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Tuesday, January 15, 2013
NFL Roundup: NFLPA seeks strict protocols; Griffin honored as top rookie - Yahoo! Sports
Robert Griffin III, and his knee, keep making news. The Washington Redskins quarterback on Monday was named the NFL Rookie of the Year by Pro Football Weekly, which selects the winner in conjunction with the Pro Football Writers of America. Meanwhile, the NFL Players Association's medical adviser, Thom Mayer, pointed to Griffin's knee injury as an example why stricter protocol is needed when determining when a player can return to the game, USA Today reported. Griffin, 22, completed 65.6 percent of his passes for 3,200 passing yards, 20 touchdowns, only five interceptions and a passer rating of 102.4. Indianapolis Colts quarterback Andrew Luck and Seattle Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson were runners-up in voting for the rookie honor. Griffin was also named offensive rookie of the year by the Pro Football Writers Association, while Green Bay Packers linebacker Luke Kuechly was named the PFWA's defensive rookie of the year. The players' union absolved the Washington Redskins' medical personnel of any wrongdoing in the case of Griffin's injury, which led to extension knee surgery last week, but Mayer said the guidelines may need to be more precise. "On concussions, we have a very clear process in place that dictates when a player can return," Mayer told USA Today. "On orthopedic injuries, the line isn't as fine yet. We need to have further discussion on this." Mayer was satisfied with orthopedist James Andrews' involvement in the events that led to Griffin being put back into the Redskins' wild-card game against the Seahawks. But he thinks tighter regulations regarding a player's return to a game might have prevented Griffin from getting back on the field, reinjuring his knee and suffering significant ligament damage. --New England tight end Rob Gronkowski underwent surgery Monday on the broken right forearm that he re-fractured Sunday in the Patriots' AFC playoff win over Houston, according to multiple media reports. The injury occurred as Gronkowski braced himself on an out-of-bounds catch. He immediately left the game and then went to the locker room for X-rays. It's expected that he will be out for the remainder of the postseason. Gronkowski missed five games after breaking the arm in November before returning for the regular-season finale against Miami. In other Patriots news, injured running back Danny Woodhead should be able to play Sunday against the Baltimore Ravens despite suffering a thumb injury in Sunday's win over Houston, according to several reports. Meanwhile, Ravens linebacker Brendon Ayanbadejo apologized for inflammatory comments about the Patriots on his Twitter account on Sunday. Ayanbadejo said the Patriots' hurry-up offense was a "gimmick." He also referred to the SpyGate incident and jabbed the Patriots for cutting a player a day before last year's Super Bowl. "I made selfish comments on twitter last night that reflected poorly upon myself, my teammates, and the organization. For that I apologize," Ayanbadejo said. --Although he aggravated his sprained ankle in Sunday's win over Seattle, Atlanta Falcons defensive end John Abraham said he would play in the NFC championship game Sunday against the San Francisco 49ers. "You know me, you can't keep me out of that game," Abraham told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. "We're going to treat the (heck) out of (the injury)." --There was plenty of offseason news on the NFL head coaching and front office front Monday: --Former Arizona Cardinals coach Ken Whisenhunt interviewed for the Philadelphia Eagles' head coaching job. Cincinnati Bengals offensive coordinator Jay Gruden was also scheduled to meet with the team later Monday. Philadelphia has now interviewed at least 11 candidates for the position, including Notre Dame coach Brian Kelly, Oregon coach Chip Kelly, Penn State coach Bill O'Brien, former Baltimore Ravens coach Brian Billick and former Chicago Bears coach Lovie Smith. Still to be interviewed is Indianapolis Colts offensive coordinator Bruce Arians. --The Colts hired Jimmy Raye as vice president of football operations. Raye, who had spent the last 17 years with the San Diego Chargers, most recently as the team's director of player personnel, will oversee the Colts' pro and college scouting and also will be involved in player personnel operations. In an ironic twist, Raye was passed over for the Chargers' general manager job that subsequently went to former Colts vice president of football operations, Tom Telesco, who was hired late last week. Now, Raye takes Telesco's old job. --Former Baltimore Ravens offensive coordinator Cam Cameron was scheduled to interview for the New York Jets' offensive coordinator position, according to the New York Daily News. Cameron was dismissed as the Ravens' offensive coordinator on Dec. 10 and was