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Jameis Winston Enjoys NHL
FSU's Roberto Aguayo Hopes To Be Drafted By Tampa Bay Buccaneers
Playoff Game With Dick Vitale
Florida State kicker Roberto Aguayo has met with all 30 NFL teams ahead of the NFL draft.
If he had to choose, only one destination stands above the rest.
“If someone asked me where I want to go, I’d go to Tampa,” Aguayo said during a fan-greeting event at Garnet & Gold in the Governor’s Square Mall on Friday.
“But I don’t want to say I’m going to go here, because at the end of the day, you don’t know.”
Aguayo expects to be drafted somewhere between the second and fourth round of the draft, which begins Thursday in Chicago. He has recently met with the New York Jets, Oakland Raiders, Atlanta Falcons and New Or-
Tampa Bay Buccaneers All-Pro quarterback Jameis Winston has gone out of his way to make fans and earn more support from his new hometown.
He has been a fixture at events around the area, in- cluding supporting the other pro teams that play on both sides of the bay.
Thursday, Winston was on hand as the Tampa Bay Lightning defeated the De- troit Red Wings to advance to the second round of the 2016 Stanley Cup Playoffs. It wasn’t just the signal caller and teammate Donovan Smith who were at Amalie
DICK VITALE, AUSTIN SEFERIAN-JENKINS And JAMEIS WINSTON
Arena for the game, but an- other high profile resident of the area joined the football stars for all the cold action:
If he can fit it into his schedule with offseason prac- tices starting again, you can
bet that Jameis Winston will be back there for the sec- ond round when the Light- ning either take on the Florida Panthers or the New York Islanders.
Winston will get a chance to see his alma mater in per- son this season as the Semi- noles take on USF in Tampa the day before the Bucca- neers’ home opener. Hope- fully, he will go back to supporting his school and not the local Bulls, as he did dur- ing their spring game last weekend (Winston later said he was there to support a family friend who plays for USF).
Ex-Patriots, Boston College D-Lineman Ron Brace Dies At 29
RON BRACE Defensive lineman Ron
Brace, a 2009 second-round draft choice of the New Eng- land Patriots, has died at the age of 29.
Brace's death was con- firmed by the Springfield (Massachusetts) Police De- partment, which said an inves- tigation is ongoing.
The cause of death is not suspicious, Springfield Police Captain Robert Strzempek told MassLive.com.
"We were deeply saddened to hear the news this morning of Ron Brace's death," the Patriots said in a statement. "Seven years ago tomorrow, we drafted Ron after his standout career at Boston Col- lege. During his Patriots ca- reer, the Springfield native was always eager to volunteer and give back in our commu- nities, especially when those community initiatives were held in Western Mass. It is dif- ficult to believe that someone so young and in the prime of his life is no longer with us. Our thoughts and prayers go out to Ron's family, friends and the many former team- mates who will mourn Ron's passing."
ROBERTO AGUAYO
leans Saints.
If the Tampa Bay Bucca-
neers, who are in need of a kicker, draft Aguayo, the for- mer Florida State kicker would be reunited with for- mer quarterback Jameis Winston.
“My agent said I won’t be there past the fourth (round),” Aguayo said. “I’ve already set myself up with the (NFL) coaches and what they want to see, and the best ver- sion of Roberto Aguayo.
Grand Jury Indicts Johnny
Manziel On Misdemeanor
CB Josh Norman Signs 5-Year, $75M Deal With Redskins
Assault Charge
Embattled quarterback Johnny Manziel has been indicted by a Dallas County grand jury on a misde- meanor assault charge, Dal- las' ABC News 8 and CBS Dallas/Fort Worth reported, citing sources.
The formal announce- ment came Monday. Manziel's case was heard by a grand jury on Thursday.
Manziel, a former Cleve- land Browns quarterback and Heisman Trophy winner at Texas A&M, is accused of hitting his ex-girlfriend, Colleen Crowley, so hard that she temporarily lost hearing in one ear.
JOHNNY MANZIEL
was granted a protective order against the 23-year- old quarterback that pre- vents him from seeing her for two years
A misdemeanor assault case carries a maximum punishment of one year in jail and a $4,000 fine.
All-Pro cornerback Josh Norman has signed with the Washington Redskins, the team said Friday, to a deal for five years and $75 million.
The contract includes $51.1 million guaranteed, a source told ESPN's Ed Werder, the most ever for a cornerback.
Norman's average salary per season will be $15 million, eclipsing Patrick Peter- son's contract with the Ari- zona Cardinals ($14.01 million annually) to make Norman the highest-paid cornerback in the NFL.
"I'm looking forward to getting back to the playoffs here," Norman said in an in-
JOSH NORMAN
terview with the team's "Red- skins Nation" show on CSN Mid-Atlantic. "You guys went last year. I'm looking forward to going even deeper into the playoffs and then the Super Bowl. That's our motto, that's here, that's the goal. That's the ultimate goal."
Crowley requested and
Bryce Dixon Gets 6 Years In
Thurman Thomas Says He Struggles With Effects From Concussions
Carjacking, Robbery Plea Deal
Hall of Fame running back Thurman Thomas opened up for the first time Friday about the effects of concus- sions he suffered during his 13-year NFL career.
The former Buffalo Bills star, who turns 50 next month, said at a concussion summit in Canada that he suf- fers from mood swings and that his condition has wors- ened.
"Still to this day, I can't control my mood swings," he said at the District School Board of Niagara's interna- tional summit on concus- sions, via theNiagara Falls (Canada) Review. "On so many days, I have to apolo- gize to my family for them. I thank God that I have a family that understands the things that I've been through over my 13-year [professional] ca- reer, and even after my 14 or 15 years that I've been retired. They all understand that with
my mood swings, sometimes I just can't help it."
Thomas
told the crowd that he had not yet publicly dis-
Former USC tight end Bryce Dixon pleaded no contest to carjacking and two counts of second-degree rob- bery and was sentenced to six years in state prison in a plea deal Thursday.
Dixon and former LSU defensive tackle Trey Lealaimatafao, both 19- year-olds who were dis- missed from their teams last year, were arrested and charged in January with a string of robberies and a car- jacking in South Los Ange- les. Each faced more than 15 years in prison if convicted on all counts.
"After extensive discus- sions with the district attor- ney's office and working with them, I believe we arrived at a deal that will allow him to put this behind him and move on with his life while still being a young man,"
THURMAN THOMAS
BRYCE DIXON
Joshua Ritter, Dixon's at- torney, said.
Prosecutors alleged in January that Dixon and Lealaimatafao would stop people, threaten them and steal their belongings. Each faced multiple charges in- cluding second-degree rob- bery, carjacking, attempted carjacking and assault with a deadly weapon. Dixon con- fessed to using a knife in the course of a robbery.
cussed his symptoms.
"One thing that I realized is
that discussing the effects of concussions and the reality of the situation doesn't make me less of a man, less tough, less loyal to the National Football League, a less love for the game," he said. "All it means is that I'm not an ignorant fool, and that I don't ignore factual evidence that this is happening to not only football players, but [other athletes]." Thomas carries notes with him because he often can't keep focused, and he told a story about getting lost on a familiar road a few years ago.
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