49ers Football Fever

Mayor Daley’s nephew Mark G. Vanecko has always been a guy who made it to Chicago’s biggest concerts. Now, Vanecko helps throw the city’s biggest concert — Lollapalooza, a three-day festival in August that will feature 120 bands in Grant Park.Hat tip: Yahoo! NewsRead full story

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The Memorial Day weekend was not kind to the Nevada football program. Three Pack players were arrested for driving under the influence. Two of the players were excused from the team.Hat tip: Yahoo! NewsRead full story

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The National Football League, pushing to broaden its fan base overseas, said on Thursday it sold the first 40,000 tickets for its second regular-season game in London in 90 minutes.Hat tip: Yahoo! NewsRead full story

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Monday nights in the summer belong to NFL Classic Games, a new weekly series premiering Monday, June 2 at 8 p.m. ET on NFL Network . For the inaugural season’s launch, NFL Network will treat viewers to twelve classic games from the years 1975-2004.Hat tip: Yahoo! NewsRead full story

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HUNTINGTON — From Mike Barber to Randy Moss and Troy Brown and on and on, Marshall University football can legitimately claim a share of the Wide Receiver U. moniker. Hat tip: Yahoo! NewsRead full story

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Saleem Rasheed got his degree in marketing, so he knows a little bit about the business philosophy that prevented him from getting a linebacking job in the National Football League.Hat tip: Yahoo! NewsRead full story

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In what could be a significant step back for the Nevada football program, one former and three current Pack players were arrested in Reno over the weekend for driving under the influence.Hat tip: Yahoo! NewsRead full story

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NFL team’s leaders say they are committed to staying in the Bay Area in search for new stadium but …Hat tip: Yahoo! NewsRead full story

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A convicted rapist who lured his victims with tall tales of playing football for the 49ers is facing 75 years to life for his latest assault, prosecutors said.Hat tip: Yahoo! NewsRead full story

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With the Draft and most of free agency taken care of, it’s time to reset by offering our up-to-date ranking of all 32 NFL teams, in highly dramatic, Casey Kasem-like style:Hat tip: Yahoo! NewsRead full story

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With the Draft and most of free agency taken care of, it’s time to reset by offering our up-to-date ranking of all 32 NFL teams, in highly dramatic, Casey Kasem-like…Hat tip: Yahoo! NewsRead full story

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In just one and a half seasons as a starter, Cowboys quarterback Tony Romo has become a star, brighter than the one that shines on his helmet, as the most visible athlete on America’s Team. With his playmaking and playfulness on the field, and his apparent playboy lifestyle off the field, he has become […]

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A measure asks residents to give the go-ahead to turn 496 acres into a neighborhood of homes, research and office buildings, retail space and a new stadium.Hat tip: Yahoo! NewsRead full story

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Drafting a quarterback in the first round of a standard non-keeper league used to be almost unheard of. Even though you could have Peyton Manning, one of the most consistent players in the game, drafting him typically put you in “chase mode” from the get-go.Hat tip: Yahoo! NewsRead full story

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Terrell Owens and Tony Romo had a hard time putting their playoff loss to the eventual Super Bowl champion New York Giants behind them. But the partnership, which Owens calls the best he’s had with a QB in the NFL, is set to take off for 2008 with a renewed cast for America’s Team.Hat tip: […]

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Line of Scrimmage: Preseason Power PollHat tip: Yahoo! NewsRead full story

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You’re Aaron Garcia, quarterback of the Arena Football League’s New York Dragons, and here’s your dilemma: It’s 4th and goal from the Grand Rapids Rampage 2-yard line. You’re up 28-0 with 3:19 left in the first half. Even though it’s only the sixth game, the season is on the line after three straight losses dropped […]

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The bell rang for fifth period at Greenwood High School, and James Marshall walked to class. The 17-year-old wore his throwback Dave Wilcox jersey that his mom had bought him, a bright red 49ers uniform from 1964 with three-quarter sleeves that reached below his wrists.Hat tip: Yahoo! NewsRead full story

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Students, staff, parents and community members celebrated the near completion of the first school year at Brooks-DeBartolo Collegiate High with a dedication ceremony Tuesday.Hat tip: Yahoo! NewsRead full story

