Articles Tagged “NFL”
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DeMarco Murray: Healthy & Hungry
DeMarco Murray does not really want to talk about the Dallas Cowboys’ “window closing,’’ the notion created by owner Jerry Jones in the spring and now regurgitated daily on ESPN. Nor does he especially want to discuss the nature of his successful rehab from last year’s Week 14 ankle injury and surgery that robbed him [...]
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Stress Reduction
Ok, let me stop laughing long enough to get this straight. Now that LeBron James has won his NBA title and been good enough to bring his Miami Heat teammates with him to his one-man show, we have moved the burden of American Sports Figure Most Under Pressure To Win A Title to–Tony Romo? Really? [...]
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Tommy “The Swami” Football Picks for Sept 24-25, 2011
For the season, Tommy “The Swami” is hitting 55% of his football picks – you are in the green, especially if you are not playing any idiotic teasers and parlays……but the Swami is far from satisfied – the target is 60%, and this week there are some quality plays – particularly in the NFL (and [...]
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Top 10 NFL “Veterans”
As we remember those who lost their lives on the 10th anniversary of 9-11 this week, we thought it would be a fitting time to acknowledge those NFL greats who also served our country with time in the armed forces. So here’s our top ten NFL “veterans” of all time. 10) Pat Tillman – Safety, [...]
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Chuck Cooperstein – On the NFL, College Football and Texas A&M
Touchback, Touchback, Touchback The new NFL kickoff rule that moved kickoffs up to the 35 yard line and which has led to nearly double the number of touchbacks is going to be a huge test of the NFL’s safety initiative. The NFL talks a good game when it comes to safety, and the players have [...]
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Was There Ever a Doubt About NFL
It’s the worse surprise since Kim Kardashian announced she was going to marry a pro athlete. We all knew that the NFL lockout was just a prolonged high school prom with two partners who didn’t want to make the first move to ask the other one to dance. Now we can put the ugly part [...]
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Pro Football’s All-Time Top Ten Running Backs
We all know Emmitt Smith is the leading rusher in NFL history, but where does he rank as far as all-time greatness? Back into the ScoreBoard lab we go to give you our ultimate list of running backs….. 10. Jim Thorpe – Google will mention that Thorpe only had 6 pro rushing TD’s….this is why [...]
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Sports Sunday Coffee Thoughts – Longhorn Network, Tiger Woods, Women’s Soccer and More
Why did it take so long for Oklahoma, A&M and the rest of the Big 12 to realize the new Longhorn Network might prove to be an unfair recruiting tool for Texas? The moment Texas and ESPN announced the 20-year, $300 million package I assumed the Big 12′s proverbial foot was back on that banana [...]
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NFL Players….Give ‘em Enough Rope (and Down Time), and They’ll Hang Themselves
I have to admit I’ve been waiting for this one. Or at least something along these same lines. With no league or team supervision, and with way too much free time on their collective hands, it was just a matter of time before we either heard the absurd or saw another mug shot of a [...]
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ScoreBoard’s Greatest NFL Quarterbacks
We went back into the ScoreBoard laboratory and after careful calculations and endless hours of debate came up with our list of the greatest NFL quarterbacks of all time. Counting down from number 10 they are as follows: 10. Tie: Terry Bradshaw and Brett Favre 9. Peyton Manning - has already been called the best [...]
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