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January 2009 Archives
8:40 AM Fri, Jan 30, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Bernie Miklasz St. Louis Post-Dispatch TAMPA, Fla. - As Kurt Warner's incredible journey continues, it's obvious that this is a man who has everything: the enrichment of faith, a fantastic marriage, seven children, professional and personal respect, good health......
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2:56 PM Wed, Jan 28, 2009 | Permalink |
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Tampa Bay Buccaneers coach Raheem Morris, speaking to reporters at the site of Super Bowl XLIII, has confirmed the hiring of former Patriots assistant Pete Mangurian as the Bucs' new offensive line coach. "He's a good offensive line coach who......
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10:05 AM Wed, Jan 28, 2009 | Permalink |
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Tony Grossi, who covers the Browns for the Cleveland Plain Dealer and Cleveland.com, says that the Browns blew it by not scooping up Floyd Reese before Bill Belichick and the New England Patriots did. Grossi calls it a "brilliant'' hire......
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9:43 PM Tue, Jan 27, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Shalise Manza Young Email
According to a story tonight from the Boston Globe's Christoper Gasper and Shira Springer, New England quarterback Tom Brady's rehabilitation is on pace, and he has progressed to the point where he is dropping back and throwing passes. According to......
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4:23 PM Tue, Jan 27, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Shalise Manza Young Email
Patriots' new senior football advisor Floyd Reese just wrapped a conference call with media members, and expressed his excitement at getting back into the NFL after two years in front of the cameras on ESPN, particularly with a team that......
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1:37 PM Tue, Jan 27, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Art Martone Email
(New England Patriots press release) The New England Patriots have hired Floyd Reese as senior football advisor. Reese, whose 30-plus years of NFL experience have included a wide range of responsibilities in football operations, will be involved with various football-related......
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9:58 AM Tue, Jan 27, 2009 | Permalink |
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LONDON (AP) -- The first 70,000 tickets for the NFL's third regular-season game in London have been sold, with 20,000 bought in the first seven minutes of availability, the NFL said Tuesday. The New England Patriots will face the Tampa......
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9:21 PM Mon, Jan 26, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Shalise Manza Young Email
Patriots' safety Rodney Harrison has joined NBC's pre-game team for Sunday's Super Bowl XLIII, the network announced today. Harrison has been making the media rounds in recent weeks, though he has not said whether or not he will return to......
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3:05 PM Fri, Jan 23, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Mike McDermott Email
The Boston Globe reports that tight ends coach Pete Mangurian is the latest member of Bill Belichick's 2008 coaching staff who will not return to the team for the 2009 season. The newspaper quotes an unnamed league source. Mangurian has......
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12:40 PM Fri, Jan 23, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Mike McDermott Email
Random notes on an uneventful Friday, more than a week away from the Super Bowl: THEY'RE OLD SCHOOL: According to a Globe survey, fans easily prefer the old Pat Patriot logo to the Flying Elvis unveiled at the start of......
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5:15 PM Thu, Jan 22, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Shalise Manza Young Email
Patriots running back Sammy Morris was selected by his teammates as the recipient of the 2008 Ed Block Courage Award. The honor is voted on by teammates and bestowed annually upon the player who best exemplifies the principles of courage......
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4:59 PM Thu, Jan 22, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Art Martone Email
Patriots coach Bill Belichick, interviewed by Foxsports.com's Alex Marvez last weekend at the Senior Bowl, thinks the upcoming Super Bowl between the Steelers and Cardinals will go to the team "that takes care of the ball and doesn't give up......
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4:40 PM Thu, Jan 22, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Shalise Manza Young Email
Patriots' tight end Benjamin Watson is raffling off his pair of tickets for next Sunday's Super Bowl XLIII in Tampa, Fla. The proceeds will benefit his One More foundation. In a press release Watson said, "I would have liked to......
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12:01 PM Thu, Jan 22, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Mike McDermott Email
THEY DON'T WANT THE DRAMA: Cardinals coach Ken Whisenhunt and Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger are both going out of their way to downplay reports of a feud between them that date back to Whisenhunt's days in Pittsburgh. Both of them......
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11:29 AM Thu, Jan 22, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Shalise Manza Young Email
The Patriots today released a new logo in honor of their 50th season, which they will celebrate in 2009. The logo includes both of the team's historic logos: "Pat Patriot," which they used from their inception in 1960 through the......
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10:50 AM Thu, Jan 22, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Mike McDermott Email
Bill O'Brien, the man reportedly tapped by the Patriots to be quarterbacks coach and to assume some of the duties of offensive coordinator, was a linebacker and defensive end at Brown University from 1990 to 1992. After graduating, he began......
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8:40 AM Thu, Jan 22, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Mike McDermott Email
The Boston Globe is reporting today that, according to two unnamed sources, the Patriots will promote former wide receivers coach Bill O'Brien to quarterbacks coach; O'Brien will also inherit some of the offensive coordinator's responsibilities. Josh McDaniels, who was quarterbacks......
