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Bo Jackson knows forgiveness: Ex-two-sport star drops $21-million extortion judgment against family

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At age 62, Bo knows forgiveness. Or at least compromise.

Legendary dual-sport phenom Bo Jackson has abandoned a $21-million judgment awarded to him last year in an extortion and harassment case involving his niece and nephew.

Jackson, whose prodigious feats as a Los Angeles Raiders running back and a Major League outfielder in the late 1980s and early ‘90s put him in the conversation as the best athlete, alleged that Thomas Lee Anderson and Erica M. Anderson harassed and tried to extort $20 million from him. A Cobb County, Ga.