(Troy @ Aug. 18 2010,18:54)

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I was kind of happy to see that Jake did well on his first drive with the the Browns. Even if it was the preaseason, and didn't mean anything, now that he is off my team I wish nothing but the best for him and whatever team he plays on.

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The turnover-plagued Delhomme wound up throwing two interceptions in Cleveland's 17-14 loss at Tampa Bay, a game the Browns once seemed comfortably in command of, at 14-3. Not a good development for Mike Holmgren's rebuilding program in Cleveland. If the Browns can't defeat the Bucs, who can they be expected to handle? And if Delhomme keeps throwing two picks a game, my prediction of Seneca Wallace as the team's starting QB by October has a great shot of coming true.

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The Jimmy Clausen(notes) era is under way in Carolina, ahead of schedule.

Panthers coach John Fox said Monday he’s benching the struggling Matt Moore(notes) and will start the rookie from Notre Dame on Sunday against Cincinnati.

Moore has had two miserable weeks. He threw three end zone interceptions and lost a fumble before leaving with a concussion in a Week 1 loss to the New York Giants. After being cleared to return Sunday, Moore threw an interception and lost another fumble before getting yanked early in the fourth quarter in a 20-7 loss to Tampa Bay.

Moore has led Carolina on only two touchdown drivers, completed just 41 percent of his passes and has a passer rating of 41.8.

Clausen is 7 of 15 for 59 yards and one interception in two brief stints.

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"I'm not going to be as sympathetic to the woman as a lot of people are," Ditka said. "It's two years after the fact. Cut it out, you know? If you had a problem, you could have said it back then."
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Le Batard: "But it is sexual harassment, Mike."

"I don't know about that," Ditka said. "If it's sexual harassment, if it's not reported until two years after the fact. I really don't, I'll be honest with you."

(Malcolm @ Oct. 18 2010,12:30)

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God, I hope so.  He's got Favre, Moss, Harvin, Shiancoe, & A.P. and the fucker can still barely generate offense.

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Vikes are probably going to demand their own, now.

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I was knocked out as soon as Aaron Rogers went down.

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Favre learned time exists.

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Detroit looks like a threat next year. No seriously.

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The NFL is on the precipice of a major PR blunder.

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If they can stop self-destructing in 75% of the games they play, maybe.  They're also in one of the two shittiest divisions in the NFL.

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Which one?  There's more than a couple to choose from.

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the Titans are one good quarterback away from being a contender

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I was 2/4 last weekend, but the teams I cheered for were 4/4.

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Well something happened at halftime to fire them up, and the teams switched roles in the second half. Great game.

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Meanwhile, what the hell happened in Atlanta? When's the last time a #1 seed was routed at home?

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The Bengals have made no significant changes coming off a 4-12 season. Coach Marvin Lewis returned even though Brown said the front office didn't need to change. The Bengals have only two winning records in the last 20 years.

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Hundreds of Buckeye players and ex-players were potentially involved. There were thousands and thousands of items, jerseys, cleats and so on available to be profited off. There was a player’s parking lot full of cars mostly bought from just two used car lots. There were question upon question over behavior that shouldn’t pass anyone’s smell test waiting to be answered.

Yet Smith said the Buckeyes had checked it all out in 11 days flat.

No other NCAA violations …

Sitting next to Smith was coach Jim Tressel, who in fact had committed other NCAA violations all by himself. Eight months prior he’d been made aware of the memorabilia sales but stayed quiet and covered it up. He then knowingly played ineligible players for the entire 2010 season and then let his athletic director lie for him that December night.

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Earlier this week, former Buckeye basketball player Mark Titus wrote on his blog that he’d long been curious of how football players kept driving cars beyond the means of most students, let alone scholarship athletes. “I’ll be shocked if the NCAA doesn’t find anything when they look into this car scandal,” he wrote.

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So far, I'm just stunned that nothing more has happened.

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And I still can't believe the players weren't banned from the post season game.

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I always wondered the same thing about UNC basketball players, quite frankly.  Brand new SUVs, driving around campus, "on loan" from dealerships, or some such.

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that he was going to get them in trouble when he was hired because crooked things were going on at Youngstown.

