(PhatzRadio / SI / BR) — The NFL and NFLPA are on the verge of pushing the NFL Draft back to May and moving the start of the league year to before the NFL Scouting Combine, ESPN’s Adam Schefter reports. Both sides have had dialogue about resetting the league’s calendar in an attempt to create [...]
Report: NFL and NFLPA on verge of pushing draft to May, moving start of season up before scouting combine
May 21, 2013 By Leave a Comment
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NFL: Reviewing options for Tom Brady – Patriots
May 20, 2013 By Leave a Comment
(PhatzRadio / SI) — Considering what a transcendent talent Tom Brady is, the career he’s had, and that he turns 36 in 11 weeks, this statement he made to me over the weekend is significant: “Going into my 14th year, I have never had more confidence in how I am throwing the football. I’ve never [...]
NFL: Seahawks’ Bruce Irvin suspended for failed PED test
May 18, 2013 By Leave a Comment
Seahawks defensive end Bruce Irvin won’t appeal his four-game suspension for failing a test for performance enhancing drugs.(Photo: Steven Bisig-US PRESSWIRE US PRESSWIRE) Story Highlights Irvin said in a statement he will not appeal his suspension Irvin will miss games against the Panthers, 49ers, Jaguars and Texans With Irvin out, free agent Cliff Avil should [...]
NFL: Patriots release DT Kyle Love after his diabetes diagnosis
May 16, 2013 By Leave a Comment
Story Highlights Love has lost 20 pounds while dealing with Type-2 diabetes Starting defensive tackle did not miss a game for the Patriots over the past two seasons (PhatzRadio / USA Today) — Kyle Love recently received a dose of bad news when he was diagnosed with Type-2 diabetes. Wednesday, he was dealt another blow [...]
NFL: Manti Te’o makes first impression on Chargers veterans
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Story Highlights QB Philip Rivers said Te’o ‘didn’t standout, which was a good thing’ The team prevented Te’o from speaking with reporters after his first day practicing with veterans SAN DIEGO (AP) — Philip Rivers thought Manti Te’o had a decent first interaction with San Diego Chargers veterans. “It didn’t seem like he was lost [...]
NFL: O.J. Simpson resurfaces in court to seek new robbery trial
May 14, 2013 By Leave a Comment
(Reuters) – O.J. Simpson, the ex-football star famously acquitted of murder in 1995, appeared in court on Monday seeking a new trial in a Las Vegas armed robbery case that sent him to prison as witnesses testified to what they said were blunders by his lawyer. Simpson, 65, appeared older, grayer and heavier after five [...]
NFL: Safe to say, Roger Goodell doesn’t trust medical survey
May 11, 2013 By Leave a Comment
(DeMaurice Smith revealed that 78 percent of NFL players do not trust their teams’ medical staffs. Scott Halleran/Getty Images) (PhatzRadio / Boston Hearld) — The number was stunning to NFL commissioner Roger Goodell, but it was much more than that. It was unbelievable, a feeling he still holds three months after the NFL Players Association [...]
NFL Dan Snyder: Redskins will ‘never’ change team name
May 10, 2013 By Leave a Comment
(PhatzRadio / AP) — Washington Redskins owner Dan Snyder said Thursday that as long as he owns the team, the Redskins name would “never” change because of the tradition associated with the name. “We will never change the name of the team,” Snyder said in an interview with USA Today’s Erik Brady this week. “As [...]
Sports Diversity study: Black head coaches rarely get second chances
May 2, 2013 By Leave a Comment
Lovie Smith had an 81-63 record and a Super Bowl appearance to his credit as Chicago Bears coach, but he was fired after the team went 10-6 and missed the playoffs after the 2012 season.(Photo: Matt Kartozian, USA TODAY Sports) Story Highlights NFL commissioned research project before offseason when no African Americans were hired to [...]
