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NFL Season Preview: Chicago Bears
Believe it or not, folks, the NFL season is much closer than you can possibly imagine. So close, in fact, that, if we're going to fit in every NFL team preview by the start of the season, we have to go this early. So there you have it....

Ron Mexico Speaks! (Kind Of)
It's not exactly the time you'd expect Michael Vick to start giving a lot of interviews, but yesterday, for the first time, he spoke publicly about the whole dog fighting business. He didn't say much....

NFL Season Preview: Kansas City Chiefs
Believe it or not, folks, the NFL season is much closer than you can possibly imagine. So close, in fact, that, if we're going to fit in every NFL team preview by the start of the season, we have to go this early. So there you have it....

Matt Leinart Schmoozes Like A Champion
When you're a fan of an NFL team, all you can hope is that your team's leader is setting his sights on the ultimate prize: The Super Bowl. If he's not trying to win the whole thing, what's the point? A championship is all that matters. And clearly, Buzzsaw quarterback / Patch Adams buddy Matt Leinar...

Don't Everybody Rush To Subscribe To The Big Ten Network (Like You Can Anyway)
The M Zone brings up something that has us thoroughly depressed: The upcoming launch of the Big Ten Network....

Kige Ramsey Is Losing Touch With His Blogging Roots
All this week, Ramsey is forgoing the practice of filming himself while at Wal-Mart and instead reporting live from Tennessee Titans training camp. He has some real insights; we are certainly John Clayton is terrified. Meanwhile, he hasn't forgotten what's really important; say, Lindsay Lohan. Plus,...

R.I.P. Bill Walsh
As you've surely heard by now, legendary 49ers head coach Bill Walsh has died. He was 75 years old, which is older than we realized; something about the guy always seemed young to us....

Sports' Other Famous Dogfighter
In case you're one of the people who would love to see Michael Vick tossed into jail for a decade while he deals with his own rape stand, it might be instructive to look at the case of former Portland Trail Blazer Qyntel Woods....

The Green Bay Packers Understand The Internet
We're pretty used to professional sports teams and leagues making ridiculous policies for their Web sites. But the Green Bay Packers might have just taken the taco....

NFL Season Preview: Indianapolis Colts
Believe it or not, folks, the NFL season is much closer than you can possibly imagine. So close, in fact, that, if we're going to fit in every NFL team preview by the start of the season, we have to go this early. So there you have it....

The NFL Network Tells Deion To Shush
Remember Deion Sanders' compeletely batshit bonkers "defense" of Michael Vick for dogfighting? Well, amazingly, the NFL didn't take too kindly to it....

If Vick Can't Trust His Dogfighting Buddies, Who Can He Trust?
The ball is officially rolling in the Michael Vick case: Tony Taylor, or "T" in the now-famous indictment, has plead guilty in exchange for testifying against Mr. Mexico....

Pac Man Jones Finds A League That Wants Him
It is a relief to know that, while he's serving his full-season suspension from the NFL this season — for, we repeat, charges he's yet to actually be arrested for — Pac Man Jones will be keeping himself busy....


Vick Co-Defendant Set To Make Plea Agreement
One of Michael Vick's co-defendants is about to throw him to the dogs. (Zing!) A plea agreement hearing has been scheduled for Tony Taylor — no, not the Pride of Philadelphia — at 9 a.m. Monday in the federal dogfighting conspiracy case....

No Wonder They Can't Fix The BCS
Every year, right around this time, we start getting excited about college football, and it seems like the most perfect game in the world, and we can't wait for Saturdays to start, rock, kickass ... and then we remember, oh yeah, they still don't have a freaking real championship....

NFL Season Preview: Baltimore Ravens
Believe it or not, folks, the NFL season is much closer than you can possibly imagine. So close, in fact, that, if we're going to fit in every NFL team preview by the start of the season, running one every weekday, we have to start this week. So there you have it....

Don't Burn Your Vick Jersey Just Yet
We hope you already own a Michael Vick jersey and haven't burned it, because it's about to become a rarity....

Vick Pleads Not Guilty To Dogfighting Charges
Mark your calendars on Nov. 26 for the start of the most captivating dead dog/quarterback melodrama in legal history. Our Man Mexico has plead not guilty to the big charges. Trial begins November 26. What are the odds he'll play by then? We say they're low....

NFL Season Preview: Miami Dolphins
Believe it or not, folks, the NFL season is much closer than you can possibly imagine. So close, in fact, that, if we're going to fit in every NFL team preview by the start of the season, running one every weekday, we have to start this week. So there you have it....