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The 49ers have extended quarterback Alex Smith’s contract for another two years, general manager Scot McCloughan announced Thursday.Hat tip: Yahoo! NewsRead full story

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CoMedia Corporation’s affiliated company America Football Alumni welcomes Eric Wright as VP of football operations. American Football Alumni is based on the business model developed by CMTN and American Football Alumni Inc. for its social network site, www.11on11.com, and its Developmental Football League, www.goDFL.com, player showcasing activities.Hat tip: Yahoo! NewsRead full story

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Cleveland Browns quarterback Derek Anderson (3) talks with backup quarterback Brady Quinn (10) in an NFL football game against the San Francisco 49ers in this Dec. 30, 2007 file photo, in Cleveland.Hat tip: Yahoo! NewsRead full story

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UNC Charlotte has always acted as if the world is against it. Turns out the 49ers are right. C.D. Spangler and William Friday invited themselves to address the school’s monthly faculty meeting last week. Spangler and Friday are well known in their world, the world of higher education. Each is a former president of the […]

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SANTA CLARA — For all the tumult that surrounded quarterback Alex Smith this past season, the 49ers seemed to signal confidence in their former No.Hat tip: Yahoo! NewsRead full story

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For all the tumult that surrounded quarterback Alex Smith last season, the 49ers seemed to signal confidence in their former No. 1 pick Thursday by exercising a “buyback” clause that will extend Smith’s contract through 2010.Hat tip: Yahoo! NewsRead full story

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For all the tumult that surrounded quarterback Alex Smith last season, the 49ers seemed to signal confidence in their former No.Hat tip: Yahoo! NewsRead full story

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Alex Smith can remain with the 49ers through the 2010 season after the club picked up a clause in his contract Thursday that triggers the last two years of the six-year $49.5 million deal he signed in 2005. The clause is believed to be worth $5.86 million. “… […]

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The San Francisco 49ers exercised the buy-back clause in quarterback Alex Smith’s contract, securing his services through 2010.Hat tip: Yahoo! NewsRead full story

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A unification of America’s two open-wheel series is still on track, with both sides saying yesterday that progress was being made.Hat tip: Yahoo! NewsRead full story

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USC coach Steve Spurrier, known as an offensive genius who changed the way college football is played, was honored Monday night as the recipient of the 2007 Davey O’Brien Legends Award at a banquet in Fort Worth, Texas. The Davey O’Brien Legends Award, which was established in 2001 to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the […]

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Miami Dolphin defensive end Jason Taylor is to put on his dancing shoes and become the first currently playing American football athlete to feature in the television show “Dancing With the Stars.”Hat tip: Yahoo! NewsRead full story

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Dave Marcelli, an outstanding halfback at Polytechnic High during the heyday of San Francisco high school football in the 1940s, has died. He was 77. He spent his last six months at hospitals with pneumonia and digestive problems, his family said. He died… […]

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San Francisco 49ers linebacker Derek Smith, left, chases Indianapolis Colts quarterback Peyton Manning in the second half of an NFL football game in this Oct. 9, 2005 file photo in San Francisco.Hat tip: Yahoo! NewsRead full story

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They’ll start descending on Indianapolis on Wednesday. More than 330 college players. All 32 NFL teams — each bringing their general manager, coaches, scouts, trainers, doctors and other staff members. Hundreds of reporters looking for stories.Hat tip: Yahoo! NewsRead full story

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Football     49ers release linebacker Smith         The San Francisco 49ers waived linebacker Derek Smith on Tuesday, cutting ties with their longtime leading tackler whose role was assumed last season by rookie Patrick Willis.Hat tip: Yahoo! NewsRead full story

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The San Francisco 49ers waived linebacker Derek Smith, cutting ties with their longtime leading tackler. Hat tip: Yahoo! NewsRead full story

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IF JOE GIBBS were the Mozart of NFL coaches, Jim Zorn is your nephew trying valiantly to play a one-fingered version of “Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star.”Hat tip: Yahoo! NewsRead full story

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The Seahawks are far from perfect, but Alex Marvez says they’re still the team to beat in the NFC West by process of elimination.Hat tip: Yahoo! NewsRead full story

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Jeff Tedford begins to speak, and you immediately can tell Cal’s football coach is congested.Hat tip: Yahoo! NewsRead full story

