Biz Buzz: The first step from NFL to MBA (The Star-Ledger)
Biz Buzz: The first step from NFL to MBA (The Star-Ledger)
No more jokes about rockhead football players. One hundred twenty current and former professional players have signed up for the NFL Business Management and Entrepreneurial Program, the league announced last week.
Fourth and Goal: NFL Coaches Make Lousy Decisions (SPACE.com / LiveScience.com via Yahoo! News)
It’s fourth-and-goal in the first quarter of an important National Football League game. The fans rally for the coach to go for it, but they know he probably won’t. As usual, the kicker trots out.
Davis Creates Buzz at NFL Combine (About.com)
Since the college football season ended, Maryland tight end Vernon Davis has steadily climbed most draft boards. And in Indianapolis on Monday, Davis may have solidified a spot among the elite prospects in the 2006 NFL Draft class.
For Draft Elite, NFL Combine Isn’t Graded on Participation (The New York Sun)
INDIANAPOLIS - NFL coaches have gathered here this month to watch last year’s top college football players run, jump, and lift at the league’s scouting combine. But the elite prospects will leave town without breaking a sweat. That’s because most of the very best players, including Texas quarterback Vince Young, Virginia tackle D’Brickashaw Ferguson, and USC’s trio of quarterback Matt Leinart and
Pasquarelli: Henson sees NFL Europe as opportunity (ESPN)
Heading to NFL Europe could be seen as a step backward for a player of Drew Henson’s reputation. But he’s looking at it as a positive, not a negative.
Don Banks: Despite layoff, Bloom impresses NFL (Sports Illustrated)
INDIANAPOLIS — Italy and the Olympics may not have gone quite as well as he had hoped, but the whole Indianapolis experience went successfully for U.S. skier turned NFL prospect Jeremy Bloom.
Bloom begins NFL metamorphosis at combine (USA Today)
Jeremy Bloom put away the ski boots, slipped into some cleats and made a reasonably swift return to football when he ran for scouts on Sunday at the NFL Scouting Combine in Indianapolis. Bloom, 23, said he had been told by one scout he had been clocked at 4.39 seconds in the 40-yard dash, though his unofficial times as reported by the NFL Network were 4.49 and 4.5 seconds.