Sports Articles

2010-09-30 | Jim Murphy

New York Jets cornerback Darrelle Revis is continuing to recover from his strained hamstring, but is still at least a week away from returning. As a result, he’ll miss Sunday's game against the Buffalo Bills. Revis hasn't practiced since sustaining the injury in a Monday Night Football game against New England two weeks ago and has been downgraded to 'expected to miss' on the latest injury report. Jets' coach Rex Ryan didn't completely rule him out on Wednesday, but didn’t exactly offer much hope for him to play either:

2010-09-29 | Jim Murphy

Trent Edwards was released by the Buffalo Bills on Monday, but he’s not going to be out of work for long. The Jacksonville Jaguars claimed Edwards off of waivers on Tuesday and will sign a contract with the quarterback on Wednesday. He’s expected to join the team at practice later in the day. Edwards will make $1.65 million for the 2010 season under his existing contract, which the Bills have already paid him 291,176 of. The Jaguars will pick up the tab for the rest of that amount. The New York Jets also put in a claim for Edwards, but Jacksonville was awarded his services based on having the worse record of the two teams.

2010-09-28 | Jim Murphy

The San Francisco 49ers’ offense is in a major funk, and that led to the dismissal of offensive coordinator Jimmy Raye on Monday. They dropped to 0-3 after an embarrassing and non-competitive loss to the Kansas City Chiefs on Sunday, and for a team that was expected to contend for a divisional title the time to get things turned around is now. They’ll try to start in a tough venue—at the Georgia Dome against the Atlanta Falcons who are tied with Tampa Bay and New Orleans for the NFC South led.

2010-09-27 | Jim Murphy

The Denver Broncos lost to the Indianapolis Colts 27-13 on Sunday and they did so without leading rusher Knowshon Moreno. The NFL injury report indicated a hamstring related issue, though Broncos coach Josh McDaniels would only reveal that Moreno suffered "a little something" at practice that kept him out of Sunday’s game. Moreno has 2 touchdowns and 111 yards rushing on 39 carries in two games this season.

2010-09-27 | Jim Murphy

The Buffalo Bills have benched starting quarterback Trent Edwards for the second time in two years, and this time they look ready to part ways. Ryan Fitzpatrick played well in a competitive Bills’ loss to the New England Patriots on the field while in the front office rumors have surfaced that Edwards is on the trading block. Fitzpatrick threw for 247 yards with two touchdowns—and two interceptions—as the Bills lost to the New England Patriots 38-30 in Foxboro, Massachusetts.

2010-09-27 | Jim Murphy

The crisis mode in Dallas has abated somewhat, as the team won’t be heading into their bye week at 0-3. Tony Romo threw a pair of touchdown passes to Roy Williams and Marion Barber ran for another score as the Cowboys beat their in-state rivals the Houston Texans 27-13 at Reliant Stadium. After a closely contested first half, the Cowboys broke the game open in the second and opened a 27-6 lead. The Texans added a score in the final minutes of the game to make the final result look better than it really was.

2010-09-23 | Jim Murphy

The New York Jets have lost one of their best run defenders with the season ending injury to nose guard Chris Jenkins, and now must hit the road without the services of all world safety Darrelle Revis. Revis re-aggrevated his injured hamstring in last Sunday’s win against the New England Patriots and has been ruled out for this game by head coach Rex Ryan. They’ll face a Miami Dolphins team that has won their first two games on the road and is making their 2010 home debut. New York will be looking to end a three game Miami winning streak in the series, with the Dolphins winning all three games outright as underdogs.

2010-09-23 | Jim Murphy

The Pittsburgh Steelers are running out of quarterbacks. Ben Roethlisberger has two games left on his league mandated suspension. Byron Leftwich still isn’t ready to return to action following a knee ligament injury sustained in the final preseason game. Third stringer Dennis Dixon started the first two games, but left last week’s win at Tennessee with a knee injury that required surgery and will keep him out of action for up to six weeks. As a result, the Steelers turned to their last healthy option on the roster as coach Mike Tomlin announced that veteran Charlie Batch will start Pittsburgh’s road game against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers on Sunday.

2010-09-20 | Jim Murphy

Much of the pre-game hype surrounding the New York Jets’ home matchup against the New England Patriots centered on the head to head battle between Darrelle Revis and Randy Moss. Unfortunately, that battle never really materialized as Revis injured his hamstring late in the first half and watched the rest of the game from the sidelines. Revis will have an MRI early this week, but he says that it’s not a pull or tear based on how it feels. The Jets won the game 28-14.

