The NFL is investigating the explicit video of Patriots linebacker Brandon Spikes that was leaked onto the Internet, apparently to determine whether Spikes violated the league’s personal conduct policy. “We are looking into it,” NFL spokesman Greg Aiello told the Boston Herald. At first we were left with questions whether it was in fact...
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More than two years after Roger Clemens told Congress that he had never taken steroids or human growth hormone, the seven-time Cy Young Award winner reaffirmed his denial Monday as he pleaded not guilty in federal court to charges that he lied to a congressional panel about the alleged doping. The indictment does not...
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Seven-time Cy Young award winner Roger Clemens arrived Monday in the nation’s capital to face charges of lying to Congress about whether he used steroids or human growth hormone. Clemens showed up early at a federal courthouse just a few blocks from the U.S. Capitol. The 48-year-old ex-major leaguer was being arraigned later Monday...
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The Minnesota Vikings acquired Miami Dolphins wide receiver Greg Camarillo in a trade for cornerback Benny Sapp. The trade was confirmed by Camarillo’s agent in a text to ESPN.com’s Tim Graham and by Sapp’s agent in a post to Twitter. “In the NFL, you have to be ready for trades at any time,” Camarillo’s...
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The Boston news media and Red Sox fans are treating Johnny Damon as expected after the Tigers outfielder/DH nixed a deal to bring him back to Fenway Park. “Johnny Rotten” is the headline on one blog. Columnists are calling him an idiot, but not in the endearing way the label was born during the...
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Minnesota Vikings wide receiver Sidney Rice will likely miss at least half the season after he had surgery on his injured hip on Monday, the Star Tribune reports. Judd Zulgadd, the Vikings beat reporter with the Star Tribune, tweeted Tuesday morning that Rice confirmed he had hip surgery. Rice had his hip worked on...
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Attornys for Tiger Woods and Elin Nordegren Woods have announced that the couple have divorced, confirming rumors that have swirled for most of 2010. “We are sad that our marriage is over and we wish each other the very best for the future,” the couple said in a joint statement that leaves zero doubt...
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Vikings quarterback Brett Favre acknowledges that in return for agreeing to play a 20th NFL season, he got a raise from the $13 million he was scheduled to make. But while it would be easy to see Favre’s absence from the first few weeks of training camp as nothing more than a contract holdout,...
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Bobby Thomson — the man who hit “The Shot Heard ‘Round The World” to win the 1951 NL pennant — died “peacefully” at his Georgia home on Monday night. He was 86 years old and had been in poor health. Thomson played for five teams over 15 seasons, hit 264 career home runs and...
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Renee Gork, the Arkansas radio reporter who was fired after wearing a Florida hat to Arkansas coach Bobby Petrino’s press conference last Saturday, tells her side of the story in an interview with TJ Carpenter on ESPN 92.1 The Ticket. Gork, a Florida graduate, said it was an innocent mistake to have the hat...
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