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Bills Planning to Shuffle off to...Toronto?

Oct 19, 2007 12:54 AM CDT

Bills Planning to Shuffle off to...Toronto?

Buffalo team seeks bigger share of Canada football market

(Newser) - The Bills have announced that they intend to play pre-season games and at least one regular-season match in nearby Toronto as early as 2009. The move, intended to capture more of the Toronto market, may presage an eventual move, which the team denies. Buffalo has yet to secure approval from...

Everett Walks, Maintains Hope

Oct 18, 2007 12:45 AM CDT

Everett Walks, Maintains Hope

Bills tight end makes progress in recovery from horrific spinal cord injury

(Newser) - The arduous recovery from spinal cord catastrophe continues for Buffalo tight end Kevin Everett, who released his first statement after taking a few steps with the aid of a walker. While acknowledging the severity of his plight, it demonstrated a hope and determination in keeping with the five weeks of...

Chargers Add Chambers

Oct 17, 2007 2:44 AM CDT

Chargers Add Chambers

With Parker out for year, San Diego trades high draft pick to bolster receiver corps

(Newser) - San Diego has made a gutsy mid-season trade to help its passing offense, picking up Miami playmaker Chris Chambers in exchange for a second-round pick. Chambers replaces rookie Buster Davis, who in turn was filling in for injured starter Eric Parker. He leaves a floundering 0-6 Dolphins team for a...

Giants Trample Bedraggled Falcons 31-10

Oct 16, 2007 4:32 AM CDT

Giants Trample Bedraggled Falcons 31-10

Streaking but streaky New York handily defeats Atlanta

(Newser) - The Atlanta Falcons scored first last night before dropping the ball (literally and figuratively) in a disheartening 31-10 loss to the New York Giants. The Falcons held a 10-7 lead for three minutes in the first quarter, but dropped passes and sacks kept them off the board from then on....

Chargers Win Is All Tomlinson

Oct 15, 2007 4:18 AM CDT

Chargers Win Is All Tomlinson

LT breaks through Raiders D for 4 TDs in a 28-14 trouncing of San Diego's archrival

(Newser) - Yesterday's LaDanian Tomlinson Show featured San Diego's eighth straight victory over Oakland, a 28-14 game that evened the Chargers to 3-3 and toppled the Raiders from atop the NFC West. Tomlinson topped out at 198 rushing yards and scored all four Charger touchdowns, while Oakland's Daunte Culpepper found himself sacked...

They Aren't 'Aints Anymore

Oct 15, 2007 3:31 AM CDT

They Aren't 'Aints Anymore

New Orleans gets first win of the season over floundering Seahawks 28-17

(Newser) - In their 28-17 defeat of the Seahawks last night, the New Orleans Saints finally looked like the team they were touted to be before their inauspicious 0-4 start. Reggie Bush's 141 yards and 246 from quarterback Drew Brees helped the Saints "get this monkey off" their back, and Seattle...

Another Week, Another Pats Blowout

Oct 14, 2007 11:25 PM CDT

Another Week, Another Pats Blowout

Brady's monster day sends NFC's best team to first defeat, 48-27

(Newser) - Tony Romo's Cowboys put up a fight, but 17 fourth-quarter points gave the Patriots their sixth straight lopsided win to start the season. Tom Brady threw an eye-popping five touchdowns; now with 21 through six games, he is on pace to break Peyton Manning's 2004 single-season record of 49. The...

Peterson Broils Bears 34-31

Oct 14, 2007 11:11 PM CDT

Peterson Broils Bears 34-31

Rookie's 361 yards, 3 TDs lead Minnesota to last-minute road victory over Chicago

(Newser) - Minnesota halfback Adrian Peterson made a strong case for Rookie of the Year honors, racking up 361 all-purpose yards—3rd most in history—in a 34-31 win. Against a misfiring Chicago defense, the Oklahoma product rumbled for three long touchdowns, then rattled off a 53-yard kickoff return to set up...

Pack Win Ugly, Beat 'Skins 17-14

Oct 14, 2007 11:05 PM CDT

Pack Win Ugly, Beat 'Skins 17-14

Green Bay overcomes offensive woes to improve to 5-1

(Newser) - Redskins receiver Santana Moss blames himself for his team’s 17-14 loss to the Green Bay Packers. When Moss fumbled on a reverse, cornerback Charles Woodson recovered it and scampered 57 yards for the touchdown. “When it comes down to the points that we lost by, that was the...

House to Examine NFL Disability

Oct 12, 2007 3:58 PM CDT

House to Examine NFL Disability

(Newser) - The disability system for NFL players will receive additional scrutiny now that a House committee with "serious questions" about it has commissioned a Congressional Research Service study, the Baltimore Sun reports. The committee wants to find "why only a small percentage of former players receive disability benefits in...

