NFL’s Walter Jones pushes SUV around for offseason workout (The Alexander City Outlook)
NFL’s Walter Jones pushes SUV around for offseason workout (The Alexander City Outlook)
HARVEST (AP) - It’s hard to ignore a 320-pound man who pushes a sport utility vehicle through an empty parking lot at 10 a.m., so the soccer moms on the walking trail do what’s natural.
Baseball postseason changes on tap in October (Bradenton Herald)
Like many baseball fans who don’t root for a certain team north of the Skyway, I’m excited about the last two months of the regular season.
The NFL Works to Revamp Its Image (R News)
In the world of professional sports, image is everything. It sells tickets, merchandise, and TV contracts. The season hasn’t even started and it’s already been a rough year for the NFL’s image.
Hot air: NFL Network to show glimpse of Cowboys camp (Dallas Morning News)
At 7 p.m. Monday, NFL Network offers a 60-minute glimpse into Wade Phillips’ first Cowboys training camp. NFL Films will be scurrying around San Antonio over the weekend to provide taped sights and sounds. It’s the kind of access that local television stations dream about.
Connolly: Talking Ripken (Baltimore Sun)
Since 2001, my first year covering the Orioles and Cal Ripken Jr.’s final year playing for them, I’ve probably written tens of thousands of words about Aberdeen’s favorite son. Now, as No. 8 officially joins the sport’s other immortals in the Baseball Hall of Fame, writing again about Ripken seems unavoidable.
10 key questions heading into NFL season (The Shelby Star)
Don t get me wrong, I m looking forward to the Major League Baseball pennant/wild card races and the postseason as much as the next fan, but around this time every year I and many start getting excited about the upcoming NFL season.
TV SPORTS (The Myrtle Beach Sun News)
NFL Network an up-and-comer Nationally, the NFL Network is up to 44 million subscribers. That’s a 10 percent increase since the network broadcast its first game. Most of the growth has come from satellite and fiber-optic subscribers. Bottom line: NFL Network is maturing nicely.
Weekly Royals Minor League Report (The Morning News)
The 2007 Major League Baseball First-Year Player draft is now in the books. However, different from NBA and NFL drafts, you won’t see any well-suited experts on ESPN debating which teams had the best draft. It’s another of the beautiful elements of baseball. Being drafted brings only one guarantee; the battle to reach the major leagues is just beginning.
Monson: Sunday and sports pose deep dilemma (The Salt Lake Tribune)
So what would happen if the NFL or Major League Baseball one day awarded Salt Lake City a franchise? Would it prosper? Even if that success depended, as it certainly would, on heavy attendance at games played on Sundays?