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Sports Legend Revealed: Was Jack Lambert ejected from a game for hitting a quarterback too hard?
The Fabulous ForumFOOTBALL LEGEND: Jack Lambert was ejected from a game for âhitting a quarterback too hard." STATUS: I'm Going With False, But Thereâs Some Truth to It. This week and last, I will be featuring a legend involving one of the...... -
Amid concern about mudslide risk, Glendale volunteers fill 1,000 sandbags
L.A. NOWKenny Senstad lives near a grim reminder of what mudslides have wrought in his community.It???s a memorial, erected close to his home in Montrose, marking the deaths of 12 people in the New Year???s Eve Flood of 1934, which followed...... -
UK Football: Kentucky honoring Hall of Famer Dawson at Oct. 20 game
LEXINGTON — The Kentucky football team will honor recent Pro Football Hall of Fame inductee Dermontti Dawson on Oct. 20 with Dermontti Dawson Day at Commonwealth Stadium when the Wildcats face Georgia. Dawson, who played at Kentucky from 1984-87,...
Tags: Kentucky Wildcats, High School Sports, National Football League, Steve Parker, Sports
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Battered ex-Dolphins face life of pain when playing days are over
Few players walk away physically unscathed after a career in professional football. From Greg Baty and his crooked pinky finger to Gene Atkins and his well-documented struggles with dementia, the 1994 Miami Dolphins are no different. Today, with most...
Tags: Depression, Death, Laws, Dan Marino, Miami Dolphins
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Steelers offensive line embraces 'nastiness'
LATROBE (AP) — Ramon Foster gives a wide smile, looks to the ground sheepishly and laughs quietly. Like most of the men he lines up next to on the Pittsburgh Steelers offensive line, Foster is affable, fun-loving and often flashes that smile...
Tags: NFL Pro Bowl, Ramon Foster, Willie Colon, Andrew Luck, Marcus Gilbert
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Enshrinees take their place in NFL Hall of Fame
CANTON, Ohio -- On a steamy summer evening in the birthplace of the National Football League, the ranks of the Pro Football Hall of Fame swelled to 273 Saturday night with the enshrinement of running back Curtis Martin, tackle Willie Roaf, center...
Tags: Atlanta Falcons, NFL Pro Bowl, Seattle Seahawks, New Orleans Saints, Sports
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Football: America's dangerous game
We may never know exactly why Junior Seau died, of an apparently self-inflicted gunshot wound to the chest, at his home in San Diego on May 2. Suicide is commonly the result of depression, and perhaps Mr. Seau had a mood disorder that had nothing to do...
Tags: Concussion, Zuckerman Spaeder LLP, New Orleans Saints, Sports, Dave Duerson
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Steelers All-Time Leading Wide Receiver Hines Ward Retires
Steelers' all-time leading wide receiver, Hines Ward, has announced that he will retire after 14 seasons with Pittsburgh Ward was originally drafted by the Steelers in the third round (92nd overall) of the 1998 NFL Draft out of Georgia. The Forest Park...
Tags: American Football Conference, Hines Ward, Seattle Seahawks, Walter Payton, Sports
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A Former Local Star Makes Pro Football Hall of Fame
Staff reporterINDIANAPOLIS -- York High grad and Pitt product, Chris Doleman has been elected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame. Doleman had 150 1/2 sacks in his 15 seasons, mostly with Minnesota, and was one of the prototype agile yet powerful pass rushers who dominate...Tags: NFL Pro Bowl, Andre Reed, Will Shields, Aeneas Williams, Cris Carter
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Former Seahawk Cortez Kennedy elected to Hall of Fame
Tribune News ServicesFormer Seahawk defensive lineman Cortez Kennedy was one of five players elected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame on Saturday, along with one senior committee choice. Kennedy is joined by Curtis Marin, Chris Doleman, Willie Roaf, Dermontti Dawson, and...Tags: NFL Pro Bowl, Andre Reed, Will Shields, Aeneas Williams, Cris Carter
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Pouncey provides stability on Steelers' offensive line
LATROBE (AP) — With all the injuries, position battles and chaos of shuffling players around the Pittsburgh Steelers’ offensive line, the team considers itself fortunate to have a stable Pro Bowl anchor in the middle.
Even if this pillar of...Tags: Flozell Adams, NFL Pro Bowl, Athletes, Colleges and Universities, Tony Hills
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Football's concussion problem: What if the game is doing irrevocable harm?
South Bend Tribune Staff Writer(First of two parts) They crash together with ferocity. Helmets collide. Teeth clench. Feet pound. It is practice day for the Granger Rocket Football league, and the gathered boys - ages 9, 10, 11, 12 - are going through the standard tackling and...Tags: NFL Pro Bowl, Murder, Dave Duerson, Pittsburgh Steelers, Tampa Bay Buccaneers
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