Bentley Hurt, Landis Busted…Maybe
**According to This, the Browns could be in big trouble already, just 2 days into training camp. If the injury to LeCharles Bentley is serious, which it appears to be, what could have been a promising season(8-8) just got a whole lot bleaker. Whenever an NFL Lineman, who let’s face it are porbably some of the toughest people on this planet, scream, “NO!” they know it is something serious.
The Browns must be wondering what they have to do to stay healthy. Kellen Winslow has missed the past 2 seasons, Braylon Edwards went down and noone knows when he will actually return. If there was a Curse of the Bambino, and if the Cubs are cursed, then there must really be a curse on this franchise, with some of the most passionate fans in sports.
I am not a Browns fan but I can respect their fans and hate to see an injury like this in a practice. Here’s hoping the injury isn’t as serious as it looks, but I am not holding my breath.
**Sometimes when a miracle happens you wonder if it is too good to be true. We like to hope it isn’t, but our common sense tells us it is. That appears it may be the case with Tour De France winner Floyd Landis, where it has been reported by his team that he tested positive for unusually large amounts of testosterone. Landis, of course, was shocked by the result and has requested his ‘B’ sample get tested. If that comes back positive as well, his cycling team Phonak has already said he will be fired.
Pending the results of that ‘B’ test, I can’t really say I am that surprised. Cycling is the dirtiest sport on the planet and before the Tour even began most of teh favorites were booted as part of a doping scandel. Even quotes from Landis’ mother didn’t seem all that encouraging –
She said Thursday that she wouldn’t blame her son if he was taking medication to treat the pain in his injured hip, but “if it’s something worse than that, then he doesn’t deserve to win.”
“I didn’t talk to him since that hit the fan, but I’m keeping things even keel until I know what the facts are,” she told The Associated Press in a phone interview from her home in Farmersville, Pennsylvania. “I know that this is a temptation to every rider but I’m not going to jump to conclusions … It disappoints me.”
Let’s face it, believing that a man that is in need of a Hip Replacement can win the hardest cycling event in the world is more amazing than believing a man that survived cancer can do it. Both are miracles and we would love to believe that miracles do happen. More often than not, however, we find out that the miracle is actually someone playing fair, and not cheating the rules, the sport, and the fans.