T.O. Surprises With Silence
as Pats Loom

Oct 11, 2007 1:49 AM CDT

T.O. Surprises With Silence as Pats Loom

Receiver leaves note saying he won't talk to media this week

(Newser) - Cowboys receiver Terrell Owens is the center of attention again, this time for keeping his mouth shut. Reporters flocking to the oft-troubled wideout’s locker for their regular 30 minute Wednesday chat were instead greeted by nothing more than a laminated note, the Dallas News reports. “I will be...

Wounded Panthers Lure Vinny Out of Retirement

Oct 10, 2007 8:30 PM CDT

Wounded Panthers Lure Vinny Out of Retirement

Testaverde will back up Carr in his 21st season

(Newser) - With Jake Delhomme out for the season—and his oft-sacked understudy David Carr feeling woozy—Carolina scrambled to shore up depth at quarterback, signing a 43-year-old Vinny Testaverde out of retirement. Testaverde won college football's Heisman trophy in 1986, the year that one of his new teammates, rookie receiver Dwyane...

Falcons Can Seek $20M
From Vick

Oct 9, 2007 8:13 PM CDT

Falcons Can Seek $20M From Vick

Arbitrator rules that team can pursue option and roster bonuses

(Newser) - Michael Vick may have to pay the Falcons a whopping $20 million, an arbitrator ruled today, challenging a precedent that teams can only go after signing bonus money. NFL Special Master Stephen Burbank ruled that the Falcons can pursue Vick's option and roster bonuses as well, because Vick, who is...

Romo Almost Gives Away the Game for Dallas

Oct 9, 2007 4:22 AM CDT

Romo Almost Gives Away the Game for Dallas

But Rookie Folk's 53-yard field goal lifts Cowboys over Bills 25-24

(Newser) - The Cowboys managed to stay undefeated with an improbable comeback in a madcap game that involved six interceptions, a fake punt, a failed two-point conversion, and two last-second, game-winning field goals. Dallas quarterback Tony Romo threw five passes into the hands of the Buffalo Bills, twice for touchdowns, but kicker...

Delhomme Opts For Surgery

Oct 8, 2007 11:23 PM CDT

Delhomme Opts For Surgery

Carr will steer division-leading Carolina for the rest of the season

(Newser) - After a disappointing throwing session today, Panthers gunslinger Jake Delhomme will undergo season-ending surgery on his right elbow, ceding the starting spot to Houston castoff David Carr, who himself played through serious back pain to lead Carolina over New Orleans last weekend. Delhomme, a Pro Bowler, will require a rehab...

Spinal Injury Ends Seahawk's Career

Oct 8, 2007 11:20 PM CDT

Spinal Injury Ends Seahawk's Career

15-year fullback Mack Strong bows out with herniated disc

(Newser) - After 201 games for the same team, Seattle's workman-like Mack Strong is calling it a career to avoid further damage to a spinal injury. Fifteen years of using his body as a battering ram has led to a herniated disc that his doctors believe will heal without surgery. The condition...

Bears Come Back Against Packers

Oct 8, 2007 5:36 AM CDT

Bears Come Back Against Packers

Green Bay crumbles, 27-20, to leave the ranks of undefeated

(Newser) - Until the third quarter of last night's game, Brett Favre looked as dominant as he has in the Packers' first four wins this season. But two critical interceptions gave the game away to the Chicago Bears in a second half that saw them scoring 17 unanswered points after a fiery...

Pittsburgh's Depleted D Pitches Shutout

Oct 7, 2007 10:58 PM CDT

Pittsburgh's Depleted D Pitches Shutout

Rematch of Super Bowl XL has same result; Seahawks fall, 21-0

(Newser) - Despite injuries to Pittsburgh's strong safety and nose tackle—linchpins of its 3-4 defense—the Steelers prevailed over the Seahawks, 21-0, in an echo of Super Bowl XL. Signal-caller Ben Roethlisberger was also missing his top two receivers, yet went a creative 18-of-22, including a 13-yard touchdown strike to close...

G-Men Rally, Win Battle of NY

Oct 7, 2007 8:49 PM CDT

G-Men Rally, Win Battle of NY

Jets fall 35-24 despite fumble, kickoff returns for TDs

(Newser) - The Giants overcame a fourth-quarter deficit and their own wildly uneven play to beat the Jets for four years of bragging rights in New York. Brooding, Brobdingnagian Plaxico Burress put his team ahead for good with a 53-yard touchdown catch-and-run, highlighted by a ferocious stiff-arm on Jets corner Andre Dyson,...

Broncos' Henry Won't be Deterred

Oct 6, 2007 6:26 AM CDT

Broncos' Henry Won't be Deterred

Veteran running back will start despite sprains, failed drug test

(Newser) - Travis Henry, the injured Broncos running back who leads the NFL in rushing yards but faces a year's suspension for violating league drug policy, has announced his determination to suit up this Sunday against the Chargers. Coach Mike Shanahan agreed that Henry will play, provided the knee and ankle he...