Friday, March 2, 2012

NFL targets Saints - Boston.com


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NFL targets Saints
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By Barry Wilner AP / March 3, 2012 NEW YORK - New Orleans Saints players and at least one assistant coach maintained a bounty pool of up to $50000 the last three seasons to reward game-ending injuries inflicted on opposing players, including Brett ...
NFL: Saints paid bounties for taking out opponentsSan Francisco Chronicle
NFL: Saints kept bounty pool for injuring opposing playersPittsburgh Post Gazette
Saints violated NFL's 'Bounty Rule'Wall Street Journal
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Saints' bounty program is no hit in the NFL - Kansas City Star


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Saints' bounty program is no hit in the NFL
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By ADAM TEICHER AP Former Saints defensive coordinator Gregg Williams apologized for his role in the team's bounty system. The NFL accused one of its premier teams, the New Orleans Saints, of running a bounty system from 2009 through 2011 in which ...
Williams: It was a terrible mistakeSI.com
Rams defensive coordinator Gregg Williams apologizes for role in bounties ...Washington Post
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Rams defensive coordinator Gregg Williams apologizes for role in bounties ... - Washington Post


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Rams defensive coordinator Gregg Williams apologizes for role in bounties ...
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Gregg Williams apologized Friday for his role in a bounty program that rewarded players for injuring opponents while he was with the New Orleans Saints. Now the defensive coordinator in St. Louis, Williams and the Saints could be subject to significant ...
NFL: Bounties paid to Saints defenders for injuriesCBSSports.com
NFL finds that Saints violated “bounty rule”msnbc.com
NFL Inquiry Says Saints Set Bounty for HitsNew York Times
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Struggling Toronto Maple Leafs replace coach Ron Wilson with Randy Carlyle - Washington Post


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Struggling Toronto Maple Leafs replace coach Ron Wilson with Randy Carlyle
Washington Post
TORONTO â€" Even Brian Burke had seen enough. After watching his Toronto Maple Leafs crash out of playoff position under coach Ron Wilson, the general manager finally decided to fire his college roommate. “This was not an easy decision for me to make,” ...
Time ran out on Leafs' WilsonCNN
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Maple Leafs-Canadiens Preview - CBSSports.com


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Maple Leafs-Canadiens Preview
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Desperate to reach the playoffs for the first time since 2004, the Toronto Maple Leafs were fading fast and needed something to change. That change came Friday with the firing of coach Ron Wilson, who will be replaced by former Anaheim Ducks coach ...
Randy Carlyle might have no idea what he's getting in forSportingNews.com
Struggling Toronto Maple Leafs replace coach Ron Wilson with Randy CarlyleWashington Post
Leafs fire Ron Wilson, name Randy Carlyle coachUSA TODAY
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NFL Says Saints Offered Bounties to Injure Opponents - New York Times


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NFL Says Saints Offered Bounties to Injure Opponents
New York Times
During the past three seasons, while the National Football League has been changing rules and levying fines in an effort to improve player safety, members of the New Orleans Saints' defense maintained a lucrative bounty system that paid players for ...
How should the Saints be penalized for their bounty program?USA TODAY
Washington Redskins offered bounties for big hits under former assistant coach ...Washington Post
New Orleans Saints had bounty program to injure opposing players, NFL saysCNN
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Goodell: Saints violated NFL's 'Bounty Rule' - SI.com


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Goodell: Saints violated NFL's 'Bounty Rule'
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The Saints' physical play against Brett Favre and Kurt Warner in the 2009 playoffs led to the investigation that revealed the team's bounty policy. NEW YORK (AP) -- New Orleans Saints players and at least one assistant coach maintained a bounty pool of ...
Former Redskins coordinator Gregg Williams reportedly ran bounty system in ...SportingNews.com
Saints bounty scandal: What's the proper punishment?NFL News
Former Redskins say team had 'bounty' system under WilliamsUSA TODAY
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Peter King: Discovery of Saints' bounty program will lead to severe punishment - SI.com


