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*If we had to guess, we’d say our chief writer, Cherie Saunders, had a good day today, Sunday. And why do we say that? Well, her beloved Washington Redskins and their new, soon-to-be NFL superstar quarterback Robert Griffin lll, upset Drew Brees and and the New Orleans Saints in the 2012 season opener for both [...]
* The Wall Street Journal is reporting that the suspensions of four National Football League players involved in the New Orleans Saints bounty program were lifted by an appeals panel just days before most teams begin their season. The NFL immediately reinstated the players as it evaluates the ruling, though it isn’t clear when or [...]
*(Via WSJ.com) – National Football League Commissioner Roger Goodell handed down some of the stiffest penalties in league history Wednesday in the wake of the New Orleans Saints bounty scandal, including an unprecedented one-year suspension of their head coach, Sean Payton. (Are you a fan of EURweb? Like us on Facebook or Follow us on [...]
*(Via TheGrio) – New Orleans Saints players and at least one assistant coach maintained a bounty pool of up to $50,000 the last three seasons to reward game-ending injuries inflicted on opposing players, including Brett Favre and Kurt Warner, the NFL said Friday. “Knockouts” were worth $1,500 and “cart-offs” $1,000, with payments doubled or tripled [...]
*Baltimore Ravens running back Ricky Williams on Tuesday announced his retirement from the NFL after 11 seasons, reports ESPN. “The NFL has been an amazing page in this chapter of my life,” Williams said in a statement released by the University of Texas. “I pray that all successive adventures offer me the same potential for [...]
*More than 31 million Americans tuned in to see President Barack Obama deliver his agenda for creating jobs in a speech broadcast live on television. [Scroll down to watch in its entirety.] The Thursday night speech to a joint session of Congress drew a bigger audience than both his March speech on U.S. military involvement [...]
*Running Back Reggie Bush now says he was only kidding when he tweeted about enjoying free time during the NFL lockout. Critical responses from his nearly 1.7 million followers came flooding in when he posted: “Everybody complaining about the lockout! Shoot I’m making the most of it! Vacation, rest, relaxing, appearances here and there! I’m [...]
*Just like the headline says, this page/board is where you can discuss the stuff that we didn’t cover in today’s issue. (It’s sort of like feedback with a twist) Remember, NO name calling, racial taunting, graphic sex talk and vulgarity in general, PLEASE. ——– EUR MOTIVATIONAL NOTE “It is only when we truly know and [...]
*Word has it that NeNe Leakes from the “Real Housewives of Atlanta” is two months pregnant and has no idea who the father is. Media Take Out claims a “well-informed snitch” told them: “NeNe suspects that it’s her husband’s child, but she’s been with that man [NFL player Charles Grant] too. She told her husband [...]
*The Tiger Woods’ humbling return to the public eye, from his televised confession to a winless season on the golf course, was voted the sports story of the year by members of The Associated Press. The fallout from Woods’ admission of infidelity beat the New Orleans Saints winning their first Super Bowl championship, giving an [...]
*It’s been rumored that Kim Kardashian is dating free and available, young Chris Brown, but she says the claims are “so ridiculous.” According to MediaTakeOut.com (MTO), the socialite (what is she really famous for?) has been flirting with the singer since her brother Rob gave her number to him. But she quickly denied it via [...]
*”The Jazzspel with Eric J.,” starring Eric J. Chambers is back for its seventh season this Saturday, Sept. 18 on The Word Network at 4:30 pm ET. The season will begin with a New Orleans Saints football game at the Louisiana Superdome. “With me being from New Orleans and the Saints the reigning Super Bowl [...]
*New Orleans Saints running back Reggie Bush said Thursday that his decision to give back his Heisman Trophy is “not an admission of guilt,” just the best way to end the controversy. “It’s me showing respect to the Heisman Trophy itself and to the people who came before me and the people coming after,” Bush [...]
*The New Orleans Saints have recruited Oscar-nominated actor and humanitarian Brad Pitt to narrate “America’s Game: 2009 New Orleans Saints,” a documentary about the team’s Super Bowl XLIV victory against the Indianapolis Colts. The film debuts on the NFL Network on Sept. 8, the night before the Saints’ first game of the regular season. [...]
*Spike Lee was in New Orleans Tuesday to screen parts one and four of his new four-part HBO documentary “If God is Willing and Da Creek Don’t Rise,” a follow-up to his acclaimed four-part series “When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts,” about the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in August 2005. Premiering Aug. [...]
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