Chris Clemons Released by Seahawks

Chris Clemons Released by Seahawks, What was one of the big salary cap-clearing moves left that the Seahawks could make appears to have happened, as NFL.com’s Albert Breer was the first to report that the team has released defensive end Chris Clemons.

The Seahawks have released DE Chris Clemons, per source.

— Albert Breer (@AlbertBreer) March 12, 2014

The move, since confirmed by other sources, had been long-speculated since Clemons is due to make $9.6 million in 2014. Cutting him now creates a salary cap savings of $7.5 million.

Cutting Clemons could be a precursor to making another move — the team had Dallas DT Jason Hatcher in for a visit yesterday and has been reported to be in talks with Minnesota DE Jared Allen.

Clemons, who turned 32 on Oct. 30, started 11 games in 2013, missing the first two while still rehabbing an ACL surgery suffered in the playoff win over Washington in January, 2013. After making 33.5 sacks in 2010-2012, he had 4.5 in 2013.

Clemons was acquired prior to the 2010 season in a trade with the Eagles for DE Darryl Tapp and a fourth-round pick that turned out to be DE E.J. Wilson).

More on this as it develops.

UPDATE: Here’s some Twitter reaction to the Clemons news from some Seahawk players:

Hate to see my boy @chrisclemons91 go… This business can be crazy at times…

— Cliff Avril (@cliffavril) March 12, 2014

@chrisclemons91 one of the best De in the nfl . Super Bowl champ my bro can’t believe he is not coming back 39 sacks last 4yrs wow

— Michael Bennett (@mosesbread72) March 12, 2014

New Orleans Newspaper

New Orleans Newspaper, The most influential newspaper in the Gulf of Mexico took a critical look at the string of post-oil from the sea disaster and wondered if the green light from U.S. government should instead be a flashing yellow warning.

In an extensive article published Sunday in The New Orleans Times-Picayune and written by journalist Bob Marshall, the paper addresses many issues toxicologists and health professionals have raised the issue of security guarantees seafood

The newspaper notes that skepticism is widespread, even among those living in the Gulf region.

“Sales of seafood caught locally are down and some restaurants still will not serve,” said Marshall.

The final concern is the basis for determining safe levels of personal contamination, implying an average weight of 176 pounds and an average weekly consumption of seafood by residents of the Gulf.

Many observers believe the level of weight too high, especially in leaving children at risk and the consumption level is too low for a normal diet of those living on or near the Gulf and integrate local seafood in their daily diet.

USDA officials, the Food and Drug Administration and Health in the Gulf States have collaborated on various tests of seafood and to set safe limits. But as pointed out by newspaper article, “Like most programs, food analysis, it does not certify products that are free from contamination, or even safe for all consumers. Rather, it attempts to establish a likelihood of lifetime cancer that is deemed appropriate by the risk managers.

“In this case, FDA and state officials said they decided the risk was a proper party 1-for-100, 000 chance of contracting cancer 176-pound person at times during its life life of 78 years if specified eat seafood every day for five consecutive years. ”

The full article can be found at http://www.nola.com/news/gulf-oil-spill/index.ssf/2010/12/safety_of_gulf_seafood.html

Indianapolis Star

Indianapolis Star, (AP) – The tea party activists across the state will meet later this month to try to agree on a candidate to challenge established U.S. Senator Richard Lugar in the Republican primary of the next year.

Representatives from more than 50 groups of tea will meet Jan. 22 in Tipton, said Monica Boyer, co-founder of Northern Indiana Kosciusko County Silent No More and an organizer of the group anti-Lugar Hoosiers Conservative to the Senate.

Unlike the 2010 Senate primary, where party activists tea was distributed among five candidates, “we do not split the vote. It is vital and it is essential to make it a race of a candidate,” said Boyer The Indianapolis Star for a story Saturday.

Two Republicans mentioned as a possible challenger Lugar State Treasurer Richard Mourdock and state Senator Mike Delph of Caramel.

Lugar, who represented Indiana in the Senate since 1976, said he would seek a seventh term of six years in 2012.

His support for things such as the DREAM Act, which would help some illegal immigrants who came to the United States as children get access to citizenship, and his voice for the candidates of President Barack Obama Supreme Court overturned many conservatives in Indiana, particularly those aligned with the movement of tea.

Lugar met Boyer and other supporters of the party tea for two hours in December to try to convince them he shares their conservative values. However, rather than to convince them to drop any challenge for him, “he actually gave us the strategy on how we approach the battle to come…. It was almost like when you start a football match and you shake hands, and we know what we have to do now. ”

Lugar spokesman Mark Helmke said that if the group wants to organize “an event anti-Lugar is their business.”

New Indiana Republican Party Chairman Eric Holcomb Lugar defended, saying that he and the rest of the Hoosier GOP Congress to share there concerns Tea Party delegation on arm’s length and expenditure, and that “the rest of Washington may learn from them. “