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Peter King: Discovery of Saints' bounty program will lead to severe punishment
SI.com
Gregg Williams, then the Saints' defensive coordinator, boasted about his team's "remember me" shots on opposing players during their 2009 run to the Super Bowl. Williams was found to have started the bounty system discovered by the league.
Former Redskins say team had 'bounty' system under WilliamsUSA TODAY
NFL: Saints violated 'Bounty Rule'Boston.com
NFL busts Saints for bounty poolNew York Daily News
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Brett Favre on Saints 'bounty' system: 'It's football' - USA TODAY


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Brett Favre on Saints 'bounty' system: 'It's football'
USA TODAY
By Robert Klemko, USA TODAY Brett Favre says he's not upset by the program which provided cash bonuses to members of the Saints who harmed opposing players from 2009-2011, according to an NFL investigation. The former Vikings quarterback was cited as a ...
NFL: Saints violated 'Bounty Rule'Boston.com
New Orleans Saints had bounty program to injure opposing players, NFL saysCNN
NFL: Saints had bounty program funded by players, in last 3 seasons, to hurt ...Chicago Tribune
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NFL: Saints used illegal player bounty program - USA TODAY


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NFL: Saints used illegal player bounty program
USA TODAY
By Robert Klemko, USA TODAY More than 20 defensive players for the New Orleans Saints participated in a "bounty" system from 2009 to '11 in which they were rewarded with cash for harming opposing players, the NFL announced Friday.
NFL: Saints violated 'Bounty Rule'Boston.com
New Orleans Saints players were paid to injure opponents, NFL saysLos Angeles Times
Goodell: Saints violated NFL's 'Bounty Rule'SI.com
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NFL says Saints created 'bounty' program from 2009-2011 - NFL News


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NFL says Saints created 'bounty' program from 2009-2011
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By NFL.com After a lengthy investigation conducted by the NFL's security department, the league announced Friday that 22 to 27 defensive players on the New Orleans Saints maintained a "pay for performance" program that included "bounty" payments ...
NFL: Saints used illegal player bounty programUSA TODAY
NFL Says Saints Had Bounty Program to Injure OpponentsNew York Times
NFL: Saints paid players to hurt foesFOXSports.com
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Key participants reflect on Wilt Chamberlain's amazing feat a half-century ago - ESPN


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Key participants reflect on Wilt Chamberlain's amazing feat a half-century ago
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By Donald Hunt AP Photo/Paul Vathis Wilt Chamberlain in the dressing room in Hershey, Pa., after he scored 100 points. When you think about some of the most amazing individual accomplishments in sports, very few, if any, are more remarkable than Wilt ...
Wilt's 100-point game stands as towering achievement in sportsCNN
In Chamberlain's day, it was 'Wiltsanity'Boston Herald
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1. Fifty Years Ago, One Hundred Set The Bar - ESPN


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1. Fifty Years Ago, One Hundred Set The Bar
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By Marc Stein AP Photo/Paul Vathis Wilt Chamberlain in the dressing room in Hershey, Pa., after he scored 100 points. Fifty years later, so much remains in dispute about what's right there in black and white in the gaudiest box score line in the ...
The Sixth Man: Remembering Wilt and 100Chicago Tribune
Wilt's record will never be surpassedKansas City Star
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Wilt Chamberlain scored 100 points 50 years ago - Chicago Sun-Times


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Wilt Chamberlain scored 100 points 50 years ago
Chicago Sun-Times
By DAN GELSTON AP Sports Writer March 2, 2012 12:17PM FILE - In this March 2, 1962 file photo, Wilt Chamberlain of the Philadelphia Warriors holds a sign reading "100" in the dressing room in Hershey, Pa., after he scored 100 points, as the Warriors ...
Wilt's 100 turns 50 as Sixers host WarriorsFox News
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Chamberlain's game still unbelievable, even 50 years later - NBA.com


