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| Titans sign K Bironas to multi-year deal |
NFL Football |
02/18/2009 |
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| Nashville, TN (MySportsbook) - The Tennessee Titans agreed to terms with All-Pro kicker Rob Bironas on a multi-year contract Wednesday. Terms of the deal were not disclosed, but according the Tennessean, the contract is worth $12 million with $5 million guaranteed. Bironas was scheduled to become a free agent on February 27. One of the NFL's most powerful and accurate kickers over his five years in the league, Bironas has connected on 84.5 percent of his field goal attempts, which places him fifth on the NFL |
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| Titans' Haynesworth to test free agency |
NFL Football |
02/18/2009 |
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| Nashville, TN (MySportsbook) - Tennessee Titans defensive tackle Albert Haynesworth is set to test the free agent market. The Tennessean reported on Wednesday that a source close to the situation says the two-time All-Pro will seek his fortunes elsewhere when the free-agent period begins on February 27. Both Haynesworth and his agent have seen little progress in negotiating a long-term deal over the last several weeks, the paper reported. Haynesworth led the club with 8 1/2 sacks in 2008, after being franchi |
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| Titans name Cecil defensive coordinator |
NFL Football |
02/12/2009 |
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| Nashville, TN (MySportsbook) - The Tennessee Titans promoted secondary coach Chuck Cecil to defensive coordinator, the team announced Thursday. Cecil has been a member of the Titans coaching staff for the last eight seasons, serving as a quality control coach from 2001-03, the safeties and nickel backs coach from 2004-06 and the secondary coach from 2007-08. "Chuck has seen this defense from a number of different perspectives and he is ready for the next step," said Titans head coach Jeff Fisher. " I felt li |
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| Fitzgerald wins MVP, as NFC tops AFC in Pro Bowl |
NFL Football |
02/08/2009 |
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| tions, and Carney completed the game's scoring with a 26-yard kick with 32 ticks remaining to seal the win. Fans of the NFL must now wait until the 2009 campaign begins, with the annual Hall of Fame Game in Canton, Ohio between the Buffalo Bills and Tennessee Titans to be played on August 9. Peyton Manning was 6-for-8 through the air on the AFC's first drive of the game, capping it with a pin-point pass to Gonzalez, who ran a corner route to the end zone and managed to tap his right foot and drag his left for a |
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| Nancy Adams, wife of Titans owner Bud Adams, passes away |
NFL Football |
02/02/2009 |
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| Nashville, TN (MySportsbook) - Nancy Neville Adams, who co-owned the Tennessee Titans with her husband, Bud Adams, passed away Sunday night. She was 84. Nancy Adams, who was also vice chairman of the board of the team, was born in Hattiesburg, Mississippi and attended the University of Kansas. She and Bud met at KU and were married on October 26, 1946. "I am deeply saddened to report that following a brief illness, I have lost my beloved wife of 62 years, Nancy," said Bud Adams. She was the love of my life a |
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| Bills and Titans to play Hall of Fame Game |
NFL Football |
01/31/2009 |
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| Tampa, FL (MySportsbook) - The Buffalo Bills and Tennessee Titans will open up the NFL's celebration of the AFL's 50th anniversary when the teams play in the Hall of Fame Game in Canton, Ohio on August 9, 2009, the league announced Saturday. The Bills and Titans -- formerly the Houston Oilers -- were two of the original eight members of the AFL when the league played its first season in 1960, ten years before the rival leagues merged. The annual preseason opener comes a day after the enshrinement of the six |
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| Reese joins Pats' front office |
NFL Football |
01/27/2009 |
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| Foxboro, MA (MySportsbook) - Former Tennessee Titans general manager Floyd Reese has joined the front office of the New England Patriots and will serve as senior football advisor. Reese spent 13 seasons directing the Houston/Tennessee franchise from 1994 through the 2006 campaign. He was also the club's assistant GM for four years before taking over the top job, and worked as an assistant coach in the league with Houston, Minnesota, San Francisco and Detroit for 15 seasons. With the Patriots, Reese will be i |
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| Argos name Andrus as next head coach |
CFL |
01/16/2009 |
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| Toronto, Ontario (MySportsbook) - The Toronto Argonauts introduced former Tennessee Titans assistant coach Bart Andrus as the team's 40th head coach on Friday. Andrus, 50, has accumulated over 25 years of coaching experience, most recently serving as an offensive assistant for the Titans in 2008. A former quarterback at the University of Montana, Andrus previously coached for Tennessee for three seasons, joining head coach Jeff Fisher's staff as an offensive assistant coach in 1997. He was elevated to quarte |
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| Schwartz introduced as Lions head coach |
NFL Football |
01/16/2009 |
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| Detroit, MI (MySportsbook) - The Detroit Lions introduced Jim Schwartz as their new head coach on Friday. The 42-year-old Schwartz, who spent the past eight seasons as the defensive coordinator of the Tennessee Titans, replaces the dismissed Rod Marinelli and inherits a club that in 2008 became the first to lose every game since the NFL instituted a 16-game schedule in 1978. "I want to extend a thanks for the confidence in me to the Ford family," said Schwartz on Friday. "I want to put a team on the field th |
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| Personal Fool: Bam mocks the draft |
This Day in Sports |
01/16/2009 |
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| 5'4". But how else will the Bulls end their energy crisis? Pick number 5: Barry Bonds Wanted: one good libel attorney. Preferably in the Bay area. Client looking at possible seven-figure verdict. Please contact bbonds762@asterisk.com. Pick number 6: Tennessee Titans After a dozen trips to the Ravens' side of the field in the first round of the playoffs, in which the Titans couldn't buy a field goal or touchdown, Tennessee opts to draft a red-zone touchdown with the sixth pick of the El Grande Macho Mock Draft. |
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