SPORTS SLATE (The Pueblo Chieftain)
SPORTS SLATE (The Pueblo Chieftain)
TODAY Baseball: San Diego at Colorado, 1:05 p.m.; Colorado Springs at Memphis, 1:10 p.m. NFL football: Denver Broncos training camp, Dove Valley Golf: Colorado Open, Denver (last of four days) Motorsports: Drag racing, Pueblo Motorsports Park (second of two days) MONDAY Baseball: Milwaukee at Colorado,
Wyche coaching these days at South Carolina high school (Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune)
GREENVILLE, S.C. - A healthier, happy Sam Wyche is still in the game — even if his to-do list at Pickens High School includes things he never did in the NFL. Sweep out the locker rooms? You bet. Simplify his vast playbook for the high school game? Easily done. Watch his starting quarterback take a few days away from camp to play baseball? Not a problem. “Money’s tight up here. They’re looking
What to look for this NFL season (Newsday)
You won’t find football players feeling that same sense of renewal their baseball brethren experience when they report to spring training.
Contract protection lax in NFL (Kane County Chronicle)
Bobby Gray remembers the searing pain and then, an instant later, an even worse feeling. Gray, a Bears safety, tore up his knee during a preseason game at Indianapolis one year ago.
NFL, cable operators square off (USA Today)
Leave it to the NFL to take on the most stubborn, monopolistic sector of the media world: cable TV operators. The NFL’s plan to try to force cable providers such as Time Warner and Cablevision to carry its NFL Network channel by going over their heads to their customers with a $100 million ad campaign sets up a clash of superpowers.
Peter King’s training-camp postcard: Buccaneers (Sports Illustrated)
At Disney’s Wide World of Sports Complex in Orlando. The most interesting place for any NFL training camp. If you’ve never been here — and I believe two thirds of America actually has — the Bucs train in the middle of a huge complex of soccer, baseball and softball fields, and there is a basketball facility next door that hosted a huge AAU tournament this week. Michael Jordan was here to watch
Rowe: Parity new buzzword in baseball (Springfield News Sun)
Parity Pete Rozelle would have loved the current state of Major League Baseball. The late NFL commissioner was always trying to lead the NFL out of the days of dynasties and into more of a free trade market so that cities with teams who rarely contended for championships still, theoretically, had a fair chance to rebuild their organizations and compete with the league s big bullies and