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Thursday, July 24, 2008
Bears general manager Jerry Angelo (above) called wide receiver/return man Devin Hester’s decision to hold out ‘‘unexpected.’’
(AP)
Hester runs from Bears ... And who can blame him? Jay Mariotti: He didn’t posture and break off talks, as Tommie Harris did. He didn’t hiss and moan like a child and threaten to blow off training camp, as Brian Urlacher did. Even on the spring day when Robbie Gould — a terrific kicker but, still, a kicker — cashed in for a cool $15.5 million, Devin Hester didn’t whine publicly about the farcical injustice that his own contract had become.


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