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    *The New York Post’s Page Six is reporting that the wife of New York Giants running back Tiki Barber is behind the athlete’s decision to retire at the end of the season.   A longtime friend of Barber says Ginny Barber made him afraid he'd suffer a catastrophic injury that would render him a lousy dad. The 205-pound, 31-year-old NFL star is retiring because wifey has been "nagging him for a long time - and with others present - that he'd better retire before he has a crippling injury," Barber's friend tells Page Six. If that happened, Ginny told him, "he couldn't participate in raising his children."

      *AT&T is turning the spotlight on Deion Sanders in the latest edition of its AT&T Home Turf streaming webisodes series. Sanders will play dual roles as host and guest in the interactive series that gives fans up-close and personal access to the impressive digs, quirky interests, and high-tech lifestyles of some of the biggest draws in professional sports, along with candid bonus interviews and trivia tidbits. Click here to watch:  http://attblueroom.com/sports

      *Negro League baseball legend Silas Simmons, said to be the oldest living professional baseball player, died on Sunday, two weeks after his 111th birthday. The former left-handed pitcher and outfielder died in a retirement nursing home, Zion Hill Mortuary said Wednesday. Simmons played for several teams from 1912-29, including the New York Lincoln Giants of the Eastern Colored League, the Cuban Stars and the Blue Ribbons of Germantown, who later became the Homestead Grays. He was born in Middleton, Del., in 1895, the same year as Babe Ruth, and honored by the Center for Negro League Baseball Research on his birthday Oct. 14.     

      *Dennis Rodman seems to be on another downward spiral. The former NBA star was spotted talking crazy to the paparazzi outside of the Ivy restaurant in Beverly Hills Wednesday. En route to a car driven by his buxom date, Rodman told photographers: "All the girls I've loved before, I'll f*** 'em all. Every b**ch that's f***ed me, like this one [he points to his date], I'm gonna give it f***'n hell brotha." TMZ has the video footage: http://us.video.aol.com/video.index.adp?mode=1&pmmsid=1757405