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Sport / 10 November 2015
Does Hardy really think we’re falling for his spin?
KADEEM SIMMONDS writes about the Dallas Cowboys player who said his former girlfriend ‘fell down’ after pictures were released of her battered and bruised
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Djokovic and Murray split after six months
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ON MY way home on Friday I was checking Twitter for the latest news in sport when I came across the pictures of Nicole Holder.

Holder is the former girlfriend of NFL player Greg Hardy, who left her battered and bruised in 2014 and served a meagre 14 game suspension.

Seeing the pictures only strengthened my opinion that 14 games was not enough for Hardy.

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