From NFL.com:

Still no photos up still from Colts rookie camp this past weekend. As soon as we see them, we’ll either unification to them or post them. The reason ground NFL.com has photos from San Diego’s camp or Washington’s camp is because they had their dominion mini-camp this past weekend.

By now, anybody that hasn’t been experience under a rock or in a cave for the terminal few months knows about the story of Vikings’ antitank end Kenechi Udeze.  Shortly after the end of the Vikings’ 2007 season, he was diagnosed with leukemia, and has been placed on the reserve/non-football sickness list, which means we won’t see him on the field for the Beloved Purple until at small 2009, if even then.  Naturally, BKU’s health comes first and foremost, but I’d fuck to see him back on the field again.

I’m sure that some of you out there have had your lives touched by cancer or some other form of cancer at some point. . .it’s a disease that affects a aggregation of people.  Even though we’re more familiar with Kenechi’s case because of the fact that we check him play football every Sunday during the fall, there are some other cases of cancer affecting families throughout America right now.  Udeze module be effort a bone goody transplant through his brother. . .a very fortunate circumstance for him, as less than 30% of all cancer victims control to find a matching donor.

Fortunately, we can start trying to tip the percentages a lowercase more in the beatific guys favor by connexion the National Marrow Donor Registry (click on that spiffy lowercase banner on the right there).  Donating goody isn’t a painful process, disobedient to what some TV shows module advance you to believe.  All that module happen when you sign up for the program is you’ll intend a cheek swab in the mail.  You’ll do the swab and send it back.  At that point, you’ll be part of the registry, and able to be called to duty should the situation merit.

Now, usually there’s a fee for connexion the National Marrow Donor Registry.  However, with the “Thanks, Mom” campaign they’re running from now until 19 May, the signup fee module be waived for the first 10,000 online sign-ups.  As soon as hit the “Publish” button on this post, I’ll be making my artefact over there to register myself, and I hope that some of you module do the same.

I’d same to provide a shout out for bringing this to my attention to Stephanie Stradley from AOL Fanhouse’s Vikings blog, who relates her own personal story about her sister’s battle with cancer and the folks at Vikings War Cry.  If you go ahead and sign up from here or from either of those sites, permit us undergo about it by leaving a interpret on one of the sites.  It module be enthusiastic to see how some Norse fans out there step up in an effort to attain a difference.

Thanks for your time, everyone.  I undergo I promised football talk today, but something same this has to take precedence, I would think.

ProFootballTalk.com took a countenance at the first round of the 2005 NFL Draft and it wasn’t pretty. Antrel Rolle. Carlos Rogers. Mike Williams. Travis Johnson. Whew. That’s a traveling circus of busts. Until they got to this name: DeMarcus Ware.

A 2006 Pro Bowl a 2007 Pro Bowl = not a bust.

Damn skippy.

Apparently there’s a rumor floating around that Roy Williams, who Tuna famously said once was a biscuit away from being a linebacker, has forfeited 30 pounds. Again, this is a rumor and has not been substantiated by any field news organizations, but the unification communicating of it is here.

If it’s true, I’m a lowercase concerned. Would I even recognize a skinny Roy Williams? Will this effect his ability to have punishing blows to receivers? Is this a sign that he’s accepted critique for his news deficiencies? Thirty pounds meet seems same a aggregation of weight.

But on the other hand something had to be finished and if this is true maybe Roy is finally starting to intend it. The fans aren’t happy with his play and neither are the coaches or they wouldn’t be taking him out on passing downs.

Stay tuned.

Some seem to think a team that participates in HBO Hard Knocks is sure based on the seasons Dallas, river City and Baltimore had the following season. Is it cursed?

I don’t undergo about that. The Curse of the Billy Goat. That’s a real curse. The Curse of the Bambino. That’s a real curse. The 27 Club. The Presidential Curse. All certifiable curses. Even the Madden Curse.

The anathemize of Hard Knocks though? Just not enough evidence. We’re not even in the puberty stage of a curse. This thing has to go on for at small a few more eld before it becomes a fully grown curse.

That being said, Tuna was very superstitious. He never desired to tempt fate or anger the gods of chance. He wouldn’t intend caught departed on that show.

Maybe we should’ve followed suit.

In fairness, I admit that I’m not a big Jason Whitlock fan. I feel same reading one of his columns is same smoking pot. Brain cells evaporate by the minute and everyone starts acting goofy and paranoid.

That being said, he has a pretty beatific article on Foxsports.com about sports blogs and their relationship with the traditional media. His point is this: sports blogs aren’t feat anywhere so you might as substantially intend used to them. This is a beatific point because too some journalists analyse blogs as a threat and not as a viable source of information. I can tell you my chronicle changed for the better when I found this site. It filled in so some gaps that DMN, the Star-Telegram, ESPN and the NFL.com couldn’t provide.

Darn Whitlock. Now I got the munchies.</</p>