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Bengals not exactly broken up over Thurman ruling

By Len Pasquarelli
ESPN.com

Friday, September 29, 2006

Team officials will never admit it, but when the league extended the four-game substance abuse suspension of Cincinnati second-year middle linebacker Odell Thurman to a full season this week, after his Monday morning arrest for drunken driving, there were definitely more quiet cheers than tears among top Bengals executives and coaches. In fact, league sources strongly suggested to ESPN.com that Bengals officials appealed to the league, and hard, for an expeditious resolution of Thurman's case. ...

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