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  CNNSI.com - NFL Football - Jags' Brackens gets kicks in apologetic team meeting - Wednesday October 25, 2000 ...
Brackens said he was leaving the pile when a Redskins player twisted his arm behind his back, in the fashion a policeman would use to put handcuffs on somebody.
Brackens said he had met with Coughlin, who told him the same thing he told reporters after the game and Monday: That it was an unthinkable error on a team that couldn't afford to lose another lineman.
Brackens said it was "discomforting" to have his coach single him out as selfish.
sportsillustrated.cnn.com /football/nfl/news/2000/10/25/jaguars_brackens_ap   (670 words)

  
 SportingNews.com Fantasy Source - NFL : Jaguars release franchise sack leader DE Brackens
Brackens, an eight-year veteran and former second-round pick, had been on the sidelines since Aug. 10 with a strained muscle in back of his right knee.
Brackens, 29, had been released once already this year for salary-cap reasons but was signed again to a one-year contract in June.
Before the 2003 season, Brackens had "microfracture" surgery on his left knee, a process in which doctors drill small holes in the knee to encourage the formation of scar tissue, which then acts similarly to cartilage.
fantasy.sportingnews.com /nfl/articles/20040822/561434.html   (414 words)

  
 Rocky Mountain News: Local
On Friday, Brackens, 46, was sentenced to 64 years in prison in the killing of Becky Darden, 42, who was shot 10 times in the head, chest and hands Sept. 18, 2003.
Brackens fired 13 shots using a five-shot revolver, so he had to reload at least twice, firing at Darden as she scrambled to get away in stocking feet after the two had sex in a secluded location off Colorado 93 near Golden, Jefferson County District Attorney Scott Storey said.
Brackens' family members and friends said they were stunned that he could commit such an act.
www.rockymountainnews.com /drmn/local/article/0,1299,DRMN_15_3507137,00.html   (554 words)

  
 SportingNews.com Fantasy Source - NFL : Jaguars release defensive end Brackens
Brackens, a former second-round draft pick and eight-year team veteran, had been released once already this year for salary-cap reasons but had been signed again to a one-year contract in June.
Brackens, 29, led the team last year with six sacks and brought his career total to 55 over eight seasons.
Before the 2003 season, Brackens had "microfracture" surgery on his left knee, a process in which doctors drill small holes in the knee to encourage the formation of scar tissue, which acts similarly to cartilage that has been damaged or removed.
fantasy.sportingnews.com /nfl/articles/20040822/561417.html   (327 words)

  
 Stars & Stripes
Brackens, however, faces just 10 years because of a pretrial agreement in which he agreed to be a cooperative witness for the government in two other cases stemming from the same three fights, according to prosecutor Capt. Kristian Murray.
Brackens also was demoted to E-1, the military’s lowest pay grade, and is to have his pay withheld until he is dishonorably discharged at the end of his confinement.
In the first incident on Aug. 14, Brackens testified, he was helping defend a friend when he grabbed one man, then hit his head and kicked him while the victim was on the ground.
www.stripes.com /article.asp?section=104&article=28033&archive=true   (694 words)

  
 CNNSI.com - NFL Football - Jaguars' Brackens looks like potential training camp holdout - Tuesday May 02, 2000 ...
Posted: Tuesday May 02, 2000 04:11 PM The Jaguars' Tony Brackens had a career-high 12 sacks and made the Pro Bowl in his fourth season with the club.
Brackens finished last season with 12 sacks, his best production in four years in the NFL.
Brackens' agent, Michael George, did not immediately return messages left at his office by The Associated Press.
sportsillustrated.cnn.com /football/nfl/news/2000/05/02/brackens_jaguars_ap   (352 words)

  
 BRACKENS RELEASED BY JAGUARS: Sporting Life - NFL | Conference Championships Live, Steelers @ Broncos, Panthers @ ...
The franchise's all-time sacks leader, Brackens was first waived by the Jaguars on March 2 in a salary-cap related move.
The injury convinced the Jaguars to cut Brackens again since he would have been entitled to his entire base salary if he was on the team's opening day roster.
Brackens, 29, spent his entire eight-year career with the Jaguars and recorded 55 sacks, 469 tackles and 27 forced fumbles.
www.sportinglife.com /nfl/news/story_get.dor?STORY_NAME=international_feed/04/08/22/GRIDIRON_USA-Jacksonville.html   (314 words)

