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Tom Verducci: Stars from Nationals, Rangers boost number of drawing cards
May 18th
While the NFL sells quarterbacks and NBA sells scorers, the appeal of baseball rests more on teams and regional allegiance. The individual player with national appeal — the one who sells tickets on the road and who creates a bump in TV ratings outside his market — has been a rarity in recent years. But the first two months of this season have created personalities that provide baseball with chances for just such appointment-viewing type players.
Dennis Dillon: Seahawks’ Bruce Irvin overcame adversity in unlikely road to NFL
May 17th
One day last summer, West Virginia defensive coordinator Jeff Casteel and defensive line coach Bill Kirelawich stood on a second-floor balcony of the Puskar Center, the football facility that adjoins the Mountaineers’ stadium. Defensive end Bruce Irvin walked onto the field. He wore shorts and flip-flops. Not realizing that two pairs of eyes were watching him, Irvin casually jumped over a six-foot football dummy and then continued on his way.
Don Banks: 7 strong hunches for the 2012 season
May 15th
The NFL is both beloved and exalted in the pantheon of spectator sports because absolutely no one knows what will unfold from week to week. But that doesn’t stop us from predicting up a storm when it comes to the season just ahead. More than two months away from the full-scale opening of training camps, here are seven strong hunches we’re willing to share in a bold foretelling of 2012′s storylines to come:
Bulls aren’t alone: When did being the top seed become a curse in NBA, NFL, NHL and MLB?
May 14th
It is the growing sports epidemic of the 21st century, where being the best team in the regular season of any of the four major professional leagues has never meant so little for the postseason. In fact, not only are the trophy cases of such teams likely to be empty at playoffs’ end, but these regular season champions are lucky if they get past their first playoff opponent.
Andrew Lawrence: League focusing on mental health, but players must buy in
May 11th
When Dr. Yolanda Bruce Brooks first set foot in an NFL locker room 16 years ago, the Cowboys players inside had little idea what to make of her. A woman in their inner sanctum, they deduced, could be only one of three things: a reporter, a jock sniffer or worse — management. What she was, in fact, was the Cowboys’ new psychologist, coming to Valley Ranch at the behest of Ring of Honor inductee turned team consultant Calvin Hill to help bring calm to a roster whose taste for drugs and depravity and disrespect for authority seemed like symptoms of deeper issues.
Steve Megargee: St. Thomas Aquinas leads high schools producing NFL talent
May 9th
It’s getting to be an annual routine at Fort Lauderdale (Fla.) St. Thomas Aquinas: contend for a state championship in the fall, watch former players get drafted in the spring. The growing fraternity of St. Thomas Aquinas alumni in the NFL added two more members in April, as safety Christian Thompson and offensive tackle Andrew Datko were drafted in the fourth and seventh rounds, respectively.
NFL: Study says former players live longer
May 8th
NEW YORK (AP) — The NFL is telling retirees about a medical study that says former players live longer than men in the general population.
Don Banks: New issue, same misguided fight between league and union
May 4th
At the very least, Junior Seau’s shocking suicide this week raises the stakes all the more when it comes to what might be on the line in the controversial and much-debated effort to increase player safety in the NFL. We don’t know for sure yet if the league’s two biggest headlines in recent days were connected on any level, and if Seau’s long and distinguished football career led to the kind of brain injury that contributed to him taking his own life, but there is ample reason — and far too much recent history — to support suspicion on that front.
Jim Trotter: Seau’s legacy extends well beyond his play on the field
May 2nd
Early this morning I received a message from an NFL player whose family lives in Oceanside, Calif.
Don Banks: League begins to turn page on Saints scandal with player suspensions
May 2nd
Two months to the day after this bombshell of a story first exploded across the NFL, the final shoe finally dropped Wednesday in the Saints bounty scandal. And predictably, it landed with another loud, reverberating thud.
