Mundine Still Fighting Eye Infection

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ANTHONY Mundine has turned to Allah in preparation for the distinct possibility that his boxing career is finished because of a serious eye infection.

Despite speculation his injury is a publicity stunt, the WBA super-middleweight world champion was told by specialists on Friday night that it could be up to six months before he knows if he will fight again.

A devout Muslim, Mundine has prayed diligently since Sunday, when he was told he may lose his left eye because of an infection suffered after licking a displaced contact lens at a New Zealand restaurant last weekend. When The Sun-Herald visited him on Friday night, the former Dragons five-eighth was deep in prayer.





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"I am prepared for the fact I might never fight again - it's that serious," said Mundine, who is expected to leave the Sydney Eye Hospital tonight. "I have to be, man. My career is the furthest thing from my mind. Of course, I want to fight again. I feel like I'm just getting on top of my game - I can match it with any fighter in the world.

"But it comes down to Allah and what He wants me to do. At the end of the day, it's God's will.

"I just pray every day and ask God to give me a sign about what He wants. If it's to come back, and I have the sight and be in the ring, so be it. If it's not, so be it.

"If He blesses me with 20-20 vision, that's what I've got to live with. It's His will. He's the one who created me in the first place.

"I'm praying to Him to heal me but ultimately it's His decision. All my faith is in Him. I pray all the time, but it has been more intense and more passionate this week."

At the heart of Mundine's problem is a bizarre fungus that formed on his eye during the week. A team of specialists working on the world champion boxer will not know until this week what the bug is and how best to treat it.

Another AFL Drug Scandal

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THE AFL illicit drugs policy was in crisis last night as confidential medical records identifying two players who had tested positive to illegal drugs were sold to a commercial television station.

The documents contain explosive claims against two players from the same club and became the subject of a legal injunction last night, taken out by the doctor who is treating the two men.

The documents also contain claims that other players at the club regularly use drugs.

The legal action came too late to stop Channel Seven airing the allegations as part of its news bulletin. The report did not identify the players but did disclose their club, as well as details about the frequency and nature of their drug use.

The club was scrambling last night to try to learn the names of the players from the AFL, damaged by the public leak of information that senior club officials were not entitled to be told.

Under the AFL's controversial three-strikes illicit drug policy, clubs cannot be told of a player's drug use until he has returned a third positive test. That system — attacked by the Federal Government as too lenient in recent months — was in crisis last night.

The documents, which were paid for by Channel Seven, appear to be medical records of two players, referred to Ivanhoe's Victorian Addiction Centre by the clubs.

Under the three-strikes policy, after the second positive test, a club doctor is told.

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Conclusion :

Leave the players and their private lives alone, we have no rights to their private lives and what they do in their spare time is up to them, as long as they're not taking performance enhancing drugs it shouldn't be a matter of public debate or released to the public.

If they were a musician it would be acceptable and laughed upon like Britney, Nicole Richie etc.

What about the injections during games, the pain killer shots ? aren't these a enhancing drug ? what about Brisbane's reign of premierships typically the Grandfinals against Collingwood where numerous players felt the force of many hard hits only to get injections so they would no longer feel the pain and or impact of the hard hitting game, these should be ruled out shouldn't they ? after all they are performance enhancing in effect. Compared to party drugs that don't produce in game brilliance but actually the opposite effect.

OJ Simpson The Robber

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Thirteen years after his headline grabbing arrest following the murders of his wife Nicole and her friend Ron Goldman, OJ Simpson is in serious trouble with the law again, this time in connection with an armed robbery.

Police today arrested Simpson, saying he was part of an armed group who burst into a Las Vegas hotel room and snatched memorabilia that documented his own sports career.

The former US football star was taken away from the Palms Casino Hotel by plainclothes officers a day after the arrest of a friend who police say accompanied him with a gun in the hold-up on Thursday night.

Handcuffed and wearing a golf shirt and jeans, Simpson was put in a police vehicle.

Las Vegas police gave further details of the arrest at a press conference this afternoon.

Simpson is charged with two counts of robbery, and assault with a deadly weapon, and four other charges

A judge ordered Simpson held without bail.

If convicted of the charges, Simpson could face up to 30 years in prison on each robbery count alone.

60-year-old Simpson has said he and other people were retrieving items that belonged to him.