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Updated: Mavericks Star Dirk Nowitzki's Ex Cristal Taylor IS Pregnant

Sassy Smith — Fri, 29 May 2009 15:03:00 GMT

Cristal Taylor, 37, who is currently in jail for allegedly trespassing in Mavericks star Dirk Nowitzki's home, is pregnant. She had claimed to be expecting Nowitzki's baby (and said the two were engaged) but wasn't believed. However, medical records prove Taylor is telling the truth, at least about the pregnancy.

But - the records do not show paternity. That will obviously require another test.

From the Dallasnews.com:

The off-court drama surrounding Mavericks star Dirk Nowitzki took a new turn Tuesday, when medical records obtained by The Dallas Morning News confirmed his ex-girlfriend's claim that she took a pregnancy test and it came back positive.

Cristal Taylor, 37, and Nowitzki's attorney had spent the last week in a war of words over her assertion that she was tested and found to be pregnant when she was jailed after her arrest this month. After she went public in The News, the attorney issued a statement questioning whether she had even been tested.

The following day, last Friday, Taylor responded by offering to take a polygraph test. During that face-to-face jailhouse interview, she also readily signed a release form, giving The News access to her medical records. Federal laws prevent the disclosure of such records without the patient's consent.

Officials at the Dallas County Jail and Parkland Memorial Hospital provided the document Tuesday afternoon. The record showed that Taylor was administered a pregnancy test and that the result was positive. Pregnancy tests do not determine paternity. Taylor has told The News that she and Nowitzki were engaged and that he is the only man with whom she has had sex in the last seven years.

"I can't wait until you get those results," she told a News reporter Friday. "I know they won't lie. Can you hurry up and get them?"

Robert Hart, Nowitzki's attorney said in a written statement after hearing the news:

"This is all new information to us. We have previously submitted written requests through her Beaumont attorney for an independent pregnancy test as well as authorization for release of medical records. We have yet to receive any response.

"We would like to reiterate that if her statements as to her pregnancy are true, Dirk will do whatever can be done to ensure the well-being of the child."

Let's hope all involved think of that unborn baby and do what is in his (or her) best interest!

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Mavericks' Star Dirk Nowitzki: Cristal Taylor Insists She's Pregnant With His Baby!

Sassy Smith — Mon, 25 May 2009 12:03:00 GMT

Dallas Mavericks' star Dirk Nowitzki, who dated Sybille Gerer for 10 years before finally going their separate ways in 2002, said he would someday like to be a father: "I surely want to start a family and have kids, but I cannot imagine it happening before I become 30." Well, Dirk is now 30 and it looks like he's going to be a daddy - with Cristal Taylor, who is or was his fiance. She's currently in the Jefferson County Correctional Facility after being arrested earlier this month at Nowitzki's home for allegedly trespassing.

Nowitzki isn't talking but Taylor is. She gave her first face-to-face interview since being arrested and wants to clear some things up: namely her pregnancy claim. Cristal insists she is pregnant with Dirk's baby and she wants the world to know. She says Dirk wanted her to stop taking Depo-Provera (birth control shot) so they could "work on having a baby."

Here is an article written by Brad Townsend for Dallasnews.com:

Through the glass of visitation booth No. 48, Cristal Taylor's hazel eyes flashed varying emotions. Desperation. Confusion. But, mostly, anger.

On Friday, a day after Mavericks star Dirk Nowitzki's attorney publicly doubted Taylor's claim that she is pregnant, Taylor fought back during her first face-to-face interview since her May 6 arrest at Nowitzki's home.

Well, as face-to-face as a prisoner in the Jefferson County Correctional Facility is allowed to get to a visitor.

"I'm willing to take a polygraph test on anything I state; can they do the same?" she asked of Nowitzki and his attorney, Robert Hart. "This is getting outrageous. It's turning into such drama."

On Monday, Taylor told The Dallas Morning News that Dallas County jail officials gave her a pregnancy test as part of a routine screening.

But jail officials and a spokesperson from Parkland Hospital, which monitors prisoner medical needs, said pregnancy tests are only given if there are pre-existing circumstances.

On Friday, Taylor altered her version. She said a jail official asked her how long it had been since her last menstrual cycle, to which she replied she couldn't remember. "That's when they said, 'I want you to urinate in the cup for me.' "

On Monday, Taylor said she believed she was about 4 ½ weeks pregnant. On Friday, she said she thought the reporter was referring to how long she had been pregnant at the time of the May 6 test. She said she now believes she is nearly seven weeks pregnant.

But Taylor, 37, reiterated her claim that she took two pregnancy tests at Dallas County jail, and that both turned positive results.

In a statement he issued Thursday, Hart said, "We have been told that she was not administered a pregnancy test." Privacy laws prevent law enforcement and hospital officials from releasing such medical records without the patient's consent.

Hart declined to comment Friday when asked to clarify that statement and respond to Taylor's counterclaims. Hart also had said, "As with all things coming from this woman's mouth, we are highly skeptical."

Taylor said her mother and sister called to inform her of Hart's comments. Taylor said she left Hart a voice message demanding an explanation.

