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Perhaps you really DO have brain damage. How far do you think this is going to go? Players are paid, very well, for their participation in a sport they love to play. It involves physical contact. If you didn’t like it, you should stick to something easier.

you won’t agree with me, and that’s okay. But what is the NFL going to do, ask players to make softer hits? Re-warn to protect yourself? Go to steel & titanium helmets instead of plastic? Change to flag football?

A unified lawsuit on behalf of more than 2,000 National Football League players has been filed against the league in federal court alleging that the NFL failed to acknowledge and address neurological risks associated with the sport and then deliberately failed to tell players about the risks they faced, according to attorneys representing former players.  Read the rest of this entry » Suing the NFL over head i…

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Oh, my dear LiLo, you shall never learn until you’re locked away for 2+ years, will you? Tsk tsk.

Lindsay Lohan may be going from house arrest to the Big House. TMZ reports that the troubled star, who turns 25 next week, recently tested positive for alcohol and must appear before a judge in an LA County Superior Court this morning.

The former Disney actress was sentenced last month to four months in jail after she pleaded no contest in the theft of a $2,500 necklace in April. Due to prison overcrowding and because she is a nonviolent offender, she’s been serving the time via house arrest. Lohan’s alleged positive alcohol test means she violated her probation terms — and L.A.’s probation department plans to ask Judge Stephan Sautner to throw her into LA County Jail.

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Barry Bonds – Guilty or Not Guilty, of knowing he was using steroids?

When she first considered the matter yesterday, Judge Susan Ilston strongly suggested that the newly-discovered tape recording of Dr. Arthur Ting and Steven Hoskins, allegedly discussing Barry Bonds’ steroids use, would not be admitted. Indeed, she characterized the tape as ”almost entirely inadmissible or irrelevant.”
It should come as no surprise, then, that Judge Ilston has excluded the tape from evidence.

Where this leaves us and what the jury heard:  Read the rest of this entry » The Barry Bonds Saga cont…

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Back in court again, that is. Not on the football field.

Favre, who announced on Sunday that he is retiring from the National Football League (again), is being sued by former Jets massage therapists for acts alleged to have occurred in 2008, when he was playing for the Jets.

Asked on the ABC TV program “Good Morning America” why the lawsuits were coming now, after Favre’s retirement, lawyer Elizabeth Eilander said “It’s clear that there’s no change going on at the Jets, and it’s not right, and it happens to be illegal.” She added, “He was propositioning my client and another massage therapist repeatedly.” Eilander said her client’s husband saw one of the text messages and contacted Favre, who in response was “inappropriate” and “very arrogant” and “used some choice language,” she said.”

In a report on Monday, ABC News named the therapists as Christina Scavo and Shannon O’Toole and said they had filed suit against Favre, the Jets and Lisa Ripi, a woman who hires massage therapists for the team, in New York state Supreme Court. The Jets and the NFL had no comment on the matter, ABC said. It said requests for comment from Favre’s agent and his latest team, the Minnesota Vikings, were not immediately returned. The suit alleges Favre made unwanted sexual advances to the women and the Jets stopped offering them work after they complained.

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Wow. I had forgotten about Barry Bonds. I mean, it’s been what, forever, since we’ve had news of the perjury / steriods incidents?

Apparently his trial date is set for March 21, 2011. They also hashed out a schedule to file legal documents and to hold pretrial hearings to shape what the jury will see and hear during the three-week trial.

Bonds’ initial February 2009 trial date was delayed at the last minute when prosecutors appealed the judge’s ruling excluding vital evidence. The prosecutors ultimately lost that appeal and have decided to go ahead with the trial anyway. The former San Francisco Giant has pleaded not guilty to charges he lied to a grand jury in December 2003 when he denied knowingly taking performance-enhancing drugs.

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