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NFL Star Shaun Rogers Nabbed With Gun at Airport

Nose tackle Shaun Rogers faces 5-year sentence for concealed weapon

(Newser) - Browns nose tackle Shaun Rogers, who was arrested last night at Cleveland Hopkins International Airport when screeners found a loaded handgun in his carry-on luggage, has been charged with a felony and released on $1,000 bond. Sources say Rogers told police he had forgotten about the firearm. In addition...

NFL Tweaks Sudden Death for Playoff OT

If first team scores TD, it's over; opponent gets chance if it's a FG

(Newser) - The National Football League changed its overtime rules for postseason games today, and starting next season, if a team wins the coin toss and then kicks a field goal, the other team gets the ball. If that next series ends with another field goal, play will continue under the current...

Vince Lombardi Biopic Will Be Best Sports Flick 'Ever'

If famed Packers coach's quotes don't do it, De Niro surely will

(Newser) - The upcoming movie starring Robert De Niro as Vince Lombardi will undoubtedly be the “greatest sports movie ever,” Julian Sancton writes. The famed Green Bay Packers coach was an inexhaustible source of quotable remarks, and a top-notch sports flick must have at least one memorable line, he writes...

NFL May Rewrite OT Rules
 NFL May Rewrite OT Rules  
Mar 6, 2010 11:38 AM CST

NFL May Rewrite OT Rules

If one team wins toss and kicks a field goal, other team gets the ball

(Newser) - NFL fans who hate the overtime rules have reason to hope. More often than not it seems, the team that wins the coin toss zips down the field and ends the game with a field goal. League owners are considering a revision to try to even things up: The game...

Roethlisberger Accused of Sex Assault

Incident is second in 3 years involving Steelers QB

(Newser) - Police are investigating a Georgia woman's allegation that Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger sexually assaulted her at a nightclub. A team rep confirmed the investigation, the second involving Roethlisberger, 28, in less than 3 years. A Nevada woman sued him last summer, alleging he raped her at a hotel in...

Dead at 54: Ex-NFL Player Mosi Tatupu
 Dead at 54: 
 Ex-NFL Player 
 Mosi Tatupu 
Obituary
Feb 24, 2010 8:34 AM CST

Dead at 54: Ex-NFL Player Mosi Tatupu

Former USC, Patriots star had multiple health issues

(Newser) - Longtime pro football running back Mosi Tatupu died yesterday at age 54 in his native Hawaii of as yet unknown causes. A close family friend tells the Honolulu Star-Bulletin that he “had some health issues,” including high-blood pressure and other ailments. Tatupu, a tough player known for his...

A Call for Separation of Church and Sports


 A Call for Separation 
 of Church and Sports 
ANALYSIS
Feb 22, 2010 12:23 PM CST

A Call for Separation of Church and Sports

Football players leave much to be desired as Christian role models

(Newser) - Christian evangelicals must be pretty amped up by the high profile of their religion in professional sports, David Gibson writes, but the "cozy coupling" of church and sport has its dark side. First, there’s what commentator Shirl James Hoffman recently called the “cheap grace” of athletic faith....

Saints Teach New Orleans to Hope
 Saints Teach  
 New Orleans to Hope 
EDITORIAL
Feb 8, 2010 9:25 AM CST

Saints Teach New Orleans to Hope

Here's one rebuilding project that went right

(Newser) - The Saints’ Super Bowl victory was a transcendent moment for New Orleans, “because since Hurricane Katrina, the Saints are much more than just a football team—they are a civic cause” writes the New Orleans Times-Picayune in an editorial today. “They embodied our resilience and our unity” and...

Saints Stun Colts, 31-17

 Saints Stun 
 Colts, 31-17 
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Feb 7, 2010 9:00 PM CST

Saints Stun Colts, 31-17

New Orleans makes upset look easy as Indy receivers go AWOL

(Newser) - The New Orleans Saints stymied Peyton Manning, then intercepted him to seal the Super Bowl, rallying to beat the Indianapolis Colts tonight in Miami, 31-17. Tracy Porter intercepted a pass from Manning and sprinted 74 yards for a touchdown and a 31-17 lead with 3:12 left. Playing in the...

Warren Sapp Charged With Domestic Battery

Former NFL great loses Super Bowl announcing gig after arrest

(Newser) - Warren Sapp has made bail but won't be analyzing the Super Bowl for the NFL Network after being arrested and charged with domestic battery in the alleged choking of his girlfriend in a Miami Beach hotel. Sapp, a defensive lineman who starred at the University of Miami before playing 13...

