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JaMarcus Russell: Arrested

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JaMarcus Russell: Arrested

July 6th 2010 14:07

Not exactly the head shot that JaMarcus Russell would have wanted, but as it turnes out, this is his latest one. Russell was booked just before 4:30pm, Russell was released after making bail. Bail was set at $2,500 dollars.

The 24-year-old former LSU star and the No. 1 draft choice in 2007 was arrested as part of an undercover narcotics investigation, said Mobile County Sheriff's spokeswoman Lori Myles. She would not say what led to his arrest. She said he did not have a prescription for the codeine.

Myles told reporters that several people were in Russell's home at the time of his arrest but Russell was the only person taken into custody.

Mobile County Sheriff's Office Spokesperson, stated he was arrested for codeine syrup. A July 20 court date is pending.

So you ask " What's that?" Well some poeple may know it better as "purple drank". It is a banned substance in the NFL, and most people will use the substance as a recreational drug in an effort to get "high". Typically people will mix it with a beverage such as sprite, and this is called "sip-sip", and it is a felony to have it with out a perscription.

Russell grew up in Mobile, Alabama playing high school football and Quarterback for LSU.

He was the overall #1 draft pick of the Oakland Raiders in 2007. Recently parting ways with the Raiders, Russell has heard talk of interest from the New York Jets behind starter Quarterback Mark Sanchez.

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Panther's WR Steve Smith: Injured

June 22nd 2010 23:05

Steve Smith injured during flag football game

Carolina Panther's Wideout Steve Smith broke his left forearm Sunday playing football... that's Flag Football. The four-time pro-bowler, who has a reputation around the league as a "tough-guy", will miss the rest of training camp, but should be ready for the season opener when they go to the New York Giants.

Just as Kelen Winslow, Ben Roethlisberger (fill in whoever you like), Steve Smith is another case of a player risking himself by doing something that could jeopardize their future, and in some cases, the fate of the team.

This is not a case where Smith will miss any games, however, this is a time when his team really needs him. They have a Quarterback that needs to get his timing down with basically their only reciever, since Muhsin Muhammad retired after not being resigned. This is a team that is, and probably will continue to struggle, so it was important that he be there to work with Matt Moore, and he is an important voice in the locker room.

According to Smith's agent, Derrick Fox, he said "They were messing around, the ball went over his head and he slipped he put his arm out to brace himself. When he did he felt a sharp pain. He went in [Sunday] afternoon to have an X-ray and it showed a break."

Smith had surgery Sunday night to have a small plate and screws inserted in his arm. Fox said while it's the same arm he broke at the end of last season, it's in a different spot and not his wrist. Smith suffered no nerve damage, is expected to make a full recovery and could return as soon as midway through the preseason.

"I'm not trying to play doctor, but I don't think he'll miss any games due to this injury," Fox told ESPN NFL Insider Adam Schefter.

Smith annually hosts a youth football camp in Charlotte which began Thursday, the day after the Panthers concluded voluntary spring workouts. Fox initially said Smith was injured playing with children at his camp, but later said he was unsure if he was playing with children or adults.

Standard NFL contracts bar playing football outside of team settings, but Fox said he didn't believe the Panthers would take action since he should be healed for the regular season.

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Cowboy's Safety Bolts For Baltimore

June 21st 2010 22:19

Former Cowboy's Safety goes to Ravens

Former Cowboy's Safety Ken Hamlin has confirmed that he signed a one-year contract to play behind current S Ed Reed.

The 6-2, 209lbs. Hamlin, who turned 29 January 20th, would provide some insurance for Ed Reed, who is recovering from offseason hip surgery.

We haven't really heard much about the recovery status on Reed, but it does appear he will not be avalible at the beginning of training camp at least. It does make you wonder however just how much the Ravens are worried about his recovery time.

Reed is a six-time pro-bowl selection, and the most feared ball-hawking DB who isn't named Troy Polamalu. So for the Raven's to go out and get Hamlin (who is a pro-bowler himself), it would seem that the Ravens felt they needed to make a move.

