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Dallas Cowboys 2011 NFL Team Preview
NFL The best thing about this year is that it isn’t last year. The Cowboys’ 1–7 start in 2010 quickly ended any Super Bowl talk. The team is looking to start over this year with a new head coach ...
1 year ago by Athlon Sports Tags: NFL, Austin Miles, Dez Bryant, Jason Witten, Jerry Jones, NFC East, Tony Romo

Detroit Lions 2011 NFL Team Preview
NFL The streaks are almost all gone now, which means the Detroit Lions finally are ready to put their past behind them. The Matt Millen era is a fading memory, along with the historically awful 0–16 ...
1 year ago by Athlon Sports Tags: NFL, NFC, Brandon Pettitgrew, Calvin Johnson, Detroit Lions, Jahvid Best, Matthew Stafford, Ndamukong Suh, NFC North

Cleveland Browns 2011 NFL Team Preview
NFL The team that has made a habit of reinventing itself will try yet another reinvention in 2011. The Cleveland Browns begin 2011 with their sixth new coach since 1999. Hold up the cue cards; the line...
1 year ago by Athlon Sports Tags: NFL, Cleveland Browns, Colt McCoy, Joe Thomas, Josh Cribbs, Peyton Hillis

Baltimore Ravens 2011 NFL Team Preview
NFL The usually stoic personality of Ravens quarterback Joe Flacco momentarily disappeared. Joe Cool was on fire. Used for target practice by a legion of critics despite three consecutive playoff appea...
1 year ago by Athlon Sports Tags: NFL, Baltimore Ravens, Ed Reed, Joe Flacco, Ray Lewis, Ray Rice

Cincinnati Bengals 2011 NFL Team Preview
NFL Marvin Lewis is seeking a fresh start for 2011, and in an offseason filled with labor strife and uncertainty, the Bengals faced their biggest upheaval of personnel since their head coach’s first ...
1 year ago by Athlon Sports Tags: NFL, A.J. Green, Andy Dalton, Cedric Benson, Cincinnati Bengals

Pittsburgh Steelers 2011 NFL Team Preview
NFL Few teams were better positioned than the Steelers to weather the lockout — and specifically the missing offseason workouts and practices that were a casualty of the NFL’s first work stoppage s...
1 year ago by Athlon Sports Tags: NFL, Ben Roethlisberger, James Harrison, Mike Tomlin, Pittsburgh Steelers, Rashard Mendenhall, Troy Polamalu

Chicago Bears: 2011 NFL Team Preview
NFL With an offense that remains a work in progress, the Chicago Bears will again depend on an elite defense to do most of the heavy lifting after falling a game short of the Super Bowl. The defens...
1 year ago by Athlon Sports Tags: NFL, NFC, Brian Urlacher, Chicago Bears, Jay Cutler, Julius Peppers, NFC North

Green Bay Packers 2011 NFL Team Preview
NFL Aaron Rodgers fancies himself as something of an amateur NFL historian, so it hardly came as a surprise when the Green Bay Packers quarterback had his answer at the ready when asked during the offs...
1 year ago by Athlon Sports Tags: NFL, NFC, Aaron Rodgers, Clay Matthews, Green Bay Packers, Greg Jennings, Jermichael Finley, NFC North, Ryan Grant

Minnesota Vikings 2011 NFL Team Preview
NFL The Vikings’ expectations for 2011 can be found somewhere between promise and denial. Several talented pieces remain from a 2009 team that was one botched play from a Super Bowl berth, but those ...
1 year ago by Athlon Sports Tags: NFL, NFC, Adrian Peterson, Donovan McNabb, Jared Allen, Minnesota Vikings, NFC North, Percy Harvin

Fantasy Football: Standard League Mock Draft
NFL Athlon Sports' second post-lockout mock draft is here. This week, we cater to the old school players — those in leagues with no flex, no PPR and four points for passing touchdowns. This format, h...
1 year ago by Athlon Sports Tags: NFL, Fantasy

Texas A&M's Gmail Inbox
College Football It's been a big week for Texas A&M. First they were joining the SEC, then they weren't even invited, and now they're leaving their options open.  Since you can learn a lot about s...
1 year ago by Athlon Sports Tags: College Football, Overtime, Big 12, Pac 12, SEC, Ryan Tannehill, Houston, Nebraska, Texas A&M, Texas Longhorns, Funny

