05/09/2008 07:41 PM
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Xavier Omon falls to his knees. Soon, he'll cry. The man on the other end of the phone is a Buffalo Bills executive. Omon has just been drafted. What happens next? Elizabeth Merrill takes you inside the life of an NFL rookie in his first week on the job.
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05/10/2008 05:45 PM
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The Florida state attorney's office has dropped its case against starting Denver Broncos defensive tackle Marcus Thomas.
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05/09/2008 11:44 AM
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Bears running back Cedric Benson has hired a prominent defense attorney to help him fight charges of drunken boating and resisting arrest in Texas.
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05/10/2008 02:42 PM
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Receiver Mario Manningham and quarterback Andre' Woodson were sidelined by injuries Saturday during the New York Giants' minicamp for rookies and free agents.
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05/09/2008 04:39 PM
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NFL commissioner Roger Goodell and staff members began viewing the eight tapes within hours of their long-awaited delivery, in anticipation of a scheduled interview next Tuesday with former Patriots video assistant Matt Walsh.
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05/10/2008 05:25 PM
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The Baltimore Ravens are doing more than merely fighting for jobs at their first mandatory minicamp under new coach John Harbaugh.
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05/10/2008 09:07 AM
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Former NFL lineman Luis Sharpe was sentenced Friday to six years in prison and four years' probation for a series of drug offenses.
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05/09/2008 06:58 PM
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Charles Spencer took the field with his team for the first time since breaking his left leg nearly two years ago, a severe injury that doctors thought could end his career.
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05/09/2008 06:22 PM
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New England Patriots defensive back Willie Andrews entered a plea to a marijuana possession charge, but won't face any prison time.
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05/09/2008 06:41 PM
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The Green Bay Packers released Koren Robinson on Friday, the latest setback for the veteran wide receiver trying to resurrect his career after serving an NFL suspension and jail time.
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05/11/2008 10:56 PM
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We break out another CHFF classic, this one from January, as we take a little time here to get our sh*t together behind the scenes. Rest assured that we, like a pigskin Patton, will continue our quest to crush the lesser football analysts, those evil Nazis of opinion. Don’t forget, even old Blood & Guts himself took a little respite at the height of the action in 1944, before rolling across France and into the Fatherland.....
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05/11/2008 10:56 PM
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With the dreaded gridiron doldrums descending upon us, we enter the realm of pigskin minutiae and trivia with a look at our favorite football nicknames, including a fleet of Crimson Tide legends, Bear Bryant, Broadway Joe and Hog Hannah, along with 17 other all-time great literary additions to football lore.....
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05/11/2008 10:56 PM
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In both horse racing and baseball, each year brings another failed pursuit of the Triple Crown. But the prolonged droughts in those sports are nothing compared to the one in the NFL, where there hasn’t been a Triple Crown winner since Pittsburgh’s Bill Dudley, pictured here, pulled off the remarkable feat in 1946.....
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05/11/2008 10:56 PM
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We’ll be taking it easy for a few days here now that the post-draft frenzy is over. In the meantime, we’re taking a look back at a new CHFF classic published just last month. ....
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05/11/2008 10:56 PM
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If you took "Mel Kiper will nail 25 percent of his mock draft picks" and the over, you lost!....
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05/11/2008 10:56 PM
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We top off a pigskin pint of dark, frothy gridiron Guinness with part two of our Draught Day review.....
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05/11/2008 10:56 PM
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The day of the Draught taught us that Michael Vick will never take another snap in the NFL, that Hogs rule, and that beer poured from the tap is mighty tasty. So keep ’em coming, barkeep, we got a long drive ahead of us!....
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05/11/2008 10:56 PM
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Are we alone in the universe? Is there a divine power? And why do NFL teams race to draft first-round wide receivers more than any other position when they go belly-up faster than the lake fish of Chernobyl?....
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05/11/2008 10:56 PM
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We took a little drive down the Edsel Ford Freeway and looked at all the players the Lions have passed on in their desperate quest to draft wide receivers under Matt Millen. Bottom line: They coulda been a contenda!....
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05/11/2008 10:56 PM
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Today, it’s the Arizona Cardinals, who should be atop the list of sleepers for the 2008 season.....
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