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IRVING, Texas - The six-month uncertainty surrounding Marco Rivera's future in Dallas has ended. As anticipated, the Cowboys released the 35-year-old guard Thursday after he spent the off-season rehabbing a second surgery in two years to repair the same herniated disk in his lower back. Rivera has been present at the handful of OTA practice sessions open to the media here at Valley Ranch, but ... [link]

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Nice Rivera sendoff by Mosley
Published 6/8/2007 by Grizz <info@bloggingtheboys.com> at Blogging The Boys
... That’s about as honest a statement I ever heard a pro athlete make after getting released. You got to give it up for Rivera, he went out with class. DC.com has another article on Rivera’s release.

End of the Road
Published 6/8/2007 by Brandon at Acme Packing Company
... Although he started 30 of 32 games in Dallas over the last two seasons, his back was no longer able to hold up. Since he is unable to pass a physical at this point, it seems that his career is over. Rivera doesn't deserve to end his career like this, but that's how it goes sometimes and it sounds like he is taking his release with class. Hopefully he is just as successful with his 2nd career as he was with his first one.

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