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6:44 PM Wed, Jan 21, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Art Martone Email
Those who tuned into Canadian radio tonight hoping to hear Tom Brady reassure Patriots Nation that he'll be ready for the start of next season were disappointed. Because he wasn't asked the question. Other than a generic "How's the rehab......
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3:54 PM Wed, Jan 21, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Mike McDermott Email
Patriots quarterback Tom Brady will give an interview with a Toronto radio station today at 5:30, what the station says will be Brady's first detailed comments since he suffered a season-ending knee injury in September. Here's the link to the......
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10:27 AM Wed, Jan 21, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Larry DiTore Bloomberg The New England Patriots, who failed to make the National Football League playoffs this season, are favored to win the Super Bowl next year by Las Vegas oddsmakers. The Patriots, with former Most Valuable Player Tom......
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10:26 AM Wed, Jan 21, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Mike McDermott Email
Anquan Boldin is a tough and productive player, not a person who likes to call attention to himself, a very popular teammate and the director of a foundation that has helped countless underprivileged children. And yet here he is, about......
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12:03 PM Tue, Jan 20, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Mike McDermott Email
NEEDED: AN ENFORCER: Many of us suspected all season that there was plenty of chaos in the locker room of the Dallas Cowboys, so it is kind of an eye-opener to read in the Dallas Morning News that, according to......
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11:42 AM Mon, Jan 19, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Mike McDermott Email
EXPERIENCE COUNTS: When the Arizona Cardinals face the Pittsburgh Steelers in Super Bowl XLIII, it will be the first Super Bowl appearance in the history of the Arizona franchise, and the seventh in the history of the Steelers. The game......
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7:30 AM Mon, Jan 19, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Mike McDermott Email
Dom Capers, the veteran coach who spent last season as special assistant under Bill Belichick in New England, has accepted an offer to become defensive coordinator of the Green Bay Packers, according to a report in the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel. Capers,......
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1:00 PM Fri, Jan 16, 2009 | Permalink |
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COULD BE A FIRST: If the Eagles and the Steelers do face off in the Super Bowl, much of the attention will be on the fact that the two teams are from the same state, which would create just the......
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12:01 PM Thu, Jan 15, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Mike McDermott Email
It's all a bit premature, since the Eagles and the Steelers are still one win away from making the Super Bowl, but Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell (a former Philadelphia mayor and outspoken Eagles fan) says he's sensitive to security concerns......
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9:23 AM Thu, Jan 15, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Mike McDermott Email
By Randy Covitz Kansas City Star KANSAS CITY, Mo.- - New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft made it perfectly clear. He did not want to lose Scott Pioli. But with coach Bill Belichick being all things football in New England,......
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12:12 PM Wed, Jan 14, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Mike McDermott Email
Now that Scott Pioli has landed in Kansas City, might the Chiefs be a landing spot for Matt Cassel, either as a free-agent signee or by a trade? Possibly. The Chiefs have the high draft picks to get a deal......
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11:42 AM Wed, Jan 14, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Mike McDermott Email
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) - Several months after he was charged with raping a South Carolina woman, former NFL running back David Meggett was in jail Wednesday on allegations of another sexual assault. Meggett, 42, was arrested and charged with raping......
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6:40 PM Tue, Jan 13, 2009 | Permalink |
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"To sum up in words everything Scott Pioli has meant to this organization and to me personally would be difficult, if not impossible. From the day I met him, he has demonstrated a passion for football and respect for the......
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6:00 PM Tue, Jan 13, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Art Martone Email
"Scott Pioli was an integral part of the many championships the New England Patriots have celebrated this decade and I would like to thank him for his countless contributions throughout the past nine seasons. Scott is a great evaluator of......
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3:36 PM Tue, Jan 13, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Mike McDermott Email
ESPN's Michael Smith is reporting that New England Patriots vice president of player personnel Scott Pioli has agreed to lead football operations for the Kansas City Chiefs, ending a successful nine-year tenure in New England. An unnamed team source told......
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2:54 PM Tue, Jan 13, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Jim Donaldson Email
If Scott Pioli were to leave the Patriots for Kansas City, a leading candidate to replace him would appear to be Nick Caserio, the Pats' director of player personnel and a teammate of new Denver Broncos head coach --......
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12:03 PM Tue, Jan 13, 2009 | Permalink |
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I have no doubt that Tony Dungy is a great man, and his wins and losses record (in the regular season, anyway) speaks for itself. If you didn't know by now, Dungy was the first black coach to win a......
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6:39 PM Mon, Jan 12, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Art Martone Email
"People often say that teams reflect their head coach and that can be said of Tony Dungy's teams, which are consistent winners every single year. Tony has been such a fixture in this league that his absence will take some......
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4:36 PM Mon, Jan 12, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Art Martone Email
Apparently, Bill Belichick will have no Mangini-like feud with Josh McDaniels now that McDaniels is coach of the Denver Broncos. The Patriots released the following statement in Belichick's name: "Josh McDaniels is one of the finest people and brightest, most......
