Bucs: Rice should be ready by training camp

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Bucs unable to convince Plummer to play?
Published 6/20/2007 by Ben Maller at Ben Maller's Sports Rumors & Notes
... Although it was hardly a surprise, one player who did not attend the Bucs mandatory minicamp was Broncos free agent quarterback Jake Plummer, who has announced his retirement. Plummer could be subject to fines, but the team won't comment on whether he would face sanctions. Since trading for Plummer in March, the Bucs have not been able to convince the 32-year-old quarterback to report. "We're talking about Jake Plummer here, " Gruden said. "So we'll reserve a roster spot for the Snake a little while longer. If it were Jake Jones or Jake Johnson or Jake Gruden, we'd probably bypass the holding pattern that we're in right now. ... At this point, he's retired, and hopefully at some point, he changes his mind or reconsiders." ...

Report From Tuesday's Minicamp
Published 6/20/2007 by Scott at Bucstats.com weblog
... Simeon Rice didn't practice, but did participate in the stretching beforehand and then spent a bunch of time running between dummies and sprinting. This article has a more in-depth look at Rice's work on Tuesday. ...