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WHAT’S HAPPENING LOCALLY WEDNESDAY:
MLB: Blue Jays at Red Sox, 1:35 p.m. (NESN; WEEI)

AROUND THE WEB:

♦ Former Florida State football coach Bobby Bowden revealed Tuesday that he was diagnosed with prostrate cancer (and successfully treated) in 2007, but he kept it secret because he was afraid opposing coaches would use it against him in recruiting. “People used to get on me that ‘He’s too old; he’s 77 — ought not even be coaching,’ ” Bowden said. “Now you add cancer to that and I didn’t have a chance.” The 81-year-old Bowden now says it’s “my moral duty to bring it out in the open.”

♦ Former Bills tight end Kevin Everett, who broke his neck in a 2007 game but was able to walk again five months later, has left the spotlight, but his battle continues. In The Buffalo News, Tim Graham writes about the challenges Everett still faces.

♦ College baseball teams using bats produced by Nike have been released from their obligations after complaints about drop-offs in performance.

♦ Complex.com has a compilation of the 20 most memorable moments in “Monday Night Football” history. No. 1 is Lawrence Taylor‘s career-ending hit on Joe Theismann. The only moment involving the Patriots is No. 5, which is Howard Cosell announcing John Lennon’s death during the Pats’ 1980 loss to the Dolphins.

ON THIS DAY TRIVIA: Sept. 14, 2002, which Red Sox pitcher recorded his 20th victory of the season in a 6-4 victory over the Orioles, making him the first pitcher to have 20 saves and then 20 wins in consecutive seasons?

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Former Florida State football coach Bobby Bowden has told the Associated Press that he was “pushed out” after 34 years on the job by now former school president T.K. Wetherell. Bowden left the program last December but does not want the school to “spread the story that I voluntarily, happily resigned.”

Wetherell told the Palm Beach Post that his relationship with Bowden is “strained,” while Bowden is quoted by the AP as saying “I doubt I’ll have a relationship with T.K. anymore.”

Wetherell, once one of Bowden’s players, asked Bowden to stay on as an “ambassador” for the program but he rebuffed the offer.