Mike Shanahan: Robert Griffin III won’t play unless he’s 100 percent

Washington Redskins head coach Mike Shanahan took a lot of flack for playing rookie quarterback Robert Griffin III while he was not completely healthy last season. In the end, RG3 ended up getting hurt even worse as a result, tearing his right ACL, which required reconstructive surgery.

Shanahan was unapologetic for playing Griffin at the time, but now he has changed his tune, claiming that Griffin will now only play if he is 100 percent healthy. The 60-year-old head coach also said the team won’t allow Griffin to push himself too hard in rehab either.

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Louisville guard Russ Smith to return for senior season

Conventional wisdom held that Russ Smith, Louisville’s leading scorer from it’s NCAA championship team, would be headed to the NBA after a remarkable junior season. That wisdom was apparently way off, as Smith has announced he will return for his senior season.

The 6’1″ guard averaged 18.7 points per game this season and 22.3 in the NCAA tournament. Smith helped lead Louisville to a 35-5 record and the school’s third national title. He was an all-Big East Conference first team selection along with teammate Gorgui Dieng, who has put his name into the NBA Draft pool.

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Charlotte Bobcats fire Mike Dunlap after just one season

It’s fair to say the Charlotte Bobcats are a colossal mess, and that designation isn’t going to change any time soon. New broke on Tuesday that the franchise will part ways with head coach Mike Dunlap after just one season, throwing the team further into turmoil.

Dunlap went 21-61 in his first year on the job, guiding the Bobcats to the second-worst record in the NBA, ahead of only the Orlando Magic. That said, under Dunlap, Charlotte won 14 more games than it did during the lockout-shortened 2011-12 season when the team went 7-59.

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Steve Nash says he’s not close to retirement

Steve Nash has had a rough first season with the Los Angeles Lakers. The two-time NBA MVP has missed 32 games due to various injuries throughout the year and at 39 years old his body may simply be breaking down. But Nash insists he’s not even close to considering retirement.

The Santa Clara product just wrapped up his 17th NBA regular season, but he insists he felt great when he was actually on the court this year.

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Cleveland Cavaliers, Mike Brown discuss job opening

Remember a few years ago when the Cleveland Cavaliers decided that Mike Brown was not the guy to take their franchise to the next level and unceremoniously dumped him? Yeah, looks like they’re regretting that decision.

After Byron Scott was fired a few days ago, the Cavs started looking for a new head coach in earnest, and their former head coach is firmly in the mix. Brown reportedly met with owner Dan Gilbert on Sunday and there is a very good chance he winds up back in Cleveland. Brown was fired by the Los Angeles Lakers after opening the 2012-13 season (his second with the team) with a 1-4 record.

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Rick Porcello had one of the worst starts in baseball history

Rick Porcello made history on Saturday, but not the kind he’ll want to be remembered for. The Detroit Tigers right-hander logged one of the worst starts in Major League Baseball history in a 10-0 loss to the Los Angeles Angels.

Porcello toe’d the slab in Anaheim for the Tigers, and lasted just two-thirds of an inning, but it was an incredibly long two-thirds of an inning. He threw 47 pitches (just 22 for strikes) and in those tosses he was absolutely ripped.

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Tamerlan Tsarnaev was an amateur boxer

Tamerlan Tsarnaev, the alleged Boston Marathon bombing suspect killed on Thursday night, was an aspiring amateur boxer who hoped to try out for the United States Olympic team.

Tsarnaev came to the U.S. from Chechnya in 2003, and won a Golden Gloves novice fight in the 178-pound weight division in 2004. He told the Lowell Sun (via ESPN) at the time, “I wanted to fight in the Gloves to see how I would do. So far, so good.”

He went on to say, “I like the USA…America has a lot of jobs. That’s something Russia doesn’t have. You have a chance to make money here if you are willing to work.”

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