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The Indianapolis Star is reporting that Colts quarterback Peyton Manning has won his record-breaking fourth NFL Most Valuable Player Award. Brett Favre is the only other player to have won the award three times, winning from 1995-97. Manning guided the Colts to their second 14-2 season (first one was in 2005) after becoming the second team to start a season 14-0 since the 2007 Patriots. In the process of ...

Two-time Super Bowl champion head coach Mike Shanahan has agreed to a five-year contract to become the next head coach as well as the executive vice president of football operations of the Washington Redskins. Shanahan will share front office duties with new executive vice president and general manager Bruce Allen, however Shanahan will have the final say on all football decisions and will be introduced at a 2 pm news conference ...

Houston Texans linebacker Brian Cushing has been named Defensive Rookie of the Year by the Associated Press. Cushing becomes the seventh consecutive linebacker to win the award and the second in four years from the Texans, joining DeMeco Ryans from 2006. The 15th overall pick out of Southern California finished with 134 total tackles, five sacks, four forced fumbles, 10 passes defended and two interceptions.á Cushing received 39 of 50 possible ...

FOXSports.com NFL reporter Jay Glazer is reporting that Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger will not play this Sunday in a critical division matchup against the Baltimore Ravens. Second year quarterback Dennis Dixon will get the start in his place and according to team doctors, the two-time Super Bowl champion was experiencing "exercise-induced headaches" that have deemed him unable to start. Roethlisberger was hit in the head on a scramble play last week ...

Larry Johnson's mouth has gotten him into trouble and now officially has left him without a job. ESPN's Adam Schefter has reported that the Kansas City Chiefs will release the troubled running back today, this coming after Johnson used gay slurs under his breath before being interviewed by reporters in the locker room after a loss and wrote some disparaging remarks about the coaching staff on his Twitter account. The 27th overall ...

ESPN.com has confirmed that troubled Cleveland Browns wide receiver Braylon Edwards has been dealt to the New York Jets. In exchange, Cleveland will receive wide receiver Chansi Stuckey, linebacker Jason Trusnik and two draft picks. Edwards, the third overall pick in the 2005 draft, had been dealing a number of off the field issues; most recently an incident when he punched a friend of Cleveland Cavaliers star forward LeBron James Monday night ...

ESPN's Chris Mortensen is reporting that Miami Dolphins quarterback Chad Pennington isáout for the rest of theá2009 season with a torn capsule in his right throwing shoulder in yesterday's loss to the San Diego Chargers. Pennington will seek a second opinion from renowned surgeon Dr. James Andrews in Birmingham, Alabama later this week who performed two other surgeries on him during his career with the New York Jets. Second year quarterback Chad ...

Hines Ward nearly coughed it away but his gritty quarterback saved his best for last. The Pittsburgh Steelers raised the curtain on the 2009 NFL season and their sixth Super Bowl title defense with a defensively dominated 13-10 win over the Tennessee Titans in overtime. Ben Roethlisbeger threw an uncharacteristic 43 passes but completed 33 of them for 363 yards with a touchdown and two interceptions. His counterpart Kerry Collins was equally ...