Bengals re-sign Devon Still to help him pay for daughter’s cancer treatments

The Cincinnati Bengals made arguably their greatest move of the season this week.

The Bengals re-signed defensive tackle Devon Still to their practice squad Sunday to help him pay for his 4-year-old daughter’s cancer treatments. He was waived by the team last Saturday.

Still learned back in June that his daughter, Leah, has stage-four pediatric cancer. Since the diagnosis, Still’s mind understandably hasn’t been completely on football as he missed parts of organized team activities and minicamp this offseason to be with his daughter, which is why he understood the team’s decision to cut him.

“I completely understand where the Bengals were coming from when they cut me because I couldn’t give football 100 percent,” Still told ABC News.

But when Still received the call this morning that he had been signed to the practice squad and would receive health insurance as well as a weekly salary of $6,300, he was incredibly grateful. Still also will remain in the game he loves, for the team that drafted him, without all of the traveling, meaning he can be closer to his daughter as she undergoes treatments.

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Student Forced to Wear ‘Shame Suit’ for Dress Code Violation

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A Florida mom is outraged that her 15-year-old daughter was forced to wear what she called a “shame suit” at school.

On her third day of school, Miranda Larkin, a sophomore at Oakleaf High School in Orange Park, Florida, was told by a teacher that her skirt was too short.

“It was right after first period,” Miranda told ABC News. “I was in the hallway and I got stopped by a teacher who told me my skirt was too short and sent me to the nurse’s office. They told me I was going to have to change and put on the dress-code-violation outfit.”

The school’s dress-code-violation outfit consists of a neon-yellow t-shirt with “DRESS CODE VIOLATION” emblazoned on the front of it in capital letters, along with red sweatpants with the same message down the right leg.

“The school has said this is to embarrass you,” said Miranda. “It’s supposed to embarrass you so you don’t do it again.”

Full ABC News Article

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Bag of Randomness

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  • Food for thought: Tom Landry was fired at age 64 and was accused by many that the game passed him by. Pete Carroll is 62-years-old and defending a Super Bowl title.
  • I had this eerie dream that felt very real last night.  I was on a plane flying back from the Philippines and upon arriving everyone on the flight found out they had several brain tumors.
  • I took DaughterGeeding to her dance class yesterday and I was driven insane by all the kids in tap shoes.  Before the start of class they were doing all they could to make noise by smacking and scraping their shoes on the concrete floors outside the dance rooms.  I get it, they are kids and are having fun and have every right to do so, and after all I was at a dance studio, but at that particular moment it was Hell on Earth.
  • I think being a courtroom sketch artist would be kinda fun.  And if a celebrity was involved and I knew my sketch would make the news, I’d deliberately make the celebrity a bit uglier just to mess with them.
  • I wasn’t much of a Joan Rivers fan, but I bet most folks just know her as an old funny woman with a lot of plastic surgery and not take into account the trendsetter she was to become the guest host on ‘The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson’ and what a big deal that actually was.  But I was surprised her death was the first story on the ‘CBS Evening News’.
  • Letterman made a surprise entrance last night by walking in from the back.
  • Mitt Romney wrote a piece for The Washington Post stating the need for more military spending.  Republicans love spending money to create a bigger military.  Despite what he and the Mrs have said in the past, I smell another run for the presidency.
  • I forgot to mention one more thing that bugged me about the Wendy Davis interview on The TICKET . . . she started the conversation sounding like some damn yankee saying “you all” instead of “y’all”.  The Abbott campaign is also using the interview to say she isn’t the Cowboys fan she claims to be and is really a Patriots fan.  Yup, these are serious issues, y’all.
  • The Texas Tribune has updated their Texas Government Salaries Explorer and the top three are are related to University of Texas sports – Special Assistant Mack Brown, Head Coach Football Coach Charlie Strong, Head Basketball Coach Rick Barnes.
  • Local news anchor Tracy Kornet is leaving to Nashville to be closer to family.  Her seven-foot tall son plays basketball for Vanderbilt and I found this interesting, “Grew seven inches in his senior season and then two more when he arrived on campus.”
  • I sigh a lot, and loudly.
  • For a while I thought when a guy hits the age of 30, he should give up fantasy football.  Then I realized I was just jealous that no one would ever join my league and I never was invited to join a league.
  • Ickey Wood was in a commercial last night during the Packers/Seahawks game, he’s seen better days but can certainly still do the shuffle.
  • On FX last night there was a Diet Coke commercial that ended with “Just for the taste of it . . . Diet Coke!”.  I haven’t heard that slogan in forever.
  • There’s a new healthy restaurant opening four locations in the area that prints fat content and calorie count on the receipt.
  • Army can’t track spending on $4.3b system to track spending, IG finds
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