NFL trying to sell Latinos on football (The Salt Lake Tribune)
NFL trying to sell Latinos on football (The Salt Lake Tribune)
MIAMI - For 14-year-old Emanuel Arrosa, life is about playing - or watching ‘’futbol.'’ Like millions of Latinos whose passion is soccer, the son of Argentinean parents can’t remember a time when he couldn’t dribble a ball with his feet. About American football, Arrosa is less enthusiastic. ‘’It’s OK, but it doesn’t take the same agility. You just hit people.'’ Yet if the NFL can work …
Sports in brief (Detroit Free Press)
Reggie Bush was fined $5,000 by the NFL for taunting during his 88-yard touchdown reception in New Orleans’ NFC championship game loss last week.
Rex: Bring it on! (Trentonian)
MIAMI — Rex Grossman s baseball cap was on backwards and there was some beard stubble on his face. Less than a week before the Super Bowl, the Chicago Bears quarterback was relaxed and at ease.
NFL fines Bush for taunts during NFC title game (Fort Wayne Journal Gazette)
MIAMI Reggie Bush was fined $5,000 by the NFL for taunting during his 88-yard touchdown reception in New Orleans NFC Championship game loss at Chicago last week.
NFL increases steroid fines (Boston Herald)
NEW YORK - The NFL is going deeper into the wallets of players who get caught using steroids and other performance-enhancing drugs. After four months of sometimes intense negotiations, the league and…
NFL is trying, but do fans care? (Home News Tribune)
Those more cynical about these things might question the timing. What better way to kick off Super Bowl hype, after all, than with a feel-good announcement about the NFL’s new-and-improved drug-testing program.
NFL tops baseball in public’s eye for drug policy (The Charlotte Observer)
By John Smallwood Philadelphia Daily News (MCT) PHILADELPHIA - It doesn’t always make sense, but perception sometimes goes further than reality. If you analyze it logically, the National Football League, a sport in which strength and power can give one player a considerable advantage over another, would come under heavy scrutiny for illegal performance-enhancing drug use.
Sports briefly (Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune)
BASEBALL Bonds, Giants finish deal with physical Barry Bonds and the San Francisco Giants completed a $15.8 million, one-year contract Monday night after the slugger spent hours at the ballpark being examined by team doctors. A baseball official confirmed the deal, speaking on condition of anonymity because the Giants had not yet announced it. The contract was finalized nearly two months after …
Krieger: Sorry, congressman, NFL still doesn’t get it (Rocky Mountain News)
Musings for a Monday morning on the NFL, Congress, compromising photographs and other sporting distractions . . .
Talkin’ baseball with Hammerin’ Hank (The News-Press)
“I knew that I loved to play baseball. And I knew that I might be pretty good at.”