  
 Elderly couple found stabbed to death in Altoona
And along a serene city street, in the living room of the house where Bracken and wife Marjory, about 82, lived for more than a half-century, they were stabbed and left to die -- a crime that investigators were at a loss to explain last night.
When a worried neighbor opened the Brackens' unlocked front door that afternoon and found them dead -- her slumped over on the floor, him lying on his side 10 feet away, the television and living room lights still on -- a stupefied city block struggled to sort things out.
And in the middle of it all, fitting perfectly, were the more reclusive Marjory Bracken and her outgoing husband, a regular at a local morning coffee klatch, retired from a life of retail sales and brokering insurance.
www.post-gazette.com /localnews/20020322couple0322p7.asp   (477 words)

  
 NBC 4 - NFL - Jags Re-Sign Brackens
Brackens, who is the team's all-time sack leader, was released this past winter because of salary cap considerations.
Brackens, who has started in 75 of 107 career games, has 55 sacks in eight NFL seasons -- all with Jacksonville.
Brackens, who is still recovering from offseason meniscus surgery on his right knee, had his best season in 1999 when he had 12 sacks and was selected to the Pro Bowl.
www.nbc4.tv /nfl/3368595/detail.html   (233 words)

  
 Korea-based GI Sentenced to 12 years   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Stripes reporters have been in the field with American soldiers, sailors and airmen in World War II, Korea, the Cold War, Vietnam, the Gulf War, Bosnia and Kosovo, and are now on assignment in the Middle East.
Rodney A. Brackens, also of the 305th, to assault Huff; assaulting two other soldiers; underage drinking; and using disrespectful language to a warrant officer.
Brackens was sentenced to 10 years confinement earlier this month for his role in the attack on Huff.
military.com /NewContent/0,13190,SS_052405_Assault,00.html?...   (1059 words)

  
 CBS News | Jags, Brackens Agree - For Now | August 11, 2000 18:56:11
Brackens accepted the $4.25 million to which he is entitled as a defensive end with the franchise label.
Brackens wants to be paid in the neighborhood of top defensive linemen Michael Strahan and Michael McCrary, who each signed deals worth an average of $7 million a year last season.
That's not necessarily the case with Brackens and the Jaguars, though.
www.cbsnews.com /stories/2000/08/11/sports/main224095.shtml   (531 words)

  
 JS Online: Packers seeking help from free agents
Brackens, 29, was cut March 2 by the Jacksonville Jaguars.
Brackens was one of the NFL's elite speed-rushing defensive ends with 12 sacks in '99, 71/2 in '00 and 11 in '01.
Brackens, 6-4 and 267, had a cap salary of more than $9 million for 2004.
www.jsonline.com /packer/news/apr04/224857.asp   (630 words)

  
 SportingNews.com - NFL : Jags' Brackens feels pain of waiting   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Doctors drilled small holes in Brackens' knee to encourage the formation of scar tissue, which acts similarly to the cartilage that has been damaged or removed through Brackens' career.
Brackens said the doctor who performed the surgery on him, Richard Steadman, never gives patients more than an 80 percent chance of a full recovery.
Brackens tries to sleep during most of the time he spends in the machine, and says that part of the rehab isn't so bad.
i.tsn.com /nfl/articles/20021211/444755.html   (661 words)

  
 Sam Kouvaris Online
This conversation, of course, is fantasy, but in the world of professional sports, and specifically NFL football, it happens every day.
Brackens was cut by the Jaguars earlier this year, giving them some salary cap room and allowing him to seek a new deal.
Brackens can do that, occasionally, and is worth the money they’re offering him, and no more.
www.samsportsline.com /features-jag-journal/jag-journal-2004/jaguar-journal-05-27-04.html   (391 words)

