спенсер джеймс американский футболист биография
Звезда американского футбола Спенсер Джонс серьезно пострадал в драке с практикующим ММА
Известный игрок в американский футбол Спенсер Джонс получил серьезные травмы во время драки с молодым специалистом по смешанным единоборствам.
Рассказы об этой драке между звездой футбола и специалистом по ММА, в результате которой у первого был сильно поврежден глаз, различаются в зависимости от источника.
Вудро Гласс, адвокат, представляющий интересы Джонса, утверждает, что его клиент пытался разрядить обстановку.
«Он пытался разрядить обстановку. Но, к сожалению, несмотря на все его усилия, ему не удалось снизить накал, и он стал жертвой этого жестокого нападения, которое вы видели»
В то время как в рассказе Гласса Джонс изображен как жертва, другие источники утверждают, что футболист начал драку, якобы не зная, что его соперник был опытным мастером боевых искусств. Видеозапись инцидента, полученная Barstool Sports, похоже, подтверждает эту версию.
OU football player Spencer Jones picked a fight against a guy with a decade of MMA training at an OU bar this past weekend.
It didn’t end well for him and he almost lost his eye. He is currently recovering from eye surgery. pic.twitter.com/OuvgyppljM
«В минувшие выходные футболист OU Спенсер Джонс устроил драку с парнем, который десять лет тренировался ММА. Это плохо кончилось для него, и он чуть не потерял глаз. В настоящее время он восстанавливается после операции на глазу»
Spencer James
Spencer James
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Spencer James is the main protagonist of The CW series All American. He is portrayed by Daniel Ezra.
He played as the wide receiver on the football team at South Crenshaw High School, before being approached by Beverly High School football coach Billy Baker, who asked him to start playing for his football team. After Spencer accepts the offer, he finds himself in a world completely different from what he has always known.
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Season One
In «Pilot», we’re introduced to Spencer James, the star of South Crenshaw High School’s football team. The football team huddles up, and Spencer tells his teammates he wants the ball. The next play is a deep pass to Spencer. He flips into the end zone and scores. His team wins and the crowd cheers. Well until they hear gunshots.
After, Spencer’s approached by Billy Baker, the coach of Beverly High. The coach tries to convince Spencer to come play at his school and assures him that he can get around the recruiting rules. According to coach, Beverly High is a better and safer school and he can make his NFL dreams a reality. However, Spencer declines the offer and walks away.
At South Crenshaw High School, Spencer, in an attempt to protect his friend, Coop, gets into a fight. Returning home, he’s greeted by Coach Baker. It seems as if he’s told Spencer’s mother, Grace, all about the offer. She agrees that going to Beverly is the best thing for him.
it’s clear that Beverly High is a completely different world. In Spencer’s first class, everyone has a computer except him. The girl behind him, Olivia, offers to share and then shows him around school. Jordan, Beverly High’s QB, introduces himself to Spencer. Turns out, Jordan, is Coach Baker’s son. And Olivia is the coach’s daughter.
Jordan introduces Spencer to the group including Layla and Asher, who plays the same position and isn’t too happy about Spencer joining the team. He says something rude and Spencer walks away. Layla ends up apologizing for him and they engage in conversation. Realizing that Spencer notices things that other people can’t, Layla is curious as to what he sees in her. He says she’s like a defensive back: confident, wants to call all the plays, and seems lonely.
Spencer’s first practice doesn’t go very well. After he runs the wrong plays, Jordan calls him out on it. Coach Baker wants to try Spencer out on a new position, and Spencer refuses. Adamant on scoring touchdowns, he’s against playing defense. After practice, Spencer complains to Coop about Coach Baker and the team. He doesn’t know if he wants to be at Beverly, but Coop reassures him. She tells him to make this his season.
Jordan brings Spencer to the Baker house, and Spencer takes notice of how amazing the house is. Jordan reveals that his mother, Laura, is an attorney. While they’re hanging out, Jordan overhears his dad on the phone. Billy wouldn’t have recruited Spencer if anyone on his team had half his potential.
