Biz Buzz: Football stars go back to school (The Star-Ledger)
Biz Buzz: Football stars go back to school (The Star-Ledger)
Business schools realize there is no “I” in team, but there just might be an MBA. More than 100 current and former pro football players have enrolled in business classes this year as part of the NFL Business Management and Entrepreneurial Program.
QB Beck ready to prove he belongs in NFL (USA Today)
The 300 or so college prospects at the NFL scouting combine take an intelligence test, but with John Beck, all scouts really had to do was ask him one simple question. What will be the most important event for you in April: the birth of your first child or getting drafted? “The correct answer is my baby being born,” said Beck, smiling and showing an innate ability to read his keys.
NFL notes: Chiefs sign QB Huard to three-year deal (USA Today)
Around the NFL on Tuesday: QB Damon Huard agreed to a three-year contract with the Chiefs; Hollis Thomas has agreed to a four-year, $12 million contract with the New Orleans Saints; San Francisco 49ers linebacker Derek Smith underwent surgery to repair a damaged muscle connected to his left eye; prosecutors have dropped their case against New Orleans Saints offensive tackle Jammal Brown; and …
NFL notebook: Feb. 28 (Knoxville News Sentinel)
Riggs, Douglas, Hall assigned to NFL Europe Former Tennessee running back Gerald Riggs Jr. and two more former Vols are headed overseas to continue their football careers.
Talley goes from NFL ranks to sidelines for Skyhawks (The Enterprise)
EASTON Stonehill College has gone to the NFL to find its new head football coach. Robert Talley, who spent the past two years as a special assistant to San Francisco 49ers coach Mike Nolan, has been hired to run the Skyhawks’ program.
Stock up, stock down from NFL combine (MSNBC)
The big names dominated the hallway talk at the NFL Scouting Combine in Indianapolis this weekend. Big names are supposed to control college football conversations, you say? Sure, but only on Saturday afternoons in October.
Battle brewing in quest to be NFL’s No. 1 pick (Sports Illustrated)
The annual rite of winter in pro football — picking apart draft prospects — was heating up last weekend at the sweatshop known as the NFL scouting combine. The two top candidates to go No. 1 on April 28, quarterbacks JaMarcus Russell and Brady Quinn, were getting it with both barrels, from the media and from scouts and coaches whispering among themselves. Quinn couldn’t win the big one at Notre …