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Name: shakaz0117

Comment: Dr. Ian Smith is easy of the eyes, but I detect there may be some "sugar" in his tank!!

Name: McNasty

Comment: I was getting ready to give LeBron big ups - it would have been premature. Since he's building in the hood who the fukk he sellin' to? If anyone in the hood can come up with the down payment on one of these, they were living well below their means from the get!! What happened to quality, affordable housing for the hood? He's going to price the existing residents out of their homes.

Name: McNasty

Comment: Shaka I wasn't going to say that simply because I think he's way easy on the eyes and I'm sick of finding out about all these friggin' undercover brothers! I won't believe it till he says it but I don't think I want to see a picture of his wife either - not a black name!!!

Name: Hollyhood

Comment: The big ten also includes the University of Illinois... dosen't it? And Ian is gay, but this is the stupid pressure that society puts on these guys to marry women, when they really dont want to them.

Name: McNasty

Comment: *dripping sarcasm* thanks bunches hollyhood. You know dude was pretty decent eye candy too.

Name: DOne

Comment: >McNasty, I was about to do the same. My response to the heading was great, this brotha is building affortable housing in a low income area. Then I read the piece. 225K and up townhouses in the hood, if they sell, will not help the hood, if anything, it will only help push the poor and working class out of the the neighborhood because if this development does well other high priced housing will follow.

Name: Angel

Comment: Why would 2 grown azz rich men move in together unless they were "together"?!? That sounds suspect.

Name: Caribbean_Queen

Comment: Is it time for Wimbledon already? I besta get some new batteries for my Tivo. Venus....I know you're reading this!!! YOU'D BETTAH WORK!!!! BRING ITTTT!

Name: onyxeyes

Comment: McNasty- Dr. Ian Smith's wife is black. She went to Hampton Unversity(my alma mater). They were in Ebony Magazine together. What" the hell is a "black name" anyway?

Name: McNasty

Comment: Thanks for the clarification Onyxeyes as for 'black name' if you have to ask you wouldn't understand. Don't feel bad though cause I still don't understand women who marry men that are 'suspect'.

Name: arkansasgirl

Comment: Once again Eur is a day late and a dollar short. The story about Dr Ian and Strahan came out a couple of days again. And yesterday Strahan's wife backtracked on her comments. She said what she mean by saying he was living an "alternative lifestyle" was him now hanging out with his boys comparing to when they were together so he's living an alternative lifestyle compared to in the past. She nees to be %*$!(-slapped for lying like that. And Dr Ian is married to a beautiful black woman. She's a medical doctor and lawyer.

Name: arkansasgirl

Comment: June 21, 2006 -- A bitter Jean Strahan yesterday accused her estranged sack-star spouse of playing for the other team. Outside court, she said that after she and the Giant split in March 2005, he shared an "alternative lifestyle" with "his best buddy," TV doctor Ian Smith. "Michael moved in with Ian in his one-bedroom apartment for the next year," she said, after the couple's acrimonious divorce proceedings had ended for the day in Essex County Family Court. "You could say an alternative lifestyle sprouted," she added. Asked to stop beating around the bush, Jean smiled - and was prevented from saying any more by her lawyer. Strahan's lawyer, Robert Penza, called the remarks "outrageous" and said "this allegation has been raised in the past by Jean. She has been spreading rumors throughout this entire litigation process." The defensive end couldn't be reached for comment - but Smith had plenty to say. "This is the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard," he told The Post. "Yes, Michael Strahan is one of my best friends, and in a time of need, when he was kicked out of his home and had no place to go, I did what any good friend would do and offered him my couch. "At the same time, I was planning my wedding to a woman I had been dating for over 14 years, and we are happily married." Asked to put the allegations to rest, Smith said, "Michael Strahan is very heterosexual, and I am very heterosexual."

Name: McNasty

Comment: DOne sadder still is these brothers probably think they've done a good thing. I wonder if he's actually gone into this neighborhood and had any kind of conversation with the existing residents - if not he should have. I don't want to believe he did his research and this is the best he could come up with. I wonder what the plan is for those already there when this plan comes to fruition and the purchasers of the new homes whisper in someones ear 'we don't want the low incomes here' and out they go without another thought!

Name: arkansasgirl

Comment: Wednesday, June 21st, 2006 Giants sack master Michael Strahan yesterday tried to do an end run away from questions about his "alternative lifestyle" - right through the streets of the West Village. The burly all-pro brushed against a moving cab and dodged cars as he sprinted from reporters outside a gym on Christopher St., along with the twin brother of his pal TV doc Ian Smith. "They can't hurt me," Strahan, 34, yelled to a well-wishing fan as Dana Smith jogged alongside. "That's why I'm running in these streets." The bizarre scene capped another circuslike day in the Big Blue superstar's ongoing bitter divorce battle. It also came a day after his estranged wife suggested he and his pal, TV doctor Ian Smith, were more than just close friends - saying the duo pursued an "alternative lifestyle" after moving in together when the Strahans broke up last year. Strahan's parents told the Daily News yesterday he's not gay - and Smith's wife said the doctor and best-selling author is 100% straight. Even Strahan's estranged wife admitted she might have gone too far by hinting the football star and Smith are an item - but she still thinks they're dogs. "I didn't just blurt out Michael is gay with Ian," Jean Strahan, 41, told The News. "I really meant that it was a lifestyle change. ...Alternative to being with me was hanging out with this guy, chasing anything that moves." Smith, best-selling author of "The Fat Smash Diet," went on the raunchy "Opie and Anthony" radio show to again squash an illicit suggestion about him and his longtime buddy Strahan, who was a groomsman at the doctor's wedding last year. The Strahans are squabbling over how to divvy up millions of dollars and trading barbs over one another's free-spending ways. She wants about $14 million to end their 7-year marriage, but he wants to fork over half that. Her lawyer has accused Strahan of raiding the couple's joint account to pump money into Dana Smith's West Village-based fashion business.