Together, Jordan and Asher develop a plan and get Spencer to come to a party that night and take shots. Spencer’s worried since they have practice the next day but they assure him it’s just drills. Jordan and Asher pour their drinks out, but Spencer gets pretty drunk, and it shows the next day.
At practice, Spencer quickly learns it’s scrimmage day, and he was tricked. He gets angry and starts to fight, but Coach Baker breaks it up. Spencer lashes at Coach Baker, too, because he thinks Billy only wants to save his job and doesn’t care about him.
Spencer walks off the field. He’s headed towards Olivia, but Layla swoops in. She apologizes for the party and claims she didn’t know. Spencer assures her that it’s okay and they agree to be friends.
Back at school, Spencer is a star. Everyone seems to be excited to see him, and he seems to love all the attention. But Coach Baker pulls him aside with some bad news: his transfer permit is being contested. Spencer has to move in with the Baker’s so he can keep playing for Beverly High.
In «99 Problems», after winning his first pee-wee football game, a young Spencer runs over to his mother, Grace, and asks if his father made it back into town to see him play. After his mother delivers the bad news, a disappointed Spencer runs away. Present day, Spencer is shown running across the beach in Beverly Hills as he catches a football. Obviously homesick, Spencer is in Crenshaw on a weekday. However, his return is bittersweet when he learns that his childhood friend Coop has been spending time with Shawn, a neighborhood gang member. And, to make matters worse, Dylan shows him a comic book that Shawn bought him. Agitated, Spencer heads out to confront Shawn, which leads to a scuffle. Fortunately, Coop saves the day but it’s not a warm embrace. Later, Spencer and Coop reconcile.
At Beverly High, it’s time for the game. But Spencer has injured ribs due to the scuffle with Shawn and it impairs his ability to play. Here, Spencer’s pride becomes his worst enemy. Beverly High loses in the last four seconds when a not-so-talented play is called into the game and misses the winning catch. Later, after Jordan apologizes to him, Billy lets Spencer know that the family wants him to stay. They have a nice loving family dinner.
In «I», Spencer and Jordan seem to have reconnected. While walking the halls of Beverly High, Spencer quickly realizes he is the center of attention. He notices everyone is staring at their phones and he asks a schoolmate for a look. On the screen is a meme of Spencer fumbling a «40 oz» of malt liquor, instead of the football. Racial tension rises in the hallway when Spencer sees Asher’s friends watching him as well.
Jordan receives a startling wake up call when he and Spencer are harassed by police officers during their ride back to Beverly Hills. Spencer is very cooperative; however, Jordan has never experienced this and chooses to stand up for himself. The cops get more aggressive with Jordan and proceed to slam him on the pavement before handcuffing both he and Spencer. They finally make it back to the Baker’s home in Beverly Hills. Spencer questions Billy as to why Jordan hasn’t been taught how to deal with police officers.
A continuation of the gambling game leads to an abrupt end when Asher loses his dad’s porsche to one of his teammates, JJ, who then crashes it. Asher is desperate for a solution until Spencer offers to help. Asher is broke: the house isn’t is, and neither is the car. Spencer gets the car repaired in Crenshaw for Asher, but it gets stolen. Spencer calls Coop, and she involves Shawn and now Spencer has to depend on Shawn for help. This time he helps Spencer and the car is returned to its home back in Beverly Hills. Spencer advises Asher to tell Layla about his financial problems.
Spencer confesses to his mother that he lost the cash that the coach gave him. She gives him some much needed advice. Back in Beverly Hills at the Baker’s home, Spencer tells Billy that he doesn’t want any more handouts and gets a job at a restaurant in Beverly Hills.
Spencer’s party is going smoothly until Willy appears and the coach is pissed. Eventually, Willy creates a scene when he blurts out that Billy and Grace dated in high school. Spencer becomes pissed to the point that he leaves to confront his father at the UCLA/Eastern Nevada football game. Spencer is walking down a bus terminal and sees a man standing next to the Houston football team’s bus. He’s hopeful when he taps the man on the shoulder and asks for Corey James. It’s not his father. Them man tells him that Corey stopped working for the Eastern Nevada football team and lives in LA.