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I'll be surprised if Tressel is still there, and there isn't some larger institutional punishment.  It's one thing to have the head coach not know (these teams are huge, kids are going to do dumb things).  But to know about it, and do nothing.  

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As for Newton, the only thing they could prove is that the dad shopped him around, and that he didn't go to the place from which his dad demanded money.  To me, the kid is innocent.  Banning his dad from football contact (or whatever they did), is just dumb though.  

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Honestly, I'm fine with them getting more stipends, resources, or whatever it takes through college.

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Do you have links for that? I've never heard that Cam sent texts like that.

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Report: Tressel resigns

The Columbus Dispatch says Ohio State football coach Jim Tressel has resigned from his job amid growing scrutiny.

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I am guessing a little worse then whatever usc got.

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One of Tressel's duties then was to organize and run the Buckeyes' summer camp. Most of the young players who attended it would never play college football, but a few were top prospects whom Ohio State was recruiting. At the end of camp, attendees bought tickets to a raffle with prizes such as cleats and a jersey. According to his fellow assistant, Tressel rigged the raffle so that the elite prospects won -- a potential violation of NCAA rules. Says the former colleague, who asked not to be identified because he still has ties to the Ohio State community, "In the morning he would read the Bible with another coach. Then, in the afternoon, he would go out and cheat kids who had probably saved up money from mowing lawns to buy those raffle tickets. That's Jim Tressel."

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I don't think you can say "bye bye commentating," cuz let's face it - you have to say something "racist" to be banned from that.

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Marv Albert got his job back.  So did Pat O'Brien.

Jimmy the Greek should've held back for another two decades and I bet he would've been in the clear.  You can do a lot of despicable shit and still get a commentating job.

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How much longer does the A.D. hold on to his job. He has to be on his way out. Maybe he stays around till the punishment is handed down and then he is fired.

Plus if this is going to spill over into the basketball team the president might be in some trouble also.

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The A.D. is gone at this point. He is just as guilty as tressel. On top of that he lead a phony investigation and the cover.

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Smith is either a liar or a total fucking idiot.

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As far as the investigation, how can every blogger and newspapers in Columbus and the surrounding area be aware of all the cars and tattoos and yet the osu internal investigation turns up nothing? One investigation turns up 8 years of illegal benefits and the A.D.s investigation discovers that this was just an isolated incident involving just 5 players(even though several others had already been caught in previous years breaking rules) and they found nothing else besides what had been reported by others. I will let the ncaa and school decide which it is but he either headed up a bogus investigation that wouldn't find any more problems or he is an idiot. Either way he should lose his job.

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Did smith engage in a very intense and hard hitting investigation and was just real unlucky and had players/people stonewalling him at every turn because of their loyalty to the school and team? So despite his best efforts and total desire to clean everything up the rest of the system was just too corrupt for one man to get anything done?

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IF he was getting stonewalled, and let's be honest, it wouldn't be that hard to get stonewalled here, then he might get to save his job.

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They really wouldn't have suspicion to look further or possibly even access if the main guy was in jail?

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Anyway, my point is that we don't know all the facts. To speculate that he intentionally covered things up or is a complete moron is just that: speculation.

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But why would players/friends/family/fans not talk to the A.D. but then just run their mouth and open up about everything to some stranger who shows up in town writing an article about the school? So the stonewalling doesn't seem all that believable.

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Except for the players who had already been busted or accursed of cheating previous to this during Tressel's career.

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Yes were are just guess at what will happen and what was done right now and your argument that he is clean might prove to be correct but if I am laying money down I am going all in on the lying/cover up/idiot bet.

What is the bigger reach? That he under reported, lied, covered up info or that he really tried hard to clean everything up and he was just real unlucky and despite his best efforts he couldn't dig up any other info even thought several others could.

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but you obviously see no guilt throughout tressels run so there isn't much to discuss anymore.

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I don't see much difference between that usc and osu are accused of doing.

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Some wishful thinking sure. I would love to see Texas get nailed and Alambama, Florida, and Oregone because they aren't all on the up an up

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but where there's smoke...

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North Carolina has identified eight football players who accumulated 317 parking tickets that were uncovered in documents requested by media outlets covering the ongoing NCAA probe.

