So saddened to hear of your great loss, I knew Randy through my son Bryan who I worked for, he and Randy became very close friends, ... Read more he began to feel like a son to me and although I have not seen him for about four years there is a soft spot in my heart for him and I will never forget his energetic outgoing and lovable personality. My heart goes out to all his family and friends, especially his daughters, he will be with you in your hearts forever. Read less Paranoid from his previous brushes with the law, Porter does not go to the police with what happened, sure he is likely to become a target. But the case won't leave him alone, because suddenly a mysterious stranger tells him to stay out of the case. Of course, Porter won't, and that leads him into an increasingly murky and harrowing investigation of why the woman he rescued was involved in a shooting death. Joey Porter Jr. ran a 4.46-second 40-yard dash at the NFL combine. (Photo by Zach Bolinger/Icon Sportswire) WHILE HIS DAD chased a coaching career, Porter Jr. became friends with Mason and Dino Tomlin, sons of Steelers coach Mike Tomlin, and played basketball with the pair at the Boys & Girls Club. He also earned a spot as one of the Steelers' ball boys, giving him more glimpses at life as a professional football player, including testing his abilities against some of the members of the team.

All of those experiences give Porter Jr. and other second-generation hopefuls a set of intangibles, both inherited and learned, that NFL coaches and general managers look for in talent evaluation. Makes me laugh because you can just tell Jay doesn’t want to propose and doesn’t even seem interested in getting married.. in their lives he has mentioned it a few times saying he doesn’t see the fuss. On their “this and that” challenge, he went for “no marriage” whilst obvs Poppy went for marriage, but because of Poppy constantly mentioning it and now all their TikTok fans, and even Liv Harland saying she would sing at their wedding.. he feels that he has too after being pressured into it. In every single live of theirs, they’re always being asked to “get married, put a ring on it”.. I found it quite sad when they said they would have tiktok on live whilst getting married???? Broken Ground” is the fourth novel in the “Jay Porter” series, which was released in the year 2018. While at an AA meeting, Jay meets a recovering addict in need of help. During another grueling northern New Hampshire winter, Amy Lupus’s little sister, Emily, has disappeared from the Coos County Center, which is the newly opened rehab opened by Adam and Michael Lombardi, Jay’s nemeses. Oh Attica, darling, I love you madly for your blessed writing skills, but sista, you did this book a terrible injustice. I didn’t love it at all. The detail you put in this novel made me disconnect from the people and storyline, and we both know that’s not what you’re trying to accomplish nor establish with your readers. For as much money as I paid, I did not expect this. I really didn’t and I’m a bit miffed about that. I don’t ever have a problem paying for books by authors I truly respect, but you’ve got to give me something a little better than this. Wow, I was not impressed, not at all. Joe is the producer of Lip Service West, a reading “raw, gritty, real” series in Oakland, California, and works as acquisitions editor for Gutter Books. He has also edited two anthology books, one inspired by the music of Bruce Springsteen, while the other is inspired by Johnny Cash’s music.

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December Boys” is the second novel in the “Jay Porter” series, which was released in the year 2016. Jay Porter, who is NorthEastern Insurance in New Hampshire’s newest employee, is investigating an accident claim. That is when he finds out the teen behind the wheel got arrested for minor drug possession and then sentenced to a rather hardcore behavioral modification center. Pleasantville is a historical neighborhood in Houston, Texas, “a planned community…built specifically for Negro families of means and class” in the wake of World War II, and one of its favorite sons, Axel Hathorne, has just entered a runoff election for mayor of Houston. The same night, someone is watching Alicia Nowell, a teenage girl who had been handing out leaflets door-to-door for the election as she stands on a street corner waiting for her ride, “still wanting to believe a way out was possible, but already knowing, with a creeping certainty, that this this night had turned on her, that her disappearing had already begun.” How’s that for a hook? Jay is able to get his brother released from the county jail and Chris goes missing into the night. While Jay starts to look for him, he gets pulled into a cauldron of old secrets and ugly lies that may tear his tiny hometown apart and threaten the Jay’s life as well as everyone’s that he holds dear. Some powerful forces come into play that are willing to stop at nothing until Chris is finally dead and the info he has is destroyed. It definitely hurt. Definitely didn't want to hear that from my parents, but I knew it was from good intentions. And they were right because if I didn't, I don't think I'd be in this position right now."

He's brought up probably every meeting I've been in," Porter Jr. said with a wide grin at the combine. "Just, 'How'd you grow up with him? How was it? Was he in your corner?' Simple stuff I was just asked today. He's brought up a lot. No big deal." If the kid isn't wired right, living up to their parents' expectations can be hard," one NFL scout told ESPN. "But if they made it this far, they are fine. Generally, the ones that can't handle it don't make it to or past college."

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Jay was the bright center of a loving family. As the eldest of fourteen grandchildren, he spent his early years traveling throughout the country with his beloved grandparents. At a very young age, he started honing his perfect etiquette, his passion for travel, and his insatiable love of the written word. His parents have a treasure trove of stories about his precociousness, his kindness, and his empathy. He became a big brother at age seven, a role he was born to play. His generosity knew absolutely no bounds, and the three siblings would spend the rest of Jay’s life traversing the country to be together. His adoring parents spent most of the last year of his life at his side, and will forever be grateful for these precious and tender memories. Porter Jr. earned first-team All-Big Ten honors in his final season at Penn State. He had a career-high 11 pass breakups and his 3.7 opponents' yards per attempt thrown in his direction was tied for fourth best in the FBS. Candidate Hathorne has a particular advantage in Pleasantville, as his father was one of the founders. However, when a young woman is murdered, last seen wearing a Hathorne campaign t-shirt on election night, the candidate’s run-off campaign suffers. When a Hathorne aide is accused of the murder, attorney Jay Porter steps in to fight the DA who is prosecuting the case which casts doubt on her own mayoral rival. Porter asserts his inexperience to handle a death-penalty case, his ongoing grief at the loss of his wife, and his dwindling bank account. However, he is so outraged by the suspicious indictment and potential corruption that he takes the case and begins his march toward justice by casting light into the darker side of power.