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12:02 PM Mon, Jan 12, 2009 | Permalink |
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There were a lot of interesting stories from this past weekend's NFL playoff games, but the most remarkable one involved a person who was nowhere to be seen on your TV screen. It's the story of how one man's stupidity......
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12:00 PM Mon, Jan 12, 2009 | Permalink |
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Read the story here.......
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11:23 AM Mon, Jan 12, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Mike McDermott Email
Tony Dungy, the head coach of the Indianapolis Colts during many recent showdown games with the Patriots, will step down at a news conference this afternoon, according to Fox Sports' Jay Glazer, who is citing anonymous team sources. Glazer writes......
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7:37 AM Mon, Jan 12, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Mike McDermott Email
By David Ramsey The Gazette, Colorado Springs, Colo. Within 15 minutes of the first reports of the Denver Broncos hiring Josh McDaniels as football coach, an e-mail arrived from one of The Gazette's faithful readers. "I have socks older than......
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9:40 PM Sun, Jan 11, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Art Martone Email
ESPN reported Sunday night that Patriots offensive coordinator Josh McDaniels has reached an agreement to replace Mike Shanahan as head coach of the Denver Broncos. McDaniels interviewed with the Broncos last week and reportedly was Denver owner Pat Bowlen's first......
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2:46 PM Fri, Jan 09, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Mike McDermott Email
Wes Welker made second team at wide receiver in the AP poll, while place kicker Gostkowski became one of 15 players to make the first-team All-Pro team for the first time. Here's the full list: First Team QB -- Peyton......
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12:01 PM Fri, Jan 09, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Mike McDermott Email
THEY'VE SEEN HIM BEFORE: Members of the University of Rhode Island football team will be watching a familiar face when they see rookie quarterback Joe Flacco lead his Baltimore Ravens into a divisional playoff game Saturday in Tennessee. As quarterback......
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12:00 PM Thu, Jan 08, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Mike McDermott Email
JOB OFFER? With Eric Mangini now the man in charge of the Browns, you would think that Scott Pioli is no longer considering Cleveland as his future home. Browns team sources told the Cleveland Plain Dealer last night that Pioli......
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10:44 AM Thu, Jan 08, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Mike McDermott Email
BEREA, Ohio (AP) - Eric Mangini is starting over where he started out. Mangini, who began his NFL career as a ballboy for the Browns, was introduced as Cleveland's 12th full-time coach on Thursday, less than two weeks after he......
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10:18 AM Thu, Jan 08, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Mike McDermott Email
By Judy Battista The New York Times Eric Mangini, fired by the New York Jets 10 days ago after a disastrous end to the season kept them from the playoffs, was not unemployed for long. The Cleveland Browns announced Wednesday......
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12:00 PM Wed, Jan 07, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Mike McDermott Email
It's been a real shame for Boston College that on a week in which the Eagles basketball team upset the number-one ranked North Carolina Tar Heels in Chapel Hill, the biggest news story to come out of The Heights has......
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10:40 AM Wed, Jan 07, 2009 | Permalink |
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Tom Curran, writing on NBCSports.com, quotes "a source who will be directly involved in the call" as saying that the Patriots have not made a decision to use the franchise-player tag on free-agent-to-be quarterback Matt Cassel, as had been reported......
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2:40 PM Tue, Jan 06, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Mike McDermott Email
DEDHAM, Mass. (AP) - A former NFL lineman and high school football coach in Walpole will be released on bail as he awaits trial on charges he raped a 15-year-old girl. Daniel Villa posted $7,500 bail and was being fitted......
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11:20 AM Tue, Jan 06, 2009 | Permalink |
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One of them they probably would have kept, if they could only afford to do so. The other one -- well, most of you probably didn't even notice when he was gone. But both of them -- former Patriot cornerback......
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11:01 AM Tue, Jan 06, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Mike McDermott Email
By Erik Matuszewski Bloomberg Baltimore Ravens defensive coordinator Rex Ryan is the favorite to get the New York Jets' coaching job, followed by Steve Spagnuolo of the New York Giants, according to the Internet gambling Web site BetUS.com. Ryan was......
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11:59 AM Mon, Jan 05, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Mike McDermott Email
SEEDING CRAZINESS: You knew there was something wacky about these NFL playoffs when all four of the road teams were favored to win in Wildcard Weekend (it turned out that only two of them did). But the strangeness won't stop......
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9:06 PM Sun, Jan 04, 2009 | Permalink |
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Get all the details here.......
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12:02 PM Fri, Jan 02, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Mike McDermott Email
Due to computer problems, I'm unable to file a full version of Football Today -- but I'll be back on Monday. Until then, here are my predictions for the first week of the playoffs, with home teams listed in caps.......
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6:11 PM Thu, Jan 01, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Art Martone Email
ESPN.com's Tim Graham reports that Michael Lombardi, a former NFL executive who worked with Bill Belichick in Cleveland and who now appears on Showtime's Inside The NFL, said on the most recent episode that he has learned the Patriots will......
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