sportsline.com - 12/3/2008
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NEW YORK -- Six players, including the heart of the Minnesota Vikings' stout defensive line, were suspended for four games without pay by the NFL on Tuesday for violating the league's anti-doping policy. All six were punished for using a diuretic, which can serve as a masking agent for ...
sports.espn.go.com - 12/4/2008
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sports.espn.go.com —
The NFL Players Association will file a lawsuit
in U.S. District Court in Minneapolis on Thursday, seeking...
to overturn all suspensions issued Tuesday by the league for any player who took the supplement identified as StarCaps that triggered several ...
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NFLPA to file suit to overturn recent suspensions
sports.espn.go.com - 12/4/2008
blogs.startribune.com - 12/2/2008
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blogs.startribune.com —
The four-game suspensions for Vikings defensive tackles Pat
and Kevin Williams have been upheld. The NFL confirmed...
the Williams will be suspended without pay for four games. League spokesman Greg Aiello sent an e-mail saying, “The players violated a ...
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Williamses suspended
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Hot Off The Press: Six NFL Players Suspended For Season
FakeTeams —
You know, it won't be long before the phrase "hot off the press" is meaningless to people. What do you mean the news would be printed up? Like on a printer? Somebody would bring it to your house? Oh, that's silly Dad! Did you take your medicine today?
Anyway, here's some news:
Six players, including the heart of the Minnesota Vikings' stout defensive line, were suspended for four games without pay by the NFL on Tuesday for violating the league's anti-doping policy. ...
Kickoff - “Varying Levels Of Dumb” Edition
DGDB&D: a Texans blog. —
... Vaya Con Dios, Longsnapper. One has to think that Bryan Pittman’s suspension for a diuretic (read: steroid masking agent) coupled with his utter fucking inability to fucking longsnap, means the end of his tenure in Battle Red. Right? Please? Memo to Clark Harris: Be even remotely decent and I bet you have a gig next year. Just sayin’. (Tangent: Why not have Zgonina or Bulman longsnap and fill Pittman’s roster spot with a position of need?) ...
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Kevin and Pat Williams suspended
i94sports.com 12/2/2008 — NFL.com is reporting that Kevin and Pat Williams of the Minnesota Vikings have been suspended by the league for violating the league’s substance abuse policy. Six other players have been suspended as well. The suspensions will take both Kevin and Pat out for the Vikings final four games ...
Vikings could have entire D-line suspended
sports.yahoo.com 11/17/2008 — It is possible the entire defensive line of the Minnesota Vikings could end up suspended according to Profootballtalk.com. Vikings defensive tackles Pat Williams and Kevin Williams are currently appealing four-game suspensions for testing ...
Williams’ and schedule could doom Vikings
i94sports.com 12/2/2008 — The Chicago Bears and Green Bay Packers are looking up at the division leading Minnesota Vikings, but they might get a bit of a boost before this week is out. It will be addition by subtraction, Viking subtraction. The Williams duo of Kevin and Pat, 600+ pounds of defensive tackles, could be ...
Looking Back at Bears/Vikings
dailynorseman.com 12/2/2008 —
Hey, I can almost see Bernard Berrian from here!
Yes, ladies and gentlemen, almost 24 hours after what happened last night at the Metrodome, the feeling is still pretty awesome. One of the more dominant games of the Brad Childress era, one ...
Vikings Pat and Kevin Williams will sue NFL over four-game suspension
twincities.com 12/3/2008 — The Vikings didn't even get 48 hours to bask in the biggest victory of the Brad Childress era. Late Tuesday, the players' day off after a 34-14 victory over the Chicago Bears that gave them the NFC North Division lead alone, the Vikings received ...
Vikings Pat and Kevin Williams will sue NFL over four-game suspension
twincities.com 12/3/2008 — The Vikings didn't even get 48 hours to bask in the biggest victory of the Brad Childress era. Late Tuesday, the players' day off after a 34-14 victory over the Chicago Bears that gave them the NFC North Division lead alone, the Vikings received ...
Who's behind the Williams Wall?
twincities.com 10/29/2008 — Vikings coach Brad Childress didn't want to get into the "ifs and buts" of fielding his eighth-ranked defense sans the Williams Wall. But the Vikings have to prepare for that possibility with defensive tackles Kevin Williams and Pat Williams ...
NFL suspends six players for four games each
nfl.com 12/2/2008 — The NFL suspended six players for four games each on Tuesday for violating the NFL Policy on Anabolic Steroids and Related Substances. The suspended players are Charles Grant , Deuce McAllister and Will Smith of the New Orleans Saints , Bryan Pittman ...
StarCaps, and the Playoffs —
Redskins Insider 12/3/2008
The suspensions handed down by the NFL on Tuesday for use of a banned diruetic that is an ingredient in a weight-loss product called StarCaps could have major ramifications for the wild-card race. Minnesota lost its twin towers of run-stuffing ...
