Topic: Football News
SANTANA MOSS PARTIED TOO HARD TO MAKE MONDAY’S PRACTICE
The Redskins were without LaRon Landry, Shawn Springs, and Santana Moss at Monday’s OTAs.
The official reason given was that Moss had the flu but he came clean on Tuesday to the Washington Post. He was sick but it was because he spent the whole weekend celebrating his birthday, it was on Sunday, and the body takes a little bit longer to recover at 29 than it does at 19. “I told them you think you’re still young and you can still hold up, but they all know what time it was. Have to chalk it up and be ready the next day,” Moss said.
As for the non-party related absences, Landry showed up today and said he was taking care of family matters. He practiced with the first team. Springs was absent again, however. Despite reports that it was simply a missed flight that caused his absence, it seems likely that the Skins won’t see him until training camp.
Moss spent the practice catching bombs from Jim Zorn who, based on the above and the Fred Davis situation, is clearly running a looser camp than his predecessor.
POLICE WANT MARSHAWN TO TALK
The Associated Press reports that the Buffalo Police Department is growing impatient with Bills running back Marshawn Lynch’s refusal to meet with investigators about a hit-and-run accident involving a vehicle he owns.
The AP even reports that Lynch “could face an obstruction of justice charge,” although those are the AP writer’s words and are not attributed to any law enforcement authorities.
What is attributed to a law-enforcement authority is that Department spokesman Mike DeGeorge expressed frustration that Lynch hasn’t spoken to police.
“Right now, the ball is in their court. The clock would be ticking,” DeGeorge said during a news conference. “Police have made it clear to Mr. Lynch’s representative that they would like some answers, expect some answers and if they don’t start getting some answers then they could take some other action.”
DeGeorge said evidence and witness statements indicate Lynch’s 2008 Porsche SUV sped off after hitting a pedestrian early Saturday at an intersection near Buffalo’s bar district. The victim was a 27-year-old woman from suburban Toronto who was released from a hospital with a bruised hip and a cut that required seven stitches.
DeGeorge would not say whether Lynch is a suspect, or whether police think he was behind the wheel, a passenger, or not in the vehicle at all. The SUV was impounded and remains in police custody.
JOHNSON SAYS HE’LL BE BACK
Chad Johnson says he’ll report for duty with the Cincinnati Bengals this season, and he will likely show up to minicamp this month.
Johnson is serving as guest editor of ESPN The Magazine (seriously), and in the issue scheduled to hit newsstands tomorrow, he says he’s ready to play for the Bengals.
“Am I coming back? Of course I am. I told my coaches I’m going to California to act, but the truth is I may come back to the Bengals as early as June,” Johnson writes. “I may be crazy but I’m not stupid.”
Johnson would be docked about $25,000 if he skipped the three-day minicamp, and more than $14,000 a day if he skipped training camp, which opens July 28. He’s not going to walk away from that money.
Still, Johnson makes clear in the ESPN The Magazine piece that he wouldn’t mind leaving.
“If I can get out of Cincinnati, the sky’s the limit,” Johnson writes. “What could I do in a place like Philadelphia or Dallas? It would be ridiculous. It’s gonna be like a whole new me, like Ocho Cinco 2.0. Yeah, I like that. Ocho Cinco 2.0.”
NOAH PACKS A WALLOP
In a fairly low-tech maneuver, Packers running back Noah Herron recently handled an intruder who was burgling Herron’s home by unscrewing a bed post . . . and clobbering the guy with it.
The incident occurred on Friday night, May 30.
The suspect is hospitalized. Herron wasn’t hurt.
“Noah Herron used necessary, reasonable and justifiable force in protecting his life and property,” Brown County Dennis Kocken said in a press release. “Herron, the victim in this random home invasion, is cooperating with law enforcement.”
Another suspect was arrested outside Herron’s home.
MAN ROBS BANK, DYE PACK WITH MONEY EXPLODES
Authorities are searching for a bank robbery suspect after a red dye pack from a stolen money envelope exploded in his pants while he was in a pawn shop Monday.
AND NOW, YOUR PIC O' THE DAY!!!
Maybe with all that new football money T.O. can afford a better hat.
