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Chiefs DB ready to return after bout with cancer
for him. He’s like a little kid out
here playing. He’s having fun, and
he’s appreciative of everything and
everybody that has been with him
ST. JOSEPH, Mo. — Kansas
throughout this whole ordeal. He’s
City Chiefs safety Eric Berry is
loving life right now and it shows on
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for a real game. Well, as real as the
The Chiefs have not made Berry
preseason gets.
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The three-time Pro Bowl selec-
week of camp, when he discussed
tion is expected to play in Saturday
his treatment and recovery. But his
night’s preseason opener again
teammates have marveled not only
Arizona, fewer than nine months
at the fact that he is back on the
after being diagnosed with cancer.
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Berry is expected to play with the
at a high level.
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for us to have a guy like that back
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behind you,” said All-Pro linebacker
go,” Chiefs coach Andy Reid said.
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Justin Houston, who visited Berry
“He’s been going, so I think he’s
ready to go out there and do his Kansas City Chiefs strong safety during his treatment in Georgia.
Eric Berry catches a ball during “You know he’s going to come play
thing.”
at training camp on
hard every play.”
Many wondered whether Berry drills
Tuesday.
Berry has been the starting strong
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lymphoma. But after several rounds picked off a pass by quarterback he was listed as the backup free
of chemotherapy, Berry was deemed Alex Smith a couple of days ago and safety on the initial depth chart
cancer-free during the summer, and has been a handful for the offense in released earlier this week. Husain
Abdullah and Ron Parker are the
he reported to training camp with practice.
rookies and select veterans. He
“I told him I saw too much of starters and Tyvon Branch is the
hasn’t missed a practice since then, him today because he had a couple backup strong safety.
The versatile Berry has also been
although he was held out of some interceptions out here, from an
workouts.
offensive standpoint,” Reid said, working out as the nickel back,
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Associated Press
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running around,” Parker said. “It’s
another energy he brings out there.
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him with his hands on the ball again
and back moving around.”
Even when he has been safety,
Berry’s role seems to have changed.
Before his illness, he had morphed
into a linebacker-safety hybrid,
often lining up near the line of
scrimmage to rush the passer or
defend the run. Thus far in training
camp, Berry has lined up deep in
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primarily with pass coverage.
Then there is the mentorship that
he is able to provide to younger
players. The Chiefs drafted a pair of
defensive backs, including Marcus
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taken them under his advisement,
often huddling with them on the
sidelines in practice.
“He’s feeling better, I think,
every day,” defensive coordinator
Bob Sutton said. “He’s seeing things
better. It’s slowing down for him. It’s
strictly football — this has nothing
to do with what he overcame. I think
he’s happy with that.”
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Manning
no-go vs.
‘Hawks
By ARNIE STAPLETON
Associated Press
ENGLEWOOD, Colo.
— Peyton Manning isn’t
expected to play in the
Denver Broncos’ preseason
opener at Seattle on Friday
night.
Coach Gary Kubiak has
been managing Manning’s
snaps at training camp,
giving the 39-year-old quar-
terback every few days off to
keep his legs and mind fresh
for the season.
Manning faded down the
stretch last season when he
was hobbled by a strained
right thigh.
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and more mobile this summer
as he adapts to a new offense
that has him doing roll-outs
and bootlegs and this week
said, “I do feel good moving
around out there, arm feels
good.”
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Johnson struggles, Mickelson gets familiar with the sand during round one
British Open champ
finishes three-over par
By EDDIE PELLS
Associated Press
SHEBOYGAN, Wis. — The
“other” player in the PGA Cham-
pionship’s power threesome pretty
much played like it Thursday.
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the fairway all day and shot 3-over
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capturing the British Open last
month.
That was nine shots out of the
lead and four behind his playing
partners, world Nos. 1 and 2, Rory
McIlroy and Jordan Spieth.
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14 fairways.
He got frustrated. After gouging
out of the rough three times, then
needing a 10-foot putt to save bogey
on No. 4, he picked up the ball and
threw it into Lake Michigan.
On the next tee box, he put
another one in the water, leading
to a long discussion with a rules
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fairway that led to a bogey 6.
Pretty much par for the course for
Johnson, who beat Spieth and Jason
Day by one stroke in regulation at
St. Andrews, then won a three-way
playoff to capture his second career
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opening rounds.
That put Johnson with Spieth,
who won the Masters and U.S.
Open this year, and McIlroy, who is
the defending PGA champ.
They drew a big crowd.
Johnson only wished he could
have given them a better show.
“There were some good irons,
some substantial amount of
mistakes that I can recall,” Johnson
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mistakes I can easily recall. That’s
frustrating.”
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on at St. Andrews, Scott Piercy was
playing in Alabama.
Piercy’s win at the Barbasol
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event from the British Open, locked
in his spot and gave him plenty of
momentum for the PGA.
He kept it going Thursday,
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Lingmerth (67) as one of only two
players to break 70 in the afternoon
at Whistling Straits, after the wind
kicked up and the course dried out.
“I was starting to feel like my
game is coming around,” said
Piercy, who missed a chunk of last
season after having surgery on his
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dence is starting to build, I feel like.
And around here, if you hit quality
shots, you get rewarded.”
Certainly, the world wasn’t
paying much attention last month
while Piercy was notching his third
career PGA Tour victory — this one
on the Robert Trent Jones course
near Auburn. Maybe he’ll get his
due this week. No big difference to
him, either way.
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said. “I know it’s hard to imagine,
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do it again in the morning.”
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PHIL IN THE SANDBOX
Phil Mickelson peered out of the
bunker and saw a 20-foot-high wall
made of railroad ties separating him
from the 17th green.
By then, he was used to it. Lefty
spent an awful lot of time playing in
an assortment of Pete Dye’s 1,012
sand traps Thursday.
On 17, Mickelson took a big
swing, banged the lip of the trap
with his wedge on the follow
through and watched the ball sail
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the putting surface.
“I was really worried about
hitting two or three shots and
staying down there,” he said.
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spent most of his blustery round
wiping grit off his face.
How many traps was he in?
“I lost count by probably hole 8
or 9,” he said
For the record, he hit seven of
his 72 shots out of the sand. Given
that, an even-par round didn’t seem
so bad.
“You hit a bad shot, and some
of the bad ones like I did, and you
immediately throw par out of your
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