Benigno's Best: Week 1 NFL Power Rankings
Every week during this NFL season Joe Benigno will rank and present his Top 10 teams. This is Week 1 of Benigno's Best: NFL Power Rankings.
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Every week during this NFL season Joe Benigno will rank and present his Top 10 teams. This is Week 1 of Benigno's Best: NFL Power Rankings.
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.
Reggie Bush drew critical responses from a number of his nearly 1.7 million Twitter followers when he posted: "Everybody complaining about the lockout! Shoot I'm making the most of it!" But don't count Giants wide receiver Steve Smith among Bush's detractors.
NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell and all 10 members of the owners' labor committee have left a mediation session with the players' union after about four hours of talks.
Drew Brees threw a 6-yard touchdown pass to Jimmy Graham with less than 3½ minutes remaining, and the defending Super Bowl champs clinched their return to the postseason with a 17-14 victory over Atlanta on Monday night.
The fallout from Woods' admission of infidelity edged a very different sort of story: The New Orleans Saints winning their first Super Bowl championship, giving an emotional boost to their hurricane-ravaged city.
Drew Brees was honored as Sports Illustrated's sportsman of the year for his championship on the field and his charity off it.
With the New York Jets losing to the Green Bay Packers earlier Sunday, the Patriots' win over Minnesota sends them to the top of the AFC East at 6-1.
Fumbles transform the NFL into the WWE. When a football hits the ground, players are known to do whatever it takes to get it. Nothing is off limits.
Super Bowl hangover, anyone? The Super Bowl champion New Orleans Saints, and the team they beat, the Indianapolis Colts, both are 3-2 five weeks into the season.
Garrett Hartley kicked a 37-yard field goal that was partially blocked and barely fluttered through as time expired and the Saints spoiled the San Francisco 49ers' home opener with a 25-22 victory Monday night.
Reggie Bush said Thursday that his decision to relinquish his Heisman Trophy is "not an admission of guilt," just the best way to end the controversy.
For football fans in the Big Easy, "Lombardi Gras" just keeps on rolling.
With NFL football so close you can practically taste it, Boomer was all kinds of fired-up this morning. Unfortunately, the Blonde Bomber was forced to put his excitement on hold.
