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Maurice Jones-Drew: To Trade or Not to Trade?
At the age of 27, Maurice Jones-Drew feels it’s time for two things – Get paid like he thinks he deserves and/or play on a winning team. The Jacksonville Jaguars aren’t planning on giving him A) The kind of money he wants and B) A trade to somewhere else, for professional and personal reasons.
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Andrew Luck – The Indianapolis Colts Made the Right Choice
At the empty side of the glass, the Indianapolis Colts have to worry about injuries to Austin Collie, Robert Mathis and Cory Redding. At the full side, Andrew Luck, still in preseason mind you, looks just as the Colts expected him to when they drafted him at number one, thinking about a quarterback for years and years to come.
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Peyton Manning – Could be Better, Could be Worse
He’s yet to throw a touchdown, but there still enough to be optimistic about. Peyton Manning has been intercepted three times in this preseason with the Denver Broncos, but the plays that come after the bad ones give him, his team and the fans plenty of hope to cling to.
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2012 NFL Season Opening Day Ticket Prices (Infographic)
The 2012 NFL Season begins on September 5, which means you have about two weeks to start saving your money (if you haven’t already have) for an opening day ticket or two, because there’s no way you’re not going to feel at least a little bit broke after forking over a few hundred dollars to enjoy an afternoon of football.
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Cardinals vs Saints – 6 Things to Learn From the Preseason Game
Preseason games in the NFL don’t teach us much, especially when the team’s best players don’t even play a full quarter to begin the season. But some things are hard to overlook – Drew Brees looked sharp as always and the Saints, despite everything that went down this summer, are going to be dangerous thanks to him.
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Preseason College Football Rankings – Worth Anything?
The preseason college football rankings for the 2012 season came out this week and guess what – LSU, who led the rankings for most of last season and Alabama, #2 for most of last season and the national champions, took the top two spots once again. SEC dominance doesn’t change, it just got stronger. Problems is these preseason rankings usually don’t mean much.
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The 2012 Pro Football Hall of Fame Inductees
Willie Roaf led the way, as offensive linemen always do, as six players got inducted into the pro football hall of fame in Canton, Ohio, unvieling his bronze bust, while Curtis Martin, a running back, closed the evening with tears and tales of his rough life, his mother’s pain and his life-long indifference to the game that allowed him to become famous.
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2012 College Football Rankings – Preseason Edition
Nothing changed from last season; LSU and Alabama 1 and 2, SEC above the rest with 5 teams in the top 10 in a season of many changes that sees TCU and West Virginia in their new Big 12 home already among the preseason top 25, while USC make a return to the upper echelon of College Football, this time without Pete Carroll and hopefully no scandals.
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Anthony Adams – Stuff Free Agents Say
Trying to find a team in free agency when you’re not the youngest or the best at your position isn’t easy, as Anthony Adams, a nine-year NFL veteran is learning this summer and decided to give the world a taste of what he’s going through with ‘Stuff Free Agents Say’.
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Tim Tebow vs Mark Sanchez? So Far, No One is Winning
What’s left after the first practices of the New York Jets and their quarterback duo of Mark Sanchez and Tim Tebow? Not much, after both played pretty bad. At least Rex Ryan is making some funny comments worth mentioning, which doesn’t bode well for the Jets’ seasons, trying to make a postseason return.