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Welcome back. louis is off. time now for fun. sports! we begin with a record contract in the nfl as the new york giants sign odell beckham jr. to a reported five-year contract extension worth 95 million dollars. but in the nfl the money is not guaranteed or at least it was the case in the past. this is worth $65 million guaranteed. the deal makes beckham the highest paid wide receiver in the league. congratulations to him. meanwhile, in the nba headlines, he is calling it a career. after 16 seas...

Found fame after changing their name. but the musicians at abingdon school near oxford were only allowed to record this one day a week on a friday so this group called themselves on a friday until they got a record contract and had to change the name. but. number five on a friday was transformed into radiohead and the rest is history this english band of sold more than thirty million records over the past quarter century. at first it was hard and grueling lousy money long nights poor conditions ...

Musicians at abingdon school near oxford were only allowed to read us one day a week on a friday so this group called themselves on a friday until they got a record contract and had to change the name. of. number five on a friday was transformed into radiohead and the rest is history busy english band of sold more than thirty million records over the past quarter century. at first it was hard and grueling lousy money long nights poor conditions perhaps thats why john lennon and paul mccartney ca...

>> the blues guitar legend was born riley b. king in a segregated mississippi delta area in 1925. he worked on a cotton plantation from early boyhood. >> im very proud of those days working on a farm. >> one of his uncles changed his life when he gave him a guitar. when king was 20, he moved to memphis and worked as a deejay. on the air, blues boy king sang and played guitar. soon, he was discovered, got his own record contract and blues boy became b.b. >> the thrill is gone away from me. ♪ >>...

A new record contract for an a new record contract for an american sports star will be announced in miami. hes giancarlo stanton. hes sign to a 13-year, $325 million deal. the right fielder led the national league in home republicans last season, despite missing the last 17 games after getting hit by a pitch. the contract averages $25 million per season and more than $154,000 per game. i wish my news contract was that same way. well, nobody was getting paid that kind of money on monday night...

Times. that cold pushes to the gulf coast with that many spots challenging records in these morning hours. back to you. moving on to the drug enforcement agencys surprise inspections of nfl teams on sunday. five teams were involved. federal agents acted as part of an ongoing investigation into potential violations of the controlled substances act that investigation stems from a lawsuit filed by more than 1,200 former players. >> they allege that for years nfl teams illegally distributed painki...

Focused young lady. >> that focus paid off with a big record contract. michael malden was an executive at columbia records. >> we could tell she had pipes, and we could tell, again, they were young pipes. thats what you want to do is find groups you can put in the incubator and kind of develop. >> the group settled on a name, destinys child and the hits started coming, like "no, no, no." ♪ >> destinys child was on the express ride to the top, until -- >> what happened was the girls wanted new ...

>> duane wiggins was their producer. >> beyonce automatically stood out. i mean, everybody would say that because she simply was a very focused young lady. >> that focus paid off with a big record contract. michael maldin was an executive at columbia records. >> we could tell she had pipes and we could tell, again, they were young pipes. thats what you want to do is try to find groups that you can incubate, put in the indue cue baiter and kind of develop. >> the group settled on a name, destinys...

>> this is how you dedicate yourself to this craft? >> yes. and it was difficult. >> all they wanted was a major record deal. that meant lots of hard work. here is rare footage of beyonce working on early recordings. >> dwayne wiggins was their producer. >> beyonce stood out. everybody would say that. she simply was a very focused young lady. >> that focus paid off with a big record contract. michael mulden was an executive add columbia records. >> we could tell she had pipes. again, they were y...

The danger i faced was not accepted as reasonable grounds for deferring my tax payments as authorities who despite being told all of this still chose to pursue action against me as opposed to finding an alternative solution. another solution was cut us a check for $970,000. her lawyer says she did that today. she will not apparently now go to prison for three years. her album, by the way, the miseducation of lauryn hill in 1998, she won five grammies for that album. she sold millions and million...