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| NFL has no plans to lighten blackout rules |
NFL Football |
09/23/2009 |
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| is precedent for a public outcry spurring Congress to get involved. In 2007, fans around the country were about to miss history: The New England Patriots were trying to become the first team to go 16-0 in the regular season, and their game with the New York Giants on NFL Network wasn't available in most homes. Two prominent members of the Senate Judiciary Committee sent a letter to NFL commissioner Roger Goodell threatening to reconsider the antitrust exemption. The league reversed course and allowed CBS an |
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| Yankees work to expand college football lineup |
Division I College Football |
09/23/2009 |
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| le. At first they played in Ebbets Field, the home of baseball's Brooklyn Dodgers. One of the most storied games in the rivalry - played in 1924 and immortalized by the great sports writer Grantland Rice - was played at the Polo Grounds, where the New York Giants baseball team played. Rice famously began his story, ``Outlined against a blue-gray October sky the Four Horsemen rode again.'' referring to Notre Dame's backfield. Eventually, Yankee Stadium became the site for the Army-Notre Dame game, including |
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| Schaub, Odom, Lindell earn AFC weekly honors |
NFL Football |
09/23/2009 |
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| career weekly award. Odom nabbed defensive honors as he helped his team record a 31-24 win over the Packers in Green Bay. He totaled six tackles and a career-high five sacks in the win. His sack total was the most by any player in the NFL since the New York Giants' Osi Umenyiora notched seven sacks against the Philadelphia Eagles on September 30, 2007. Also, he is the first player in the history of the NFL to total seven sacks in the first two games of the season. In his sixth year out of Alabama, Odom got th |
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| NFC East: Loss does little to clear up Eagles' QB quandary |
NFL Football |
09/23/2009 |
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| ny that had all the flair and pageantry one would except from the NFL's standard-bearers for glitz and glamour. A few members of the home team, however, didn't exactly deliver performances befitting the occasion in the team's Week 2 game against the New York Giants. Both quarterback Tony Romo and the Dallas defense played as if awestruck by the moment in the last-second, 33-31 loss to the defending champion Giants that almost surely left most of the league-record crowd of 105,121 feeling deflated. The Cowboys |
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| AFC West: Rivers runs wild in San Diego setback |
NFL Football |
09/22/2009 |
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| doesn't have that luxury. Another problem for the Chiefs is that they play their next four games against the NFC East starting with this weekend's bout in Philadelphia, the team's first visit there since the 1998 campaign. Kansas City will host the New York Giants and Dallas Cowboys before hitting the road again against the Washington Redskins. But first comes the Eagles and a chance for Kansas City to wipe out the awful memories of last Sunday's 13-10 loss to the rival Oakland Raiders. First-year head coach |
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| Tampa Bay's Jermaine Phillips out for season |
NFL Football |
09/22/2009 |
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| was released during the offseason. Phillips returned to safety when Jackson was suspended. He had 11 tackles in Tampa Bay's first two games. The Bucs also released safety Steve Cargile. The team has two roster spots to fill before Sunday's home game against the New York Giants.Copyright © 2005 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. The information contained in the AP News report may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without the prior written authority of The Associated Press. |
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| Cowboys RB Barber out 1-2 weeks |
NFL Football |
09/22/2009 |
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| Dallas, TX (MySportsbook) - Dallas Cowboys running back Marion Barber will reportedly miss 1-2 weeks with a quadriceps injury. NBC 5 TV in Dallas is reporting that the running back will be out after sustaining the injury late in Sunday night's loss to the New York Giants. On the season, Barber has 203 yards and two scores on 32 carries with two catches for 31 yards. Also on Tuesday, the Cowboys signed running back Chauncey Washington to the practice squad and released fullback Julius Crosslin. |
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| Burress sentenced to two years in prison |
NFL Football |
09/22/2009 |
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| New York, NY (MySportsbook) - Former New York Giants wide receiver Plaxico Burress was sentenced to two years in prison on Tuesday for a gun charge, stemming from an accidental shooting at a Manhattan night club last November. Burress, who was set to begin serving his sentence immediately, pleaded guilty on August 20 to one count of attempted criminal possession of a weapon and agreed to serve two years in jail. A plea agreement with prosecutors led to a lesser charge after he was initially indicted on two |
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| Ex-NY Giant Burress gets 2 years in gun case |
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09/22/2009 |
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NEW YORK (AP) -Former Super Bowl star Plaxico Burress (PLEK'-sih-koh BUR'-ihs) has been sentenced to two years in prison for possessing a weapon at a New York City nightclub. The former New York Giants wide receiver was sentenced Tuesday in Manhattan's state Supreme Court. He will be supervised for two years after his release. Burress pleaded guilty last month to attempted criminal possession of a weapon. He expects to begin serving time immediately and says he hopes to return to football. Burress was |
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| Bucs S Phillips fractures thumb |
NFL Football |
09/21/2009 |
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| Tampa, FL (MySportsbook) - Tampa Bay Buccaneers starting safety Jermaine Phillips broke his left thumb during Sunday's loss to Buffalo. Phillips sustained a pair of forearm fractures last season, but despite the latest injury Bucs coach Raheem Morris said it was possible the safety would play this weekend against the New York Giants. A fifth-round draft pick by the Bucs in 2002, Phillips has 11 career interceptions. |
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