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CLEVELAND – Browns linebacker Willie McGinest says the 2008 season will be his last.

McGinest told SI.com for a story Thursday that he wants to finish his career on one last playoff run.

“This will be it,” he said. “This will be my 15th season. I’ve worked hard; I think I’ve done everything I set out to accomplish.”

McGinest, who played 12 seasons and won three Super Bowls with the New England Patriots, signed a three-year, $12 million contract with the Browns in 2006, reuniting him with his former defensive coordinator, Romeo Crennel.

In two seasons with Cleveland, McGinest hasn’t been the pass-rushing threat that he was with the Patriots. He has seven sacks and 107 tackles in 27 games for the Browns.

He had 78 sacks with New England, set the record for most postseason sacks with 16 and the single-game playoff record with 4.5 in a 2006 wild-card win over Jacksonville.

“I have no regrets or no qualms about my career,” McGinest said. “I’ve done everything a football player can do and I’ve done it more than once.”

Federal judge orders Vick to pay bank $2.4M

RICHMOND, Va. – A federal judge ordered imprisoned quarterback Michael Vick to repay more than $2.4 million to a Canadian bank for defaulting on a loan.

The Royal Bank of Canada sued Vick in September, arguing his guilty plea to a federal dogfighting charge – and the resulting impact on his career – prevented him from repaying the loan.

According to the suit filed in U.S. District Court in Newport News, the loan’s terms specify that any employment change negatively impacting Vick’s income constitutes a default on the loan.

Vick is serving a 23-month prison sentence at the U.S. penitentiary in Leavenworth, Kan., after pleading guilty last year to bankrolling a dogfighting ring. He was subsequently suspended indefinitely without pay and lost all his major sponsors, including Nike.

He also faces state charges related to dogfighting.

“The criminal charges, and resulting impact on the defendant’s employment … materially affect his ability to repay the term note,” the bank said in the lawsuit.

The order Wednesday from U.S. Magistrate F. Bradford Stillman requires Vick to pay $2.4 million, plus $499 in interest per day, starting Sept. 19, 2007, and the bank’s attorneys’ fees and costs of $11,950 plus interest.

Vick’s attorneys did not immediately return phone messages seeking comment.

After the plea, the Atlanta Falcons also tried to recover about $20 million in bonuses Vick earned from 2004 to 2007. But a federal judge held that Vick is entitled to keep all but $3.75 million of the money paid to him for playing football through the 2014 season.

A default judgment for $1.08 million also was entered in January against Vick and a business partner in a lawsuit brought by Wachovia Bank over a loan for an Atlanta-area wine shop and restaurant.

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