Tim Tebow news: former NFL player to play for Columbia Fireflies?

After playing for the New York Mets in the Arizona Fall League, former National Football League (NFL) superstar Tim Tebow is expected to play for the Columbia Fireflies on Opening Day.

"Odds are pretty well in our favor that this could be the natural starting point, and depending on how he does here, he could progress up the chain," Columbia Fireflies president John Katz told The State.

For Tebow's spring training, Katz believes that the Heisman trophy winner will be with a minor league team, adding that the Fireflies will be the best fit for him.

"He would have a better time building his confidence against Class A pitching before moving up to a more advanced class in Port St. Lucie," Katz explained.

There is no confirmation of Tebow playing for Fireflies, but it looks like he will not have a hard time in feeling at home with Katz already welcoming him with arms wide open.

In other related news, Tim Tebow Foundation helped a widow complete the adoption process she started with her husband, who unexpectedly died.

Tim Tebow Foundation assisted Christine Mullican with adopting and giving a Chinese boy by the name Alexander Joel a home and a family.

"Our plan for how we were going to pay for this of course involved both of us working together," Mullican said of her husband Joel Mullican, adding that she lost all hope in pushing through now that he is gone.

After the Tim Tebow Foundation stepped in, Mullican found "a sense of peace and relief that I really was going to be able to do adopt Alex."

"Alex has brought just so much energy, happiness ... He's so loving, so much like Joel in so many ways. It's a wonderful reminder that Joel is still with us, and also great just to have completed our family in this way," she went on to say.