NFL suspends Saints coach Payton for one year without pay

REPORT: The NFL announced Wednesday that New Orleans Saints coach Sean Payton will be suspended for one season without pay for his involvement in the team's bounty program. Saints general manager Mickey Loomis has been suspended for eight games. Former defensive coordinator Gregg Williams has been suspended indefinitely.

The team has also been fined $500,000 and will have to give up its second-round picks in the 2012 and 2013 NFL Drafts.

In addition, Saints assistant head coach Joe Vitt has been suspended without pay for the first six games of the 2012 season.

Payton's suspension is without pay. It will begin April 1. Loomis' suspension will be for the first eight games of the 2012 season.

The NFL revealed March 2 the findings of a lengthy investigation into a Saints "bounty" program that gave thousands of dollars in payoffs to players for hits that knocked opponents out of games. The program, administered by then-defensive coordinator Gregg Williams, reached its height in 2009, the season the Saints won the Super Bowl.

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ESPN: Peyton Manning picks Denver Broncos; Tim Tebow to be traded?

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OP ED: Jeremy Lin 是台灣人!

Look, I been to Taiwan. I'm married to the most beautiful Taiwanese woman that ever graced the earth. This whole "Taiwan is China" debate continues only because the big, bad evil Communist regime of China is holding guns at every's head demanding that everyone recognize Taiwan as China. The simple matter-of-fact is that Taiwan is NOT China. One can argue Taiwan is the true China in the way they have kept the traditions of ancient times including the writings and language.

Yahoo! Sports: Tom Brady in postgame daze of disappointment after another Super Bowl loss to the Giants

The New England Patriots fall to the New York Giants for the third straight game this in the Super Rematch 21-17.

What else is left to be said?

CNN: Anger flares in Egypt after 79 die in soccer riot

 

REPORT: Egyptians began three days of mourning Thursday for the 79 people who perished at a soccer riot in the Mediterranean city of Port Said, a disaster one team official called "a black day for football."
Dried blood caked seats in the stadium where fans of the hometown Al-Masry club stormed the field following the team's 3-1 win over Cairo's Al-Ahly club. Rival fans battled one another with rocks and chairs, while witnesses said many of the Al-Masry fans carried knives and sticks. Many of the dead suffocated in a crush as fans tried to flee the stadium, only to find a locked steel gate blocking their escape.
In the aftermath, horrified fans questioned why police didn't stop the Al-Masry fans from rushing the visitors' stands, why exits were barred and how fans brought weapons into the stadium.

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Egypt soccer riot leaves more than 70 dead | Sports | National Post

REPORT: Riots after a soccer match on Wednesday in Egypt’s Port Said left 73 people dead, medics said.

Egypt’s Field Marshal Mohamed Hussein Tantawi, the head of the country’s ruling military council, ordered two helicopters be sent to the area, to fly out some of the visiting Al Ahli soccer team and its fans, military sources said.

The helicopters will transfer the injured to military hospitals, the sources said.

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Super! Wes Welker to wed - BostonHerald.com

The New England Patriots' Wes Welker is getting married! Finace? Anna Burns the 2005 Miss Hoosters International.

Eagles, Phillies, Flyers; Philadelphia sports fans are on top - Michael Rosenberg - SI.com

Eagles, Phillies, Flyers; Philadelphia sports fans are on top - Michael Rosenberg - SI.com
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BRADY IN CAR ACCIDENT THIS MORNING! =0

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WHAT A GOAL!

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OP ED: Goodbye, NFL.

Enough is enough. I have followed football for what seems like 4 years. The New England Patriots have been my team since Tom Brady won his first Super Bowl ring in a thrilling game against the St. Louis Rams. Its been a long time since that awesome Super Bowl win.

Over the years I have seen the rise and fall of great teams. The Rams and Raiders are a joke. The Patriots have stagnated due to personnel shifts. The Cardinals are a legit team. The Saints won their first Super Bowl on their first visit to the Super Bowl against the 4-time MVP winner Peyton Manning and his Indianapolis Colts. In the past 3 years I made some bold predictions. I am pleased to say that I have been proven right about most of them. Before the 2006 season got under way, I had the opportunity to watch a college football game. That game was USC vs UCLA. What was expected to be a close game was nothing more than a bloody mess. Reggie Bush tore up the defense and was, literally, flying high towards his Hiesman Trophy.

