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Tiger Woods, the greatest golfer of his generation and one of the highest-earning athletes ever, said Friday he would take an indefinite break from professional golf to focus on his family.

The announcement came two weeks after a Nov. 27 car accident outside Mr. Woods’s Florida home that touched off intense scrutiny of his personal life, centering on revelations of numerous extramarital affairs.

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Captain Lou Albano, the crazed and charismatic wrestling icon who played Cyndi Lauper‘s dad in her “Girls Just Wanna Have Fun” video, has died. He was 76.

Albano – known for his wild goatee, usually tamed by a rubber band, and his half-open Hawaiian shirts – was a wrestling world fixture for more than a half-century.

He was inducted into the World Wrestling Entertainment Hall of Fame in 1996, paying tribute to Albano’s management of 15 WWE tag team champions and WWE title holder Ivan Koloff.

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No one ever said the Ultimate Fighting Championship didn’t know how to market itself, its sport and its fighters.

There may be no greater proof than the job it’s done with Kimbo Slice, the famed YouTube street fighter who crashed and burned under the weight of ridiculous hype that his last promotion and CBS television put on him. One year ago this week, it took 14 seconds to prove he wasn’t really the comparable figure to Tiger Woods that the network laughably claimed.

Kimbo lost again Wednesday on Spike TV’s “The Ultimate Fighter” reality show. In a match taped in June, he was smothered by Roy Nelson, a round mound of fighting experience who twice exploited Slice’s inexperience, laid him out in a crucifix position and dropped dozens of light but unanswered punches.

Referee Herb Dean, who allowed Kimbo to be saved by the bell at the end of the first round, called it early in the second.

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Los Angeles (E! Online) – Could it be a matter of time before the Parrotheads supplant the porpoises on the gridiron?

We’re not sure what he’s cooking up, but “Cheeseburger in Paradise” purveyor Jimmy Buffett is about to begin working in some capacity with the Miami Dolphins.

The Mayor of Margaritaville will join new team owner Stephen M. Ross for a press conference on May 8, during which they’re expected to announce to announce a sponsorship deal with the singer-songwriter known for his odes to hedonism.

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By ANTHONY McCARRON
DAILY NEWS SPORTS WRITER

Friday, December 12th 2008, 2:07 AM
There are plenty of Met fans who think their team choked during consecutive NL East flops over the last two seasons. Thursday, Philadelphia ace Cole Hamels made it clear he and the rest of the Phillies agree.

“You know, last year and this year, I think we did believe that,” Hamels said Thursday during an appearance on WFAN to plug the Phillies’ World Series DVD. “Three years ago, we didn’t because they smoked everybody. I really thought they were going to the World Series. Unfortunately, that didn’t happen.

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The Giants suspended superstar Plaxico Burress for the rest of the season yesterday, ending any chance for the troubled wide receiver to help his teammates repeat as Super Bowl champs.

Burress, who shot himself in the leg while drinking in a Manhattan nightclub Saturday morning, is ineligible to play in the team’s remaining four games or the postseason.

“This is an important time for him to take care of his body and heal up, and also deal with the very serious legal consequences and other issues in his life,” Giants President John Mara said.

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As Giants receiver Plaxico Burress was arraigned Monday on two separate counts of a weapons charge, harsh reactions and new questions arose about the events early Saturday morning, when Burress accidentally shot himself in the thigh at a Manhattan nightclub with an illegal handgun.

Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg and the Police Department criticized the Giants, who they said neglected to notify the authorities of the shooting, and NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center, where Burress was treated, for failing to call the police about his gun-related injury, as state law requires.

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The Wedge Newport Beach CA

GOLFER John Daly’s life continues to unravel after the dual major winner spent the night in jail after police responded to calls for assistance with an intoxicated person at a Hooters restaurant in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.

Daly, who had earlier lost consciousness, refused to go to a hospital, leading emergency medical personnel to summon police at 2.17am on Sunday, according to the police report.

Daly “appeared extremely intoxicated and unco-operative,” police said in their report of the incident. Daly is a “regular” at Hooters, one of his sponsors, according to the golfer’s website.

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In the first half of the season, Carlos Delgado struggled. At the end of June, his batting average was .228. In the weeks before that, his critics said he should be benched, traded or released by the Mets. His team was floundering, and he got the blame.

The fault-finders saw Delgado as a well-paid veteran well past his prime, the worn-out symbol of a dysfunctional roster. Now, perhaps, Delgado is still a symbol, but the larger picture is much different, and so is his place in it.

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GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) — Brett Favre‘s journey from retirement and back has ended in New York.

The Green Bay Packers traded their three-time MVP and Super Bowl-winning quarterback to the Jets on Wednesday, ending an emotionally grinding month of indecision over Favre’s future.

The move ends a remarkably ugly split between Green Bay and one of its most beloved players, allows the Packers to move forward with new starting quarterback Aaron Rodgers and gives Favre a fresh start — although not exactly the one he wanted, as Favre’s first choice was widely believed to be the Minnesota Vikings.

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Two days after his dramatic victory at the United States Open, Tiger Woods announced he would miss the rest of the 2008 season following reconstructive surgery to repair damage to the anterior cruciate ligament in his left knee.
Woods said in a news release on his Web site Wednesday that he ruptured the ligament last summer while running near his home in Florida. Rather than have reconstructive surgery at the time, he decided to manage the pain and his schedule to continue playing. But the pain continued, and Woods had an arthroscopic procedure two days after the Masters in April. While recovering from that operation, the release said, Woods sustained a double stress fracture of his left tibia.
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ANAHEIM, Calif. — The Mets announced early Tuesday morning that they have fired Willie Randolph and replaced him with the bench coach Jerry Manuel. They also fired two of Randolph’s coaches, the pitching coach Rick Peterson and the first-base coach Tom Nieto, and have promoted three coaches from the minor league level.

Dan Warthen, the Class AAA New Orleans pitching coach, will replace Peterson. Ken Oberkfell, New Orleans’s manager, and Luis Aguayo, the team’s field coordinator, will also join the major league staff but their responsibilities are unclear.

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