Injuries Force Jets' Erik Ainge To Move On From Football
Erik Ainge has battled addiction and injury. He just wanted one more chance at football. His body insisted it's time to move on.
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Erik Ainge has battled addiction and injury. He just wanted one more chance at football. His body insisted it's time to move on.
Round 4 of the "secret" NFL labor negotiations is over. Round 5 is coming soon — perhaps to a suburban locale near you.
Jets linebacker Bart Scott "Can't Wait!" to see paralyzed Rutgers football player Eric LeGrand walk again. Scott's trademark bellow has taken on a life of its own, and he hopes a new t-shirt line featuring the phrase will help raise some serious money for LeGrand.
NFL owners and players met in the Boston area Wednesday in the latest attempt to work out a new collective bargaining agreement, a person with knowledge of the talks told The Associated Press.
The next time NFL owners meet to discuss the league's labor situation, there is hope it will be to ratify a new collective bargaining agreement with the players. But don't get carried away thinking a deal is imminent.
Craig is still very confident that the end of the NFL lockout is near and with that in mind he started to look ahead a bit to try and figure out how a new deal will effect some members of the Jets and Giants.
A sense of urgency fills the NFL owners' meetings Tuesday as they discuss progress made in recent talks with the players.
Craig began things on Monday by declaring the NFL labor dispute to be all but over. Translation: the majority of the deal is worked out, aside from dotting some i's and crossing some t's, and we can now all rest easy.
If there is a season, count Chad Pennington out. Rehabbing from shoulder and knee injuries, the former Jets quarterback won't suit up this year. He'll instead take a seat in upstairs in the television booth.
Rex Ryan knows Plaxico Burress and Randy Moss are out there, but his main concern lies with the Jets' free agents -- for now.
With the NFL lockout putting the squeeze on both his wallet and pursuit of a pro football career, former UConn quarterback Tyler Lorenzen has created some of the latest culinary innovations in the Big Easy, just so he can eat at home and save a little coin.
With negotiations likely completed for the week, NFL owners are setting sights on their upcoming meeting in Chicago. Jets running back Shonn Greene is looking beyond then — with optimism — toward getting back to work.
Dark clouds no longer dominate the NFL horizon. Rays of sunshine have broken through as owners and players make progress in labor talks. So what could cause rain to fall, washing away the chance of a deal? Plenty.
Mark Sanchez got a few dozen of his New York Jets teammates together to practice for three days in private. No cameras. No fans. No reporters.
Jerricho Cotchery and Damien Woody would be recovering and working at their team's facilities had there been no lockout. They normally would be fighting the itch to rush back and join their teammates for minicamps and the like. This year, they might be benefiting from the work stoppage.
