Archive for January, 2011

Steelers-Packers Super Bowl Wednesday Bye Week Injury Report

PITTSBURGH STEELERS Practice Report DID NOT PARTICIPATE IN PRACTICE Wednesday S Will Allen (knee), CB Bryant McFadden (abdomen), S Troy Polamalu (achilles), C Maurkice Pouncey (ankle), WR Emmanuel Sanders (foot), T Jonathan Scott (ribs) LIMITED PARTICIPATION IN PRACTICE Wednesday DE Aaron Smith (triceps) GREEN BAY PACKERS Practice Report (Green Bay did not practice on Wednesday. [...]

Steelers All-Pro Center Pouncey Puts a Cast on Ankle

All-Pro center Maurkice Pouncey showed up at the teams facility on Wednesday wearing a cast over his injured right ankle and moving around gingerly on crutches. Clearly despite it being still a week and a few days away, it’s not a good sign for him to try and go in Super Bowl XLV against the [...]

Reports Say the Brother of Ed Reed Has Been Found in Mississippi River

The lost brother of Ravens star Ed Reed it appears has been found. A body recovered late Tuesday from the Mississippi River has been tentatively identified as Brian Reed, the brother of the Ravens star safety. As members of the Reed family looked on Wednesday, St. Charles Parish Sheriff Greg Champagne said tattoos on the [...]

Now MMA Fighter Herschel Walker Says He Wants to Play in the NFL Again

Herschel Walker sure has had a memorable career. The former NFL player has been not only one of the best RB’s in football at points in his career, he also was in the Olympics, and has been involved in MMA recently. Now, as if that’s not enough, Walker wants to get back in the NFL. [...]

Gridiron Gab 2011 NFL Draft Prospect Scouting Report – DE Da’Quan Bowers

Da’Quan Bowers, DE, Clemson, 6’4 280 Position Ranking: #1 Strengths: Has the size, strength, and technique to be effective at either right end or left end. Plays with good functional strength while extending arms quickly at the snap to lock-out the defender, shed, and make plays on the ball carrier in run support. Very consistent [...]

Storylines Will Be Aplenty for Super Bowl XLV

It’s going to seem like an eternity between Sunday’s win over the Jets at home to clinch the AFC, and when the ball finally gets kicked off for Super Bowl XLV in Dallas on Sunday evening, February 6th. Between now and then, the media is going to write no less than THOUSANDS of stories about [...]

Ravens Lack of Communication on Offense in 2010 Hurt

After I finished watching the live stream of Thursday’s “State of the Ravens” address I think that I finally got a real idea of why the Ravens offense struggled so much in 2010. From Top to Bottom there was never a consistent plan on what this “new” Ravens offense was supposed to be. This is [...]

SportsGabNetwork’s “Road to the Big Game” with Chrysler – St.Louis

We said ‘so long’ to Chicago on Monday, and took our “Blogger Game on Road Trip Campaign” over the Midwest, going through Illinois and into Missouri, where we parked for the night in the city that is known as the home of the Rams – St.Louis. We had a great day heading to a stop [...]