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Cushing denies banned substance use

GameSetMatch — Fri, 14 May 2010 17:40:13 +0000

Houston Texans linebacker Brian Cushing said Thursday he never used any banned substances even though he tested positive for a performance-enhancing drug.

Cushing was suspended for four games without pay last week for violating the NFL’s drug policy. His appeal was denied.

Cushing confirmed he tested positive for HCG, a fertility drug that is on the league’s banned substance list.

“The question of how it got into my body is still unclear,” he said. “It’s something that I’m very personally concerned about, just the fact that how it’s there and what’s going to determine it from happening again, and that’s something we’re going to have to medically investigate.”

He said that after failing the test, he was told HCG can get in your body from injecting it or because of tumors. He said this information led him to believe he had tumors. He did not say what kind of tumors.

“I personally know I’m not injecting myself with anything,” he said. “I played the whole season thinking this could not only be my last season, but my last year.”

Click here to read the full article – By Associated Press of ESPN.com

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GameSetMatch — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 17:52:44 +0000

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Texans sign Winborn

GameSetMatch — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 18:42:57 +0000

The NFL’s trading deadline came and went Tuesday with, as expected, the Texans making no moves. But they did sign free-agent linebacker Jamie Winborn to their active roster. He’ll replace rookie defensive end Tim Jamison, who returns to the practice squad two games after he was first activated.

The 5-11, 230-pound Winborn was a second-round pick of the San Francisco 49ers out of Vanderbilt in 2001. He spent five seasons with the Niners, one with Jacksonville, one with Tampa Bay and the last two with Denver. He played in all 16 games for the Broncos in 2008, making 11 starts. Winborn signed with Atlanta over the offseason but was released by the Falcons in their final cut at the end of the preseason.

Click here to read the full article – By DALE ROBERTSON of Houston Chronicle

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GameSetMatch — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 18:35:28 +0000

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Texans run defense in sudden state of denial

GameSetMatch — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 18:32:32 +0000

Texans rookie coordinator Frank Bush’s rushing defense began the season in the deepest of funks. Trampled by the Jets, befuddled by the Titans and punctured by the Jaguars, Houston found itself dead last in the NFL in a statistical category that tends to be seen as a measure of a team’s toughness, its elemental grit.

There’s nothing fancy, pretty or scientific about stuffing a running play. It’s a brute-force, stand-your-ground, may-the-best-man-win kind of thing, and the Texans were losing almost every battle — comically so on occasion. In those first three games, they allowed scoring sprints of 91, 61, 57 and 38 yards among eight rushing touchdowns total. Fifteen times they got burned for gains of 10 or more yards.

Something had to give. Or better, the Texans simply had to stop giving. And they have, mounting a remarkable, almost jaw-dropping reversal that has been all about saving face. Climbing a fourth of the way up the league standings over the last three Sundays — 24th doesn’t look nearly so bad when you’re coming from 32nd — they held the Raiders, Cardinals and Bengals to less than 50 yards rushing apiece. To put that in perspective, consider this: Texans defenses had done it just four times previously in franchise history

Click here to read the full article – By DALE ROBERTSON of Houston Chronicle

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