IRVING, TX. - Much has been made this week about the subplots surrounding the Sunday showdown between the Dallas Cowboys and the New York Giants: Eli Manning’s recent struggles, Tiki Barber and Jeremy Shockey calling out the coaching seemingly after every New York loss, and now Michael Strahan’s disparaging comments about teammates in a radio interview.
For three years, the Cardinals insisted that Antrel Rolle was better suited to play cornerback than safety. That wasn't just the opinion of the coach who drafted Rolle, Dennis Green, but that of Ken Whisenhunt, too. But after watching Rolle for a season, Whisenhunt and his staff came to the conclusion that they needed to move Rolle.
HONOLULU, Hawai'i - For the fourth year, Honolulu Mayor Mufi Hannemann will host the annual National Letter of Intent signing day for Hawaii High School Football players signing their scholarship agreements.
Arizona will play it safe with its last line of defense and not go looking for greener grass. The Cardinals have a deep pool of talent in the safety position, but injuries prevented the position from making a splash. Adrian Wilson is the key to getting the safeties back to the high dive.
In his post-game speech last Sunday, coach Ken Whisenhunt emphasized to his players the need to finish strong in the final two games. He didn't say that because he thinks an 8-8 record is something about which to brag, but because he wants to enter the off-season on a positive note.
Injuries have taken a heavy toll on the team's defense, as evidenced by the last two games. The Cardinals have had trouble pressuring quarterbacks, and the secondary just hasn't been able to hold up through the loss of a starting cornerback and strong safety.
There seems little doubt that Matt Leinart will be the club's starting quarterback in 2008, although coaches have raved about the job Kurt Warner has done since Leinart has been injured.
Get the scoop on the intriguing details of Brady Quinn's contract, find out who is surprising coaches and incumbents in training camp, get updates on key rookies and take a look at some early 2008 NFL Draft notes. You'll find it all in this week's edition of Training Camp Insider!
The Mariners have been at their best in recent weeks against last year's post-season teams. They swept the Red Sox June 24-27, took three of four from the A's in Oakland July 5-8 and split four with Detroit July 12-15.
The Mariners made official what had been brewing most of the past week, signing Ichiro Suzuki on Friday to a five-year contract that will pay him about $90 million. Suzuki and the team had been negotiating since January, although talks didn't become promising until about a month ago.
After his 3-for-3 MVP performance in the 2007 MLB All-Star Game (including the first inside-the-park home run in All-Star Game history), Mariners center fielder Ichiro Suzuki had a lot to say - and fortunately, not all of it to Jeanne Zelasko!
Manager John McLaren had shortstop Yuniesky Betancourt in his original lineup Sunday, but Betancourt had to sit the game out because of some back stiffness. In his place, Willie Bloomquist moved to shortstop for the day. Add Betancourt to the list of Seattle players for whom the three-day All-Star break will be a time of healing.
One night after the second of back-to-back shutouts, Mariners pitching was blasted for 16 runs on 16 hits, including five homers, in the most lopsided loss for Seattle since the club moved into Safeco Field midway through the 1999 season.
The Mariners seem to be ready to make a change in their starting rotation. Left-hander Ryan Feierabend, who has given Seattle competitive efforts in both of his starts, was in the dugout instead of the bullpen Wednesday for the Pittsburgh game.
13 years before the World Baseball Classic pushed the worldwide nature of America’s Pastime, an often overlooked league united players on both sides of the Pacific. After nearly a decade of hiatus, the Hawaiian Winter Baseball league returns to a new age of baseball.
The Chicago Bears got Chris Williams of Vanderbilt with the 14th pick in the first round of the NFL Draft. Based on how bad their torn and tattered offensive line was this past season, the former Commodore simply has to succeed. And right away. Can he be the franchise left tackle this team needs?
The Chicago Bears ranked 27th on offense in 2007, but GM Jerry Angelo didn't make much of an effort in free agency to improve. Brian Griese was traded, Bernard Berrian escaped to Minnesota, and the O-line is no better than before. Making just one of the following moves would have helped greatly ...
Quarterbacks threw interceptions, tailbacks failed to break big runs, and receivers dropped passes, but poor blocking up front was the biggest problem for the Chicago Bears on offense this past season. Team officials targeted one below-the-radar tackle prospect they like at the NFL Combine. Who is he?
There is little doubt now that this is one the best recruiting classes Washington football has signed over the past decade. It meets most the important pre-signing recruiting criteria like speed, balance, need, depth, size and brains.
The Chicago Bears had a ridiculous amount of problems offensively this past season, and a lot of them can be attributed to poor blocking up front both running the football and in pass protection. Bear Report takes a look back at 2007 and previews 2008 for the big uglies.
Much-maligned Bears quarterback Rex Grossman played pretty well against an aggressive Seattle defense in his return to the starting lineup Sunday, but critics will inevitably, and perhaps unfairly, focus on the one crucial mistake he made late in the ballgame.
The Bears simply have not run the football well all season long, but the coaching staff keeps giving sugarcoated answers when asked about it. All-Pro center Olin Kreutz, on the other hand, pulled no punches and offered up his two cents worth Thursday afternoon at Halas Hall.
Instead of kicking more dirt on that grave, it might be time to go get a shovel. Bears QB Rex Grossman has been a forgotten man in Chicago ever since Brian Griese replaced him in the starting lineup. But when Griese went down Sunday in Oakland with a shoulder injury, it was Grossman who stepped in and delivered the game-winner.
The Bears need to get their running game back on track and face Oakland's 30th-ranked rush defense Sunday, but they'll be a man down as Pro-Bowl left guard Ruben Brown has been moved to injured reserve and Terrence Metcalf elevates to the starting lineup.
When Rex Grossman is good, he can be as good as almost any QB in the NFL. But when he's bad, he can be as bad as anyone to ever take a snap from center. After last week's preseason game, simply taking a snap from center looked to be perhaps his biggest challenge. While Bears fans do have reason to be nervous right now, they should wait until any real bullets are fired before passing judgment.
