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Booms and Busts – A Look at the No. 1 Picks Over the Past 20 Years by Tom V. The NFL Draft has earned a reputation for being little more than a crapshoot. Considering the number of hours NFL scouts spend poring over game tapes, watching athletes run sprints, and quizzing them to find a…

? Giants NFL – Does Eli Manning Really Want Shockey Back? Eli Manning is saying all the right things as the leader of the New York Giants. Real question is, does he mean them? Manning has become the vocal leader of the Giants, and that is a good thing. His run and MVP in the…

http://www.2theadvocate.com/sports/saints/featured/17655669.htmlBush wants greater success METAIRIE — New Orleans Saints running back Reggie Bush recently joked that his friend and neighbor, Hornets point guard Chris Paul, “is putting a lot of pressure on me” with his MVP-caliber season. “Now I’ve got to come and have an equal or better year,” Bush said. “I’ve got to get…

Will Nellie Stick Around? Should He? The clock’s winding down on Golden State, and as we’ve known since last fall, a summer of myriad decisions has arrived for the Warriors. Baron Davis can become a free agent. Monta Ellis and Andris Biedrins are free agents. The club picked up Don Nelson’s $5 million option to…

ABBY MCGREW, ELI MANNING TO WED THIS WEEKEND! Super Bowl hero Eli Manning and his fiancée, Abby McGrew, are thinking a private wedding this weekend in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico. “It module be small, meet friends and family,” a someone of the New royalty Giants back is quoted as informing New York’s Daily News. The…

Beckham: A Coach’s Perspective Twany Beckham makes three for Coach Rick Stansbury’s signing class. Beckham will make a return to south after a one year stint in the Great North while he attended prep school at New Hampton. NHS head basketball coach Pete Hutchins believes the Bulldogs will be happy with their newest addition. Antiquawn…

http://www.nashuatelegraph.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080413/COLUMNISTS09/75012418/-1/sports Reward outweighs risk for Papelbon One sure sign that the universe remains fickle to both American League East superpowers, not to mention the 37,461 souls fervently anticipating a memorable moment of hardball drama early Saturday evening: There were two outs, two on and the Red Sox holding a 4-3 lead in the top of…

Saints play three prime-time games, once in London Three prime-time games and a game in London highlight the New Orleans Saints’ 2008 schedule which was released by the NFL today. The Saints will host two Monday night games when they face Minnesota on Oct. 6 and Green Bay on Nov. 24 in the Louisiana Superdome…

And you people thought that little soap opera last summer was tough on Houston Nutt. "The problem here," Nutt says of his new job at Ole Miss, "is these guys have grown callous to losing." There you have it -- no more innuendo or double talk, no more overreaching boosters or overzealous fans. It's just plain football in Oxford. And it stinks. "It's not complicated," Nutt says. "It has to eat your guts out when you lose, and right now, it doesn't." Sportingnews.com 4/13/08

FOOTBALL: Nutt’s summary of spring drills Houston Nutt summarizes spring practice as the Rebels head into Saturday’s Red-Blue game: I’m proud of the way we’ve worked. The terminology changes, coaching changes … it’s not always easy. We’ve just got to keep getting better. There are some times at practice where things don’t go right, and there’s a defeated look that we want to correct. We harp on that. It goes back to that shut-off button, and a lot of little things that we have to correct, but it’s been a good spring. (Are the players better now than at the beginning of spring?) Anybody that has watched consistently would say they’re different, they’re better. Are we there? No, but I just love the start we’ve had. Now we want to turn the corner, be excellent students and finish strong, do all the little things right and have a great summer. We’re better. (The defense really threw a lot at you at the end of practice Wednesday …) There would have been some sacks, but I like sometimes playing good on good and letting them bring the house. I want to see how our guys react. If you come out here and choreograph success it doesn’t do you much good, but if you turn them loose, let them show you the speed of the game, let them see it, it just helps you. You can get back in the film room and really correct. We can be better teachers, and our guys can learn from it.