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Former San Diego Chargers and New England Patriots star linebacker Junior Seau was shot dead within his home.
Update: local news is reporting that the gunshot wound was self-inflicted, and this appears to be a suicide.
According to TMZ (who like always break celebrity death stories in L.A. first:
A Kristine Leahy post is long overdue; she is a local product after all. From her bio page:
Kristine is currently the Sports Anchor and Reporter for Fox25 in Boston. Prior to joining fox, she served as the in-arena and CelticsTV host/reporter for the Boston Celtics. She previously hosted WEEI.com’s daily sports show, The Five, and worked as the site’s reporter for fans all over New England.
Sports were always a big part of Kristine’s life as a kid growing up in Chicago.
It’s never to early. The draft order is utterly random, with consideration to how things might play out given what we know in today’s NFL. Team needs were sometimes, but not always considered, as this is highly subject to change. Let’s get to the 5 Ws of the players making the transition from Saturdays to Sundays.
When newly drafted players join their NFL teams this season, the coaches, system and competition each encounters will have a huge influence on how quickly they can make an impact. Here’s a look at the best and worst fits for players drafted in 2012. Note: this isn’t an assessment of good or bad picks, but rather an analysis of the best and worst marriages between player and team with regards to maximizing each player’s potential.
Following some of the links here could lead to NSFW photos, just warning you now about that. Check it out, Playboy Playmate Jaime Edmondson in every NFL team’s gear. Call it Playboy’s salute to the greatest sport on the planet. When you’re done enjoying Jaime’s photos, vote for which one you think is the hottest.
Miss January 2010 is a former Miami Dolphins cheerleader and co-creator of the Play by Playmate sports blog on Playboy.com By the way, BIG SHOCKER of news here, Edmondson has a tramp stamp. You can see it prominently in many of her pics. Quite a surprise, isn’t it?
New England certainly needs help in their secondary. They have WRs playing DB for them that’s how short-handed they are. Remember Julian Edelman covering Anquan Boldin in the AFC Title game? Troy Brown actually played some defensive back too; even though he was a wide receiver by trade. And the Patriots legend fittingly announced this pick Tavon Wilson from the Illini, tonight in the 2nd round of the NFL draft.
The NFL draft is here! We’ve made some final changes in our last mock, moving quite a few guys around. See you Thursday night!
Go here for the FIRST ROUND of this mock
And here for our 2013 NFL Mock Draft
We also had last year’s overall #1 most accurate NBA mock draft. check out the current one here
With the NFL Draft (or as I see it, Christmas day) later this week, it’s time to start projecting. I’ve finished my positional rankings for the draft. To view those, click the position to see the rankings: DB, DL, LB, OL, WR/TE QB/RB . Now, as for the mock draft — and with all due respect to my colleagues here at TSB — this is how it’ll go down.
Doesn’t it seem like the New England Patriots go out of their way EVERY season to trade down and acquire more picks? Every year, they’re a fun team to watch on draft day, because they always seem to end up with more picks than anyone else. In 2012, even more so, because they have four picks in the first two rounds.
And even though they were just one Wes Welker drop, or perhaps one inexplicable Tom Brady interception, away from winning the whole thing, they still have a ton of needs (as losing to the worst world champion in sports history taught us). First and foremost are DB, pass rushing in the front seven, depth at OT and OG, and maybe another running back.
If Deion Branch and Josh McDaniels can come back into the fold, there’s no reason Asante Samuel can’t do the same. This year’s Wes Welker franchise tag situation is similar to how it played out when the New England Patriots slapped the tag on Branch and Samuel in the past. If Welker, wants to hold out, and leave- fine.
He’ll soon see the grass was greener where he was. Cornerback Asante Samuel needs to as well. Like the Philadelphia Inquirer reported, the Eagles are pretty desperate to sell
And consider this from The Victory Formation:
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