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(Every week there are a number of stories slip through the cracks here at ShakedownSports. These are just a few of them.)

NFL Europe is no more. Less than a week after the World Bowl Championship the NFL announced that it will fold its European development league. During its 16 years of existence NFL Europe failed to catch on outside of Germany, the country where five of the six teams were located in its final season. The end of the league means that many in Germany will be hungry for American culture, and as a result experts predict that sales of David Hasselhoff CDs could triple in the coming months.

Nikolai Bonds, the son of Barry Bonds and a Giants bat boy, tore two ligaments is his ankle during a pickup basketball game last week. According to numerous doctors the injury means that Nikolai likely will not be in a Giants uniform when his father breaks Hank Aaron’s home run record. Despite the bad news from the doctors, Bonds has remained suspiciously optimistic his son’s resilient ankle will find a way to heal itself in time.

This week Lakers forward Kwame Brown had surgery on his ailing right shoulder, but the team expects him to be at full strength by the time training camp opens. Despite the news that he will be at full strength when camp opens, the team expects him to revert to soft, bumbling, weak old self by the time the season starts.

The NFL held its rookie symposium this week and for the third straight year the event had perfect attendance. It even included appearances by Laron Landry, who showed up with a paintball gun lodged up his ass, as well as Brady Quinn’s alter ego, famed male stripper Chief Diesel Rodriguez.

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