Name: arkansasgirl

Comment: Jean Strahan claimed she only made the "alternative lifestyle" accusation to dramatize just how badly their storybook marriage imploded last year. "This is someone who weeks earlier was committed to two babies and a family life," said Jean Strahan, 41. "So all of a sudden he became a wild bachelor overnight. To me, that was a very alternative lifestyle." As if to paint a portrait of the life Michael Strahan spurned, Jean Strahan played happily with their twin 19-month-old girls on the brick patio of their restored century-old mansion in Montclair, N.J. "I don't really know my husband ... other than he's very active chasing women and he hangs out with Ian," she said. Nearly 1,000 miles west, Ian Smith's brilliant and beautiful wife said she's known her husband for 14 years - and declared he's definitely not gay. "I have no qualms whatsoever on my husband's sexuality," said Triste Lieteau at her Chicago office. "It's so ridiculous. What can you say." The high-powered medical doctor and lawyer insisted there was nothing suspicious about Ian Smith inviting Strahan to stay at his upper East Side pad after the athlete broke up with his wife. "It was a friend helping a friend," said Lieteau, 31, who lives in a trendy Chicago neighborhood. "It's sad that the price of a friendship is that you get dragged into this." She vowed not to "lower herself" into a media battle with Jean Strahan, but threatened unspecified legal action. "This is just a blip," she added. "I love my husband dearly and I know he loves me dearly. ... This will only make us stronger." Strahan's parents also scoffed at the scandal and said his estranged wife is slinging mud in a desperate bid to settle scores. "First there was other women, now she says it's Dr. Ian," said Gene Willie Strahan from his hometown of Houston. "I know Dr. Ian and he's not gay and neither is Michael." His churchgoing mom chuckled at the claim that her burly football star son is anything other than a lady-killer. "If Michael was gay we would all know about it, believe me, you couldn't hide that," said Louise Strahan. "I leave this in the good lord's hands. The truth will come out." His mom added that she feels pity for Jean Strahan. "I feel sorry for my daughter-in-law," Louise Strahan said. "Soon to be ex-daughter-in-law, I hope." "She has some serious problems," Gene Willie Strahan said. Last night, after his dash from the press, Strahan went out to Pastis, a Meatpacking District hotspot, with the Smith brothers and his rumored gal pal, model Eva Pigford. "Have a good evening," he told a reporter as he and Ian Smith left together in Strahan's black Bentley.

Name: Brandon

Comment: I agree with "McNasty" and "DOne" -- who's going to pay over $300k for a townhome in "the roughest part" of the hood?!

Name: Priceless

Comment: If Ian and Triste been together for 14 yrs, they got together when she was 17 .... that sounds odd to me but I guess they got their education out of the way first

Name: Priceless

Comment: okay and Eva Pigford is no longer engaged to Henry Simmons? dayum these folks make your head spin with their musical beds

Name: Priceless

Comment: and another thing, Strahan is a boogie bear ... eeeeewwww! that gap is big enough for two more teefus to fit in there ... LOL!

Name: McNasty

Comment: Priceless I don't know about being engaged but it was a given a relationship between Henry 'love that voice' Simmons and the pig wasn't going to last. He's almost 7 feet and I'm sure someone told him he looked like a cradle robber. There was also a story, small blurb, some months back where she was mad that he kicked her to the curb and she did an interview where she said he had a finger sized johnson. Sorry to say I can believe that otherwise why would he be with such a small female.

Name: shakaz0117

Comment: There was also was a rumor that Eva Pigford "dumped" Henry Simmons,because she found out that he played for the other team. (If you know what I mean)

Name: Beezyuu

Comment: I'm a hugh LeBron fan but surprised that he doesn't realize that his investment is putting the poor people out on the streets with no place to live because they can't afford those prices. This will make LeBron and the white man that put him up to this richer.

Name: Eastwood

Comment: Two things. The first is: While "there's nothing wrong with gays," I still think these two are lying. The reason I say that is that Dr. Ian Smith says he allowed Strahan to stay with him because he had nowhere else to go. Am I missing something here? This man makes so much money, he's haggling over 14 million (the amount his wife is trying to get!). If she's trying to get that much from him, I'm gonna assume he has another 14 million--at least! Now, I can understand a dude running with his best friend after going through a divorce, but to live with the dude for over a year--in a 1 bedroom apartment--and you clowning on the money tip? Don't see it. But, again, I don't care what they are; just seemed like this needed to be said. The second is: I agree with everyone here about Lebron--that was some stupid sh*t...unless there's something we don't know about. Some subsidized housing or something. Can anybody say "Section 8"? Because if there's not, I don't see a soul trying to move into a ruogh hood for that amount of money. Even ballers ain't trying to move around all that when they got the loot to get away. Or something liek that.

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