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The Baltimore Ravens have finalized their contract agreement with quarterback Joe Flacco, the record-setting details are out and now the sports business community has turned its attention to the Green Bay Packers and quarterback Aaron Rodgers. There ...

We're Black and Blue All Over: In our fantasy dramas, we expect all hands on deck for our Wild Week 17, in which two of our teams need victories to help ensure a playoff spot while a third is hoping to improve its playoff seed. But that's not the ...

We're Black and Blue All Over: Wednesday's busy day of news, videos and podcasts left some practice updates for the early morning. Here's the NFC North summary as best as I can gather: Chicago Bears tailback Matt Forte was a limited participant...

We're Black and Blue All Over: DETROIT -- Well, lookie what we have here. The Green Bay Packers' winning streak, extended to five games by Sunday's 24-20 victory over the Detroit Lions, has pulled them within a half-game of the NFC North-leadin...

We're Black and Blue All Over. (We're also on Facebook and Twitter.) Minnesota Vikings tailback Adrian Peterson has noted often that he does not consider himself 100 percent recovered from major knee surgery in December. I suppose you could say he...

I didn't have all four NFC North preseason games playing simultaneously in front of me Thursday night. But I'll be darned if the very first thing that happened Thursday night wasn't Green Bay Packers defensive tackle B.J. Raji's ankle injury on the f...

We're Black and Blue All Over: You might have noticed ESPN analyst Herm Edwards' ranking of all 32 NFL coaches . It requires an Insider subscription to view fully, but I can tell you a couple of things about it. First, Edwards placed coaches in...

We're Black and Blue All Over: Welcome to another week of preseason football here in the NFC North. Our CampTour'12 has come to an end, and I'll post a dramatic and emotional retrospective at some point soon. For now, let's move right into one of ...

I dropped off Twitter for a few minutes Monday morning while focusing on our Pulitzer-worthy breakdown of Donald Driver's turn on "Dancing With the Stars." When I jumped back on, I had 103 new tweets. About half of them were asking whether an NFC Nor...

Just for the fun of it, I thought I would throw an addendum onto our annual All-NFC North team. Coaches, front office executives and others all deserve recognition for the work they do. So in rapid-fire fashion, let's roll through a final take on the...

Saturday should be busy and rewarding for those of us in the NFC North. At 5:30 p.m. ET, the Pro Football Hall of Fame will announce its class of 2012. Former Minnesota Vikings Cris Carter and Chris Doleman are among those on the ballot. So is Gre...

We're Black and Blue All Over: As it turns out, the Green Bay Packers' reserve offensive lineman who got stomped on Thanksgiving Day by Detroit Lions defensive tackle Ndamukong Suh likely will be in the starting lineup Sunday for the rematch betwe...

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We're Black and Blue All Over: Chicago Bears offensive coordinator Mike Martz, whose return in 2012 has been reported to be unlikely, is now on record saying he doesn't want to leave. Earlier this week, coach Lovie Smith said that reports of Martz...

We're Black and Blue All Over: SAN DIEGO -- Week 9 is a slow-moving one here in the NFC North. The Green Bay Packers played our only game Sunday, with the Detroit Lions and Minnesota Vikings on their bye, and the Chicago Bears don't get on the fie...

We're Black and Blue All Over: Week 7 brought our division a little bit closer. Yes, the Green Bay Packers are 7-0. But the Detroit Lions' second consecutive defeat dropped their record to 5-2, just one game ahead of the now 4-3 Chicago Bears. An...