Deion Sanders Tells Reporters to Keep His First Name Out of Their Mouths

 

Deion Sanders at SWAC Media Days.

The artist formerly known as “Prime Time” has made it clear that the only name he responds to now, at least when it comes to reporters, is “Coach.”

Deion Sanders, who went the aforementioned nickname — as well as the more colorful moniker “Neon Deion” — during his time as an All-Pro football player in the NFL and better-than-average MLB part-timer,  reportedly stormed out of a Southwestern Athletic Conference media day event Tuesday in Birmingham, Alabama.

Sanders, now in his second year as head coach of Jackson State, apparently took offense to a reporter calling him by his first name.

"You don't call Nick Saban, 'Nick.' Don't call me Deion," Sanders told Nick Suss from the Clarion Ledger. 

"If you call Nick (Saban), Nick, you'll get cussed out on the spot, so don't do that to me," Sanders later added. "Treat me like Nick." 

This is how all of this started, I really Pray for all of us because this was something so minimal that was hilarious to me that you allowed a FOOLISH media outlet and person to play on your Preconceived notions. I’m all about Peace,Love,Work,Commitment,Sacrifice & Forgiveness. pic.twitter.com/ZjZPMVJVfj

— COACH PRIME (@DeionSanders) July 21, 2021

The event transpired after the on-camera portion of the event was done. Suss, the reporter who called Sanders by his first name, made it clear that it is his policy to do so for all coaches, players and personnel when conducting interviews. “When I interview people, I call them by their first name. Whether it's someone I've been working with for years or someone I'm talking to for the first time,” he told the Clarion Ledger. “This is true of the coaches and players on the Ole Miss beat, the coaches and players at Mississippi State and Southern Miss when I help out covering their teams and, as recently as January, even Sanders, too."

It was reported that Suss, has called other coaches on his beat, including Saban, by their first names as well. Sanders, however, wasn’t hearing it and addressed the issue with a Tweet later in the day.

Never walked out of media day. I prolonged my time to answer another question & the person thought it was cute to address me the way he did so I dropped the call & went to the next outlet. Please don’t allow a fool to fool u because then nobody would truly know who the fool is. https://t.co/csbTRNgJvd

— COACH PRIME (@DeionSanders) July 20, 2021

Coach Prime went 4-3 in his first season with the Tigers, a season marred by scheduling and safety nightmares perpetrated upon the season by the coronavirus pandemic. Jackson State opens this season on Sept. 5 against Florida A&M.

Dolly Parton Recreates a Classic For Husband's Birthday

 

Dolly Parton is one of the realest to ever do it in the country music game. She's sold over 100-million records, found success on the silver screen and helped in the fight against covid. She also believes Black Lives Matter! She also founded Dolly Parton's Imagination Library, a book gifting program that mails free books to children from birth until they begin school in participating areas, and her Pigeon Forge, Tennessee, theme park Dollywood is a true job creator for the people back home. 

Without Dolly, Whitney wouldn't have been as big as she was, and the 75-year-old entertainer continues to give to the people. Today the diva dropped an Instagram thirst trap today's pop stars can only aspire to, donning the same outfit she wore for her cover appearance on Playboy in 1978 to celebrate her husband Carl Dean's birthday.

"Remember some time back I said I was gonna pose on Playboy magazine when I'm 75? Well, I'm 75 and they don't have a magazine anymore ... but my husband always loved the original cover of Playboy. I was trying to think of something to do to make him happy," she added. "He still thinks I'm a hot chick after 57 years and I'm not gonna try to talk him out of that."

Carl's a lucky man, and so are we to still have Dolly.

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Branson and Bezos Breach Final Frontier

The world is reeling under the heel of a global pandemic. War, famine and racism are just as prevalent as they were 20 years ago, and the environment is trying to kill us. It’s a tough time to be human, that is, unless you’re in the Billionaires Boys Club. 

Blue Origin's New Sheppard Rocket

Elon Musk, Richard Branson and Jeff Bezos, three of the planet’s richest men, have been flexing their funds in their own personal space race. The billionaires have been using some of their own money — and a lot of American taxpayer money to build (and in many cases blow up) bigger, better rockets, figure out new ways to make commercial space travel attainable and in Branson and Bezos’s cases, strapping on spacesuits of their own to cosplay as astronauts.

SpaceX founder Musk fired the first shot in this latest iteration of the space race, famously using a test launch of his companies Falcon Heavy rocket to send his personal Tesla roadster into an orbit which will have it cross paths with Mars, a planet Tesla has been the lead evangelist for colonizing for nearly two decades. But it was the brash British founder of Virgin Galactic, Branson, who took things to the next level.

On July 11, he and his team lifted off from the company’s Spaceport America (near Truth or Consequences, New Mexico) its VSS Unity spaceplane, becoming the first of the billionaires to pop their space cherry. Amazon founder Bezos wasn’t far behind. His Blue Origin team’s New Sheppard rocket took to the air Tuesday morning, with his brother also along for the ride, to ensure Bezos could no longer be called a space virgin. It was an act he immediately thanked the customers and employees of Amazon for paying for shortly after arriving back on terrra firma. 

So, what’s next? Well, Virgin Atlantic and Blue Origin hope to launch passenger flights in the coming year. Origin hasn’t revealed its prices yet, but several media outlets have reported that Galactic flights may cost around $250,000 per ticket. 

Musk seems content with his legs on the ground for now, but don’t be surprised if he doesn’t join the cosmic Three Comma Club soon enough. If Bezos’s rocket is any indication — this race might be more about much smaller things than benefiting humanity.