Steelers linebacker James Harrison and Packers linebackers Clay Matthews and Julius Peppers participated last week in the NFL’s investigation into the recanted allegations by a former pharmacy employee who was being secretly videotaped.
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The claims were made by Charles Sly, a former pharmacist at the Guyer Institute in Indianapolis, where Manning starred for the NFL’s Colts for 14 seasons. Now-retired quarterback Peyton Manning was also linked to Human Growth Hormone, but he had already been cleared. Ryan Howard and Ryan Zimmerman were also implicated in the story, but Major League Baseball cleared both of their names respectively when they closed their investigation earlier this month as well.
“No credible evidence” – which is to say, none of the players who were forced to submit to an National Football League interrogation openly admitted to taking PEDs.
Of course, the fact that the league used such heavy-handed tactics to compel the players to interview in the first place became the bigger story in recent weeks than the actual topic of the investigation.
Six days after Harrison reluctantly cooperated with the league to discuss a discredited Al-Jazeera report which implicated himself and others of using HGH, he was cleared of any wrongdoing on Wednesday.
The draft traditionally is held on the final Thursday-Saturday of April, which would be April 28-30 in 2017.
Four-time Olympic medalist Kerri Walsh Jennings says she is boycotting an event in Chicago on the AVP domestic beach tour because of two rule experiments that weren’t “honestly or meaningfully” discussed with players beforehand.
Bridgewater’s recovery from a badly damaged left knee, sustained during a seemingly harmless drill in practice Tuesday with nobody near him, will be the most important development for the Vikings over the next year and beyond. Before it was released, Sly said he made everything up to test the reporter.
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– The Steelers and wide receiver Antonio Brown agreed on a restructured contract.
