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Michael Vick Makes Most of Second Chance, Thanks to Eagles
By Kevin Blackistone - AOL NewsOne morning last spring, I sat in a National Press Club audience that was riveted to the testimony of a clean-shaven, light-skinned, middle-aged, college-educated, black man who told us how he was trying to re-establish his life after drugs cost him his livelihood and eventually his freedom. He spoke before a breakfast meeting of Samaritan Ministries of Greater Washington, which he'd turned to for a second chance at mainstream life after so many would-be employers, landlords and others had turned their backs on him because of the most-recent entry on his resume: prison inmate. The man who ...
Finch Fighting: A New Breed of Animal Cruelty
By Paul Wachter - AOL News(Feb. 22) -- America's more-unsavory pastimes have long included underground cockfighting and dogfighting scenes, but now reports point toward a new animal-cruelty trend: finch fighting. Last week, Massachusetts authorities seized more than 20 of the birds -- 6-inch "little bursts of yellow" as described by The Boston Globe -- after a home inspection in Ashland, a small town about a half-hour's drive from Boston. More than 20 Brazilian men were at the house, and some were detained by immigration authorities. The raid recalled the arrests in Connecticut last summer of 19 Brazilians involved ...
Philly Embraces Two Fallen Sports Stars
By not in system - AOL News(Dec. 7) -- In sports circles, Philadelphia has long been known for its impassioned, boisterous, and often horrifically behaved fans. Famously, they booed Santa, and they jeer visiting teams and underperforming home players with equal vehemence. As recently as this summer, a 22-year-old man was killed in a local bar brawl during a Phillies game. (I can still remember the news item I saw when I was living in the city, about a decade ago, describing a shooting death. The reason: a heated argument between two men over whether Allen Iverson or Gary Payton was the better basketball player.) And ...
Michael Vick: I'd Sign With Eagles Again
By Dan Graziano - AOL NewsPHILADELPHIA -- Michael Vick has all but disappeared, since the season began, into the Eagles' multifaceted offense and Andy Reid's secret future plans for it. But he is still MIchael Vick, convicted dogfighter and NFL lightning rod. So when he said in an interview with NBC's Bob Costas on Sunday that he'd have a hard time returning to the Eagles in his current role next year, he wasn't surprised that it became big news.But on Wednesday, before the Eagles took the field for practice, Vick spoke briefly to reporters in the locker room and wanted to make it very clear that, while he'd obviously ...
Explosive Eagles Could End Up Among League's Elite Offenses
By Dan Graziano - AOL NewsPHILADELPHIA -- You don't think of the Eagles along with the Saints or the Colts or the Patriots in terms of the number, the variety and the explosiveness of their offensive playmakers. Teams like that set the standard, and the Eagles don't feel like they fit into that kind of conversation. And that's fine, because they're not there yet.But if you watched the Eagles score on big play after big play Sunday afternoon against the Giants, you got the feel that they might very well be there soon. Andy Reid's Philadelphia offense remains a work in progress, but with the number of different weapons ...
NFL Coaches Fight Club: Marvin Lewis (3) vs. Jim Mora Jr. (6)
By Adam Gretz - AOL NewsNFL Coaches Fight Club: the Tournament. Because we have nothing better to do than predict what might happen if head coaches started punching each other in the face. More Coverage: Fight Club Introduction, 1st Round SeedsOutside of that 11-5 season in 2005, and the first five weeks of the 2009 campaign, everything about Marvin Lewis' tenure in Cincinnati has been the definition of mediocrity. Four of his seasons have ended with an 8-8 or 7-9 record, his overall mark is 50-50-1, and the Bengals have never won a playoff game with him in control. They haven't been terrible with him, but they ...
Nike Denies Deal With Michael Vick
By Dan Graziano - AOL NewsReports surfaced last night that Eagles quarterback Michael Vick had signed a new endorsement deal with Nike just months after completing his two-year prison sentence for dogfighting-related crimes. But Nike moved today to deny those stories, saying it "does not have a contractual relationship" with Vick.Nike signed Vick in 2001, when he was an NFL rookie, and released several versions of Vick signature shoes. But it terminated its relationship with Vick in 2007 after the quarterback pleaded guilty to the dogfighting charge. Vick has since returned to the NFL -- on Sunday he played in his ...
Eagles Release Jeff Garcia, Bring Back Jeremiah Trotter
By Matt Snyder - AOL NewsComing off an easy victory in Kansas City, the Eagles have made a pair of roster moves involving big names. Jeff Garcia, who was brought in as quarterback depth after Donovan McNabb fell injured, has now been released. In a corresponding move, the Eagles have brought back linebacker Jeremiah Trotter for a third stint in Philadelphia. The move to release Garcia isn't all that shocking. The Eagles lost McNabb after Week 1. At the time, Michael Vick was still suspended and Kevin Kolb had never started an NFL game. Now, Vick is back and Kolb became the first player in NFL history to throw for over ...
Michael Vick Lives in Airport Hotel, Orders Shrimp at Fancy Philly Steakhouse
By Ryan Wilson - AOL NewsSunday will mark Michael Vick's official return to the NFL. He last played in 2006 before spending most of the next two years in court or in the can for the whole sordid dogfighting thing. But the man has served his debt to society and he deserves a chance to make a living. At least that's how Eagles owner Jeffrey Lurie is rationalizing it. There will be plenty of time to dissect the nuances of Vick's performance, but for now, just know this: he fancies highfalutin' steakhouses (see Philly.com gossip video after the jump for confirmation).But there's more: Ron Mexico took his fiancé to Union ...
Fantasy Football Cut-N-Go: Who the? What the? Lynell Hamilton?
By Ryan Dembinsky - AOL NewsCut-N-Go is Fantasy Football FanHouse's weekday roundup of the NFL news with fantasy football impact. Pierre Thomas owners simply cannot catch a break. It was bad enough watching Mike Bell tear through defenses as Thomas sat out for the first two games of the season, but now that he is finally healthy (and Bell is not), according to FFToolBox, the Saints are giving first team repetitions to Lynell Hamilton (this was also mentioned in the Cram Session podcast by our Matt Snyder and Tom Herrera). Pardon my French, but who the hell is Lynell Hamilton?As a matter of fact, Lynell Hamilton came to ...
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