Tag: Oakland Raiders
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Maurice Jones-Drew Announces Retirement
Image courtesy of Parker Anderson/Flickr . Maurice Jones-Drew (better known as MJD) is calling it quits after nine glorious seasons in the NFL. MJD made his claim to fame in Jacksonville, where the diminutive running...
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Oakland Raiders' Staff Sleep Through NFL Combine
Image courtesy of Luiz Eduardo/Flickr . To many people watching the NFL combine, it is about as exciting as watching paint dry. Often referred to as the “underwear Olympics” by veteran NFL analyst Mike Mayock,...
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The Fair Trade of Pro Sport Managers and Coaches
Image courtesy of Keith Allison/Flickr . The NHL trade deadline is fast approaching, the NBA trade deadline just passed, and the MLB and NFL are both enjoying some downtime before potentially making some moves to...
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NFL Mock Draft 2015 (V2)
Image courtesy of Marianne O'Leary/Flickr . The Super Bowl has come and gone. For those of you looking for something, anything, on the NFL calendar to look forward to the rookie combine is later this...
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Lost NFL Conversations: Oakland Raiders
Image courtesy of Jeffrey Beall/Flickr . Every year my buddy Ben and I talk football when the Super Bowl is long since over. We talk about the schedule ahead, the free agent market, the draft,...
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Sonny's NFL Picks: The Most Important of Super Bowls
Image courtesy of WEBN-TV/Flickr . For the last (almost) two weeks, I've been pondering the answer to a question that I hoped would be the big talking point of my Super Bowl preview. I racked...
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Is Jack Del Rio the Right Fit For the Raiders?
Image courtesy GoPixPic . It was announced on January 14th that the new head coach of the Oakland Raiders is Jack Del Rio . Del Rio was most recently the defensive coordinator for the Denver...
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2015 NFL Mock Draft, Version 1.0
Image courtesy of Neon Tommy/Flickr The NFL regular season is over. For those of you that cheer for teams that didn’t make it to the postseason, you might be moving on to another team that...
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Sonny's NFL Picks: Awards Edition
The NFL season has wound down and now only one week remains. If you pay any attention to my NBA journalistic endeavors, you’d know that last week I broke down the NBA’s MVP race in...
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Prop It Like It’s Hot: Week 16 NFL Prop Bets
Image courtesy of Erik Daniel Drost/Flickr. With the Christmas spirit in tact this time of the year, the football gods have really blessed us during Week 16 of the NFL season. After the Thursday night...