replaced by quarterbacks coach Jim Caldwell. Jets head coach Rex Ryan and Cameron both were coordinators for Ravens in 2008. The Jets are also still looking for a new general manager, with a number of prospects having already turning them down. --Minnesota Vikings assistant general manager George Paton is no longer a candidate for the Cleveland Browns' general manager vacancy, according to ProFootballTalk.com. Paton reportedly never interviewed with the Browns. It's unclear if he took himself out of the running or the Vikings refused to grant permission to the Browns to interview him. --The autopsy report released by the Jackson County (Mo.) Medical Examiner showed Kansas City Chiefs linebacker Belcher was legally drunk when he died on Dec. 1 after committing suicide in front of Chiefs coach Romeo Crennel and general manager Scott Pioli. Belcher's blood-alcohol level was .17, more than twice the legal limit, when he killed girlfriend Kasandra Perkins at their apartment before driving to the Kansas City Chiefs' training facility and committing suicide by shooting himself. Officials also said no trace of illegal drugs was found in either of their bodies. According to the report, Belcher fired nine shots that hit Perkins in the neck, chest, abdomen, hip, back, leg and hand after a Saturday morning argument when he returned after being out all night. He then left in his car and drove to the Chiefs' facility, where he shot himself when he saw a police officer approaching. Belcher and Perkins had an infant daughter. --The Miami Dolphins plan to make improvements to Sun Life Stadium with an eye on attracting major events including future Super Bowls and college football's national championship game. Team owner Stephen Ross announced his intentions to pay for the majority of the proposed enhancements and upgrades to the stadium with private funds. He emphasized that there would be no tax increases for local residents. The planned modernization would return the stadium to the original configurations before it was adapted for baseball, as well as include new seating closer to the field, new video screens and an open-air canopy to protect fans from the weather. The playing surface will remain grass.
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Military Suicides Reached Record High In 2012
WASHINGTON ? Suicides in the U.S. military surged to a record 349 last year, far exceeding American combat deaths in Afghanistan, and some private experts are predicting the dark trend will grow worse this year.
The Pentagon has struggled to deal with the suicides, which Defense Secretary Leon Panetta and others have called an epidemic. The problem reflects severe strains on military personnel burdened with more than a decade of combat in Afghanistan and Iraq, complicated by anxiety over the prospect of being forced out of a shrinking force.
Pentagon figures obtained Monday by The Associated Press show that the 349 suicides among active-duty troops last year were up from 301 the year before and exceeded the Pentagon's own internal projection of 325. Statistics alone do not explain why troops take their own lives, and the Pentagon's military and civilian leaders have acknowledged that more needs to be done to understand the causes.
Last year's total is the highest since the Pentagon began closely tracking suicides in 2001. It exceeds the 295 Americans who died in Afghanistan last year, by the AP's count.
Some in Congress are pressing the Pentagon to do more.
"This is an epidemic that cannot be ignored," Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., said Monday. "As our newest generation of service members and veterans face unprecedented challenges, today's news shows we must be doing more to ensure they are not slipping through the cracks."
Military suicides began rising in 2006 and soared to a then-record 310 in 2009 before leveling off for two years. It came as a surprise to many that the numbers resumed an upward climb this year, given that U.S. military involvement in Iraq is over and the Obama administration is taking steps to wind down the war in Afghanistan.
"Now that we're decreasing our troops and they're coming back home, that's when they're really in the danger zone, when they're transitioning back to their families, back to their communities and really finding a sense of purpose for themselves," said Kim Ruocco, whose husband, Marine Maj. John Ruocco, killed himself between Iraq deployments in 2005. She directs a suicide prevention program for a support group, Tragedy Assistance Programs, or TAPS.
The Army, by far the largest of the military services, had the highest number of suicides among active-duty troops last year at 182, but the Marine Corps, whose suicide numbers had declined for two years, had the largest percentage increase ? a 50 percent jump to 48. The Marines' worst year was 2009's 52 suicides.
The Air Force recorded 59 suicides, up 16 percent from the previous year, and the Navy had 60, up 15 percent.
