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Dunk you very much: Packers pay for shattered backboard (PackersNews)

The Green Bay Packers have agreed to pay $2,400 to cover the damage caused when defensive end Mike Montgomery shattered a glass backboard while dunking the ball during a charity basketball game at Waupun High School on Friday night.

Nebraska Court orders Eagles RB to pay child support (AP)

The state Supreme Court ordered the Philadelphia Eagles' Correll Buckhalter to pay $4,035 a month in child support for an autistic boy he is alleged to have fathered while a football player at Nebraska.

Journalist accused of lacing guests' desserts with drugs (Times)

Christopher Davies, 58, of Harwood Avenue, Bromley treated his guests to champagne, shots of vodka and orange and played a truth-or-dare game at the dinner table. The former Daily Telegraph football writer is accused of feeding his victims Diazepam.

Eagles' Reid's sons plead not guilty (AP)

Two sons of Philadelphia Eagles coach Andy Reid have pleaded not guilty to charges stemming from separate traffic incidents on the same day in late January.

Pop star wants to become pro golfer (LondonNet)

Justin Timberlake wants to become a professional golfer. The 26-year-old singer is getting so good on the greens he is hoping to land a place on the Professional Golf Association (PGA) circuit.

Jennifer Floyd Engel really hates those motherf*ckers (The Buried Lead)

Jennifer Floyd Engel of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram decided to voice her displeasure thusly (roughly) ��� I am so sick of these motherf**** ****,everytime I go out there, they find a different way to lose. They can���t ********* score, they can���t ********* stop goals, nothing. Every year, swept in the ***** first round. I am not buying another ******** ticket, I am not going to another ********** game.

Track athletes save elderly woman from fire (AP)

Competition was just starting between Germantown High and West Philadelphia yesterday afternoon when several shot putters spotted black smoke rising from a house across the street. They took off across the field and scaled a fence.

Celtics star Sebastian Telfair facing gun charge in Westchester (Journal News)

Boston Celtics star Sebastian Telfair was arrested early today after police said a loaded handgun was found in his car when he was stopped for speeding on the Bronx River Parkway in Yonkers.