The school released a chart Friday that links those players’ names to their license plate numbers on vehicles that included a Land Rover, BMW and an Acura.

A week ago, the school released records that showed some players combined for 395 citations totaling more than $13,000 between March 2007 and August 2010.

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Also, I will take number 4, since pi is not an option. #iwantanimaginarynumber, #Brettwontmindright

Yep, Favre’s old number. Sounds good to me. No better way to put an end to that chapter in Vikings lore than to have a punter assume the iconic #4 jersey.

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The fact that Tressel knew about what was going on means: more than a slap on the wrist to me.

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That being said, it shouldn't be a huge penalty either, given that, ultimately, it looks like little more than the stuff for tattoos was going on.

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IMHO, Tressel's resignation should help.

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Plus what is the SEC doing if they were still able to steal recruits from Miami with all of this going on?

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In Thursday's announcement, Thorp said UNC officials have been looking at “possible irregularities with courses that included undergraduate students" in Nyang’oro’s department.

Nyang'oro's students included one of McAdoo's teammates, Marvin Austin. According to a transcript published by The News & Observer. Austin earned a B+ in the 400-level class in African-American studies as a freshman, despite SAT scores that indicated he was a poor reader. Nyang'oro would have had to give his consent to allow Austin into the class.

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Donovan McNabb had 39 yards passing for the Minnesota Vikings on Sunday.

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And the Redskins schedule, based on yesterday's results from other teams, suddenly looks a lot less fierce: Cardinals, Cowboys, Rams, Eagles, Panthers, Bills, 49ers, Dolphins to get through 9. 6-3 through that and the playoffs are certainly a possibility (Jets/Patriots near the end, so that's 2 automatic losses).

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“The ACC has enjoyed a rich tradition by balancing academics and athletics and the addition of Pitt and Syracuse further strengthens the ACC culture in this regard,” said Atlantic Coast Conference Commissioner John Swofford. “Pittsburgh and Syracuse also serve to enhance the ACC’s reach into the states of New York and Pennsylvania and geographically bridges our footprint between Maryland and Massachusetts. With the addition of Pitt and Syracuse, the ACC will cover virtually the entire Eastern Seaboard of the United States.”

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Yeah, I know yall are missing some players, and Miami is a pretty decent team but DAMN.  That and Toledo?  

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After holding off the Rams 17-10 in St. Louis on Sunday, the Redskins are 3-1 for the fifth time in nine years.

(TheCatt @ Oct. 27 2011,10:44)

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Cake's a fan of the No Fun League, apparently.

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Nice hire, OSU.

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One of the women in the vehicle is quoted in the police report as saying she told Suh that she needed medical attention. She said Suh refused her request and told her she was fine. She then walked down the street and had her husband pick her up and take her to a hospital.

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Tim Tebow led the Broncos to another comeback victory, with Matt Prater’s 51-yard field goal with 8:34 left in overtime giving Denver a 13-10 win over the Chicago Bears on Sunday.

It was Denver’s sixth straight win, and half of them have come in OT since Tebow was promoted to starter.

After failing to score on their first 11 possessions, the Broncos (8-5) erased a 10-0 deficit in the final 2:08 of regulation.

Tebow hit Demaryius Thomas with a 10-yard touchdown pass, then got the ball back with 58 seconds left and drove Denver downfield for Prater’s kick.

The Bears (7-6) won the toss in overtime and were in field goal range when Marion Barber coughed up the football at the Broncos 34 and Elvis Dumervil recovered

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For what it’s worth, Sean Payton and Bill Belichick are close friends.

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There's two cities, like, I don't go out to eat or don't do anything. It's Detroit and New Orleans. New Orleans looks like I'm driving through a third-world country every time I get off the plane. I'm like, 'Oh, flak jacket.' I'm trying to get down. I'm like, 'Ah, crap, I can't carry my gun here. This sucks.'

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I wasn't sure the Twinkies one was complimentary to Twinkies.  The running gag about having so many preservatives they'd survive a holocaust or whatever.

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I caught the Clint Eastwood one talking about Detroit, and how it is half time for America and "the world will once again hear the roar of our engines."

Has Clint seen the price of gas, lately?

