The USO and the NFL Bring Football Stars to Visit Troops on USO/AFE Tour to the Persian Gulf (U.S. Newswire via Yahoo! News)
The USO and the NFL Bring Football Stars to Visit Troops on USO/AFE Tour to the Persian Gulf (U.S. Newswire via Yahoo! News)
National Football League (NFL) players Will Shields, Shelton Quarles, Alge Crumpler and Ben Watson will soon embark on their first USO/Armed Forces Entertainment tour to the Persian Gulf. Shields (Kansas City Chiefs), Quarles (Tampa Bay Buccaneers) Crumpler, (Atlanta Falcons) and Watson (New England Patriots) will meet with service members and sign autographs.
NFL Coaches Are Outplayed by Economists in Draft: Kevin Hassett (Bloomberg.com)
Feb. 26 (Bloomberg) — The best and brightest college football stars started descending on Indianapolis last week to participate in the NFL’s six-day scouting combine.
NFL Europe drafts 2 from MTSU (Tennessean)
Two former Middle Tennessee State football players will be teammates once again. This time, though, they will be playing on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean. Cornerback Keon Raymond and defensive end Bobby Payne were among the 134 players selected today in the NFL Europe free agent draft. Both were taken by Berlin — Raymond in the ninth round and Berry in the 18th. Raymond was signed last …
Philly Women Kick Off Their Own Football Season (KDKA Pittsburgh)
The NFL off-season is just getting underway, but there’s another football league about to start playing games. It may be ladies playing the game, but make no mistake - this isn’t powder-puff football.
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 …
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.