorce in 2007, at which time she accused Shaq of among other things, hiding assets in advance of a divorce trial. She later withdrew her divorce petition. On November 9, 2009, Shaunie again filed for divorce citing irreconcilable differences. Shaunie has requested sole custody…