Hamlin earned his pro-bowl berth in 2007 playing for the Cowboy's, after playing his first four seasons in Seattle. A pretty effective player in his first two seasons with Dallas, but last season he caught a bit of the injury bug, missing four games due to a high-ankle sprain. He had just 52 tackles, and no interceptions.

Hamlin was cut by the Cowboy's back in April. There has yet to be a formal announcement, but Hamlin said he is "ready to get going, and help his team win"

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Albert Haynesworth Wants Trade

June 16th 2010 22:30

Albert Haynesworth has requested a trade, this coming from the Associated Press this morning. Haynesworth was M.I.A. during mandatory mini-camp today saying that he didn't want to switch to the 3-4 defense that the Redskins are going to since Mike Shanahan's arrival this off-season.

There has not been a positive response from the locker room for just about all Redskins players, calling Haynesworth "selfish", and "turning his back on the team". Shanahan even revealed that they gave Haynesworth an option back in February that if he didn't want to play that defense that they would trade him to a different team in exchange for not paying him the 21 millon dollar bonus that was due to him on April 1st. I guess the April fools trick was on the Redskins as Hayesworth took the money and ran

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Welcome to the NFL Today!

June 14th 2010 17:59

First off I would like to say thank you for visiting my blog. I am an avid football fan, my favorite team is the Chicago Bears. It is my duty to give all of you the most accurate, and up-to-date news around the NFL. I am not just another ameture writer. I have been featured on ESPN, as well as a featured blogger for ESPN Sportsnation. I also host a weekly show on Ustream so I invite you to check that out. So wheather you are a bears fan, an NFL fan, or both. I got you covered!

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Convincing the Willing

July 9th 2008 23:56

The choosing of a football club is made whilst one’s mind is impressionable, and as a loyal, long suffering supporter of my club, I put it to a batch of newly arrived International students at my place of employment that Melbourne is football mad and there is only one team worth barracking for. Mine. My father conveyed a similar sentiment to me during my formative years. “The team I barrack for is the only team you’ll be going to watch so you might as well go for them”. Looking back I am incredibly thankful that my mind was so fertile to the ideals of my old man. And one day I hope to be able to limit my son’s own ambition to follow a side.

Had I adored my father less however, he would have had quite the battle on his hands to convert me. As it was, at the time of conversion there was a bloke running around in blue and white hoops whom commanded the attention of the most ardent football follower, let alone a kid whose kicking style still involved a two handed drop and was yet to appreciate the benefits of the opposite foot. John Harmes, writing in The Age this week as part of their series on the greatest footballers in history, called the number 5 from Geelong “an untamed colt; the rawest brumby. And the most talented

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TANKING…PUT A LID ON IT!!

June 26th 2008 01:30

Perceptions can be a dangerous thing. Particularly when sad, lonely little men start to believe there own dribble and begin prophesising that things are actually more than mere perception. This is the case with tanking and the annual sook fest that is now associated with it. Since the inception of the Bryce Gibbs cup two years ago in a game that ended drawn between two clubs knowing not how to win, there has been constant speculation that AFL clubs have deliberately looked for ways to win as few games as possible in the latter half of a season so as to improve the position it will find itself in the draft order. This is ludicrous. Yes the perception can be attained, but so to can the reality that a side in this position is doing as it always has, heightening its chance for success in the season immediately following – not a season three years down the track, not a season five years into the future as certain scribes would have you believe. In the modern game, a team that can’t qualify for September action has inevitably put players in for surgery before the end of the year so as to allow them a full pre season, and thus the best chance of having a good season the next year. How often do you hear the line “he’s got his first full pre-season under his belt” in reference to a player having a breakout year? Adam Cooney anyone?! A full pre season is crucial to a player having a good consistent season, not a side effect of tanking.

