Startup United Football League hires two executives (San Francisco Business Times) The United Football League, a startup venture funded in part by San Francisco investment banker Bill Hambrecht, is making strides toward its launch next year. (GOOG) us.rd.yahoo.com
Leading Off: Pro sports cannot hide from flagging economy (The Sacramento Bee) As you watch today's NFL games, you're going to see more empty seats and vacant suites. You'll find it much easier to get a ticket to a Kings game and you'll find a lot fewer fans tailgating at 49ers and Raiders games. us.rd.yahoo.com
Pucko: Deserving a Bye-Week (R News) The following does not reflect the views of R News or its parent company Time Warner Cable. Buffalo's football team didn't have a game Sunday. The Bills were on a bye week. us.rd.yahoo.com
Reign delay (Boston Globe) SEATTLE - The baseball team spent $100 million and rolled it into 101 losses. The NFL team, once the Super Bowl-bound pride of the loudest crowd in the league, is 1-4 and fading. us.rd.yahoo.com
Football: David James: An ill wind could blow a draft our way (Guardian Unlimited) The Premier League must not insulate itself from the realities of the financial turmoil to ensure football remains a viable career us.rd.yahoo.com
Chargers not where they thought they'd be in Week 6 (Sports Illustrated) The calendar says it's Patriots-Chargers week, but of course this isn't the same game we had circled since the moment the NFL schedule came out in April. There's no Tom Brady for New England. There's no Shawne Merriman or even a healthy LaDainian Tomlinson for San Diego. And there's no first-place standing for either AFC perennial power. The Chargers are trailing the 4-1 Broncos in the AFC West, ... us.rd.yahoo.com
Rodriguez a quick study, but also a slow starter (Park Hills Daily Journal) New steel spines loom large above both sidelines at The Big House, the emerging skeleton of a $226 million renovation to make sure Michigan Stadium remains a top college football destination deep into this century. What inquiring minds want to know is whether anybody bothered to draw up a blueprint for the team that will be playing inside. us.rd.yahoo.com
Big brother helped mold Chiefs' Albert into an NFL player (The Kansas City Star) T he round-faced 15-year-old planted his feet on gravel 360 miles south of where he’d left, and already he wanted to go back. us.rd.yahoo.com
Rosenbloom on Bears: 'Pathetic. Miserable.' (Chicago Tribune) us.rd.yahoo.com
NFL Preview - Cincinnati (0-5) At N.Y. Jets (2-2) (WNBC) By Lyle Fitzsimmons, Contributing NFL Editor -- (Sports Network) - OK, Jets fans... the choice is yours. To the glass-half-full crowd - citing a manageable deficit in the AFC East , a convenient bye week of cramming for Brett Favre and the arrival of a winless opponent on the tarmac at Newark Liberty Airport - it's the beginning of a month-long run of prosperity. us.rd.yahoo.com
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