Jeremy Maclin's Mystery Illness: Fantasy Discount?
Fantasy With the no-news emerging about the Philadelphia Eagles' Jeremy Maclin's mystery illness that's plagued him for the last five months, it's hard to tell where he should go in your fantasy football d...
1 year ago by Athlon Sports Tags: Fantasy, News, Jeremy Maclin, NFC East, Philadelphia Eagles

Fantasy Football: 2011 Values and Overvalues
NFL Athlon Sports has come up with plenty of value players, overvalued players and top rookies in our Best Bets story, but here we highlight a few of them. Here are a number of players we like with goo...
1 year ago by Athlon Sports Tags: NFL, Fantasy, Fantasy Football, Overvalued, undervalued

PGA Championship Photos
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1 year ago by Athlon Sports Tags: Golf

Jason Terry Appears In World's Whitest Rap Video
Overtime What do you get when you give an old white man with a ridiculously large ego a lot of money? One of the most excruciating rap videos of all time. I wonder if Jason Terry had heard this song wh...
1 year ago by Athlon Sports Tags: Overtime, News, Jason Terry

The New Big 12 Conference Logo
Overtime With Texas A&M probably announcing on Monday their move to the SEC, and with Nebraska and Colorado making their exits last year, the Big 12 is going through a lot of changes. How many team...
1 year ago by Athlon Sports Tags: Overtime, Big 12, SEC, Colorado, Nebraska, oklahoma, Texas, Texas A&M, SEC Expansion

Fantasy Football: Breaking down the New York Giants
NFL NEW YORK GIANTS • Inside the Locker Room With Ralph Vacchiano of the New York Daily News Will Eli Manning's single-season production surpass Peyton's in 2011? No, and I think we all nee...
1 year ago by Athlon Sports Tags: NFL, Fantasy, Eli Manning, Hakeem Nicks, New York Giants

Kansas Jayhawks Cheerleaders
College Football Kansas Cheerleaders from the Athlon Archive! ...
1 year ago by Athlon Sports Tags: College Football, Kansas

Notre Dame's Hottest Fan: Leslie
Overtime Notre Dame football just got a lot hotter. ...
1 year ago by Athlon Sports Tags: Overtime, Notre Dame, Notre Dame Fighting Irish, Hottest Fans

Oregon's Hottest Fan: Chrissy
Overtime Chrissy shows off her supports of the Oregon Ducks. And a little more. ...
1 year ago by Athlon Sports Tags: Overtime, Oregon, Oregon Ducks, Hottest Fans

Fantasy Football: 2-Quarterback Mock Draft
NFL Athlon Sports' first post-lockout mock draft is here. We started with a 10-team, two-quarterback, 16-round format. We also did a 20-round mock draft with IDPs for Athlon Sports 2011 Fantasy Foo...
1 year ago by Athlon Sports Tags: NFL, Fantasy

20 Unintentionally Dirty Sports Photos
Overtime Ahh, photography. It can catch a split-second moment in time and turn it into a hilarious photo that can be interpreted the completely wrong way. And sports provides more of these moments than most...
1 year ago by Athlon Sports Tags: Overtime, Funny Sports Photos, Unintentionally Dirty Sports photos

Oregon Ducks Hotties
Overtime These Oregon hotties love college football almost as much as they love the camera. ...
1 year ago by Athlon Sports Tags: Overtime, Oregon, Hottest Fans

LSU Tigers Perfume For Women
Overtime Who thinks LSU Tigers Perfume for Women is a good idea? Let's think about this for a second. At some point one executive said to another, "You know what we should do? Make an LSU Tigers perfum...
1 year ago by Athlon Sports Tags: Overtime, LSU Tigers, LSU Perfume

Fantasy Football: Breaking down the Green Bay Packers
NFL GREEN BAY • Inside the Locker Room With Jason Wilde of ESPNMilwaukee.com Who is deserving of a higher draft pick: James Starks or Ryan Grant? Grant. While Starks was a pleasant late-se...
1 year ago by Athlon Sports Tags: NFL, Fantasy, Aaron Rogers, Green Bay Packers, Greg Jennings, James Jones, Jermichael Finley

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