All of the numbers are tentative, pending the completion later this year of formal pathology reports on each case.
Suicide prevention has become a high Pentagon priority, yet the problem persists.
"If you have a perfect storm of events on the day with somebody who has high risk factors, it's very difficult to be there every moment, fill every crack, and we just have to continue to be aware of what the risk factors are," Ruocco said.
David Rudd, a military suicide researcher and dean of the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Utah, said he sees two main categories of troops who are committing suicide at an accelerating pace: Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans suffering from depression, post-traumatic stress or substance abuse, and those who have not gone to war but face troubled personal relationships, money problems or legal woes.
He is not optimistic about a decline soon.
"Actually, we may continue to see increases," he said.
The Pentagon says that although the military suicide rate has been rising, it remains below that of the civilian population. It says the civilian suicide rate for males aged 17-60 was 25 per 100,000 in 2010, the latest year for which such statistics are available. That compares with the military's rate in 2012 of 17.5 per 100,000.
Officials say they are committed to pursuing ways of finding help for service members in trouble.
"Our most valuable resource within the department is our people. We are committed to taking care of our people, and that includes doing everything possible to prevent suicides in the military," Pentagon spokeswoman Cynthia O. Smith said Monday.
Two retired Army generals, Peter W. Chiarelli and Dennis J. Reimer, have spoken out about the urgency of reversing the trend.
"One of the things we learned during our careers," they wrote in The Washington Post last month, "is that stress, guns and alcohol constitute a dangerous mixture. In the wrong proportions, they tend to blow out the lamp of the mind and cause irrational acts."
Joe Davis, spokesman for the Washington office of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, said war veterans have faced difficulty adjusting to the less intense environment of their home bases. Others struggle with leaving the military in search of work in a tight civilian job market.
"It's difficult to come back from a war footing to garrison life," he said, where more mundane problems intrude on troops who had been focused almost entirely on their war mission.
Each year the Pentagon performs an in-depth study of the circumstances of each suicide. The most recent year for which that analysis is available is 2011, and among the findings was that those who took their own lives tended to be white men under the age of 25, in the junior enlisted ranks, with less than a college education.
The analysis of 2011's 301 military suicides also found that the suicide rate for divorced service members was 55 percent higher than for those who were married. It determined that 60 percent of military suicides were committed with the use of firearms ? and in most cases the guns were personal weapons, not military-issued.
That study also found that most service members who attempted suicide ? about 65 percent ? had a known history of behavior problems, whereas 45 percent of those who actually completed the act and killed themselves had such a history.
One such case was Army Spc. Christopher Nguyen, 29, who killed himself last August at an off-post residence he shared with another member of the 82nd Airborne Division at Fort Bragg, N.C., according to his sister, Shawna Nguyen.
"He was practically begging for help and nothing was done," she said in an interview.
She said he had been diagnosed with an "adjustment disorder" ? a problem of coping with the uncertainties of returning home after three deployments in war zones. She believes the Army failed her brother by not doing more to ensure that he received the help he needed before he became suicidal.
"It's the responsibility of the military to help these men and women," she said. "They sent them over there (to war); they should be helping them when they come back."
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AP Broadcast correspondent Sagar Meghani contributed to this report.
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The Defense Department's toll-free military crisis number is 800-273-8255.
Online: Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors: http://www.taps.org
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6 questions Lance Armstrong really needs to answer
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The cyclist's historic run of Tour de France championships made headlines, as did his fall from grace after being stripped of the titles in 2012.
By Tracy Connor, Staff Writer, NBC News
Viewers who tune into Oprah Winfrey's interview with Lance Armstrong on Thursday will expect to see the disgraced cyclist offer some sort of admission to doping.
One can only imagine he'll talk about the incredible stress of such a demanding sport. He might suggest that his Tour de France wins still have some legitimacy since many competitors were also taking performance-enhancing drugs. If he really wants to make a play for sympathy, he could dwell on how much his cancer charity Livestrong has suffered.
But after a decade of indignant denials -- and legal threats and actions against his detractors -- that's not going to satisfy many of Armstrong's former fans. Here's what they'll really want to hear from the athlete, who promised to answer all of Winfrey's questions "honestly" before Monday's sitdown.