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“We were sitting there watching and [the owner] called as soon as they wrapped up and Peyton was walking off the stage with [Indianapolis Colts owner Jim] Irsay,” said a junior executive with one of the many teams rumored to be interested in Manning. “[Our general manager] kept assuring him, ‘We’re going to get a meeting with Manning and we’re going to do all our homework.’

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The academic-oriented Division III school received a public reprimand, three years of probation and a 2012-13 postseason ban in men's basketball and 11 other sports for using 30 ineligible student-athletes the past four years.
At issue is Caltech's unique academic policy allowing students to shop for courses during a three-week period each quarter before cementing their class schedules. Since many students weren't registered for all the classes they attended during that period, that meant under NCAA rules they were not considered full-time students when they took the field.

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I don't think NCAA should do anything to Penn State.  What Sandusky was doing didn't affect the program.  He broke the law.

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Should Michigan have been punished when that coach who got fired a long time ago got drunk or whatever the hell it was?  (Actually, did MI get in trouble for it?!).

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NCAA isn't in place to enforce laws.  It's there to keep good, clean sports happening.  Ya, I know, they don't.  But that doesn't mean they should punish Penn state.

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The players selling goods they earned while playing (Trophies, jerseys, etc) and getting free tattoos made them paid professional players and were thus ineligible to play college ball.  But OSU let them anyway.

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I knew they were all covering for him, and they should all go to jail for that.  If they can prove they did it so he could keep coaching, then the NCAA might have to do something.  But I don't know what Sandusky was doing there.  Was he actually involved in the program, or just one of the boys?

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The state of Pennsylvania should punish Penn State.

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Didn't say the school was paying them, only that they were paid.

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As soon as they sold the goods they were given while playing, those items had a cash value that was redeemed while in college.  They were paid.

"Here is a token.  Because you are a good player.  Now, if you take it over to that guy over there, he'll give you $100 for it."

They are earning a trophy while playing and cashing it in for the payout.  How can that not be getting paid?  Not to mention the free goods they were receiving.  What's the difference between a car and a tattoo?  Well, besides about $30,000.  But still.  The amount doesn't matter.  They are receiving compensation while playing college ball.  You can't do that.

If players were allowed to sell 'their own personal property that was given to them by the school and it's boosters', then every college would be giving out all kinds of meaningless crap that the boosters would then buy.

"Come play at Michigan!  We give you these M tokens.  We'll give you 100 every week because you'll do so well in practice.  And as it turns out, just outside the stadium are these machines that you can put the token in and it gives you cash!!"  But don't worry, we aren't paying you to play so it's all good.

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But the school knew, and didn't do anything.  Until it was too late.

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And I'm not surprised the NCAA has double standards like that.

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Johnson and Lozada agree that the incident happened inside Johnson's "black smart" car in the driveway in front of their house. The disagreement started when Lozada "located a Walgreen's receipt in the vehicle's trunk for a box of condoms."

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Tentatively, it calls for their salaries to increase from an average of $149,000 a year in 2011 to $173,000 in 2013, rising to $205,000 by 2019.

(TheCatt @ Sep. 30 2012,20:21)

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If he weren't injured, I'd be fine with him/.

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Still, a football coach molested kids while he was associated with Penn State's football program. His bosses, including the head football coach, covered it up. All of these men deserve jail. I think the school will have no choice, but to disassociate itself from Joe Pa.

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Earlier in the show, Brown did ask Taylor about his May 2010 incident with an underage prostitute. In 2011, Taylor pleaded guilty to sexual misconduct and patronizing a 16-year-old prostitute.

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Why are they picking the '34 uniform?

(TheCatt @ Oct. 29 2012,17:29)

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KICKERS ARE RANDOM

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“I’m not going to let anyone else convince me otherwise, because this is how I feel,” Ryan said after the game. “[Sanchez] gives us the best opportunity to win games and that’s the only reason I make any moves.”

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Why did they even pick him up?

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And how did Houston's D outplay Chicago's.

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He's, hopefully, learned something...

(Leisher @ Nov. 21 2012,16:38)

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You mock my Buckeyes and my Steelers in the same post?

I'm glad Butler beat UNC...  

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The Panthers reportedly have been told by the NFL to keep plans to travel to Kansas City for the game.

