How Can the NBA Lack Something It Never Had?SportsBlog.com (blog)Warriors. So instead of hoping for something that was never really there, let’s hope for compelling star driven basketball between two great teams. After these playoffs, I think we deserve at least that. The NFL playoffs were boring, but the Super Bowl … and more …read […]

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WTMJ-TV (press release) (registration) (blog)When the Green Bay Packers play in Super Bowl 52 in Minneapolis, a Shorewood native will be there helping to put that city on sport’s biggest stage. Andrea Mokros is the vice president of communications for the Minnesota Super Bowl Host Committee, … and more …read more Source:: Super Bowl News […]

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LifesiteBOSTON, May 26, 2017 (LifeSiteNews) — The Super Bowl champion New England Patriots will sponsor this year’s ‘Gay Bowl’ in Boston. The LGBT Flag football event will be held in October and is expected to attract 40 teams from around North America for …Franklin Graham rips NFL’s Patriots for sponsoring ‘Gay Bowl‘Charlotte ObserverPatriots to Sponsor […]

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Blogging The Boys (blog)Since the league moved to a 12-team playoff format in 1990, an average of about six new teams made the playoffs every year. This long history of churn among NFL teams means that it’s highly probable that five or six teams that made the playoffs in 2016 … …read more Source:: NFL […]

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Tampa’s bid for fifth Super Bowl means secret and expensive promises to NFLTampabay.comMost of what it sends to the NFL in three months will remain secret. The sports commission previously bid for Super Bowl LV in 2016 and was unsuccessful. As part of that pitch, the City of Tampa agreed to provide free “public safety, […]

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Gridiron NowAccording to WalterFootball.com, an anonymous NFL scout has the LSU cornerback among his potential first-rounders for next year’s NFL draft. “Off the top of my head, guys that I think will get first-round love come draft time include: Derwin James (FSU … …read more Source:: NFL Draft News By Google News

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ESPNJohnson, a guest on the “B-More Opinionated!” podcast this week, said NFL commissioner Roger Goodell sought his advice before the league’s rule-change announcement. Johnson joked that he was the only player in the NFL who had Goodell’s number on …Diva Chad Johnson had hand in NFL celebration rule changeUPI.comNFL should go back to old overtime […]

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KTRK-TV“The Super Bowl was really about the platform that it gives you to be able to promote Houston as a great place to live, work and play, and also to create a community dialogue to improve people’s lives one experience at a time,” HSBHC Chairman Ric Campo … and more …read more Source:: Super Bowl […]

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NFL draft buzz growing around Auburn DT Dontavius RussellGridiron NowAuburn defensive tackle Dontavius Russell is expected to see a bigger role in 2017 following the departure of Montavius Adams. Russell enters his junior season as a two-year starter and is coming off a season in which he recorded 29 tackles with six … …read more […]

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Atlanta Journal ConstitutionFalcons coach Dan Quinn started his walk immediately after the Super Bowl. He kept reviewing the game looking for things he could have done differently. He has some ideas about how he could have helped the defense during a stretch of five consecutive …Dan Quinn trying to learn from Super Bowl LI loss247SportsPatriots […]

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UPI.comMay 26 (UPI) — Former Pro Bowl wide receiver Chad Johnson, with his flair for dramatic touchdown celebrations, helped Roger Goodell craft the NFL’s new guidelines. The Cincinnati Bengals legend talked to the NFL commissioner “a couple of times at …Johnson: Goodell asked my advice on TD ruleESPNImrem: Let’s give a hand to NFL on […]

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Sports Video Group8, 2016 and May 23, 2017 averaged at least 20 million viewers – NBC’s Sunday Night Football, NBC/NFL Network Thursday Night Football and NBC NFL Playoff games accounted for 13 (excludes pre/postgames). SNF had 10, NFL Playoff games (two of … …read more Source:: NFL Playoffs News By Google News

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NFL.comWho are the best draft picks of the century from the most prominent programs in college football? College Football 24/7 set out to answer this question by ranking the top draft picks since 2000 from the 30 schools that have produced the most picks … …read more Source:: NFL Draft News By Google News

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Breakfast: NFL power rankings in MayHoustonTexans.comInevitably, NFL power rankings don’t mean anything at all, unlike in college football, where they determine what teams have the chance to play for a championship in the playoff. That said, they’re fun to read, even more so after the season. Take … and more …read more Source:: NFL Playoffs […]

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SECcountry.comThe University of Alabama football program can call it the $70 million draft class. That’s how much the 10 players who were selected are due to make over the next four years. With wide receiver ArDarius Stewart signing his rookie deal with the New York … and more …read more Source:: NFL Draft News By […]

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numberFireTo see how successful the Patriots have been in the NFL Draft, I plotted out the Career AV per game of every pick in an NFL Draft since 2000, and then compared that graph to one solely of the New England Patriots’ picks to see how often they were … and more …read more Source:: […]

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The Big LeadHere are the best quarterbacks who played all, or most of the prime years of their career, during the Super Bowl era and do not have a Super Bowl ring. 1. Dan Marino, Miami Dolphins: Got to a Super Bowl in his 2nd year in the league. Never got back. …read more Source:: […]

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Sports Illustrated1. I think you should read Seth Wickersham’s in-depth look at some growing discord in Seattle, centered around Richard Sherman’s reluctance to move past the team’s Super Bowl XLIX defeat and resentment over the organization’s alleged coddling of …Richard Sherman Still Can’t Let Go Of Super Bowl Loss, Dreamed Of Joining Patriots With Marshawn […]

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FOX31 Denver“The big games are going against us: NFL playoffs, Clemson beating Alabama, the Super Bowl. For the Super Bowl, a lot of books were balanced going in, but by the third quarter, all that in-game wagering on the Patriots to make a comeback went against us.”. and more …read more Source:: NFL Playoffs News […]

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STACK NewsWhen former Florida State running back Dalvin Cook announced that he was “the best” running back in the 2017 NFL Draft, there were few reasons to disagree with him. Cook rushed for over 1,000 yards in each of his three seasons at FSU, including a … …read more Source:: NFL Combine News By Google […]

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BearGogglesIf you think that the draft speculation has ended for the Chicago Bears, you are mistaken. Even though the 2017 NFL Draft has come to a close, the speculation for what will happen in the 2018 NFL Draft has already started. Let’s do some speculation … and more …read more Source:: NFL Draft News By […]

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10 Approaches To Planning An Nfl Draft PartyThe Public SlateThe modern Cam Newton commercial for NFL Play Youth Walter Payton Jersey An individual really to help know if you can most important reason that Ty Willingham has not been successful at Washington this quote sums upward nicely. The problem for the … …read more Source:: […]

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News Talk FloridaTampa will host its fifth Super Bowl in 2021 after the National Football League announced earlier this week that Los Angeles would not be ready to handle the big game. During the bidding process for the 2021 Super Bowl the Tampa Bay area finished a …Super Bowl LII: Leaving a green legacyKARETampa redevelopment […]

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AL.comAlabama had 10 players among the first 112 selections in the NFL Draft on April 27-29. But the Crimson Tide has players waiting to step in for the departed pro prospects, Davis said. “They do such a great job, not just recruiting, but they develop … and more …read more Source:: NFL Draft News By […]

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fox5sandiego.com“The big games are going against us: NFL playoffs, Clemson beating Alabama, the Super Bowl. For the Super Bowl, a lot of books were balanced going in, but by the third quarter, all that in-game wagering on the Patriots to make a comeback went against us.”. and more …read more Source:: NFL Playoffs News By […]

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