1. Opportunity Abounds for Young Husker Linebackers

    If the stereotype still exists that a team needs those big-bodied linebackers ("downhill Jill thumpers," former Husker assistant Mike Ekeler called them) to hold up during those gray November Saturdays in the bruising Big Ten, so be it...

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  2. Banderas Targeting Huskers' Junior Day

    Josh Banderas won't be one of those Nebraska high school players begging for attention from college football programs in the 2013 recruiting cycle.....

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  3. Recruiting: Husker QB Target Ready for Junior Day

    Nebraska quarterback target Brayden Scott doesn’t lack for confidence or moxie. The 6-foot-3, 200-pounder, who already has offers from Clemson, Missouri Arkansas and Arizona, has sized up current NU starter Taylor Martinez...

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  4. Are the Atlanta Falcons Looking at OT Marcus McNeill?

    The San Diego Chargers are expected to release LT Marcus McNeill next month in order to clear millions of dollars in salary cap space, but are the Atlanta Falcons looking at bringing ...

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  5. Les Snead Reportedly Named Rams GM

    Another piece of the St. Louis Rams puzzle fell into place Monday, with reports that Les Snead had accepted the job of general manager. Snead had been the Atlanta Falcons ' director of player personnel...

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  6. Keeping an Eye on the Salary Cap

    The start of free agency is just about a month away and that’s when teams will have to be under the $120 million salary cap.....

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  7. Lloyd Heads Rams' Free-Agent Crop

    The start of free agency is just a month away, and new coach Jeff Fisher and the Rams ' revamped front office have a long list of their own free agents to wade through between now and then...

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  8. Rams Had to Like Les Snead's Adaptability

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  9. Deep Pool of Free-Agent Receivers Should Be Tempting to Cleveland Browns

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  10. Jamal Lewis Talks About Concussions

    Jamal Lewis is among the former NFL players who said in a federal lawsuit in December that brain injuries have left them struggling with medical problems years after their playing days ended...

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  11. Analyst Feels Browns Must Look at RG-III

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  12. Dana White Announces Josh Koscheck vs. Johny Hendricks for UFC on FOX

    A fight that will bring some order to the rapidly evolving welterweight division has been booked for the May 5 UFC on FOX 3 card.....

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  13. Man on the Lam Was Hiding in NM Training at Jackson's MMA

    Coaches and fighters from Jackson’s MMA say they were stunned last week to find out that an up-and-coming amateur fighter who had been training at the gym in Albuquerque since ...

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  14. Miesha Tate Thinks Ronda Rousey Is Fake, Will Get Nervous After First Minute

    MMA Fighting recently caught up with Strikeforce bantamweight champion Miesha Tate about her upcoming title fight against Ronda Rousey on March 3.....

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  15. Dos Santos Says Overeem Fight Will Come Down to "Who Hits the Other First"

    Junior dos Santos needed just 64-seconds to separate Cain Velasquez from consciousness, and Alistair Overeem will be no different.....

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  16. Roger Gracie Called Up to the UFC

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  17. Dustin Poirier vs. Chan Sung-Jung to Headline UFC on Fuel 3

    The UFC will visit the Patriot Center in Fairfax, Virginia on May 15 when the promotion presents UFC on Fuel 3.....

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  18. Dominick Cruz, Urijah Faber Meet Again at UFC 148 in Las Vegas

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  19. Trouble in Sao Paulo

    Hopefully you were productive during the UFC's mini-sabbatical, because there won't be another one like it for awhile.....

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  20. Kentucky-Vandy Strategy Hinges on Davis-Ezeli Matchup

    Each in his own way, big men Anthony Davis of Kentucky and Festus Ezeli of Vanderbilt give Saturday's game a distinctive quality.....

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  21. Calipari Turned 53, but 'Two Years Got Vacated, So I'm 51′

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  22. Kentucky on the Radar of D'Angelo Russell

    Kentucky fans have rarely had the chance to root on home-state players in the past few years because of the program John Calipari has rebuilt in Lexington. However, Darius Miller and future Kentucky player Derek Willis has given others hope...

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  23. Report: Big 12 Schedule 'getting Close,' Not Done

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  24. The Night OU Fell Behind in the DGB Sweepstakes

    Ryan Broyles did everything he could. The 2010 night Oklahoma hosted Colorado, hosted super recruit Dorial Green-Beckham really, Broyles showed the kid from Springfield, Mo., what a receiver could do in the OU offense, with Landry Jones throwing to him...

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  25. Georgia/Auburn Rivalry Could Be Victim of SEC Expansion

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