  
 News-Star OnlineAFC Camp Capsules 07/27/03
When Brackens returns, he'll likely compete to play at left end, opposite Hugh Douglas, who signed a free-agent contract and immediately took Brackens' old spot.
Brackens, the team's career sack leader with 49, received a $13 million signing bonus in 2000.
Faced with being cut in the offseason because of the uncertainty with his knee, he agreed to lower his $5.5 million salary in 2003 to $1.1 million and received a $200,000 signing bonus.
www.news-star.com /stories/072703/spo_49.shtml   (800 words)

  
 Bracken's Gold Rush
Four million visitors a year from around the world come to the three block-long outdoor mall to mingle among the dynamic collection of world-class stores, restaurants and theaters.
The store was founded in 1984 by Todd Bracken, who began climbing the professional jewelry ladder at the age of nine, learning to make jewelry in his father's store in Illinois.
Though Bracken's is guided by old-world skills and ethics, the business is run with state of the art equipment.
www.brackensgoldrush.com /brackens_jewelry.htm   (474 words)

  
 Bracken's World Episode Guide - Bracken's World Season Episodes - TV.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Bracken's World focused on the employees of Century Studios, located in Hollywood, California.
John Bracken was the studio head, who, for the first season, was heard, but not seen.
Duran and Bracken had a history of disharmony, so Sylvia conceals her position at the studio until she had convinced Duran to come out of retirement.
www.tvtome.com /tvtome/servlet/GuidePageServlet/showid-2203/epid-232269   (3452 words)

  
 ESPN.com - NFL - Knee injury sidelines Jags DE Brackens
The Jacksonville Jaguars' already dubious pass rush has gotten even more suspect, with coach Jack Del Rio announcing that defensive end Tony Brackens, the club's leading sacker in 2003 and also the top sacker in franchise history, has a torn muscle behind his right knee.
Brackens, 29, will be sidelined for at least a week.
Brackens had seen only limited duty in the first 10 days of camp and the coaching staff needs time to assess his viability to the defense..
proxy.espn.go.com /nfl/columns/story?id=1857023   (291 words)

  
 Players to watch
Then he went to the World League and was an assistant at Hofstra until Minnesota called last season and he played in his first five games.
Brackens could have a field day against the battered Bengals tackle spot and line up on either side any play.
Brackens has been drawing a crowd this season with 12 sacks.
bengals.enquirer.com /2000/01/02/ben_players_to_watch.html   (651 words)

  
 Len Bracken's Criticism of Greil Marcus
Bracken is also attempting to misrepresent the nature of Debord's association of Marcus with the Times, that is to say, to misrepresent what Debord wrote in one of his books.
What apparently puts Bracken in mind of structuralism is the fact that Marcus perceives reversible connections between historical events, in particular, between Dada and Nazism.
It isn't difficult to see this: after all, the causes of the rise of fascism and the outbreak of World War II lie in the events of the 1910s and 1920s, when Dada was at its shrill peak.
www.notbored.org /confused.html   (1465 words)

  
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JACKSONVILLE, FL -- Tony Brackens and Jeff Chandler were released Sunday by the Jaguars.
Brackens earned a $300,000 roster bonus this pre season and was set to make a little more than a million dollars this regular season.
Brackens never practiced this pre-season with the Jaguars but says he will continue his football career.
www.firstcoastnews.com /news/news-article.aspx?storyid=23171   (150 words)

  
 TSN.ca - NFL - Canada's Sports Leader
Brackens, Jacksonville's all-time sacks leader who had been waived by the team in a salary-cap move on March 2, signed a one-year contract, the club announced Tuesday.
Terms of the deal were not disclosed, but the team said it was an incentive-laden contract.
A Pro Bowler in 1999 who suffered a major knee injury that limited him to just five games in 2002, the 29-year-old Brackens has a team-record 55 sacks, including six in 15 games last season.
www.tsn.ca /nfl/news_story.asp?id=86021   (129 words)