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In the matter of Brown v. Browne, the Browns lost. U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown petitioned the NFL to include the records of the Cleveland Browns from their four seasons in the All-America Football Conference.Hat tip: Yahoo! NewsRead full story

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BERKELEY — Jeff Tedford begins to speak, and you can immediately tell Cal’s football coach is congested. He coughs every so often, confirming he’s contracted a bad case of the flu.Hat tip: Yahoo! NewsRead full story

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The coach was a perfectionist, dour and sour, with a creative mind and a disdain for those who weren’t as smart as he was. He sent in plays to a championship-quality quarterback with a knack for rallying his team and grabbing late victories.Hat tip: Yahoo! NewsRead full story

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George Mira Jr. saw his share of violent hits and bloody injuries as a linebacker for the University of Miami and the San Francisco 49ers. But none of those images compared to the scene he walked in on at the Palmetto Bay home of Washington Redskins safety Sean Taylor early Monday morning.Hat tip: Yahoo! […]

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Former UNC system presidents C.D. “Dick” Spangler Jr. and Bill Friday plan to tell UNC Charlotte faculty on Thursday that a proposed football program would detract from academics. “This has been something disturbing to both of us,” Spangler said. UNCC’s football feasibility committee, chaired by former trustee Mac Everett, recommended last month that the school […]

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Even on the high school level, there are teams everybody loves to hate. Hat tip: Yahoo! NewsRead full story

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Kanye West misses his own Grammy celebrations by attending someone else’s after-party.Hat tip: Yahoo! NewsRead full story

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Kanye West snubbed his own Grammys after-party. After scooping up four awards at Sunday’s ceremony in Los Angeles, the 30-year-old hip-hop star celebrated his success at another bash, to the bemusement of his manager and friends who were left waiting for him at Hollywood’s Opera/Crimson nightclub.Hat tip: Yahoo! NewsRead full story

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I am sorry, but like most Redskins fans I was shocked to hear that Zorn, the quarterback coach of the Seattle Seahawks for the past six years, was named the new head coach of the Washington Redskins just two weeks after being named offensive coordinator.Hat tip: Yahoo! NewsRead full story

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Kanye West snubbed his own Grammys after-party and celebrated his awards success at another bash.Hat tip: Yahoo! NewsRead full story

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Super Bowl XLII is a pleasant memory for the New York Giants and Media Day for the New England Patriots and Giants Jan. 29 went off without a hitch. When the two teams were not fielding questions about football, they were asked about politics, relationships and life away from football.Hat tip: Yahoo! NewsRead full […]

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Dwight Clark’s ‘Catch’ 26 years ago locked him permanently into the public domain. David Tyree is starting to understand what that means, the Giants’ Super Bowl hero tells Clark Judge. […]

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In selecting the USA TODAY All-Pro team for the 2007 season, we created the “Frankenstein” method. We put together our team in chunks, in bits and pieces. The result? The best players across the league as they performed in singular units.Hat tip: Yahoo! NewsRead full story

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The Santa Clara City Council Tuesday approved several steps to help evaluate a proposed San Francisco 49ers stadium.Hat tip: Yahoo! NewsRead full story

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Lou Holtz told him South Carolina did not offer scholarships to punters. Tommy Bowden said he already had a punter on his roster. Out of in-state options, Westminster’s Andy Lee took his punting skills to Pittsburgh. A decade later and Lee will represent the San Francisco 49ers and the NFC in today’s Pro Bowl. “To […]

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It’s been a week since the one for the ages, the derailment of perfection, the night the football world was turned upside down. People still are talking about the game, the catch, the declawing of Tom Brady and the Patriot offense.Hat tip: Yahoo! NewsRead full story

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The Indianapolis Colts, as a group, are going to the Pro Football Hall of Fame this summer.Hat tip: Yahoo! NewsRead full story

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UF co-defensive coordinator Greg Mattison will leave college football for the first time in 32 years to be the Baltimore Ravens’ linebackers coach in what he called the toughest decision of his life.Hat tip: Yahoo! NewsRead full story

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A team that’s never made the playoffs and two others who haven’t this decade are among Clark Judge’s favorites to improve their fortunes after forgetful seasons in ‘07. […]

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Florida co-defensive coordinator Greg Mattison will leave college football for the first time in 32 years to become the linebackers coach for the Baltimore Ravens in what he called the toughest decision of his life.Hat tip: Yahoo! NewsRead full story

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