I watched the draft with keen interest. The New Orleans Saints drafted Reggie Bush and signed former San Diego Chargers quarterback Drew Brees to the squad to be led by new coach Sean Payton. After their incredible year during the 2006 that was cut short to a loss to the Chicago Bears, I predicted the Saints will win a Super Bowl with that kind of squad. Two .500 mediocre seasons later, the Saints win their first Lombardy Trophy in its franchise history before the eyes of the largest television audience ever! I predicted a Colts vs Saints Super Bowl early on during the season (wishing them to arrive with perfect records). I also predicted that if the those teams squared off, the Saints would win it. I was laughed at.

Who Dat laughing now?

I am very happy that in the past few years I got to experience some great football. History was made in the past 4 years and I got to see it! Sure, my Patriots did not win their 4th Super Bowl ring in a decade, but history was made no matter what. (Hate you, Giants!) This past year, no matter how hard it was to watch my team struggle and lose stupidly, the NFL was exposed for what it truly was: a liberal institution imposing its will and agenda on every one involved both on the field, off the field, and at home. I witnessed the disgusting hatred there is for Conservatives and Republicans. I am both. And what was done to Rush Limbaugh last year was mean-spirited and RACIST! The smear campaigns. The lies. All the venom being spewed by vipers wearings suits sitting on high chairs in front of a camera landed on me too. The stupidity that stems from the Commissioner Roger Goodell, down to the ignorance of conceded divas on the field made me want to puke. Its so sad that great American Football players with conservative values are shut out from fully participating and enjoying the company of their fellow players. Where were the players that supported Rush during the whole fiasco? Why weren't they given any media time to defend him? Why did the liberal sports media only tell one side of the story?

When Barack Hussein Obama was sworn in as President, the NFL Network forgot its supposed to be talking Football. It became a marathon of apologetic white men congratulating black people and asking for their forgiveness for the sins of their fathers'. Half of the voters voted against him while millions of others didn't even bother wasting their time in the previous election. So does the NFL reflect America and its values? Its constantly reconsidering rules on how to play the sport and how to behave while playing it.

-Don't celebrate too much (because you'll hurt the other team's feeling)

-Don't tackle the quarterback if he threw the ball [one nano second before hitting him] or you'll be fined!

-Don't be yourself off the field (we don't want the world to know you're either involved with gangs, drugs, or something else that might hurt our image!)

The list of behavioral control goes on. The sport is the most regulated on earth! Everything is over-analyzed, and everything is a statistic. How stupid. The game is no longer fun. Veteran football players have said it, but who's listening? Of course records are being broken nowadays; quarterbacks can't be touched!

Honestly, my frustration with the sport isn't because of the rules. Its because of the idiots making the rules. The communists that run the sport and worship at the alters of Marx, Lenin, and Obama. I'm done with the sport, and I'm glad I get to leave it having experienced just about as much history as I can take!

Farewell, NFL. May the game be saved from the hands of the liberal disease that spoils our country

-Andres

"Blizzard of 59"

REPORT: Oh, the snow and the woe that befell the Tennessee Titans yesterday at Gillette Stadium.

In wintry conditions not fit for man, beast, nor professional football players wearing powder blue helmets with oil derricks on them, the Patriots yesterday added to their growing reputation as the Greatest Show in Snow. Led by Tom Brady’s otherworldly first-half passing performance, in which he threw for 345 of his 380 yards and five of his six touchdowns, the Patriots unleashed a flurry of points, yardage, and records in a 59-0 shutout of the hapless Titans, who didn’t stand a snowball’s chance of winning their first game after trailing at halftime by a whopping 45 points.

The Patriots, meanwhile, improved to 11-0 in snow games in Foxborough.

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MSNBC: Los Angeles, Are You Ready For Some NFL Football?

REPORT: Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger said he's going to sign an environmental exemption bill that will clear the way for construction of the LA Stadium.

State senators approved the bill, which would nullify a lawsuit over the project's environmental impact report by citizens in neighboring Walnut. Schwarzenegger is expected to sign the bill in support of the stadium because its impact on the local economy and its ability to generate jobs.

There will be more than 6,700 new jobs created because of the stadium, causing an addition $21 million in new tax revenue and $762 million in new economic activity, according to an LA Stadium spokesperson.

Schwarzenegger hopes developer Majestic Realty Co., the driving company behind the project, doesn't poach any California teams to play in the proposed venue. They have indicated their plan to approach seven teams in hopes of luring one to LA. The list includes the three California teams: San Diego Chargers, Oakland Raiders and the San Francisco 49ers.

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