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Latest NFL Stories by Kevin Blackistone

• Paul Brown, Not Don Shula, Merits Honor
• By Kevin Blackistone 2/01/2010 11:20 PM ET
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• It's difficult to criticize our favorite new NFL coach, the Jets' hoot-from-the-lip Rex Ryan, for his juvenile reaction to Dolphins' fans heckling him last weekend at an MMA card in Sunrise, Fla. The ... More »
• Senior Bowl Black-and-White for QBs
• By Kevin Blackistone 1/28/2010 11:58 PM ET
• • 58 Comments
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• He stands 6-foot-4 and weighs 220 pounds, which is pretty much the prototypical frame of an NFL quarterback. He passed for over 2,000 yards and ran for more than 1,000 last season for the second ... More »
• Caldwell's Dungy-Like Demeanor Is a Hit
• By Kevin Blackistone 1/24/2010 11:10 PM ET
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• INDIANAPOLIS – Jim Irsay all but swore early Sunday evening that his new coach, Jim Caldwell, who was taking his Colts to the Super Bowl, was different from his retired coach, Tony Dungy, who ... More »
• No Surprise Here: Chargers Choke Again
• By Kevin Blackistone 1/18/2010 12:00 AM ET
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• SAN DIEGO -- On Saturday night at Seau's The Restaurant, the namesake eatery of the Chargers' former great linebacker Junior Seau, a fan of the local NFL franchise asked a quartet of us from the media ... More »
• You've Been Warned: Cards Are a Threat
• By Kevin Blackistone 1/11/2010 12:00 AM ET
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• GLENDALE, Ariz. -- Veteran NFL linebacker Bertrand Berry, his left arm in a cast from hand to elbow, stood before his locker early Sunday evening in his team's home dressing room at University of ... More »
• No Knee Jerk, 'Boys Are Team to Beat
• By Kevin Blackistone 1/03/2010 10:20 PM ET
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• ARLINGTON, Texas – Idling in the limousine lane outside of Cowboys Stadium's main entrance early Sunday afternoon, as more than 100,000 people made their way in, was something I'd never seen ... More »
• Cowboys Secure Playoff Berth, Jerry Jones' Approval
• By Kevin Blackistone 12/28/2009 2:20 AM ET
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• LANDOVER, Md. -- Wade Phillips stood in a small room across from the visitor's locker room in FedEx Field as Sunday faded into Monday, as dry as could be. (I'm talking about his clothing and not his ... More »
• Chris Henry Another Senseless Statistic
• By Kevin Blackistone 12/17/2009 7:25 PM ET
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• On the same day just over two and half years ago, NFL commissioner Roger Goodell suspended a couple of former college teammates for running afoul of the league's expectations for personal conduct. ... More »
• Rehab Becomes Reality for Michael Vick
• By Kevin Blackistone 12/15/2009 12:25 AM ET
• • 52 Comments
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• A week and half ago at a middle school in Newport News, Va., a young man stood before a few hundred kids and told them how wrongly he had lived much of his life and implored them not to do the same. ... More »
• Expanded NFL Season Not Worth Increasing Injury Risks
• By Kevin Blackistone 12/03/2009 9:45 PM ET
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• It is too bad NFL football players aren't unpaid, poorly cared for and voiceless fighting dogs like the ones Michael Vick was convicted of so cruelly mistreating in an illegal gambling operation. Then ... More »
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