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In the first real off-the-field blunder of his young career, Golden Tate forgot the first rule in food theft: Never steal from a donut shop. After a few too many drinks one recent night, Tate reportedly worked up the courage to test the Fort Knox of foodstuffs by poaching a few maple bars. In the process, he was caught by the night baker and cited by local police. Interesting that the cops were on the scene so quickly. In ...

While Jets head coach Rex Ryan has been busy getting chummy with his MLB New York neighbors (and possibly farting on live TV, if you believe some New York radio personalities), NFL teams have been "hard" at work with Organized Team Activities. The NFL allows each team a maximum of 14 OTA workouts each off-season, and those days are winding down quickly. Nine teams will exhaust their OTA allotment this weekend, ...

SATIRE— We Seahawks fans woke up this morning looking forward to some new articles written about yesterday's practice. Instead, we were inundated with reports concerning our shiny new wide receiver, Golden Tate, mixing it up with the law. According to the reports, around 3 a.m. this previous Saturday, Golden Tate and a friend were spotted in the Top Pot Doughnut Shop. The cops were called in. After they had their fill, they left the scene ...

After having what looked like a solid off-season, the Seattle Seahawks are scrambling to save face and get the season started as quickly as possible. LenDale White, Earl Thomas, Golden Tate, and Leon Washington were all added on, or around draft day, and things were looking good for the new-look Seattle Seahawks, even though they finished a disappointing 5-11 in 2009. LenDale White was supposed to reunite with Pete Carroll and breakout ...

This is a countdown of the best players ever selected by the Los Angeles/St. Louis Rams. Mind you, we are dealing exclusively with players taken by the organization on draft day. Greats such as Dick "Night Train" Lane, Marshall Faulk and Kurt Warner are not eligible for inclusion, because they were acquired via a trade or free agency acquisitions. You might be surprised by who makes the cut and who did ...

While watching yet another Pittsburgh Pirate strike out at the plate..... It was the first time the ball left his hand, the home crowd waiting in anticipation, it stood in mid-air for what seemed like an eternity.  Flash bulbs filled the stadium as the ball made contact with its target past the overmatched opponent.  Instantly, everyone knew that something different was taking place for a moribund franchise, that history was being created right in front ...

  In my first two or three years of college (beer and poker...I think I lost a semester), I studied psychology, hoping someday to become a counselor.  Yeah, right. After seriously evaluating my life, I determined I should be on the weird side of that desk. Seeing a counselor was the route to go after I decided drop out of psych (easy) and become an engineer (masochistic).  Engineering jobs were not difficult ...

A lot of rhetoric was exchanged in the campaign for Measure J, Santa Clara's city ballot initiative to gain public support for construction of a $927 million state of the art stadium for the San Francisco 49ers. Opponents of the proposition made outlandish claims ranging from the "fact" that the stadium would create debt for residents of Santa Clara, to the notion that the Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum was ...

Marcus McNeill is a mauler. Just look at him. I wouldn't want to fight him, much less try to edge rush against him, would you? I didn't think so. This monster of a man, as everyone knows, remains off the field as his holdout for a long term contract continues. Many, many people have said it already, so this sentiment will feel reused, but here goes nothing. It is time for AJ Smith ...

Going into his ninth season as head coach of the Carolina Panthers John Fox still has a lot of work to do if he wants to surpass last season's 8-8 mark. Unfortunately looking at the voids the Panthers have at quarterback and wide receiver it appears unlikely that last season's mark will be improved on. Fox did little during the off season to bolster either position for the upcoming season. Instead he drafted, ...