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Eagles Will Sign Olympic Skier Bloom to a Four-Year Contract
Wednesday, July 12, 2006; Page E02
Two-time Olympic skier and Eagles' fifth-round draft pick Jeremy Bloom agreed to terms on a four-year contract with Philadelphia, his agent said yesterday.
"He's going to sign the deal within the next 24 hours," Gary Wichard said.
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A speedy but undersize player -- he is listed at 5 feet 9 and 172 pounds -- Bloom was a budding star in college with Colorado before his football career was put on hold.
In the fall of 2004, the NCAA ruled that because he accepted endorsements to keep his equally successful career as a skier on track, Bloom couldn't be eligible for the football team.
· SOCCER: Juergen Klinsmann , who led host Germany to a third-place finish at the World Cup last week, is stepping down, the co-president of the German soccer federation said early today. . . .
The local World Cup coordinator for Berlin, 65-year-old Juergen Kiessling , shot himself in the head hours after Sunday's final in an apparent suicide attempt, a police spokeswoman confirmed. . . .
Real Madrid is in talks about signing Fabio Cannavaro , Italy's World Cup-winning captain whose Juventus club may be demoted in a match-fixing trial.
· PRO FOOTBALL: Police released surveillance videos from the weekend stabbing of Baltimore Ravens linebacker Roderick Green , and asked the public to call with any information.
· HOCKEY: Peter Forsberg doesn't need surgery on his left ankle and could be ready for the start of the NHL season, more than four months earlier than the Philadelphia Flyers expected him back.
· TRACK AND FIELD: A U.S. 1,600-meter relay team was denied a world indoor record because the runners weren't tested for the banned substance EPO.
-- From News Services
