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Friday, August 8, 2008
Andrews Returning to Eagles

   Shawn Andrews, who has said he is absent from Eagles training camp because of clinical depression, has gotten the OK from his therapist in Little Rock, Ark., to join the team, a source close to the situation said Friday. The Eagles play in Pittsburgh Friday night and are off Saturday, so Andrews' first workout with his teammates could be Sunday at Lehigh.

    Andrews, 25, told the Daily News on Monday that he has been taking medication for depression and has started to feel better. He pegged his return to a Thursday visit with the doctor who has been treating him, and Friday, a source close to Andrews said that visit went well.

   Meanwhile, there is still no announcement of the Brian Westbrook contract reworking that is believed to be close to completion. Provisions in the collective bargaining agreement limiting what the Eagles can do for Westbrook have presented formidable hurdles. Reports Friday afternoon that the NFL refused to approve some of the language in the revamped deal --- presumably, language dealing with the attempts to surmount those hurdles -- could not be verified at the time of this posting.  

Posted by Les Bowen @ 3:14 PM  Permalink | 10 comments
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Posted by mondonj 04:00 PM, 08/08/2008
Wow big deal now that the 90 degree heat and camp is getting rdy to break soon. Fat boy your depression got over quick. Eagles Stink!
Posted by doorspj24 04:12 PM, 08/08/2008
mondonj = loser
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Posted by HappyPete 04:21 PM, 08/08/2008
Eagles website says the Westbrook deal is done. Glad to have Andrews back
Posted by Dvs Mind 04:30 PM, 08/08/2008
PORK CHOPS AND APPLE SAUCE!
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Posted by KGKoons 05:54 PM, 08/08/2008
Max is ready but I am glad to see Shawn better and he can sit and train, until he gets back in real playing shape. As to Westy and his deal: fine and if he doesn't get injured he will be worth all of that to the team and city.
Posted by MrFunny 07:15 PM, 08/08/2008
Guys there are a hundred less humiliating injuries that he could invent if he wanted to miss camp. I actually think the guy was really courageous to come forward the way that he did. How many of these big macho types would admit to such a thing? Depression is a motherF@#$er! I wish him well and I am glad he is back.
Posted by chollie 11:47 PM, 08/08/2008
Well said MrFunny!
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Les BowenLes Bowen has covered the Eagles for the Daily News since 2002. Before that, he spent nearly 13 years covering the Flyers. It took Les only a few seasons after the switch to figure out that there was no penalty box at the Linc, and that the time really wasn't his, despite what Andy Reid kept saying. Les came to Philadelphia and the Daily News from Charlotte in 1983. In the intervening years, he has pretty much lost track of NASCAR, and his accent. He, his wife Barbara, and their two sons live in Haddon Township, New Jersey.

Paul DomowitchPaul Domowitch has been with the Daily News since 1982. He has spent most of his 27 years at the paper covering the Eagles and pro football. For the last 10 years, he’s been a selector for the Pro Football Hall of Fame. A native of Wilkes-Barre and a graduate of Wilkes University, Domo came to the Daily News from the Fort Worth (Tx.) Star-Telegram, where he covered some god-awful Texas Ranger baseball teams. His first beat at the Daily News actually wa s boxing, which he covered just long enough to lose two sports coats to blood spatter before moving on to football. Domo and his wife Shelley, a University of Oklahoma grad and very dangerous to be around following a Sooner loss, have been married 29 years and have raised 2 terrific daughters – Allison, 26, a lawyer and graduate of Boston University School of Law; and Amy, 23, who graduated from Clemson and works in marketing and sales for a professional baseball team.

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