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LeBron James wins 3rd NBA MVP award (Yahoo! Sports)
MIAMI (AP) LeBron James spent two days trying to figure out the right words. An assistant jotted some ideas on notecards, which were ignored
Baseball's bid to speed up games is just a head fake
At long last, Major League Baseball may have found a solution to all those painfully laborious games stretching past three hours: Just don’t let pitchers fake the pickoff throw to third base, whirl and threaten to throw to first. Half the time, the runner at first glares back at the pitcher as the crowd (if the home team is batting) howls in exaggerated outrage
Players, NFL disagree on context of bounty email (Yahoo! Sports)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) An email from an imprisoned friend of the Saints coaching staff with a postscript saying, ”put me down for $5,000” on Green Bay quarterback Aaron Rodgers has become another sore point between players being punished for New Orleans’ bounty system and the NFL. The email, obtained by The Associated Press, was written from prison by marketing agent Mike Ornstein shortly before the Saints’ 2011 season opener against the Packers. Ornstein once represented Reggie Bush and later got to know members of the Saints’ coaching staff
Players, NFL disagree on context of bounty email
By BRETT MARTEL | Associated Press – NEW ORLEANS (AP) — An email from an imprisoned friend of the Saints coaching staff with a postscript saying, “put me down for $5,000″ on Green Bay quarterback Aaron Rodgers has become another sore point between players being punished for New Orleans’ bounty system and the NFL . The email, obtained by The Associated Press, was written from prison by marketing agent Mike Ornstein shortly before the Saints ‘ 2011 season opener against the Packers.
NHL Board of Governors approves sale of Blues
ST. LOUIS — The NHL Board of Governors has approved the sale of the St. Louis Blues to a group headed by St
With just 2 players sanctioned, Saints can move on (Yahoo! Sports)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) Short-handed and disappointed, but hardly crippled, the New Orleans Saints may at last be able to put bounty scandals behind them and focus on putting together a fourth-straight playoff season.
With just 2 players sanctioned, Saints can move on
By BRETT MARTEL | Associated Press – NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Short-handed and disappointed, but hardly crippled, the New Orleans Saints may at last be able to put bounty scandals behind them and focus on putting together a fourth-straight playoff season.
Players vowing to fight bounty suspensions (Yahoo! Sports)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) All but four of the 27 current or former Saints that the NFL linked to New Orleans’ cash-for-hits bounty system can now look forward to next season free of worry that they’ll be forced to miss games, or game checks. As for those who’ve been suspended, they were sanctioned as severely as the coaches and general manager punished before them, and now must determine what measures they’re willing to take to show NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell that he got it wrong