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Greg Hardy Suspension Reduced To Four Games
LeBron Has 'Nightmares'
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Greg Hardy will make his debut for the Dallas Cowboys sooner than expected.
Arbitrator Harold Hen- derson has upheld Hardy's suspension for conduct detri- mental to the league, but has reduced the ban from 10 to four games, the NFL an- nounced on Friday. Hardy was suspended in April for his role in a 2014 domestic vio- lence incident.
"I find that the conduct of Hardy clearly violates the let- ter and spirit of any version of the (personal conduct policy) since its inception, and of the NFL Constitution and Bylaws long before then. The egre- gious conduct exhibited here is indefensible in the NFL," Henderson said in a state- mentobtained by NFL Media's Albert Breer. "However, ten games is simply too much, in
About NBA Finals Loss
Derrick Brooks Plans
To Meet With Jameis
Winston “Every Day”
Hall of Fame linebacker Derrick Brooks, who played for Tampa Bay after a stellar career at Florida State, has said he plans to help mentor the latest Seminole-turned- Buccaneer.
Most recently, Brooks told former teammate Ian Beck- les of WDAE radio that Brooks plans to regularly communicate with Winston.
“He’s going to meet with Jameis every day when [Jameis] comes back to Tampa,” Beckles said, via JoeBucsFan.com. “That’s never happened in the history of the NFL, where somebody takes their time to mold some- body, and Derrick said the same thing I’ve been saying the whole time, ‘Jameis Winston is used to success his whole career, which is cool. The second he fails, how is he doing to deal with it? And that’s going to be the most im- portant thing.'”
While it may be a reach to say no other NFL rookie has ever received such mentoring, the focus on dealing with ad- versity is accurate, and not just because I’ve been making the same point for months. (But it helps.) How will Winston re- spond to a four-interception, 28-point loss? Against Oregon in the Rose Bowl, Florida State coach Jimbo Fisher threat- ened to pull Winston from the game if he didn’t “calm the
DERRICK BROOKS And JAMEIS WINSTON
f–k down.”
Will Winston keep calm
if/when turnovers and/or losses pile up? Will he keep calm if he realizes that it’s a lot harder at the next level, be- cause everyone on defense is bigger, stronger, and faster than anyone he’s faced?
Brooks is wise to work on preparing Winston to con- front and respond to failure, and the best way to do it would be to walk him through the rookie seasons of ultimately great quarterbacks who played poorly — or who didn’t play at all.
And he should start with Peyton Manning, who won three games and threw more interceptions than any rookie in NFL history.
GREG HARDY
my view, of an increase over prior cases without notice such as was done last year, when the 'baseline' for discipline in domestic violence or sexual as- sault cases was announced as a six-game suspension."
LeBron James says he still has nightmares about the NBA Finals.
LeBron James has grown quite familiar with losing in the NBA Finals during his 12-year career. The 30-year-old has made six NBA Finals appear- ances and won just two cham- pionships, but that doesn’t mean losing on the biggest stage has gotten any easier.
In an interview with Ethan Skolnick and Howard Beck on Bleacher Report Radio Sun- day, LeBron said he has been having “nightmares” since the- Golden State Warriors beat the Cleveland Cavaliers in six games last month.
“I just don’t feel like you ever move on,” he said. “Even from losing in the Finals, because you feel like you’re right there and have a great opportunity to do something special. I gotta shake it a little bit because I’ve got these three kids running around this house every day that don’t allow me to not be happy. At the same time, I can never get away from losing in the Finals.
“I have, I guess, nightmares now about situations through- out the games. It’s always re- playing in my head. It was definitely difficult. I’m getting better every day, but it took quite a while for me to get out of the funk.”
There wasn’t much more James could have done in the NBA Finals this year. He aver- aged a ridiculous 35.8 points, 13.3 rebounds and 8.8 assists in the series. That said, we’ll leave it to Nike ads like this one to make excuses. Players always wonder whether they could have done something different to change a negative outcome. LeBron is no exception.
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