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Chamberlain's game still unbelievable, even 50 years later
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By Fran Blinebury, NBA.com Scientists who study such things have said the eruption of the Krakatoa volcano on Aug. 27, 1883 was the single loudest explosion in recorded human history. Of course, none of them were inside the Hershey Sports Arena on ...
Wilt's 100-point game stands as towering achievement in sportsCNN
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Richard Rothschild: Wilt's 100-point game stands as towering achievement in sports - SI.com


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Richard Rothschild: Wilt's 100-point game stands as towering achievement in sports
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Wilt Chamberlain's 100-point game was the highlight of a season in which he averaged 50.4 points and 25.7 rebounds. A half-century ago, Wilt Chamberlain scored 100 points in a single game, one of the landmark achievements in sports and a record that ...
Fifty years later: Wilt's 100-point gameESPN
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Chamberlain's 100-point game hits 50-year mark - Atlanta Journal Constitution


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Chamberlain's 100-point game hits 50-year mark
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By DAN GELSTON AP PHILADELPHIA â€" The Big Dipper was larger than life. His size, his statistics, even his voracious appetite for running up big numbers off the court. FILE - In this March 2, 1962 file photo, Wilt Chamberlain of the Philadelphia Warriors ...
Fact and legend surround Wilt's 100, and that's part of the charmCBSSports.com
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More Wilt gems from the vault - Philadelphia Inquirer


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More Wilt gems from the vault
Philadelphia Inquirer
BY ED BARKOWITZ YESTERDAY, WE featured a bunch of quotes and notes related to the great Wilt Chamberlain. Today, on the 50th anniversary of his 100-point game, we offer Part 2. * Wilt was ticketed by 5-7 Kansas City patrolman Freddie Hicks for doing 42 ...
Fact and legend surround Wilt's 100, and that's part of the charmCBSSports.com
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Fact and legend surround Wilt's 100, and that's part of the charm - CBSSports.com


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Fact and legend surround Wilt's 100, and that's part of the charm
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By Ken Berger | CBSSports.com NBA Insider The one thing everyone can agree on is that when the ball went through the net, the fans stormed the court to celebrate a mythic accomplishment. This was in Hershey Park Arena, at a different time and place in ...
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Knicks' Lin gets better as game goes on - USA TODAY


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Knicks' Lin gets better as game goes on
USA TODAY
By Rachel Shuster, USA TODAY The New York Knicks begin a four-game road trip Sunday, against the Boston Celtics, in a better frame of mind than they were entering the All-Star break off the 102-88 loss to the Miami Heat. By Kathy Willens, AP New York ...
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Thunder rallies to beat Magic - Boston Herald


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Thunder rallies to beat Magic
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By Josh Robbins / The Orlando Sentinel ORLANDO, Fla. â€" Let's assume for a moment that the Orlando Magic retain Dwight Howard beyond the March 15 trade deadline. Even with Howard in the fold, the team will have to make significant improvements ...
Durant makes sure Thunder roll onBoston.com
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Durant makes sure Thunder roll on - Boston.com


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Durant makes sure Thunder roll on
Boston.com
AP / March 2, 2012 Kevin Durant scored 38 points, including 18 in the fourth quarter, and Russell Westbrook added 29 points and 10 rebounds as the Oklahoma City Thunder erased a 14-point deficit to hold on to beat the Magic, 105-102, in Orlando last ...
Thunder rally to take down OrlandoChicago Tribune
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Knicks' TV ratings take a dip - FOXSports.com


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Knicks' TV ratings take a dip
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It was fun while it lasted. For the first time since Jeremy Lin started playing for the Knicks last month, the TV ratings for a Knicks game dipped slightly. Ratings for the team's runaway victory over the Cleveland Cavaliers on Wednesday were down by ...
Novak Another Out-of-Nowhere SensationNew York Times
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