Terrell Owens, the former NFL star receiver, who has signed to play for and co-own the Allen Rangers, in the Indoor League, is friendless and nearly broke, he told GQ magazine. “I’m in hell,” Owens, 38, said he tells people who ask about his well-being.

After the Cincinnati Bengals did not renew his one-year, $2 million contract last year, Owens has been suffering from his financial shortcomings, including ventures gone bad and child support for his four children, he said.

The $80 million or so he had made in his career is almost gone, he said, but not because he lived a lavish lifestyle.

In GQ’s February issue, Owens said his financial advisers lured him into risky investments such as an Alabama entertainment complex that cost him $2 million. He later learned the venture was illegal in the state and violated the NFL’s policy of prohibiting players from investing in gambling, he said.

Owens is attempting to sell the numerous homes he bought prior to the housing crisis, however most of the houses he purchased are no longer worth what he paid for just a few years ago. He is currently paying as much as $750,000 per year in mortgages.

Owens also pays $44,600 a month in child support for his four children, ages 5 to 12, with four different women, according to GQ.

The football player laments about losing trust in people and friends. When people text and ask where he is, he answers, “I’m in hell.”

“I don’t have no friends,” he told GQ. ”I don’t want no friends. That’s how I feel.”

In the GQ article, Owens blames the media for not giving him a chance to rehab his injury and blames agent Drew Rosenhaus for not protecting him from a bad business arrangement.

The problem, he says, is that he’s by nature too trusting, loyal to a fault, and that he let other people “take care of things.”

“I hate myself for letting this happen,” Owens told GQ. “I believed that they had my back when they said, ‘You take care of the football, and we’ll do the rest.’ And in the end, they just basically stole from me.”

Owens has also found himself friendless, thanks to a growing sense of distrust thanks to his many unfortunate dealings.

He never had many friends – teammates never called him to party, he says, wrongly assuming that he was “too big” to socialize – and now, “I don’t have no friends. I don’t want no friends. That’s how I feel.”

“If there’s anything I’m sorry about, it’s getting involved with all that.” He never actually dated any of the women, he says. One was a one-night stand, the others “repeat offenders.” Owens, who has never been married, concedes he is “not a very good judge of character.” Still, he “never suspected they were the types to do what they done in the past year.”

When money became an issue, Owens had to reduce the amount he paid to each of the women, and three of them sued him. A warrant was issued for his arrest when he didn’t show up for a court date with the mother of his oldest child.

Owens is now in court with all four women. None of them are being fair, he says: “They know I’m not working; they know the deal.” Although he never established regular visitation with any of the children through the courts, he says he sees the eldest three as much as he can when their mothers allow it. So bitter is his relationship with the mother of the youngest child, a son, that he has never met the boy.

Owens’ career is defined as much by its theatrics than for its statistical body of work. Some decisions, he admits, may have been handled differently now. But at this point of his life, he’s not willing to look back.

“To say I regret anything would be a slap to my grandmother’s face,” Owens says, referring to the woman who raised him.

Owens remains confident bordering on cocksure, convinced – even with a medically repaired ACL – that he is capable of the spectacular playmaking ability of his youth. It’s not his talent that keeps teams from calling, he insists, but instead a reputation cast onto him by the reporters he often held hostage.

“I think people change, but the media, they never allowed me to change,” Owens says. “They never allowed me to be a better person.”

Owens says he’s never been diagnosed as clinically depressed but he’s been “real down.”

T.O. posted a brief message on Twitter in which he said he’ll be a co-owner and player for the Allen Wranglers.

Wranglers co-owner Jon Frankel also reported on Jan. 18 that Owens, 38, and the Wranglers had come to an agreement.

“He’s a great player, a winner, and I’m a big fan,” Frankel said. “I want to make the Allen Wranglers the No. 1 attraction in Collin County.”

The deal is reportedly worth up to $500,000 for the 2012 season. Most IFL players generally earn $400 per game, plus a bonus for winning.

The Indoor Football League is comprised of 16 teams that are spread out across the country but concentrated primarily in the midsection of the U.S. Some teams are located in cities that should be familiar to Owens, such as Chicago and Green Bay. For other teams, Owens will likely need a road map.

Rio Rancho, New Mexico. Grand Island, Nebraska. Sioux Falls, South Dakota. Wichita, Kansas. These are all sites of road games for the 2012 Wranglers. There is nothing wrong with these cities – they’re just not places where Owens is used to performing his act.

