JAMAL ANDERSON NFL
Jamal Anderson went from seventh-round afterthought to 1,800-yard rusher during the Falcons 1998 Super Bowl run. He would play three more injury-plagued seasons before leaving the game to carve out a post-NFL career niche as a television analyst, most recently with ESPN's Cold Pizza 2.0.
(WSB Radio) Former Atlanta Falcons Star Jamal Anderson was arrested Saturday night on drug charges. Anderson was booked into the Fulton County jail and charged with possession-of-cocaine and possession-of-marijuana. Both charges are felonies.
ATLANTA Former Atlanta Falcons running back Jamal Anderson has been charged with felony cocaine possession and misdemeanor marijuana possession after being arrested at an Atlanta nightclub, authorities said Sunday.
Ten years later, some of the names come to mind easily. Chris Chandler and Jamal Anderson, Chuck Smith and Travis Hall, Jessie Tuggle and Ray Buchanan.
CLANCY PENDERGAST
On Thursday, the Cardinals lost offensive coordinator Todd Haley to the Chiefs. Today, they're also without a defensive coordinator, but not because Clancy Pendergast got a new gig. Instead, the two sides have decided to part ways. Which, I imagine, is a lot like a mutual break-up in that it never actually happens that way.
Things are getting a little shaky in Arizona after their Super Bowl appearance last week. First their offensive coordinator Todd Haley leaves to coach the Kansas City Chiefs. Then Anquan Boldin says he doesn't think he'll be back. Now defensive coordinator Clancy Pendergast is fired.
Phoenix, AZ (Sports Network) - The Arizona Cardinals have reportedly parted ways with defensive coordinator Clancy Pendergast.
Five days after their defeat in Super Bowl XLIII, the Cardinals find themselves in need of not only a new offensive coordinator but a defensive coordinator as well. Clancy Pendergast, the team's defensive coordinator since he was hired on Jan. 15, 2004, was one of two assistants retained by head coach Ken Whisenhunt when Whisenhunt got the job two years ago. Cardinals sources confirm today that he and the team are parting ways.
Arizona defensive coordinator Clancy Pendergast was a graduate assistant at the University of Oklahoma in 1993, young and thirsty to learn, when he began diagramming plays and jotting notes in an 8½ x11-inch spiral notebook.
MICHAEL PHELPS
The sport's national governing body also cut off its financial support to Phelps for the same three-month period.
Phelps acknowledged "regrettable" behaviour and "bad judgement" after a photograph in a newspaper showed him apparently smoking cannabis.
The latest fallout from the photo showing Michael Phelps smoking marijuana at a party at the University of South Carolina is costing him some cash and some time in the pool.
After Michael Phelps acknowledged inhaling marijuana from a pipe as depicted in a photo, the Olympic great has lost swimming competition privileges and a major endorsement deal.The Associated Press reports that USA Swimming has suspended Phelps for three months of competition and cut off his financial support during that period.
Michael Phelps was suspended from competition for three months by USA Swimming on Thursday, the latest fallout from a photo of the Olympic great with a marijuana pipe.