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Ben Roethlisberger, Michael Vick and other athletes were used by a cocaine ring that used sports codes as a reference in an attempt to deceive authorities. Twenty-nine-year-old Julius Robinson, of McKees Rocks, allegedly ran the ring and was arrested Monday.

Cocaine Ring Used Sports Codes: Ben Roethlisberger and Michael Vick Used

State Attorney General Tom Corbett says his office broke up a $2.2 million dollar Pittsburgh-area cocaine ring whose customers used references to prominent football players. Both Ben Roethlisberger and Michael Vick waer jersey number 7.


More sports notes...Bridget Jones star Hugh Grant has said that his love of golf is stopping him from getting a girlfriend. Grant, 49, has previously dated beauties included Elizabeth Hurley and Elle Macpherson and said he even gets up in the middle of the night to practise the sport.

He said: "When you say to a girl 'I play golf' her eyes glaze over. I do feel guilty about my golf. "You know you're a sad case when you spend your spare time reading books on putting or going on YouTube to watch slow motion golf swings." He added: "I'll get out of bed in the middle of the night and practise my swing in front of a mirror. I'm obsessed and it's destroying my life. Golf is an addiction."