sportsillustrated.cnn.com - 6/22/2009
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It's happening to Derrick Brooks . After 11 Pro Bowls, six first-team all-pro nods, one Super Bowl victory and one Defensive Player of the Year award, football is saying to him, "We don't need you anymore.'' He always knew it would happen, and he's prepared himself for a career after football as ...
sportsillustrated.cnn.com - 6/22/2009
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sportsillustrated.cnn.com —
It's happening to Derrick Brooks. After 11 Pro
Bowls, six first-team all-pro nods, one Super Bowl victory...
and one Defensive Player of the Year award, football is saying to him, "We don't need you anymore.''
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Peter King: Brooks stares career mortality in the face
sportsillustrated.cnn.com - 6/22/2009
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sportsillustrated.cnn.com —
Ten Things I Think I Think 1. I
think the most amazing thing I've heard in the...
past month, and I've confirmed it with someone close to Roy Williams , is that the Dallas receiver was never on a consistent weightlifting program in his life before this ...
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Derrick Brooks, Warren Sapp, Vince Young in Monday ...
eatdrinkandsleepfootball.com - 6/22/2009
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eatdrinkandsleepfootball.com —
In his weekly Monday Morning QB column, SI's
Peter King writes that he's "stunned by" the 17...
weeks Derrick Brooks has spent unemployed. The NFL's Defensive Player of the Year in 2002 and 11-time Pro Bowler was cut by Tampa in February. Despite his age and "not being the same ...
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Will Derrick Brooks find a home?
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ProFootballTalk.com —
In addition to the unmistakable message that Roger Goodell delivered when he handed down an indefinite suspension to Cleveland Browns wide receiver Donte’ Stallworth after Stallworth pleaded guilty to DUI manslaughter, the NFL Commissioner reinforced his hard-line stance in a strongly-worded letter sent to every NFL team last week. According to Peter King of SI.com, Goodell made it abundantly clear that he’s going to continue to be tough on NFL employees, regardless of whether they’re players, coaches or front-office executives, that are involved in “alcohol-related ...
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