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Rams Release Bartkowski, Five Others

By CHRIS DUFRESNE
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Six veteran Ram free agents, including quarterback Steve Bartkowski and safety Tim Fox, have not been offered 1987 contracts and will not be in uniform for next week’s minicamp at Rams Park.

Linebackers Cliff Thrift, Jim Laughlin and Mike McDonald and veteran nose tackle Charles DeJurnett also were not offered contracts.

Bartkowski’s release was hardly a surprise considering his age, 34, the poor condition of his often-injured right knee and the future predicted for Ram quarterback Jim Everett.

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Bartkowski started six of the first seven games in 1986 but reinjured his knee Sept. 28 at Philadelphia. He didn’t play in the final eight games.

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Chris Dufresne

Chris Dufresne was the Los Angeles Times’ national college football/basketball columnist from 1995 to 2015. He also covered skiing at the Winter Olympics and wrote extensively on most sports. He is a multiple national award winner and was named 2011 California Sportswriter of the Year by the National Sportswriters and Sportscasters Assn. A Los Angeles native, he started at The Times in 1976 as a truck loader and literally worked his way up (two floors to be exact).

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