sportsillustrated.cnn.com - 16 days ago
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4. Brett Favre's alive. Daughter Breleigh was fit to be tied when Favre told her in late July he was staying retired, and, truth be told, Favre was in full waffling mode for much of August until Minnesota coach Brad Childress called and said it's now or never. Favre unretired for the second ...
blog.blitznation.com - 16 days ago
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blog.blitznation.com —
The GM position for the Cleveland Browns has
been vacant for about a week now. It is...
reported that Randy Lerner has a short list of potential replacements with Ex-Head Coach of the Green Bay Packers / Seattle Seahawks Mike Holmgren topping the list. (more…)
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Browns’ Lerner looking to Holmgren to manage
sportsillustrated.cnn.com - 16 days ago
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sportsillustrated.cnn.com —
Ten Things I Think I Think 1. I
think these are my quick-hit thoughts of Week 9:...
a. MLB Network/NBC stat maven Elliott Kalb on the Kansas City Chiefs: "They're so unwatchable they render the opponent unwatchable.'' b. I haven't met Aqib Talib . I ...
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Patriots-Colts hype begins; 15 best NFL unrestricted ...
profootballweekly.com - 16 days ago
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profootballweekly.com —
If there's one thing that we can be
absolutely certain of regarding the Browns' current mess both...
on and off the field, it's that beleaguered head coach Eric Mangini was indeed "hunkered down" behind closed doors this week during the Browns' bye in ...
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Mangini unlikely to survive Browns' disarray
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Austin shows he's no T.O.
ProFootballTalk.com —
... the merits of his play, not his contract, but after a game Sunday in which Cowboys quarterback Tony Romo often looked to other receivers, Austin said he wasn't angry about not getting more balls thrown his way. "Well, there's times when I think I'm open, and I wish I'd get the ball,'' Austin told Peter King of SI.com. "But I'm not Tony. And I have no idea what he's going through back there. Usually he's got some 300-pound guy back there chasing him, trying to rip his head off. So no, I don't get too upset by that . Right now, we've got a good thing going. Guys are making plays ...
A TALE OF TWO HALVES
Mondesi's House —
... 15. Peter King ranked the top 15 unrestricted free agents-to-be, and I almost fell out of my chair when I saw that Brian St. Pierre, who's been cut so many times it's a wonder he hasn't bled to death (to use that wonderful cliche), came in at #12. The comment? "Someone might see him as 2010's Matt Cassel and go buy him for a fifth of the cost." Is that supposed to be a compliment to compare him to the QB of a 1-7 team? ...
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