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He quoted extensively from a piece by Fox Sports columnist Jason Whitlock, who wrote that “our current gun culture simply ensures that more and more domestic disputes will end in the ultimate tragedy" and concluded that “if Jovan Belcher didn't possess a gun, he and Kasandra Perkins would both be alive today.''

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Whitlock and Costas have gotten together on this podcast to share their insights about the myriad issues related to this tragedy.

We invite you to listen, and learn.

(TheCatt @ Dec. 05 2012,11:15)

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Where did you read that?  Guess I'm starting Bradshaw or Brown

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In his attempt to explain the unexplainable -- a three-way quarterback competition during Week 14 of a 17-week season -- New York Jets coach Rex Ryan dug deep into his near-empty bag Monday to pull out the only line left in a season of failed rhetoric.

This decision, he said, would be based on "what gives us the best opportunity to beat Jacksonville."

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Speaking of reviews, they need to re-examine that whole system.

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The Minnesota Vikings' season will be on the line Sunday against the Chicago Bears. As such, linebacker Chad Greenway has asked fans to get "super-duper drunk" in order to boost the Vikings' home-field advantage at the Metrodome.

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"I don't care if Jacksonville is Tebow's home town," Namath tweeted (obviously without spell-checking). "I believe we have a better chance of winning with McElroy replacing Sancez."

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In a nice bit of gallows humor, a reporter asked Whisenhunt who will start at quarterback next week against the Detroit Lions.  Replied the coach: "Do you play?"

Yep, that about sums it up.

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I don't buy the Patriots. They're smoke and mirrors.

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I also think Houston is vastly overrated.

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That being said, I like the Packers to beat the Patriots.

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Really?  472 point scored this season (99 more than the nearest team).  Two things concern me about the Pats ... their defense and the general shittiness of their division.

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Not after watching Detroit shutdown their passing game this past weekend.

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New England's secondary has given up about the same number of passing TDs, more INTs, and about as many sacks.  I don't know about miles.  They give up about 50-60 more yards per game.  If your opponents can't fucking capitalize on their yards, though, then it doesn't mean shit.  Houston may be overblown, but they're a notch or two above the Lions, and they just got manhandled.

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3 Super Bowl rings and he's the most overrated player in history?  Did he personally piss in your cornflakes?

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This year they also got to play the Rams...

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Cassell lost his starting job in KC to Brady Quinn

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Tom Brady only got to start because Drew Bledsoe got hurt

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Brady won his three rings when the Patriots were cheating. He hasn't won shit since they got caught.

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The Rams do not have a bullshit defense.

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Shittier o-line, shittier passer protection, shittier WRs (maybe Bowe doesn't totally suck, but that's it), shittier TEs, shittier run game (Jamaal Charles is overrated as hell).

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Kurt Warner only got to start because Trent Greene got hurt.  Your point?  How many MVPs did he win?  How many yards did he pass for with feet made of solid concrete and the fugly pass protection in Arizona and the post-Super Bowl Rams?

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Only one other team in NFL history went 3 out of 4 years with a Super Bowl win.

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Did I hear the commentator (can't remember if it's Gruden or Bradshaw) sucking his dick every time he opened his mouth?  Good Christ, yes.  I suppose the aura that second-coming aura settled around Brett Favre has truly been passed on to another QB.  If history is any guide, he'll be forcing passes into triple coverage in a couple years.  If he's got half a brain he'll retire in a couple years or immediately after the next championship ring.

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I'm in line to lose my playoff game to a fucker whose outscored precisely two weeks this entire season ... (i) the only regular season game I played and (ii) today.

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This is mainly from Joe Flacco killing Ray Rice.  Get that loser the fuck out of there.

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EDIT: Today is also a good example of Eli Manning and why he sucks.  He's always going to be "good enough" but never great.  His elderly brother is routing a division-leading team and he is being routed by a division-leading team.  I've got no idea how that fucker ever won a Super Bowl.

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Huh?

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So... who do the Patriots beat in the Super Bowl?

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WE HOST A FUCKING PLAYOFF GAME!  First time since I can't remember.

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Thank you and Hail to the Redskins!

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He hits their salary cap for $17 million next year whether he's on or off the team.

