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How To Entertain Yourself Today If You Don't Have A Bigass Touchscreen
Well, hell, CNN gave John King one for the 2008 election. Why doesn't Michael Smith get one for the NFL Draft?...
Your 2009 Detroit Lions Are Matthew Stafford And Ten Other Guys
The tension building around the first overall pick has been punctured with anonymous sources for, I think, the 312th straight year. We know that Matthew "Matt" Stafford will be the Lions' guy....
Minus The Beard, His 40 Time Would Have Been Much Faster
Seriously. You should read Clay Travis' combine draft novella that Fanhouse has been serializing. [Fanhouse]...
Crack The F—king Skye. Your 2009 NFL Draft Jamboroo
The NFL Draft is this weekend, so time for a special offseason edition of Drew Magary's Thursday Afternoon NFL Dick Joke Jamboroo. Enjoy....
Detroit's Likely No. 1 Pick May Suffer From Dementia
The Lions are working hard to ink a deal before Saturday's draft with Georgia QB Matthew Stafford—who "indicated he would love to play in Detroit." That's your first warning sign right there. [ESPN]...
Percy Harvin, Brandon Tate Caught In Draft Drug Sting
Just because B.J. Raji is clean that doesn't mean that there aren't other pro prospects who like the wacky weed. [Fox Sports]...
Druggie NFL Prospects Not Actually On Drugs
Remember all the fuss recently about certain draft prospects who tested positive for drugs at the scouting combine and how it made everyone sad for today's youth? Yeah, none of those guys actually tested positive....
The Ravens' Scientific Approach To NFL Draft, Food
Baltimore director of player personnel Eric DeCosta: "We even grade our lunches. If I say it's a 6.2 lunch — all the guys know what that means, pretty good, but not great." [NYT]...
Aaron Curry Will Destroy Your Image Of The Pampered, Self-Centered Athlete
Wake Forest linebacker Aaron Curry decided to begin his NFL career with a heaping dose of good karma, inviting a 12-year-old leukemia survivor to the draft festivities with him in New York....
America's Green Room Princess
The stars continue to magnificently align for Erin Andrews, as the ESPN mother ship has officially anointed her worthy of interviewing muscular young men in tailored suits and shiny team logo'd hats....
NFL Prospects: If You Don't Want To Damage Your Draft Position, Keep Your Dirty Details Off The Internet
Here's a fascinating story from Yahoo!'s Charles Robinson about how some NFL teams create phony social networking accounts to do some clandestine character background checks of potential draft picks. This is what we hath wrought....
Blake Griffin Heading To NBA
Blake Griffin will get paid for his concussions from now on, thank you very much. (Also, joining him: Chase Budinger and Jodie Meeks.) Repeat after me: No Clippers, No Clippers, No Clippers, No Clippers. [AP]...
B.J. Raji Just Warren Sapp'd Himself
The Boston College defensive tackle tested positive for marijuana. [ATLeagle.com]...
Chicago, Meet Your New Quarterback: Jay Cutler
In somewhat of a stunning move in the, wow-that-happened-fast sense, the Denver Broncos have traded Jay Cutler to the Chicago Bears for, well — A LOT....
Stop Trying To Figure Out The Detroit Lions
"Sources" and "reports" have been saying today that the Detroit Lions are in negotiations to think about deciding who they might choose to consider maybe picking as the No. 1 pick in the NFL Draft....
Andre Smith Shows The World What A First Round Draft Pick's Bologna Bags Look Like
He is a specimen, that Andre Smith. Couple his fleshy girth with his bad 40-time and his unimpressive bench and you have yourself a man who's obviously not interested in making any money. [TheBigLead]...
Crabtree Will Put Off Surgery
The receivers are running at the NFL Combine but Michael Crabtree won't be joining them. However the Texas Tech product announced that he'll delay surgery so that he can run the 40 before the draft. [PFT]...
Underclassmen: Who's In? Who's Out?
The deadline for underclassmen to declare for the NFL Draft passed at 5:00 p.m. today. So who will give up a lifetime of accounting work to pursue NFL glory and who will continue to have his pick of starry-eyed sorority girls for one more year?...
Chris Cooley and the Redskins' Fantasy Football Draft
There's an exception for fantasy football posts when actual NFL players are involved, right? Crickets. Anyway, Fred Smoot steals the draft show. But is that really any surprise? Also of note, Colt Brennan going with LenDale White in what appears to be the first round of the draft. Decision making...
Mike Williams, Former First Rounder in 2005, Cut By Third Team
What's worst of all about that, the Titans cut him. And the Titans have the worst receiving corps in the NFL. As if that weren't bad enough Williams was released by the Raiders last October. Since being drafted by the Detroit Lions as the 10th overall pick in the 2005 Draft, Williams has been relea...