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Doc Rivers Dismisses Griffin Trade Rumors
Hornets Acquire Courtney Lee In 3-Team Trade With Grizzlies, Heat
The Charlotte Hornets ac- quired guard Courtney Lee from the Memphis Grizzlies in a three-team trade Tuesday that included three other play- ers and four future draft picks. P.J. Hairston was traded from Charlotte to Memphis, which also acquired forward Chris Andersen from the Miami Heat. The Hornets also parted with point guard Brian Roberts, who was traded to Miami.
The Grizzlies also received four second-round draft picks as part of the trade; two of the picks were from the Hornets and two were from the Heat.
Lee joins a Hornets team that is eighth in the Eastern Conference at 27-26. He is in
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his eighth NBA season and has established a reputation as a coveted "3-and-D guy," who can knock down open 3-point shots and serve as a capable de- fender on the wing.
Chris Bosh To Undergo Further Exams On 'Lingering' Calf Injury
TORONTO -- All-Star for- ward Chris Bosh will have more exams on his strained right calf.
Bosh leads the Heat in scor- ing this season, averaging 19.1 points per game. Miami plays in Atlanta on Friday, and Bosh's status for that game al- most certainly won't be deter- mined until the additional tests are performed.
Bosh said he's "pretty opti- mistic" that the issue is not more serious. His season ended prematurely last year because of a blood clot on his lung, a problem that he believes origi- nated from a calf injury.
Heat star Dwyane Wade
CHRIS BOSH
told ESPN's Jackie MacMul- lan after Sunday's All-Star Game that he also is "trying to stay positive."
Doc Rivers insisted that the Clippers won't trade Blake Griffin, acknowledging that trade speculation "happens every year, unfortunately."
PLAYA VISTA, Calif. -- Los An- geles Clippers president and coach Doc Rivers dismissed trade rumors involving star Blake Griffin.
Rivers would not confirm whether the Clippers have re- ceived calls from other teams in- terested in Griffin, who has spent his entire career with Los Angeles after being drafted No. 1 overall in 2009.
Griffin had little to add about the trade speculation. A five-time All-Star, he has been sidelined since Dec. 26 because of a quad injury and a broken hand, which he suffered in an altercation last month with the Clippers' assis- tant equipment manager.
Rivers also downplayed the idea that the trade speculation involving Griffin has impacted the Clippers' psyche as a team.
LB Jerod Mayo Says He's 'Retiring A Patriot' In Instagram Post
How Tennessee’s Sexual Harassment Allegations Caught Up With Peyton Manning 20 Years Later
New England Patriots line- backer Jerod Mayo, 29, is re- tiring from the NFL, his agent, Sean Kiernan, confirmed to ESPN.
Mayo bid farewell to the team Tuesday in an Instagram post that was captioned "retir- ing a Patriot."
"As my family and I prepare for the future be sure that the Pats memories will always hold a special place in our
JEROD MAYO hearts. #51 JMayo."
In 1996, the summer before Peyton Manning’s junior season at the University of Tennessee, with his Vols a na- tional championship con- tender, associate trainer Jamie Whited—later Jamie Naughright, after her di- vorce—filed an employment discrimination complaint. In that complaint, filed with the Tennessee Human Rights Commission and Equal Em- ployment Opportunity Com- mission, she listed 27 specific examples of sexual harass- ment and discrimination she claimed to have experienced while working for Tennessee’s athletics department.
Athletes, she said, called her breasts “midgets.” One athlete called the women at the sexual assault crisis center “white ‘male hating’ females.” And her concerns about violence by athletes toward women were “played down by my supervi- sors, and an effort was made to shield the student athletes.”
It was accusation No. 27 that lives on, though. An un- named athlete, later identified as Peyton Manning, “pulled his pants down and exposed himself to me, as I was bent over examining his foot after asking me several questions.”
“Despite the above refer- enced complaints,” her filing said, “no effective remedial ac- tion has been taken by coaches, or other supervisor personnel. Instead complaints of sexual harassment are treated as jokes and efforts are made to protect the student athletes, and cover-up the complaint.”
Naughright settled with Ten- nessee.
The investigative report on her allegations, compiled by
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Tennessee’s Office of Diversity Resources and Educational Resources (DRES) repeatedly finds that she was “not sub- jected to unwelcome sexual conduct,” and that “many of the individual allegations in- volved conduct that was not sexual in nature.” Her accusa- tion against Manning seemed destined to become another incident written off as a young man’s foolishness.
Her claims and the inves- tigative findings read differ- ently, though, in the context of a wide-reaching Title IX law- suit recently filed against the University of Tennessee, which describes Tennessee as having cultivated a “deliberate indifference to known sexual assaults so as to create a hos- tile sexual environment.” So, too, does her long legal history with Manning, recently brought back to public atten- tion.
That document outlines, from the perspective of her lawyers, a claim that the Man- ning family and Tennessee es- sentially covered up a case of sexual assault to protect the star quarterback.
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