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POSTED 7:23 p.m. EDT, September 9, 2004



'SKINS SCRAMBLE TO REPLACE PORTIS?



For roughly five minutes on Thursday afternoon, CBS SportsLine.com was reporting that Redskins running back had suffered a serious injury while lifting weights. Now, the site has a full-blown retraction of the story, with all appropriate apologies.



"It was egregious and, frankly, unforgivable, and we apologize to our readers, Portis and to the Redskins for publishing the misinformation," says the mea culpa posting from managing editor Mark Swanson.



But we're picking up indications that the story might not be off the mark, and that there have been talks between the Bears and the Redskins about a possible trade for Bears running back Anthony Thomas.



The Bears, we're told, are trying to get a second-round pick or a receiver (possibly Rod Gardner, who supposedly was shopped to the Fins as part of the Adewale Ogunleye package last month).



Stay tuned on this. We're trying to figure out what's happening here.

POSTED 7:32 p.m. EDT, September 9, 2004



PORTIS NOT HURT



We've just learned from a league source that Redskins running back Clinton Portis is not -- we repeat -- is not injured.



However, we've also learned that Bears G.M. Jerry Angelo learned of the erroneous CBS report that Portis had suffered a serious injury while lifting weights on Thursday, prompting Angelo to upgrade Bears running back Anthony Thomas from "questionable" to "probable" on the injury list -- and to call the Redskins with a specific trade offer involving the A-Train.



Bottom line -- Portis is okay, Angelo is pissed, and Thomas still is, and likely will be, a Bear.

Chris Luva Luva wrote:So to get Thomas we were supposedly going to give up Portis and a 2nd round pick or WR? Is this a healthy Portis or injured Portis? My goodness, this has gone insane. I know its not real but to even post this on a site...well I gues stranger things have happened.