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It’s Super Bowl, which could move the officials into a front-and-center position when the Seahawks face the Broncos.
Seahawks fans, after their team’s experience in Super Bowl XL, know that as well as anyone.
Not even the weather in New Jersey on Sunday, scares the NFL more than a bad call deciding the Super Bowl.
Former Raiders coach and NFL analyst John Madden, speaking of the officiating in the aftermath of the conference championship games, said: “It wasn’t good and it hasn’t been good all year.”
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Ken Norton Jr. does not flash his Super Bowl rings around the players. But it’s not modesty that prevents him from doing so.
“The rings that I had in the old days don’t look nothing like how big these rings are now,” said Norton, a three-time Super Bowl champ with the Dallas Cowboys and San Francisco 49ers who is the linebackers coach for the Seattle Seahawks. “I don’t know if my diamonds are even real. If I was to show them that ring, that might depress them … They’d be like: ‘That’s what we’re going for?’ “
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Olympic badminton gold medalist Lee Yong-dae and fellow-South Korean Kim Ki-jung have been handed one-year suspensions by the sport’s world governing body for missing doping tests.
The Malaysian-based Badminton World Federation said as part of its testing program of international level players, “Kim and Lee were required to provide whereabouts information for the BWF to conduct out-of-competition testing. In 2013, both athletes accumulated three whereabouts failures in connection with this administrative process.”
