Athlon Sports Features
NFL: Free Agency Preview
The craziness of NFL free agency begins Friday. Mike Nahrstedt previews the upcoming open-market period and explains what could happen if a new CBA isn't reached before Friday.
[FULL STORY]NFL: Combine - Defense
Put down your stopwatch and step away from the orange cones, the NFL Scouting Combine is officially over. Check out which defensive players made the most of their job interview in Indianapolis.
[FULL STORY]NFL: Combine - Offense
While the Vancouver Olympics were wrapping up, the NFL Scouting Combine was just getting started. Check out which offensive players made the most of their job interview in Indianapolis.
[FULL STORY]NFL: Lockout Would Cost League Too Much
The NFL, by any calculation, is at the height of its all-time popularity. So it would be a shame if the owners and players managed to screw that up with a 2011 lockout.
[FULL STORY]NFL: Athlon's All-AFC and All-NFC Teams
The Pro Bowl has turned into a joke, but that doesn't mean the league's All-Stars should be discounted. Here's how Pro Bowl lineups would look if it were up to Athlon Sports, plus picks for the major award winners.
[FULL STORY]NFL: Athlon's All-Rookie Team
Some of them were the stars of last April's Draft and others flew under the radar, but all of Athlon's Rookie Team members excelled in their first season in the league.
[FULL STORY]NFL: Rest-Over-Rust Prevails
Three of the four teams that took the first week of the playoffs off advanced to the conference championship games this weekend. Mike Nahrstedt provides his take on the divisional round of games.
[FULL STORY]NFL: Divisional Weekend Preview
Eight teams remain in the quest for the Vince Lombardi Trophy and Mike Nahrstedt has your divisional round preview for this weekend's four games.
[FULL STORY]NFL: Sorting out a Wild weekend
A trio of Week 17 rematches headlined Wild Card weekend in the NFL, and in two of the three scenarios, the victor did not change. What did we learn from the first week of the playoffs?
[FULL STORY]NFL: Wild Card Weekend
If familiarity does, indeed, breed contempt, there will be no love lost between combatants in the NFL’s wild card weekend. Three of the games are rematches of games played just last week, the fourth is a rematch from earlier this season.
[FULL STORY]NFL: End of the year power rankings
The NFL playoffs are set to begin this weekend but first, Mike Nahrstedt wraps up the regular season with the final edition of his Power Rankings column.
[FULL STORY]Ravens sew up postseason berth with win
Willis McGahee scored all three touchdowns for Baltimore to get the Ravens into the playoffs with a 21-13 win over the Oakland Raiders.
[FULL STORY]NFL: Week 17 Preview
It's the final week of the NFL's regular season, and that means there are some huge games on the slate ... and plenty of unimportant ones. Mike Nahrstedt runs through them all in his Week 17 Preview.
[FULL STORY]NFL: Week 16 Power Rankings
The Colts sat their starters and took their first loss of the season, but did Mike Nahrstedt bump them from the top spot of this week's power rankings?
[FULL STORY]NFL: Week 15 Preview
The Bengals play one of their biggest games of the season Sunday at San Diego with very heavy hearts. Mike Nahrstedt looks at that game and the other 14 on the weekend slate in his Week 15 preview.
[FULL STORY]NFL: Bubble teams vying for playoff spots
Nine of the NFL playoff spots are pretty much set. That leaves only three spots realistically open for a big group of bubble teams. Ralph Vacchiano takes a quick look at those teams and their chances for extending their season beyond Week 17.
[FULL STORY]NFL: Week 14 Preview
We have reached the season’s quarter pole, the point at which the big games get bigger and the lesser games start to fall off the map entirely. Mike Nahrstedt looks at them all in his Week 14 NFL Preview.
[FULL STORY]NFL: Week 13 Power Rankings
The Colts and Saints remained undefeated in decidedly different fashions this week but they're both still atop this week's power rankings.
[FULL STORY]Fantasy Updates - PlayerScope
Donte Stallworth
The receiver-needy Ravens signed Stallworth to a one-year contract....
[FULL STORY]Mark Clayton
The early word on Clayton (knee) is that he is unlikely to play in Week 15....
[FULL STORY]L.J. Smith
He has a hamstring injury but did practice Wednesday and Thursday on a limited basis....
[FULL STORY]Ray Rice
Rice, who is expected to be the lead runner in the Ravens' three-pronged attack (with Le'Ron McClain and Willis McGahee), had 99 total yards in a preseason game against Carolina on Saturday night. He had 10 carries for 32 yards and eight catches for 67 yards....
[FULL STORY]Joe Flacco
Flacco had a nearly perfect preseason game against Carolina on Saturday night. He completed 23 of 28 passes for 247 yards, one TD and no interceptions....
[FULL STORY]Derrick Mason
Mason suffered a dislocated middle finger on his right hand in yesterday's practice. He sat out the afternoon session. Coach John Harbaugh didn't seem to think the injury was a big issue. ...
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Vacchiano: Patroits are the favorites in '07
A lot of things can change between now and next February. But the events of draft weekend, and some of the events of the two months before, have Ralph Vacchiano convinced that the Pats are the early favorite to win Super Bowl XLII.
Vacchiano: Quinn's value being overlooked
No player in this year’s draft has seen his stock yo-yo more than former Notre Dame quarterback Brady Quinn. Ralph Vacchiano says the "Golden Boy" will be a great pick up for whichever team doesn't out-think themselves.
Vacchiano: NFL must send message to teams
NFL commissioner Roger Goodell suspended Pacman Jones and Chris Henry on Tuesday for their off-the-field problems. Ralph Vacchiano applauds the decision but says the league should focus on punishing the teams as well.
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