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Most of the news from the first day of this year's NFL combine has been standard podium fare. The Bears haven't started contract talks with Jay Cutler. Greg Schiano is channeling Lovie Smith. Jeff Ireland still sees a role for Reggie Bush in Miami. ...

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...

The thought had lingered all weekend — for the past couple weekends, actually — but it took Matt Schaub's trip to Foxborough for it to take hold. Houston had just completed another seven-yard pass on a third-and-8, and as it became clear ...

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 on The Trenches, I decided to take full advantage of Ephraim Salaam's 13 years as an NFL offensive tackle and drag out the Jay Cutler shoving-his-lineman controversy another day. Then, of course, Ephraim made sure we didn't leave that conve...

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. Unless you and everyone else in your office really hate Mondays, I'...

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...