1. Did Armstrong dope before he was diagnosed with testicular cancer in 1996? If so, did he tell his doctors? Betsy Andreu, the wife of a former teammate, testified in 2006 that she heard Armstrong admit to his doctors that he had used human growth hormone, steroids, and other chemicals. He denied it and tried to discredit Abreu by claiming she was "vindictive and vengeful."
2. Does Armstrong have anything to say to whistle-blowers he reportedly denounced and bullied over the years? A report by the?U.S. Anti-Doping Agency alleged Armstrong berated a loose-lipped competitor during the 18th stage of the 2004 Tour de France, tried to get an anti-doping doctor fired in 2005, and told an ex-teammate who testified two years ago, "I?m going to make your life a living?hell."
3. Was Armstrong, as the USADA report found, a mastermind of a?sophisticated doping program who strong-armed other riders on the U.S. Postal Service team into juicing? In July 2010, Armstrong bristled at the suggestion he was a pusher. "There was absolutely no way I forced people, encouraged people, told people, helped people, facilitated," he said. "Absolutely not."
4. Will Armstrong give authorities any information he might have about others involved with doping??His friend, the Italian doctor Michele Ferrari, who has been banned by the USADA for life, claimed as recently as last month that he never saw Armstrong dope. Last week, the head of Switzerland's anti-doping laboratory denied the agency?s claims of helping Armstrong. ?And there is an active investigation into Armstrong?s payments to the International Cycling Union, the sport?s governing body.
5. Will Armstrong pay the price? The cyclist won more than $3 million in prize money with his seven Tour de France wins, plus $7.5 million in bonuses from the owner of the team. He's been asked to return both. The Sunday Times of London is suing him for $1.5 million over a libel settlement he scored in 2004.
6. Why now? Armstrong has never been anything but belligerent when faced with evidence of doping. Even after he was stripped of his Tour de France titles, he tweeted a photo of himself relaxing on a sofa below the framed yellow jerseys from those wins -- interpreted by many as a defiant and arrogant gesture. So if he reverses course now, what does he hope to gain? Is he bucking for reinstatement one day, preparing to launch a new athletic career, or is he actually sorry?
A Meet the Press roundtable discusses the future of Lance Armstrong's career.
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Monday, January 14, 2013
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Baseball America Top 10 Brewers prospects
Those of you who subscribe to Baseball?America probably already have seen their Top 10 prospects for the Brewers for 2013, a list that I?help BA compile each year.
For those who haven't seen the new Top 10, here it is:
1.?RHP?Wily?Peralta
2. RHP?Tyler Thornburg
3. RHP?Taylor Jungmann
4. 1B Hunter Morris
5. RHP?Jimmy Nelson
6. RHP?Johnny Hellweg
7. OF?Victor Roache
8. 2B?Scooter Gennett
9. C Clint Coulter
10. OF Mitch Haniger
It is the second consecutive year that Peralta has been ranked as the Brewers' top prospect.?That status was in jeopardy after a shaky 2012 season at Class AAA?Nashville but Peralta re-established himself as No. 1 with a strong showing with the Brewers in September.
A couple of things of note in the Top 10. As you can see, five of the top six prospects are pitchers, a reflection of the growing number of solid arms the Brewers are developing in their farm system.
Another thing you might have noticed is that three members of the Top 10 are from the 2012 draft -- outfielder Victor Roache (No. 7), catcher Clint Coulter (No. 9) and outfielder Mitch Haniger (No. 10). Accordingly, the Brewers are feeling pretty good about last year's draft.
Another member of the Top 10 is new to the organization -- right-hander Johnny Hellweg, one of the three prospects acquired last July from the Angels in the Zack Greinke trade.?Shortstop Jean Segura played so many games after coming up in August that he lost rookie status for 2013, which is why you don't see his name in the Top 10.
I will be doing an online chat for baseballamerica.com at 2 p.m. CST today to discuss the top 10 and any other questions you might have about the Brewers' farm system. Feel free to join in. The remaining members of the organization's Top 30 will be revealed when BA's Prospect Handbook comes out in the near future.
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