My guess is, at the end of the day, the guy who takes for fall for releasing the misinformation on Chris Henry will be Kenton County, Kentucky, attorney Gary Edmondson. If you're not living in the Tri-State, you might not have heard that early Monday, Edmondson admitted to a lot of news outlets that Henry had flunked a random drug test. And because of that, Edmondson stated, Henry had violated his parole and was going to jail.
Turns out, a second test on the same sample was clean. And for the moment, Henry is back to his former status: suspended for the first eight games of this season. Edmondson says a third test on that same sample will be conducted.
If it's even possible, it's turned Henry into something of a sympathetic figure. His multiple misteps leads even a rational person to believe he'd be guilty of flunking a test. But it just shows how the wrong information about the right person can lead to a very dangerous situation.
I wouldn't be surprised if Henry seeks legal action against the Kentucky attorney. The tests are supposed to be held in strict confidence.
Funniest story I've seen today involves former heavyweight boxing champ, George Foreman. He's now saying his trainer gave him something to drink before his classic fight with Muhammad Ali that had some sort of medicine in it. Foreman said he spit it out but "After the third round, I was as tired as if I had fought 15 rounds"
Foreman has this in a new book he's written. All of that is rich. Foreman wasn't drugged. He 'punch drunked' himself...flailing away at a defensive Ali in the African heat. By the eighth round, Foreman could not have stood upright, even if he was attached to a derrick.
Makes for a good story, though.
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