Rickie Weeks Jr. participant of 2008 Major League Baseball season
Personal life
Weeks married Tiphany Easterling on January 18, 2014, in Miami, Florida. Weeks is the son of Richard and Valeria Weeks. Weeks's father Richard played college baseball for Seton Hall University and Stetson University. His grandfather was an outfielder in the Negro leagues during the 1940s, and his sister Kaisha was an NCAA Regional Finalist at Southern University in track. Weeks's brother Jemile Weeks was drafted by the Brewers in 2005 out of high school, but never signed with them, choosing to attend the University of Miami instead.  The Oakland Athletics drafted Jemile in the first round of the 2008 MLB Draft twelfth overall.In 2005, Weeks signed a sponsorship contract with sportswear company 3N2, which designed a shoe for him.  In 2009,  Weeks was voted "Sexiest Baseball Player" by Cosmopolitan Magazine.