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Jobe Watson no longer has a Brownlow Medal to hang around his neck.But - on the bright side - he no longer has a monkey on his back. Or a target on his forehead.Watson was the skipper and stand-out player of the 2012 Essendon team, 34 of whom were hit with one-year doping bans for their roles in the spectacularly ill-conceived supplements program.That he won the Brownlow Medal in that very season - four votes clear of Richmonds Trent Cotchin and Hawthorns Sam Mitchell - only added to the opprobrium heaped on him in some quarters.How could an award for the leagues best and fairest player stay with a man who had served a doping ban?To his credit, Watson did not dodge that tricky question on Friday.It has been incredibly distressing for me to have people question my integrity and infer an intention to act against the spirit of the game - a spirit that is intrinsically a part of who I am, he said.The basic principle behind this prestigious award is to honour the fairest and best.If there is a question in peoples minds as to whether the 2012 award is tainted, the fairest and best thing to do is to give it back and honour the history that has gone before me.Watson and his former and current Essendon teammates remain convinced they did not deserve the one-year suspensions.Watson took it harder than anyone else.He spent much of 2016 in New York - as far away as possible from the suffocating AFL bubble - before finally making the decision in September to resume his playing career in red and black in 2017.Doing so will be much less difficult without constant criticism about why he refused to voluntarily give the medal back.The AFL Commission gave Watson the chance to plead his case to keep it.Wisely, the 31-year-old turned them down.Handing the Brownlow back on his own terms and starting 2017 with a clean slate - or as clean as possible given the murky nature of what has happened at Essendon in the past few years - was the smart play.And it was the right play. Vapormax Pas Cher Destockage . -- Jimmie Johnson held off a teammate, passed a pair of Hall of Famers, and dominated once more at Dover. Vapormax Flyknit 3 Homme . -- In one brief spurt, Brazil turned a close game into a rout and proved again it will be a strong World Cup favourite. http://www.vapormaxpascher.be/air-max-vapormax-2019-pas-cher/femme.html . -- There were a lot of firsts for the Edmonton Oilers on Tuesday night. Vapormax Flyknit 3 Femme . But Bourque, who has missed three games with a lower-body injury, wont be in the lineup when the Habs travel to Buffalo to take on the Sabres on Wednesday. Fausse Vapormax 2019 . This should be celebrated because it will not always be this way. With the amount of money given to players by their clubs these days, it is a wonder that so many of those teams allow the sport to continue to take away many of their assets so they can play for a different team in the middle of their season. NEW YORK -- The Big East and the Atlantic Coast Conference have formed a mens basketball officiating alliance, which also includes the Atlantic 10 and Colonial Athletic Association, which have previously collaborated with the ACC.The alliance, which was announced Tuesday, begins immediately and will enable the four conferences to work together on all officiating matters and will serve to enhance training, development, recruitment, retention and feedback for its basketball oofficials.ddddddddddddJohn Cahill, the Big Easts Supervisor of Officials, and Bryan Kersey, the ACCs Coordinator of Mens Basketball Officiating, both former NCAA referees, will manage officiating operations for the alliance.In 2015-16, 32 referees associated with the Big East and ACC were selected to work in the NCAA Mens Basketball Tournament. ' ' '