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Travis Henry won’t be wearing #20 anymore, but he’ll always have a 20 bag close by…

Former Denver Bronco running back Travis Henry has been arrested for trafficking multiple kilograms of cocaine, the federal Drug Enforcement Administration announced today.

Henry and another man, James Mack, were arrested Tuesday after “as a result of a multi-kilogram cocaine transaction” in Centennial, Jeffrey D. Sweetin, Special Agent in Charge of the DEA’s Rocky Mountain Division, said in a statement.

The two men are being held pending the filing of federal drug charges in U.S. District Court later today in Denver.

-Rocky Mountain News

Ed Hochuli, you blew the game (no pun intended).

Ed Hochuli, one of the premier officials in the NFL changed the outcome of division rivals San Diego Chargers and Denver Broncos. Jay Cutler rolled out from the 1 yard line, cocked back to throw, and lossed the ball… The whistle blew, and the arm came forward. San Diego linebacker Tim Dobbins picked up the ball and fell out of bounce.

Following the blown call, the Broncos scored to come within 1 point, and opted to go for the 2 point conversion with 24 seconds remaining in the game. Mike Shanahan made one of the ballsiest decisions in sports history. I can not in my memory compare this decision to go for the win to any other scenario. I guess he figured he deserved to lose the game, so what the hell… The Broncos successfully converted and sent a lightning bolt to the heart of the Chargers.

“I can’t say that the ref cheated us because that’s a fine,” Phillips wrote. “I can’t say that the Broncos didn’t win that game because that’s being a sore loser. I can’t say that it was a mistake that the replay machine wasn’t working in the first [quarter] cause that would be a lie. . . . As a competitor it should never come down to the last play, but it did and we let it slip away.”

-Shaun Philips on YardBarker.com

Ed, you totally screwed the Chargers over, but I will give you credit that you were man enough to admit it….

All those zebra-striped muscles must cloud his decision making.

This Weeks Bleeping Idiot of the Week is…. Shawne Merriman, LB of the San Diego Chargers.

This Pro Bowl linebacker decided he doesn’t need ligaments in his knee to play football. Smart move! Merriman has tears in both his PCL and LCL in his left knee, and will forgo surgery this year and play though the pain.  He visited 4 different doctors, all who told him that he should have the surgery..so what does he do???  He decides NOT to have the surgery.  by playing with tears in two of his ligaments, he is risking an injury that would be fatal to his NFL career.  He could possibly tear all of the ligaments in his knee by continuing to play now, as well as cause irreparable damage to his meniscus.  Remember what a beast Daunte Culpepper used to be before he tore 3 ligaments in his right knee in 2005?  He has never been the same since then.  Basically, that devastating injury ruined his career.  I guarantee you that if Daunte had the choice to prevent such an injury from happening he would take it in a heartbeat.  Merriman said that what it comes down to is the fact that “He just wants to play football.”  He says that he knows whats on the table, but unless he has suffered the kind of devastating knee injury that ended Daunte Culpepper’s career, then I really do not think he DOES realize what is at eisk here.  This is a selfish act that could end up costing him and his team pain that could have been thwarted.

Merriman’s is the league leader with 39 1/2 sacks in the past three years

Surgery Now vs Career Ending Injury… hmmm.. Tough One. According to my doctoral calculations….. I would choose the surgery now.

“Kevin had breakfast, which was:
Three egg sandwiches
A five-egg omelet
A bowl of oatmeal (Phelps eats grits)
Three slices of French toast
Three chocolate chip pancakes
Two cups of coffee

Kyle had lunch:
One pound of pasta
Two ham sandwiches
One protein/energy shake

Rich had dinner:
One pound of pasta
A large supreme pizza
One protein/energy shake”

This week’s Bleeping Idiot of the week is Spain. A bunch of douche bags. Spain’s olympic basketball team had a picture taken with everyone with slanty eye’s, a racial shot at China. This photo was used in promotion in Spain in Marca, a popular sports daily. This picture was not taken in hate or any harm towards the Chinese, but sure won’t help Spain’s already tarnished rep from recent sporting events(monkey chant in soccer vs England).

Don’t get me wrong, I always love to make some jokes, but this is a photograph for the games you have been working your entire life for. Now instead of being the spanish olympic team, they are the “slanty eyed spanish basketball team”.

And it isn’t over…Here are women spanish tennis players striking a similar pose.

It looks sort of like the NBA throwing up gang signs…

Panthers stud Wide Receiver Steve Smith is now officially suspended for the first two games of the 2008-09 season for his involvement in an altercation that took place during training camp practice yesterday between Smith and corner back Ken Lucas. The fight took place during one of the rest periods of the practice, at this time both players had their helmets off, it was said that it is unclear what exactly started the outburst but the end result was Steve Smith punching teammate Lucas in the face. Lucas was carted off the field with a broken nose.

First off let me just say how mad this whole situation made me. Steve Smith is a grown man and a proffessional football player and under NO circumstances should you punch a teammate in the face! Especially with all the reporters that were there reporting on Panthers training camp. Seems a little bad for team chemistry if you ask me.