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Ochocinco asked to play in MLS reserve game
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP)—Wide receiver Chad Ochocinco has caught a break.
His budding soccer career, which even he admits is a long shot, has been extended to include a practice game with a Major League Soccer team.
Ochocinco, who says he actually preferred soccer until he was persuaded to focus entirely on football after the 10th grade, began a four-day trial with the MLS team on Wednesday in part as a way to stay fit and keep busy during the NFL lockout. The Cincinnati Bengals star admitted he was rusty after so many years away from the game.
He seemed nervous and a bit out of shape on his first day but a Sporting KC spokesman said he appeared much more comfortable during his second practice.
On Monday, he can be nervous all over again: He will play the right forward position against the Kansas City Brass, a minor league team.
“This is not unusual,” team spokesman Dave Borchardt said. “They like for trialists to have a chance to play in at least one game, a chance to be evaluated even further. It’s the same opportunity that is given most trialists.”
Never one to avoid the spotlight, Ochocinco admitted this week that once football owners and players work out their differences, he’ll be back running pass patterns for the Bengals. But he also insisted he is sincere in wanting to play soccer.
“There a lot of people who question how serious I am about it. But for those who know me, who know my background, this is where it all started,” he said.
He also said he would play for free. Source from Yahoo sports....
His budding soccer career, which even he admits is a long shot, has been extended to include a practice game with a Major League Soccer team.
Sporting Kansas City has asked the six-time Pro Bowl wide receiver to play in their reserve team’s game on Monday against a local squad.
Chad Ochocinco kicks around the ball during a four-day tryout with Sporting Kansas City MLS soccer team.
(AP Photo/Ed Zurga)
(AP Photo/Ed Zurga)
He seemed nervous and a bit out of shape on his first day but a Sporting KC spokesman said he appeared much more comfortable during his second practice.
On Monday, he can be nervous all over again: He will play the right forward position against the Kansas City Brass, a minor league team.
“This is not unusual,” team spokesman Dave Borchardt said. “They like for trialists to have a chance to play in at least one game, a chance to be evaluated even further. It’s the same opportunity that is given most trialists.”
Never one to avoid the spotlight, Ochocinco admitted this week that once football owners and players work out their differences, he’ll be back running pass patterns for the Bengals. But he also insisted he is sincere in wanting to play soccer.
“There a lot of people who question how serious I am about it. But for those who know me, who know my background, this is where it all started,” he said.
He also said he would play for free. Source from Yahoo sports....
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Saturday, March 26, 2011
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Mandatory HGH testing on NFL’s agenda
The NFL wants to expand its drug testing program and policies to include human growth hormone.
NFL vice president and general counsel Adolpho Birch told FOX Sports that the league wants that to be part of whenver the labor dispute is settled and a new collective bargaining agreement is negotiated with the players' union.
Birch supervises the drug testing program.
"We want it," Birch said. "We think it's necessary. We're going to ensure that it's done. That's something very important to us and the integrity of our game. We believe some of the basis for going slowly on it before has been addressed. At this point, it's proper for it to be an active part of our program."
The NFLPA's take on the issue, per the report, is that testing for HGH would need to be a part of any settlement talks. The decertied union has filed an antitrust class action lawsuit against the NFL.The late NFLPA union chief Gene Upshaw was opposed to HGH testing, which is done by blood reliably, not through urine samples.
"Until a test is developed for HGH, there’s really not an awful lot to talk about," Upshaw said. "When that test is developed, we really believe it should be a urine test. No one is interested in a blood test. We've got a lot of big tough guys, but even they don’t like to be pricked on the finger to give blood.”
The NBA and NHL don't test for HGH, but Major League Baseball does in the minor leagues and the Olympics have for the past seven years. ARTICLE SOURCE YAHOO SPORTS
NFL vice president and general counsel Adolpho Birch told FOX Sports that the league wants that to be part of whenver the labor dispute is settled and a new collective bargaining agreement is negotiated with the players' union.
Birch supervises the drug testing program.
"We want it," Birch said. "We think it's necessary. We're going to ensure that it's done. That's something very important to us and the integrity of our game. We believe some of the basis for going slowly on it before has been addressed. At this point, it's proper for it to be an active part of our program."
The NFLPA's take on the issue, per the report, is that testing for HGH would need to be a part of any settlement talks. The decertied union has filed an antitrust class action lawsuit against the NFL.The late NFLPA union chief Gene Upshaw was opposed to HGH testing, which is done by blood reliably, not through urine samples.