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Derek Anderson is working on throwing to his left and on his touch — or lack thereof — on short passes.Hat tip: Yahoo! NewsRead full story

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Quarterbacks in the NFL sometimes get the idea they know more than everyone else in the organization. If they do not like their head coach or position coach, they will complain to the general manager — or to the owner if the owner will listen.Hat tip: Yahoo! NewsRead full story

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Masson Blow begged his parents, Mike and Cozy, to let him drop out of honors classes at Lompoc High School and let him take regular education ones. They refused.Hat tip: Yahoo! NewsRead full story

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Among the tens of thousands of boys who have played Indiana high school football, Rick Mirer is now officially one of the best.Hat tip: Yahoo! NewsRead full story

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It would seem an unenviable task to be a defensive player in the high-scoring world of indoor football.Hat tip: Yahoo! NewsRead full story

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Former NFL player Ervin “Blueprint” Parker of Georgetown wants to present young football players on the Grand Strand both sporting and professional advice from others who have reached the pinnacle of the sport. And he’s receiving some help in the community to get that accomplished. Parker has organized the inaugural Blueprint Leadership Life Skills Celebrity […]

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Questions and answers on Tribune stories from readers like you.Hat tip: Yahoo! NewsRead full story

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Lamar Consolidated faces a traditional power in baseball when it plays Brenham in a two-of-three regional semifinals series beginning at 7:30 p.m. Thursday in Weimar.Hat tip: Yahoo! NewsRead full story

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LONG BEACH–Long Beach State Baseball will endow its second scholarship, when it officially kicks off the John McConnell Scholarship drive, beginning on Saturday, May 24 at Blair Field.Hat tip: Yahoo! NewsRead full story

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Four for four. Not often a description tied to San Francisco 49ers quarterback Alex Smith. But in this case, it’s entirely appropriate. The top pick of the 2005 draft begins his fourth season bound to his fourth offensive coordinator. his job possibly up for grabs and his franchise running out of time to turn the […]

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Kings take on the Lakers. The Giants face the Dodgers. And before the Los Angeles Rams left for the Midwest, the 49ers battled that Southern California team on the football field.Hat tip: Yahoo! NewsRead full story

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Four for four. Not often a description tied to San Francisco 49ers quarterback Alex Smith. But in this case, it’s entirely appropriate.Hat tip: Yahoo! NewsRead full story

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The NFL is the standard by which all other sports entities, at least in the United States, are measured. The league has many smart people who are aware of what they have and what they endured to get it. NFL owners voted Tuesday to opt out of their labor agreement with the NFL Players Association. […]

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SAN JOSE – They run the world’s most lucrative sports league, and some are so wealthy they wine, dine and otherwise woo top free agents aboard private jets. But all 32 NFL owners on Tuesday decided they need a bigger slice of the multibillion-dollar pie and voted to opt out early from their collective bargaining […]

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Say this about the NFL owners: After years of internal squabbles over their ongoing labor contract with the players, they united as one Tuesday. Nothing screams “fix this” like a 32-0 vote to end the collective bargaining agreement with the players’… […]

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New pact needed by 2011 to avoid strike NFL owners voted unanimously Tuesday to opt out early from their collective bargaining agreement with the NFL Players Association. […]

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ATLANTA (AP) - Darren McFadden and the rest of the Oakland Raiders rookies will be the first group to visit the Pro Football Hall of Fame in the next three months as part of their league orientation.Hat tip: Yahoo! NewsRead full story

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ATLANTA (AP) - All NFL rookies will visit the Pro Football Hall of Fame in the next three months as part of their league orientation. The tour will include talks by former NFL players and members of the Hall of Fame staff in Canton, Ohio.Hat tip: Yahoo! NewsRead full story

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ATLANTA - All NFL rookies will visit the Pro Football Hall of Fame in the next three months as part of their league orientation. The tour will include talks by former NFL… Hat […]

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ATLANTA - All NFL rookies will visit the Pro Football Hall of Fame in the next three months as part of their league orientation. The tour will include talks by former NFL players and members of the Hall of Fame staff in Canton, Ohio. The idea behind the visit comes from Michael Irvin.Hat tip: […]

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ATLANTA (AP) — All NFL rookies will visit the Pro Football Hall of Fame in the next three months as part of their league orientation.Hat tip: Yahoo! NewsRead full story

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