Carrie Prejean 'Opposite' Engaged to NFL QB

Ex-Miss California, high-profile gay-marriage foe, will wed Kyle Boller

(Newser) - Former Miss California USA Carrie Prejean—who gained fame for her stance on "opposite marriage" and subsequent sex-tape revelations—is engaged. To a man. St. Louis Rams quarterback Kyle Boller, 28, popped the question yesterday after just 7 months of dating, E! reports.

Peyton Manning&mdash;Best Ever?
 Peyton Manning—Best Ever? 
Feb 7, 2010 1:12 PM CST

Peyton Manning—Best Ever?

Colts' QB has chance to add to his legend tonight

(Newser) - The Indianapolis Colts ride into tonight's Super Bowl as 5-point favorites, and star QB Peyton Manning is no small reason why. His stats romp all over Tom Brady (minus Brady's three SB rings), he's the brainiest player in an era of complex defenses, and his owner has promised him the...

NFL Hall of Famer Michael Irvin Sued for Rape

Lawsuit names former Cowboys great Michael Irvin in 2007 attack

(Newser) - A woman has filed a lawsuit against former Dallas Cowboys player Michael Irvin, alleging rape. The suit claims the attack happened in July 2007 at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Hollywood, Fla. A Seminole Tribe spokesman said the alleged attack was reported then, but there was not...

Sold: All CBS' Super Bowl Ad Spots
 Sold: All CBS' 
 Super Bowl 
 Ad Spots 
AT UP TO $3M A POP
Feb 3, 2010 12:31 PM CST

Sold: All CBS' Super Bowl Ad Spots

62 slots are filled at $2.5 to $3M apiece, with a payday of around $200M

(Newser) - CBS has already sold all of the in-game ad slots for the Super Bowl, quite a feat considering networks often scramble for ad buyers well into the week preceding the game even when the economy is up. The network claims to have sold only the 62 formatted spots, but an...

BET's Michael Vick Project a Little Too Redemptive

Redemption is there in spades, but little talk of horrid crime

(Newser) - Critics agree BET's The Michael Vick Project is conveniently focused more on the NFL star's comeback than on the horrid crime that laid him low in the first place. Still, some find the 8-episode "quasi-documentary" appealing:
  • Vick presents himself as reformed, Robert Lloyd writes in the Los Angeles Times
...

New Orleans Loves Its Mannings, Colts or Not

Saints take on hometown boy Peyton in Super Bowl

(Newser) - When the New Orleans Saints go marching into their first Super Bowl on Sunday, the man standing between them and the Lombardi Trophy is none other than hometown-boy-made-good Peyton Manning. Since the Saints drafted dad Archie in 1971, the Mannings have been the first family of the Big Easy—from...

Wife of Cowboys Great Novacek in Apparent Suicide

Death of LeAnne Novacek, 45, appears to be suicide

(Newser) - The wife of former Dallas Cowboys tight end Jay Novacek was found dead yesterday. LeAnne Novacek, 45, was found in her mother's home in Burleson, Texas. The cause of death appears to be a self-inflicted gunshot wound, the Dallas Morning News reports. Police are waiting for an autopsy to determine...

Schaub Leads AFC Past NFC, 41-34
 Schaub Leads AFC 
 Past NFC, 41-34 
pro bowl
Jan 31, 2010 10:23 PM CST

Schaub Leads AFC Past NFC, 41-34

Texans quarterback snags Pro Bowl MVP award

(Newser) - In its new role as a warmup to the Super Bowl, the Pro Bowl became a series of wind sprints. Long gains were the rule and hard hitting the exception as the AFC beat the NFC tonight in Miami, 41-34. Light showers fell but uniforms remained mostly spotless, with more...

Kurt Warner Retires


 Kurt Warner 
 Retires 
Jan 29, 2010 3:59 PM CST

Kurt Warner Retires

Cardinals QB bows out after 12 seasons, 3 Super Bowls

(Newser) - Arizona quarterback Kurt Warner, a two-time NFL MVP, announced his retirement today in Tempe. "It's been 12 unbelievable years," said Warner, 38, a University of Northern Iowa product who worked as a grocery clerk and toiled in the Arena Football League and NFL Europe before catching on with...

Saints Work OT, Earn 1st Super Bowl Berth
 Saints Work OT, Earn 
 1st Super Bowl Berth 
nfc championship
Jan 24, 2010 11:11 PM CST

Saints Work OT, Earn 1st Super Bowl Berth

Favre interception helps sink Vikings

(Newser) - The New Orleans Saints are heading to their first Super Bowl after battering Brett Favre and beating the Minnesota Vikings in overtime tonight, 31-28, on unheralded Garrett Hartley's 40-yard field goal. Favre threw away Minnesota's best chance to win, tossing an interception to Tracy Porter deep in New Orleans territory...

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