The coach catches up with Spencer and basically says that he wants Spencer to be part of his family. Spencer reconciles with Grace; ready to let go of his father completely.
In «The Choice Is Yours», during an impressive game against Culver City, Spencer looks into the stands and isn’t happy that Coop is not there, he suspects that she is with Shawn.
After the game, Layla becomes annoyed with Asher when he starts talking about his father taking him in a private jet to go snorkeling. She leaves the table just when Spencer comes around to serve their food. JP praises Spencer for his performance and appreciates that he is from Crenshaw. JP is from Harlem. JP invites Spencer to hear Chynna’s music that weekend, but he declines. Spencer mentions he’s a volunteer at Alvin’s Block Party. JP is impressed with Spencer.
After work, Spencer finds Coop hugged up with Patience, but their interaction is cut short when Shawn arrives and pulls Coop away for a job. Spencer is concerned and asks Patience about Coop’s whereabouts but all she can say is Coop spends more time with Shawn. Spencer decides to come up with a plan to get Coop from under Shawn.
Everyone can tell Layla doesn’t like Chynna. Spencer sees nothing for her to be concerned about, but Layla won’t let it go. Spencer and Layla meet JP and Chynna for lunch. JP needs Alvin’s permission to use his Block Party as a venue for Chynna’s album release party. They ensure Spencer that it won’t overshadow the Block Party, so Spencer agrees but only if Coop gets to MC.
Sadly, Alvin’s Barbershop gets tagged and Spencer thinks Coop knows who did it. Spencer really doesn’t want Coop and Shawn to be friends. Gunshots go off during Chynna’s performance and everyone panics. Coop rushes to find Shawn. Spencer chases after Coop but scolds her when they find the members of the rival gang dead in the barbershop’s parking lot as the police are investigating. Shawn has disappeared. Spencer tries to lecture Coop about Shawn but she leaves the scene to look for him anyway. Spencer confronts Shawn at his apartment and threatens him if Coop gets hurt. Spencer leaves but he doesn’t know that Coop is already there.
In the restaurant, Layla praises Spencer for being real and she kisses him, then they make out. Olivia is bawling outside.
«California Love», Spencer has become more persistent on courting Layla.
Coop chastises Spencer and Chris for not enjoying themselves. Coop leaves Spencer and Chris to squash their beef. Spencer threatens Chris about Olivia but it doesn’t phase Chris. He tells Spencer that Olivia has lingering feelings for him.
In «Homecoming», Spencer gets dropped off in front of his home in Crenshaw in a limousine and sees Coop sitting on the front steps. He can tell something is wrong. Spencer and Coop review the outcomes of their evenings: Spencer decided not to date Layla; Coop found herself and Shawn on Tyrone’s bad side when he plan to help Shawn went sour. The situation with Tyrone doesn’t create a wider wedge in Spencer and Coop’s friendship, instead they become closer.
The next morning, Spencer takes the blame for certain situations, but Grace reassures him that all he can do is make choices that will better his life and that he can’t save everybody else.
Coop’s back is against the wall and she turns to Spencer for help. Spencer reaches out to Laura, who is an attorney, and she tells them to snitch on Tyrone. Coop is not having it because she knows that’s just asking to be killed. Spencer urges her to take the advice. At Shawn’s apartment, Spencer tries to convince Shawn as well but he isn’t too happy about it either.
During the Beverly High vs Malibu game, Billy realizes that Coach Scolnick has their plays. With no time to create new plays, he decides to use Crenshaw’s. Spencer teams up with Chris, both orchestrating a win.
Finally, after the coach receives an anonymous tip about a player on the Beverly Hills team using drugs, a random drug test is administered. Coach Skolnick attempts to turn Spencer against Billy by telling him that he can’t be trusted and that Billy won’t stop at anything until he gets what he wants.
