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What's that? You were wondering exactly how many days until the start of the NFL season? Well, you're in luck! We here at the Triangle are set to spend the next three and a half months providing a daily reason to get excited about pro football's retu...

Every now and then, our boss, Bill Simmons, will forward some of his reader mail to me and fellow Triangle editor Chris Ryan. Most of the time, it's to troll us about our favorite teams (Brian Urlacher's pre-draft ascension was entirely legitimate, a...

To those looking for the signs, Brian Urlacher's time in Chicago ended about two months ago. Lovie Smith's departure certainly didn't help, but it was Rod Marinelli's decision to turn down an offer to stay on as the team's defensive coordinator that ...

Anyone in my life can tell you that I have a serious problem when it comes to Fear of Missing Out. I could be off having a good time — a great time — but the moment I hear that something else is happening somewhere else, the fear begins t...

With free agency and the draft process revving up, there are plenty of questions for every NFL team. But for most, there's one issue that trumps the rest. This is the latest in a team-by-team look at the offseason tasks that just can't get botched. ...

Every year, Forbes puts out a list of the 10 most disliked athletes in sports. Usually, that list is pretty much what you'd guess. A year ago, Michael Vick, Tiger Woods, and Plaxico Burress stood (or sulked) at the top. In this year's version, releas...

I'll admit that I, too, went right to the South Park jokes, but alas, it looks like Marc Trestman is now my buddy, guy. The Chicago Bears hired their 14th head coach in team history early this morning, and they didn't just get him from a different co...

This week's podcast started with mixed emotions. For as much joy as I had for Ephraim attending his good friend Chester Pitts's wedding, it just wasn't the same without him in the studio. Colors just seemed less bright, ya know? We powered through...

The Jags train is leaving the station. Or not. Whatever. In the past 12 hours, yet-to-report Maurice Jones-Drew has gone from very upset about some of his new owner's public comments to maybe not so upset anymore. Early Tuesday, Jags owner Shad Kh...

The NFL's real preseason started in earnest this past weekend (I refuse to recognize the legitimacy of the Hall of Fame Game), and with the first set of games in the books, we're here to sling around the latest football news. 1. Andrew Luck's debu...

As the long, hot summer drags on, we here at the Triangle figured we'd provide a steady stream of NFL goodness as a reminder of the light at the end of the baseball-lined tunnel. Finally, our long regional nightmare is over. After a contract dispu...

As the long, hot summer drags on, we here at the Triangle figured we'd provide a steady stream of NFL goodness as a reminder of the light at the end of the baseball-lined tunnel. Unless you and everyone else in your office really hate Mondays, I'...

My favorite NFL draft memory is from my freshman year of college. It has nothing to do with who my Chicago Bears took that year (Greg Olsen, 31st overall), or which colossal bust made his way into the top 10 (JaMarcus Russell). No, that year was abou...

I was watching football at a bar near San Francisco last weekend when the man on the adjacent stool noticed my Bears hat. "You from Chicago?" he asked "Northwest suburbs," I said. Standard chatter followed. He had family a few towns over fr...

Yesterday on Grantland, my esteemed colleague Bill Barnwell handicapped the race for the 2011 NFL MVP award. Because the list was designed to predict whom a bunch of sportswriters will vote as the Best Quarterback on the Best Team, it provided few su...

I grew up in a house that is about three miles from football's most famous hill. I was maybe 5 or 6 years old the first time my dad took me there. The area was a landfill then — mostly trash, brush, dirt, and rocks, with a few small paths carve...