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| Bears playing "no respect" card. |
NFL Football |
02/02/2007 |
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| demonstrated he can produce under pressure with his 80-yard drive in the final minutes against the playoff-tested New England defense. Beyond that, these Colts are following a path similar to one taken by a team Manning wants to emulate: the 1997 Denver Broncos. Those Broncos were eliminated in their first game in 1996 after clinching home field with a month to go. And like this year's Colts, who lost four of its last seven games, those Broncos struggled a bit, making the postseason as a wild-card team b |
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| Manusky named Niners' defensive coordinator |
NFL Football |
02/01/2007 |
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| rdinator.'' Despite Nolan's long career as an assistant, he never coached with Davis or Manusky before hiring them. But Nolan got a glowing recommendation for Manusky from San Diego defensive coordinator Wade Phillips, Nolan's former boss with the Denver Broncos. Manusky was a special-teams standout during his playing career with Washington, Minnesota and Kansas City, playing in 113 consecutive games during one stretch. He recalls Vikings assistant coaches Tony Dungy and Monte Kiffin first encouraging him |
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| Ravens' Lewis withdraws from Pro Bowl, Scott to replace him |
NFL Football |
01/30/2007 |
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| ndianapolis. Lewis' place on the AFC roster will be filled by teammate Bart Scott, who was an alternate and will be making his first appearance in the game in Honolulu. Lewis was a first alternate who replaced injured linebacker Al Wilson of the Denver Broncos. He led the Ravens' top-ranked defense with 164 tackles, the ninth time in his 11-year career he finished as Baltimore's leading tackler. He also had five sacks and two interceptions. Scott finished with 130 tackles, second to Lewis, and had 9 1/2 |
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| Broncos hire Baker, O'Brien as assistants |
NFL Football |
01/29/2007 |
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DENVER (AP) -The Denver Broncos hired Joe Baker as their linebackers coach and Scott O'Brien as their special teams coach Monday. O'Brien replaces Ronnie Bradford, who was demoted to assistant defensive backs coach after four years in charge of the Broncos' special teams, which faltered badly this past season. Baker has been an NFL assistant for 11 seasons, most recently with St. Louis last season. He also worked for Jacksonville, New Orleans and Green Bay. Last season, the Rams were seventh in the lea |
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| Tony and Lovie could be the mother of all Super Bowl sideshows |
NFL Football |
01/26/2007 |
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When Doug Williams became the first black quarterback to start a Super Bowl 19 years ago, the buildup to the game between his Washington Redskins and the Denver Broncos was ``all Williams all the time.'' It included a question that always has been considered No. 1 on the list of wacky Super Bowl queries and has generated a controversy of its own: ``How long have you been a black quarterback?'' The racial angle will be back twofold next week as close friends Tony Dungy of Indianapolis and Lovie Smith of |
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| Texans hire Frank Bush as defensive assistant |
NFL Football |
01/25/2007 |
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| exans hired Frank Bush as their senior defensive assistant Thursday. Bush spent the last three seasons as the Arizona Cardinals' linebackers coach, and was also their assistant head coach in 2006. He held various positions as an assistant with the Denver Broncos from 1995-2003. In that span, he coached linebackers, the secondary and special teams. Bush, a fifth-round draft pick in 1985, played linebacker for the Houston Oilers for two seasons before a spinal cord injury ended his career. He then joined th |
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| Former Broncos player Braxton pleads guilty to drug charges |
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01/24/2007 |
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CENTENNIAL, Colo. (AP) -Former Denver Broncos defensive back Tyrone Braxton pleaded guilty to cocaine and marijuana possession Wednesday but avoided jail time. An Arapahoe County district judge ordered Braxton to complete a drug-alcohol evaluation and any recommended treatment. He was also ordered to perform 48 hours of public service and faces a fine. District attorney's spokeswoman Kathleen Walsh said the amount of the fine wasn't immediately available. Prosecutors dropped a charge of patronizing a |
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| Chargers lose their cool against Pats |
NFL Football |
01/16/2007 |
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| those seasons, and hasn't won as No. 1 seed since leading the Cleveland Browns past the New York Jets in the divisional round of the 1986 postseason. Schottenheimer's Browns would only suffer heartbreak the following weekend, when John Elway and the Denver Broncos orchestrated "The Drive" to win the AFC Championship. "Any time you're in the playoffs and lose, certainly I have plenty of experience, there's a disappointment, but, you know, my feeling is that all you can ask them to do is go out and lay it on th |
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| Brewster to take over Golden Gophers |
Division I College Football |
01/16/2007 |
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| new head football coach. Gophers athletic director Joel Maturi offered Brewster the position late Monday night and he accepted Tuesday morning. The school will introduce him at a news conference on Wednesday afternoon. Brewster was most recently the Denver Broncos tight ends coach but has a strong college background. The 46-year old Brewster was an assistant to Mack Brown at North Carolina and Texas, and was credited for recruiting a number of the players on the Longhorns' 2005 national championship team. Bre |
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| Gophers choose Broncos' Brewster as head coach |
Division I College Football |
01/16/2007 |
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MINNEAPOLIS (AP) -Denver Broncos tight ends coach Tim Brewster will become the new head coach at Minnesota, replacing the fired Glen Mason. Gophers players were told of the hiring early Tuesday. The university scheduled a news conference for Wednesday. ``He is the guy,'' associate athletic director Tom Wistrcill said Tuesday. The 46-year-old Brewster spent the last two seasons with the Broncos, after three years as tight ends coach for the San Diego Chargers. Before that, he was an assistant at Texas |
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