Steve McNair

It's been just over a year since Steve McNair, the former NFL quarterback, was murdered on July 4, 2009, at the age of 36.  The Probate Lawyer Blog covered the initial drama surrounding the estate in a series of articles .  In the months that have passed since then, the estate has been relatively quiet.  It's been rather surprising given the early fireworks last summer. McNair died with an estate worth more than $19 million but without even a basic will.  It looked like trouble initially...Read Full Story

The Steve McNair Estate has been relatively quiet lately, after a fast start with plenty of fireworks.  You can read the Probate Lawyer Blog's prior articles about it here .  But despite the apparent calm, there are still lessons to be learned.  The lawyers for McNair's widow, Mechelle McNair, recently had to file a petition with the Tennessee probate court asking for funds to be released from a frozen trust account to pay taxes.  Ho hum, right?  Not so fast. How much did she have to...Read Full Story

Mechelle McNair , The widow of Steve McNair has won a request to get $2.5 million from the late NFL quarterback’s estate. Mechelle McNair had asked a Nashville judge to unfreeze a portion of the estate so that she and Steve McNair’s four sons could each have $500,000 until the probate case gets sorted out. She and Steve McNair had two sons together. The other two are from previous relationships. The estate of the former pro, who played 11 seasons with the Tennessee Titans and two with the...Read Full Story

Mechelle McNair , The widow of Steve McNair has won a request to get $2.5 million from the late NFL quarterback’s estate. Mechelle McNair had asked a Nashville judge to unfreeze a portion of the estate so that she and Steve McNair’s four sons could each have $500,000 until the probate case gets sorted out. She and Steve McNair had two sons together. The other two are from previous relationships. The estate of the former pro, who played 11 seasons with the Tennessee Titans and two with...Read Full Story

The widow of Steve McNair has won a request to get $2.5 million from the late NFL quarterback's estate. Mechelle McNair had asked a Nashville judge to unfreeze a portion of the estate so that she and Steve McNair's four sons could each have $500,000 until the probate case gets sorted out. She and Steve McNair had two sons together. The other two are from previous relationships. The estate of the former pro, who played 11 seasons with the Tennessee Titans and two with the Baltimore Ravens...Read Full Story

Browse > Home / Sports News / Steve Mcnair June 26, 2010 by Umer Rauf   news under Sports News Latest Update News About Monyetta Shaw, Neyo, In some off-topic news, current Tennessee Titans quarterback Vince Young is said to be visiting Steve McNair’s Mother in Mississippi on the anniversary of his death one year later. Young was taken under the wings of the late Steve McNair, going all the way back to attending his football camp when he was a youngster...Read Full Story

Text messages show a woman asked former NFL quarterback Steve McNair to transfer $2,000 into her bank account hours before police say she shot him to death, then turned the gun on herself. Nashville police released the text messages Monday night as part of a case summary and detailed the exchanges between the two hours before the July 4 murder-suicide. Sahel Kazemi (sah-HEHL' kah-ZEE'-mee) texted McNair on July 3 to say she was so stressed she might have a breakdown and asked for money to pay...Read Full Story

Yvette: Titans fans like to romanticize the tenure of Steve McNair in Nashville. A beloved figure, a legend, always treasured and supported for his hard work, professionalism and toughness…. Yvonne: Well we remember it a little differently. Steve was BOOed just as much as Vince Young. Yvette: I recall demands by fans for him to be replaced by Neil O’Donnell, because his passing ability gave the Titans a better chance. Yvonne and I sat in the stands as people heckled him and accused...Read Full Story

Sports in 2009 looked down the barrel of a gun. From Tennessee to Georgia to Nicaragua, gunfire crackled in July. The causes differed — a romance gone wrong, a robbery botched, a self-inflicted wound — but the outcome did not. A gun was the weapon of choice, and all were dead: a former star quarterback and two ex-boxing champions. Steve McNair was dozing on his sofa in his Nashville condo one weekend when his 20-year-old girlfriend shot him four times. McNair was married with four sons...Read Full Story

Shortly before former NFL quarterback Steve McNair's mistress killed him and then herself, he recorded a public service announcement that urges young people thinking about suicide to call a hot line and "live to see better days." The Tennessee Department of Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities shelved the announcement after McNair's July 4 death, and it never aired. The state released three versions of it to The Associated Press this week in response to a public records request. In...Read Full Story