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-The Packers have threatened to fine players for using it during team meetings or coaching sessions. Dolphins coach Tony Sparano has effectively outlawed it. You don't notice too many Patriots using it, do you? It's Twitter, and Judy Battista of The New York Times writes that NFL coaches are increasingly viewing it as a prime enemy in their perennial campaign against the free flow of information.

-Mike Reiss of the Boston Globe has an interesting feature on the beginning days of the Boston Patriots, back when "a seven-game pack of Patriots season tickets cost $35, and the combined salary of the team, all 35 players, was $330,000."

-Greg Bishop writes in the Times that neither rookie Mark Sanchez nor veteran Kellen Clemens is standing out early on in Jets camp as an inspired choice for the opening-day starter job. The main difference between them, Bishop writes, is Clemens' propensity for throwing interceptions.

-Plaxico Burress has become a convenient high-profile villain for New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who is running for re-election, writes Times city reporter Clyde Haberman.

-The Philadelphia Eagles have signed first-round draft pick Jeremy Maclin to a five-year, $15.5-million contract with $9.5 million guaranteed, the Philadelphia Daily News reports. The wide receiver from Missouri had missed the first eight days of training camp.

-The 49ers still have not signed their first-round wide receiver selection, Michael Crabtree, which means it falls for now to second-year man Josh Morgan to aspire to become the team's first legitimate number-one receiver since Terrell Owens left town, the AP reports.

-Randall McDaniel, the former left guard who is a member of the incoming Hall of Fame class, is a full-time basic skills instructor for second graders at a Minneapolis public school, the AP reports.

-Orlando Pace, a left tackle who might some day join McDaniel in Canton, says he feels rejuvenated now that he has left the Rams for the Chicago Bears, the AP reports.

-The Tampa Bay Buccaneers long ago shed their reputation as the NFL's most pathetic franchise, and now they're even going to establish a "ring of honor" at Raymond James Stadium. The first player enshrined will be Lee Roy Selmon, who is the only Tampa Bay alumnus in the Football Hall of Fame and the only one to have had his number retired, the St. Petersburg Times reports.

-And finally, in case you missed this over the weekend: Titans running back LenDale White told reporters that cutting tequila out of his life helped him drop 37 pounds in the offseason, the USA Today reports.

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