These muck rakers want change so that the perception can no longer exist, but the perception is only evident because they need a headline, they need to be seen as passionate and in touch with the game. In this instance however, they are proving themselves to be nothing more than hanger-onners with ulterior motives. The only logical change would be a lottery system as used in United States professional sport but this would still reward the bottom sides as they have more chances at getting the higher draft picks and the perception could still be imagined by the aforementioned hacks when it comes time to put there name in lights. And to make a change robs clubs of the chance to rebuild there list in the way that St Kilda, Hawthorn, Carlton and the Western Bulldogs have. Richmond and Melbourne of course have had that chance and have wasted there opportunities which as a result shows further the nonsense that is the discussion of tanking. Say there was a lottery and by fluke, Hawthorn got the number one pick, Carlton the second and the Western Bulldogs third. The worst two teams outside the top three picks which makes a mockery of the entire system, much more than any perceived perception of trying to lose

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RUGBY LEAGUE – A SYNONYM FOR ABSURD

May 16th 2008 06:21

The term piss up in a brewery resonates strongly with the NRL, sure the judiciary system seems like it works and they may get some other small incidentals right, but how can you balls up a motorcade at a football match?! It is indicative of a sport that should be nothing more than an amateur affair for meatheads. They play an international match at the apparent ‘home’ of Rugby League, the game is to celebrate 100 years of the competition, the team of the century is there, and all they can muster is 37,000 people…and that is better than expected. How is it that they fill the stands on Grand Final day? Surely they must give tickets away?!

The fact that the SCG is the home of Rugby League is a ridiculous, having scarcely seen a game in the last twenty years and now only hosting AFL and cricket. It is either the home and you play there, or you forget about it and make your home somewhere else. That they see nothing strange about this is as strange as the willingness to allow players to change allegiance mid season but remain playing at the original team. It simply staggers the imagination

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The inexplicable explanation of why Football is Australia’s number one game!

May 16th 2008 03:13

Suddenly I fully understand the mass appeal of Soccer. I was ridiculed by my mates for daring to put Sydney in my top 8. Fifth in fact. I admit West Coast to finish third is looking increasingly unlikely but at present my prediction for the Swannies is looking good. The style they play is well documented, and so is Geelong’s. The two played on the weekend in a classic, something of a regularity for the men from the Harbour City. A high scoring team versus a low scoring side, both with great defences, both full of premiership players. After the Barry Hall media indulgence of the week, any footy would have been a relief, but the corker the two served up Saturday in Geelong was fantastic!

30 minutes of footy, one goal, about a million tackles. There are few greater sights than a power forward on the rampage such as a Fevola, a Brown, a Pavlich or the soon to be best player in the competition, Buddy Franklin. But the third quarter at Kardinia Park on Saturday was not far from the equal. Intense footy is enthralling and all consuming. You almost don’t want a goal to be scored because you know the longer the game goes without a goal, the more chance the roof of the new stand will come crashing down in scenes reminiscent of the rapture, assuming those in hoops are responsible for the two fingered salute. The cathartics of such a scenario are undoubtedly at the heart of the world game and its mass appeal but the fans of it that don’t know or appreciate Australia’s indigenous game are missing out

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The Joys of Beating an Unworthy Adversary

May 16th 2008 02:53

In the Australian psyche, there is little more that excites the soul than winning from the underdog position; pulling the trousers down of an opponent which has lost control of the leash restraining their opinion of themselves. For me this glorious happening occurred at the MCG recently owing to a bunch of newly clear-skinned kids, a man who has his own spots eternally at the ready for a break out, and the Promised One still glowing with halo atop his shaven head.

When one has suffered through what have been dark times on Lygon St, you become accustomed to wearing your favoured Navy Blue along Flinders St more as a ritual than with any pride and hope for the coming events. The thought is always, I best save my windcheater for the conclusion having bravely retained it under arm for the duration in a hollow show of support for those doing similarly little to garner respect for their apparel. A sentiment not lost on my friend upon taking our seats,

Good to see you’ve all got zip up jumpers over the top you maggots!

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