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"&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt; Seahawks cornerback Richard Sherman will have his appeal heard on Friday. (Otto Greule Jr/Getty Images)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The appeal for Seattle Seahawks cornerback Richard Sherman's four-game suspension for using performance-enhancing drugs will be held Friday, reports ESPN.com.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Sherman is appealing a positive test for a banned substance that violated the league's policy on performance-enhancing drugs and resulted in the four-game suspension, which he appealed allowing him to continue to play.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Sherman has maintained that he did nothing wrong saying that he\u00A0drank from a bottle a teammate had that contained a crushed Adderall pill. Sherman has 56 tackles, six interceptions and three forced fumbles this season.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;\"It's gonna get solved and I think at the end of the day it'll get worked out fine,\" Sherman said last week to Yahoo! Sports.\u00A0&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The Seahawks (9-5) play the San Francisco 49ers (10-3-1) on Sunday night in a big NFC West showdown.&lt;/p&gt;"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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