Terrell Owens had a successful season with the Cincinnati Bengals in 2010, but suffered an ACL injury in the offseason. Most players his age never fully recover from an injury of that type. But Owens held a workout in October to prove that he was 100% ready – unfortunately, no NFL team reps attended.

This caused T.O. to look for work opportunities elsewhere. He found it in Allen. Wranglers GM and former Cowboys receiver Drew Pearson helped lure T.O. to the team.

The Wranglers’ schedule begins Feb. 25. But don’t get too excited, Owens hasn’t decided whether he’ll play in all games or just ones at home. Nothing builds team chemistry quite like a prima donna who earns a king’s ransom while the rest of the guys make peanuts, and who can’t be bothered with traveling or participating in half of the games.

Had Owens truly been interested in showcasing his football skills in hopes of a return to the NFL, he could have chosen a spot in the Arena Football League (AFL), the league that gets national television exposure every week on the NFL Network. Instead, he’s selling himself as a circus attraction for a half-million dollars. There’s very little TV exposure for the IFL.

Indoor football is also a different game than traditional outdoor football. It’s much faster, and it’s played in much smaller spaces. In particular, wide receivers in indoor football rely on quick acceleration and speed to succeed. At 38 years old, coming off a torn ACL, and not having played football in two years, Owens doesn’t exactly jump off the page as an indoor football superstar.

No doubt the Wranglers will see a boost in ticket sales until the novelty wears off, or until Owens routinely gets smoked on the turf and blows games for his team while trying to turn back time and re-live the glory days – whichever comes first.

“These dads are living vicariously through their kids and putting too much pressure on them,” says Sanders in a recent BET interview. Sanders says he has seen many pushy parents in his pro career and as a youth mentor. The father of five children, two from his first marriage, and three from his second, the demise of which made headlines last month, Sanders admits to pushing his kids, but not in an overbearing way, “just to be the best and succeed in athletics or whatever they choose to do.” His eldest son, Deion Jr., is following in his gridiron footsteps, playing high school football.

Sanders, who played the outfield for four Major League Baseball teams and played several positions for five pro football franchises, winning Super Bowl rings with the 49ers and the Cowboys, is now an analyst for NFL TV and runs the Texas-based youth foundation Prime Time Association and Prime Prep Academy, both carrying on his sports nickname, Prime Time. “My whole life is about kids,” he says.

Sanders is currently developing other television projects, but has no plans to follow some of his sports star buddies into competition on Dancing With the Stars. “They’ve asked me,” he says, but blames old foot injuries for having to decline the offer. “My broken toes can’t take the pressure,” he explains.

“Sports Dads” premieres January 13 on Veria Living.

The high altitude of Denver’s Mile High Stadium, could have possibly had a negative affect on Clark’s condition and he previously had to have a gall bladder removed and lost 30 pounds to Sickle Cell after a 2007 game in Denver.

CNN reports:

But the CDC cautions that those with sickle cell trait can experience complications during both athletic activity and when at high altitudes. Denver, known as the Mile-High City, is 5,280 feet above sea level. Pittsburgh is about 770 feet above sea level.

Clark has been the Steelers’ busiest defender this season, according to ESPN.com. He has been on the field for 1,009 snaps this season, or 98.7% of the team’s defensive plays. He led the team with 100 tackles.

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That’s what happened to Terrell Owens on Wednesday, though. Owens was in court in an attempt to reduce his child support payments because he’s broke, but Judge Marc Marmaro decided to get judgmental.

Here’s what went down, according to reports:

T.O.’s lawyer made it clear – his client is a man without a team and therefore a man without a paycheck. The judge went one step further, telling T.O. his prospects for a comeback are bleak.

Judge Marmaro said, “His NFL career seems to be over. I mean no disrespect.” T.O. nodded his head in acknowledgment.

What a sad head nod that must’ve been. The news had to come from a judge.

The judge wasn’t totally heartless, though. He did offer a little bit of support to Owens, telling him that Kurt Warner made a run to the Super Bowl after a stop in the Arena League.

Of course, he left out the part about Kurt Warner not being 38 years old at the time, coming off a catastrophic knee injury, or being saddled with the label of a malcontent team-killer. The stories may not be totally similar.

The judge has not yet ruled on whether or not he’ll lower Owens’ child support payments. Lowering the boom on his NFL hopes was enough for one day.