Sep. 21, 2009 – SPORTSbyBROOKS – USA

A few years ago, the NEW YORK magazine published a fascinatingly dull piece about a “life coach” named Azra Shafi-Schelierini who had been spending plenty of time with the Mets and Yankees. There were anecdotes about how easy she is to talk to, and how Jason Giambi “won’t go to the bathroom without her,” which seems just plain weird. But it never really addressed what it is she does, or more importantly how she made money.

People don’t really charge by the hour for this stuff, right?

And so while we see that Ron Darling’s quotable assessment of her physical attributes is certainly correct – assuming Nostradamus wasn’t some gorgeous ex-model lady, of course – her mental faculties may have been overstated just a tad; she’s now in prison on grand larceny after a series of swindles. Read story.