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Let's take a spin through some of the day's headlines from around the NFC South. ESPN.com's Mark Kreidler writes that New Orleans linebacker Jonathan Vilma was a scapegoat for the NFL. Vilma drew a season-long suspension for his role in the bount...

In the end, Jonathan Vilma is a prop. He's a tool being manipulated by a commissioner trying to make much larger points.

Of course the Saints would benefit from a system that allowed their GM to listen to opposing coaches. The NFL must investigate these allegations fully.

Ignore all those trumped-up reasons to say no. In the end, it will be easier for Bill Parcells to go marching back into the game than to turn down the chance to coach the Saints.

To understand why Roger Goodell reacted so harshly to the Saints, look at the scandal being played out under the specter of a much larger scandal. The concussion issue is pro football's elephant in the kitchen.

Because David Stern's vote counts more than the other votes, because Stern is the ultimate "first among equals" in the NBA, it bears at least passing note that it was he, in the end, who made Sacramento happen.

Step right up! You, too, can take a crack at fixing Tim Tebow's throwing motion. And why not? Everyone else under the sun has had a shot.

Temper, in most cases, is likely to be short this NBA season. Kevin Love's case was obvious, but he isn't alone, and he won't be the last to lose it on the court during a compressed schedule.

How will Peyton Manning exit? The most desperately difficult achievement in professional sports, once you get past the part of actually making it to the top in the first place, is the clean getaway.

The NFL going full-time with any officials, any at all, is a wonderful and necessary thing. It's an overdue thing. And any complications and concerns are dwarfed by the good that could result.

Sometime soon, somebody other than Frank McCourt is going to own the Dodgers. What's at stake? Bud Selig's legacy, for starters. And there might not be anything he can do about it.

Here's what we're learning from the Ryan Braun PED case: Neither MLB nor Bud Selig has moved beyond the drug issue, despite what the players and the commissioner say.

Whatever the owners tried to tell themselves, the players or the fans about the new labor agreement, the one thing it most assuredly does not is prevent the rich from getting richer.

Should the echoes of our rush to judgments in the Duke lacrosse story five years ago be reverberating through our responses to the Penn State scandal?

How did so many QBs land on that recent list of the most disliked players in the NFL? Apparently, they haven't learned the key to winning friends and influencing people just yet.

Suppose a wide receiver holds a public workout and no scouts are around to see it. Does he make any noise? In the case of Terrell Owens, the answer is yes. He'll find a new team.