By Scott Garbarini, NFL Editor, Sports Network (Sports Network) - A select number of the NFL's best players will be making a trip to Hawaii to participate in this Sunday's AFC-NFC Pro Bowl, though the league's annual all-star game will be lacking some of its star power once again due to a variety of factors. This will mark the third consecutive year in which the Pro Bowl will be held one week prior to the Super Bowl, thereby removing members of the New England Patriots and New York Giants that...
Pro Bowl In 2007, I was more excited to see the NFL's version of an all-star game than ever before. My favorite team, the New Orleans Saints, made it all the way to the NFC Championship and I needed to see just one more Drew Brees game. The Pro Bowl would afford me one last NFL game with Drew Brees that season. Then the unthinkable happened. After suffering a devastating shoulder injury in the playoffs with the San Diego Chargers, Brees dislocated his elbow in the Pro Bowl. Fortunately, it was...
By the grace of serendipity, the guile of Scott Boras and the wallet of Mike Ilitch, Prince Fielder appears to have found the place to play out the rest of his baseball life, in a city that couldn’t help but love him for decades. In Detroit, he was the husky kid with the oversized bat, the uppercut swing, the grin that slayed old Tiger Stadium. Still is. On a Tuesday afternoon nearing the end of January, when the Detroit Tigers were considering a season without Victor Martinez or anyone like...
Free-agent first baseman Prince Fielder on Tuesday agreed in principle to a nine-year, $214 million contract with the Detroit Tigers, according to baseball sources. The charismatic slugger therefore severs ties with the Milwaukee Brewers and a community that came to adore him. And the Tigers, who’d lost slugger Victor Martinez to an offseason knee injury, have their protection for Miguel Cabrera in a man who spent part of his childhood around their organization, chasing daddy Cecil. Martinez...
SANTA CLARA, Calif. (AP)—Kyle Williams is ignoring the barrage of hateful, hurtful, even threatening comments he has received via social media in the aftermath of his ill-timed fumble that cost the San Francisco 49ers the NFC championship game against New York. Williams said Monday he takes full responsibility for his fumble on a punt return in overtime of a 20-17 loss to the Giants on Sunday night that set up Lawrence Tynes’ winning field goal, calling the moment “painful.” “I really...
Sunday was a rough one for Oregon football fans, with the news building throughout the day that Chip Kelly was leaving the Ducks for the NFL. We knew Kelly had spoken with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, and as Sunday rolled on, reports increased that the Kelly-to-Tampa Bay scenario was just a matter of hashing out a contract. Like many other Ducks fans, I was resigned to Kelly's leaving by the end of the day, and was already considering what the 2012 Oregon football team might look like without the...
SAN FRANCISCO (AP)—The New York Giants have their own Super Bowl formula: in overtime and on the road. And with Lawrence Tynes’ foot. Five plays after the 49ers’ Kyle Williams fumbled a punt, Tynes kicked a 31-yard field goal in overtime, sending the Giants to the Super Bowl with a 20-17 victory over San Francisco in the NFC championship game Sunday. In another tight one in this decades-old postseason rivalry, both defenses made key stops before New York capitalized on a rare mistake in...
On Saturday, January 14th, the San Francisco 49ers beat the New Orleans Saints to move on to the NFC Championship game. While of course this was not a good day for Saints fans, for many attending the game it was far worse than just a team loss. For some fans left the game in fear of their life. These fans, like Don Moses and his two daughters, spent the entire game being cursed out and threatened. After Moses sent a letter to the San Francisco Chronicle telling his experiences, the 49ers CEO...
POUGHKEEPSIE, N.Y. (AP)—Michael Alvarado, George Beamon and Rhamel Brown scored 12 points apiece to lead Manhattan past Marist 61-44 on Friday night for the Jaspers’ fourth consecutive win. The Red Foxes led for nearly the entire first half, staying ahead 23-21 with 7:33 to play after Manny Thomas hit a 3-pointer. But Donovan Kates scored seven straight points, his entire total for the night, on a free throw and back-to-back 3s to spark a 12-3 Manhattan run into the locker room. The...
