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| Plummer pleads not guilty |
NFL Football |
06/01/2006 |
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CENTENNIAL, Colo. (AP) -Denver Broncos quarterback Jake Plummer pleaded not guilty Thursday to municipal charges in a road rage dispute. The plea, entered by his attorney Harvey Steinberg, allows Plummer to skip a hearing scheduled for Friday. A trial date has not been set, Steinberg said. Plummer was issued a summons to face a misdemeanor violation of ``injure or destroy property,'' similar to criminal mischief under state law. The summons was filed in May alleging Plummer was involved in an alterca |
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| This Day in Sports |
This Day in Sports |
05/28/2006 |
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| Orioles 12-8 victory over the Seattle Mariners. - Cal and Billy Ripken marked the 16th time in MLB history that brothers homered in the same game. It was the 2nd time they accomplished the feat. 1997 - Bernard Jackson, who was starting safety on the Denver Broncos first Super Bowl team, died of inoperable liver cancer. 2000 - Juan Montoya won the Indy 500. 2003 - Future Hall of Fame goaltender Patrick Roy officially announced his retirement from the National Hockey League. 2004 - The New Orleans Hornets named |
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| Former Super Bowl star sentenced for cocaine distribution |
NFL Football |
05/26/2006 |
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| ossession of 500 grams or more of cocaine with intent to distribute. Police said Tim Smith sold about 20 ounces of the drug to an undercover officer for $13,600. Smith rushed for 204 yards and two touchdowns in the Redskins' 42-10 victory over the Denver Broncos in the title game. He last played in the NFL in 1990 with the Dallas Cowboys. He lives in Denver and had worked as a detention officer at the Gilliam Youth Services Center. He resigned shortly before he was indicted. Copyright © 2005 The |
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| Arrest report: Droughns threw wife out door |
NFL Football |
05/26/2006 |
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| onvicted of assault and up to six months in jail if convicted of harassment. Bail conditions allow him to leave the state before his next court appearance on July 6, district attorney's spokeswoman Kathleen Walsh said. Droughns, who played for the Denver Broncos until a 2005 trade, signed a three-year extension with the Browns this year. He rushed for 1,232 yards and two touchdowns on 309 carries last season. Earlier this month, a jury acquitted Droughns of drunken driving charges, finding he was not impa |
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| Browns' RB Droughns free on $2,500 bail in domestic violence case |
NFL Football |
05/25/2006 |
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CENTENNIAL, Colo. (AP) -Cleveland Browns running back Reuben Droughns was released on $2,500 bail Thursday after he was arrested in a domestic violence case. The 27-year-old, who played for the Denver Broncos until a 2005 trade, faces charges of third-degree assault and harassment. His attorney, Harvey Steinberg, did not immediately return a call. Droughns surrendered on Wednesday and spent the night in jail before appearing in Arapahoe County Court Thursday, district attorney's spokeswoman Kathleen Wa |
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| Divisional playoffs set for big weekend in Arena FB |
Arena Football |
05/25/2006 |
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| the "Confetti Game" after a premature burst of confetti was released and flooded Pepsi Center in Denver prior to the final whistle. The rematch pits two Pro Football Hall of Famers against each other in the owners box with Crush Co-Owner and former Denver Broncos QB JOHN ELWAY going against Rush Co-Owner and former tight end and Chicago Bears Head Coach MIKE DITKA. The teams met on opening weekend of the regular season with Colorado prevailing with a 65-56 win on the strength of eight JOHN DUTTON touchdown p |
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| Plummer issued summons in alleged road rage incident |
NFL Football |
05/24/2006 |
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ENGLEWOOD, Colo. (AP) -Denver Broncos quarterback Jake Plummer said Wednesday he cut someone off while driving last month, but denied kicking and then backing up into another motorist's vehicle in an act of road rage. Plummer acknowledged cutting off a vehicle because he was in a hurry to deliver a check to charity from his foundation. ``I accidentally cut this person off. I admit that. And I was on my cell phone, which I'm embarrassed to admit that while I was driving, and cut a guy off,'' Plummer sai |
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| Broncos bring back Middlebrooks |
NFL Football |
05/18/2006 |
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| Englewood, CO (MySportsbook) - The Denver Broncos signed cornerback Willie Middlebrooks to a one-year deal on Thursday. Middlebrooks was originally selected in the first round of the 2001 NFL Draft by the Broncos and spent the first four years of his NFL career in Denver before the team traded him to San Francisco in July of last year for defensive end John Engelberger. Middlebrooks played in five games with the 49ers in 2005, finishing the year with three tackles and a pass defended. In 56 career games (2 |
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| CB Middlebrooks returns to Broncos |
NFL Football |
05/18/2006 |
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DENVER (AP) -Cornerback Willie Middlebrooks signed a one-year deal with the Denver Broncos on Thursday after a brief stint with the San Francisco 49ers. The Broncos drafted Middlebrooks in the first round in 2001. He played four seasons in Denver before he was traded to the 49ers in 2005. He appeared in five games in San Francisco in three separate stints and was waived for the fourth and final time in December. In February, Middlebrooks pleaded guilty to misdemeanor assault in the south Denver suburb |
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| Carswell comes back from car crash a changed man |
NFL Football |
05/17/2006 |
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DENVER (AP) -Dwayne Carswell's route back to the NFL leads him right past the intersection where his life changed. Carswell was traveling from his home in Aurora to the Denver Broncos' practice facility on a gray October morning when his sedan was crumbled in a multicar accident that sent him to the hospital for lifesaving surgery after he was extricated from the wreckage. ``I remember everything pretty much. It's kind of like slow motion,'' Carswell said Wednesday in his first interview since the cras |
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