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Nevada sports book first to release pro football season win totals

RENO -- Pro Football Season Win Totals are up! Atlantis Casino Resort Spa in Reno, NV is the first sports book to hang Pro Football Season Win Totals. Steve Mikkelson, Race & Sports Book Manager for Atlantis, hung the first lines at 2p.m. (PST) today. For the past seven years, ...

FILE - In this Feb. 25, 2013 file photo, Notre Dame linebacker Manti Te'o runs a drill during the NFL football scouting combine in Indianapolis. Baltimore Ravens general manager and executive vice president Ozzie Newsome hopes to fill out the team's roster this weekend by making the most of 12 draft picks. Te’o could be an option, although several mock drafts have him going to Minnesota with the 25th pick. (AP Photo/Dave Martin, File)

Te'o's time is 2nd round, 6th pick to San Diego

Manti Te'o is headed to San Diego. The Notre Dame All-America linebacker was chosen sixth in the second round by the Chargers, drawing a loud roar from the fans at Radio City Music Hall. Te'o, who led the Fighting Irish to the national championship game, was projected as a first-rounder ...

Super Bowl Power Outage Emails

Baltimore built a 28–6 lead early in the third quarter of Super Bowl XLVII, Feb. 3, 2013, before a partial power outage in the Superdome suspended play for 34 minutes.

Email: Feds aware of power outage tweets made before Super Bowl

An email from Homeland Security officials indicates that the federal government investigated postings made on Twitter about the Super Bowl power outage before the event happened. Cox Washington bureau reporter Scott MacFarlane obtained the emails on Friday. One email sent at 9:54 p.m. states "Digital Sandbox, at the New Orleans ...

In this Oct. 13, 2012, file photo, Southern California's Matt Barkley throws a pass against Washington during an NCAA college football game in Seattle. Barkley was chosen with the 98th overall pick in the fourth round of the NFL draft by the Philadelphia Eagles on Saturday, April 27, 2013.  (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson, File)

Scenes from the 2013 NFL Draft

The NFL stars of tomorrow hear their names called in the first round of the 2013 NFL Draft.

NFL star Kerry Rhodes 'I am not gay'

  NFL star Kerry Rhodes -- who's been in the league since 2005 -- tells TMZ he's not gay ... despite reports suggesting otherwise. Photos surfaced Thursday on MediaTakeOut.com showing 30-year-old Rhodes with his arm around a male friend. The site didn't say outright Rhodes was gay, but there was ...

NFL star Kerry Rhodes 'I am not gay'

  NFL star Kerry Rhodes -- who's been in the league since 2005 -- tells TMZ he's not gay ... despite reports suggesting otherwise. Photos surfaced Thursday on MediaTakeOut.com showing 30-year-old Rhodes with his arm around a male friend. The site didn't say outright Rhodes was gay, but there was ...

Four NFL players may come out as gay, former Raven says

Four NFL players may come out as gay, former Raven says

Former Baltimore Ravens linebacker Brendon Ayanbadejo told The Baltimore Sun that several current NFL players plan to come out before the 2013 season.

Move over Puppy Bowl, here come the kitties

Perhaps someone at the Hallmark Channel noted the proliferation of cat videos on the Internet, or possibly someone just thought felines should have equal time when it comes to faux sporting events. For whatever reason, the 2014 Superbowl will now have a new foe fighting for eyeballs -- the Kitten ...

The 40-yard dash has long been used as a way to evaluate the speed of football players at the NFL Scouting Combine. (The origin comes from the average distance of a punt being 40 yards.) Before 2000, players have been clocked using a stop watch. Nowadays a laser is used to clock player times. Here are some of the best times run:

Fastest players ever at the combine

The 40-yard dash has long been used as a way to evaluate the speed of football players at the NFL Scouting Combine. (The origin comes from the average distance of a punt being 40 yards.) Before 2000, players have been clocked using a stop watch. Nowadays a laser is used ...

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