"Until a test is developed for HGH, there’s really not an awful lot to talk about," Upshaw said. "When that test is developed, we really believe it should be a urine test. No one is interested in a blood test. We've got a lot of big tough guys, but even they don’t like to be pricked on the finger to give blood.”
The NBA and NHL don't test for HGH, but Major League Baseball does in the minor leagues and the Olympics have for the past seven years. ARTICLE SOURCE YAHOO SPORTS
Thursday, March 24, 2011
Will the IRS Pay You to Lose Weight?
You can include in medical expenses amounts you pay to lose weight if it is a treatment for a specific disease diagnosed by a physician (such as obesity, hypertension, or heart disease). This includes fees you pay for membership in a weight reduction group as well as fees for attendance at periodic meetings. You cannot include membership dues in a gym, health club, or spa as medical expenses, but you can include separate fees charged there for weight loss activities.
You cannot include the cost of diet food or beverages in medical expenses because the diet food and beverages substitute for what is normally consumed to satisfy nutritional needs. You can include the cost of special food in medical expenses only if:
The amount you can include in medical expenses is limited to the amount by which the cost of the special food exceeds the cost of a normal diet. See also Weight-Loss Program under What Expenses Are Not Includible, later. This source is from Publication 502(2010)
You cannot include the cost of diet food or beverages in medical expenses because the diet food and beverages substitute for what is normally consumed to satisfy nutritional needs. You can include the cost of special food in medical expenses only if:
- The food does not satisfy normal nutritional needs,
- The food alleviates or treats an illness, and
- The need for the food is substantiated by a physician.
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"He was a little bit hesitant early on, a little bit tentative," said Vermes. "But I think now he's got a good feel for what a day goes like for us. You can see he's very coachable. I wouldn't try to make any determinations at this point."
That hasn't stopped the hordes of onlookers from trying to make snap judgments, though. There were 40 members of the media on hand for the session (four times the normal amount) and the club streamed the whole thing live on the Internet at Sporting85.com. Many viewers were quick to condemn his sub-par technical skills, though his speed is undeniable.
Calling Ochocinco "very coachable" probably isn't something his Cincinnati Bengals head coach, Marvin Lewis, would agree with, though. When asked about Chad's Sporting KC trial, Lewis said, "What has he ever done that he's completed? What circle has he ever connected in any way?"
So what did Ochocinco, who hasn't played this version of football competitively since the 10th grade, think of his first day?
"Exactly what I expected," said the six-time Pro Bowler. "I would be a little winded being that I haven't ran at this pace or this level since the end of our season of football. It was fun. I didn't expect to come in here and be Superman."
Ochocinco plans to go through with the four-day tryout, and, if possible, join the team.
"I would play for free," he said.
And by the lockout-inducing NFL standards, he might see MLS wages as just that -- playing for free.
You can laugh, you can dismiss it as a PR stunt and you can shake your fist at the opportunity he's getting that so many young footballers would love to have, but Chad really is taking this seriously. Kind of.
When he first landed in Kansas City, he told the awaiting press, "There's an art and there's a skill to this game that I've missed over so much time, but why not? It's a lockout. A lockout means I can do whatever I want to do. It's better than getting in trouble, though, right?" I'm sure Sporting KC will certainly agree as it basks in this spectacular early season attention. Got this source from yahoo.com
WWII vet discovers he’s not a U.S. citizen
Ninety-five-year-old Leeland Davidson discovered recently that he's not considered a U.S. citizen, despite living nearly 100 years in the country and serving in the U.S. Navy durin
Davidson, from Centralia, Washington, told KOMO News that he discovered he wasn't a U.S. citizen when he was turned down for an enhanced driver's license he needed for a trip to Canada to visit relatives."We always figured because he was born to U.S. parents he's automatically a U.S. citizen," said Davidson's daughter, Rose Schoolcroft.
Davidson was born in British Columbia in 1916, but his parents didn't register the birth with the U.S. government to ensure they knew he was a citizen. He checked up on his citizenship before joining the Navy and was told by an inspector at the U.S. Department of Labor Immigration and Naturalization Service he had nothing to worry about. Now he worries that he won't be able to prove his citizenship, because his parents were born in Iowa before local governments started keeping records of birth certificates in 1880. "I want it squared away before I pass away," he says. Got source from yahoo.com
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