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Deion Sanders, Bruce Smith, Jason Taylor, Donovan McNabb, Albert Haynesworth, Mark Carrier, Steve Spurrier, Jeremiah Trotter, Irving Fryar, Todd Wade and Adam Archuleta are just a few men who were once given a lot of money to be members of the Washington Redskins. With the exception of Smith, none of these men gave the Redskins [...]

Whenever a player demands a new contract or to be traded it puts the team in a very difficult position, which is the case with DE Osi Umenyiora and the New York Giants. The team gave him permission to seek a trade setting the price tag at a first round pick. Although Umenyiora’s agent, Tony Agnone, found several suitors, [..]

The Minnesota Vikings will trade a 2012 6th round pick, and a conditional 2013 6th round pick to the Washington Redskins for quarterback Donovan McNabb, Jay Glazer of FOXSports reports.For the deal to go through, McNabb must agree to sign a new contract with the Vikings.

Glazer added that the Vikings were hoping to get Tyler Thigpen, but he went to the Bills…

When it comes to football these days, it’s all about who you have under center. It’s become a passing league and for better or worse, the days of smash mouth football are over. Of course it’s better for the players health and safety, especially with all we’ve learned about concussions over just the last few years. Growing up a Bears fan, [...]

Nothing has been formally agreed between the players and the owners yet, but it looks pretty likely that the players will get 48% of all revenues. In an earlier series of posts on revenue sharing, we looked at how that percentage of all revenues has developed over the last ten years, summarizes in the table below. Obviously, the 48% that are being talked[...]

Tuesday’s owners meetings have produced quite a bit of NFL lockout news already — including looks at the potential new revenue split and free agency — but most football fans are going to be happy to start seeing more things like this: Yahoo! Sports’ Jason Cole says, “more people inside the room seem encouraged. Deal isn’t done, but it may be a matter of paperwork [...]

I am going to keep adding teams until I have one for all 32 teams.

Arizona Cardinals
#5. Patrick Peterson, CB, LSU
#38. Ryan Williams, RB, Virginia Tech
#69 Robert Housler, TE, Florida Atlantic
#103. Sam Acho, DE/LB, Texas
#136. Anthony Sherman, FB, Connecticut
#171. Quan Sturdivant, LB, North Carolina
#184. David Carter, DT, UCLA [....]

There’s a saying that goes “Tell me what you eat and I’ll tell you who you are.” For NFL teams it can be said “Tell me how you draft and I’ll tell you who you are.” Team identity is the key to the draft. Teams that know who they are do well, teams that don’t not so much. So what does each team’s draft say about each team.

CAROLINA – We’re bad! But worse than [...]

The United Football League started operations in 2009, becoming America’s first alternative to the National Football League since 1987. While the UFL has no connections to the NFL, some in the media thought that it would eventually serve as a developmental league. Others speculated the UFL was born at the time it was to swoop [...]

The proliferation of the media has drastically changed what the public digests when it comes to sports news and information. Gone are the days of covering for the big stars, like womanizer Babe Ruth, in an effort to preserve their spotless images and ensure their play on the field remains the story. In some ways, the sports media has become the enemy of athletes due to its lust for controversy. Mundane write-ups [...]