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| Cardinals sign first-round pick Peterson |
NFL Football |
07/30/2011 |
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| tract with free agent guard Floyd "Pork Chop" Womack. Peterson, who played his college ball at LSU, was a unanimous All-American selection as a junior in 2010 and was also selected as the school's first Bednarik Award winner as the nation's top defender. He started all 13 games and had 42 tackles, four interceptions, and six passes defensed last season. Womack, an 11-year NFL veteran, played in all 16 games last season for the Cleveland Browns, starting 15 of them - 12 at right guard and three at right tackle. |
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| Manning contract steals spotlight from free agents |
NFL Football |
07/30/2011 |
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| minique Rodgers-Cromartie and adding backup quarterback Vince Young to the roster. On Saturday, they remained busy by signing former Packers defensive tackle Cullen Jenkins to a five-year contract and trading defensive tackle Brodrick Bunkley to the Cleveland Browns for a fifth-round draft pick in 2012. They also re-signed linebacker Akeem Jordan, among other moves. - New York Jets camp was the site of good news after the team officially announced the signing of wide receiver Santonio Holmes to a contract. Holm |
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| Busy Eagles sign DT Cullen Jenkins |
NFL Football |
07/30/2011 |
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| Bethlehem, PA (MySportsbook) - The Philadelphia Eagles continued to be active, signing defensive tackle Cullen Jenkins to a five-year contract Saturday. The Eagles also announced that they traded defensive tackle Brodrick Bunkley to the Cleveland Browns for a fifth-round draft pick in 2012 and re-signed linebacker Akeem Jordan. Jenkins, 30, played his first seven seasons for the Green Bay Packers, compiling 194 tackles and 29 sacks in 93 games. He had a career-high seven sacks while playing just 11 games las |
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| Tight end Ben Watson hurt at Browns camp |
NFL Football |
07/30/2011 |
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BEREA, Ohio (AP) - Tight end Ben Watson walked off the Cleveland Browns practice field after taking a blow to the back of the head. New coach Pat Shurmur said Saturday that Watson apparently took a knee to the back of his helmet during the team's first practice. Watson slipped to the ground on the turf and was hit. He went to the sidelines, then slowly walked to the locker room, accompanied by trainers. Two other offensive starters, wide receiver Mohamed Massaquoi and lineman Eric Steinbach, did not prac |
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| Browns sign Dawson to franchise tender |
NFL Football |
07/30/2011 |
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| Berea, OH (MySportsbook) - Cleveland Browns kicker Phil Dawson has signed his franchise tender agreement. Dawson is entering his 13th NFL season and last year connected on 23-of-28 field goal tries while making all 28 PATs to lead the Browns with 97 points. He has been with the Browns since 1999 and is third in franchise history with 897 points, trailing only Lou Groza (1,349) and Don Cockroft (1,080). The Browns also signed a pair of unrestricted free agents in running back Brandon Jackson and defensive bac |
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| AP Source: Eric Wright agrees to terms with Lions |
Headlines |
07/29/2011 |
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| oit Lions have agreed to terms with free agent defensive back Eric Wright. The person spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity Friday because the team hasn't announced the move. Wright has played all four of his NFL seasons with the Cleveland Browns, starting all 16 games in 2008 and 2009, and 10 games last season. Detroit did announce the signings of linebacker Justin Durant and wide receiver Rashied Davis. Durant joins the Lions after playing four years with Jacksonville. Davis comes over f |
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| Davis out at North Carolina |
Division I College Football |
07/27/2011 |
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| sity community move forward. "I want to thank Butch Davis and his family for their four-plus years of service and dedication to the University and the Chapel Hill community," continued Baddour. "My staff and I will work with Chancellor Thorp to transition to an interim head coach as soon as possible." Before Davis was summoned to Chapel Hill, he went 24-35 in three-plus seasons with the Cleveland Browns. He is best known as head coach at Miami-Florida from 1995-2000, posting a record of 51-20 over six seasons. |
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| Delaware QB Pat Devlin joining Dolphins |
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07/26/2011 |
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| ith the Super Bowl champion Green Bay Packers and the Chicago Bears, respectively. Other top undrafted FCS players to agree to terms or sign, according to FCS schools and nepatriotsdraft.com, included Appalachian State defensive end Jabari Fletcher (Cleveland Browns), Richmond defensive tackle Martin Parker (New York Giants), Elon quarterback Scott Riddle (Jacksonville Jaguars), Arkansas-Pine Bluff wide receiver Raymond Webber (Tampa Bay Buccaneers), Cal Poly wide receiver Dominique Johnson (Minnesota Vikings), |
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| Misguided owners drop the ball |
NFL Football |
07/22/2011 |
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| instead brought out unforeseen confusion on one side, and now a borderline call for mutiny on the other. And why? Because the owners just may have committed the most historically significant fumble since Earnest Byner's goal-line gaffe that cost the Cleveland Browns the 1987 AFC Championship. Actually, it may be more apropos to compare the league's public unveiling of its proposal for a new 10-year collective bargaining agreement to former Dallas Cowboys defensive lineman Leon Lett's memorable blunder in Super |
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| Former 49ers executive Webb dies |
NFL Football |
07/20/2011 |
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| San Francisco, CA (MySportsbook) - Former San Francisco 49ers personnel executive Allan Webb has passed away. Webb, 80, succumbed to heart failure on Monday, according to the team's website. An All-American at Arnold College in Connecticut, Webb played for the New York Giants and also had a stint in the CFL. He also served in the Navy and finished with seven career interceptions. After working for the Giants, Cleveland Browns and 49ers, Webb retired in 1995. |
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