"But I don't want to talk to an attorney," she said. "An attorney did not help me make this child. Dirk did."

As of Friday, Nowitzki still had not commented on Taylor's pregnancy claim, which she first made Monday night in a prison phone call to The Dallas Morning News. In his statement, Hart assured that in the "remote" chance Taylor is pregnant, "Dirk will do whatever can be done to ensure the well-being of the child."

Taylor, who previously told The News that she and Nowitzki had lived together for 1 ½ years and became engaged on New Year's Eve, wondered why Nowitzki himself hasn't spoken.

When informed Nowitzki flew from Dallas to Germany on Thursday, Taylor closed her eyes, and her shoulders drooped.

"He's good at running," she said. "But, I mean, he can run to Germany and run to Austria, or wherever. But me and his kid are still going to be here."

During the last three weeks, Mavericks fans have come to recognize Taylor from a YouTube video and less-than-flattering mugshots.

At 2 p.m. Friday, she entered visitation booth No. 48, a cinder-blocked room roughly 10 feet long and half as wide, with stationary metal stools and counters separated by glass and a two-way speaker.

Wearing an orange jumpsuit, she was strikingly tall, about 5-10, and wore a long ponytail, tied with a piece of string. She nodded and smiled, then sat down.

"I keep crying myself to sleep at night," she said. "I'm praying to God that I will wake up and find out it's just a nightmare. I dream that Dirk is going to come in and ask me if I'm ready for dinner.

"But I keep waking up in hell, over and over again."

Taylor said she doesn't understand how Nowitzki and/or his attorney can deny the possibility that she might be pregnant.

She said that through most of the 1 ½ years she lived with Nowitzki, she took a birth control shot called Depo-Provera. But she said that about three months ago, Nowitzki told her, "That's the last shot, so we can work on having a baby."

Said Taylor: "We were sleeping together almost every day. What did he think was going to happen?"

According to Federal Drug Administration literature, Depo-Provera injections cause a resting state in ovaries. Taylor noted that after she stopped injections, she experienced at least one spotty menstrual cycle, which she said is why she told Dallas jail officials she couldn't recall her last full cycle.

According to the FDA, missed or spotty cycles are a side effect of Depo-Provera.

"Dirk is a grown man," Taylor said. "Why is he having a lawyer doing his talking for him? I'm shocked at Dirk. Shocked. I love him with all my heart, and I'm appreciative of what we've had, but I don't get it."

Of Hart's statement that Nowitzki would "ensure the well-being of the child" if Taylor is pregnant, she said, "He made this baby with me. Taking care of it isn't the honorable thing; it's the law. If he doesn't do what he calls the 'honorable thing,' he should be sitting where I am."

The Jefferson County Correctional Facility sits on a desolate stretch of Highway 69, just inside the Beaumont city limit.

Taylor is one of 20 female prisoners sharing a block. She said guards and fellow prisoners have been kind. She is prisoner No. 16. Many, she said, refer to her as "Miss Nowitzki."

One of the facility's assistant chiefs, Jeff Theriot, said he has had a "ton" of media and visitor requests for Taylor.

"She's like a celebrity in here," he said. "We haven't had anyone like that in a long, long time."

So, who is telling the truth? Cristal? Or is Dirk being set up - perhaps Taylor thought she could get money from him if she said she's pregnant? But that plan only works if a) you really are pregnant and b) it's the baby of the guy you're trying to get money from. I suppose we'll find out in the next few months if she actually gives birth and then paternity is determined. If Nowitzki is the father, then he needs to step up and take responsibility.

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Josh Howard Hates America? The National Anthem Video

Whit Honea — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 21:36:00 GMT

Josh Howard of the Dallas Mavericks (not to be confused with the popular Washington Mavericks) is currently lighting up YouTube with some some un-patriotic rhetoric.

Apparently Howard is not a fan of the National Anthem and says so.

According to VH-1's Best Week Ever, the talking heads on SportsCenter called Howard's video full of "shameful comments about the National Anthem and Obama."

BWE also quotes ESPN analysts as saying "the comments were so outrageous, they could ultimately end up hurting Obama come election time."

It's a big deal right?

Josh Howard, who has a 1-year-old son, may have looked like a total ass, but he's not even the biggest one involved in this story.

Read the comments on YouTube. They are full of hate and racism and scrawl so ignorant that they make Howard's comments seem intelligent by comparison.

Relatively speaking of course.

On the bright side, it's nice to see some of our commenters branching out and dropping their special brand of insight someplace besides my inbox- something that I'm sure will be remedied shortly.

Here's the video. It's longer than the attention it deserves.

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Jason Terry Has New Baby, Brought to You by the Letter J and the Number 4

Whit Honea — Sat, 23 Jun 2007 12:02:00 GMT

Jason "Jet" Terry, NBA guard extraordinaire (straight out of Point Guard Univeristy, Arizona) for the Dallas Mavericks, is now the proud papa to baby number four.

His wife Johniyka, gave birth to their fourth daughter on June 20.

The baby's name is Jasa Azuré, and joins sisters Jasionna, Jalayah, and Jaida, in making the letter 'J' earn it's keep.