Personality
Spencer is very confident and defensive. He always stands his ground and stands up for what he believes in. He cares about his friends and family and will do anything to help them. Although he can be a bit stubborn, such as when he threw punches at Darnell when he showed up at his school, and when he played a football game when his shoulder wasn’t in fully healed and ready, he always comes through in the end. He is very headstrong and always puts 100% into what he does. He also tends to blame himself for other people’s problems and choices and thinks that he can save everyone when he really can’t.
Spencer moving to Beverly Hills has changed him a lot. While living in Crenshaw his anger about his father abandoning him resulted in him constantly getting into fights and pushing away the people he loves, as shown in several flashbacks. He finally learns how to love and keep the people that are closest to him in his life.
He loves to earn things rather than having them given to him. He cares about his mother and his younger brother very much and was willing to go back and forth between Crenshaw and Beverly Hills just to see them. He cares about his neighborhood and the people in it. He is never willing to go down without a fight.
Physical Appearance
Spencer is very tall and lean. He has a very muscular body, really bulked in the shoulders and legs, as he plays Wide Receiver. He has dark skin and waves in his hair. Spencer is very good looking guy and has women fall in love with him. He dresses often in jeans, denim and dark, with simple shirts and oversized hoodies or flannels. In recent episodes, Spencer has been seen in Crenshaw merchandise, referencing the town, The Slauson Cafe, and other well known landmarks from the community.
Relationships
Tamia Cooper
«Coop» is Spencer’s gay best friend. He is her «big brother» protector and after he gets an offer at Beverly High School, she encourages him to take it. She is very supportive of his dreams and vice versa. He encourages her to be proud of who she is and what she believes in, specifically with being gay and having a girlfriend, Patience. He also tries to keep her out of trouble when she joins a gang, and always know when to put her in her place, which she is equally willing to reciprocate.
Layla Keating
Layla was Spencer’s crush when he first arrived at Beverly Hills. When he first met her they instantly connected, making Layla’s boyfriend, Asher, very jealous. They started dating at the end of Keep Ya Head Up, however, in Season 2, their relationship was starting to hit a rocky point. Layla was struggling with her mental health, spiraling quite bit, and it accelerated to a dangerous extreme, but because of her desperation to be able to support herself, she tried to keep him out of it. When she caught him and Olivia in her hotel room checking up on her when she had her spiral in They Reminisce Over You, she called off their relationship. After she eventually went to rehab, and realized Spencer had never done anything but try to help her, they eventually become and stay good friends, not jumping back into their relationship until Layla feels along enough in her recovery to focus on something other than herself. In Season 3, we see them finally get back together, until Spencer reveals what happened between him and Olivia in Vegas that last summer, which ended their relationship for good.
Olivia Baker
Olivia is Spencer’s girlfriend. Of all of his friendships in Beverly Hills, he developed the closest one with her. When he first arrived she had a crush on him but that quickly dissipated as she got into a relationship with his old teammate, Chris. He is still very close friends with her and he always has her back. She starts to open up to him more and more as time goes on, about her addiction with narcotics, and eventually her relationships, whether it be her boyfriend, her brother, or her best friend. She always tries to keep him on the right track when she’s around, which is key to understanding her character as a whole, Olivia is often a wise, guiding light for the other characters. He is the only one who actually checks up on her and makes sure that she’s okay. They are the only people who can make each other feel safe. There relationship is built from a friendship which is the strongest foundation for a friendship. In the episode where Jordan and Simone get married in Vegas we see that he is a different and better man when she’s around. He also tells u that when she’s not around he thinks about her constantly. He also makes it clear that Olivia was the one with him at his worst which is when he got shot. As that episode goes on we learn that Spener is the only one who does not constantly treat her like a china doll that will break any second. Its explained that he actually sees her for who she is. In that episode it becomes very clear to him that he was in love with her so he kissed her but because of her fear of losing Asher and Layla she quickly dismissed it saying that they can’t be couple yet. After the Vegas trip they’re conversations had a lot of sexual tension in them until they finally addressed what had happen in Vegas. Olivia makes it known that she loves him and they kiss. Olivia gets caught by Spencer drinking again and he tells her parents In order to protect her from spiraling. After Olivia gets help the sexual tension gets higher then ever. Spencer decides to fallback so that he may give Olivia time to recover. He later explains to het that he would never jeopardize her road to recovery. Olivia smiled and ran into his arms and kissed after she told him that because he cares for her that he can actually help her keep on track with her road to recovery. After that they come out as a couple to the public. season 3 ends with them in a good place.
