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Unless the NFL and the NFL Players Association miraculously come to an agreement on a new Collective Bargaining Agreement in the next two months, 2010, the last year of the collective bargaining agreement, will be uncapped. Executive director of the NFLPA, DeMaurice Smith, recently reiterated a statement made by his predecessor, the late Gene Upshaw, that if the cap goes away, the players will never agree to it again. That belief might ...

At $1,100 an ounce, 210 pounds of gold is worth about $3.7 million. Patriots placekicker Stephen Gostkowski, whose rookie contract expires this year, could get that much or more as a signing bonus next year. Gostkowski's performance against the Dolphins, which earned him AFC Special Teams Player of the Week honors, aptly demonstrates why he was selected to his first Pro Bowl last year, and is a good candidate to do it ...

Earlier this week, the San Francisco 49ers filed charges against the New York Jets, claiming they had tampered with the Niners' ability to sign rookie holdout Michael Crabtree. Earlier this month, Deion Sanders suggested that there was not one but two teams willing to pay Crabtree $40 million over five years, about twice the amount of money that the Niners were offering. This raises the question of how Sanders would know that ...

The New England Patriots are no strangers to quarterback controversies. They had to weather one in 2001 when Drew Bledsoe returned from the chest injury that had sidelined him; in his absence, a young second-year quarterback named Tom Brady started winning games. Head coach Bill Belichick, of course, chose Brady, and the rest is history. They faced another one—at least in the minds of fans—in 2006, when the Patriots had one backup ...