Column: NFL free agency is no bargain
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Edgerrin James left Indianapolis last spring and signed with Arizona, presumably a big blow to the Colts and a big lift for the Cardinals.
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Don't tell Mike McMahon the NFL's final exhibitions are meaningless.
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Even a city that spares no expense for a good time has never seen anything like this. The NBA All-Star game on Sunday may be meaningless, and after three nights of parties might be sloppy. But try telling that to people paying top dollar for a chance to see it.
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As with Washington-area efforts to land a baseball team, Los Angeles' quest for an NFL team spans years, and is hindered by an owner who feels he has rights to the market.
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Stadiums were filled to capacity. TV ratings were high. In most ways, this was another great season for the NFL. Except for this: America's favorite league took some serious hits to its image.
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Michael Vick's plea agreement and Roger Goodell's decision yesterday to suspend the Atlanta quarterback indefinitely add up to this: It's better than 50-50 that Vick will never play in the NFL again.
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What it doesn&#39;t have is a front office for said team, a permanent stadium, an actual owner, or a radio-television contract to broadcast games.
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How much is your favorite NFL team worth?
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It&#39;s big news whenever the television networks throw $8 billion on the table, and even moreso when it&#39;s being thrown at the NFL, the Halliburton of sports.
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One third of this years&#39; NFL season is over, and already each division has a situation, a player or a change that has been a surprise.
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Over the years, there have been many jokes about NFL standing for No Fun League, demanding uniformity and squelching individuality.
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The operative word in the National Football League this season is ouch.
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By Alan Pergament  Things have gone so badly for fourth-place NBC in the last few seasons that it had to lob a Hail Mary pass and make a deal with the National Football League.
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Lovie Smith's negotiations for a new contract are at a stalemate, according to his agent, who created a stir by saying the coach who led the Chicago Bears to the Super Bowl could become a free agent after the 2007 season.
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NFL teams compete on the most level playing field imaginable, so the notion that another team should voluntarily stop beating another team's brains out is dumb.
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Patience has never been highly rated as a virtue in the NFL. That's especially true among owners, who tend to change coaches almost as often as they do underwear.
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Pro football wouldnât be what it is now if it hadnât been for Lamar Hunt, who not only founded the American Football League in 1959, but also negotiated the 1966 merger that created the Super Bowl.