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Bret was released from the hospital and is expected to make a full recovery. He does have chronic head and back pain, doctors say it is due to the blood breaking up, thus releasing toxins into his system. At the time of the brain hemorrhage Bret said the pain was so bad that he thought buglars had broken into his home and shot him in the back of head. Normally steroids would be prescribed for the pain, but with Michaels being diabetic he cannot take most pain medications.
It is very unlikely that he will suffer another hemorrhage doctors stated. He told his publicist, that he does plan on making the taping of the finale live TV show ‘Celebrity Apprentice’ on May 23. Plus, he considering marrying his girlfriend Kristi Girffin, the mother of his two daughters.
The former New York Giants linebacker Lawrence Taylor was arrested early Thursday morning and will be charged with third-degree rape involving a 15-year-old girl in a hotel Montebello, N.Y., according to police. The girl was a runaway from the Bronx who was take to the Holiday Inn in Montebello by a pimp. She was treated at the hospital.
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‘Our Historian Sport Icons’ – We all have sat around the table talking about our favorite athletes of all time. Pretty much the same names stick with us forever. Let’s see if you agree… who comes to mind first for you?
For instance… when you think of bodybuilding, who comes to mind first?
Answer: Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Okay, here we go…
Question: Tennis? Answer: John McEnroe, Billy Jean King, & Bjorn Borg.
Question: Baseball? Answer: Hank Aaron & Babe Ruth.
Question: Football? Answer: Jim Brown, Walter Payton, & Joe Namath.
Question: Basketball? Answer: Michael Jordan, Magic Johnson, & Wilt Chamberlain.
Question: Soccer Answer: Pele’
Question: Martial Arts? Answer: Bruce Lee & Chuck Norris.
Question: Golf? Answer: Arnold Palmer, Jack Nicholson, & Tiger Woods.
Question: Olympics? Answer: Bruce Jenner.
Question: MMA? Answer: Ken Shamrock & the Gracie family.
Question: Boxing? Answer: Muhammad Ali & Mike Tyson.
Going way back, here are some our greatest boxers: Sugar Ray Robinson, Joe Louis, Jack Johnson, Jack Dempsey, Sugar Ray Leonard, Rocky Marciano, George Foreman, Joe Frazier, Marvin Hagler, Thomas, Hearns, Larry Holmes. With all these names listed, what two fighters still come to mind more than any of them? It would still be> Muhammad Ali & Mike Tyson.
“When I first started, I really was not a football player. I never really even liked football then,” Walker told MMA Fighting. “I just loved to run. If it would have been around then, I really think I would have been an MMA fighter.”
At 47 years old, Walker is finally following his calling. He makes his debut on Jan. 30, facing little-known Greg Nagy at a Strikeforce show in Sunrise, Fla.
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Finally, a final answer!!! Pacquiao will not be fighting Mayweather. The super fight between Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Manny Pacquiao is officially dead, as Top Rank CEO Bob Arum said he closed a deal Sunday for Pacquiao to meet Joshua Clottey in Dallas at Cowboys Stadium on March 13. Read the whole story at>> Yahoo Sports



