1. Denver Broncos' Decision on Kyle Orton Strictly Business; Bears May Make Claim

    More than a few eyebrows were raised Tuesday when the Denver Broncos cut former starting quarterback Kyle Orton, who hadn't played since being replaced in the lineup by Tim Tebow five games ago...

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  2. New York Giants' Tom Coughlin: Making His Case for Coach of the Year

    Many analysts have already handed the NFL Coach of the Year Award to Jim Harbaugh of the San Francisco 49ers , who has assured the 49ers of their first winning season since 2002 in his first year after coming from Stanford...

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  3. Week 11: New York Giants Can't Control Line of Scrimmage, NFC East

    The New York Giants couldn’t control the line of scrimmage, and because of that, they no longer have control of the NFC East...

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  4. Jay Cutler's Thumb Injury Means Chicago Bears Have To Hitch onto Caleb Hanie

    The fickle finger of fate is a funny thing. Five weeks ago, sideline microphones caught Chicago Bears quarterback Jay Cutler hurling an expletive in the general direction of offensive coordinator Mike Martz...

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  5. Tim Tebow Keeps Denver Broncos Winning and It Doesn't Matter How

    If one of Tim Tebow 's acolytes would have made me a wager five weeks ago that the Denver Broncos would win four out of five with their guy starting at quarterback, I'd have jumped all over that action...

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  6. NFL Week 11 Picks: Can Anyone Figure out the Baltimore Ravens?

    Quantum mechanics. Stonehenge. Women. The Baltimore Ravens. What I have listed are four of the most difficult things on the planet to understand...

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  7. Houston Astros to American League Not the End of the World

    The worst-kept secret in Major League Baseball became even less of a secret on Wednesday. An anonymous source told the Associated Press that a codicil added to the proposed sale ...

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  8. Chicago Bears: Paying Matt Forte Would Be a Huge Mistake

    Running backs everywhere should be thrilled I am not a general manager in the National Football League. If it were up to me, running backs would never get top dollar...

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  9. NFL Power Rankings Week 10: Key Injuries Pile Up for Contenders

    Week 10 in the NFL was defined as much by what happened in medical facilities as what occurred on the field...

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  10. Alex Smith's Career Reclamation Continues with San Francisco 49ers

    The Detroit Lions ? So Week 4. The Buffalo Bills ? No longer the flavor of the day. The San Francisco 49ers are definitely the surprise team of the NFL in 2011...

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  11. College Football Top 40: Oregon Ducks Back into the Mix

    And then there were three. The BCS equation became very simple, at least for a week, when Stanford and Boise State fell from the ranks of the unbeaten on Saturday. LSU is 10-0...

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  12. Perfect Packers? Charles Woodson Says 19-0 the Goal for Green Bay

    It happens every time a team gets through the first half of a season without a loss. The notion of a perfect season starts to be discussed by people like me...

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  13. NFL Picks, Week 10: New York Giants, San Francisco 49ers Move to Top Billing

    A pair of the NFC’s surprise teams headlines the Week 10 schedule, as the 6-2 New York Giants head to the other coast to take on the 7-1 San Francisco 49ers in a battle of division leaders...

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  14. Joe Paterno Still Didn't Get It, Not Even at the End of His Tenure at Penn State

    Joe Paterno worked his first game as head coach at Penn State University on Sept. 17, 1966, a 15-7 win over Maryland. That game was played less than three months after I was born...

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  15. NFL Power Rankings Week 10: Houston Texans Enter Elite Territory

    With every NFL team having finished at least half of its schedule, the league looks a bit different than many of the experts expected...

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  16. Jerry Sandusky Scandal Bigger Than Penn State, Joe Paterno

    I was as stunned as anyone when I saw the "Breaking News" tag scrolling the information at the bottom of my television screen Saturday morning...

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  17. Alabama Not Punished in BCS Standings for LSU Loss; Rematch Very Possible

    College football logic flew out the window Sunday night when the latest standings for the Big Cash System—I mean, Bowl Championship Series—were released...

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  18. College Football Top 40: LSU Takes Command, Oklahoma State Moves Up

    While LSU kicked its way past Alabama to retain its top ranking in my top 40, there were significant shakeups further down the list. Three teams fell out of the Top 10...

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  19. Mike Maddux of Texas Rangers Hopes To Buck Historical Bias Against Pitchers

    There are certain things in baseball that are just accepted to be truths. One of those is that pitchers make lousy managers...

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  20. NFL Picks Week 9: Baltimore Ravens Need More from Joe Flacco

    The jam-packed AFC North, featuring three teams with just two losses, is home for this week’s biggest matchup...

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  21. NBA Lockout: Casual Fans Aren't Missing NBA's Galaxy of Stars

    The NBA season is supposed to be headed into its third night tonight and all we have to show for it are 16 cancelled games, with three more to be added to that list tonight...

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  22. Big East Football Pins Its Survival in BCS on Boise State

    Boise State's football program has spent much of the past decade both dazzling and irritating fans of college football...

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  23. Lowly Rams Shake Up Top of NFL Power Rankings Heading into Week 9

    While the Green Bay Packers were enjoying their bye week as the last unbeaten team remaining in the NFL , Week 8 went on without them with at least one inexplicable result, one divisional ...

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  24. Chiefs, Raiders, Chargers in Competitive, Not Very Good, AFC West Race

    The Kansas City Chiefs turned the ball over four times on Monday night. They have lost games this season by 35 points at home and 45 points on the road...

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  25. Tim Tebow Supporters Take Aim at Denver Broncos Coach John Fox

    In the wake of a brutal 45-10 pasting administered by the Detroit Lions in which their guy— Denver Broncos quarterback Tim Tebow —was undeniably awful, his legion of supporters began the spin game in earnest...

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