Best 15 Minutes

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Denver…Estimated 1M-fans showup at State Capitol grounds to salute Broncos Super Bowl championship.

 

 

Chargers…Roster cutting decision coming shortly on LB-Donald Butler…save club 5.5M salaries next season….hardly played in the final 6-W of season….Chargers have 29..5M in salary cap space already.

 

 

Chargers….Hire 2-more assistant coaches for Mike McCoy staff….Marquise Williams-Special Teams Assistant-was at South Dakota-did 2-summer internships with Chicago Bears…..Tommy Rees-Offensive Assistant-spent last year at Northwestern…former Notre Dame QB…..11-new assistants on Mike McCoy staff.

 

 

Buffalo…Police in Philadelphia turn over investigation documents to District Attorney into LeSean McCoy brawl-in which 4-men reportedly jumped-beat-kicked 3-off duty patrolmen in nightclub fite…..Officers suffered fractured skull…broken orbital bone…broken ribs in stomping while on ground….Assault charges likely to be filed against Bills RB….3-videos surface of ugly brawl.

 

 

Cleveland…NFL Network reports QB-Johnny Manziel showed up drunk for practice on Wednesday-final weekend of season….was sent to neurologist diagnosed concussion…Browns deny they covered up alcohol related incident.

 

 

Carolina…Defiant QB-Cam Newton meets with Media-angrily responds to continued criticism of him walking out of postgame Super Bowl press conference….”Show me a good loser-aand I’ll show you a loser”….”Not going to conform to what media wants”…..”If I offended anyone-cool”……”We will be back in Super Bowl.”

 

 

NFL-Network…Marshall Faulk rips Newton…”We all have to go to podium-be better than that”……Deion Sanders on Newton….”Can’t do that-he’ll learn from that”….TE-Greg Olson…”it was a team loss- not a Cam Newton loss”…..WR-Darren Funchness-“Cam did not get rattled in game-Denver has great defense:”

 

 

Atlanta…Owner Arthur Blank confirms he has prostate cancer-will have surgery shortly-will recover.

 

 

Denver…GM-John Elway….No deadline on Peyton Manning decision….”We will talk”……Manning gets 19M-contract guaranteed if on roster March 9th….Cap figure (25.5M).

 

 

LA Rams…Confirm have now gone over 56,000-full season ticket orders for games at LA Coliseum next year.

 

 

Super Bowl…CBS TV ratings (46.6)-119M across US…dropoff from last year…San Diego had (46R)

 

 

NFL…Says it will ban from Combine any college players convictged of Domestic Abuse, Sexual Assualt or Weapons Charges.

 

 

(Coaches)

 

 

Patriots…Rehire Dante Scarnecchia-OL Coach..Tom Brady 38-sacks-95 hits…Pats #30-rushing NFL
Jets..Hire David Diaz-Infanta-OL coach…was with Arizona Cardinals
Colts..Hire Lee Hull-WR coach-was head coach Morgan State…Jemal Singleton-RB coach-was at Arkansas

 

 
(Roster)

 

 

Raiders..Release S-Nate Allen
Colts..Release QB-Ryan Lindley
Titans..Release S-Michael Griffin

 

 

(College)

 

 

Duke…QB-Thomas Sirk lost for year-torn achilles tendon in off season workouts.
Texas AM..QB-Kyle Allen-who transferred…says culture of Aggies players is bad…”Rules don’t apply to them”-started in Manziel era.

 

 

USD..Opens spring football without starting QB-Anthony Lawrence-will miss all drills-recovering from broken foot suffered in final game of season.

 

 
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——————————————–(Baseball)———————————————

 

 
Padres…Signing FA-2B-Skip Schumaker is 6th veteran player added to roster in off season…joining John Jay-Drew Pomeranz-Alexi Ramirez-Fernando Rodney-Carlos Villanueva.

 

 

Mariners..Sign FA-P-Joel Peralta-ex Dodgers-Rays
White Sox..Sign FA-P-Mat Latos-ex Padres-Reds-Marlins-Dodgers
Red Sox..Sign FA-P-Justin Masterson
Mets..Sign FA-OF-Roger Bernadina

 

 

Boston..Hire Ruben Amaro to be 1B-coach…former GM-Phillies
Giants…Will erect statue of 300G-winner Gaylord Perry alongside statues of Mays-McCovey-Cepeda-Marichal

 

 
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—————————————–(Basketball)——————————————–

 

 
Clippers…Suspend Blake Griffin-4G-Loss of 859,440-salaries-for breaking hand in fight with equpment manager.

 
Thunder…..Reports Russell Wesbrook wants to be traded to the Knicks…says he will leave as free agent if Kevin Durant leaves as free agent en of 2016-season.

 

 

Knicks…Phil Jackson wants permission to talk to Golden State Warriors assistant coach Luke Walton.

 
Sacramento…ownership meets with Coach George Karl-vote of confidence-will not fire him despite player problems

 

 

Aztecs-at-Fresno State…..Wednesday Night matchup…SDSU (11-0) in Conference….Defense allowing just 60P-per game in conference….Opponents shooting 36% floor….Outrebounding teams (41-32)…..forcing 11-turnvoers a game and 4-blocked shots a game.

 

 

Spurs-W-Miami..LaMarcus Aldridge-Kawhai Leonard combine (51P)…San Antonio (44-8)
Golden State-W-Houston..Warriors (47-4) on year..(24-0) home….Warriors score 42P in lst quarter…let Houston score 39-in 2nd quarter …Rockets continue to drift around .500 mark

 

 

Lakers-at-Cleveland…Kobe Bryant farewell tour continues against LeBron James…LA (11-43)..Cavs (37-14)
Clippers-at-Boston..LA (35-17)
Golden State-at-Phoenix……San Antonio-at-Orlando

 

 

——————————(Hockey)——————————-

 

 
Toronto-Ottawa….Blockbuster Trade-10 Players….Leafs deal D-Dion Phaneuf-captain to Senators for D-Jared Cohen-RW-Milan Michalek and others…..Leafs moved 35M in Phaneuf contract….Creating cap space to go after Tampa Bay star Steven Stamkos-becomes a free agent this summer…..Senators get Phaneuf-Leafs captain…F-Matt Frattin…F-Casey Bailey…F-Ryan Rupert…D-Cody Donaghey…….Leafs get D-Jared Cowan…F-Colin Greenings….F-Milan Michaelk….F-Tobias Lindberg and 2nd round pick..

 

 

Kings-W-Boston (9-2)…LA pounds 57-shots on goal in wild road win…LA (32-17-3)
Ducks-W-Flyers (4-1)….Richard Rakell 2-goals……Anaheim won 12-of-16

 

 

Montreal…Lose D-Jeff Petry-knee injury
Penguins….F-Evgeni Malkin will miss 6G-knee injury.

 

 

Gulls….Host Bakersfield tonite at Sports Arena….San Diego won 3-in a row.

 

 

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