Jordan Baker
Jordan is Spencer’s Beverly High teammate and housemate in Beverly Hills. They have had a rocky relationship to begin with. He was initially jealous of Spencer because he felt as if he was taking up his father’s attention, when Jordan wanted to resolve his own issues with his father, and felt ultimately overshadowed. There was a lot of petty conflict coming from unresolved tensions between Jordan and his father that put a strain on their teamwork, but eventually, Jordan and Spencer overcome that, building a brotherly bond, and taking the Beverly Hills Eagles to The State Championships.
Asher Adams
Asher was Spencer’s rival at Beverly Hills when he first started there, and it continued in a semi-friendly way as their relationship grew. Asher hated that Spencer was into his girlfriend, Layla, a burning jealousy developing, mostly spawned from Spencer threatening his starting spot as Wide Receiver. He and Jordan then teamed up to get rid of Spencer for good back at the start of Season 1. If Spencer’s still going strong as an Eagle at the end of Season 2 is anything to go by, said ploy failed. However, when Spencer helped fix the car Asher busted during a house party, their relationship saw a turn for the better. But that was proven futile when he drunkenly exposed Spencer and Layla’s kiss at Homecoming. Spencer has a self-confidence and an overall passion for the game that supersedes Asher’s, and that deficit really sets them apart in a way Asher is desperate to make up, but lacks the self-understanding to do so. Although as the show goes on Asher takes those extra steps to understand his frustrations and settle them and eventually befriends Spencer.
Dillon James
Dillon is Spencer’s little brother. Due to the absence of their father, Spencer really feels the need to make up some ground towards Dillon, going above and beyond as his older brother. He is always there for Dillon and would do anything to keep him safe. Although their relationship is pretty stable, in One of Them Nights Dillon was upset with Spencer because he hasn’t been around back home in such a long time and felt somewhat abandoned him, like his father. However, at the end of that episode, the two boys reconcile and Spencer makes sure he’s apart of Dillon’s life more consistently.
Grace James
Grace is Spencer’s mother. Grace has been a single mother of 2 since her ex husband Corey James left her, and Spencer does anything he can to help out. She always looks out for him and Dillon no matter the cost. However when Corey does returned in Season 1, and Grace revealed to Spencer the reason that he left, he was hurt and furious with her. It was because Grace had an affair with Billy Baker. She explains that she was upset and didn’t tell him the truth because she was afraid of how he’d react. However, they put that incident behind him and made amends.
Laura Baker
Laura is a second mother figure to him, and they have a surprisingly stable relationship. She is very kind to him and, like Billy, she treats him like a second son. After finding out that Billy had an affair with his mother, Spencer moved out of the Baker household because he didn’t want to mess up Laura’s life. However, Laura told Spencer that their drama had nothing to do with him and that that they all love him and she was welcome to him coming back to her house. He has not deigned to leave until Season 3, where he moved back to Crenshaw to help save the local high school.
Billy Baker
Billy first met Spencer at a Crenshaw football game. He offered Spencer a spot at Beverly Hills, which he initially declined, but encouragement from his mother pushed him to accept. Billy somewhat acted as the father figure Spencer didn’t remember having in many ways. Along with Billy moving Spencer into his home, he treats Spencer like a second son. Their friendship deepens the more they interact. Spencer and Billy have a ride-or-die relationship, and though they have had their disagreements, they still have a bond over the game and people they love.
Quotes
Trivia
In the episode Teenage Love its explained that when Spencer says I love he actually means it and does love you; Layla gets a look on her face and realizes that he’s never said I love you to her and she finds out later that he does say it to Olivia.