Glauber's NFL Hot Reads
Newsday's Bob Glauber goes the extra yard for the inside scoop on the NFL.
Randy Moss back to the NFL?
Randy Moss is returning to the NFL.
Or at least he’d like to think he is.
The former Vikings, Raiders, Patriots and Titans receiver, who announced his retirement last year – but only after he got no significant contract offers – said on his personal USTREAM channel today that he wants to come back.
“I just wanna go to a team and play some football,” said Moss, who turned 35 today....
Bradshaw's TD debate not a Super Bowl first
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Ahmad Bradshaw’s short touchdown run in Super Bowl XLVI – actually, it was more of an awkward flop – will go down as the strangest game-winning scoring play in Super Bowl history.
But Patriots coach Bill Belichick’s strategy to concede the go-ahead touchdown generally was considered sound, or at least defensible, by football experts who have debated each side over the past several days.
The...
Call him Ross, not Rudy
Patriots defensive back Ross Ventrone has had a roller coaster season, bouncing between by active roster and the practice squad a whopping 21 times since the start of training camp.
But just because Ventrone has been a bit player on the team this season, don't mistake him for the character that the movie "Rudy" was based on. Eugene "Rudy" Ruettiger managed to find...
Brady to Kraft: Best decision ever
Photo credit: Tom Brady #12 of the New England Patriots. (Getty Images)
Patriots owner Robert Kraft recalled the first time he met quarterback Tom Brady shortly after he was drafted in 2000 out of Michigan.
"We already had three quarterbacks, and he was a skinny beanpole," Kraft said. "He had a pizza box under his arm, and he came over and introduced himself to me and said, 'I'm Tom ...' I said. 'I know who you are. You're Tom Brady, our sixth-round...
A London team in the NFL?
Photo credit: Osi Umenyiora #72 of the New York Giants. (Getty Images)
The NFL is interested in promoting its product overseas, and there has been a series of games in London in recent years, with the Rams slated to play a game in each of the next three seasons in the United Kingdom.
Could there be a team in London on a permanent basis? Giants defensive end Osi Umenyiora, the only person in the NFL who was born in London, thinks it's a great idea.
"That...
Brady quote a taunt? Snee's too?
Indianapolis - Tom Brady made a rather innocuous comment at a pep rally before the team's departure to Indianapolis for Super Bowl XLVI, but it seems to be taking on a life of its own in some quarters.
"We're going down there, and we're going down there for one reason," Brady told a crowd estimated at 25,000 at Gillette Stadium. "We're going to give it our best shot and...
Irsay: Peyton is a politician
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It is starting to get very ugly in Indianapolis.
Two days after Peyton Manning said the Colts' training facility is a depressing place to be around because of all the changes made in recent weeks, team owner Jim Irsay said Manning should have kept his remarks to himself and called the quarterback "a politician."
Uh oh.
"Look, I have so much affection...
Schiano to the Buccaneers
After interviewing several former NFL head coaches and even more current assistants, the Buccaneers went to the college ranks to select their next head coach. In a shocker, the Bucs are going with Rutgers coach Greg Schiano.
The team will officially announce Schiano at a news conference tomorrow.“Coach Schiano is a bright, meticulous teacher who knows how to get the most out of his players,”...
Roger Goodell re-upped through 2018
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The NFL is the ultimate model of stability in pro sports, symbolized no better than the fact that the league has had only three commissioners since 1960. That stability will now extend through at least the 2018 season after the league unanimously approved a contract extension for current commissioner Roger Goodell.
The decision to extend Goodell's deal was made at a Dec. 14 league meeting...
Peyton-Colts divorce coming?
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In his most expansive interview in recent months, Colts quarterback Peyton Manning tells Indy Star columnist Bob Kravitz that he still wants to finish his career in Indianapolis, that the atmosphere around the Colts is extremely depressing because of all the personnel changes, and that he’s still not fully healed from neck problems that have required three surgeries over the last two years.
Manning...