2010-09-20 | Jim Murphy

Sunday night’s game between the Indianapolis Colts and New York Giants had been billed as the classic sibling rivalry game pitting Eli Manning against his older brother Peyton Manning. In this instance, the elder Manning got the best of his younger brother as the Colts easily beat the Giants 38-14. Peyton Manning finished 255 yards, 3 TD passes and no interceptions while Eli put up 161 yards, 2 TD passes and 1 interception. The Colts got a boost from their rushing game as Joseph Addai and Donald Brown combined for 161 yards on the ground.

2010-09-17 | Jim Murphy

The highly anticipated early season matchup between New England Patriots’ receiver Randy Moss and his nemesis Darrelle Revis of the New York Jets may not come to fruition. At the very least, it could be diminished somewhat due to a nagging hamstring issue suffered by the Jets’ closeout cornerback. Revis missed all training camp due to a contract dispute and was used in a limited zone coverage role in New York’s season opening loss to the Baltimore Ravens. He was expected to be used in single coverage on Moss this Sunday, but coach Rex Ryan may have to come up with a different plan if Revis is limited.

2010-09-16 | Jim Murphy

The Carolina Panthers received some good news on Thursday—starting quarterback Matt Moore has been medically cleared after suffering a concussion in the season opening loss to the New York Giants. Moore has returned to practice, and is expected to start on Sunday when the Panthers host the Tampa Bay Buccaneers at Bank of America Stadium in Charlotte, North Carolina. The Bucs have also dealt with injuries to their quarterback in 2010—starter Josh Freeman suffered a broken thumb in preseason and is back in the lineup though not 100%.

2010-09-14 | Jim Murphy

It’s been an eventful week for New England Patriots’ quarterback Tom Brady. Within the past 7 days he led the Patriots to a win over Cincinnati in the NFL regular season opener, signed a contract that made him the highest paid player in the league and escaped without injury from a car accident in Boston’s Back Bay area. On Monday, Brady talked about the accident with the media for the first time and expressed his gratitude for surviving the incident relatively unscathed.

2010-09-10 | Jim Murphy

The New England Patriots got an unexpected scare on Thursday when quarterback Tom Brady—who, ironically, was in the process of finalizing a contract extension with the team—was involved in a car accident in Boston’s Back Bay area. Fortunately for all concerned, the incident turned out to be minor with Brady escaping without any injury and the other motorist suffering only superficial lacerations. Brady made it to practice, and suffered no ill effects from the experience.

2010-09-09 | Jim Murphy

C.J. Spiller was a game changing running back during his college career at Clemson, and he’s looking like he may have the same impact in the NFL. He quickly made a statement in the preseason—getting significant playing time due to injuries to veterans Marshawn Lynch and Fred Jackson, Spiller scored three touchdowns in three games. Overall, he had 26 carries for 122 yards and provided Buffalo with a big play rushing threat that they haven’t had since the Thurman Thomas era. Still, it was something of a surprise when Bills’ coach Chan Gailey named Spiller the starting running back for the team’s opening game against Miami on Sunday night.

2010-09-08 | Jim Murphy

Things briefly appeared to be looking up for Pittsburgh Steelers’ starting quarterback late last week. He had his league mandated suspension reduced from six games to four after a productive meeting with NFL commissioner Roger Goodell. In the past few days, however, it’s become apparent that his biggest problems may still be ahead as he attempts to regain the trust of his coaches and teammates. Roethlisberger has been a team captain since 2007, but he won’t be one this year—he wasn’t voted to the honorary position by his teammates. Instead, captains this year will be receiver Hines Ward, tight end Heath Miller and linebackers James Farrior and Keyaron Fox.

2010-09-07 | Jim Murphy

During his college years at USC, Matt Leinart was a Heisman Trophy winner and two time National Champion. Things haven’t gone as well during his NFL career. In three years he’s gone from a high draft pick expected to be the Arizona Cardinals’ quarterback of the future, to someone the team considered completely expendable. This weekend, the Cardinals released Leinart outright and left the former Arizona starting quarterback unemployed as a free agent. Leinart wasn’t out of work for long, signing with the Houston Texans, but he’s currently the #3 QB on the depth chart behind Matt Schaub and Dan Orlovsky.

2010-09-03 | Jim Murphy

This isn’t exactly how a team that went 1-11 SU in 2009 wants to start the season. Miami-Ohio tries to bounce back from one of the worst seasons in program history, and they couldn’t pick a bigger challenge to open the 2010 campaign—in Gainesville at ‘The Swamp’ against the University of Florida in the first game of the post Tim Tebow era. The Gators opened a -30’ point home favorite and college football betting enthusiasts have pushed that line up to -35’ with the total set at 52’.