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Expect them to continue starting him praying that he turns a corner and starts playing well.

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and they'll lose him for nothing in the offseason to Jacksonville

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Haley improved the run game, but I've been quite unimpressed with his approach to the passing game.

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Why their running game hasn't been performing isn't the issue.  The issue is that it hasn't produced like it did in previous years, and they don't have a clear starter; they've got parts of a starter in each member of their RB committee.  It'd be nice if they had one dude that could catch passes and be a north-south type bloke while another could be the blocker/snowplow back.  A 2-headed RB group might work.  The foursome ain't doing it, ask New Orleans, a team which also has an average rush yards and rush TDs per game somewhere in the neighbourhood of the Steelers.  If they could combine Sproles and Ivory, then make another RB out of Ingram and Pierre Thomas, they'd have something.

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I'm also not calling Big Ben one of the league's best QBs.

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"not the best" != "sucks."

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Big Ben was also in the lead before AP went on a tear.

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I cant see how Cam could be a top 10 QB.  Top 15, probably.  I'd rather have Romo or Schaub than Cam.

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The New York Jets just fired their general manager. There, all fixed.

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Im guessing the coaches, who see a lot more of these players than you, disagree.

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Joe Webb passes and runs better than Mr. Samantha Steele.  Whether Ponder's shitty or mediocre, his backup's still got far more promise and potential.

(Malcolm @ Jan. 02 2015,13:22)

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Alex Smith fucking blows.  Joe Blow (the backup or 3rd-stringer) is worth more of a look.  He's a future Dirty Sanchez.

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"I don't think I've done as good a job of implementing who I am throughout this team," Ryan said.

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Ryan met no such fate (like getting fired or quitting). "No," (Jets owner Woody) Johnson said, "I never considered that because my confidence in him as a coach obviously gives me the confidence to keep him as a coach."
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"I think Rex Ryan is perfect for the New York Jets."

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Go Falcons/Texans.

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By the way, the big winner of that Vikings-Packers game was Christian Ponder — he would have almost definitely stunk in that game, followed by a spring and summer of "Are the Vikings wasting Peterson's prime with Ponder?" questions. Instead, Vikings fans are saying things like, "I can't believe how much we missed Ponder!"

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"Proud of my husband and the Pats. By the way, if anyone is bored, please go to Ray Lewis' Wikipedia page. 6 kids 4 wives. Acquitted for murder. Paid a family off. Yay. What a hall of fame player! A true role model!"

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The courts acquitted him.

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Sometimes we forgive because of celebrity.

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People are always saying that I'm a bust. I want show them I'm not. I'm committed to this now

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JaMarcus Russell's sanity lessens further.

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Junior Seau's family sues.  This could be interesting.  If they get cash, the NFL turns into an ATM for families of any player that died under a certain set of circumstances.  Think of the impact on other sports in terms of precedent (I'm looking squarely at you, hockey).

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Perhaps case in point, Tim Brown accuses former Raiders coach of throwing the Super Bowl.    I'd normally call total bullshit out of the gate, but the only thing salvaging this rumour is that Jerry Rice is backing it.

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He can claim the league knew fights were a part of the game, but did nothing to protect players.

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He has 982 catches for 15,292 yards and 156 touchdowns in his 14-season career.  Hall of Famer Jerry Rice, who now is an ESPN NFL analyst, leads the all-time lists in those three categories with 1,549 receptions, 22,895 yards and 197 touchdown receptions.

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I think it's retarded. I probably shouldn't say that.

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Saw the photo below posted with a "WTF!?". I agree.

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As everyone has heard by now, Ravens quarterback Joe Flacco became the NFL's highest-paid player when he agreed to a six-year, $120.6 million contract Friday.

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The film, which is reportedly titled "Draft Day" was supposed to be shot in Buffalo, NY, but the city lost out to Cleveland

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If Duke weren't confined to its own quadrant, half the athletes in the competition might be Blue Devils.

(Malcolm @ Mar. 18 2013,12:47)

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< Another rule to minimize contact >.

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Rooney said the Steelers were the only team to vote against getting rid of the tuck rule.

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Tuck rule has been rescinded.

EDIT: Rescinded over the Steelers whining.