  
 JS Online: Jags' Brackens Calls It a Season   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Brackens practiced once a week and played in about half the plays this season.
Knowing of Nickerson's fate, Brackens made the decision to deal with the clean-up operation in January, play with the remaining damage this season, and look into surgery once this season was over.
Brackens led the team in sacks the last three seasons.
www.jsonline.com /packer/ap/oct02/ap-fbn-jaguars-bra101502.asp   (481 words)

  
 Gazette, The (Colorado Springs): The Crpe Outdoors
A plate of piping hot crpes might not be what you'd expect to find at a farmers market, but Dennis Bracken and his wife, Sandy, have started bringing this 1970s favorite to the downtown Farm and Art Market on Saturdays and to the Briarhurst Manor Inn market on Wednesdays.
The Brackens are finding that shoppers are willing to sit a while and indulge in a plate of warm, thin, delicate crpes.
Dressed in their pristine chef whites, the Brackens regularly whip up sweet lemon crpes, fresh berry crpes, cinnamon sugar crpes and crpes suzette, each dusted with powdered sugar and topped with whipped cream.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qn4191/is_20040811/ai_n10036962   (1387 words)

  
 Eyewitness News Memphis - Jags release Brackens again   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Posted: 8/22/2004 1:12:51 PM Brackens, the franchise's sack leader, was let go by the Jaguars this spring before signing a one-year contract for $1.025 million on June 1.
Last season, the 6-4, 265-pound Brackens started 15 games and posted a team- high six sacks.
Brackens, who also underwent offseason meniscus surgery on his right knee, had his best season in 1999 when he had 12 sacks and was selected to the Pro Bowl.
www.myeyewitnessnews.com /sports/story.aspx?content_id=A81FD17B-D378-49F6-8F7E-435ABA8A5E13   (232 words)

  
 SportingNews.com - NFL : Brackens placed on PUP list   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Brackens, the team's all-time sack leader with 49, reworked his contract for significantly less money in the offseason in hopes of coming back and proving he can still play.
The team signed free agent pass rusher Hugh Douglas and told Brackens he would compete either to back up Douglas or start opposite him.
By putting him on the "PUP" list before then, the team can keep Brackens on the list for the first part of the season without him counting against the Jaguars' 53-player limit.
i.tsn.com /nfl/articles/20030725/484845.html   (265 words)

  
 JS Online: Packers in a rush to shore up their defense
The problem, however, is that Brackens doesn't figure to come cheaply.
Brackens, 29, played about 60% of the snaps last year as the Jaguars' starting right end and had a team-leading six sacks.
Brackens, 6 feet 4 inches and 267 pounds, has the same style as Kabeer Gbaja-Biamila.
www.jsonline.com /packer/rev/apr04/225029.asp   (935 words)

  
 Briefs: Raiders' Otto hit by cancer   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Jaguars defensive end Tony Brackens isn't ruling out further surgery on his injured left knee, and knows an operation could end his season.
Brackens, who had arthroscopic surgery to clean up scar tissue in the knee in the offseason, has barely practiced with the Jaguars this preseason.
Brackens has averaged 10 sacks a season the last three years and is considered the team's biggest pass-rushing threat.
www.reddingemployment.com /newsarchive/20020823sppro047.shtml   (659 words)

  
 EN World - Morrus' D&D / d20 News & Reviews Site - How to Disrupt a Wedding   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
The antagonists are the Brackens and Blackwoods, who don't want to get married to each other.
The Brackens and Blackwoods would be doing this already, and it'd only take a little inducement to start a war.
The scions of one or both houses are looking to upset the Tullys, Brackens and Blackwoods all, in hopes of regaining what once was lost.
www.enworld.org /printthread.php?t=94600   (1251 words)

  
 CBS News | Jaguars Maul Helpless 'Phins | January 16, 2000 10:44:45
Among the stars were Fred Taylor, who had two highlight-reel touchdowns, and defensive lineman Tony Brackens, who recovered a fumble and literally danced his way into the end zone.
Noticing Brackens hadn't been touched down, linebacker Bryce Paup shoved his teammate toward the end zone.
By the time Brackens figured out what was happening, he had crossed the goal line.
www.cbsnews.com /stories/2000/01/15/archive/main149895.shtml   (1003 words)

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