Let’s recap THE 5IVE HOT TOPICS of the week!
5. #ShiloSanders signs with The Tampa Bay Buccaneers!
Now Coach Prime has TWO sons in the NFL! He has to be over the moon with JOY! Congrats to the Sanders family!
4. The Sean ‘Diddy’ Trial begins on May 5th! But in a recent court appearance, the HIP HOP MOGUL’s NEW APPEARANCE has caused some to be question, ‘HARPO, WHO DIS MAN?’ The disgraced hitmaker looks quite different as witnessed in recent COURT sketches:
Sean “Diddy” Combs is in jail as he faces federal criminal charges, to which he’s pleaded not guilty, alleging abuse and sex crimes.
Combs, seen here in a courtroom sketch during an April 18, 2025, pretrial hearing ahead of his looming sex trafficking trial, and his legal team were served a loss at his latest court appearance, with a judge denying their request to delay the trial. Scroll through for moments from his latest court appearance.
Sean “Diddy” Combs sits with members of his defense team Marc Agnifilo, Teny Geragos, Alexandra Shapiro and Jason Driscoll for a conference ahead of his trial this month on sex trafficking charges in New York on April 18, 2025, in this courtroom sketch. :Jane Rosenberg, REUTERS
Sean “Diddy” Combs officially turned down a potential plea deal in front of a judge in court at the final hearing before his highly anticipated federal sex-crimes trial.
Over the last month, Combs has appeared in court a handful of times as federal prosecutors and the disgraced hip-hop mogul’s attorneys have ironed out the kinks of what is already shaping up to be one of the most closely followed celebrity trials in recent memory. With most of the legal housekeeping out of the way, both parties met with Judge Arun Subramanian on May 1 at a federal courthouse in lower Manhattan for one last pretrial conference, days before Combs’ trial kicks off May 5.
In court, the music magnate was in good spirits.
Combs grinned and hugged his team, waving to the gallery at the Daniel Patrick Moynihan United States Courthouse when he walked in. He spoke animatedly with his hands and donned wide-rimmed black glasses while he was reading documents at the defense table.
3: NFL fines the Atlanta Falcons $250,000 and Jeff Ulbrich $100,000 over Shedeur Sanders’ phone number leak:
The NFL has fined the Atlanta Falcons $250,000 and team defensive coordinator Jeff Ulbrich $100,000 over the leak of Shedeur Sanders’ phone number, the league confirmed to CNN on Wednesday.
Jax Ulbrich, the son of the Falcons DC, apologized for a prank call made to Sanders on Friday as he waited to be picked in the NFL draft.
“We appreciate the NFL’s swift and thorough review of last week’s data exposure and the event that transpired due to it,” the Falcons said in a statement Wednesday. “We were proactive in addressing the situation internally and cooperated fully with the league throughout the process, and accept the discipline levied to Coach Jeff Ulbrich and the organization.
“We are confident in our security policies and practices and will continue to emphasize adherence to them with our staff whether on or off premises. Additionally, the Ulbrich family is working with the organization to participate in community service initiatives in relation to last week’s matter.”
Originally one of the NFL’s most-touted draft prospects, Sanders received a call – allegedly from the general manager of the New Orleans Saints – as he waited anxiously to learn which NFL team would select him, but the call turned out to be a prank.
A day after the hoax, Sanders received the real call from the Cleveland Browns. He was selected as the 144th overall pick in the fifth round on Saturday.
Sanders is the son of Colorado coach and Pro Football Hall of Famer Deion Sanders. The University of Colorado alum was widely expected to be picked earlier in the draft because of the number of teams needing a quarterback.
While draft phone numbers are only available to a limited amount of NFL personnel, according to NFL Network’s Judy Batista, the Falcons said Ulbrich’s son saw Sanders’ number on his father’s open iPad, which he then wrote down to use later.
In a Falcons’ statement, the team had promised to “facilitate an apology directly from Jax to the Sanders family.” Jax Ulbrich released a public apology on Instagram on Sunday where he thanked Sanders for “accepting my call earlier.”
On Wednesday in a session with reporters, Jeff Ulbrich apologized to the Sanders family and the Falcons organization for the prank call.
“My actions in not protecting confidential data were inexcusable,” Jeff Ulbrich said. “My son’s actions were absolutely inexcusable and for that we are both deeply sorry. The NFL has taken action and I full respect the punishment. We take full responsibility — my son and myself — and we will not appeal the fine in any way. Going forward, I promise my son and I will work hard to demonstrate we are better than this.”
Jeff Ulbrich added he was “not happy and shocked” when finding out about the call and immediately made the organization aware of what transpired. Afterward, they got in touch with the Sanders family to apologize.
“The Sanders family, Shedeur and Coach Sanders, were amazingly gracious,” Jeff Ulbrich said. “More gracious than they needed to be in a moment like this.”
The NFL told CNN that the league is still investigating other prank calls reported during the draft. The league said those are unrelated to the Ulbrich and Sanders incident.
2. Beyonce kicks off #CowboyCarterTour off in L.A. to rave reviews and pays HOMAGE to break-out star #803Fresh’s GLOBAL hit ‘Boots on the Ground’!
Beyonce also pays HOMAGE to the BREAK-OUT hit ‘Boots on the Ground’, from SC artist, 803 Fresh!!!
- Kendrick Lamar and Sza bring ‘The Grand National Tour’ to Atlanta!!!
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