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Why is that "whining"? You'll have to explain the logic there.

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Don't discount what a negative impact this is going to have on your fantasy football teams either.

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Rashard Mendenhall RB Arizona ... cheap

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More recently, Gibson has backed off her recantation, Brooks said. Nevertheless, when presented with the Innocence Project's findings, Los Angeles County prosecutors agreed that the case should be thrown out.
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He said prosecutors had no plans to charge Gibson, saying it would be a difficult case to prove.

(Leisher @ Apr. 03 2013,13:53)

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She should have just stabbed and paralyzed him, then you'd be arguing she was just a dumb kid instead of demanding her public execution!  

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According to Banks and his private investigator, Gibson refused to tell prosecutors that she had lied, so that she wouldn't have to return the money she and her family had won in court.

She also said she feared it would affect her relationship with her children, Banks' attorney alleged in court papers.

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He got her on tape saying she lied, years after the fact.  Had she come forward a decade ago and admitted the lie, before the dude was forced to register as a sex offender, I'd be more forgiving.  I can see lying to the cops initially if you're a stupid teenager that just got into some shit.  I'm not nearly as nice after you've lived off the $1.5M settlement you extorted out of the school, destroyed someone's life, and your best defense is the following:

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Perhaps this guy raped her or did some other shit to her?

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Apparently that $1.5M healed the pain enough for her to be quiet for a bit.

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Anthony Jezelnik

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The East division will be Indiana, Maryland, Michigan, Michigan State, Ohio State, Penn State and Rutgers. The West division will be Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, Nebraska, Northwestern, Purdue and Wisconsin.

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Kluwe’s outspoken ways on everything from gay rights to former punter Ray Guy not being in the Hall of Fame wore thin with special teams coordinator Mike Priefer.

“I don’t even want to talk about that,” Priefer said last year after Kluwe put athletic tape over the Hall of Fame emblem on his jersey and wrote “Vote Ray Guy” on it, an action that drew a fine from the NFL.

“Those distractions are getting old for me, to be quite honest with you,” Priefer continued. “Do I think Ray Guy deserves to be in the Hall of Fame? Absolutely. But there’s other ways about going about doing it, in my opinion.”

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Miami Dolphins CEO Mike Dee said in a television interview Sunday his team won't pay for any renovations to Sun Life Stadium after the Florida Legislature ended its session without passing any funding plan that would assist the team's quest to refurbish the stadium.

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When I look at the young group of quarterbacks, I don't put Newton in the category of Andrew Luck, Robert Griffin III, Colin Kaepernick and Russell Wilson. He hasn't earned it.

(Malcolm @ Jun. 10 2013,19:29)

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Yeah, now Danny Woodhead has a backup.

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Or Gronkowski. Or starting TE if he has any more surgeries.

(Malcolm @ Jun. 10 2013,19:29)

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Yeah, now Danny Woodhead has a backup.

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Cleveland Browns rookie linebacker Ausar Walcott was arrested Tuesday and charged with attempted murder for allegedly punching a man outside a club in Northern New Jersey.

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Former NFL Tight End Aaron Hernandez Charged With Murder

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Abreu, who was driving, stopped at a traffic light on Shawmut Avenue, about to make a left onto Herald Street, when a silver or gray SUV with Rhode Island license plates pulled alongside the sedan. Someone from the SUV opened fire, killing Abreu, 29, and Furtado, 28.

The men who were with them survived the attack and the killings were left unsolved.

The officials said investigators now believe that Odin Lloyd, the man Hernandez is charged with killing in a North Attleborough industrial park June 17, may have had information about Hernandez’s role in the double slaying.

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But when the sordid details about the case piled on by the day, Lamothe looked at the Number 81 Aaron Hernandez Patriots jersey in his house and knew he wanted it gone.

“I thought about giving it to Goodwill,” he said, “but I didn’t think anybody would want it.”

So instead, he put it on eBay, the online auction site. “I thought I might get $15 for it,” he said.

On Sunday, it sold for $289.

(TheCatt @ Jul. 26 2013,11:51)

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I feel like I could be these people's advisers, and get their shit together.  But I have a feeling way too many of them would just fire me so they could do stupid things.

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You can't fix stupid.