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Dwyane Wade has been fighting injuries for the entire season and since the team is well out of the playoff hunt, Pat Riley has decided to shut his star down for the remainder of the season.
Riley said Wade would undergo a specialized treatment on the knee that would keep the All-Star shooting guard off the court for at least a month.
Despite now missing 31 games each of the last two seasons, Wade has said he plans to play in this summer’s Beijing Olympics, a grueling two-month schedule that includes more than a month in China.
Wade has been scheduled for Ossatron treatments.
“The knee will be hit with shockwaves, electrical shock waves,” Riley explained of the procedure that also has been utilized by Heat center Alonzo Mourning. “It’s actually a pretty painful procedure.”
Wade said last week he does not plan to undergo additional surgery on the knee.
This is interesting from a Team USA perspective. Usually, players with knee problems have surgery and are out three months or more, but it looks like Wade will be ready to play in China this summer. One wonders what the powers-that-be in Miami think about their superstar playing in the Olympics when he can’t finish the season for the Heat.
Former New England Patriots video assistant Matt Walsh is apparently close to an agreement with the NFL to hand over tapes pertaining to the Spygate scandal.
The NFL said in a statement Sunday night that in the last week, lawyers for Walsh and the league have made “substantial progress toward an agreement that will allow Mr. Walsh to be interviewed.”
Walsh, a golf pro in Hawaii, has been seeking protection from lawsuits and other legal action, whether by the Patriots or other parties. The two sides have been negotiating for almost a month after reports surfaced just before the Super Bowl that Walsh videotaped a walkthrough practice of the St. Louis Rams before the 2002 title game. It was won by the Patriots 20-17 over the Rams, who were favored by more than two touchdowns.
Sh*t, meet fan.
A little over a week ago, Gary Shelton of the St. Petersburg Times wrote what a bad idea it would if the Rays signed the currently unemployed Barry Lamar Bonds. Tim Marchman of the New York Sun shares the same sediment about the Mets inking Bonds to a deal.
The most obvious answer, of course, is that Bonds is 43, under federal indictment for lying about steroids, and the most notorious baseball villain since Pete Rose, if not Ty Cobb. Skeptics claim, in addition, that the Mets would forfeit their moral credibility and create a distracting circus if they hauled him in to take Alou’s spot in Shea Stadium. Neither of these arguments are very convincing…
The far better answer is that the Mets don’t really need him, which is a simple thing to show. According to most projections, the Mets’ best lineup, including Alou, should score about 5.1 runs a game. Pencil in someone like Marlon Anderson or Detroit reserve Marcus Thames, in whom Omar Minaya is rumored to be interested, and that number drops all the way to 5.0. Pencil in Bonds for a line of .250 BA/.450 OBA/.550 SLG, and it might rise to 5.3, depending on where he bats in the lineup.That sounds like a lot, but it really isn’t.
If Bonds winds up anywhere, it should be the AL. He can barely run anymore and his defense has disintegrated. For a team unfazed by the whole chemistry thing, Bonds can still hit like a mother though.
The Miami Dolphins (now informally called “Bill Parcells” for the foreseeable future) want Jason Taylor to be a part of their team next year. Jason Taylor, however, does not want to be a part of the Miami Dolphins.
Taylor, the Dolphins’ best and highest-profile player, would like out of Miami, according to two sources. But those and other sources say Taylor knows he has no choice but to play for Miami if the team decides not to hang the exit sign on his locker.
The call, simply, is not Taylor’s to make.Fact is Parcells vehemently has denied a report suggesting the sides had ”graciously agreed to part ways,” insisting the only way Taylor doesn’t play for the Dolphins is if he retires.
Taylor’s response to that stance has been to say nothing because he doesn’t want to anger or embarrass the Dolphins.
I feel for Taylor. While he should honor the two-years left on his contract, the guy has always been a competitor and he sees his NFL career winding down. He wants to play for a winner and he should get the chance. I can also see Parcells standpoint on the situation though, too. The Tuna is trying to build a winner and simply put, Taylor makes Team Parcells a better team. Should be interesting to see how this one plays out.
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