Word: nfl
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...boycott, didn't report to his mike this morning, in support of the boycott, and the station aired a previously taped show. Meanwhile, over the weekend, some members of the We Are America coalition were disheartened to hear that Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa would be traveling to Dallas for NFL meetings, rather than participating in their afternoon march. Villaraigosa told TIME.com in March that he preferred to lobby for the McCain-Kennedy Senate bill on immigration reform rather than backing a May 1 protest that encouraged kids to miss school or adults to skip work. This weekend, he again urged youngsters...
This upcoming weekend is the most exciting time for college football players finishing their senior years. The NFL draft will tell them which team they will play for, or if they will even play professionally at all.April of junior year is supposed to be different.Those players are preparing for spring ball and practicing for the upcoming season. Professional football is never far from these players’ minds, but the draft, except for the rare cases of exceptional talents foregoing eligibility, is not for a year, and they can start by focusing on winning next season.All this is true unless...
...NFL draft...
...sprinkles of Fitzpatrick and Dawson here and there make us (read: me) yearn for personal excitement on draft morning, when we can wake up and track the draft status of one of our own, welcoming him back to campus in the following days, his rights belonging to an NFL team, his life changed, and his wallet on its way to becoming a lot fatter...
...that hasn’t stopped the hype machine from churning out useless info about him. ESPN’s Dan Shanoff blatantly admitted that every year he tries “to find an Ivy League player to track (and boost) in the lead-up to the NFL draft.” This is followed by a brief rundown of his stats, including the fact that he’s been accepted to Harvard...